Chapter 39: Black Lotus Buddhist Soldier
The Painted Ghosts asked about Shilang Zhang's style, contacts, etc. in detail, so that he could finally devour Shilang Zhang's flesh and blood, and take off his human skin and put it on himself.
Although Zhang Shilang has returned to his hometown, his disciples are all over the world, and his network and energy are still very large.
And it's not that Zhang Shilang has no chance to get up again.
Even if he wants to rise again, whether it is an official position or a position, he will go further.
If Zhang Shilang was really impersonated by a demon from the Black Lotus Sect, and then returned to the court and stepped into the upper floors, then I really don't know how much trouble it would cause!
Perhaps, this crumbling dynasty, which was already in a state of utter misery because of corrupt officials, demons, bandits, and natural and man-made disasters, is about to bid farewell to the stage of history.
For ordinary people, it will only make life more bitter and miserable!
Thinking of this, Zhu Xiucai suddenly had an impulse in his heart, wanting to go down and kill the painted ghosts now, and strangle the conspiracy of the Black Lotus Sect in the cradle.
After all, he was also someone who went to school and read the book of sages.
In his heart, he has the passion and desire of 'for the heaven and the earth, for the life of the people, for the sages of the past, and for the peace of the world'. The alley, being pressed down, spent a lot of time, but not completely.
Qin Shaoyou was keenly aware of Zhu Xiucai's abnormality, and stretched out his hand to hold his shoulder.
"Don't startle the snake."
Zhu Xiucai nodded lightly, suppressing the impulse in his heart.
He also knows that now is not a good time to start.
Anyway, Zhang Shilang is safe until he finishes blowing his arrogance, so there is no need to worry about it for a while.
Seeing Zhu Xiucai regain his calm, Qin Shaoyou felt relieved.
But there is one thing that makes Qin Shaoyou confused.
Since the Black Lotus Sect was trying to attack Zhang Shilang's idea, why didn't they start earlier?
If they had started earlier, Zhang Shilang would have been disguised as a ghost by now.
Could it be that the Black Lotus Sect is afraid that it will start too early, so they will not be able to hide things and reveal their plans in advance?
After all, if Zhang Shilang's grandson is lost, even if he can get it back quickly, the local government will be like a formidable enemy and go all out to investigate the case.
In this way, the case won't drag on for two months before turning to Luocheng Town Yaosi for help.
However, does this also mean that there are inner ghosts hidden in the officials and night watchmen in Mianyuan County?
The more Qin Shaoyou thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility.
I just don't know, who the inner ghost could be?
In the study, Zhang Shilang chatted for a while with Zhang Benwu who was dressed as a ghost, and then got up and left.
When he was leaving, he also instructed the painted ghosts to rest well, and not to spoil their body because of their obsession with studying.
I'm afraid Zhang Shilang never thought that the well-behaved and filial 'grandson' in front of him didn't want to learn any sage books at all, and only wanted to peel him off.
After Zhang Shilang left, Qin Shaoyou and others, under the leadership of Zhu Xiucai, bypassed the guard post and patrol, climbed over the wall to be discharged, and joined Monk Ma and others.
Monk Ma was anxiously waiting outside.
Although they met Zhu Xiucai once before, but Zhu Xiucai came and went in a hurry, making it too late for them to ask.
At this moment, seeing Qin Shaoyou and others coming back, Monk Ma couldn't wait to ask: "How is it? Was the paper man put by Zhang Benwu? What the **** is he?"
Zhu Xiucai replied: "Zhang Benwu is pretending to be a skin ghost. When we went, we happened to see the scene where he painted skin. My dear, I almost spit out the cake I ate yesterday! Fortunately, it is not a beauty, otherwise, I would Gotta retire honorably from Cat Catching Alley."
"Let's go, let's go to the next point and have a look. If you have something to say, let's talk on the way."
Qin Shaoyou left a few people to continue to stare outside Zhang's house, and then called out the wrestler who followed the butcher in the afternoon and asked him to lead the way.
On the way, they also met the paper man who was released by the Painted Ghost.
These paper figurines were floating around on the streets in the middle of the night, looking extremely infiltrating.
Fortunately, Su Tingyu's nose was sharp enough to smell the demonic smell of the paper figures before they floated near. She called everyone to hide in time, so that they were not discovered by the paper figures.
After a stick of incense, the wrestler who led the way stopped.
He looked at the buildings on the left and right, and determined the location: "Sir, it's the yard behind the wall in front."
Qin Shaoyou nodded, and after observing with the help of moonlight, he found that it was still a City God Temple.
However, this City God Temple should have been abandoned for some time. Even the plaque of the temple fell down, leaning against the gate, covered with dust and spider silk.
The surroundings were overgrown with weeds, as if no one had approached for a long time.
The demons of the Black Lotus Sect always like to do things in the temple, under the eyes of the gods, but the gods don't react at all to this, which is somewhat ironic.
No wonder these temples are deserted.
Qin Shaoyou was not in a hurry to lead the team close to the City God Temple. He turned his head and whispered to Su Tingyu: "Little Daoist Su, please smell it and see if there is any demonic smell around this City God Temple."
"Do you really think of me as a dog?"
Su Tingyu glared at him angrily, but she still sniffed out the demons nearby.
After a while, she leaned down and drew a frame and an arrow on the ground.
"This frame is the Temple of the City God, and the arrow is where we are."
Immediately afterwards, she drew several more dots inside and outside the frame.
"These points are where I smell the demonic smell. Of course, I can't rule out that there are people who conceal the demonic smell."
"It's already amazing."
Qin Shaoyou is not only boasting in his mouth, but also in his heart: he has also learned to be smart.
In the afternoon, I followed the butcher to find the Lux here, and his face was ugly.
He didn't find these sentinels, so he realized that when he came to investigate in the afternoon, he might have been exposed.
The paper figurine went to the inn to kill and set fire at night, most likely not only to win the dog, but also to fear that they would find out and kill people.
If they didn't die, the Black Lotus Sect would definitely have other more vicious back-ups!
Fortunately, they are all 'dead'.
On the way over, Zhu Xiucai asked about the situation of the wise man in detail. Now that he saw the simple map drawn by Su Tingyu, he immediately had a rough guess about the layout of the posts inside and outside the Temple of the City God.
After getting permission from Qin Shaoyou, he took the lead in sneaking into the darkness. After walking around the Temple of the City God, he found a safe investigation route.
It was the same arrangement as before. Qin Shaoyou, Zhu Xiucai, and the two Daoists Su sneaked into the investigation, while Monk Ma and all the fighters stayed outside to respond.
Under the leadership of Zhu Xiucai, Qin Shaoyou and the others quickly climbed up the wall of the Chenghuang Temple, without disturbing the nearby Black Lotus Sect post at all.
Lying on the top of the wall, they saw that in the yard, there were large iron cages, and the cages were full of dogs.
In addition, there is a large water tank in the yard, and the opening of the tank is covered with a dark red wooden cover, making it difficult to see what is inside.
At this time, a person walked out of the main hall of the Chenghuang Temple and went to urinate.
When the dogs in the iron cage saw him, they all huddled together, with expressions of terror and fear on their faces.
There was only a big yellow dog. Although he was also afraid of him, he mustered up the courage to lie on the iron cage and spit at him:
"Please... send kindness... let me go... my sister, she hurts..."
Not only did this person speak intermittently, but the volume was also very low, making it difficult for people outside to hear the word from the City God Temple.
Beside this big yellow dog, lay a black dog, which was dying and was about to die.
The people in the yard were not at all surprised that the dog could speak human words.
He sneered and said, "Don't worry, as long as you survive tonight and the dog skin grows on you, you won't be in pain. Then we will let you go home and reunite you with your family."
After urinating, he put the gun in his pants, walked to a water tank next to him, and lifted the dark red wooden cover on it.
"It doesn't matter if you haven't survived tonight. Just like them, you were purified into the Black Lotus Buddhist Soldiers and contributed to the creation of the Black Lotus Buddha Kingdom."
Inside the water tank, it is densely packed with corpses!
There are men and women, old and young.
The crimson blood soaked the whitish corpse, and under the cold moonlight, it looked particularly gloomy and strange.
Are these grandsons refining corpse puppets?
But the question is, where did they get so many corpses? !