Chapter 40: First behead and then play, royal power charter
Qin Shaoyou's heart moved, and he remembered the incident of the Black Lotus Sect's disturbance in Fangting County the day he first entered the Yaosi of Luocheng Town.
Could these corpses soaked in the blood pool of the water tank come from Fangting County?
And Wujiabao, did they also provide materials for the Black Lotus Sect to refine corpse puppets?
Further conjecture, isn't the Black Lotus Sect's intention to attack Fangting County not simple?
Would they not really want to capture the county seat, but to kidnap people and corpses, and to attract the attention of the town demon?
At present, most of Luocheng Town's Yaosi's thoughts are placed around Fangting County, where the search for the remnants of the Black Lotus Sect in the mountains and seas has greatly weakened the monitoring power of other counties and towns.
Even Qin Shaoyou was still suspicious. When Xue Qingshan arrived in Fangting County, he defeated the Black Lotus Sect demons. Could it be that the Black Lotus Sect has reached a strategic intention and retreated voluntarily?
Just when he opened his mind, Zhu Xiucai's eyes suddenly widened and he whispered, "It's Lao Zhao!"
At this moment, the dogs detained in the Temple of the City God couldn't help but bark after seeing the corpse in the water tank and smelling the strong smell of blood.
Most dogs bark like dogs, and only a few who have just put on dog skins can make human voices, but they are all intermittent and weak.
However, the barking of these dogs was very good at covering up Zhu Xiucai's low voice, so that the demons of the Black Lotus Sect inside and outside the Chenghuang Temple were not aware of it.
But Qin Shaoyou listened very clearly.
He lowered his voice and asked, "Anyone you know?"
Zhu Xiucai nodded: "I saw Lao Zhao's face in the blood tank... He is a night watchman in Fangting County. We have collaborated on several cases."
The night watchman in Fangting County?
Qin Shaoyou's eyes moved slightly.
This discovery proved part of his guess, but he wasn't happy at all.
The Temple of the City God in front of me, although in the human world, is like hell.
Su Tingyu suddenly twitched her nose twice, and said quickly, "There are several demonic scents approaching fast."
Without waiting for Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai to ask questions, she chanted a spell in a low voice and quickly.
The talisman attached to them immediately shrouded a black mist, and the dark night made it difficult for people to notice their existence even if they passed by them.
As soon as Su Tingyu finished casting the spell, a group of red-eyed crows flew from the dark night.
One of them just happened to fly over the wall on which they were lying.
If it wasn't for the dark fog, Qin Shaoyou and the others would have been discovered by this crow.
"The letter crow is back."
When the people in the yard saw the crow flying, they turned their heads and greeted the inside of the hall. They closed the wooden lid of the water tank, and raised their hands, letting a crow land on his arm.
Other crows landed on the roof, on the wall, or in the yard.
Not only are they scattered everywhere, but they are also constantly looking around with blood-red eyes.
Like a surveillance camera.
There was a sound of footsteps in the hall, and several people came out.
One of them took the crow, grabbed its body with one hand, pinched its head with the other, and twisted it lightly, the head was immediately torn off.
The man swallowed the crow's head with blood and bird feathers with his mouth open, closed his eyes, and said while chewing, "The people who came to spy on the information this afternoon have been killed, along with their companions."
Lying on the wall and hiding in the dark mist, Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but secretly amazed after seeing this scene.
This kind of investigative method is really weird, it just costs a little crow.
"They've all been killed? That's good."
Someone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Nothing is good." The man chewing on the crow's head opened his eyes and snorted coldly, "Those people are the arresters sent by the Luocheng government, and the news of their deaths must be reported. Although we can delay for a while, but It can’t be delayed too long, so the plans have to be accelerated.”
The Hei Lian sect next to him heard the words, his face was solemn, and he gave orders in unison to say yes.
The person who chewed the crow's head opened his mouth and spat out a mass of blood mixed with bird feathers and broken bones, turned around and returned to the main hall.
Qin Shaoyou and the others lay on the wall for a while, and then slipped down the wall under the cover of the black mist to join Monk Ma and the others.
This time Qin Shaoyou and the others didn't do anything, because the security here in the Temple of the City God is too strict.
Leaving Zhu Xiucai to stare at the Temple of the City God, Qin Shaoyou asked Su Tingyu to put a crane talisman, and reported all the new information he had just found, as well as all his speculations, to Xue Qingshan through the crane talisman.
Thousands of words turned into one sentence, that is: There are many thieves here, the situation is urgent, bring people quickly, bring more people!
Afterwards, Qin Shaoyou divided his subordinates into several teams. Some went to watch the county government and the night watchman. Some waited until dawn to leave the city and waited outside the city to welcome reinforcements.
There were also some people who were assigned to follow several major traffic roads in Mianyuan County to see if they could find out more people related to the Black Lotus Sect.
Qin Shaoyou himself was not idle either. He and the sisters Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu went to Yizhuang to squat.
Not only was he guarding the shadow puppets, but he also wanted to see if there would be any idea of the Black Lotus Sect demons wanting to beat their 'corpses'.
Blink of an eye.
With the help of Su Tingyu's talisman, Qin Shaoyou, who hid in the dark place opposite Yizhuang, has been staring here all night.
Except that in the early morning, he saw a few arresters from Mianyuan County come to check the body, but he didn't see anyone else coming to Yizhuang.
The time soon came to the afternoon.
A wrestler dressed as a passerby hurried past Yizhuang.
It seems that there is nothing unusual, but this is the code that Qin Shaoyou and the others agreed upon beforehand, which means that reinforcements have arrived near Mianyuan County.
A quarter of an hour later, Qin Shaoyou, Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu, two sisters, slipped out of Mianyuan County, joined the Lishi waiting outside, and led the way to a small village ten miles away from Mianyuan County.
Everyone in the village was controlled.
There are more than 200 night watchmen here, fully armed.
It was Xue Qingshan who led the team!
Although Luocheng Town Demon Division is organized by hundreds of households, due to the fact that demons have become more and more rampant in recent years, all town demon divisions have been over-edited, and Luocheng Town Demon Division is no exception.
At present, there are more than 300 Yaosi in Luocheng Township, and this does not include the night watchmen in various counties and towns.
Last night, Xue Qingshan received the two crane talismans sent by Qin Shaoyou before and after, and immediately realized that the situation here was very serious.
Apart from leaving more than 100 people to perform other tasks and guard the Demon Suppression Division, he brought all the remaining battleable soldiers.
Xue Qingshan also thought about whether to recruit night watchmen from the counties and towns along the way.
Considering the problem of inner ghosts lobbied by Qin Shao, I was afraid that there would be ghosts in these counties and towns, so I didn't recruit them.
Even these night watchmen brought over, Xue Qingshan never told them where they were going or what they were going to do.
"How is the situation today?"
Xue Qingshan waved to Qin Shaoyou's three people and called them to him.
Qin Shaoyu reported on the ceremony: "There is no obvious change in the demons of the Black Lotus Sect, but we found that the number of wild dogs in the county town is much higher than yesterday, and they are all digging into the homes of people, and they can't drive them away... …”
Xue Qingshan got on his horse and said in a deep voice, "Since that's the case, let's not waste time. I ordered the night watchmen to act immediately and destroy the Black Lotus Sect here by means of thunder!"
"Yes!"
More than two hundred night watchmen responded in unison and mounted their horses one after another.
Qin Shaoyou also rode on a horse, and said worriedly, "We only know the situation of Zhang's residence and the Temple of the City God. We don't know if there are other Black Lotus Sect demons in the county seat."
"fine."
Xue Qingshan put down his mask, making his voice a little jarring.
"As long as we rush into the city, the demons of the Black Lotus Sect will be exposed one after another. Even if they are not exposed, they can be found out after the fact!"
Immediately afterwards, Xue Qingshan ordered:
"Xie Zongqi, you take two teams and go to Zhang Shilang's mansion with Dao Dasu to catch the painted ghost!"
"Yes!"
A burly chief flag officer, on horseback, handed over his orders.
"The rest of the people follow me to the Temple of the City God, you can follow me."
Xue Baihu's voice suddenly increased several times, and he shouted: "If someone stops us from handling the case along the way, we will warn you first, and those who do not retreat will be killed! My Demon Suppression Division is originally a charter of imperial power, and has the right to kill first and then file!"
"Yes!"
More than two hundred night watchmen responded in unison again.
Qin Shaoyou just felt relaxed and happy: So arrogant~www.readwn.com~ It feels like a factory flower.
"Set off!"
With a big wave of his hand, Xue Baihu took the lead and flew out, heading straight for Mianyuan County.
Qin Shaoyou followed closely.
The Su sisters soon followed.
Su Jianqing found an opportunity to ask: "Xue Baihu, what if Zhang Shilang stops us from arresting us? We can't kill him, right?"
"He won't stop it."
Xue Baihu smiled softly.
"You don't really think that Zhang Shilang doesn't know that his grandson is disguised as a skin ghost, right?
If he really didn't know, he wouldn't allow you to enter the house, and he even called his fake grandson out to show you.
Although the demons of the Black Lotus Sect have learned a few sentences of the Four Books and Five Classics, they do not know that the real Confucian masters can comprehend various magical abilities from the scriptures of the sages.
Zhang Shilang's book is "Book of Documents", but he has the ability to "see fire through a hole"! "
"Is Zhang Shilang pretending to be a snake with the painted ghost, so as not to startle the snake and kill the real Zhang Benwu?"
Qin Shaoyou recalled various situations, and really found a lot of clues.
For example, the nursing homes in the Zhang residence are not so much protecting the fake Zhang Benwu, but guarding him.
And when Zhang Shilang heard that the fake Zhang Benwu had sent someone to look for the dog, he immediately rushed to check the situation, saying that he was concerned about the fake Zhang Benwu, rather he wanted to see what it was going to do, and whether he could follow the vine and find the truth. Zhang Benwu of...
Sure enough, no one who can get along in the officialdom is easy!
Zhang Shilang's acting skills are also really good, not only deceived the skinny ghosts, but also deceived them...
This world is really too dangerous, everyone is so old!