The world is like a prison, my body is holy

Chapter 62: Not as bad as the others (Subscribe)
Just when the city of Yangzhou was awakened by a roar that sounded like both the howl of a wild beast and the roar of cannons.

Taoist Ji Liang, who was hundreds of miles away, suddenly woke up from his meditation, stood up in surprise and rushed out of the tent, looking up at the majestic and steep outline of Huangshan Mountain under the bright moon.

Around him, one after another, ragged and weather-beaten Maoshan Taoist priests came out of their tents, gathered around a warm campfire with him, and looked at the main peak of Huangshan in surprise and joy.

"Another one broke!"

A pretty nun with a hint of childishness between her brows excitedly tugged at the robe of the white-haired and white-bearded purple-robed Taoist priest in front of her and said coquettishly, "Grandmaster, please quickly calculate which altar was destroyed? Was it Senior Brother Xibai and the others?"

"Nonsense!"

The purple-robed Taoist priest waved his robe with a stern face and reprimanded in all seriousness, "Heaven's secrets cannot be revealed. How can we treat them as a joke?"

But while he was scolding, his eyes were honestly glancing at the starry sky, and his right hand hidden in his sleeves began to move rapidly.

Not only him, but other Maoshan Taoist priests around the campfire were also secretly comparing their postures with the stars and pinching their fingers.

After a while, all the right hands that were pinching at a high speed were bounced away by an invisible force.

"what?"

Everyone looked at their right hand in amazement, then looked up at the starry sky, and then all turned their eyes to the tall old Taoist in purple robe standing there.

Only Taoist Ji Liang looked at his right hand in confusion, feeling that this force... was somewhat familiar.

"You are not well-trained, so why are you looking at me?"

The old Taoist in purple robe had a stern face and looked solemnly at the many disciples present, but secretly, he was also moving the five fingers of his numb right hand... Among the many Maoshan disciples present, he had the highest level of Taoism, so naturally he received the strongest warning from the heaven.

Considering the force of Tianji's warning just now, if the ancestors were still in this world, they would at least send down a ray of spiritual consciousness to knock him on the head and scold him as a "careless little thing".

The 371st year since our ancestors left, I miss them...

Under his stern gaze, each of the Maoshan disciples clasped their fists in shame and saluted, "I am a dull disciple. Please teach me the essence of Qimen Dunjia."

"I've spoiled you. Xile is ignorant, and you are also ignorant?"

The purple-robed Taoist priest forced himself to keep a straight face. He sternly and bitterly scolded loudly, "The world is like this. If you continue to act recklessly without cultivating your moral character, you will suffer greatly sooner or later..."

A group of Maoshan disciples with dark faces and disheveled hair listened respectfully to the teachings of the purple-robed Taoist master in a bowing posture. But if you look closely, you will find that the middle-aged disciples are secretly trying hard to suppress the upturned corners of their mouths, while the young disciples are secretly winking at each other.

In the wilderness, the scene of a large group of disheveled and unkempt Maoshan Taoist priests playing and laughing with their teachers around a campfire evoked a warm feeling, as if a whole family had gathered together to find joy in suffering.

The purple-robed Taoist didn't hold back his expression for long. He quickly extended his right hand and began calculating, saying earnestly, "You guys are still too inexperienced. How can you directly calculate the principal for such a matter? Wouldn't that be like asking for death and damaging your own lifespan? You have to use the process of elimination and try to find out indirectly... Hey, Yangzhou City?"

Taoist Ji Liang was still racking his brains to figure out where that sense of déjà vu came from. When he heard the name, an idea suddenly struck him, and he blurted out, "Wang Erhu?"

All the Maoshan Taoists looked at him together.

……

Just as Taoist Ji Liang was vividly describing to his fellow disciples the background, resume, and life stories of Lord Wen Wang, the Tiger King of Yangzhou.

Lord Wang, who was in Yangzhou, was squatting on the side of the road, looking at the huge crowd of people in front of him that blocked the spacious street, pretending to be a passerby.

Countless lanterns, torches, and oil lamps illuminate the dark city, making it look very much like the city that never sleeps in Wang Wen's memory, where he can never return.

He felt that half of the people in Yangzhou City had come.

They all came to watch a terrifying ghost that was as tall as three or four stories when standing up and whose ghostly aura could turn the entire government office into a ghost den, treating it as some kind of curiosity.

At this moment, it was less than a quarter of an hour since the roar.

But in such a short period of time, he had heard no less than ten versions of the rumors.

Some people say that this is because that old bitch Zhao Yiming has done too many evil things and has brought down God's punishment.

Some people also said that these were the resentments of the common people women who died at the clutches of the young masters of the Zhao family.

Others said that this was a serious problem with Yangzhou City's feng shui and geomancy, and that it was only the first to take effect in the place where the imperial aura was suppressed...

Wang Wen was impressed by the Yangzhou people's enthusiasm for eating melons.

I am convinced wholeheartedly!

At first, he was a little worried and anxious about this.

He was worried that these people were making too much noise and would attract the evil spirit in the blood, which would treat them like an ant nest and kill them all with a pot of boiling water.

After all, the current state of the matter had something to do with him. If it really caused large-scale casualties, he felt that he would definitely have nightmares in the future...

So, he put on the constable uniform borrowed from the government office and ran around to stop the crowd and evacuate them.

result……

He was severely scolded several times for being "hateful to the whole family".

Although those people were scolding Zhao Yiming's lackeys and accomplices.

Although he wasn't Zhao Yiming's lackey or accomplice...

But he was still very angry that his good intentions were treated as nothing by so many people!

So he decisively gave up the useless efforts.

Later, after he noticed the arrival of the crowd, not only did he not attract the evil spirit, but he was able to curb the spread of the bloody ghost to a great extent...

He just gave up completely and just stood there watching the show with his hands up.

How do you say that sentence?
It's hard to persuade the damn ghost!

Anyway, he has done what he wanted to do and what he can do...

He didn't even know where to pour out the disgusting puddle of dirty water in his heart, yet he was still able to muster up the energy to do that. He already felt that the brilliance of his humanity was even brighter!
"The reaction of the Metropolitan Observatory is even slower than that of the onlookers!"

Wang Wen said sarcastically, "I think Zhao Zhiling should step down and let me become the Junior Supervisor!"

Xu Ergou, wearing ill-fitting clothes, sat beside him. He was about to agree with him when Chen Sandao's face suddenly peeked out from behind the thick brick wall and whispered, "They're already here, but there are too many people and they haven't squeezed in yet..."

Xu Ergou immediately changed his tone: "Isn't that even more useless? If you ask me, Zhao Zhiling can be the Junior Supervisor, why can't Big Brother be the Junior Supervisor?"

"it is good!"

Wang Wen slapped Xu Ergou on the shoulder and gave him a thumbs-up: "You have a promising future. When I become the Junior Supervisor, I will promote you to Junior Deputy Supervisor first!"

Xu Ergou grimaced in pain and chuckled. Finally, he brought up the past again: "Brother, just tell me, what exactly did you encounter in there? Wasn't there only an altar? How did such a fierce ghost appear? Look how scared Sandao was, he's trembling even now."

"Just keep talking about the matter, don't drag me into this. You're not dead, but if you were dead, you'd run faster than me, don't you believe it?"

"Shut up first, I'm talking about serious business with my brother..." Wang Wen listened to the two of them bickering and shook his head weakly. He still didn't want to recall those dirty things.

To be honest, before this, he really thought he was a qualified bully!
After all, he already possesses the self-cultivation necessary for a bully to bully people, commit murder and arson.

Until I saw the pyramid...

He suddenly realized that this person can be better at anything except being worse.

Because there are really some people who have no bottom line when it comes to being bad and can be completely inhuman.

Compared with that beast, Wang Wen'er was as pure and harmless as a prostitute who would rather die than go on stage.

He actually didn't have much desire to speak at this moment. He was not in the mood to study the new changes of the Yin Cha Ling. He just glanced at the number '520' after reaping the Yin De, put it away, and never called it out again.

At this moment, he wanted to squat quietly in the corner, like a transparent person, and continue to watch these people who were as lively as if they were at a market, walking around and chatting.

Only in this way, the sticky, bloody pool of dirty water in his heart would not be so disgusting...

He doesn't want to talk.

But he has always avoided talking about it, which has invisibly conveyed a lot of information to Xu Ergou.

Xu Ergou imitated Wang Wen, staring at the crowd coming and going in front of him for a long time, and suddenly said, "Brother, it's like this, everyone inside should be dead..."

Wang Wen was almost amused by his kindness. He weakly complained, "Thank you so much," and replied weakly, "Those who should die are definitely dead, and those who shouldn't die should also be dead."

He was obviously talking nonsense.

Xu Ergou understood what he heard. He nodded and said nonchalantly, "You're just a nobody. We see each other all day long. Who can hide it from whom? You're all just pretending to be ignorant..."

Ergou just looks silly.

In fact, this kid has always had a good brain and a sharp mind.

Otherwise, how could Huang Xingde let him be Wang Erhu's top horse...

Wang Wen also understood, smiled silently, and said, "I'm fine, just take it easy, take it easy."

At the right moment, Chen Sandao's voice rang out from inside the wall again: "Hurry up and lower your heads! In three more seconds, the troops from the Astronomical Observatory will pass right in front of you..."

Xu Ergou quickly lowered his head.

Then, he heard his eldest brother beside him shouting as if nothing had happened: "Hey, Xian Ge... over here."

Cheng Xian, wearing armor and carrying a sword, walked out of the Si Tianwei team and looked at the two brothers who looked like beggars with confusion: "We have been looking for you everywhere, why are you two here?"

"Let's continue the small talk."

Wang Wen smiled faintly and raised his chin towards the bloody ghost den over there: "First, evacuate the crowd by force."

Cheng Xian subconsciously glanced at the dark crowd around him and said, "This...I'm afraid it's going to be a bit difficult!"

Wang Wen smiled and said softly, "When we provoke the big guy inside, we can come out and kill them all. That will make things easy."

Cheng Xian's face became serious, and he nodded seriously, "Give me a quarter of an hour."

Wang Wen smiled and said softly, "Don't worry. That big guy inside doesn't look like he has any brains. If he wanted to come out and make trouble, he would have come out long ago. But he hasn't come out yet, so there must be a reason why he can't come out..."

Cheng Xian felt a chill in his heart when he heard him casually say things like "probably" and "should". He quickly said, "We'll talk about it in detail later!"

After saying that, he turned around and quickly returned to the Si Tianwei team, trying to squeeze towards the center of the team... Zhao Zhiling came in person.

After a while, there was a burst of sounds of swords being drawn in unison. A hundred or so Si Tianwei gestured with their sharp weapons and shouted in a long and fierce voice: "Mighty~Wu~"

As soon as this familiar voice was heard, the noisy discussions around them were immediately suppressed. Countless onlookers looked towards them, but were unable to identify which government office they were from at the first moment.

At this time, the loud-mouthed Cheng Xian also stood on the roof of a carriage and shouted loudly: "The Chief Astronomical Observatory is investigating the case. All outsiders should retreat as soon as possible. Anyone who remains at the scene will be regarded as a criminal and brought back to the government office for investigation..."

It has been almost two months since the Dusi Tianjian Yamen was established in Yangzhou City.

However, due to the Zhou Dynasty court's policy of "tight inside and loose outside" in handling cases involving demons and monsters, the presence of the Chief Astronomical Observatory in Yangzhou City was not strong.

It can even be said that, apart from a very small number of wealthy families who paid close attention to the government and the government, the vast majority of ordinary people had no idea when the "Du Si Tian Jian" government office had been established in Yangzhou City, nor did they know what this government office was for...

Prior to this, except for the cases that the Dusi Tianjian took over, the rest were transferred from the government office.

Not a single case was reported by victims of demons and monsters who came to the police to report the crime on their own...

But that was before.

Before, in the eyes of most Yangzhou people, demons and monsters were just strange anecdotes of the supernatural, so far away from them that it seemed as if they would never encounter them in their lifetime.

And after tonight...

I believe that the people of Yangzhou will no longer think that monsters and ghosts are just anecdotes, nor will they think that monsters and ghosts are far away from them.

The Du Si Tian Jian will surely officially enter the vision of the people of Yangzhou, and the Si Tian Wei will gradually become a law enforcement force as well-known as the head constables.

Perhaps, many years later, there will still be many people in Yangzhou who will often think of this ordinary night.

From that night on, they were swept into a whole new era.

An era that they don't like but can't do anything about.

……

In the corner, Xu Ergou looked at the majestic Cheng Xian and whispered worriedly, "Brother, do you want to admit this?"

Wang Wen asked in return, "Shouldn't I admit it?"

Xu Ergou glanced at him and said cautiously, "It's best not to acknowledge it if you can. It won't do any good and will only cause countless troubles."

Look, even a street urchin like him who had barely been to school knew how much trouble a mere seventh-rank Lingtailang from the Dusi Tianjian would cause by privately investigating a fourth-rank prefect without his superiors' permission...

"It's all done."

Wang Wen leaned against the wall, narrowed his eyes slightly, and whispered, "If I don't pretend to be cool, wouldn't it be like walking in the night in fine clothes? Forget about anything else, just let me have some fun first. As for whether it will be troublesome or not, we can talk about it later."

trouble?

How troublesome?
Could it be more troublesome than being a prefect of a state?
That evil ghost killed Zhao Yiming, probably like eating a bug...

Chicken flavor, crunchy!

(End of this chapter)