Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

"I can't stand it anymore. I'm going to kill those two guys right now."

Sima Feng's eyes were bloodshot and his expression was extremely angry. He turned around and walked out of the house.

Zhang Chen quickly stopped him and said:

"There's no rush. Let's bury them first."

Sima Feng let out a long breath, calmed himself down, took out tools from his storage bag, and looked at his surroundings.

"Where do we bury them?"

"Just keep it in this room. I'm afraid that other places will be dug up even if you bury them there."

Zhang Chen looked around and said calmly.

Then the two men dug a large hole in the dilapidated house, wrapped them in their old quilts, and buried them without erecting a tombstone.

After the two men came out, Zhang Chen gave them some change so that they could have a few full meals. If he gave them too much, he was afraid that they would suffer the same fate as the little boy.

Then the two of them continued walking along the alley. From time to time, they could see some people in ragged clothes, all of them with pale faces and thin bodies. Occasionally, they could see dead people, just lying straight in the alley. No one paid any attention to them, and those who passed by were used to it.

After walking for a while, the two came out of the alley and came to the street outside. At this moment, it was very lively outside. From time to time, luxurious carriages and people in gorgeous clothes could be seen. However, in the alley separated by a wall, people who died of starvation and disease were lying coldly.

Hearing the discussions around them, Zhang Chen and Sima Feng learned that today was the day the emperor would choose a concubine. Everyone was gathering in the imperial city, so they followed the crowd over to see what was going on.

Soon they arrived at a large square where many young women were lined up in long queues. There were eunuchs who specialized in checking appearance. Those with good looks passed easily, while those who were not so good-looking quietly handed over a bag and successfully passed the initial screening.

Zhang Chen made a rough estimate that there were no less than ten thousand women participating in the selection. The passing rate was very high. In less than an hour, several thousand had passed. Only some who were really ugly or fat were eliminated.

"Big brother, how many women usually pass through each time?"

Zhang Chen looked at a man who was also watching the fun and asked.

"There are at least tens of thousands of them, but only a very small number of them can become concubines. The vast majority of them become palace maids."

"There are so many every time, and it happens every two years. How many people are there in the palace?"

Zhang Chen asked the doubts in his mind.

"Who cares about this? This is not something that ordinary people like us can know."

The man did not comment and just watched the excitement calmly.

Zhang Chen and the other man watched for a while and then left. All the women entered the palace. Although they felt it was abnormal, they could not go in to investigate.

"What should we do next? Should we go to Dongxiangchun..."

Sima Feng looked at Zhang Chen, pointed his hand at the knife, and made a chopping gesture.

"Don't be in a hurry, find a way out first."

Zhang Chen placed his index finger on his lips and spoke softly in a low voice.

Dong Xiangchun is in the center of the capital. If something big happens, it will take a long time for the two of them to run out of the city quickly, so Zhang Chen plans carefully.

So Zhang Chen brought Sima Feng to the nearest inn where Dong Xiangchun stayed and observed his every move, while thinking about how to retreat from that road without being noticed.

In the end, Zhang Chen planned to burn down the entire Dong Xiang Chun. Since Dong Xiang Chun was very large, it would be a waste of time to kill them one by one. However, considering that many people inside were innocent, he decided to set the fire in the early morning when almost everyone was resting.

Moreover, the guys and managers all lived in the same building, which made it convenient for the two of them to catch them all in one fell swoop.

As for retreat, the two men thought it was impossible to run out of the city immediately, so they decided to stay in an inn about ten streets away from Dongxiangchun. There were many people nearby, and the criss-crossing streets around would not allow them to be found even if they searched the place for a while. Then they could find an opportunity to slowly sneak out of the city.

So the two of them started to implement it. They first went to stay in an inn about ten streets away from Dongxiangchun. After observing the surrounding environment, they began to wait silently. The capital would implement a curfew at night, so it would become quiet at night.

Zhang Chen and Sima Feng lived in the same room, which was close to the street and the window faced a street. The waiter told them that the room close to the street might be noisy at night and advised them to change room. Zhang Chen did not care, as he chose this room on purpose to facilitate his actions at night.

It was the second half of the night. Zhang Chen was practicing with his eyes closed, waiting for the arrival of the early morning. Suddenly, he heard the sound of carriages on the street outside, and there were more than one. He quietly looked out through the window and found many soldiers in armor, lined up in two rows, with carriages one after another in the middle.

All the carriages were covered with black cloth. Everyone was silent and slowly walked towards another secluded street.

"What are they doing in the middle of the night? They are sneaking around, they must be up to no good."

Sima Feng was also disturbed, and spoke softly after watching the carriage pass by.

"I'll go check it out. You wait for me in the room. If I'm not back by early morning, don't go to Dongxiangchun again."

After Zhang Chen gave some instructions, he gently opened the window, then used the Water Invisibility Technique, lightly landed on the street, and followed the carriages.

The carriages drove along the city's main street for a while and then turned into a royal workshop that specialized in making bricks, stones, tiles and other things for the imperial palace.

The workshop was very large, with thick smoke still coming out of the roofs of more than a dozen rooms. It seemed very busy in the middle of the night. Zhang Chen came to the door of the workshop, took a look, and climbed over the wall. He saw their soldiers carrying large boxes one after another from the carriage.

No less than fifty large boxes were moved and piled outside several large stoves. Then all the soldiers surrounded the stoves with their faces facing outwards.

There were dozens of men in linen clothes outside the boxes. Zhang Chen observed carefully and found that those men in linen clothes were deaf and dumb. They had numb expressions and looked extremely abnormal. Their movements were like dementia. They opened the boxes in groups of two and threw the contents into the stove.

There was immediately a crackling sound from the stove. The men drooled and clapped their hands. They actually smiled and kept moaning. When the sound stopped, they took things out of another box and threw them in.

Zhang Chen looked at the things those people threw into the furnace. His head buzzed and his whole body was shaking. Looking at those withered bodies that still had human forms, they were clearly the bodies of women who had been drained of their blood. Expressions of extreme fear were still vaguely visible on their faces.

There were no fewer than three bodies in each large box, which meant that there were at least 150 female bodies here.

Zhang Chen clenched his hands continuously, his nails had already penetrated into the flesh. His previous thoughts were correct. The so-called emperor's selection of concubines was just a cover-up. He actually used the lives of those young women to practice the joy skill.