I was almost eaten at the beginning, luckily I was able to transfer the negative status

Hear the words.

Jiang Yan didn't waste time talking about other things, but answered directly in the simplest language:

"It was Magistrate Luo who sent someone to tell us that someone had died in the government office and that there was a suspected evil spirit, so we had to go find him immediately.

In addition, Prefect Luo holds the prefect's seal and can mobilize the national destiny formation arranged in the prefectural city to temporarily resist the attack of [evil].

It's safest to stay with him now. Let's go quickly. If we are targeted by [Evil], we will be finished."

Say it.

Without waiting for Zhou Heng to respond.

Jiang Yan turned around and looked at the yamen runner who seemed to be delivering a message to them and urged:

"Take us to the prefect quickly."

"Yes, yes, adults, follow me."

The frightened yamen runner nodded quickly in response, and then quickly hurried towards the main hall of the government office.

Jiang Yan and his companions followed without hesitation.

See this.

Zhou Heng didn't dare to delay any longer. He was secretly alert and hurried to catch up with them.

……

It didn't take long.

They came to the main hall of the government office.

At this moment, there were seventy or eighty people gathered in the spacious main hall of the government office.

Among them, Magistrate Luo's family, young and old, were sitting behind the big desk in the main hall. The legal advisors and constables who stayed overnight in the government office, as well as many yamen runners who did miscellaneous work, were standing around the beams and pillars of the hall.

In addition, on the cold ground in the center of the hall lay the bodies of three yamen runners whose heads had been twisted 180 degrees to their backs and died.

I saw Zhou Heng and six others enter the hall.

Magistrate Luo no longer maintained his usual calm demeanor, but walked down from the desk in the hall as if grasping a life-saving straw, hurriedly grabbed Jiang Yan's hand and said:

"Master Jiang, you are finally here. Come with me to discuss this matter."

As he spoke, he pulled Jiang Yan towards the small hall on the side of the main hall.

Seeing this, Zhou Heng and the others looked at each other and quickly followed.

……

Enter the side hall.

Magistrate Luo completely lost his airs as a fifth-rank magistrate, and asked in a sad voice with a worried look on his face:

"Master Jiang, there's an evil spirit wandering around this government office right now. What should we do?"

"Don't panic, sir."

Jiang Yan pulled his hand back slightly with some disgust, and then calmly said:

"As far as I know, the power generated by the National Destiny Formation mobilized by the Prefect's Fifth-Rank Seal is more than enough to protect us all through the night.

By daybreak, the spiritual energy floating between heaven and earth will have weakened in activity. As long as the evil has no intention of killing us, it will retreat on its own, and we will be safe then.

Under normal circumstances, [Evil] rarely has the idea of ​​killing all humans in a certain place and refusing to retreat until dawn, so the prefect can rest assured."

"But what if? What if the evil wandering around in this government office refuses to leave?"

"I'm not afraid of anything."

Jiang Yan raised the corners of his mouth confidently.

"As far as I know, if [Evil] stays in a place for a long time during the day, especially where humans gather, it will definitely be sensed by the powerful among the nearby defenders.

Therefore, even if the lingering evil within this yamen doesn't leave after daybreak, the prefect only needs to maintain the power of national destiny for a few more hours, and our Qingliang Army will surely send strong men to exorcise the evil."

"How many more hours will it take?"

After hearing Jiang Yan's consolation, Magistrate Luo not only did not feel relieved, but his face turned even paler.

See this up close.

How could someone as smart as Jiang Yan not see the problem?

His expression suddenly froze, and he stared at Prefect Luo with a sharp gaze and asked in a deep voice:

"Prefect Luo, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah, I...I..."

Magistrate Luo couldn't help but sweat on his temples.

He hesitated and pondered for a while, then said with a look of death:

"To be honest, the recent disaster in Pingyang Prefecture has caused a change in public opinion, thus affecting the country's destiny.

In addition, the national destiny formation set up in Pingyang City is difficult to operate due to years of disrepair.

So, so… with the power of national destiny currently gathered in Pingyang Prefecture, I can only maintain the national destiny formation for about an hour at best, and I can’t even make it last until dawn.”

"what?"

Although he had already made a rough guess based on the other party's expression, Jiang Yan still couldn't help but exclaim when he heard the other party say the exact result with his own ears.

Zhou Heng, Liu Shiqing, Luo Jiu and others standing by also changed their expressions instantly.

"How could this happen? What should I do now?"

After exclaiming.

Jiang Yan paced back and forth anxiously, trying to think of a way to break the deadlock.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't come up with any good solution. In the end, he could only say helplessly:

"For now, we can only try to escape from the government office, or even escape from Pingyang City, to see if we can get rid of that evil."

"Is the only option but to run away? You're so powerful, can't you just eliminate the evil directly?"

Magistrate Luo said with an extremely embarrassed look:

"This government office is the node of the national destiny formation. Only by staying in the government office can I fully activate the formation.

If we leave the city, I will be completely unable to maintain the formation. If that [evil] follows us out, we will..."

“There’s no other way, I can only gamble like this.

[Evil] is an extremely terrifying existence. Even if it is a low-level evil, without knowing the other party's specific capabilities, it is far beyond the ability of a few of us to deal with.

Now we can only hope that it won’t always follow us around.

"Sir, please quickly inform those in the main hall to prepare to retreat. Everyone should gather together and move together. This way, the chances of us being attacked by [evil] will be lower."

"okay."

Seeing that Jiang Yan had no better solution, Prefect Luo did not waste any more time saying anything and immediately left the side hall as instructed by the other party.

……

A side hall.

Prefect Luo instantly put away the dejected look on his face, and a false smile quickly appeared on the corner of his mouth. He then said loudly to everyone:

"Everyone, the leaders of the Qingliang Army have already found a way to deal with the evil spirits roaming around in the government office.

Now, we need to temporarily evacuate the government office. We will be safe once we are out of the government office."

While talking.

Zhou Heng and others also walked out from the side hall.

Soon, under the leadership of Prefect Luo, holding the prefect's seal, everyone walked out of the main hall in an orderly manner and headed towards the main gate of the government office.

The distance between the main hall of the government office and the main gate of the government office is not far.

It only took them four or five minutes to walk to the thickly painted vermilion gate.

"You, you, you, go open the door."

The matter was urgent, and Prefect Luo spoke personally without caring about his status. He directly pointed at several yamen runners to go forward and open the door.