Those who are allowed to move around freely all have families to support and are concerned about. The monk can run away, but the temple cannot.
If someone finds your weak spot, not to mention there are monsters everywhere, where can you run to?
The people around turned pale when they heard this.
This County Magistrate Zhou is simply lawless!
As a local official, since he is still alive, instead of trying to rescue the people and clean up the area under his jurisdiction, he actually did something as cruel as raising zombies.
The three centurions looked at each other, clasped their fists, and asked, "Sir Erlang, do you want to interrogate these people?"
"Of course I have to ask!" Wei Lang waved his fist in anger, "Who told them to bully my cousin?"
Wei Da and Wei He, who were sitting on the ground, were deeply moved by what they heard.
"Ji Lang is so nice."
"When we get back, your cousin will boil some red eggs for you."
The guards received the order, tied up all the people, and dragged them to a distant field for interrogation.
They were now on the side of a small road, with ridges on both sides. The fields were full of weeds of varying heights. As the temperature rose, the wild growth of weeds was suppressed and looked dying.
Because the two gentlemen and some civilians had just run over, they had attracted a lot of zombies. The ones nearby had already been cleared out by the guards, but perhaps because there were so many people, a lot of staggering monsters appeared in the distance, moving towards them.
Liu Acao and others rushed forward to resolve the issue.
The weather today was extremely hot and humid, and the strong sunlight made it impossible to open one's eyes. The three cousins stayed where they were for a while, then moved to rest under a tree beside the path.
When Wei Da and Wei He saw the wooden ox and horse with dry food piled behind them, they were so excited that tears filled their eyes. They had been eating wild fruits for a month and had not had a decent meal for a long time.
A guard saw this and gave each of the two gentlemen two wheat cakes and two brand new water bags filled with water.
Wei Lang squatted beside them, and seeing his two cousins eating with gusto, he also felt a little greedy. He simply ran to the car to get a bag of cakes, and the three cousins sat in a row to eat the cakes together.
The dry food they brought was packed separately, with twenty pieces of bread in a bag. Taking the weather into consideration, Mingjingtang also gave them two carts of unhusked millet, fearing that they would not have enough food when they encountered others.
After Wei Da finished eating the bread in his hand, he took out a piece of wheat bread from the bag and continued eating it.
The etiquette of aristocratic families emphasizes not talking while eating. The upbringing ingrained in their bones forces them to maintain the old dining rules even when they are hungry.
Under the scorching sun.
With the village reduced to ruins as the backdrop, in the empty fields, a group of guards are interrogating the captured people of Guang'a County. In the distance, a group of people in similar attire are clearing out zombies.
On the edge of the field, under the shade of the trees.
The three young men maintained the same posture, holding the water bag in their left hand and chewing the bread with their right hand. Their movements looked uniform.
The picture is extremely harmonious.
When they picked up the fifth piece of cake, the guards beside them couldn't help but twitch their lips.
It was understandable that the two gentlemen were starving, but the Second Young Master had clearly eaten only an hour ago, yet he was still stuffing piece after piece into his mouth.
The three cousins didn't stop until they had finished the whole bag of biscuits.
After eating and drinking their fill, the two of them finally felt alive again. Wei He felt a little uncomfortable and quickly stood up to digest his food.
Wei Da took two gulps of water from the water bag. He suddenly remembered that Erlang had gone out with his fifth cousin, so he asked, "Has the fifth cousin gone back?"
He originally wanted to ask if they had found their tribesmen, if everyone was alright, if they had encountered a zombie horde, and if the elders were worried about them...
But when I thought about Erlang's temper, I decided to just ask a simple question.
Hearing him mention his elder sister, Wei Lang's eyes lit up and he immediately responded, "I went back. It was my elder sister who asked me to come out and find my brothers." The expression on his face was full of pride.
"My elder sister is very smart. She found out that my cousins were missing and knew that you would come back from this side." Wei Lang continued to ramble, "I was disobedient and my elder sister wanted to punish me. But once I find everyone, my elder sister will definitely not punish me anymore and will praise me..."
Wei He asked curiously, "Why should I punish you?"
Erlang is so well behaved, how could the fifth cousin bear it!
Wei Lang looked aggrieved when he heard this, "I ran too fast."
Wei He was confused: "?" He didn't understand.
While the three cousins were chatting, the interrogation over there had already ended.
These people were ordinary people before the disaster. The highest-ranking official they had ever seen in their lives was the local county magistrate. They had never seen such a scene before, so they quickly confessed everything.
A centurion came over and reported the situation.
The centurion had a complicated expression. "My lords, the common people have confessed that the monster that County Magistrate Zhou raised is his only son..."
"County Magistrate Zhou has had 'him' held in solitary confinement and hasn't killed him." The centurion clenched his fists. "As for the Heavenly Master, the people say he fled here after the winter. County Magistrate Zhou originally didn't intend to take him in, but the Heavenly Master said he had a way to cure the magistrate's son..."
Wei He's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he heard this. "So County Magistrate Zhou believed what the Heavenly Master said?"
The centurion nodded with difficulty. "That Taoist priest said that exchanging human blood for human flesh and nourishing it until the fresh blood washes away all the pathogens in the body can eliminate the plague and restore the county magistrate's sanity."
"He also swore that someone had tried it and recovered."
Wei He\u0026Wei Da: “…” Do you believe all this?
How did he become a county magistrate when he is so stupid?
Wei Lang's eyes flashed with confusion and a bit of puzzlement.
He looked like he didn't understand at all.
Captain Yan, standing by the side, silently stood guard beside the Second Young Master. Seeing that the Young Masters seemed to have forgotten the purpose of their trip, he said, "Three Young Masters, we are here to look for someone. We should not linger here and miss out on our important business."
What happens in Guang'a County is not their concern. The longer the time goes, the more dangerous the rest of the people will be.
You should know that Gaoyi County is now full of monsters.
The most urgent task is to find the remaining missing men first.
Wei He and Wei Da came to their senses.
You are right. For them, the safety of their brothers is naturally the most important thing. What happens to County Magistrate Zhou actually has little to do with them. It is impossible for everyone to be delayed because of the Guang'a County affairs.
But thinking of the young man who saved them...
Wei Da couldn't help but feel a little worried. It was hard to find living people outside now. If he couldn't find anyone, County Magistrate Zhou would definitely pick people from the people to feed his son. He wondered if the young man could hold on until they found someone and came back.
Liu Ah Cao and the others, who had just cleared out the monsters in the distance, finally noticed something was wrong with the zombies and hurried over to report, "Erlang Jun, there seems to be something wrong with the monsters. They seem to be moving much slower."
At first, everyone's attention was on the two newly found men. In addition, the zombies were a little slower during the day, and the current changes were not obvious. No one noticed that the monsters were quietly changing.
Just now, Liu Acao ran to clean up the monsters, and those monsters rushed towards them after seeing the living people.
He was shocked to find that the zombies seemed to be unable to run all of a sudden...
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