Looking up, I saw a middle-aged man with a dark face and wearing a green robe, with his hands behind his back, looking at this side with sharp eyes.
Behind the middle-aged man, there were dozens of constables holding long knives and pointing them at Zhou Zhilu.
"You only have cultivation but no realm. It means you are just stronger than ordinary people, that's all." The middle-aged man said contemptuously.
Zhou Zhilu coughed painfully and asked, "May I ask who you are, sir?"
"Liu Yong, the head of Wanghai County." Liu Yong replied calmly.
"Captain Liu..." Zhou Zhilu took a deep breath and said bitterly, "I was just lying on the front of someone's room and peeking at them having sex. It was the kind with no visuals, only the duration. Is it necessary to make such a big fuss?"
"Spying on sex? I'm afraid it's not that simple..." Liu Dutou said coldly.
Zhou Zhilu was stunned: "What... do you mean?"
Liu Dutou's face was filled with coldness as he angrily said, "At 1:00 AM today, someone spotted a servant from the Chen residence running onto the street covered in blood. Someone was sent to investigate, only to discover..."
Captain Liu took a deep breath before slowly saying, "All thirty-four people in the Chen Mansion, with the exception of one servant, were tragically killed at home! Old, young, women, and children... without exception."
"And last night, you were the only one sneaking around the Chen residence, eavesdropping on the couple? Humph! I think you were scouting the terrain so you could make your move more smoothly!"
Zhou Zhilu was shocked when he heard this and quickly exclaimed, "It's unfair! It's not me! I came back at midnight last night and haven't been out since!"
"Can anyone prove it?" asked Liu Dutou.
Zhou Zhilu paused. He lived in the suburbs, where there was no one living around. How could anyone prove it?
Seeing this, Liu Dutou turned and left: "Take him away! Put him in jail!"
…
In the cell, Zhou Zhilu sat in the corner, his face full of confusion.
"How could they all be dead? And it happened right after I left. Is someone trying to harm me? But I don't have any enemies..."
Zhou Zhilu was puzzled.
Then he opened the Book of Realms in the void, and slowly wrote on it with a golden pen:
"In the 377th year of the Song Dynasty, on the sixth day of the tenth month, Chen Dongwen, a local gentry in Wanghai County, and his entire family of over thirty people died in their home."
A white mist surged out and entered Zhou Zhilu's body.
Zhou Zhilu's hand holding the pen trembled, and he murmured, "They are really all dead..."
At this moment, Zhou Zhilu suddenly noticed that a blue light was wandering between the lines of the words he had just written.
"This is...blue-grade information!"
After seeing this scene, Zhou Zhilu understood that the news of the Chen family's annihilation was only a white-grade information because many people knew about it, but the truth behind the annihilation was a blue-grade information!
Zhou Zhilu had also seen such a situation once when he first came to this world.
It was he who wrote his own story in the Book of Realms. Although what came out was golden mist, a dazzling red light flowed between those words.
"What you want comes true." Zhou Zhilu said with a wry smile. Now, whether it was to clear his grievances or to improve his cultivation, he had to find out the truth.
Then he sat up straight and wrote again:
"The tragic massacre of the Chen family was actually caused by Chen Dongwen's enemies who held a grudge and came to seek revenge."
However, just as the last stroke was completed, the words suddenly disappeared, and a gray mist rushed into Zhou Zhilu's body.
"vomit!"
Zhou Zhilu suddenly felt a splitting headache, nausea, and a little weak.
This is the backlash from the "Book of Boundaries". When false information is recorded on it, the writer will suffer backlash.
With Zhou Zhilu's current physical condition, he can only withstand two rounds of backlash at most, otherwise he will probably lose his life first.
"Huh...Huh...I didn't expect it wasn't my enemy coming to take revenge."
Zhou Zhilu was breathing heavily, feeling even more confused. If it wasn't his enemy, then who could it be?
Without any hatred or grudge, he slaughtered everyone in the whole mansion... Why did he have to do this!
Zhou Zhilu pondered for a moment, then walked to the iron railing and called out softly, "Is anyone there? Someone come over here."
"What are you yelling about! Shut up!" A jailer came from a distance and shouted sternly.
Zhou Zhilu hurriedly explained, "Sir, I have an urgent matter to ask for your help!"
The jailer glanced up and down at Zhou Zhilu and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Sir, regarding the annihilation of the entire Chen family... could you please tell me the details? I really don't know anything."
The jailer rolled his eyes at Zhou Zhilu and said, "You're still pretending. How could you, a murderer, not know this? Besides, why should I tell you?"
Zhou Zhilu complained, "I really didn't do that! But I did lie on top of someone's house. If you tell me some details, maybe I can come up with something."
The jailer sneered and turned to leave.
Zhou Zhilu hurriedly shouted, "Sir, this is Zhang Tiezhu from the east end of the county!"
Upon hearing this, the jailer turned around and glared at Zhou Zhilu: "Are you threatening me?"
Zhou Zhilu said slowly, "Your Excellency has misunderstood. I'm a gossip-monger. For example, I know that Your Excellency likes Widow Li from the west end of the county, and I just happen to have information about all of Widow Li's preferences. Would Your Excellency be interested?"
Jailer Zhang walked back slowly, staring at Zhou Zhilu with sharp eyes, and said in a deep voice, "I also want all the information about Widow Li and her sister!"
"Hiss~ My Lord is not an ordinary man, a word is a deal!"
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