The surface of the zombie's body turned charred black in an instant, and it fell forward.
Gu Lingze quickly dodged and recalled the Mo Shuang Sword from the ground.
At this time, the black-clothed army rushed in. The living zombies smelled the breath of living people and quickly struggled on the ground.
Gu Lingze immediately raised his foot and stepped on its head, shouting, "Everyone get out!"
Once bitten by a zombie, your whole body will rot immediately, and the consequences will be disastrous.
Just when the Black Clothes Army was in a dilemma, Zhao Chengmo rushed back with what he wanted in his hand.
"Lingze!"
Gu Lingze caught the date pit, dripped the blood from his fingertips on it, and then smashed it into the seven major acupoints on the zombie's back one by one. The zombie immediately turned into a pool of black blood with an extremely terrible stench.
Zhao Chengmo raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, with a look of self-blame on his face.
Looking at him like this, Gu Lingze couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
"If you hadn't gone to get these date pits, I'm afraid both of us would have been exhausted by this life."
Zhao Chengmo frowned, "What is a living zombie?"
Gu Lingze gave a brief explanation, and the expressions of both men became solemn.
Zhao Chengmo handed the two women over to the Xuanyi Army and asked them to take them back to the Jinwu Guard Camp and keep them under strict supervision.
Before leaving, Gu Lingze raised his sword and cut all the tendons in the hands and feet of the two men, and shot a ray of golden light into their bodies.
The origins of these two people are strange. If not, I'm afraid they would have some other tricks up their sleeves.
Zhao Chengmo took out a bamboo tube from his waist and said, "It contains the letter written by that woman."
Gu Lingze took something out from inside. It was just a very narrow piece of paper with eight big words written on it.
"Great things are about to happen, but there is no sign of them."
Gu Lingze rolled up the note and put it back into the bamboo tube, then looked at Zhao Chengmo and asked, "Where did she put it after she finished writing it?"
"At the base of the south wall."
Gu Lingze nodded and said, "Have the Xuanyi Guards put the things back to where they were, and keep a close eye on that place at all times."
Zhao Chengmo nodded.
The two of them went to the place where the woman in red had been before. Looking at the furnishings in the house, they both felt that something was strange.
This is a charity house. Although the conditions are much better now, there are many antique vases in the room and even a landscape painting hanging on the wall.
But the two searched the room and found nothing unusual.
Gu Lingze carefully recalled the woman's actions after she entered the room, and suddenly remembered that she seemed to be trying to take the short bottle from the shelf.
He walked over to the wooden shelf and tried to pick up the bottle.
Unexpectedly, the bottle didn't move at all. He tried turning it again, but unexpectedly, there was a click behind the landscape painting on the wall.
Zhao Chengmo immediately went forward to check, and pushed hard along the gap in the wall, and a dark room appeared in front of the two of them.
Gu Lingze tore down the landscape painting on the wall, and the two walked inside together.
After taking a few steps, I felt that the temperature inside was much lower than outside, just like the temperature in winter.
Zhao Chengmo took out a fire starter and blew it up. The scene that came into their eyes made their pupils shrink immediately.
Gu Lingze paused for a moment and immediately threw out six fire talismans and fixed them on the wall, illuminating the entire dark room.
Pitch-black coffins were neatly arranged, with another layer on top. There were probably dozens of them.
Gu Lingze gritted his teeth and placed his hand on a coffin. The moment he touched it, his eyes suddenly turned red.
"Cheng Mo." His voice was trembling, "In here... those lying in here... are all children."
Zhao Chengmo clenched his fists and hugged the emotionally unstable Gu Lingze into his arms, trying to give him some warmth.
At this time, there was a noise outside the door. It turned out that the thunder just now startled Gu Feirui, reminding him of the incident with Huo Jingwu before.
He went to their room and saw that there was no one there, so he brought the guards in that direction.
After Gu Feirui came in, he was also stunned by the scene in front of him, "Why are there so many coffins here?"
Gu Lingze gritted his teeth and forced himself to calm down. He walked to the coffin and slapped the lid with his palm. Four locust wood nails were shaken out from the four corners of the coffin.
He took a deep breath and asked Zhao Chengmo to help push the lid open.
Two small figures appeared in the coffin, lying inside in a curled up position, in exactly the same posture.
Gu Lingze attached spiritual energy to his hands, then reached into the coffin and pulled out seven palm-length wooden nails from the two children's bodies.
Everyone was immediately outraged. They couldn't imagine that someone could be so cruel as to do such a brutal thing to a child.
One of the guards took a few steps forward and suddenly said in a trembling voice: "This is the child from the charity hall. I remember this child. His name is Xiaodouzi."
Gu Lingze's eyes were blurry. He closed his eyes weakly and said to the dozens of coffins in front of him, "I am late. I am late."
He bent down and touched Xiaodouzi's head, and did not get up for a long time.
Everyone looked at the scene before them and felt heavy in their hearts.
Gu Feirui panted heavily, his eyes red as he said, "These beasts! Why did they attack these children? They have been orphans since they were young. Isn't that pitiful enough?!"
After a long time, Gu Lingze opened his thin lips slightly and uttered two words coldly -
"Raising jade."
Zhao Chengmo instantly thought of the jade pin powder that the ladies had taken away. Those jades were actually grown using this method.
That night, Gu Lingze personally pushed open the coffins one by one, and then pulled out all the soul-locking nails on the children.
When it was getting light, he performed a ritual with a pale face to send the souls of these children to reincarnation.
Looking at the ignorant little faces in front of him, Gu Lingze felt the pain in his chest become numb.
"No matter who is behind this, I will find him no matter where he is, and grind him to ashes!"
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Zhao Chengmo ordered the Black-clad Guards to guard the charity hall and report immediately if there was any sign of trouble.
The three of them took the palace guards back to the general's mansion.
As soon as Gu Lingze entered the room, he slipped into the secret realm. Zhao Chengmo changed into court clothes and went to the main hall.
After recounting what happened that night, Xie Qingwan and Su Wenyu burst into tears. They had never expected that someone could be so cruel.
"Beast!" Gu Tianhua punched the armrest.
"I will go to see the emperor after the court session today and report the whole story to him." Zhao Chengmo said.
Tai Chi Hall.
After hearing what Zhao Chengmo reported, Emperor Jing was furious.
He didn't expect things to develop to such a serious level.
Moreover, the children in these coffins were not only from charity houses in the capital, but also from other prefectures.
Such a big thing happened, and if the imperial teacher had not investigated, the emperor would still be kept in the dark.
"Lingze said that the so-called Purple Essence Pill is probably also a pill that controls the mind. It is estimated that many ministers in the court have already taken it."
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