Chapter 30: Bounty Sect Startup Funds Available
Half an hour ago.
Qu Shan followed Li Zhou's gaze and saw the hollow mask in the guest room. His face darkened and he said to the Luo Cult members who were about to change their clothes, "Come back!"
Everyone turned around in confusion and looked at Qu Shan.
Han Da's first reaction was to ask Li Zhou: "What did you do to make the captain so unhappy?"
Li Zhou: “I didn’t do anything.”
She paused and asked in confusion, "What do you mean by again?"
Did she do anything impolite to anger the helmsman?
Han Da gave her a look and let her experience it herself.
Before Li Zhou realized what was going on, Qu Shan took the initiative to explain, "This mask contains a sinister aura. It may be related to evil spirits. The owner of the Zhu residence is definitely not a good person."
There was an uproar among the crowd.
Li Zhou was shocked and whispered to Han Da, "So the Luo Sect is really a reputable and upright sect?"
Han Da: “…”
He thought this little fool really believed what he said, but it turned out that she also thought Luo Jiao was suspicious.
Could she be an undercover agent sent by the government?
But the undercover agent would not be so stupid as to ask directly.
Well, so she is indeed a little fool.
Han Da pretended not to notice the helmsman's twitching eyebrows, and said righteously: "We in Luo Sect serve the only real Xumi Heaven, which is of course the most righteous path that cannot be more righteous."
Li Zhou nodded repeatedly: "So we, the Luo Sect, have an obligation to eradicate evil and eliminate evil."
Master Qu nodded secretly in his heart, and then ordered everyone: "We are now in the territory of this evil spirit, we can't alert the evil spirits. You two will be divided into groups, spread out and search everywhere. If there are similar items, report to me immediately."
"yes."
Although everyone felt a little regretful about not getting the twenty taels of silver, everyone could still distinguish between the important and the unimportant.
There are thirteen people in total. Excluding Master Qu, there are twelve people left, which can be divided into six groups.
Soon, everyone spontaneously formed teams and walked in different directions.
Li Zhou was originally planning to find Han Da to form a team, but when she turned around, Han Da had teleported to the door and went out with another girl.
Is he afraid of holding himself back?
Li Zhou thought, if such a discerning person had never done anything bad and was willing to leave Luo Sect, her Duotian Sect could reserve a place for him.
"Ms. Xue, are you looking for teammates?" A strange male voice sounded in Li Zhou's ears.
Li Zhou turned his head and saw a young man with regular features and clean temperament.
"My name is Shi Yishan. If you don't mind, Miss Xue, why don't you be in a group with me?" After the young man said this, he secretly raised his middle finger with the hand in front of him. He kept his eyes on Master Qu out of the corner of his eye. As soon as he noticed Master Qu's gaze sweeping over him, he let go of his hand.
Secretly scolding the leader?
Li Zhou is going to be a leader in the future, so he feels it is necessary to get along well with such subordinates and learn how to avoid being scolded.
Li Zhou nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."
The two looked at each other, as if they understood what the other was thinking. They went out in a direction where there was no one and walked quickly towards a secluded place.
"Are you a newcomer to the Monster Hunting Division?" Seeing that there was no one around, Shi Yishan spoke first. At this moment, he had no smile at all and his face was solemn. "Which leader asked you to carry out the mission alone? Didn't they teach you how to be an undercover agent in advance? You were almost exposed just now!"
Li Zhou: “?”
Li Zhou swallowed his complaint about the bad dinner, thought for a moment, and said tactfully: "Senior said that this mission of Luo Sect is not dangerous, and we just need to collect intelligence. Senior Shi, it turns out that you are also from the Monster Hunting Division."
"I am a demon hunter recruited in the third year of Yongxi*, and was just rated as A-level this year." Shi Yishan sounded quite proud of this rank. His tone was floating, and then he became serious again, "Even if demons and evil spirits are appearing frequently now, you, a newcomer, should not be allowed to rush into the cult's territory recklessly. From now on, you must follow me and don't wander around."
Li Zhou nodded and followed behind Shi Yishan, watching him sometimes crawling into the rockery and sometimes poking at the window paper, busy and having a lot of fun.
Li Zhou had a keen sense of smell and had already detected that there was no scent of the God of Joy mask in this area. The God of Joy masks in other places had also been searched out and sent to the guest rooms.
She waited quietly for Shi Yishan to finish his work, and then she couldn't help but ask curiously: "So, Senior Shi, what were you just doing..."
She imitated Shi Yishan's gesture and gave him the middle finger.
"Oh, you mean the Lingguan Jue." Shi Yishan said, "In the future, if you meet a colleague who is suspected to be from the Monster Hunting Division, you can also use this gesture to test him/her. This is one of the most commonly used hand gestures in the division. I also used this gesture to test you just now, so that I could confirm your identity."
Li Zhou suddenly realized and praised: "Senior is indeed cautious."
It’s just that my ability to read micro-expressions is not good enough, which led to a wonderful misunderstanding.
Shi Yishan didn't know what Li Zhou was thinking. He looked around and said, "Let's go. We haven't found anything here."
The two turned around and went back to the guest room. On the way, Li Zhou asked curiously, "Why did this Luo Sect come to steal the work of our Demon Hunting Bureau?"
Shi Yishan sneered: "It's just dog biting dog."
He glanced at the innocent Li Zhou, thought for a moment, and then warned him worriedly, "Don't be deceived by these evil cults because of their little good deeds. Don't be unable to see their true nature. The enemy of our enemy is not our friend. All evil spirits are to be hunted down and suppressed by the Demon Hunting Bureau."
Li Zhou nodded and asked, "Then how do we distinguish between orthodox religions and heretical religions?"
"Those without certificates are heretical cults."
"ah."
"What's wrong?"
Shi Yishan looked at Li Zhou with concern.
Li Zhou thought that he had to get the official documents first, and said casually: "I thought good and evil were distinguished according to their actions."
Shi Yishan was stunned, then shook his head and muttered, "Sure enough, he is a clear and stupid newcomer."
Li Zhou's ears twitched, and he was about to say where there were newcomers, but he knew the adjective was not referring to her, but Shi Yishan gave him a look.
"Xue Jingzhen, Shi Yishan, have you two found anything?"
Qu Shan's voice came from the front.
It turned out that without realizing it, the two of them had already walked back to the guest room.
Shi Yishan said respectfully: "Reporting to the captain, everything is normal in the direction we searched."
"Yeah." Qu Shan looked around. This was the last group released, and everyone had returned.
"There are three such masks in this Zhu Mansion."
As he began to speak, everyone looked towards the table, on which were placed two more masks that had been collected.
Qu Shan said: "I am going to cast a spell to remove the evil spirit from these masks...Everyone step back!"
Before Qu Shan finished speaking, three hollow masks rose into the air, emitting a cold and bloody aura. In the distance, a faint sound of bells could be heard, which was piercing and sharp, making people feel dizzy and almost nauseous.
"There is an evil demon doing something!" Qu Shan immediately judged and told the Luo Sect members, "Set up the formation."
Except for Li Zhou, the Luo Sect monks were well-trained and dispersed. They stood like an open pocket and chanted:
"The dust in the ocean is as small as a mustard seed in Mount Sumeru. If you want to find out about life and death, ask for the leather bag."
Everyone kept repeating this sentence. The sound of conch shells could be heard faintly in the main room. It seemed that they could sense a response from a supreme being outside the sky.
The sound of the conch shell continued, and the three hollow masks floating in the air began to hum restlessly. The masks trembled continuously and were sucked into the pocket by a huge force.
Tears of blood flowed from their eye sockets, and their faces were cracked and looked like they were about to break apart.
Suddenly, the ringing of the bell in the front yard became extremely urgent, a shrill scream broke the silence, and the dark corridor suddenly became as bright as day.
The hollow mask seemed to be injected with an invisible force. It suddenly retreated, and three jawless mouths opened, emitting a silent scream.
"ah!!!"
The members of the Luo Sect felt as if they had been hit hard. Some of them vomited black blood, while others fainted with a muffled groan.
Li Zhou caught Shi Yishan, who also fell and vomited black blood, and suddenly saw him squeeze his right eye.
That’s what she said, how could the demon hunter be so weak.
Li Zhou nodded, indicating that he understood that Shi Yishan was pretending to be dead.
He pretends to be quite similar.
Li Zhou looked at him with admiration.
However, Shi Yishan tried to pull Li Zhou's sleeve with trembling hands.
She looked down and saw a dark bloody hole that had appeared on the former's calf.
Next to her was a centipede with bared fangs and claws, crawling up along her trouser leg, wanting to bite her too.
It turned out that Shi Yishan was not pretending to be injured. He was indeed injured, but he was not injured by the scream of the mask, but was bitten by the centipede monster that suddenly appeared.
He squinted his eyes because his throat was swollen and he couldn't speak, and gestured to Li Zhou to look in the direction of his eyes.
Li Zhou looked at the centipede and suddenly remembered that the centipede demon he caught called herself Su Liuniang...
In other words, there are five more ahead of her.
Are the sisters here to take revenge?
While she was thinking, the centipede monster on her leg had already grabbed her calf viciously and bit it.
As soon as it bit through a layer of skin and came into contact with Li Zhou's blood, its whole body began to twitch uncontrollably as if it had been poisoned, and bumps appeared on its back one after another, which was a shocking sight.
There was no time to deal with it now. Li Zhou stretched out two fingers, pinched the shivering centipede, and threw it into his waist pocket.
She tied her pockets tightly, quickly opened the "Complete Explanation of Talismans", found the antidote spell, and recited it several times on Shi Yishan's wound.
As she chanted, Shi Yishan's face, which had begun to turn blue, gradually returned to normal, but his spirit was still very weak.
He gestured to Li Zhou to take out a pill from his magic bag, swallowed it whole, and then closed his eyes and started meditating again.
Li Zhou was about to stand by to protect him, but unexpectedly a woman's loud shout was heard from outside, and a big red figure rushed into the room aggressively, swinging ribbons with his left hand and ringing a bell with his right hand.
“Ding ding dong!”
The three masks suddenly merged together and rushed straight towards Qu Shan, who was standing in the center and was obviously the leader.
Everyone in the Luo Sect was staggering, not knowing whether they were dead or alive. Qu Shan, however, was not in a hurry. He crossed his right hand and his left hand, with his right hand fingers slightly higher than his left, and chanted: "Puhua will make a thunderous sound, white clouds will fly to the top of the head, nectar will sprinkle on Mount Xumi, and I will drink the elixir of immortality."
As soon as he finished speaking, a golden umbrella rose above his head and a handful of nectar flew out from under the umbrella and hit the chest of the big red figure.
The big red figure screamed and was unexpectedly knocked away by this handful of seemingly ordinary nectar. A dent was corroded on his chest and green smoke came out with a hissing sound.
"Go quickly."
Just as Qu Shan chased out of the house, Shi Yishan, who was meditating, opened his eyes and said urgently: "Take advantage of their fight and find a chance to catch them all in one fell swoop!"
Li Zhou looked at his leg worriedly: "But your injury..."
"It doesn't matter!" Shi Yishan said more loudly, "The bounty for these two evil spirits is five thousand taels in total. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
Li Zhou: “!”
I was just worrying about the sect's start-up capital, but it turns out that Master Qu is so valuable?
No wonder he said he was not poor!
Li Zhou said hurriedly: "Then I'll go!"
"Yes." Shi Yishan closed his eyes again and tried his best to practice martial arts to restore his physical strength. "I'll be well soon. When I'm well, I'll come to help you. Then we'll split the profits according to our contributions."
His tone was very anxious, fearing that by the time he recovered, the two monsters would have been both injured and Li Zhou would have taken all the credit.
Li Zhou agreed immediately and ran out of the house, picking up the mask of the God of Joy that had fallen on the ground and swallowed the three combined masks into his stomach.
We can't waste food.
Although he didn't taste much of the food, Li Zhou still gave himself a thumbs up for his frugality.
She didn't know that although Shi Yishan was meditating with his eyes closed and didn't see this scene, Han Da had just woken up and saw her huge mouth of the abyss open and swallowed the screaming mask of the God of Joy in one gulp.
The endless despair emanating from the abyss is enough to make any desperado tremble with fear.
Han Da, who was hit head-on by this attack, was shaken.
Recalling how he got along with Li Zhou and how the previous groupings deliberately avoided Li Zhou, he felt like he was falling into an ice cellar and sweat was pouring down his face.
At this moment, he let out a cry of terror in his heart, which was not exactly the same as Zhu Fu's cry when he saw Li Zhou outside the house, but it was completely consistent:
Captain, please stop hitting that man in red!
There is a real evil spirit here, can you please take care of her first?
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