Shen Yong's face darkened as he flicked a burning firewood into the moat.
With a loud bang, the body soaked in gasoline instantly caught fire.
The crackling sound of burning was very obvious in the night.
After Shen Yong watched the fire burn, he threw hundreds of pounds of mugwort into the fire.
The smell of mugwort rushed up, covering up a lot of the corrosive smell.
The group of listless defenders on the gate tower of Anyun City suddenly felt their eyes brighten.
"Huh!~? Why is it already daylight?"
The resting defenders who were lying on the ground leaning against the city wall looked at each other, and stood up with the help of the city wall in confusion.
“What the… what the hell!!”
"It's haunted!!!" The defenders saw flames rising into the sky and a dark shadow next to the moat, and they screamed in fear.
The corpse actually caught fire. This is a very unlucky thing.
"Hurry up, someone, there's a fire, what the hell!!"
The defenders, with pale faces, rushed down the city gate, shouting at the top of their lungs.
"What the hell, help!!!"
"The fire is happening..."
“.......”
The defenders rushed to the city gate tower with hoarse voices.
The gatekeeper who had just fallen asleep opened the door with a frown and yawn.
"What are you making such a fuss about!?"
The defenders ran to the commander in panic.
"Something happened, the bodies are burning, there's a ghost inside!!"
"What!?" The general frowned in surprise and looked in the direction the defenders were pointing.
The sky, which should have been dark, was now as bright as day due to the firelight.
The guard was startled and ran towards the city gate tower in a hurry.
"Crackle, crackle, crackle~~"
The commander stood on the city gate tower, looking at the raging fire burning in the moat, his eyes wide in shock.
The flames leaped and flickered, illuminating the faces of the defenders on the city gate tower.
"Don't yell, it's better to burn it..."
The guard stared at the blazing corpse in amazement, muttering, "A perfectly good corpse is burning for no reason. Perhaps this is God's will."
Thinking of the rumors in the city, the guard narrowed his eyes and looked towards Fanjing City.
Could this be a hint from the Dragon King?
The panicked defenders looked at the calm commander, and their pounding hearts calmed down a little.
"Will the fire spread to the city?"
The guard's mouth twitched. "There's nothing we can do even if it burns. There's no water in the city. What else can we do?"
It is impossible to defy God's will. If the fire really spreads to the city, there is nothing we can do.
The defenders were stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
Yes, there is no water in the city.
There is no water to drink, let alone water to put out the fire.
The defenders pursed their lips and looked at the fire.
"That ghost is gone!?"
The general's heart trembled, and he glanced at the defenders, "Don't talk nonsense, you are just dazzled."
How can you talk about things like ghosts and gods?
What if that was some kind of god? They were talking nonsense, wasn't it...
"Hmm!?" A guard frowned and sniffed. "Smell it, doesn't it smell like burning moxa?"
I was so frightened by the sudden fire that I didn't notice the smell in the air.
As soon as the defenders finished speaking, everyone on the city gate tower sniffed.
The guard's eyes lit up, "It's definitely the smell of burning moxa!"
“The gods have appeared!!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the guard fell to his knees and kowtowed to Kuku outside the city.
Not only was there no food left in the city, but all the edible medicinal herbs in the clinics had been eaten up.
There definitely wasn't so much mugwort thrown outside the city and burned.
The air is filled with such a strong smell of burning mugwort, the burning mugwort must be a lot.
That could only be a divine intervention, burning mugwort to prevent the corpses from rotting and causing them to contract the plague.
God knows how anxious he felt as he stood guard at the city gate every day, smelling the stench of the large number of rotting corpses in the moat.
Dozens of bodies were transported from the city to the moat every day.
The stench of the rotting corpse rushed straight into their heads and was enough to make them faint.
If it weren't for the appearance of a god, how could the rotten corpse suddenly catch fire?
The defenders were stunned for a moment, then they all knelt down and kowtowed.
Chen Yong glanced indifferently at the guards who were kowtowing on the city gate tower, flew lightly into the city, and headed straight for the Jia Mansion.
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Jia Mansion Study....
"Sir, there is no time to lose. I'm afraid the Zhang family will get the news and run away tomorrow morning."
The triangular eyes curled the corners of his lips insidiously.
"Take advantage of the fact that the Zhang family is completely defenseless right now and tie them up. Tomorrow morning, we'll interrogate and convict them, pinning all the charges on the Zhang family and leaving them no chance to refute."
"It's a good opportunity to teach those people in the city a lesson."
The man with the mustache glanced at the man with the triangular eyes in surprise, frowning slightly.
What a vicious person! He must be eyeing the Zhang family's wealth.
The Zhang family was also quite miserable. They were one of the richest families, but there was no one in the family who was a high-ranking official. During the famine years, they were completely exploited.
But Triangle Eyes' eagerness to kill the Zhang family is a bit...
The man with the mustache glanced at the man with the triangle eyes and suddenly remembered that the man with the triangle eyes had asked to marry the eldest daughter of the Zhang family last year, but seemed to have been rejected by the Zhang family.
Last year, the Zhang family hastily married off their eldest daughter.
Hasn’t Triangle Eyes given up yet?
After listening to what Triangle Eyes said, Magistrate Jia frowned and began to think.
After a moment, Magistrate Jia took a deep breath.
"You have a point. At this time..."
"Pa pa pa!!" A round of slaps interrupted Magistrate Jia's words.
Everyone in the study panicked and looked around.
“Who is it? Who is it?!”
Magistrate Jia asked in a deep voice.
With a "creaking" sound, Chen Yong pushed open the door and walked into the study with a sneer.
"What a good plan, Magistrate Jia."
Glancing at everyone in the room, Chen Yong sneered.
"They're really a nest of snakes and rats."
Magistrate Jia clenched his hands slightly behind his back and looked at Chen Yong with a frown.
"Whose are you?"
"Did the Zhang family send you here?"
When did the Zhang family have such a powerful person?
There were quite a few guards outside his study, but not a single guard came over at this moment. It went without saying that those guards must have been dealt with by the person in front of him.
Shen Yong curled his lips and smiled, "The one who will take your life!"
"You bunch of corrupt officials are just a waste of air."
Triangle Eyes' face turned pale and he couldn't help but take two steps back.
"You...don't follow the wrong person. The Zhang family has no support. Even if we don't eat up the Zhang family, someone else will eat them up in the future."
"If you follow Lord Jia, you will have a bright future."
"Young man, don't choose the wrong path."
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