"Yumo, let me tell you, I think I know the Ghost King's purpose in sending people to massacre the city!"
Shen Wuyou's voice suddenly rang out. Bai Yumo and An Lanqing, who were hunting down the ghosts, were stunned for a moment before saying, "Wuyou, are you awake? What ghost king is massacring the city?"
"That's why all these ghost soldiers are coming out in droves. A ghost I just recruited said they came to massacre the city under the orders of the Ghost King!"
Shen Wuyou tugged at Ling Wangqing's clothes twice to signal him to follow her, while holding the jade token in her hand, she quickly explained:
"But the Ghost King has a deal with the City Lord. He needs to capture a certain number of women of marriageable age in the city every month. He absolutely cannot just take them all away at once! And even if the Ghost King is fickle and wants to capture all the women at once, he won't have any reason to protect the City Lord if the deal falls through.
"However, the ghost soldiers' mission now is to slaughter everyone except the city lord. First, they didn't capture any women, and second, they didn't completely eradicate the entire clan. Therefore, the Ghost King's goal could not simply be to vent his anger and slaughter people!"
Shen Wuyou quickly rushed to the City Lord's Mansion to search for the teleportation array that connected to the ghost clan, while analyzing with a serious face:
"I suspect the Ghost King knew we were inside the city, so he deliberately staged a massacre by his ghost soldiers. However, with us here, his plan to massacre the city will be thwarted, though some people will be killed or injured. At this point, the prestigious city lord will likely step forward and blame us for everything, accusing us of having ulterior motives.
"Having just experienced the separation of life and death and immense fear, the people simply don't care whether their reasons are reasonable or not. They will simply blindly obey the city lord's words and direct all their pent-up resentment towards the sudden appearance of outsiders, that is, us. Then, fearing that disaster will strike again, they will boycott us and the immortals together.
"In this case, even if we had a hundred mouths, we wouldn't be able to explain ourselves. And the people of Juancheng would lose their trust in the immortals from then on. Even if people go missing again in the future, they would definitely not feel comfortable inviting the immortals in."
After all, if this strategy succeeds, a concept will be formed in the hearts of the people—
If the immortal doesn't come, they will only lose a few people; once the immortal comes, they will all suffer a devastating disaster.
Everyone has seven emotions and six desires, and it is inevitable that they have selfish desires and luck. Between these two choices, they will obviously choose to maintain the status quo. It is better to survive in the cracks than to lose the whole family. As time goes by, they will no longer be surprised by the disappearance of people and the invasion of ghosts.
In this way, the city lord and the ghost king will never have to worry about the transaction.
This move is really cruel!
Shen Wuyou couldn't help but sigh, it turned out that the person who lingered in the ghost realm and grew up to become the king step by step should not be underestimated, his thoughts, methods, strategies... were extremely cruel.
Upon hearing this, the two people on the other end of the jade token stared at each other in silence for a long time, and both sides saw a hint of caution in each other's eyes.
Bai Yumo pursed her lips and said, "We've thought about it before, but it has nothing to do with the Ghost King. We thought all this was a conspiracy by the city lord, threatening the lives of the people in the city to force us to give up the investigation."
"The Ghost King is the greater threat. The City Lord is nothing to him, just a greedy puppet. And no matter who he is, he's going to exploit the people of this city, their hearts, and their nature to deal with us. Our priority is to protect the people. Once we've made them see the City Lord's true intentions with their own eyes, destroyed his prestige, and made sure no one trusts him anymore, then the people of this city will truly be liberated."
Shen Wuyou spoke quickly, his voice clear and steady, his face solemn and stern, his brows slightly furrowed, his eyes slightly stern, and it seemed that he really wanted to help them rescue the people.
Ling Wangqing listened to her serious analysis. Every word made sense, every point was within the framework, and she spoke clearly and logically. He looked at her unconsciously with his eyes moving slightly.
Shen Wuyou didn't notice him and continued talking seriously, even thinking of a solution: "I've asked two of my ghosts to warn Yan Qingli. They will lead the people to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, and then we can lure out the City Lord's conspiracy."
Unexpectedly, Bai Yumo smiled upon hearing this: "We really have a tacit understanding. We discussed the same thing when you were unconscious. We used the same method. Qingli should have brought his men here by now."
Shen Wuyou was stunned when he heard this, then laughed and said, "Well, it turns out I'm redundant."
Bai Yumo leaped up and slashed the ghost soldiers with a sword, landing steadily on the bluestone road and then swiftly raised his feet to continue chasing the scattered ghost soldiers and the hidden city lord;
While curling his lips slightly, he said: "Put away your dark words, the revolution has not yet succeeded."
"Yes, but there is one thing you definitely don't know." Shen Wuyou smiled mysteriously.
After hearing a questioning tone from the other side, he explained softly, "There is a portal connected to the ghost realm hidden in the secret door of the city lord's study. There will be a constant stream of ghost soldiers emerging from it to cause trouble."
After these words were spoken, not only Bai Yumo was stunned, but An Lanqing and Ling Wangqing beside Shen Wuyou also looked at her (the jade token) in unison, their eyes full of surprise.
Shen Wuyou was very pleased with their reaction, so she sped up her search for the study. With a slight smile on her lips, she spoke seductively, "Don't worry. Master Ling and I will rush over and destroy the portal. Just follow the plan."
Upon hearing this, Bai Yumo didn't say much and just replied, "Okay!" Then she hung up the phone and continued to concentrate on completing her task.
As for Wuyou, although the number of ghost soldiers may be several times more, with Ling Wangqing there, everything is not a problem and she doesn't need to worry.
And Ling Wangqing did live up to expectations. He followed the ghost soldiers' scattered tracks in the opposite direction. When the two of them fought their way to the study, Shen Wuyou, who had low cultivation, did not even lose a hair, and felt extremely safe.
The secret door in the study was not difficult to find, because the portal was open and a group of dark ghosts were pouring out. They didn't even have to look for the mechanism to open the secret door and could easily stand in front of the portal.
Looking at the pitch-black door frame emitting a dark aura, Ling Wangqing said nothing and slashed at it with his sword.
"Bang!"
The door frame cracked, the black air suddenly retreated until it disappeared, and the pitch-black door surface turned into a cracked mirror, reflecting Shen Wuyou's graceful figure and her inquiring frown.
She didn't understand. Ling Wangqing was clearly standing in front of her, and the mirror was even closer, so why was there only her figure in the mirror?
What’s even more terrifying is—
The moment the mirror shattered and fell to the ground, she actually saw a pair of eyes from the fragments of the mirror!
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