"Whoosh..." Just as Zheng Tu's wife was talking more and more, several sharp arrows suddenly shot over from the roof of a two-story building next to the street, pointing directly at Wang Han and Zheng Tu's wife and children.
"General, be careful!" Zhong Shidao shouted anxiously upon seeing the arrow. However, he ran towards Zhao Fujin, intending to shield him.
"Hmph! You've got some nerve! Not only do you want to silence me, but you even want to kill me!" Looking at the arrow hurtling towards him at a snail's pace, Wang Han glanced at the hungry magistrate of Yuncheng County, snorted coldly, easily caught the arrow that was aimed at him, and threw it back the way it came.
"Ah..." Several screams rang out as Zheng Tu's wife, son, and the innkeeper were all struck by arrows.
"There's an assassin." Only then did Yang Zhi and the others, who were facing Wang Han, react. Four of them quickly stepped forward to block Wang Han, while the other four drew their swords and turned to look in the direction from which the arrow had been shot.
"Crash!" At the same time, the sound of tiles rolling rang out. On the roof of the restaurant next to the street, a masked man wearing only an inner shirt rolled down from the roof, and a sharp arrow pierced his head.
"Amazing!" Watching Wang Han easily catch the arrow below and throw it back to kill his companion, the three remaining masked men on the rooftop immediately changed their expressions and hurriedly ran away from behind the roof, no longer daring to continue their assassination attempt.
"You four go after them! We absolutely cannot let them get away!" Yang Zhi shouted to the four men who were not protecting Wang Han as soon as he saw the assassin on the roof escape.
"Assassin!" It was only then that the surrounding crowd realized what was happening.
"No need to chase them. Continue the interrogation. Once we find out who the mastermind is, we'll know who they are," Wang Han stopped Yang Zhi from sending people after the assassins. Then he said to the surrounding people, "Don't panic, everyone. The assassins have already escaped and won't be coming back."
"Yes, General." Upon hearing this, Yang Zhi immediately responded, then ran to check on Zheng Tu's wife and the others who had been shot by arrows. The surrounding people also breathed a sigh of relief and gathered around to watch.
The injured men were convulsing.
After carefully examining Zheng Tu's wife and children, as well as the innkeeper, who had been wounded by arrows, Yang Zhi said to Wang Han, "General, the blood is black. These arrows are all highly poisoned, and there is no cure."
"Damn it, I didn't expect them to kill someone to cover it up." Zhong Shidao cursed, glaring at the magistrate. He knew in his heart who had ordered the murder, but unfortunately, he had no evidence.
Seeing this, the magistrate felt a little smug, but he still said with a pained expression, "There was actually a mastermind. It's a pity that the damned mastermind murdered someone to silence them. General, how should we interrogate him next?"
“Yes, he deserves to die,” Wang Han sneered. “However, he thought that once someone is dead, they can’t be interrogated anymore. How laughable.”
"Can you interrogate the dead?" The magistrate panicked. He knew Wang Han knew magic and might have some kind of magic that could make the dead talk.
"Looks like I'm going to learn something new today!" Zhong Shidao said with a smile, looking at the magistrate with a mocking gaze: "The mastermind is doomed today!"
“Yes, he has no chance of escaping today!” Wang Han picked up on Zhong Shidao’s words, took a few steps forward, mumbled a few foreign words, made a few random hand seals, and raised his hand towards Zheng Tu, his wife, son, and the innkeeper.
With a clanging sound, a golden, transparent chain flew out from Wang Han's hand and shot into the corpses of Zheng Tu and the others, continuously penetrating them.
"Whoosh..." After a while, the transparent golden chain began to retract, eventually separating from the corpses. Under the faint glow of the golden chain, everyone could see that an invisible person was tied to one end of the chain, looking exactly like Zheng Tu and the others who had died on the ground.
"Oh my god, what is that?"
"Could it be the three souls and seven spirits of a person?!"
"It's actually a human soul?"
"General Shenwei is indeed a god!"
The surrounding people were astonished to see the souls of Zheng Tu and the others who had been captured and brought back. Even Zhong Shidao and Yang Zhi, who had witnessed Wang Han use magic many times before, were shocked. This was no longer a simple matter of using magic; it was something only the legendary immortals could do.
"To the mastermind's dismay, I happen to know some soul-binding magic. Murder to silence witnesses won't work on me!" Wang Han said coldly to the magistrate. Then, addressing the souls of Zheng Tu and the others who had been captured, he demanded, "Zheng Tu, you'd better confess now. Who ordered you to commit so many heinous acts? If you tell even the slightest lie, I'll make you die again, so you won't even have the chance to be reincarnated."
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk.” Hearing Wang Han’s question, Zheng Tu knew he was dead. Seeing his current state, he dared not hide anything. He immediately pointed at the magistrate and said, “Everything I did was at his behest. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to do such evil things.”
"Yes, yes, yes, it was all the magistrate and the county magistrate who ordered us to do it." Upon hearing this, Zheng Tu's wife and the innkeeper also pointed at the magistrate and the innkeeper. They were even more afraid now that the dead Zheng Tu had been brought in for interrogation.
"Yang Zhi, capture him first," Wang Han ordered Yang Zhi, then continued to question Zheng Tu. "What did they order you to do?"
"Let me tell you," Zheng Tu said quickly, "that for the past five years he has been instructing us to do evil, oppress the people, and extort money for them..." Hearing this, Zheng Tu hurriedly rattled off a long list of things. Finally, he said, "There's much more, but I really can't remember it all."
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