Chapter 010 The Four

The moonlight tonight is the same as always. There are no insects chirping outside Yanggu Town. All around is silent, with only the sound of water flowing over the bluestone.

Four burly men carried a red-painted wooden sedan chair and entered the town gate silently. Their steps were very steady and firm, but they made no sound when they stepped on the ground, as if there was no one sitting in the sedan chair.

They crossed the street, circled twice, and finally stopped in front of Li Zheng's house.

In the middle of the night, a gorgeously dressed woman was standing in front of the door of the room. There was no trace of sleepiness on her hibiscus-like face, and her beautiful eyes were too bright.

Behind her followed two maids holding lanterns. They all had their heads lowered and looked dull, like a puppet show performed by a traveling troupe in broad daylight.

When the sedan chair landed, the woman went to meet him with a face full of joy, and kept shouting: "My dear husband, why have you been gone for so long? You made me so worried."

"Oh."

A light laugh came from the sedan chair. A young man's hand reached out from inside and slowly opened the curtain.

The person sitting here is clearly a young man in his twenties, with a fair complexion, thin eyebrows, and a somewhat feminine air.

"Don't blame me, Madam. It's really because Master Song's driver can't be in a hurry."

The man let the woman hold his arm, and the two joked for a few words before walking back into the house.

The butler, who was standing by the door, bent over and greeted them with a flattering smile: "Master, Madam, dinner is ready. It is the best blood food, fresh as can be."

The pretty woman snorted softly, took the man's hand and said coquettishly: "No matter how fresh this blood food is, I'm tired of it after eating it for so long."

The butler smiled like Maitreya in the temple and did not dare to answer.

The man and woman were none other than Lin Cong and his wife Zhu, the head of Yanggu Town.

Lin Cong nodded, and touched Zhu's increasingly delicate face with one hand. He was about to say a few private words to her, but he didn't expect that as soon as he stepped over the threshold, his face changed drastically: "There's a stranger!"

Before he finished speaking, the four big men carrying the sedan chair and the two maids holding lanterns all raised their heads. Their six pairs of empty eyes turned blood red in an instant, their faces twisted and they looked as ferocious and terrifying as bloodthirsty beasts, and inhuman roars came from their throats.

At the same time, the servants who were patrolling the mansion also stopped in their tracks. They looked around for any place where they could hide, and then spread out like well-trained hunting dogs.

The master has ordered——

If there are any living people in the house, they will be killed without mercy!

Jin Jian was the first to hear the sudden chaotic and numerous footsteps outside, and he immediately realized that he had been exposed.

Without thinking too much, Jin Jian put the two secret letters he found in the deepest part of the bookcase into his arms, tightened the scarf on his face, rushed to the half-open window, and slid out of the study like a fish.

The mansion was full of people searching for prey like hunting dogs. Taking advantage of the darkness and his nightgown, Jin Jian lay in the shadow of the roof, looking around with a frown.

Although he was in the Shenhou Mansion and received a salary from the court, he was also a man of the world who had been through wind and rain and had his hands stained with blood.

Past experience told him that if he couldn't find the most suitable time and position, he'd better not act rashly.

Because once these obviously abnormal people below notice the slightest movement, they will rush over in an instant, and no matter how high his martial arts skills are, he will be torn to pieces.

Jin Jian breathed lightly and cautiously, then retreated back into the shadows.

The people who were given orders were not very powerful, so they could not detect the existence of the golden sword. They could only search everywhere in the mansion aimlessly, trying to use a carpet search to find the strangers who sneaked into the mansion and hand them over to their master for disposal.

Lin Cong strode past the crowd and walked towards the location of the golden sword with a clear purpose.

His eyes became like those of an animal. His vertical pupils emitted a faint green light in the dark night. Low growls occasionally came from his throat, all of which showed that he was no longer a normal human being.

Jin Jian could tell the difference of the person who came at a glance. The servants and maids were all avoiding him, but he was very purposeful and came for him.

——This person is very strong and I cannot contend with him.

The young man forced himself to suppress the trembling in his heart and crouched even lower.

Just as Lin Cong looked up at the roof, the magic attached to the golden sword finally detected the real danger. It hid the boy, along with the faint breath that Lin Cong had barely sensed.

Lin Cong was a little frightened when he suddenly lost his target. He thought the person had already run away.

The man heavily kicked away the servant who was lying on the ground like a hound sniffing for scents, and laughed in anger: "Well, well, well! I've only been away for a few days, and strangers have sneaked into the mansion. You are a bunch of rubbish! You wasted those excellent blood attractants in vain. Each of you is of no use at all. Damn it!"

Before he finished speaking, everyone in the yard knelt on the ground. Even though the servant who was kicked away was half dead, he still struggled and curled up into a ball, trembling and not daring to make a sound, for fear of angering his master again.

The only butler who still had some sanity was frightened to the point of bursting into tears. He kept saying that it was his fault and that he should not have relaxed his inspections in the mansion just because the medicinal materials business was booming. He begged Li Zheng to forgive him this time because of his years of hard work.

Zhu was not frightened. She thought they were all ordinary people. She and her husband were no longer the same people they used to be. What was there to be afraid of?

The woman came over gracefully, stepping on the servants' backs. She gently held her husband, who was so angry that he looked like a human being, and said, "Don't be angry, my husband. There are only so many strangers in this town. We can just look for them one by one. Could it be possible that they could grow wings and run away overnight?"

Hearing this, Lin Cong's expression eased a little.

Zhu paused, as if she had thought of something, and the smile on her face became more charming: "Speaking of this stranger, I have my eyes on a blood food."

She licked her red lips and said, "Although that man is a cripple, he smells really delicious. I am waiting for my husband to come back and enjoy him together!"

Jin Jian's heart skipped a beat, and he intuitively felt that the woman was talking about his own son.

But blood food...

Are they thinking...!

The young man clenched his fists and wanted to leave immediately and go back to report to the young master, but he did not dare to move at all. He could only wait.

The magic attached to him worked diligently, concealing his existence with great care.

Perhaps it was because he had lived in peace for too long, this town had already crawled at his feet, and the pride and pleasure that came from no one daring to attack him for a long time made Lin Cong quickly let down his guard. He held his increasingly charming wife in one hand and waved away the sweaty butler. The rest of the people were no longer human beings in his eyes, but just his slaves.

"What blood food? Tell me in detail."

Jin Jian's breath was choked and his palms were about to bleed from being pinched by himself.

These two people actually treated his young master as... Damn it!

Zhu smiled coquettishly, pretending to refuse, but at the same time she was extremely seductive: "That man just came two days ago, and he brought two young men with him. If I wasn't waiting for my husband to come back, I would have had a taste of him first."

As for the blind woman and the tiny child, Zhu didn't take them seriously. Blood food is naturally delicious only when it is full of yang energy.

History always repeats itself. Lin Cong was just about to say that they could just grab a couple of them for a midnight snack tonight when a loud bang was heard from a farther place, shaking the ground beneath his feet.

The expression on Lin Cong's face was blank for a few moments. He was in disbelief, and even more... terrified.

This sound...

Someone broke the formation!

The sacrifice is over!

He is finished too!

…

Even though the Devouring Locusts stopped eating for a while, the formation could not hold out for long under their iron teeth. In the time it took Tarona to do a manicure, the last line of defense was declared dead.

The Great Witch just took back the contented Devouring Locusts, and the lake water beneath her feet began to surge like a boiling cauldron. Without the restraint of the formation, the twelve locusts made sharp creaking sounds in unison, and the fierce ghosts sealed inside screamed as if trying to break out.

At this moment, even the breath of their own children could not comfort them at all.

The coffin, which was darker than ebony and blacker than ink, gradually began to crack. The black ghost energy that gushed out was mixed with some striking red, which was the evil energy that belonged only to powerful ghosts.

Tarona smelled a familiar scent from it, which she had only smelled after coming to this world.

The strong smell of blood, swamps filled with rotting flesh, and the smell of sulfur from hell.

——It’s that strange bird.

Tsk, she would rather her recent guess was wrong.

Really...

“Damn it.”

The nun in black and white exhaled coldly, and the strange-shaped cross sword in her hand was stained with deep red and a bit of charming pink magic flame. She "looked" at the twelve coffins that were shaking more and more violently, and a profound magic circle unfolded under her feet.

The next second, there was a loud bang!

The poisonous fog all around was blown away in an instant, like waves overturned by an undersea earthquake, rushing in all directions and destroying the grass and trees in all directions.

Only the lake water polluted by ghost energy remains as calm as before.

The strong wind swept through, destroying everything in its path. Twelve sharp and high-pitched screams accompanied the strong wind and were heard from a very long distance.

In an instant, Yanggu Town, shrouded in the silence of the night, became chaotic like boiling oil and dripping water.

At the moment the explosion sounded, the alchemy doll holding the child on standby suddenly opened its eyes. Its eyes, covered by a light-colored cloth, glowed with a deep red light. An inaudible sound like gears turning came from its body, and black lines as thin as hair instantly covered its exposed skin.

Alchemy Doll, enter battle mode.

Wuqing and Yinjian, who were waiting for the return of the Golden Sword in the room, were shocked by the sudden loud noise and their pupils shrank. They realized at the same time -

The big secret kept by everyone in Yanggu Town was suddenly exposed tonight, at this moment.

Who will reveal this secret?

Is it the long-lost golden sword?

No.

Wuqing almost immediately rejected this guess, and the next moment, a familiar face suddenly flashed through his mind.

This time, the chief constable caught the fleeting inspiration.

That is Ms. Luo’s face.