Chapter 26 The Four
If Zhui Ming had not learned from Wu Qing about the horrific case that happened in Yanggu Town, he would have thought that Ge Tong was trafficking in human beings. He would never have imagined that the people who captured these girls would treat them in such a cruel way.
When he thought of the words relayed by his senior brother, every word of which was soaked with blood and human life, Master Cui San was so angry that his teeth were about to break.
Nothing is more impactful than seeing it with your own eyes.
Ge Tong, and those bastards who eat human flesh!
A bunch of things worse than beasts!
Zhui Ming hid in the darkness for a while and gathered his strength. After his anger was suppressed, he began to think about how to rescue all the girls.
We can't let them stay here any longer. The people who brought them here have such cruel hearts, and no one can predict when they will take action against them.
Furthermore, it is cold and gloomy underground, and most of these girls are pregnant. They are constantly suffering from fear and terror. If they stay here any longer, they might end up losing two lives.
But how to get them all out?
Zhui Ming listened attentively for a while and counted the breathing sounds in front of him, no more, no less, exactly twelve.
He still has strength for one or two, but these twelve...
He just couldn't do it.
Just because he can't do it doesn't mean others can't do it either.
Zhui Ming decided to shamelessly ask Lady Luo to come over.
After thinking about it, he did not say anything, but quietly returned the same way.
He was a strange man, who suddenly appeared and offered to save a group of women. These girls were more terrified than to have escaped from the jaws of death, and suspected that he was in cahoots with the people who had captured them.
But he was worried and unwilling to go back like this, so he thought about finding something for Ge Tong to do.
then--
After restoring the secret door, Master Cui San transformed into a tabby cat that looked like the king of cats without any psychological barriers. Then, relying on his small size and the fact that cats are born liquid, he climbed smoothly and swiftly into the warehouse of the prefectural government.
The study was clean and tidy, but nothing was found. Zhui Ming realized that Ge Tong had hidden all the evidence concerning his life and property close to his body.
Since we didn't find any evidence, we can't go back empty-handed.
He was knowledgeable and knew which things were the most valuable and precious, so he picked out those things.
Before he left, Madam Luo gave him a purse, saying that it could hold a lot of things. She was afraid that he would find evidence but would not be able to bring back too many things, so the purse was just the right size to hold these things.
The governor of a state does not have such a rich family background, and Ge Tong was born in a common family. The things in the warehouse are all the people's hard-earned money. If he takes them, he will rob the rich and help the poor, so that they can be used for the people in the future.
Zhui Ming stuffed things into his purse vigorously, fearing that something would be missed from the warehouse full of good stuff.
This purse is really a great treasure. It is so magical that even a three-colored horse that is more than one foot tall can be stuffed into it.
In that case...
His eyes turned and fixed their eyes on the two half-man-high red corals placed in the most conspicuous position.
Mr. Cui Sanye stretched out his hand and compared, then looked at the palm-sized purse in his hand. It was filled with so many things but it didn’t feel heavy at all. Could this be the Qiankun bag mentioned in the storybook?
He made up his mind and used his inner strength to move the two corals. He didn't care about anything else and just stuffed them into his wallet.
The magical purse lived up to expectations and swallowed two red corals that were half a person's height whole, as easily as swallowing two sesame seeds and mung beans.
Zhui Ming brushed the dust off his hands, put the purse in his hand and tossed it, but there was still no change, it was still floating lightly.
It's really convenient to have such a treasure.
He sighed, looked around, and made sure that the most valuable things had been stuffed into his purse, then put the purse safely in his arms.
The unrestrained handsome man smiled with satisfaction, turned around, and transformed into a tabby cat. He jumped to the top of the warehouse as if it were flat ground, and went out from the palm-sized window.
That’s not all, he strolled to the kitchen again.
The cat has a keen sense of smell. The strong smell of spices coming from the kitchen made him sneeze. He couldn't stand it, so he gave up the idea of going in.
The King Cat lay in the flowers, shaking his ears and swishing his tail to amuse himself, waiting patiently for the people in the kitchen to leave.
During this period, he also heard about Ge Tong's latest movements - the guy went to the Temple of the Holy Mother of Eternal Life, and the abbot said that he had lost something important and needed to report to him as the prefect.
Chasing life and realizing it clearly means that you have discovered that the Zen master without anger and enlightenment have disappeared.
It was just as Ms. Luo said, these two people were very important to the so-called Eternal Holy Mother, and everyone in the entire temple was watching them.
It seemed that there was something important in the kitchen. For such a short time as the meal was being prepared, the kitchen manager would lock all the doors and not allow anyone to stay there.
Such an attitude of importance reminded Mr. Cui San of a more disgusting possibility:
There won't be any human flesh in here, will there?
People are eating people in Yanggu Town, what about Ge Tong? Does he eat people?
Jizhou Prefecture has a population of over 100,000 people coming and going. Let alone a few people, even if a dozen people were missing in one breath, no one would notice.
And Ge Tong is the highest-ranking official in Jizhou Prefecture.
The more Zhui Ming thought about it, the more his scalp began to tingle. He felt as if bugs were crawling all over his body and his stomach was churning.
After waiting for the steward with a bunch of keys to go away, he jumped lightly to the window and squinted his eyes to look inside, trying to see what was inside.
Unfortunately, the windows here were covered with too thick paper and he couldn't see anything.
Just as he was about to poke a hole in the window paper with his claws, Zhui Ming hesitated for the first time. After several mental struggles, he finally poked a hole in the thick window paper.
I took a quick look inside and didn't see anything out of place. All the cabinets that could hold things were tightly closed, and I had to go in and transform back into a human to open them.
But the smell of spices inside was so strong that when he got closer and sniffed it a few times, he suddenly felt dizzy.
The King Cat shook his head fiercely, jumped off the windowsill, gave up the idea of going in to search, turned around, and took out a tinderbox from somewhere.
—He’s going to burn this place down.
Zhui Ming used his two front paws to hold the fire starter, bit open the cork with his mouth, and blew twice upwards, and sporadic sparks came up from below.
As soon as the flame was lit, he threw the tinder into the neatly stacked pile of dry tinder in the corner. The fire was about to break out, and one pile after another began to burn.
In just a few breaths, thick, choking smoke filled the air above the kitchen, followed by the servants' screams.
The arsonist, the cat king, had already escaped and ran to the next place to set fire.
Today he will burn down the entire prefectural government!
By the time Ge Tong received the news, many important places in the prefectural government had already been set on fire. The first few places that burned were devoured by the fire, leaving only ruins. The manpower after the mutation was still somewhat insignificant under such a large fire.
"Who is it? Who did it?!"
Ge Tong, who had just returned on horseback, kicked the butler, who was pale and stammering and unable to answer anything, into the lotus pond filled with dead branches and leaves. The butler fell into the water and became motionless instantly. When he surfaced, he found that he had died.
The servants around were all trembling with fear and sweating profusely when they saw this. The man who later reported that everything was fine in the study area had a trembling voice and his face was as pale as a dead person in the water.
Fortunately, he did not end up like the butler. He only had one of his hands torn off by the prefect's claw, and he had to cover his mouth with his other hand in time to prevent his screams from angering the prefect and thus costing him the life he had just saved.
Under the firelight, veins bulged on Ge Tong's face, which could be described as elegant. His eyes were as big as copper bells and blood red. Two fangs could be vaguely seen protruding from his mouth as he roared.
Zhui Ming, who had transformed into a cat, squatted in the shadow of the wall, looking deeply at the furious Ge Tong below.
Is this the mutant that Ms. Luo mentioned?
A civil servant who was originally powerless, after the mutation, kicked out in anger and actually killed a strong man with one kick, and severing the man's arm was as easy as tearing paper.
Such power is said to prolong life...
How many people who have seen it can resist such temptation?
Zhui Ming, who had been able to retain some ease when he came here, was now like his eldest senior brother. His heart sank completely and he suddenly felt that his future was bleak.
None of them dared to think about the worst possible scenario. Once they did, they would probably no longer have the energy to investigate Lord Wang's case.
Zhui Ming closed his eyes tightly and forced himself to calm down. While everyone in the prefectural government was concentrating on putting out the fire, he took a secret path and hurried back to the inn.
…
The inn where they were staying was some distance away from the prefectural government, so after Zhui Ming had caught his breath and explained what he had done outside, the news from the prefectural government finally reached their ears.
I have to say, Zhui Ming did a great job in lighting this fire.
Jizhou Prefecture is in a deadlock from all angles. If the anomaly is not eliminated, they can't do anything to Ge Tong and his people. Since everything is deadlocked, it's better to light a fire to make it active so that many methods can be used.
The fire was burning in a strange way. Tarona didn't believe that these mutants were united. Their heavily guarded hometown was robbed. Ge Tong suspected that no one would suspect the Shenhou Mansion.
Lin Cong, a low-level minion, can have such powerful bodyguards. He is the prefect and the number one figure in the abnormal lair. Can the bodyguards in his house be worse than those of a low-level minion?
Absolutely not.
Therefore, he would not be suspicious of ordinary people whom he considered to be vulnerable. The first people he would be suspicious of would be the vested interests like him.
Only those who become like him have the ability to set fire to his old home without being noticed by the people in the house.
The Immortal Mother is so powerful, don't they want more?
This wave of assists is very good. Let them fight each other, so as to avoid causing trouble for Wuqing's investigation in the future.
The black and white nun was in a very good mood and praised Zhui Ming a few words. Zhui Ming immediately took advantage of the situation and told her about his discovery in the secret door. At the end, he said that he was not capable enough and wanted to ask her to help save people.
It is inconvenient for Tarona to enter the Zhizhou Mansion, but can't she go to the underground hall that was built outside the Jizhou Mansion?
[I was wondering why there was no maze under Jizhou Prefecture. It turns out that it was built outside.]
Theseus: [… Stop thinking about your maze. Haven’t you had enough of maze guerrilla warfare? ]
When I was in the Anglo-American world, almost every mission world had a maze-like copy, such as Hydra, Riddler, and Delivered Food. His partner loved them so much that he would go and play in them no matter where he went.
Tarona: [Hehe. ]
She agreed to Zhui Ming's request without hesitation. Following the principle of waiting until the end, she put down her teacup and went straight to the direction Zhui Ming mentioned.
There was no need for a secret passage, she could just escape underground.
As the phantom white flames appeared, the twelve girls, who no longer had the strength to cry, huddled together in fear. The screams that came out of their throats were almost inaudible and sounded extremely pitiful.
They thought the people who came were the evildoers who had forced them here and treated them like animals, but they didn't hear any movement for a long time, and no one came to drag them away by force.
When the twelve girls mustered up the courage to look towards the fire, the fear in their eyes suddenly turned into surprise.
I saw that dozens of phantom white flames were surrounding a person like loyal guards. The person was a young woman wearing a black and white dress, with her eyes covered with a four-finger-wide black veil.
They had never seen such a beautiful woman before, and for a moment they were in a trance and stared at her in a trance, not knowing why.
——Mother’s love is selfless and tolerant, and crazy mother’s love is even more selfless and tolerant.
As a mother herself, the [Blood Nun] also has an inexplicable magical attraction to expectant mothers who are nurturing lives, attracting and tempting them to pay attention to her, trust her, and unconditionally regard her as a peer.
She is equally kind to these women. She will treat them as she would her own children and will protect them until they give birth safely and both mother and child are safe.
——It’s not safe outside, they need to go to paradise.
Tarona was distracted and found that the twelve pregnant women were taken into the ghost realm by her. The extra team of domestic puppets were spontaneously distributed, and two by two they chose the pregnant women they would take care of. Everything seemed so orderly, harmonious and beautiful.
Big Witch: ...
The big witch started to feel a headache again.
She still underestimated the scope of the Blood-Grudge Nun's maternal love.
I ask the technical department every day, what the hell is this setting! I will complain to them when I get home!
As if she thought the fire was not big enough, Tarona rubbed her head, took out a bucket of human blood from her own space - this was something she had taken from some villains when she was on a mission before - and walked around the hall, scattering it here and there, making it look like a bloody murder had occurred here.
Well, sprinkle some in the secret passage as well. Those mutants probably can’t escape underground.
Perfect.
Tarona looked at the crime scene he had set up with satisfaction, put away the bucket, turned around and disappeared on the spot.
When he returned to the inn, he just caught up with Zhui Ming who was taking something out of his purse. As he was doing so, he kept complaining to Wu Qing about how greedy Ge Tong was.
Wuqing nodded in agreement. When he saw the magnificent Temple of the Holy Mother of Eternal Life, he guessed how much money Ge Tong had extorted from the people. He didn't expect that he had underestimated it. It turned out that most corrupt officials had no bottom line.
Tarona found it very interesting. Just as he was about to walk over, he suddenly stopped and the relaxed expression on his face immediately turned serious.
——The birch witch was drawing magic from her.
She confronted the anomaly!