Chapter 28 The Demon Looks at the Sword
"very good."
Lin Wen nodded with satisfaction.
"Also, how are you doing with what I arranged yesterday?"
Huang Mingxiao's mind raced, and he immediately remembered, "I arranged this as soon as you left yesterday. Civil Affairs Officer Ji Fuxiao was in charge of this matter. She found issue 81 of the Empire Newspaper and photocopied a thousand copies as you requested. She didn't even have dinner before she took 18 people to distribute and read the report."
Lin Wen was very happy. Director Huang was indeed very reliable. "Oh? So what's the situation now?"
Huang Mingxiao scratched his head, a rare look of confusion appearing on his face. "I don't know. I have too many things to do. After she left, she never came back and didn't report to the temporary command center."
Lin Wen didn't care: "It's okay, I'll go find her."
"Um, I don't know where she is."
"Then give her a call..."
Lin Wen choked up in the middle of his words. This was not the original world. No one had a cell phone. The only mobile phones were bricks, and there were very few of them.
"What should we do then?"
Lin Wen's eyes widened, and he suddenly realized that it was impossible for him to find her in a short time. The temporary resettlement site was very large, and it was not easy to find one person among 300,000 people.
"How about this," Huang Mingxiao said cautiously, "I'll send someone to look for her. You wait here for news. I'll report back to you once I find her."
"No!" Lin Wen flatly refused. "How can you waste such precious time like this? Don't you have any other way to find her immediately?"
"This..." Huang Mingxiao looked embarrassed.
Although his mind told him to just wait, Lin Wen still didn't want to believe it: "This person went out and couldn't be found? What did you do before? What if you need to find her urgently? What if she wants to report something urgent?"
Huang Mingxiao was puzzled. Isn't it just waiting? Isn't this a normal thing? He's not a high-ranking official, so it's not normal to be able to contact him anytime, anywhere, right?
Just when Director Huang didn't know how to explain, a staff member suddenly broke in and shouted.
"Oh no! Oh no! Director Huang, there's a riot at the eleventh resettlement site! Residents have stormed our outpost and kidnapped over a dozen people!"
"What did you say!?"
Huang Mingxiao rushed over and grabbed his shoulders.
"What exactly is going on?"
The man cried, "They say the food distribution at the eleven resettlement sites is too little, there aren't enough tents, and the supplies have been embezzled by corrupt officials. And they keep saying, and keep saying."
Huang Mingxiao's forehead veins were exposed: "What else is there to say? Go ahead!"
The man burst into tears, "They also said the patrolling guards didn't treat them as human beings, saying they wouldn't give them food unless they were given toys."
A huge feeling of dizziness rushed over him, and Huang Mingxiao could hardly stand.
But the messenger hadn't finished speaking yet: "It is said that this time they forcibly dragged someone into the outpost, leaving the victim's three children unattended and lost!"
"They've ignited public outrage! The enraged victims have gone mad. They say if they're not allowed to live, then let's all die together!"
"Director! Director! What should we do? There are already over 10,000 of them! And more are joining us!"
As soon as he finished speaking, many more people rushed in.
"Director Huang! The victims are mutiniing!"
"Director Huang! The civil unrest in the east is expanding!"
"Director Huang..."
"Director Huang..."
"Shut up!"
The noisy courtyard suddenly became quiet, but the person who spoke was not Huang Mingxiao, but Lin Wen.
"Huang Mingxiao, you sit at the back."
Lin Wen's voice was cold and emotionless as he pointed at the group of people who came to report the news.
"You guys, lead the way for me."
After saying that, he stepped out of the door first, took two steps, and no one followed him.
Looking back, everyone looked like statues.
"lead the way!"
A terrifying roar, like a muffled thunder, shook the dust off the wall tiles.
The Ringing of the Sunken Bell
A green spell for the Qi training period, consuming 10% of the spirit, causing a resounding sound, which has the effect of alerting and shocking, and lasts for 16 hours in this world's time.
This was a spell that he originally thought was useless, but when he heard about the mutiny among the disaster victims, this spell was the first thing that came to his mind.
Use decisively.
16 hours is enough.
Everyone was awakened and followed.
"Director Huang, you secure the rear, I'll go quell the riot."
Lin Wen spoke to Huang Mingxiao in a very low voice, but it was still very loud.
"Walk!"
The eleventh resettlement site was not far away, just over two hills, but after only a short walk, several people had already run away.
By the time we crossed the first mountain, there were only seven or eight people left.
Lin Wen didn't care. He could faintly hear the noise. The entourage members all had trembling legs and were almost unwilling to move forward.
One person advised, "Headmaster! The victims are very emotional and won't listen to anything. Why don't we go back?"
"Yeah, just wait until they calm down."
"This is all instigated by someone. Everything will be fine once they realize it's just a misunderstanding."
"That's right, Mr. County Governor. If we go over there rashly, we will only anger them."
Lin Wen sneered and said nothing. He just used [Observing Qi and People] to glance at them, and then walked forward on his own.
He could hear the sounds and didn't need them to lead the way.
Among the people who were accompanying him, a few did not move, and a few hesitated and still followed, but Lin Wen walked very fast, so they had to run to keep up with him.
Not long after, the noise suddenly became louder, and a large group of people suddenly emerged from the hill opposite and rushed over.
The noise also became clearer.
"Kill the dog official!"
"Kill these bastards!"
In front of them, there were a few inconspicuous dots running wildly. Looking closely, they saw that they were a few people covered in mud, with clothes torn to shreds, and looked like they had been beaten a lot.
Although they were in a dishevel, one could still tell from the remaining clothing styles that they were security guards affiliated with the Civil Affairs Department.
They ran for their lives, all in panic. Suddenly, they saw Lin Wen and his group in front of them and immediately shouted.
"Come and help!"
"Go and ask the director to send reinforcements!"
"These untouchables are going to rebel!"
Lin Wen took a deep breath, which was like a whale sucking in the Yangtze River or a dragon sucking in long clouds, endless, but it stopped in the middle.
"I am Lin Wen, the mayor of Changshan County! The guardian of the Changshan County levee!"
Like rolling thunder and exploding thunder, the huge roar shook thousands of miles away. The mountains were resonating, the soil was resonating, the rocks were resonating, the earth was resonating, and the center of the earth was resonating, as if it would transmit the huge force back to the ground at any time, causing the mountains to collapse and the earth to crack, and making the sun and moon lose their light.
The accompanying personnel who were nearby were almost shocked to death.
The security guards who had escaped were all shocked and shouted with joy.
"It's the Sheriff!"
"The Governor of Changshan County is here!"
"Haha, I'm saved!"
"The Imperial Army must be right behind us!"
"His guards will be here soon to kill all these untouchables!"
They ran towards Lin Wen while shouting, but the few people accompanying Lin Wen knew that there was no reinforcement and the county governor came alone, so they were scared out of their wits. Some of them turned around and ran, and some collapsed on the ground.
The refugees' momentum was slightly hindered, but their strong hatred and unwillingness supported them as they continued to surge down the mountain.
But the next scene made them almost unable to believe their eyes.
Lin Wen pulled out an iron rod from behind his waist and pierced the throat of the security guard running in the front with it. He then used his backhand to push the iron rod down and into the ground, nailing the security guard to death.
His eyes were wide open on his bruised face, but he couldn't utter a word. Blood foam gushed out from the corners of his mouth and dripped onto the ground.
Until his death, he never understood why the county governor suddenly killed him.
Lin Wen pulled out the iron rod and threw the corpse to the ground. In his eyes, which contained magical powers, the pure black energy of the security guard slowly dissipated and eventually disappeared into thin air.
Looking up, I saw three security guards still standing there in shock, the aura above their heads was pure black like that of the devil.
"evildoer!"
Lin Wen took a step forward and roared.
"Give me your life!"
He raised his hand and stabbed out like lightning, instantly piercing the second security guard's heart.
The black air dissipated.
Death pays off debts.
With a flick of his wrist, the second body fell into the dust.
The remaining two security guards finally reacted at this time, screamed, turned around and ran away.
But no one was faster than Lin Wen who was blessed with the [Swiftness of the Spirit Cat]. He jumped and rushed with seemingly gentle movements, and closed the distance in the blink of an eye. A stick pierced his back, and he fell to the ground, with dirty blood flowing everywhere.
The last security guard had already run more than twenty steps away, but Lin Wen had no intention of catching up with him. He raised his hand and threw the iron rod.
"Look at the sword!"
Lin Wen used skillful force, moving the iron rod slowly at first and then quickly, first raising it and then lowering it. The tip of the rod drew a 30-degree arc in the air, like a precision-guided missile, accurately hitting the back of the fleeing security guard's head and destroying his spinal cord.
Died on the spot.
(End of this chapter)
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