Jing Cheng released three bombs in a row, almost killing Boss Lu.
Boss Lu broke out in a cold sweat and staggered back a few steps, leaning against the pillar behind him. His legs were so weak that he could hardly support his body.
At this moment, there was only one sentence in his mind, which kept scrolling on the screen:
How did he know?!
On the one hand, he was physically weak, and on the other hand, he was indeed guilty.
As soon as Jing Cheng saw his confessing expression, he knew it. It seemed that he would have to deal with the police this time.
Jing Cheng felt complicated when he thought about this. Ever since he came to this era, he seemed to have to deal with mortal law enforcers every now and then. It was just like living in a police station. This had never happened before. However, it was not a good sign for ascetics to interfere too much in mortal affairs... It seemed that he would have to keep a low profile in the future after recording the show.
Boss Lu stared at Jing Cheng for a long while, and realized that he was not joking, but really knew something. His lips trembled as he said, "How did you ..."
"You don't need to ask me how I know this." Jing Cheng looked back at him unmoved, raised his hand to make a blocking gesture, "Just tell me whether you admit it or not?"
Boss Lu thought, "What if I don't admit it?" However, as soon as he met those clear eyes that seemed to see through everything, he couldn't say any words to argue. After a long time, he replied in a weak voice, "Yes... I admit it."
...
...
After saying that, he wanted to slap himself. Is there something wrong with his brain? How could he admit it?!
Jing Cheng's lips curled slightly, and he took out his phone from his pocket with his other hand, and said calmly, "I recorded it."
Boss Lu: “…”
Boss Lu was regretting deeply at this moment. He should not have been so tempted by the beauty and followed this person. Now, his life was in someone else's hands.
Boss Lu finally got rid of the strange feeling and realized that something was wrong. He asked with a vigilant look, "What do you want to do? Do you know Song Yan? What's your relationship with him?"
"I don't know Song Yan, and I have nothing to do with him. I just want to know one thing," Jing Cheng looked at him and asked word by word, "How much do you know about the 'Mountain God' here?"
A lot of thoughts flashed through Boss Lu's mind just now. The moment Jing Cheng tricked him into revealing the truth he had been hiding, he even thought that the program crew was here to expose him to gain traffic. However, he did not expect Jing Cheng to reveal his purpose at the last minute, and he was stunned.
However, when he realized what Jing Cheng was asking, Boss Lu's face changed slightly, and he shook his head reflexively: "I don't..."
Jing Cheng glanced at him lightly and interrupted him slowly, "I know as much as you do, so you'd better tell me honestly."
Boss Lu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. For a moment, he felt that the person in front of him was more terrifying than the thing he knew. At least that thing wouldn't make him speechless with just a look.
Boss Lu didn't dare to show it on his face, but he was complaining in his heart: Since you know as much as I do, why do you come to ask me?
Jing Cheng actually wanted to confirm a guess, but he couldn't reveal his true purpose to Boss Lu.
He didn't say anything else, just urged with his eyes.
Boss Lu felt that at this moment he was like a chicken on the chopping board, with his life and property in the hands of the executioner. He would be cut if he stuck his head out, and would be cut if he hid his head. After hesitating for a long time, not knowing what was going on in his mind, he gritted his teeth and told his story.
"Actually, I'm not sure. It was only after my wife had an accident, Yilan, that I realized it..."
Boss Lu is bisexual, but before he met Yilan, all his girlfriends were boyfriends, and the last one was his college classmate Song Yan.
Song Yan is very beautiful and has a wide social circle. Boss Lu was also a prominent student in college, and it was Song Yan who took the initiative to pursue him. However, Song Yan, who was well-known in the college photography circle, had a very messy private life. When he found out that Song Yan had several sex partners while dating him, he broke up with Song Yan.
After graduation, he prepared to start a business and traveled across the country alone for research. When he arrived in Dian County, he stayed at Yilan's inn. At that time, the owner of the inn was still Yilan's father. The owner was in poor health and listless all day long. The inn business was very depressed, but he realized that this inn had huge business opportunities. He went to the bank to borrow money, wanting to buy the inn and repackage it. However, the owner of the inn said that this was the ancestral property and he would not sell it no matter what.
Just when he was worried, Yilan showed up and said that as long as Boss Lu agreed to marry her, he would have the right to operate the inn... Later he learned that this girl who was eager to get married looked down on the locals and thought that he was a college student and handsome enough, which met her requirements for a "husband".
After the marriage, Yilan's father passed away, and the inn prospered under his management, and it jumped from a little-known small B&B to an Internet celebrity inn where all the Internet celebrities came to check in. "Tingxi Pavilion" attracted tourists from all over the country, and naturally attracted many photographers including his ex-boyfriend.
He and Yilan did not have much affection for each other, so cheating was foreseeable. People in their circle have always had no moral integrity, and it was predictable that something would happen to an ex who had not seen each other for many years. However, he did not expect that their secret meeting would be discovered by Yilan, and she had a miscarriage due to the shock!
The incident was a big deal, and it was almost impossible to resolve. He had been in Dian County for a few years, and the small county could not hide any secrets. He knew what happened to the same-sex couple decades ago, and was afraid that he would have the same "encounter", so he took the initiative and dealt with Song Yan.
It was because of this incident that he discovered the "secret" of this remote, once almost unknown small county town in the mountains.
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After Boss Lu finished speaking, he took a deep breath, his face full of fatigue, and said with a "bitter smile": "I have told you everything I know. To be honest, I have been through a lot these days, and I am tired. I don't ask for a good ending for myself, I just hope that you can catch... that thing as soon as possible, so that it can prevent it from killing more people."
Facing the "murderer's" statement, Jing Cheng's face did not react much. Firstly, he was used to seeing the secrets in the mansion and had seen even crueler ones before. Boss Lu's experience was really nothing. Secondly, he knew that Boss Lu was not telling the truth completely, at least his face did not say so.
He is young but has a cuckold, and his private life is chaotic; he has a broken seal, and his wife and children are harmed; he is surrounded by foul air, associates with evil spirits, and has lost his good deeds... He is quite good at acting.
He must have discovered the "secret" of Dian County earlier, and even played a role in promoting its growth.
So Jing Cheng curled the corners of his mouth, revealing a half-smile: "Don't worry, before you are sentenced, I will definitely let you see the true face of this thing."
Damn, I think I’ve been discovered. Should I run away tonight?
Boss Lu was panicking inside, but he said, "... Really? That's great."
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"Hey, did you hear what he said just now? Evil God! Is it the evil god I know?" Fu Le poked Qin Yan with his finger, staring at the two figures in the distance, his tone was a little incredible, "There are actually gods in this era? The kind of big boss? That's awesome."
Qin Yan frowned and said, "We have demons and ghosts, so why can't we have gods?"
Fu Le said with an exaggerated expression: "Evil God! Evil God! He's like the Evil Sword Immortal, who can't be killed or destroyed. Even the Jade Emperor is afraid of him. He's a boss!"
"..." Qin Yan stared at him like a fool, "Have you become stupid from playing games? If there really was such a thing in the world, would you still be standing here now?"
Fu Le: “…That’s right.”
After a pause, he touched his nose and added, "Well, I was just joking, why are you taking it so seriously?"
He would never admit the stupid words he just said!
Qin Yan ignored him and just pondered to himself: "Generally speaking, those who can be called 'gods' are worshipped by people. As long as they are 'immortals', they need a certain amount of incense and folk belief to exist. The mountain gods here are probably created in this way. Whether it is a god or an evil spirit, it is created based on people's beliefs. Since it is not a mountain god, but an evil god, it means that the so-called beliefs of the locals must be evil. I guess this anger of the gods must be the work of the evil gods."
Fu Le opened his mouth wide when he heard this: "F---! Brother Yan, how come you suddenly become so knowledgeable?"
We agreed that we would all be uneducated second-generation rich kids together, and you actually changed your mind?
Although this learned direction is... a little subtle.
Qin Yan said: "Because I have been moving forward, and you...?"
If you want to be with outstanding people, you must become outstanding yourself. Moreover, since he is a disciple... he cannot embarrass his master.
Qin Yan glanced at him and uttered a word through his cold lips:
"Oh."
Fu Le suddenly felt suffocated.
Damn, isn’t it just that the commonly used software has been changed to Baidu Encyclopedia recently? Who doesn’t know how to click “Search”?
Fu Le took out his mobile phone with an angry look on his face, sat heavily on the stone bench, and then habitually opened the software with a cool human head drawn on the touch screen with obvious scratches, and clicked "Start Game".
Only here can he feel the glory of being a king!
"Hey, girl, can you turn on the mic?"
"Choose me for online dating. I'm super rich~"
Who can't be a bootlicker?
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I don’t know what Jing Cheng said to Boss Lu. When Boss Lu left, he was sweating profusely and his face was ashen.
Looks like I'm getting more kidney-deficient...
Qin Yan knew just by looking at the man's complexion that he would not live for many more days without him having to do anything.
He told Jing Cheng his guess, wondering why Boss Lu was not like this in the morning, but just half a day later, he seemed like a different person, as if something had drained away his energy and made him look more than ten years older.
Jing Cheng said in a deep voice: "You have to pay a price for being an accomplice to a traitor. Justice will always come back. Once something is done, there is no going back. He will pay the price for his choice."
Qin Yan paused, and had a vague guess in his mind, and couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean...?"
Jing Cheng shook his head seriously and said, "Notify Director Zhao and the others first and ask them to come back early. I have something important to tell them."
That night, almost all the members of the production crew gathered in Director Zhao's room, and several bodyguards cleared the area outside the door to prevent other tourists from approaching the room.
Zhao Yi counted the number of people and felt that it was not right, so he asked his assistant to check again and confirmed that one staff member was missing.
"Where's Xiao Wang?" Zhao Yi said, "Xiao Zhou, isn't she in the same room with you? Where is she?"
Zhou Xiaowen looked around and asked in confusion, "Eh? She just came out with me, I wonder where she went."
Zhao Yi hated people who had no organization or discipline, so he said unhappily, "Call her and ask her to come over quickly."
Zhou Xiaowen quickly took out his cell phone and went out to make a call.
Everyone else in the room looked at Jing Cheng, and everyone felt a little uneasy because Taoist Jing's face did not look good at all.
After Jing Cheng felt that there was no one in the rooms on either side, he cleared his throat and told everyone that he was going to say something very important.
Everyone in the program crew was on high alert, staring at him intently.
Jing Cheng's opening words were earth-shattering: "The people here worship an 'evil god'!"
Zhao Yi was stunned: "Why isn't the evil god... a mountain god?"
The staff members who followed Director Zhao during the day were also very surprised. This was different from what they had investigated.
"I looked at the 'qi' here in the evening," Jing Cheng said. "The green mountains and clear waters in Dian County at night are completely different from those seen during the day. Yin is floating and Yang is suppressed, and foul air is gathering. This is a manifestation of evil spirits and chaotic times."
"This is not a sign of being blessed by a god. If there really is a god, it can only be an evil god!"
Everyone felt a chill in their hearts when they heard this, and inexplicably felt that the air around them was filled with an ominous aura.
Qin Yan frowned in thought. Due to his special physique, his inspiration was much stronger than that of ordinary people. He had a very uncomfortable feeling since the sun was about to set, as if there was an evil force lingering around him, hiding in the dark and spying on him. After Jing Cheng noticed it, he drew a seal on him and pasted it on his body, and the uncomfortable feeling disappeared.
At night, the yin is stronger than the yang, and the evil god's magic power increases greatly. This must be the work of the evil god.
Jing Cheng considered his words and continued, "Decades ago, this may have been a closed and backward village, but a same-sex couple emerged. The two lovers even used heaven and earth as witnesses to conclude their marriage. This was unacceptable to the feudal locals. After all their persuasion failed, they chose to collectively persecute the two and burned them to death."
Everyone was shocked. Isn't this the oldest legend about "God's wrath" circulating in the local area?
It is terrible enough to watch someone in danger without helping, but I didn't expect that the arsonist was also one of my own tribesmen. What hatred or grudge was there?
Although Qin Yan had told everyone his guess before coming, everyone just treated it as a story and did not take it seriously.
Now hearing Master Jing's well-reasoned explanation, I was suddenly horrified.
Jing Cheng said in a storytelling tone, "Before they died, the same-sex couple witnessed the malice of their own people and the resentment they felt after not saving them. As expected, they turned into evil spirits after death. Their obsession before death made them want to kill people, and they generated a huge resentment, which attracted the mountain spirits and mandrills."
"The mandrill ghost feeds on human souls. It is ignorant and acts on instinct, so it easily eats newborn ghosts. This action accidentally saved the villagers who were about to fall into dire straits, and since then it has been worshipped as the 'mountain god' by the villagers."
"After an ordinary spirit received incense and faith, it gradually developed a consciousness of a 'god' and learned to absorb the power of wills to make itself stronger. However, because the locals hated same-sex relationships, the strong malice lingered on everyone in the village. The 'mountain god' naturally felt this malice, so it knew that those same-sex couples who were in a close relationship could be killed."
"Any homosexual couple that appears in the village will become its food... 'God's Wrath' is the local people's initial punishment for homosexuals. The 'Mountain God', which has absorbed the evil thoughts, has been carrying it out to the end. That's how God's Wrath came about."
Hearing this, Xiao Qu's mind flashed back to the horrific scene he saw last night, and he couldn't help but ask, "I remember that the mountain gods were there to protect the people in the mountains, and they couldn't possibly kill people. Are the people here crazy? They killed people, but they still worshipped them. Is this a lie?"
Zhao Yi glared at him: "Shh! Don't disturb Master Jing!"
Jing Cheng obviously didn't care what the two said. Instead, he took a sip of water to moisten his throat and continued, "Human desires are endless. After the villagers witnessed the existence of the 'Mountain God' with their own eyes, their wishes gradually increased. However, they didn't know that the 'Mountain God' that had swallowed up evil spirits and absorbed evil thoughts was not a god at all, but an evil existence. On the one hand, it reaps souls wantonly, and on the other hand, it constantly satisfies their wishes."
"It has turned this village into a county, and turned a remote, poor and backward village into a well-known tourist attraction. It has boosted economic development and made every household in the area well-fed and well-clothed, and have some assets."
At this point, Jing Cheng paused and said, "It became what you see now."
Everyone had an expression of utterly shattered outlook on their faces.
It turns out that the existence of this evil god has boosted the local GDP?
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The author has something to say:
Funny little show:
Evil God: Although I eat human souls, take human lives lightly, and do not distinguish between good and evil, I know that I am a good evil god.
People in Dian County: Get rid of poverty and become rich! Worth having! Everyone who has used it says it’s good!
Because the next chapter is going to wrap up the Dian County incident, this chapter has been overhauled again, adding about a thousand words, which affects the reading, I'm really sorry Orz
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