Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 55: A Good Death, a Good Time to Die (Please Collect, Please Read)
"Sanniang, thank you for your hard work."

Shang Lu quickly caught up with her, and while talking to Sanniang, he bent down and took off Sun Ying's sword.

After pulling out the knife and looking at the blade, Shang Lu turned around and returned to the side of Captain Ma who was still bleeding.

Captain Ma is indeed a master in the Tongmai realm. He has plenty of blood and energy. Ordinary people would stop after spraying two times, but he is still bleeding profusely.

Shang Lu used Sun Ying's knife to pick up the other mandarin duck axe from Captain Ma's right hand, and in the process, stained the blade with blood.

Then he held the mandarin duck axe in one hand and the knife in the other, and collided them vigorously several times.

Several gaps and curled edges suddenly appeared on the blade.

Shang Lu nodded with satisfaction, then put the knife into Captain Ma's hand, gave the mandarin duck axe to Xu Biao, and then dragged Xu Biao's two halves of his body to the side of Captain Ma.

The wounds on Xu Biao's body were caused by a knife, so there was no need to make any further arrangements.

The only loophole was that Xu Biao had been dead for two or three days, the blood in his body had long been drained out, and corpse spots had appeared.

Fortunately, it was discovered before that Zhao Hai had someone make evil pills, and the Black Wind Gang was even labeled as a cult.

It is not uncommon for people in cults to practice some weird skills and turn themselves into zombies that are neither human nor ghost.

In addition, Captain Ma has made all the arrangements for tonight.

Everyone in the yamen knew that Xu Biao appeared in the city. Not only did the capture squad go out in full force, but the fast squad and the strong squad also joined the search.

Under such circumstances, how could Xu Biao be a person who had been dead for two or three days?

How could a person who had been dead for two or three days still be roaming around the county town and attacking officials?

Therefore, Xu Biao is definitely not dead. The strange symptoms such as corpse spots and rigor mortis on his body are all caused by practicing evil skills.

As long as Shang Lu can direct everyone's thoughts in this direction, the loophole can be covered up.

Even if someone still has doubts, they would not suspect him.

Shang Lu had just finished setting up the scene when he heard a few shouts coming from a nearby alley.

It must be a patrolling constable who heard the noise and rushed over to investigate.

Shang Lu turned around and left without hesitation.

Sanniang followed behind him, carefully cleaning up any traces of footprints.

After that, it floated in front of him and guided him on the route to leave so that he would not run into the oncoming constables in the alley.

Not long after Shang Lu left, a burst of messy footsteps appeared in the alley.

Along with the sound of footsteps came the light of torches.

The dark alley was suddenly illuminated.

"Someone!"

The white-armed constable who was rushing in the front immediately let out a groundhog-like scream when he saw the scene in the alley.

The officer leading the team was startled by him. When he saw clearly that the so-called "person" was a corpse lying on the ground with blood flowing like a river, he breathed a sigh of relief and cursed:
"What the hell are you yelling about? Go up and see who the dead person is."

In preparation for tonight's operation, Captain Ma and Sun Ying were both wearing night clothes. Several detectives saw them from afar but did not recognize them until they approached and pulled off their masks, then they were shocked.

"It's Captain Ma! Captain Ma is dead!"

"Is this man Xu Biao? Captain Ma killed Xu Biao, but was also killed by Xu Biao at the same time?"

Someone else found Sun Ying's body not far away, but compared with Captain Ma and Xu Biao, no one cared about Sun Ying's death.

"Hurry up and sound the gong to sound the alarm, and call everyone over!"

The officer in charge sensed that something was wrong and gave orders in a hurry.

Immediately, a white-collar constable took out the gong he carried with him and started beating it clang-clang-clang.

Hearing the sound of the gong, the surrounding constables rushed over and were all startled.

Shang Lu also pretended to be ignorant and hurried over: "Why are you ringing the gong? Have you found any trace of Xu Biao?"

A constable quickly replied: "Captain Shang, Xu Biao is dead. It was Captain Ma who killed him!"

Shang Lu pretended to be surprised: "Captain Ma? Isn't he in charge of searching somewhere else? Why is he here in the south? Where is he?" After hearing this, many detectives reacted: Yes, Captain Ma is in charge of searching somewhere else, why is he here? Did he chase Xu Biao all the way here? Then why is he wearing a nightgown and covering his face tightly?
"Why else? It must be a cover-up!"

Soon, the county magistrate and the chief clerk also received the news. Surrounded and protected by a group of police officers and militiamen, they came to the alley and saw the bodies of Captain Ma, Xu Biao and others.

The chief clerk looked at the horse catcher's attire and gritted his teeth in hatred.

"I knew it. How could Xu Biao and his men disappear without a trace after killing Zhao Hai and robbing the Tibetan silver? It turns out that there was an insider colluding with them to cover up the incident!"

When these words were spoken, everyone felt that they made sense.

The task of hunting down Xu Biao and others was originally under the full charge of Captain Ma.

If Captain Ma had any problems and helped to cover them up, he could really make Xu Biao and others "disappear" right under their noses.

Even the county magistrate nodded.

However, the county magistrate still raised a question: "If they were colluding with each other, why would they fight and die together here?"

"Because Xu Biao and his men had exposed their whereabouts, we put a lot of effort into searching the entire city for them. Captain Ma was afraid that they would betray him after being caught, so he wanted to kill them to silence them!"

The chief clerk said in a decisive tone.

In fact, there are still many aspects of this judgment that cannot stand up to scrutiny.

But to the chief clerk, the truth that Captain Ma and Xu Biao died together was not important.

The important thing is that Captain Ma is dead.

Before this, the chief clerk blamed the Black Wind Gang for tampering with the merit and demerit book and making false accounts, saying that they were the ones who did it in collusion with the clerks of the Sixth Room.

But in this kind of situation, it is obviously not enough to just push a few petty officials to take the blame.

There must be someone of some importance to take on this task.

The chief clerk had been having a headache before, wondering who to push to take the blame?
Now he doesn't have to worry anymore, as Captain Ma is dead and he can take the blame.

The dead will not protest, let alone fight to the death with him.

What's more, Captain Ma's attire, behavior, intentions, etc. tonight are all very suspicious!
Therefore, no matter whether Captain Ma colluded with Xu Biao and others or whether he was covering up for them, he must have it.

The county magistrate saw through the chief clerk's intention, but he did not refute the question.

It was also a good thing for him that Captain Ma died.

Otherwise, if the Black Wind Gang, as a cult, bribed and colluded with only small characters, then this cult would be too bad and the credit for its destruction would be greatly reduced.

It was a good thing that Captain Ma died. He died at the right time.

There is also Xu Biao, who looks like he has been dead for a few days. It is said that this is due to practicing evil skills.

The fact that they have such evil skills shows how weird and strange the Black Wind Gang is. This is another added credit!

The two chief officers expressed their opinions, and Captain Ma’s death was thus finalized.

The chief clerk immediately gave an order, asking everyone to continue searching the entire city to find Xu Biao's accomplices and the dirty silver they had hidden.

At the same time, he sent his trusted aides to lead a team to search the home of Captain Ma.

He is in urgent need of money now. Even if Captain Ma has not yet received his share of the dirty silver, he must have accumulated a lot of money from all the years of extortion.

Shang Lu stood aside, feeling a little disheveled in the wind.

He had prepared a lot of arguments, but he didn't use any of them.

It was good this way. The deaths of Captain Ma and Xu Biao had been determined by the county magistrate and the chief clerk. Even if someone had suspicions, they wouldn't dare to say much, let alone suspect him.

After Captain Ma died, the position of Captain naturally became vacant.

Shang Lu thought that after two days, he would "show off his prowess in public" and "break through" to the Tongmai Realm in front of everyone in the yamen, and get the position of chief constable.

The pace of progress must never stop!

Only when you are strong and have a high status, you will not become a pawn at the mercy of others!

(End of this chapter)