You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 107 How Happy Today

The fake monk staggered to his feet, his left eye rolled up and he was obviously dizzy; his right eye was rolling around, showing that he was awake.

"Beggars, beggars, you make a living by begging from others, you got such a big bowl of rice but you don't cherish it, haha, you really think your life is too long."

A sharp sound came out from the monk's throat, and the sound drifted far away.

Zuo Chen frowned slightly and used the Qi-observing technique to look at the man who seemed to have been possessed by another spirit, only to find a trace of Dharma on his forehead.

Before it was activated, this method was so subtle that even Zuo Chen didn't notice it.

"Who are you?" County Magistrate Xun was also slightly surprised.

The unconscious monk seemed like an ordinary person just now, but now he is full of evil spirits!
"You are the county magistrate, but you are so stupid. Can't you see that my grandfather is the mastermind behind this incident?"

The possessed fake monk laughed and rolled on the ground with the shackles. Several yamen runners came up and held him up with sticks, but they still couldn't stop his mouth:

"You are an incompetent official, so you start looking for help from the underworld, and end up killing the underworld man. You sent tons of silver to the monk's temple, and you considered it as buying his life, but what about that reckless man? He is just one family, and after he lost his life for you, what else can you do for him? Did you bury him properly? Hehehe! Isn't this to show the living that you understand justice?"

The words were mean enough, and the angles chosen were tricky enough. Magistrate Xun's plain face turned red with anger. Even though he usually had a good temper, he couldn't help but feel angry now:

"Beat him! Beat him with a big stick!"

The yamen runners nearby also disliked this man and started hitting him on the butt with sticks, but the force that was enough to make an ordinary person faint seemed to be completely unaffected when it fell on him. All that could be heard was strange laughter from the whole room:

"Brothers, haven't you eaten yet? I know there's a restaurant in the county called Baichun. Not only is the food delicious, but the proprietress is also very pretty!"

Suddenly he turned around and looked at the bailiff who was beating him. His eyes were wide open, as if they could see through people's hearts. They were so fascinating:

"Hey young man, do you also think that the boss lady is pretty?"

The bailiff who was being watched panicked as if he had been caught doing something wrong.

"Soooo...so much talk!"

He picked up the killing stick and hit the monk on the head.

The stick hit the bald head and even broke the stick. The monk's head was bleeding, but he was still laughing, as if he was not the one being hit.

"County Magistrate, these people under you are no good. You say they are wise and fair, but your runners actually go to sleep with other people's wives! It's so shameful, so shameful!"

The shrill voice seemed to contain some magical power, shaking the entire courtroom.

His words were bizarre and evil, and there seemed to be some secret trick in his language, which made people feel upset.

Magistrate Xun's head was buzzing, and he even thought of using the guillotine to kill the monk, but suddenly he felt a breeze blowing nearby, sweeping away the anger in his heart.

But I saw Zuo Chen had already stood aside.

"County Magistrate, don't let him be a demon to you."

Only then did Magistrate Xun come to his senses, with some cold sweat on his forehead.

The fake monk was possessed by a magic trick, which meant that even if he chopped off his head with a dog-head chopper, he would not be able to hurt the real culprit behind the scene.

Knowing that he might not be able to deal with the other party, County Magistrate Xun simply saluted Zuo Chen.

"Master, thank you for your help."

Zuo Chen nodded and came to the monk.

The monk raised his head, looked at Zuo Chen and smiled:

"That's quite novel, Taoist priest. What family are you from? What rank are you? You must be quite capable to make a seventh-rank county magistrate stand aside!"

He looked behind Zuo Chen again: "And he brought a woman with him..."

His eyes fell on Caiyi, but the words remained in his mouth.

"It's quite impressive."

His words were clearly meant to insult Zuo Chen and County Magistrate Xun for attempting to carry out lynching.

Zuo Chen ignored him and just stared at the monk's face.

After two or three breaths, Zuo Chen suddenly smiled and said:
"It's in the northernmost part of the county. You're quite skilled at controlling people and things from such a long distance."

As soon as these words were spoken, the monk in front of him immediately shut up.

Immediately afterwards, his body expanded rapidly like a balloon that was blown up.

The blood vessels beneath the skin were clearly visible, and the muscle lines were blended together. In just a blink of an eye, he no longer looked like a human.

The stick that the yamen runner had been using to hold down the monk was shaken away, and the fake monk seemed to have turned into a fire bomb, about to explode on the spot!
"Very decisive." Zuo Chen stretched out his hand and pointed at the swollen ball on the forehead.

The entire meat ball collapsed immediately and turned into the appearance of a monk again.

His body had just undergone such a big change, and this monk was not a physical cultivator. Although his body shape had returned to normal, he was bleeding from all seven orifices and his life was over.

"What is the north of the city?"

Zuo Chen immediately asked Magistrate Xun.

Before the magistrate could answer, the woman kneeling below spoke first:
"That's a gathering of the beggars in this county..."

"You guys! Hurry up and grab your weapons and follow me to the north of the city!"

Magistrate Xun came down from the hall, obviously wanting to go to the north of the city together.

He took another look at the yamen runner who had just been accused of stealing people and said, "You don't have to go."

The bailiff's face turned red, but he could not utter a word and could only lower his head in disappointment.

"I'll go first."

Zuo Chen knew very well that it would take time for the county government to prepare the horses. By the time they were done, the man would probably have already escaped.

After saying this, Zuo Chen rose from the ground and disappeared in the hall in the blink of an eye.

In the blink of an eye, they were already in the air, following the moon and the clouds, leaving a white trail in the air.

The north of the county is a long distance away from here. Even if you ride a fast horse, it will take more than half an hour to get there. Even if Zuo Chen flies fast, it will take about twenty or thirty breaths.

At midnight, the clouds followed the bright white moon, floating leisurely on their own, but suddenly they split in two, leaving a deep gully.

After coming back to his senses, he saw a person floating at the end of the sky, with his hands hanging down, looking at the alley at the northernmost end of the town.

His brows were furrowed.

In his eyes, the entire alley was filled with blood, even more so than the streets in the downtown area where executions were taking place.

A lot of people died!

Falling from the air and landing in front of the alley, I could smell a pungent smell of blood coming with the wind.

Zuo Chen walked into the alley alone. After taking a few steps, he saw people lying in all directions in front of him.

They all looked like beggars, wearing coarse linen clothes, covered in cloth bags, and covered in dust. They were all dead.

Some had a knife in the neck, some had a hole in the heart, some had their stomachs dug out and their spines taken out, it looked just like a butcher slaughtering pigs!

There were so many dead bodies piled up, most of them mutilated, that a blood-stained river flowed across the ground of the alley, but it looked like it had been dry for some time.

Zuo Chen stepped forward, and even the dried blood on the ground automatically made way for a path and did not stain his shoes.

We continued forward and finally reached the deepest part of the alley.

This is a large open space, surrounded by houses and walls. There is an exit connecting to the wilderness outside the town, which is also full of corpses. Judging from their postures, it looks like a group of people trying to escape, but it looks like they were chopped up by someone with a sharp sword, and the corpses are unrecognizable.

There was a pile of corpses in the middle of the clearing. None of them were intact. All of them had their limbs cut off, and even their torsos were cut in two, either horizontally or vertically. They piled up like a hill, and in the middle of the hill there was a rope, rigidly pointing to the sky. It looked exactly like a stick of incense stuck on an altar.

Next to the pile of corpses stood a large gray pot with a red lid on it. A square piece of red cloth was pasted on the surface with the word "wine" written in large black ink on it, as if he was entertaining old friends.

Zuo Chen had sharp eyes and could see two lines of small blood-stained words written next to the pile of corpses.

I looked closer and saw the words written on the ground:

"Those who do not respect morality should be killed, so I killed them all, and then I felt relieved and happy."

Without saying a word, Zuo Chen flicked the erected rope slightly.

The entire rope immediately went limp.

The person had already run away without a trace.

The bodies on the ground had been dead for an hour, which means that the moment the three of them were caught, the man squatting here had already started killing people.

After killing the man, he used the magical rope that was specially used by street performers and ran away. It was estimated that he had been walking for more than half an hour.

And the man just now seemed to have achieved cross-distance control with the help of this rope, and it seemed that he had been preparing for a long time.

The whole compound was filled with murderous aura, but there was no trace of Fang Zi left. Zuo Chen guessed that the other party had special means to prevent tracking.

Although Zuo Chen felt somewhat unhappy seeing all the corpses lying on the ground, he did not destroy the scene. He just recited the wonderful sutra for relieving suffering and removing sins, and performed rituals for all the corpses full of resentment, to help them to be reborn.

After finishing all this, Zuo Chen exited the alley and waited for a while before he saw several fast horses approaching from a distance.

It was Magistrate Xun who came with his men.

Caiyi was also following at the back, riding not a horse but their donkey.

The donkey was not pulling the cart, but it ran very fast.

The master and his apprentice from Wuwei Mountain did not come, they must have stayed at the county government office to guard it.

"Master Taoist." County Magistrate Xun dismounted from his horse and saluted Zuo Chen first. Then he sniffed and smelled a strong smell of blood. His face immediately turned ugly.

"It's all in there. I didn't touch anything."

Nodding, Magistrate Xun led his men into the alley.

Caiyi also wanted to follow in, but Zuo Chen stopped her.

"Don't look."

Caiyi's heart trembled slightly, and she roughly guessed what the tragic situation was like in the alley.

Sure enough, not long after, a scream was heard at the entrance of the alley, followed by a young yamen runner running out, apparently he had just started working.

He held onto the wall and started vomiting. His face turned pale. I guess he won’t be able to sleep well for the next two days.

When Caiyi saw this, her face turned pale.

Although she didn't see what was at the entrance of the alley, the unknown was even more frightening.

She hid timidly behind Zuo Chen, as if this could give her a sense of security.

"Master, what happened?" But she felt itchy in her heart and couldn't help but want to ask.

Zuo Chen estimated that if he didn't tell him, Caiyi would probably not be able to sleep tonight, so he simply told her what had happened inside.

After hearing these things, Caiyi's eyes widened.

Zuo Chen thought she was frightened, but he didn't expect Caiyi to hesitate for a few seconds and said:
"This sounds a bit like the self-defense method used by the immortals."

"what is that?"

"Go to heaven, pick the immortal peaches, and attract the heavenly soldiers to kill the mortals."

……

It took the yamen runners half a night to sort out the bodies, place them one by one on straw mats, and transport them out of the county town.

They also poured water from basins, causing the blood to form a small river that flowed toward the north of the county.

It is impossible to remember how many people died that night. A total of fifty-four complete bodies were found, and there were many more that were incomplete.

Most of the dead were from the Beggar Gang in the county. There was also a family of three living nearby who seemed to be implicated. They were also chopped into pieces and the paste covered the entire house.

The coroner carried back several relatively intact bodies, but the results were not revealed until the next morning:

The murderer was a master who had at least half a step of innate ability. He held a sharp weapon in his left hand and wielded a blunt weapon in his right hand. Those who had their stomachs ripped open were hit with the blunt weapon, and those who had their limbs cut off were hit with the sharp weapon.

On the next morning, the roosters crowed at dawn, waking up the people, and a rumor spread throughout the county.

It's nothing more than murderers killing people and slaughtering hundreds of people.

Some people said that a vicious bandit came from the north of the city, and had just obtained a good sword that was on the list of divine weapons. He killed all the people in the Beggar Gang to sacrifice to the sword.

Others said that the Beggar Gang had committed too many acts of dismemberment and dismemberment, which had displeased too many people, so they hired a crowdfunded knifeman to come and chop the person off.

The most bizarre thing is that some people claimed that they saw a fairy from the sky last night. A shadow broke through the clouds, and the bright moon also broke through the clouds, and they rushed straight to the north of the city. It must be that someone in the Beggar Gang committed a serious crime, and the heaven and earth could not tolerate it, so they sent down a divine thunder and killed them all.

But the ordinary people in the town naturally have no idea what the real truth is.

……

"All the members of your Beggar Gang have been killed. Aren't you going to tell me the mastermind now?"

Magistrate Xun spoke sternly to the fake Taoist priest and the woman who were kneeling below.

He doesn't look very well now, his hair is a little messy, and he has dark circles under his eyes, obviously he didn't sleep the whole night.

Such a major case has happened in the county, even if the victims are all members of the Beggar Gang.

At least we have to find clues about the criminal, otherwise how can we keep the county at peace?

After hearing that the Beggar Gang had been slaughtered, the two men lost their minds and told everyone what had happened.

Three days before the hat monster started to trouble them, a man with a thick face and a flowery face came to see them.

The handsome man with a flowery face took out ten ingots of silver and one ingot of golden ingot, and asked the beggar to send out three people to dress up as a Taoist priest, a monk and a woman, to use the prescription to harm people.

Then there was the matter of the Hat Monster.

According to the Taoist priest, the flower-faced young man also used the same tricks as street vendors, and his skills were obviously more advanced.

Before leaving, Lang Jun did tell everyone in the Beggar Gang: If anyone leaks any of his secrets, he will make the Beggar Gang pay the price!
But I didn't expect that he would be so cruel.

As for the rest, they didn't know.

After getting the clue, County Magistrate Xun immediately sent someone to investigate.

As for whether we can find clues...

I'm afraid it's difficult.

Zuo Chen, who was listening to the whole process nearby, also started to think about it.

There are quite a few cockroaches in Youzhou, so I guess I'll have to clean them up.

There will be another update in the evening

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