This god is really evil

Chapter 182 The Burning Corpse
When they saw Li Yan appear, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yan, the supervisor of the Imperial Observatory, has the power to mobilize the county government's constables and runners, so he is more suitable to issue orders on this matter.

Niu Ma, who was standing by, took a deep breath, suppressed his inner excitement, and stepped forward and said:

"Little... Lord Li, we have just found out that the evil cult demons and rioters who fought around Yi Village left behind more than 20,000 corpses and have fled in panic... The 3,000-square-meter demon camp has been completely wiped out, and the county governor Song Kaida, Lord Song... died in the battle!"

Hearing this, Li Yan couldn't help but tremble all over, his eyes were full of astonishment, and he murmured:

"How...how could it be so tragic!?"

His face turned pale at this moment, and then he gritted his teeth and said:

"Where's Master Liu? And where's Lord Shentu?"

Aole said quickly at this time:
"Master Liu and Master Shentu have already gone to the county city. The county governor Song Kaida died in the battle. I think... I think there will be a lot of disputes... Brother Li, what should we do?"

Li Yan sighed and said:

"So many people have died. We need to deal with the bodies first. There are so many evil cultists here. If we leave the bodies in the wild, we don't know when they will start to cause trouble... Fortunately, it is the coldest time of the year now, so we don't have to worry about the bodies rotting and stinking and causing an epidemic..."

Hearing this, everyone on the city wall nodded subconsciously.

With so many corpses gathered together, if something evil were to happen, it would definitely be a terrifying evil that might even attract some evil god.

There have been similar records in the history of Da Qi.

By then, Qinghe County will be devastated.

Li Yan then looked at Niu Ma who was standing beside him, his face solemn, and said:

"Master Niu, at this time of great change, I hope you will put aside your partisanship and party disputes, work together and overcome the difficulties."

After a pause, he continued:

"Whether there is any disagreement between you and me, we are all from Qinghe County, and we should do something good for the local elders and fellow villagers."

Niu Ma nodded slightly and said in the same serious tone:

"Please rest assured, Lord Li. Since Qinghe County has encountered such a disaster, I will not stand idly by. We will settle the matter between you and me after this matter is resolved."

Then he said loudly:
"The Exterminating Cavalry, listen up! Temporarily follow the orders of the Chief of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, Master Li. Lead the team out of the city and clean up the bodies!"

Behind him, a group of Qinghe County Xuanzhengyuan's Extermination of Demons Tiqi Hundred Households General Flags immediately responded in unison:

"Here!"

Niu Ma then looked at Li Yan deeply, with excitement flashing in his eyes, and then he led a group of anti-evil cavalry down the city wall.

Seeing Niu Ma's eyes, Li Yan's heart skipped a beat.

Why does Niu Niu's eyes suddenly look so enthusiastic?

Could it be that he thought of something weird?

But there was no time to think too much at this moment, and I was still worried about my own building materials.

He personally led hundreds of constables and recruited thousands of laborers in the city. He also requisitioned a large number of horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, and wooden carts for hauling firewood throughout the city. He marched out of the county town in a mighty manner and headed towards the post village.

When they arrived at Yicun and saw the scene, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

Under the thick snow, there were human figures protruding in the wilderness.

Each one is a corpse.

Looking around, they are almost everywhere in the mountains!
Even Niu Ma and Ao Le Chongyun and others who had come out to investigate the situation earlier felt deeply shocked again at this time.

"I've made a fortune... I've made a fortune now... How much money will the court give me for burning the corpse?"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhao Qingshan opened his mouth wide with a look of disbelief.

According to the previous rules in the charity cemetery, to cremate a corpse, one needed at least three taels of silver.

There are at least more than 20,000 corpses in front of us. Even if we only count 20,000 of them, the total amount would be a huge sum of 6,000 taels.

It was definitely a big fortune.

This time, Zhao Qingshan and his close followers who came from the charity cemetery also came out to collect the bodies. After all, the next major task would be to burn the bodies, so they would be needed.

But then Zhao Qingshan evaluated it from a professional perspective and couldn't help but look embarrassed:

"Sir, this... this is too much. How many furnaces are there in our charity cemetery? Even if all the charity cemeteries in the county work overtime for a whole year, they still can't burn all the fuel. The furnaces will collapse!"

The charity cemetery usually deals with ordinary bodies of sudden death. In the summer off-season, there may not be one body in ten days or half a month. In the winter peak season, there may only be one body every three to five days. Unless there is a haunted ghost, that is another matter.

These tens of thousands of corpses, if they are lined up to be burned, will still have a lot left until next winter. Li Yan said:

"How can we bring so many bodies back to the charity cemetery to burn? Of course we have to burn them on the spot. This Yi Village has been slaughtered and has become a deserted village. We should burn the bodies in the village."

He then ordered everyone to dig several cremation trenches one hundred steps long, ten steps wide, and five steps deep next to the post village, preparing to burn the bodies on the spot.

Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads slightly, understanding that special matters should be dealt with specially, and there was no need to worry about dissecting corpses to scare away evil spirits this time.

Keep everything simple and burn it first.

Niu Ma watched silently at the side at this time, and then directed his anti-evil cavalry to go forward and help dig the ditch.

Originally, he was thinking that if all these bodies were to be transported back to the charity cemetery for cremation, he would have to go back and secretly take out the ashes.

Now Li Yan directly ordered the digging of a cremation ditch to burn the bodies on the spot, which was much more convenient.

This is not a crematorium ditch, it's simply a construction sand and gravel mine.

Seeing that it was so cold that it was difficult for ordinary laborers to dig the trench, Niu Ma took the initiative to do it. He took off his shirt, revealing his muscular naked body, and holding a shovel, he started digging silently.

Seeing that Lord Lian Yuan Zheng Niu had already taken to the battlefield personally, the military officers among the anti-evil cavalry did not dare to delay and also picked up shovels and joined the ditch-digging army.

While digging the trench, these extermination cavalry secretly sighed in their hearts that Lord Niu Ma Niu was really good at winning people's hearts.

Just for carrying a shovel and digging the ditch, shouldn't all the laborers present be grateful to Lord Niu, thinking that Lord Niu loves the people like his own children and has no official airs?

Being an official is indeed a science. No wonder Lord Niu was promoted so quickly.

Learn.

Seeing that the trench digging was in full swing, Li Yan immediately ordered his men to sort the bodies into different categories and put them into different trenches.

It is naturally impossible for the government's soldiers and generals to be buried together with those evil cultists, monsters and rioters.

Ordinary soldiers naturally did not deserve to be buried with the officials.

The ordinary soldiers in the 3,000-square-meter demon camp were divided into one ditch, while the generals and bureaucrats were divided into another ditch.

The ordinary rioters among the evil cult were buried in one ditch, and the priests and leaders were buried in another ditch.

As for the county magistrate Song Kaida and several high-ranking officials around him, they naturally had to be buried together in a smaller pit.

Officials are officials. Even if it is to burn corpses and bury ashes for the purpose of exorcising evil spirits, they have to be divided into different ranks.

Seeing Li Yan's arrangement, Niu Ma breathed a sigh of relief.

The flesh, blood, and ashes of ordinary soldiers and the flesh, blood, and ashes of those warriors and sorcerers who have reached a certain level are naturally different grades of materials for building temples.

He originally thought that it would be troublesome if all these people's ashes were mixed together.

Now that we cook them separately, it is much more convenient.

It actually helped him a lot in an invisible way.

Soon, trenches were dug, and under Li Yan's command, everyone threw the bodies into the trenches.

Every time a layer of corpses was laid out, a layer of kerosene was sprinkled on it.

Under the guidance of a group of professional charity mortuary workers, the bodies were stacked up layer by layer like pickling vegetables.

It took almost half a day, and after everything was stacked, they immediately lit fire from all sides, and a raging fire immediately rose into the sky!

With so many corpses set on fire, the fat and oil inside them burned rapidly with the help of the wind, making a "crackling" sound of the oil bursting.

The black smoke column rose straight up into the sky.

In the billowing smoke, there was a burnt and foul odor that made people want to vomit.

There were a total of eight trenches, all of which were set on fire at this time, illuminating the evening sky. Everyone present had solemn and shocked expressions.

Li Yan also sighed in his heart.

This kind of scene of tens of thousands of corpses being set on fire at the same time is rare.

Even the bodies of several officials, including Song Kaida, were doused with kerosene and set on fire under Li Yan's insistence, and were now burning into a warm fire.

At this moment, a figure in the crowd quietly approached behind him and whispered:

"Son, the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance has sent a message that Gongsun Mou wants to see you tonight. I think he has bad intentions."

(End of this chapter)