New and dark light years

Chapter 536 Eliminating the Undercover Agent
Hearing the enemy's fierce shouts, Li Lin merely snorted and didn't care.

Then he watched as the enemy was overwhelmed by the paper doll army.

But it must be said that these two are really strong.

The two fourth-rank martial artists stood back to back, holding out for nearly half an hour, and only fell due to exhaustion after cutting down more than three hundred paper figures.

One of them died from severe injuries and bleeding, while the other had lost an arm and a leg and appeared to be barely clinging to life.

Li Lin took out a body-strengthening pill and said to Su Bei beside him, "Take two pills to suppress the injury, and give this man two more. Bandage him up and keep him alive. I will interrogate him personally in an hour."

Su Bei took the porcelain bottle with both hands, and then sent someone to drag the living man to a nearby barracks for simple treatment, keeping him alive.

Li Lin, accompanied by his personal guards, continued to inspect the spirit fields.

Although this has more symbolic than practical significance, it is precisely what needs to be done.

Because if you don't inspect a subordinate organization for a long time, the staff there can easily become complacent.

This is human instinct, nothing else.

Lingtian is very important to Li Lin, so he visits it every six months to show his appreciation for it.

It also serves as a deterrent to those who slack off and don't want to work.

Because of the recent attack, the guards were protecting Li Lin very closely, which slowed down the patrol's pace.

It was said to be half an hour, but in reality, it was an hour later before Li Lin went to interrogate the man.

But no one would blame Li Lin for such a small matter.

When Li Lin arrived at the small house in the barracks, he first smelled a bloody odor.

Then a man was seen tied to a corner, his severed hands and feet wrapped in gray leather, with blood still faintly visible on the cloth.

Although his face was pale, his eyes still looked quite energetic.

It must be said that a fourth-rank martial artist has a strong blood and vitality.

Su Bei brought over a stool, and Li Lin sat down.

"What should I call you?" Li Lin asked.

The man didn't speak, but just stared at Li Lin with malice.

"It's okay if you don't say anything. There are a lot of thugs here who like men. Do you want me to let them in?"

Li Lin discovered that the tougher a man is, the more afraid he is of this kind of thing.

Therefore, he particularly liked to use this method to threaten these prisoners, and it always worked.

"You... how could you be so vicious?" The man was both shocked and furious. He glared at Li Lin with hatred: "Are you even human?"

“You infiltrated my army, so you must have killed people and disguised yourselves,” Li Lin sighed. “Those soldiers had no grudge against you. You killed them, don’t you think you’re not wicked?”

"You..." the man said angrily, "I can't argue with you, but if you dare to do anything reckless, I won't let you off the hook."

Li Lin laughed and said, "Now everyone knows that I am a Spirit Hunter. If you do something underhanded, I will be even less afraid of you."

The man was stunned.

"Tell me, what's your name?"

The man remained silent.

Li Lin stood up: "I don't want to waste time. Su Bei, have the people outside..."

"Xia Ning".

Li Lin sat back down.

“Xia Ning…I remember he was the leader of the seventeenth hall of the Zhuxian Society.”

"Yes." The man looked at Li Lin: "Are you asking a question you already know the answer to?"

Li Lin shook his head: "I don't know you, but your name is on my bounty list. I've only seen your name and identity."

Li Lin's memory is getting better and better. He can't say he has a photographic memory, but with just a little hint, he can remember a lot of related information.

"And the other person?"

"Fei Xiang!"

“Deputy Hall Master.” Li Lin nodded. “I heard that the Seventeenth Hall is dedicated to intelligence gathering and assassination. I didn’t expect you to arrive so quickly.”

These things were naturally told to Li Lin by Chu Rengong.

Xia Ning glared angrily at Li Lin: "If you had been five steps closer to us back then, we would have been absolutely certain of killing you."

Li Lin smiled.

Even if they took ten more steps, these two wouldn't have been able to kill Li Lin.

Putting aside the fact that Li Lin's lightness technique was not weak, the second point is that the speed at which Li Lin released the paper figure was not the fastest.

He could actually produce the paper figure twice as fast, and what he produced was the paper figure of the Tree Fairy, which was far superior to ordinary paper figures with swords and shields.

A single piece of paper could completely protect Li Lin.

In addition, Li Lin also has a paper doll as a stand-in.

It's like having an extra life.

"Tell me about your arrangements," Li Lin said with a smile. "I'm not greedy. As long as you tell me the hiding place of an acquaintance, I'll... give you a dignified death."

"What if you don't tell me?"

"As I just said, there are many people outside who like to use connections."

Xia Ning was so angry that she trembled all over.

Li Lin waited quietly.

After a while, Xia Ning said, "Yin Zheng... has infiltrated Yulin County and replaced a yamen runner!"

Li Lin nodded in satisfaction, then stood up and said to Su Bei, "Give him a quick death, then bury him. Don't leave his body to rot in the wilderness. Then erect a simple stone tablet for him."

After saying that, Li Lin left.

Xia Ning's voice could be faintly heard from behind: "Thank you...".

Li Lin felt quite helpless; he thought, "If I kill him, he should thank me."

After leaving the Green Mountain Pass, Li Lin returned to Yulin County in the evening.

He did not go straight home, but instead went to the county government office with his personal guards.

At this time, the yamen runners were about to go home.

Li Lin stopped them and told everyone to gather in the training ground behind the county government office.

Li Lin then looked around at everyone, and with a wave of his hand, three thousand paper figures appeared, surrounding all the yamen runners and separating them from each other.

The constables were somewhat flustered.

After all, these paper figures had blush on their cheeks and two dots drawn on their eyes. They didn't look like much from a distance, but they were a bit frightening up close.

Li Lin said, "Don't panic, which one of you is Yin Zheng?"

All the yamen runners turned their attention to a young man on the left.

This young man looks quite good; he has a gentle and honest appearance.

Li Lin looked at him and smiled, "The rest of you can go back. Yin Zheng, stay."

Even the most naive person would realize something was wrong at this point.

The paper doll army is Li Lin's signature spell; its appearance always signifies a major event.

The other constables immediately ran out from the pile of paper figures. Yin Zheng stood there, looking completely bewildered: "Sir, what have I done wrong?"

"Xia Ning is dead. He betrayed you before he died."

Yin Zheng's bewildered expression gradually disappeared, and then he smiled at Li Lin: "The military governor is indeed very capable, actually knowing how to control me in advance. But... you were still careless. I was just worried about how to get close to you, but I didn't expect you to come to me on your own. Thank you."

At this moment, Yin Zheng was smiling very happily.

Li Lin looked at him and said, "Oh, why do you say that?"

"Your Excellency, you must feel a cool sensation in your nose right now!" Li Lin nodded: "Indeed, a little."

Then, he took out a porcelain bottle from his clothes, poured out a few tiny balls, only slightly larger than a grain of rice, and put them in his mouth.

Yin Zheng's smile faded considerably. He watched Li Lin's actions, a sense of unease creeping into his eyes.

Li Lin then tossed the porcelain bottle to the nearest constable: "Everyone, eat two pills, quickly."

The constables immediately surrounded the bottle and took two pills from each of the bottles.

After watching all of this quietly, Yin Zheng's smile vanished.

"Your Excellency, it seems you know... but do you know how to detoxify?"

What Li Lin just ate was an antidote pill from alchemy.

This is prepared according to a traditional Chinese medicine formula, and it can cure most of the world's rare poisons, including poisons caused by elixirs.

It can be considered a type of elixirro.

It can naturally cure almost all mortal poisons.

Li Lin laughed and said, "You used a kind of cold poison. Judging from the smell, the main ingredients are nine-jointed vine, snow lotus, and cold pool sunflower... as well as miscellaneous medicinal materials, which are just used to blend and stimulate the cold poison. As long as it can cure the cold poison, the effect of your poison is very average."

Yin Zheng stared blankly at Li Lin: "You actually know medicine?"

"How novel! Which alchemist doesn't know a little about medicine?"

In fact, Li Lin's medical skills were superb, surpassing the vast majority of doctors, and were at the level of imperial physicians.

He simply rarely displays this skill in front of outsiders.

Yin Zheng took a deep breath: "I've been defeated. Just give me a quick death."

Li Lin shook his head: "Of course not. Xia Ning mentioned you before she died, so you have to say a name too, so that... you can die with some dignity."

"Hmph, I'm not a coward like Xia Ning. Do whatever you want with me."

Li Lin smiled and said, "Do you know why Xia Ning was willing to reveal your name?"

"He's useless."

“I told him that many of the soldiers interrogating him were homosexual.” Li Lin glanced at the constables beside him: “How many of them do you think would be willing to spend the night with you?”

Some shrewd and opportunistic yamen runners, upon hearing this, immediately put on lecherous expressions.

Regardless of how convincing their acting is, or whether it's genuine emotion, in this situation, even if it's fake, it's easy to mistake it for reality.

Yin Zheng's limbs went weak. His eyes were filled with terror. After a moment of silence, he said, "I said, there's a captain in the local militia named Chang Buwu..."

……

In just a few days, Li Lin identified more than a dozen Zhuxian Society experts who had infiltrated Yulin County.

These people all used disguise techniques to 'replace' someone.

It must be said that the Zhuxian Society's ability to act is truly impressive.

They can find suitable people in a short time, make their human skin masks, kill the people and hide them, and then wear the human skin masks to infiltrate and find opportunities to get close to Li Lin.

A dozen or so human skin masks were placed on the large table in the courtroom.

Wen Bi picked up a mask, looked at it, and said, "It's a very realistic human skin mask. What's it made of?"

“The deceased’s face,” Jiang Jili said from the side.

Wen Bi's face twitched, then he put the human skin mask back on the table.

At the same time, he put his hands behind his back and subconsciously wiped his clothes.

Li Lin sighed: "More than a dozen people died at once. Although none of them were very important, the Zhuxian Society's ability to act was much faster than ours."

Jiang Jili said, "They have experience in this area. They can even infiltrate the imperial palace, let alone a place as loose as Yulin County."

Jiang Jili's words also make sense.

Wen Bi asked from the side, "Are there any other undercover agents we need to find?"

Li Lin said, "We've already found out who made the human skin mask; that person is known as Zhang San the Master."

“Zhang San? That’s an interesting name!” Wen Bi laughed.

Li Lin said, "It's an alias, which means no one knows his real identity, and it also shows that his disguise skills are excellent."

Jiang Jili asked, "Sir, what do you plan to do?"

"I've already sent Xiao Chunzhu with men to surround and annihilate them," Li Lin said with a smile. "He's a member of the martial arts world and understands the minds of people in that world. I think he should be able to bring them back."

"Bring them back?"

"According to the interrogation testimony of a certain bandit, this Zhang San is a very important figure in the Zhuxian Society. He knows a lot of information. If we can get him to talk after capturing him alive, we can deal a heavy blow to the Zhuxian Society."

Jiang Jili nodded in agreement: "Then we should indeed capture them alive... But you seem to be very good at interrogation, sir. You've captured more than a dozen undercover agents in just a few days. Did you learn these techniques before?"

"No, I just use vulgar and venomous language."

Jiang Jili and Wen Bi were somewhat puzzled.

But the two did not ask any further questions, out of respect for their elders... They understood the matter.

……

Zhang San, the master of healing, was riding away on horseback with a young girl.

"Grandpa, why are you riding so fast?" The girl's voice was quite sweet, but her appearance was somewhat unattractive: "We've already changed our faces three times, so we shouldn't be recognized."

As Zhang San looked back, he said, "Lian'er, your grandpa has a kind of intuition. When a great disaster is about to befall us, my scalp tingles."

"Are you getting goosebumps now?" the girl asked curiously.

"I didn't feel numb."

"What's there to be afraid of?"

"But my scalp is burning."

The girl immediately fell silent and began to spur her horse on.

Zhang San is the same.

Just as he said, Zhang San was filled with fear at this moment.

At the beginning of the Zhuxian Society's all-out effort to 'annihilate' Li Lin, he was very confident.

After all, he had been in the Zhuxian Society for over forty years, and he knew its strength better than anyone.

They even dared to assassinate the emperor. That emperor must have some magical powers. The palace was so heavily guarded, yet they still managed to infiltrate it and almost succeed in the assassination.

If it weren't for the emperor's magical attack that killed dozens of masters and his clever use of force to drive the chairman out of the capital, they would have succeeded long ago.

Li Lin... a descendant of the Li family of Jin County, a family that only knows how to refine pills, what good is that?

If they were truly powerful, the Executioner would have taken action against their family long ago.

It's only because Li Lin has gained power that they've attracted their attention and started making moves.

They will surely advance with unstoppable momentum, and within half a year, they will be able to kill this military governor.

But now... all he wants is to get far away.

There's something wrong with this place.

After riding for another half an hour, they were quite far from Yulin County. Logically, by this time, his fear should have subsided and his scalp should no longer hurt.

But... the increase is not decreasing.

This realization made Zhang San anxious, and his mouth became dry due to his anxiety and internal heat.

Then... he saw a horse blocking the road ahead, and on the horse was a young man dressed in military uniform.

not good!

Zhang San knew... they couldn't leave.

(End of this chapter)