Chapter XVII: The Living Dead

There was silence in the room.

Obviously, both Wei Lai and Long Xiu and the others realized the strangeness of this scene, and a chill rose from behind them and climbed up their eyebrows.

"Where's Qingyan?" Wei Lai asked in a cold voice as he turned his head to look at the man who had fallen to the ground wailing.

The frightened Gao Tan did not recover from the previous incident, he covered his arm that was still bleeding, his body retreated in embarrassment, and his mouth said: "I don't know!

The murderous intent in Wei Lai's eyes, the dagger named Black Python was clenched by him, but before he could make a move, Sun Daren on the side rushed up, grabbed Gao Tan's shoulders, and asked, "Why don't you know!? Have you forgotten that you locked us up?"

"Say!Where is she!?" Sun Daren blamed Liu Qingyan's danger on his own incompetence, and at this moment, he was only a little more eager to save Liu Qingyan than Wei Lai. Therefore, while asking, the fist in his hand also kept beckoning to the face of the fat magistrate.

A scream rose one after another, seeing that Long Xiu and that Zhou Fu's faces turned pale, and he secretly said ruthlessly in his heart, it was hard to imagine how Sun Daren, who was still hanging in a breath, became alive again in this short period of time.

Under Sun Daren's beating, Gotham quickly succumbed: "She...... Isn't she right there?"

He pointed to the bed not far away and said with a dying breath, his eyes raised slowly and with difficulty, looking at that place.

At that moment, Gao Tan's eyes suddenly dilated, his already ugly face suddenly turned pale, and he stared at the scarecrow on the bed in disbelief, as if he had seen the most terrifying scene in the world: "How is it possible...... It's obviously ......"

As if he remembered something, his voice suddenly became louder: "It's an evil spell! It's the demon magic of those bandits!"

"What kind of calf are you talking about!?" Sun Daren couldn't understand the other party's nonsense, and his huge fist was raised again, and he was about to beckon towards the other party's front door.

Wei Lai walked up, stopped Sun Daren's fist, and then stared at the frightened expression of Gao Tan, and asked, "What demon method?"

Gao Tan was obviously still in some kind of great fear, and he responded: "Huanglongzhai, the demon method of those bandits in Huanglongzhai!"

"Phew! You are a thief! Where did I come from Huanglongzhai what kind of thief, you dog official is still talking nonsense when he dies!" Long Xiu on the side suddenly became angry when he heard this, Huanglongzhai has been back to the notoriety of this thief for countless years, and her father restricts her on weekdays, she has no chance to correct the name of Huanglongzhai, but today, this thief is in front of her, how can she endure Miss Long's temper?

Wei Lai frowned, he vaguely realized that things didn't seem to be as simple as he imagined, he looked at the doll made of straw not far away, and felt a strange aura from the doll's body, as if there was a hidden power entrenched in the puppet's body, Wei couldn't tell the essence of the power, but he could perceive that the power seemed to have a magical magic that bewitched people's minds.

"Tell me about it. Wei Lai also stopped the angry Long Xiu and looked at Gao Tan with a cold gaze.

Gao Tan shuddered under that gaze, and he hurriedly said: "The bandits of Huanglong Village will know that the evil magic is something that the people of Huanglong City know, they can come back from the dead, kill it today, and the corpse will disappear in a few moments, and it will come back in a few months." The hero can find someone to ask at random to know, the little one really doesn't know when your companion was dropped by someone. ”

"Those bandits are so hateful that my brother died at their hands a few days ago. I was eager for revenge, and I was instigated by others, thinking that this friend of the hero was the companion of those bandits, so I collided with the hero, and asked the hero to let the little one go. As he spoke, there was a slight cry in Gao Tan's voice, obviously frightened to change his hands and feet.

If you hadn't killed Brother Hu's wife, and he came to my village to find my father's help, how could my father bring someone to kill that bastard?!" Long Xiu's cheeks flushed with anger, and his voice became a little louder.

"Brother Hu, Hu Zhuchen?!" Hearing this, Gao Tan's face changed again, and Wei Lai obviously felt that the other party's body was trembling more and more, and he was almost unable to stand.

"How is that possible?" he murmured in a trance, as if he had heard the most incredible thing in the world.

"Are you afraid? I can't imagine that Brother Hu is still alive? If you don't want people to know, you can't do anything unless you don't know yourself! You, don't be a dead duck, Miss Ben advises you to tell him the whereabouts of their friend now, and he can't say that he can still have a good death. Long Xiu took Gotham's behavior for granted as a horror after the revelation of the matter, and she clasped her hands in front of her chest and sneered arrogantly.

Gao Tan was in a trance, and he had no time to respond to Long Xiu's mockery.

"He's obviously dead, I look at him as if he's still alive......? It must be a ghost ......," Gotham muttered to himself.

Wei Lai's brows furrowed even deeper, he really wanted to ask about Liu Qingyan's whereabouts, but the appearance of the county magistrate in front of him was obviously a little delirious, and he didn't want to delay, because every time he delayed, Liu Qingyan's danger increased.

He looked at Sun Daren beside him and confirmed, "Are you sure that Qingyan was taken by him?"

"Of course!" Sun Daren nodded decisively, "After you were kidnapped by the bandits, Qingyan and I went to report to the official, who knew that this guy would be interested in seeing the color, so he had to say that I was in the same group with the bandits, beat me up, and kidnapped Qingyan away!"

Wei Lai naturally didn't doubt Sun Daren, and after getting a positive answer, he looked at Gao Tan, whose face was pale, squinted his eyes and asked, "If you want to live, tell me well, why are you so sure that Hu Zhuchen is dead?"

Gotham fell into fear, turning a deaf ear to Wei Lai's inquiry, and muttering vigorously, "Ghost ...... It must be a ghost...... He's back and he's asking for his life!"

Seeing this, Wei Lai glanced at Sun Daren on the side, Sun Daren understood, went up with two feet, and did not pay attention to it, pointed directly at the lower gear, and the screams like killing pigs resounded unconsciously. Wei Lai squatted down, squinted at Gao Tan, and then said, "This is your last chance, say!"

Gotham was covered in sweat on his forehead, and he didn't know if it was due to severe pain or intense fear. But after a beating, he somewhat recovered from his previous trance. He stared at the young man in front of him, grunted, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said, "I...... My brother was not angry, he killed Hu Zhuchen's wife, there was no way, I could only find a way to kill him together, and the bones were buried outside the city, which I saw my brother bury with his men......"

"As for ...... As for that friend of the hero, I really, really don't know why she disappeared all of a sudden......"

"Ah Lai, don't listen to this kid's nonsense, he must be stalling for time, let me beat him until he says it!"

But before he could make a move, he was stopped by Wei Lai.

"Okay! I believe you!" Wei Lai said: "Take me to the place where Hu Zhuchen is buried, if you can dig up the corpse, if you can't dig it up, you will have to die." Got it?"

Everyone was quite puzzled, especially Long Xiu, she remembered that Wei Lai had clearly seen Hu Zhuchen, how could she still believe the nonsense of this magistrate.

But Wei Lai's expression was cold, obviously he couldn't listen to anything, and Long Xiu could only silence him.

Gotham was supported by Zhou Fu and led everyone to his so-called burial place with difficulty.

Along the way, Sun Daren couldn't suppress the doubts in his heart and his worries about Qingyan, and asked in a low voice: "Ah Lai, if you let this guy drag it down again, Qingyan will ...... her."

Wei Lai just looked at the empty street with a calm brow, and after a long while, he looked at Sun Daren and said, "Don't you think this Yellow Dragon City is very strange?"

"Huh?" Sun Daren was stunned, "What's strange?"

Wei Lai fell silent and said no more.

......

Soon they came to the place where Gotham said the corpse was buried.

It was pitch black outside the city, and the soil on the place where the corpse was buried had not had any traces of movement, so it was obviously impossible for Hu Zhuchen to escape by himself.

"Dig!" Wei looked at the place, his face becoming more and more cold, and he shouted sharply.

That Zhou Fu stepped forward in embarrassment with Gao Tan, who had broken his arm, and began to dig there, and soon there were results.

The layers of dirt were pushed away, and a face appeared, Wei Lai bowed down, reached out and gently threw the dust off that face.

So, a face with a scar that ran through the entire side of the face appeared in front of everyone.

Long Xiu let out an exclamation, covering his mouth in disbelief at the scene in front of him.

But that Gotham was pale and frightened.

Wei Lai's eyes were as cold as frost, he took a deep look at the corpse that was clearly dead, thinking about the man he saw at noon today, his fists clenched.

After a while, he said: "Go to Huanglongzhai!"