Shi Peng is also the chief disciple of the Crazy Sword Sect, especially his master is also quite famous in the army, so the government also gave Shi Peng some face, listed the matter reported by the three of them as a key matter, and sent someone to investigate.

Li Mang looked at this situation, I am afraid that if this kind of thing was put in the past, I am afraid that it would not be over, but I think that the status of these lowest-level ordinary people in the land of Shenzhou is inferior to that of pigs and dogs.

Since this matter was reported, it was handled by the government, and after the three of them came out of the official house, they followed the stone tent to the largest restaurant in Pingcheng.

The restaurant is three floors high, it is a landmark building in the small Ping City, and it is very lively to noon on the first and second floors of the restaurant, but there are few people in the third floor.

Li Mang and the three of them came to a window position on the third floor and sat down, and saw the stone tent take out a piece of silver and slap it on the table, and said to the waiting servant with arrogance: "Prepare a table for our brother with the best food here, and bring ten jars and eight altars of your best wine here."

The little guy happily picked up the silver, nodded and left, while Bai Qiu glanced at the stone canopy and said, "The gorilla is arrogant."

Shi Peng turned to choke and said, "I wonder how many bowls you can drink as a skinny monkey?"

Not to be outdone, Bai Qiu said: "Reckless man, who will fight with you for the amount of wine."

Shi Peng glanced at Bai Qiu with disdain and spoke again: "I am a reckless man, you are a coward."

Bai Qiu was about to fight back, but Li Mang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I said two brothers, it's just a meal, can you not compete?

Shi Peng laughed, Bai Qiu twisted his head out of the window, and thought in his heart: "This Shi Canopy is a bold and righteous person, and his strength is okay, and there is a master behind him, so he must win it over."

Meals and wine are ready, and the three of them work together, whether it is eating or drinking, the more people eat, the more fragrant they eat, and the more energetic they drink.

Although Li Mang's amount of wine is not as good as the two of them, it is rare to meet a master who is close to his own personality and makes a knife today, so he frequently raises his glass, and the stone tent is a glass of wine, and Bai Qiu is just a few sips elegantly, and even the meal is chewed slowly, which is very different from the style of Li Mang and Shi Peng.

Naturally, every time Shi Peng drank the wine, he didn't forget to tease Bai Qiu a few words, and Bai Qiu could always return a few mouthfuls, and Li Mang felt funny for a while.

After three rounds of wine, Li Mang drank too much again, although the stone tent was fine, but it was also full of wine, only Bai Qiu was still better.

At this time, suddenly a group of officers and soldiers rushed up to the third floor, interrupting the three of them's drinking. I saw a leading captain come out and hugged his fists and said: "I have seen the prince of the stone canopy, the two sons, the city lord is invited, please go with the little one."

Li Mang squinted his hazy eyes and said drunkenly: "How... Do you want to force our brothers?

Shi Canopy pressed Li Mang's arm to prevent him from continuing, and then hugged his fists and asked, "This brother, I don't know what the city lord asked me to do with my brother?"

The lieutenant spoke: "Prince, because of the matter you reported in the morning, the city lord has made some new discoveries, which is quite tricky, so I asked the prince to go and discuss."

Shi Peng nodded, and then spoke: "My brother has drunk too much, how about I settle him down first, and then go to the City Lord's Mansion by myself?"

The lieutenant thought for a while and said, "Okay, then I'll go back to my life first, and try to get as fast as possible."

"Hmm"

Then the officers and soldiers retreated, and the stone tent and Bai Qiu mixed up with the fierce mang, and went out of the restaurant and walked to an inn not far away.

......

Li Mang slept until the evening and woke up, and at this time, the stone tent had already returned, and he was having fun with Bai Qiu.

"You two can really quarrel, and you don't get annoyed" Li Mang straightened up and rubbed his temples.

Seeing Li Mang wake up, Shi Peng rushed to Li Mang's bed and dragged him to the ground, pressed him to a stool, and then hurriedly spoke: "Brother, let me tell you, I went to the City Lord's Mansion this afternoon, and what the City Lord told me was really too appalling. ”

Li Mang secretly took a few pills, lifted the teapot and poured a glass of water to drink before he felt much more comfortable, and then slowly said, "What's the matter, you said to hear it?"

Bai Qiu wanted to know for a long time, but he didn't say a word after the stone tent came back, and he had to wait for Li Mang to wake up before he was willing to say it.

"After we reported the case of the village being slaughtered in the morning, the city lord immediately sent people to investigate, but on the way to investigate, we found that dozens of villages around Pingcheng were slaughtered as many as seven or eight in one morning, and the names of the villages that died tragically have exceeded 1,000, and they all have one thing in common, that is, the heart is missing," Shi Peng said, and the expression on his face gradually turned cold.

Li Mang pondered for a moment, and then spoke: "Has the city lord ever given the result?"

Shi Peng replied: "No, this is also the reason why the city lord came to me, he judged that this vicious act should be the work of some evil sects in the rivers and lakes, so he hopes that we can help them in the secret investigation."

Li Mang thought for a while and said, "This... I don't have a clue, where are we going to look?"

Bai Qiu also nodded and said: "Yes, the Central Plains is very big, there are many sects, even the territory of Daxing we can't finish for a while, how can we investigate?"

Shi Peng thought for a while and said: "Actually, we are only responsible for a small part, there are only a few notorious evil forces in Daxing, we can focus on investigating the recent actions of those families, and the rest of the city lords will report to the imperial court, and their own masters will come to deal with it."

Li Mang obviously didn't know the sect power in the Central Plains, so he asked directly: "You tell me about the things in the rivers and lakes first, I don't know anything until now, if it wasn't for Brother Bai Qiu to explain to me before, I don't even know how many states in the Central Plains."

Shi Peng nodded, and said without thinking: "Although there are many factions in the Central Plains, but generally speaking, only the sect has a grandmaster master in charge of the sect to get on the table, and what is known is the sect of fifteen grandmasters who have been famous for a long time, and our Central Plains martial artists are collectively called one hall, two palaces, three pavilions, four doors and five halls, these fifteen forces are ranked before and after, and their strength is almost the same, and they are far apart. And in the territory of the Daxing Dynasty, only my Crazy Knife Gate can be regarded as a table, this incident may not be the local sect of Daxing, I think about it, it may be related to the Yin and Yang Gate in the Dazhu Mountain in the territory of Tianfu Kingdom."

Li Mang listened carefully, and when he saw that Shi Peng had finished speaking, he asked again: "What are you doing with the Yin Yang Gate?" Why are you so sure?"

Shi Peng slowly spoke: "Among the fifteen top sects in the Central Plains, except for the Heavenly Killing Pavilion, which is full of disgusting and feared killers, only the Yin Yang Gate of Tianfu and the Wucai Hall in Bailin Mountain, the extreme south, are evil demons. Seeing the money, the Heavenly Killing Pavilion does not ask whether it is right or wrong, and has never heard of such a thing as winning people's hearts, and the Wucai Hall is full of poisonous people who are good at making and using drugs, what is the use of asking for people's hearts? What's more, the Wucai Hall is 108,000 miles away from my Daxing, and it is impossible to cross such a far place to come to my Daxing to do things. And the people of the Yin-Yang Gate are all rotten people and sluts who collect yin and replenish yang, suck sperm and eat the marrow, and they are the closest to my Daxing border, I think about it, only the Yin-Yang Gate is the most likely."

Li Mang nodded and said: "Well, the analysis is very reasonable, I don't know much about the Central Plains martial arts, what do you say."

"Although it is not ruled out that it was done by other weak forces, it is very likely that the Yin and Yang Gate is the cause, so let's go to investigate tomorrow morning," Shi Peng said.

"I don't have an opinion", "I can do it too" Li Mang and Bai Qiu said separately, it seems that the matter is settled.

......

While the three of them were chatting in the inn, such things happened in many places in the land of Shenzhou, or a clan was wiped out, or a village was slaughtered, and even many small sects were wiped out overnight, and the only thing the dead had in common was that their hearts were gone.

The extreme southern tribes in Jincheng's sphere of influence, the southwestern border villages of the Daxing Dynasty, the northern mountain villages of the Nanli Kingdom, the northwest border villages and towns of the Dawu Dynasty, and even many coastal villages in the east and south of the land of Shenzhou were all slaughtered.

There has never been a shortage of wise men in the Central Plains, especially the Hundred Saints Palace, which has the reputation of "the source of all learning in the world", and the Wenhui Pavilion, where the people of the world gather. The wise people of the two forces circled the location of the disaster on the map, and saw some clues, and then the two sides jointly issued a statement, claiming that it would be a catastrophe that swept the entire Central Plains, hoping that all forces could unite together to fight against the evil spirits.

However, in the end, there are some forces that uphold the attitude of not caring about themselves and hanging high, and do not react in any way. And a larger part of the forces are silent and wait and see. At the moment, only the Daxing Dynasty and the Tianfu Kingdom are acting openly and secretly.