Chapter 168, Correct Name
Tang Lang was halfway through speaking, Feng Honglang's expression, who deliberately stopped to observe, found that the other party was at a loss, and had some judgment in his heart, and continued: "I was worried that the city lord would blame him, and I also invited a big brother to come in and pass it on to a Counselor Hu, but I don't know what happened, the city lord didn't know anything!"
Everyone's eyes were all on the scribe surnamed Hu, and he was shocked, but replied calmly: "When I came in, I was about to report to the city lord, but I ...... just now."
Feng Honglang said dissatisfiedly: "For such an important matter, you should insist on telling it, I am not a stubborn person!"
Tang Lang walked over and took off the mantra helmet on Li Xinjue's head: "Xinjue, let me try this thing!"
"Tang Lang, it's better for me to come! In case something is bad, your talent is far better than mine!" Li Xinjue snatched the helmet of the truth from him.
Just as the two were scrambling, Feng Honglang reacted to what Tang Lang had just said, and hurriedly asked, "Tang Lang, you said that you have cured all the patients outside, is this true?"
Just now Tang Lang followed Tang Lang into the council hall and the previous head of the government and a doctor in the reed shed, the two of them didn't wait for Tang Lang to answer, and hurriedly said: "City Lord, the patient outside has indeed recovered, but his body is still a little weak, and he needs to be recuperated for a day before he can go home." ”
"What the hell is going on?" Not only was Feng Honglang, but the rest of the people in the council hall also looked at Tang Lang with a little suspicion, wanting to know the details.
At this time, Hang Yutang and Hang Xiaoyu's father and daughter also entered the conference hall together, Hang Xiaoyu witnessed Tang Lang's process of treating strange patients, and she herself was also treated by Tang Lang, and when she heard the city lord's inquiry, she took the initiative to help Tang Lang tell the whole process.
After Hang Xiaoyu finished speaking, he finally concluded: "City Lord, Tang Lang has absolutely no motive to deliberately spread strange diseases, but actively helps the patients, those rumors are obviously deliberately targeted, I think the source of this rumor is the initiator of the strange disease." ”
"Xiaoyu, don't talk nonsense!" Hang Yutang scolded his daughter in a low voice, dragged her behind him, and said loudly: "City Lord, Tang Lang He was indeed wronged, and I hope to investigate the source of this strange disease in detail, no one is stupid enough to release the epidemic in his store, it really doesn't make sense!"
Tang Lang took out a few porcelain bottles from his arms, and said awe-inspiringly: "These bottles are the source of the epidemic that I took out from the patients outside in public, please see!"
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to open one of the porcelain bottles, and the scribe surnamed Hu exclaimed: "Tang Lang, what are you doing, you dare to release poison in public?"
"Oh! I only said that it was taken from the patient's body, but I didn't say that it was poison! May I ask how you did not know the prophet?" Tang Lang raised his eyebrows and looked directly at the other party.
The scribe surnamed Hu was a little stunned by everyone's burning eyes, but he was still quibbling: "I'm just saying it casually! Besides, such a strange condition should not be naturally generated, but related to poison insect Gu, I just infer it according to common sense." ”
"It was you who forgot to tell the city lord just now, and it was you who saw the poison in my porcelain bottle, these are all coincidences. It's like it's a coincidence that these patients all visited my shop before they fell ill, right?" Tang Lang took retreat as advance and did not delve into it.
Feng Honglang didn't want to interrogate the scribe surnamed Hu in public, so he changed the topic: "Tang Lang, what is in your bottle?"
A ball of spiritual light burst out between Tang Lang's fingers, and the palm of his hand was directly crushed, crushing the porcelain bottle into pieces, and a gray mist was released from it, rushing left and right in the middle of Tang Lang's spiritual light, wanting to break out of the cage.
Everyone was taken aback, and they all shuddered at the thought of such a strange gray mist wreaking havoc in their bodies.
"I don't know if there are any people among you who are proficient in the Dan Dao? Now I will trace this gray mist back to its source and decompose it into its original appearance, and everyone will know that what I said is true!"
Tang Lang's expression became more focused, carefully using his spiritual power to control the changes in the gray mist, and slowly extracting one single spiritual power after another from it. Soon, the gray mist dissipated, replaced by more than a dozen flashes of different colors......
"I've only touched on alchemy and spiritual plants, and I can only make out a few of them......!
Tang Lang pointed out that several of the spiritual plants corresponding to the spiritual light were all poisonous things recorded in the "Language of the Spirit Plant", and the people in the council hall were all well-informed, and they all recognized the origin of some of these spiritual lights, and discussed them in a low voice.
"It's really poison! Who is so bold as to poison the city?"
"That's a snakeberry, if you take it alone, it will make people dizzy, and mixed with so many poisons, it must be even more poisonous!"
Tang Lang wrapped the remaining porcelain vase in his hand with spiritual power, and slowly flew towards Feng Honglang: "City Lord, these can be used as evidence, as long as you ask the people in the city who know the elixir and spiritual plants to identify them a little!"
Feng Honglang grabbed it with his backhand, held a few porcelain bottles steadily from mid-air, and said in a deep voice: "Just like that, it can only show that this strange disease is not a natural disaster but **, but there is no way to find the source of the curse." ”
Tang Lang didn't answer directly, he sank his mind into the system, and asked: "How? What did you find?" It turned out that since Tang Lang entered the conference hall, he had let the system monitor everyone's breathing, heartbeat, and spiritual power fluctuations, and wanted to find some flaws from it, but he didn't expect it to be really rewarding.
"Master, everyone in the hall is basically normal, except for the slight nervousness when you restored the poison just now. Only that Counselor Hu has always been hostile to you, he spends more time staring at you than the city lord, and when he talked to you a few times just now, the spiritual power fluctuations in his body were slightly beating. ”
"Oh?" Tang Lang looked at the target with deep meaning, and the scribe surnamed Hu also happened to look at him, and found that Tang Lang was looking at him, so he quickly looked away, which made Tang Lang even more sure that there must be a ghost in his heart, and suddenly had a plan.
"Lord of the City, Duobao Xiaodian has been wronged by this, so it will naturally fully cooperate to find out the mastermind behind the scenes, and it is actually very simple to find the root cause!" Tang Lang said without humility or arrogance, and once again attracted everyone's attention to himself.
"Do you have any way to say it quickly! If you can really find out the troublemaker, this city lord will specially correct the name of your Duobao shop!" Feng Honglang also hated the mastermind behind the scenes, and was disturbed by it like this, the tax revenue in the city was greatly reduced, and the advantage of surpassing the other two cities was finally gone.
"Everyone knows that Duobao Store adopts a shelf type operation, and there is no clerk to supervise the goods except for the cashier, which is to believe in the quality of the residents of Yuanshui City. But there is inevitably one
Some chickens and dogs need to be guarded against, so I have set up a photo formation in the hidden places of the store, and the people who enter and leave the store every day have images left!"
Speaking of this, Tang Lang glanced at the performance of the crowd, especially the scribe surnamed Hu became more restless, and continued to talk eloquently: "The location of my shop is very particular, every resident in the city can easily find the small shop closest to him, and the things sold in each store are exactly the same, and the price is uniform, so no one should make a special trip to patronize different small shops." Then, as long as the photo formations of all the stores are compared, the people who appear in different small stores many times are the real murderers!"
Before the words fell, the system prompted Tang Lang, and a faint spiritual power fluctuation spread from the arm in the sleeve of the scribe surnamed Hu.
"Counselor Hu, don't move! Take your left hand out of your sleeve and show the thing in your palm to the city lord!" Tang Lang shouted, so frightened that the figure of the scribe surnamed Hu shook for a moment, and then his face turned pale.
Feng Honglang's cultivation is profound, he is a five-grade mantra sect, after Tang Lang's special point, he also noticed the abnormality of spiritual power, and asked domineeringly: "Hu Bowen, open your hand!"
The powerful coercion of the Curse Sect made Hu Bowen fall to his knees with a puff, trembling and spreading his left hand slightly, and there was nothing in his palm except for a broken jade pendant: "Wronged, city lord! ”
"What does this jade pendant do, and why is it broken?" Feng Honglang held his right hand remotely, and the jade pendant that was broken into several pieces was held up by him with spiritual power, and flew back to his eyes to take a closer look, and found that there was nothing peculiar except for some decorative textures.
"This jade pendant was asked for by me from the Prophet Association not long ago, I have a friend of the prophet teacher, he said that I may have a disaster in the near future, give me a jade pendant to defend myself, if someone wants to harm me, this jade pendant can serve as a warning!" Hu Bowen replied eloquently.
"Prophet?" Feng Honglang was also a little undecided when he heard this. Prophets are the most amazing group of the nine arts of metaphysical cultivation, the number is extremely rare, the requirements for talent are so high that they are harsh, their foresight of things is irregular, sometimes they can only predict the weather changes the next day, and sometimes they can accurately say the change of dynasty, which can't help but make people awe and awe.
Tang Lang had also heard of the name of the prophet before, but there was no branch of the Prophet Association in the entire Tianqing Kingdom, and he didn't have much awe, so he took over and said: "Counselor Hu, this is the council hall, how can someone face you unfavorably in front of the city lord, it is obviously a clever tongue! Lord City Lord, can you let me check these jade pendant fragments, and see if I can find some clues." ”
He took the jade pendant fragment from Feng Honglang's hand and pretended to inspect it carefully, but in fact, he had already ordered the system to scan all the fragments for a more in-depth analysis, and soon drew conclusions from the "Basic Formation Pattern Collection" in reserve.
"Counselor Hu, you are very good at making up stories!" Tang Lang smiled and raised the fragment in his hand, talking and laughing: "There is no mystery in these surface patterns, but in the middle of the jade pendant, a very rare formation pattern is depicted in advance, called "Tongsheng", which requires the formation mage's left and right hands to depict it at the same time, and complete it at the same time. Such two formations will have a subtle connection, as long as one of them is destroyed, the other will also be destroyed simultaneously. ”