Chapter One Thousand and Twenty-Two
The scorpion frowned all the time, without any doubts or opinions, just quietly waiting for the man to continue.
The man secretly glanced at the scorpion, swallowed a mouthful of saliva timidly, and mustered up the courage to continue: "We asked a few junior officials who still have some friendship with us, after all, we have also sent in the number one hundred and ten people who have come and gone, and the number one hundred and ten people is not a small number, and eating, drinking, and Lazar will attract attention, but those small officials don't know that there are many ghosts, and they also said that we have nothing to joke about and find some reliable jokes." At that time, we felt that something was wrong, after all, we couldn't just inquire about the things above, and if we asked too much, we might lose our heads at any time. The foreign affairs chief of the ghost snake is the person who helps the Martial God King run errands outside, do chores, and spread the word, the matter is simple, and the grade is low, but because it is directly ordered by the Martial God King, all the big and small officials will give him face, for those of us who don't have a chance to say a word in front of the Martial God King, that is too big to be a big official. I remember that day, we stood very respectfully in the chamber of the foreign affairs officer and waited for the foreign affairs officer, and we didn't dare to come out with a single one, but who expected that as soon as the foreign affairs officer entered the conference hall, he scolded us for a long time, and scolded until the end, we realized that we were nosy and asked about the whereabouts of the 100 strong men. Perhaps because we were still honest, he warned us not to mention the whereabouts of those strong men, and only to send them on time every month, and then let us go. ”
"Send six to seven people a month. If you want to be a strong man, you must know that the strong man is the main labor force and pillar of a family, and if a family loses a strong man, only the old and weak women and children are left, how can the family survive? In the same way, for a city, the young strong man is also the guarantee of financial revenue, and every year the ghost raises our taxes, and every year pays us more and more tribute. But he can work. We've all handed over the ghosts, and they're gone, and after a long time, the townsfolk have seen the clues. They fled this place with their families. There are fewer and fewer people in the whole city. There are fewer and fewer strong men, less and less income, and even more hateful. Our five cities are close to the entrance of the ghost, there are almost no people who come here to do business, and the floating population can't be found. ”
"Later, the five of us pondered and thought about it, and it was the foreign affairs officer who came to inform us that we were going to offer to the strong men; It is also the foreign affairs officer who receives those strong men; We have just inquired about some information, and it is the foreign affairs officer who has come to warn us. Thinking about it, it will not be the order of the Martial God King at all, but the foreign affairs officer pretending to use the name of the Martial God King for personal gain, thinking of this layer, we began to feel scared, so many strong men, what is a small foreign affairs officer going to do? Could it be that the foreign affairs officer was planning some shady deed, and the thought that we might become his accomplices made us frightened! So, we decided to take the opportunity to inquire about it when we went to pay the bill next month! ”
"Before that account, the five of us met our heads, discussed it well, had a plan in mind, and it was much easier to do things, but we really found out that something was abnormal, I saw someone carrying a cart of things out of the small door in the backyard of the foreign affairs officer by shuttle, because I looked twice, and I saw a foot falling on one of the carts. At that time, I had a premonition, and I didn't think about it, so I followed the man. Fortunately, the man was just a coolie, he didn't have much energy, and he never noticed me, so the man pushed the cart into the forest of the mass grave and poured the contents of the cart into the mass grave at once. ”
"After the man left, we went up and looked at it, and were surprised, it was the corpses of strong men, those strong men were the citizens of our five cities transported into the ghost dragon, and then we looked closely at the corpses of those strong men, and they didn't even have hearts."
"This thing is terrifying, we are not natives of ghosts, we are people from the Divine Domain, living in this dark place itself will feel eerie every day, and it has been used to nearly 30,000 years before there is no psychological shadow, but when I saw those corpses, that familiar sense of fear lingered in my heart again!"
"After I came back, I discussed it with the other four city lords, analyzed the pros and cons, and finally unanimously decided to rot this matter in my stomach. After all, we don't know why those strong men died, why they lost their hearts, whether these strong men were wanted by the Martial God King, or the selfishness of the foreign affairs officer. Although, we don't plan to say this, but it doesn't mean that we won't do anything, we secretly help the strong men in the city to leave the city, although those strong men leaving the city are not good for us at all, but God has the virtue of a good life, now that we know the truth, we can no longer close our eyes to help the abuse. Only the elderly, the weak, the women, the children, and the people with heart diseases were left in the city. Because the strong men have fled, when we hand over the strong men, we naturally can't hand them over, and the foreign affairs officer personally searched door to door, but did not find half of the strong men, and in the end he could only return disappointed. However, we were relieved of our burdens, because the foreign affairs officer no longer asked us to hand over people. ”
With that, the man turned to look at the man in the middle and motioned for the man to continue.
The man immediately understood, and continued, "Hey! Within a few days of that peaceful day, something big happened again. Among the five of us, I have the best relationship with the city lord of the fog capital, and generally he has to carry me wherever he goes, even if he doesn't carry me, he will find me to talk to him, and even if he doesn't talk about it, he will explain to his subordinates, so that when I go to find him, I will know where he is. But that time, he disappeared without any news. At that time, I didn't feel quite right, of course, it was not good to trouble the other three city lords for this uncertain trivial matter, or go to the ghost to report, when there was no way, I chose to find it myself, and I searched for more than two months without news of the city lord of the fog capital, but in the fog capital, there was no killer in the absence of the city lord, and the killers all acted in the middle of the night, killing people, and the methods were cruel, and all the people who were killed lost their hearts"
"I couldn't make up my mind at first, so I asked the three city lords to discuss, and finally the three city lords agreed that if the killer was caught, they could get the news of the city lord of the fog capital, after all, the disappearance of the city lord of the fog capital and the appearance of a bloodthirsty killer in the city were too coincidental." (To be continued......)