Chapter 6: The Beginning and the End
After all, he has been a county official for two years, and although he is not very interested in adjudicating cases, he has some experience.
These two people are dressed nondescriptly, they have different demeanors, they are robbed but they are not afraid, judging from Cheng Ming's experience, most of them are splashes on the street.
Fighting is the most effective way to deal with such people.
Ordering the two of them to loosen their muscles, Cheng Ming took dozens of steps in one direction, and with a wave of his hand, a large amount of sand was sucked into the palm of his hand, and a large sand pit appeared under his feet.
The bald man was inadvertently startled when he saw it, and his hand movements slowed down, almost letting the one run away.
Busy holding it down again, but his eyes looked directly at Cheng Ming.
Obediently, is this still human?
As soon as he stopped, he also attracted the attention of the other three people, and following his gaze, he happened to see Cheng Ming with his head down, slowly sinking as if he was taking an elevator.
The surrounding sand flows slowly, making a rustling sound.
The cone-shaped bunker continued to expand, and soon reached the front of the four.
At this time, Cheng Ming had reached the bottom, and dry grass began to appear on the soles of his feet.
I saw him bend down slightly, as if he had picked up another bead on the ground.
The bald man's eyes narrowed, and he punched the person under him, shouting, "What the hell is that bead?" Where did you get it? Dare to say a lie and kill you directly! ”
The man had been beaten so that he didn't have a piece of good meat on his body, and kept begging for mercy: "Grandpa spares his life." The beads were picked up by the two of us. ”
The bald man slapped him on the back of the head, "Fart, you should be sheep dung eggs?" Pick up on the ground? ”
"Don't fight, don't fight, what I said is true!" The man waved his hands vigorously and said hurriedly: "Just the night before yesterday, my two brothers had just come out from eating and drinking, and they bumped into a person head-on. My brother just wanted to trouble him, but he didn't know that this person turned into a pile of sand, and he almost scared my soul to death at that time. Think about it, in the middle of the night, a big living person suddenly turned into a pile of sand and clothes, who doesn't get hairy when he meets it? But brother, when I was just about to run, I suddenly saw a shining bead on this pile of clothes, so, hehe......"
"Hey fart!" The bald man slapped again and scolded: "Are you a grandfather and a fool? People turned into sand? You can figure it out! You give me ......"
"That's it!"
At this time, Cheng Ming had already walked back and interrupted the bald man's words.
As soon as the hand turned over, there were three beads between the three fingers between the index finger and the little finger, and these three beads were the same, but two of them were constantly falling sand, and the amount of them was different.
Cheng Ming sent his hand to the man's eyes and asked lightly: "This one is mine, and the one in the middle that dropped a little sand was found from you." And this one was indeed dug under the bunker just now. Don't you have anything to say? ”
The man looked at the three beads in a daze, and sighed for a long time: "It turns out that this thing is really a ghost!" ”
"Looks like you get it!" Cheng Ming nodded and said: "The sand disaster in Wucheng is caused by it, but no matter how powerful this thing is, it is just a thing, I am afraid that there are people standing behind it." If we don't catch him as soon as possible, I'm afraid that the whole of Shandong, and even the entire Central Plains, will be buried by this sand. So tell me, what else are you hiding? ”
The man hesitated, then looked back at the other person.
As soon as Cheng Ming raised his head, his head was suddenly full of black lines.
The big head's brainless sat on top of the other person, and every now and then he punched down, smashing his entire head into the sand.
waved his hand to let him go, and the other breathed a sigh of relief, and he gasped for a long time before saying: "I am a guy from Qingpingfang Xiangfuji, about a month ago, our young master rushed back, saying that he had found a treasure and wanted to give the old man a birthday gift." He also beckoned five or six cronies to show off the orb.
We were originally a jewelry store, although the guys are all working people, they also know a little bit about their ears and eyes, so they passed it around and looked around, and everyone praised the young master for his vision and luck. The young master was very happy and gave the reward money.
No one cared about this, but early the next morning, news came out from the house, saying that the young master and a few people around him were gone, and they had turned into a puddle of sand, and the jewels they brought back were also stolen by the thieves.
At the time, I thought it was ridiculous, but when I went to work, I inquired, and the guys who passed the orb yesterday also died, the same way of death.
I immediately thought of the orb, and although I was panicked, I didn't dare to say more. ”
Cheng Ming was very happy that he found the key point at once.
Waving his hand to let the big head let him go, he moved a little, but he didn't get up, and continued on his stomach: "After three or five days, the house was suddenly flooded with sand, and the family ran out in panic, saying that they saw the young master's soul spraying sand. At that time, I didn't know it, but later I heard from a familiar maid that the young master and his buddy who died in the sand each left a bead. The lady thought it was a relic, so she sent it to the coffin with the young master, and then ......"
He spread his hands, but he didn't say anything.
Cheng Ming asked, "Didn't you find the beads spraying sand before?" ”
"I heard that the maid who cleaned up the wreckage saw the beads that fell on the ground, and thought it was the jewelry that Mrs. had dropped, and they were all placed in Mrs. Lady's jade box."
"Jade? It really doesn't belong to the five elements! ”
Cheng Ming nodded, and asked again, "And then?" ”
He thought for a moment and said, "Then the city will be lively. The house was suddenly flooded with sand, so naturally he had to report to the official. The county magistrate came over and stared at the rising sand dunes, completely helpless. The county magistrate here hasn't figured out a way yet, and there are two more homes in the west and south of the city that have been buried in sand! ”
He shook his head and said with a mocking expression: "Then things are even more lively, and every other day I can hear which alley has sand and whose house is buried in sand." The people panicked, and many people were frightened, and they fled from the city without leaving their homes. In the next half month, there was more and more sand, and the government scratched its head and had no good way, and finally even the county government was flooded with sand.
At this time, people were horrified to find that half of the city was gone, but the sand was increasing every day, devouring the house like a giant beast. So the wave of escaping from the famine began, and in just three days, Wucheng was almost empty. Later, when I fled out of the city, I happened to see him pick up the bead......"
He glanced at the man as he spoke.
"You saw what happened after that! The sand not only flooded the entire Wucheng, but also did not let go of a hundred miles in radius, and the green mountains and green waters turned into a desert wasteland. The two of us have nothing in their bodies, and when I happened to meet this jewel, I naturally want to keep it for the future to make a fortune, but I know that you saw through it at a glance, and it should be my two unlucky! ”
Cheng Ming rolled his eyes, there were so many, it seemed that he couldn't be lazy, he had to hurry up and speed up.