With a population of about 1.2 million, Liangtai is one of the political, cultural, economic, circulation and information centers in North China. The climate here is mild, the average temperature of the whole year is about 23 degrees, and the coldest time in winter is about minus 5 degrees. At the same time, it is also a cultural and academic city, with many historical sites and cultural heritage, complete public cultural facilities such as art galleries, museums, and libraries, and a pleasant climate, making it an ideal place to study and live.

Li Zhiqing, who was forced by Ye Fanghua to follow Chen Pi, explained the general situation of the balcony to everyone like chanting, and it can be seen that she doesn't seem to have a good impression of this city, but Chen Pi didn't bother to think about asking about anything, and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

In Chen Pi's casual questioning, the four of them came to an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Liangtai City.

"Mr. Chen, please follow me." Li Zhiqing said softly, "This is where the Nether Monarch's body is stored. ”

Chen Pi and the three followed her, followed her through a dark alley, and came to a dilapidated old-fashioned warehouse, along the way, at least three groups of awakened people appeared in front of them, but each time after seeing Li Zhiqing, they hid back in the dark place.

Chen Pi could clearly feel that there were at least a hundred people here, but these people should only be the best among ordinary people, and Chen Pi wondered how useful they could be if the Nether King attacked again.

Pulling open the creaking iron door, four people and a cat entered the warehouse without hesitation, and on the ground of nearly 1,000 square meters, five columns of white cloth masked corpses were neatly placed, all the way to the end of the warehouse.

Zhao Youcheng only felt a cool air rising from behind him, and asked in an astringent voice: "Miss Zhiqing, how many people are there here?" ”

Since he was a child, he had never seen so many corpses placed in the same place, this was simply a super-large morgue, Cai Xueji's originally pale face couldn't see anything, but there was a look of disgust in her eyes.

"Three thousand six hundred and ninety-four, of whom eight hundred and fifty-six are elderly and children, and the rest are adult men and women." Li Zhiqing's voice also became hoarse and low, no longer crisp and pleasant than usual.

"Three thousand six hundred and ninety-four." Zhao Youcheng couldn't help but gasp, this is quite an astonishing amount.

Chen Pi walked silently, stretched out his hand and lifted a corpse cloth, under the corpse cloth was a pale young female corpse, and there was no wound under the body, but Chen Pi knew that there was no blood in her body, Chen Pi sighed secretly, put the corpse cloth down, and lifted another corpse cloth, which was also a pale corpse without a trace of blood.

"How long have these people been dead?" Chen Pi asked in a deep voice.

"According to our calculations, it should have been between 8 and 9 p.m. yesterday, and it has been nearly 20 hours now." Li Zhiqing looked at the watch on his wrist and replied, "We only found out about this when we received an alarm from the factory janitor at ten o'clock this morning. ”

"Are these people identified?" Chen Pi lifted a few more corpse cloths, all of them without exception were all wounds that could not be seen under his body, but for some reason, Chen Pi always had an uneasy feeling in his heart.

"It is in the process of identification, but the more than 500 people who have been identified are not Liangtai citizens, but refugees who fled from the south." Li Zhiqing said with a sad face, "There are many families who have died here. "These poor southerners, whose homeland is now in crisis, have left their homeland and come to a different place, but they didn't expect to end up like this.

It is very likely that these people are not local residents, the current Chinese society is chaotic, a large number of southern residents are pouring into all parts of the north, and Liangtai City is naturally no exception, if thousands of local residents are missing, it will soon trigger a large-scale search by the local police, but the disappearance of thousands of outsiders will cause far less attention than the locals.

Chen Pi was already sure that these people had died at the hands of the Nether Monarch at this time, and only they had such a fanatical need for blood, but the blood of more than 3,600 people could fill a small swimming pool, what did they want so much blood for? Chen Pi couldn't help but put a big question mark in his heart, he didn't know much about the strange and changeable blood method of the Nether Monarch, but judging from the effect of the blood method used in the first two times, he couldn't be careless about it at all.

"Senior, did it do it by the Nether King?" Zhao Youcheng's face was already very ugly, but he still forced himself to stay here.

"Hmm." Chen Pi nodded and said, "Nine percent of the possibility is that they did it, this time they came to win a lot of people, such a big stroke of people can't be done with fewer people." ”

At the very least, it would take a lot of manpower to capture these non-natives, let alone bleed them one by one.

"Mr. Chen, this is not necessarily." Li Zhiqing interjected, "After we found out about the tragic situation here, we immediately investigated all the recent police records in Liangtai City, and found that the members of the Viper Branch of the Liangtai Trial Organization have been quite active recently, and many of them have unusually a large amount of cash in their hands, which makes people feel a little abnormal, and we suspect that the Nether King is acting in collusion with them." ”

Chen Pi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, it was the trial organization again, and then he tried hard to find all the information about the trial organization in Chen Pi's mind, but he found nothing.

"Miss Li Zhiqing, can you tell me about the trial organization you know?" Chen Pi pulled over the chair casually, and sat down as he spoke, and Zhao Youcheng and the others also found a place to sit down when they saw this.

Li Zhiqing seemed to be silent for a moment in order to comb his thoughts, and said, "The origin of the trial organization can be traced back to the beginning of the century. ”

It took about a quarter of an hour for Li Zhiqing to finish speaking.

"How many people are under the jurisdiction of the Viper Branch of the Judgment Organization in Liangtai?" Chen Pi asked thoughtfully, he really didn't expect to be able to expand to such a scale.

"There are about 1,000 people directly under them, but if you count their side branches, there are more than 5,000 people." Li Zhiqing replied.

"There are more than 5,000 people, as the head snake of the land, they want to be powerful, they want people, and it should not take much effort to kidnap these newcomers." Chen Pi secretly calculated in his heart, "And with their cooperation, the Netherworld Monarch who is not familiar with life can hide in the balcony for such a long time, otherwise he would have been discovered by the Awakened and the people in the Huangquan Prefecture, and it seems that they are not small." ”

"Miss Li Zhiqing, you seem to know quite well about the poisonous snake organization in Yangcheng, don't you care about it?" Zhao Youcheng then asked.

Li Zhiqing shook his head and said: "We will never interfere in the affairs of the world, although we know the inside affairs quite thoroughly, but these materials, if they do not involve demons and monsters, we will never hand it over to the police, and the affairs of the world can only be solved by the people of the world in their own ways, which is the iron rule of the awakened." ”

Zhao Youcheng nodded as if he didn't understand, and didn't ask any more.

"Do you have an impression of the location of the trial organization branch in Liangtai City?" Chen Pi asked, he decided to go to the trial organization branch to have a look, it was too suspicious here.

"We have detailed information, and I'm sure we can find it easily." Li Zhiqing gave him an affirmative answer.

Chen Pi looked at the sky through the glass window of the factory, the sun had already set over the horizon, and the time was not early. "Let's find a place to stay first, it's not too early, you're hungry too. Once we have our fill, we'll find a way to find out the truth. Chen Pi said, "Miss Li Zhiqing, please inform the guards here, you must be more careful after nightfall, keep in touch with the headquarters of the Awakened at all times, to prevent the Netherworld Monarch from killing a horse pistol, and these corpses, you must also be more careful, you must be careful of the corpses, you all go out first, you stay for a while." ”

The last sentence was said to Cai Xueji, Cai Xueji was slightly stunned, and stayed as she said.

Li Zhiqing and Zhao Youcheng waited outside the factory for more than ten minutes, Chen Pi and Cai Xueji walked out with a cat, Li Zhiqing and the awakened people who stayed behind After a few words, the four of them left the abandoned factory together.

The fiery red sunset was setting behind the mountains, dyeing the clouds in the sky red, like a cloud of blood.

Jinhua Mountain is a small island 60 kilometers east of Liangtai City, 1 km southeast of the Balu Peninsula, with a circumference of about 26 kilometers and 445 meters above sea level.

There are several sightseeing trails around the island, some around the undulating island, others leading to the summit, and the mild climate is home to wild deer and monkeys, and visitors can enjoy the natural scenery and hiking along the different sightseeing routes.

The temple is said to have been built in the 8th century and has been revered since ancient times as the guardian deity of treasure and good luck, and it is the starting point of the hiking and hiking trails.

The residence of the person in charge of the Liangtai branch of the trial organization is on this small island, several large European-style villas are connected into one, becoming the main body of the manor, which is also the place where the senior management of the trial organization spends the summer vacation every year, and the trial organization has bought a large area of land and beach on the island, and the whole manor has all kinds of facilities, from golf courses to small racing courses, racetracks, playgrounds, and bathing beaches, and it is also open to tourists at a fixed time every week, becoming a privately owned tourist resort. Every year, hundreds of thousands of residents of Liangtai City come here to play, bringing extremely large profits to the trial organization.

In the palatial dining room in the villa, there were only fifty or sixty people seated, and the sumptuous dishes were delivered like flowing water.

"Butterfly Monarch, that tangerine peel has rushed over from Yangcheng, and he even went to our corpse storage this afternoon." The person who spoke in a vicious tone was an old man with gray hair and a twisted and dazzling scar on the left side of his face from the corner of his eye to his cheekbones, he was Yue Lingyun, the elder of the trial organization, who was the head of the Liangtai Viper Branch of the trial organization, and his youngest son was the son of the gentleman who had ill intentions towards Xu Nannan and them at the Sichuan-Chongqing Airport, and finally died under Chen Pi.

When the news came, he who had suffered the pain of losing his son in old age could be said to hate tangerine peel to the bone, hating to eat its flesh, drink its blood, and sleep on its skin.

Although Yue Lingyun endured it on the surface, in his heart, he did not forget the pain of killing his son for a moment, so when the Netherworld King looked for him, he didn't need any threats and temptations at all, Yue Lingyun happily agreed to the Netherworld King's request, not only provided them with a place to live and help them avoid the search of the Huangquan Underworld, but also used the power of the trial organization in Liangtai City to capture a large number of southern refugees for them according to the Netherworld's requirements, as for what the Netherworld King wanted these people to do, This is not something for him to worry about, he only asks the Nether King to help him avenge the murder of his son, and he doesn't care about anything else.

Sitting at the table, the Butterfly Monarch held a crystal tall glass in his right hand, which was filled with blood-red wine, and in his left hand he held a silver fork, picked up a piece of baked meat skewers that were just right, put it in his mouth, and tasted it carefully before saying: "Mr. Yue Lingyun, you don't have to worry, he definitely can't see our methods, those lackeys of Huangquan Prefecture have been led to other places by us, and now in Liangtai City, except for those awakened people of yours, there are only a few cultivators, This time we are determined to win. ”

As for Chen Pi and his party, the Butterfly Monarch didn't take it too seriously, this time, she brought a total of nearly a hundred Nether Monarchs and their ally Huangquan Evil Spirits, in her opinion, in the face of such a powerful force, the other party had no power to fight back at all. If it weren't for the fact that the people in Huangquan Prefecture always traveled in groups, it would be laborious and time-consuming to eat them, and he had not been in China for a short time, and he urgently needed a victory to show his ability to the Council of Elders, and the Butterfly Monarch would not have put Chen Pi in the first place to be exterminated.

However, the Butterfly Monarch was also a little puzzled, they had been in China for many days, but they could not get in touch with Meiling and the Bloody Hand anyway, and even the Council of Elders had lost their whereabouts, she had already sent several teams to search the entire area where the Council of Elders had been contacted for the last time, but they did not find the slightest trace, as if they had disappeared from this world.

However, this did not affect her actions this time, and she decided to teach Hua Guo a lesson that will never be forgotten, and let them understand the tragic fate of offending the noble Nether King.

Yue Lingyun nodded hatefully and said, "According to the conditions we agreed in advance, that fat man will be handed over to me to be executed in the end, and I must personally avenge the murder of the son." ”

King Butterfly nodded indifferently and said, "There is no problem with this, after we ask clearly, we will definitely hand over the living him to you, and you will definitely get your wish." "A fat man, and a monster that is not in the climate, what kind of combat power can he have, there are so many people of his own, it is not that he can be caught, but those cultivators, which makes him worry a little more.

Yue Lingyun was overjoyed, and couldn't help but raise his glass and said: "Then I thank you here in advance, I wish you a successful start tonight." ”

King Butterfly raised his hand and poured all the remaining red wine into his mouth, stood up in high spirits and said, "Now everyone goes back to their rooms to rest, and we will start our action at midnight." ”

Chen Pi and his entourage stayed in the presidential suite of the Liangtai Hotel, this five-star hotel named after the city is the highest standard hotel in Liangtai City, obviously the awakened people dare not slack off on their arrival, what makes Chen Pi a little unhappy is that Lin Xingchen and their group of judges are not in Liangtai City, only a few entourages remain here, it is understood that because the traces of the Netherworld King were found in the neighboring county, Lin Xingchen and they all chased down the vine.

After Chen Pi and his party finished eating, Li Zhiqing proposed to take everyone to the city center for a walk at will, Chen Pi and Cai Xueji had nothing to do with this, Zhao Youcheng was a child, liked to be lively, and strongly agreed, so the four of them came to the street in a hurry.

The street is bustling with pedestrians, and Chen Pi is careful, and the street is full of people with non-local accents, indicating that there are also a lot of refugees here.

"Miss Zhiqing, how many people have fled from the south to Liangtai City?" Chen Pi asked casually.

"No one knows the exact number now, but we estimate that there are at least 300,000 non-local citizens stranded in Liangtai City, and this number is still rising every day, and the local police have nothing to do about it." Li Zhiqing replied helplessly, "The vast majority of people fled from the south, which has brought great pressure to the social order here. ”

Chen Pi nodded, 300,000 people, which is a considerable number, but it is precisely because of this that the trial organization can secretly capture so many victims.

These refugees come from all over the south, and they don't know each other, and they are not familiar with the Liangtai, so they are certainly not opponents of the trial organization, and they are afraid that they will still count the money for them after being sold, and it is difficult to grasp the specific number of refugees who have poured in in a short period of time, thus creating an opportunity for the trial organization to fish in troubled waters.

Li Zhiqing looked at the people on the street who were smiling like walking corpses, and couldn't help but sigh, just when Li Zhiqing fell into the fear of the dark future, a middle-aged man with glasses suddenly ran out of a restaurant on the side of the street in a panic, only to see that he was bulging in his arms, as if he was carrying a lot of things, and behind him, four young people chased out, they were chasing and scolding loudly, it sounded as if the middle-aged man had robbed them of the food they had just bought.