Chapter 1: Did you hear about it?
"Did you hear that? Zhenshui County Yamen has a new official again! ”
"There are so many people in this world who are not afraid of death in order to be officials, and four of the county commanders of Zhenshui County have died, and there are still people who dare to come?"
"I heard that the county order that came back here is called Gao Chongyue, and there are mountains and mountains in the name, and it is all soil! Guaranteed to be able to hold the river. ”
"There's a fart in the river? Can the soil overcome the water, can it overcome the things in the water? ”
"That is, the county order last time was called Wang Huchen, Jin Ming, belonging to the tiger, surnamed Wang, or a military attaché, the number of lives that are inviolable to all evils, and it will be able to shock the scene if it is placed elsewhere. How was it after coming to Zhenshui County? In the end, I didn't even find the corpse in the capital......"
"You said that so many people died one after another in Zhenshui County, you were really ......"
"Shut up, it's going to be dark, you want to die when you mention that!"
"Don't say it, it's coming, it's coming, it's still with the armor soldiers, it seems to be a bit of a doorway."
"Don't look at it, let's go! I can't walk after dark! ”
Although Gao Chongyue is a military attaché, he is used to reading at night, and he has not changed for several years. After the third watch, Gao Chongyue was about to close the book, but the dim candlelight in the room suddenly turned a miserable green.
Green flames more than half a foot high appeared on the thin butter wax of the arm, and the candle flames close to the entire yamen turned into faint green light one after another, and even the two dead wind lamps at the yamen turned into two green lights, which at first glance looked like a vicious wolf opening its bloodthirsty pupils in the dark night. The entire yamen instantly became cold and penetrating in the miserable green light and shadow.
"Green Fire Haunted!" Gao Chongyue thought of the words of the elders, and was also shocked into a cold sweat, and instinctively pressed the sword on the table.
"Your Excellency...... My lord...... There is an anomaly in the river channel. The soldier's face glowed blue in the half-light and half-darkness, and there was not a trace of blood in sight.
"Go out and have a look." Gao Chongyue drew his sword and strode out of the study, leading two hundred soldiers straight to the river beach.
It didn't take long for the sound of the water to reach their ears, and the further they went, the louder the water became, until it turned into a deafening cow's roar.
"My lord, the river is churning, I'm afraid it's going to make trouble, right?"
"It's nonsense, it's almost late autumn now, and the snake has long been dormant, how can it make trouble?" Although Gao Chongyue reprimanded his subordinates, he also saw the bubbles in the entire river surging, and the sound of water continued. Obviously, there is some behemoth about to break through the water, is it really Jiaolong who is frightened?
Just a moment later, a thrilling spectacle appeared in the river.
Suddenly, a five-foot diameter water column rushed straight into the sky, and after Bai Lian broke through the air for more than ten zhang, he suddenly spread out and fell in all directions, and the river was immediately like an iron pot of boiling water, and the bubbles could be seen everywhere. Then, the water column shot into the air from all over the place one after another, and the loud sound of falling shook the mountain. For a while, the clouds in the sky were dark and the wind was vicious, and the sky seemed to be depressed a few feet out of thin air. The sergeants around him only felt a tightness in their chests, and the Venus flashed in front of them.
"Ah......" only to hear a burst of exclamation, more than a dozen people suddenly involuntarily kicked their feet off the ground and flew out into the air. Instantly disappeared into a dark cloud, and then screams were frequent, and blood rained down. Weapons that were out of shape, clothes with blood on them, and limbs that had been crushed by something fell all over the sky.
Another whirlwind swept against the ground and the sky, blowing the elite soldiers in iron armor to the ground, and some people threw their weapons to the trees around them to fight against the wind. Some people simply lay on the ground and stick their hands into the soil to stabilize their bodies.
The river stirred up monstrous waves in the wind, and a black shadow with countless tentacles appeared in the river, and it was about to break through the water if you wanted to see it.
Gao Chongyue inserted his sword into the ground to stabilize his body: "Archers prepare!" ”
A few master guards had just put the armor-piercing arrows with spirit talismans on the bowstrings. I only felt that there was a darkness on my head, and the bright moon was instantly covered by dark clouds, and hundreds of soldiers fell into the endless night, this sudden darkness seemed to herald the arrival of the end of the world, and it made people full of despair for a moment.
"The hour has come, ready for execution." The lifeless voice fluttered in the dark night, as if it was rushing to the sky and as if it was exploding in people's ears, and the short eight words were like eight death knells striking heavily on the sergeant's heart, "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
There were three loud noises in the river one after another, and a torture platform that spread for ten miles slowly rose from the churning river. Cold, eeriely suspended in the roaring water.
One by one, the gallows were lined with barbed ropes, swaying in the wind empty. It was like a grimace with a smirk, floating in front of the eyes of those sergeants.
"What's going on?"
"The torture table, it is the torture table, and the legend of the town water execution platform is true!"
Before those sergeants had time to panic or fear, they felt a sharp pain in their shoulders, and subconsciously saw the clear fingerprints of the five hands, which were sinking inch by inch into the shoulder armor made of fine iron. The huge force that came out of thin air pressed more than 100 elite soldiers of the Iron Guard to their knees on the river beach.
More than 100 sergeants kneeling on the river beach from the south or north all raised their hands behind their backs, their heads pressed to the ground, their hair in a straight bun in the air, and their mouths slowly bulged as if they had been stuffed with something.
Suddenly, a volley of nooses flew into the air and wrapped around the sergeant's neck, and he suddenly lifted up and hung them alive. Gao Chongyue, the only one who was not killed, was full of legs and feet kicking in the air, and gradually those legs and feet who were looking for a fulcrum in vain slowly loosened, and his toes hung down in the air, looking up along the soles of his feet, leaving only his tongue sticking out of his mouth, his face was iron-skinned, and his eyes were round. The terrible thing is that the corners of the mouths of those lifeless dead people seem to twitch up and down, as if they are cursing him as a leader frequently.
"Where is the demon ......" Gao Chongyue roared hoarsely with the horizontal sword in his hand: "He Fang demon has not yet appeared quickly. ”
The corpse that had not moved, but suddenly it was like a hanging top in the air with the noose, the noose spun tighter and tighter, and the soldier's neck bone was broken, and the dense sound of broken bones rose and fell in all directions of Gao Chongyue, and a chill penetrated from his scalp to his heart and lungs.
Gao Chongyue turned his sword into a ball of blue light to protect his body, and shouted frantically: "Come out, come out for me." This official is a six-rank military attache of the imperial court, with the luck of the imperial dynasty, and all evils will not invade, I am not afraid of you, I am not afraid of you-"
Five gallows surrounded Gao Chongyue in the middle and rotated at high speed, and the five nooses seemed to be raising flags in the wind, and they were connected in a white circle. It's like looking for his flaws, and it's like consuming his internal strength.
The long sword in Gao Chongyue's hand gradually danced slower and slower, and his miserable white face soaked in sweat also revealed from the sword light. Suddenly, a noose spun out, and in the gap between the long sword dances, it bypassed the sword body and wrapped around Gao Chongyue's sword-holding wrist, and then spun rapidly, twisting one of his arms.
"Ahh
The noose that wrapped around his wrist suddenly retracted and pulled Gao Chongyue's body up in the air, and the other five nooses followed and broke through the air, covering Gao Chongyue's limbs and neck respectively. The burly Gao Chongyue was straightened into a "big" character in the air, and violently pulled it in five directions.
"Whew-"
With a loud tearing sound, a torso, without limbs and a head, was tossed into the air with the force of the noose, and rolled down with a splattered stream of blood. The five nooses slowly fell, placing Gao Chongyue's limbs and head in a position of one foot of Juli's torso according to their original positions.
"After the execution, the family collects the body!" Strange voices came out of thin air and disappeared.
The ropes on the first gallows slowly loosened, and the corpses that had lost their restraints fell to the ground with a "snap", but they still maintained the posture of lying prone in the river sand with their hands behind their backs before they died. Then the two hundred hanged sergeants were lowered one by one, and the dark torture platform slowly sank to the bottom of the river.
The Zhenshui River has become calm again.