Chapter 20, Conspiracy
Northwest of Hanjiang County, Hejiazhuang.
A horseback team stopped, and Zhou Chuan, who was the leader, looked at the demon hunting plate and said in a deep voice: "This demon is here, everyone get off the horse and follow me in to subdue the demon and kill the demon." ”
"This is Hejiazhuang, and the villagers around here all make a living from hunting." Li Xianling introduced.
Hejiazhuang is a very ordinary village, similar to the countless large and small villages around Hanjiang County.
"It doesn't matter, our purpose is to kill demons." Zhou Chuan waved his hand and said impatiently.
"Yes, this kind of demon slaying action, we don't say it a hundred times, the size has also gone through more than ten or twenty times, and we have long been familiar with it, and we don't care about inferior demons." Sun Zhiyuan also didn't care.
Hearing this, Li County's order had no choice but to give up, the responsibility of the Demon Slaying Division is to guard the demons in the world, and the situation in the village belongs to the administrative category, so if they don't like to hear it, they won't talk about it.
Xing Meng glanced at Zhou Chuan and the others, frowning slightly, it was not a good thing to face the demons so contemptible.
Demons are ferocious, and the action of killing demons belongs to your life-and-death battle, and it will kill people! But the two of them are just like those who travel on a business trip, without the slightest vigilance.
After entering the village, a few people walked along the village road, and gradually there were mud houses with thatched roofs on the side of the road.
A few children play a game of sandbag throwing in an open field.
The old men gathered together, smoking dry cigarettes, chatting about idle days.
A few old women whispered while holding the soles of their shoes, discussing whose man's face was not very good, and he must have done too much at night.
"Wow, what a tall horse, mother, you see someone is coming." A little girl pointed to a few people and clapped her hands excitedly.
"Niu Niu, don't mention!" Seeing this, a well-proportioned and sturdy woman looked shocked, and hurriedly pressed down the little girl's fingers, trembling all over.
The days are not peaceful, whether it is the bandits outside the city or the powerful people in the city, they cannot afford to provoke.
The bandits outside the city will come down from time to time to "collect rent", that is, rob, and if they are annoyed, they will not have a good life.
The government in the city regularly came down to collect rent, although it was not a robbery, but if it did not pay the full amount, it would also be severely punished, and even go to prison.
Whoever comes, it's not a good thing. annoyed these big people, was whipped a few times, the skin was opened, and he couldn't afford medicine to treat it, so he could only wait for death! This kind of thing had happened in the village before, and women didn't dare to be careless.
"Hey, we are from the county government, your village chief called out, we have something to ask." Behind the Li County Commander, a government official shouted loudly.
When several villagers heard this, they hurriedly ran to call the village chief. After a while, a thin old man ran over, hugged his fists and said, "Xiaomin is the village chief of this Hejiazhuang, I don't know how many adults are?" ”
"Old village chief, I am the county magistrate of Hanjiang County, these three are the adults from the Demon Slaying Division, to help us kill demons in the county, this time I came here, we found out the news, there are demons hidden in Hejiazhuang." Li Xianling explained.
When the old man heard this, his whole body suddenly became visibly nervous, and he said in a trembling voice: "Demon...... Came to Hejiazhuang? ”
What is more terrible than the robbery of corrupt officials and thieves must be the attack of demons and evil spirits!
At least the first two will still be alive, as long as there is money. The latter is desperate for money, and there is no one to live anywhere.
"Don't be nervous, with the presence of the Lord of the Demon Slaying Division, the demons will definitely be corrected on the spot." Li Xianling said with a smile.
"Please also ask Lord Demon Slayer to take action!" The old man quickly fell to his knees and pleaded.
When the other villagers saw it, they also knelt down and said in a loud voice: "Please take action!" ”
"Okay, you can gather everyone in the village now." Zhou Chuan commanded.
The old man stood up tremblingly and greeted a few men beside him, and several of them quickly ran to the whole village, calling the villagers from house to house.
Hejiazhuang is not big, about 70 households, about 200 people. It didn't take long for everyone to come together.
"My lord, everyone in the village has arrived." After counting the number of people, the old man said in a trembling voice.
Xing Meng looked at Zhou Chuan's actions, and was a little curious about what method he wanted to use to gather everyone here to discover the demons.
"Good!" Zhou Chuan nodded, then took out a sharp knife and threw it on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone come over in turn, pick up the knife and cut the arm, if it is a normal human being, the blood that will flow out naturally, if not, it will not be human blood!" ”
The villagers looked at the sharp knives, a little afraid, and cut themselves with knives, and few people could do it.
Xing Meng was stunned, he didn't expect Zhou Chuan to use this method. Of course, this method is effective, but it is a bit unfriendly to many elderly people and children.
They have been slashed with sharp knives, have a weak ability to recover, and can be life-threatening if they are reinfected with a virus such as tetanus.
"Why, you catch the demons, let us hurt ourselves, what do you mean?" A middle-aged man looked unhappy and protested.
"Brother Zhou, don't we have any other way to judge, this method will cause senseless damage, and if there are no demons, so many people will cut their flesh and bleed together, but it will attract demons." Chen Peng persuaded.
"Hehe, Chen Peng, you are a woman's kindness, and aren't we here to draw out demons?" Zhou Chuan sneered.
"However, this is still ......," Chen Peng continued.
"Okay, Chen Peng, don't forget that this trip is my team leader, although we are colleagues, but you don't forget the priority!" Zhou Chuan said coldly.
Immediately, he looked at the villagers.
"Hmph, if you don't use a knife to scratch, then you will be directly judged as a demon and correct the Fa on the spot."
Zhou Chuan snorted coldly, and a murderous intent appeared on his face.
"We are not demons, you can't bend into a move," the middle-aged man shouted angrily......
Laugh at!
He stretched out his hand and pushed, and a powerful force was covering the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man seemed to be tightly bound by a burnt red barbed wire, and his body made a sneering sound, exuding a burst of burning smell.
Boom!
His body was restrained by a powerful force, and it was instantly split into pieces of flesh the size of a palm.
The villagers were shocked, their eyes were terrified, and they looked at Zhou Chuan as if they were looking at a demon.
The people of the county government, including Li County Order, were all dissatisfied with this, or had fear and disgust in their eyes, but they were not surprised and did not say anything.
Obviously, the Demon Slayer Division used this method often to kill demons before.
"Hey!" Chen Peng sighed secretly, didn't say much, and his face was silent.
Seeing this, Xing Meng was unhappy, but he didn't say anything.
It's not that he agrees with this behavior, it's that he doesn't have the strength to stop it.
But in my heart, I already have an initial impression of the Demon Slayer.
The weak eat the strong, and the hierarchy is strict.
Strength is respected!
In the eyes of the high-ranking demon slayers, it is already a special gift for them to slay demons and eliminate demons, and as for the lives of lowly villagers, they are not in the scope of their consideration at all.
"My lord, let's row, we'll row." The village chief sighed deeply, took the lead in picking up the knife and slashed at his arm, and suddenly, blood flowed profusely.
The others also took up knives and slashed their arms one by one, dripping with blood.
Two hundred people, without exception, were all red and human blood.
"Hey, this demon is cunning, he didn't possess these people, and he thought he could just force out the demon." Zhou Chuan was a little sorry.
"Yes, but the demon hunting disk shows that the demons are around here, and the most populous place is this Hejiazhuang, they are not possessed, where are the demons hiding?" Sun Zhiyuan frowned and asked suspiciously.
At this moment, the blood flowing from the arms of the villagers dripped down their fingertips to the ground, slowly converging into a small river, gathering in the same direction.
Seeing this, Zhou Chuan's face changed, and he shouted loudly: "Demon! Quickly press down on the wound and don't let the blood drip to the ground. ”
But it's too late!
The villagers hurriedly moved their hands and covered their wounds with their palms, trying to stop the blood from flowing out, but they were shocked to find that their blood seemed to be pulled out of their bodies by some kind of force, and they wanted to stop it, but they couldn't do it at all!
"Mother, I hurt, I hurt ......" a little girl cried, her face turned pale with fright, and she watched her blood be drained from her body uncontrollably.
But her mother couldn't say anything to comfort her, and the blood from her mother's wound was also drawn, and her limbs spasmed, and she couldn't open her mouth to speak.
Within a few moments, the little girl was drained of blood and shriveled all over, as if she had been dried in an oven.
The crying lasted only a dozen seconds before it stopped.
"Brother Zhou, the situation is not good!" Sun Zhiyuan said in a deep voice.
"Yes, it's a trap, a trap set by demons!" Zhou Chuan's face was gloomy as if he could squeeze out the water, and he hissed: "I didn't expect this demon to be so treacherous!" ”
"The demon did not possess any of the villagers, it took advantage of the opportunity for us to verify the identity of the villagers, and pulled the blood, absorbed it, and completed its blood sacrifice! Now, where we are now, the formation has been arranged by the demons! ”
As soon as the words fell, a black and gloomy cold wind swept in, and I saw a black demon shadow condensed in mid-air, swooping down towards everyone.