Volume 2 Riding the Wind Chapter 109 Checking People with Demons
"So-so!!"
Yu Lechuan heard Zhang Mu comment on Mi Muyun like this, Rao has a nine-fold cultivation of Qi training, and he was almost out of breath when he was blocked!
With a distressed look, he pointed at Zhang Mu and said.
"How dare Envoy Zhang say that Princess Zhengjun looks average?!"
Zhang Mu looked at Yu Lechuan's angry reaction, and felt like he couldn't cry or laugh for a while, and couldn't help but have an absurd idea in his heart, could it be that Mi Muyun is the top "idol" in Chengzhou?
I was afraid that if I continued to talk nonsense, it would stimulate Yu Lechuan's fragile mind even more, so I had to change my words.
"Yu Tingling is a little calm, I was too far away to see it clearly, and I now retract the sentence just now."
Yu Lechuan let out a long breath and said.
"It's right for Shangenvoy Zhang to do this, how can Princess Zhengjun be ordinary!"
At this time, Yu Shuang walked over, saw Yu Lechuan's face was slightly red, and speculated curiously.
"Why is my brother's face red? Did you quarrel with Zhang Gongzi? ”
When Zhang Mu heard this, he smiled slightly, and said in his heart, "In a sense, it can be regarded as a quarrel."
After all, he just "denigrated" a top-notch "idol" in front of a fanatical fan!
When Yu Lechuan heard Yu Shuang's inquiry, a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, and he pretended to cough and said.
"No, I'm choking on water."
In order not to let Yu Shuang ask, he quickly asked again.
"Is the food ready?"
"It's all right!" Yu Shuang bowed his head and said to Zhang Mu: "Zhang Gongzi, come over and taste my craftsmanship!" ”
"I didn't expect to be able to eat two meals of food in one day." Zhang Mu laughed and said, "I can't wait to talk about it." ”
Yu Lechuan and Yu Shuang laughed heartily when they heard this, and then the three of them went to the back hall together.
After the three of them enjoyed the delicacies, Yu Lechuan invited Zhang Mu to stay in the pavilion on the grounds that it was late.
The next day dawned.
Zhang Mu came to the main hall of the pavilion to find Yu Lechuan and said, "Yu Tingling, Zhang has to visit other towns, so don't go first." ”
"Envoy Zhang has something important to do, and it's not good to keep the last order, I just want to ask more, do you need the last order to accompany you?"
Yu Lechuan usually behaves in a proper manner, has a clear attitude, and attaches great importance to etiquette, and after knowing Zhang Mu's true identity, he is treated with courtesy.
Zhang Mu also persuaded Yu Lechuan not to be too restrained because of his identity, but Yu Lechuan blocked him under the pretext of distinguishing between public and private, so Zhang Mu could only let him.
"No, you don't." Zhang Mu rejected Yu Lechuan's proposal and said: "There are too many people, but it looks eye-catching, which is not conducive to verification, and I am enough for this matter alone." ”
"In that case, then there won't be many envoys left in the last order." Yu Lechuan nodded and said: "If the matter of verification needs the assistance of the last order, Zhang Shang's envoy can come to Beishan Town at any time to pass on the last order!" ”
Zhang Mu bowed his head, and after instructing Yu Lechuan not to reveal his identity for the time being, he left Beishan Town.
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After Zhang Mu left Beishan Town, he spent two days visiting several other towns where corpses and demons were infested.
But he only learned about the general situation, and did not look for the lair of the local corpse demon.
The reason is that he plans to meet Tao Qi, the county governor of Heishi County, first, and when his identity is revealed, he will let Tao Qi remove these corpse demons with him, during which he can observe this person's temperament and see if these corpse demons are related to him, so as to find out whether Tao Qi's greed for ink spirit stones is true or false.
Blackstone County.
The various buildings in the city are not much different from the towns on the side of Qingzhou, Pingzhou and Taizhou, all of which are bluestone streets that crisscross the east and west, north and south, inns, tea houses, cloth shops, and wine shops stand on both sides, and cart vendors are hawking on the street.
Zhang Mu walked all the way from the street, looking at the faces of the pedestrians around him with ordinary expressions. Although it is not full of smiles, there is no sadness, and there is no scene of the people's poor life as mentioned in the secret report.
I can't help but think that someone may really be framing Tao Qi.
After observing the time for half a ring, he finally came to an old county gate.
When the four county guards of the Qi Refining Realm saw Zhang Mu coming, they found that Zhang Mu's qi was extremely profound, and he was obviously not a Qi Refining Realm cultivator.
So, one of the guards stepped forward and said politely.
"This real person, I don't know why he came to my Heishi County Office?"
Zhang Mu took out a token representing the patrol function from the jade ring of the storage, identified himself and said.
"I'm here to check some matters, and I'm going to pass on your county magistrate."
After the four county guards recognized the token, their expressions were all grim, and they immediately saluted Zhang Mu and said in unison.
"I've seen the Patrol Envoy!"
"No courtesy." Zhang Mu waved his hand to let a few people get up, and said, "Can the county executive Tao Qi be in the yazhong?" ”
Another guard answered: "The county deacon is in the yazhong at the moment, and the patrol envoy will go to the yazhong with me to rest for a while, and I will go to the county deacon." ”
Zhang Mu's head, under the guidance of this guard, came to the county yazheng hall.
Half a moment passed.
The county magistrate of Heishi County came to the main hall, and his person was an old man with a quiet expression and a thin body.
Zhang Mu glanced at it and felt that Tao Qi was as he guessed, a person who did not care about mundane things and was obsessed with cultivation.
At this time, Tao Qi came to Zhang Mu, took his hand and saluted, and said lightly.
"The county magistrate of Heishi County has seen the patrol envoy."
Zhang Mu got up and returned the salute and said, "Tao County is polite. ”
"Envoy, please take a seat." Tao Qi invited Zhang Mu to continue to sit down, sat opposite him, and said, "Why did the envoy come to find the old man?" ”
Zhang Mu said directly to the point: "I received a secret report here, saying that you used your position as the county executive to be greedy for ink and handed over the spirit stone, and also made the people here unhappy, I hereby come to check." ”
Tao Qi sighed lightly and said, "The old man is diligent here, and he has never done anything beyond the norm, how can anyone frame me?" ”
Zhang Mu observed Tao Qi's face and found that this person did not look like a corrupt person, but he still had to check it in detail, and said: "Yes or no, it still needs to be verified." ”
"Dare to ask the envoy how to verify?" Tao Qi asked.
"You first send someone to bring the account books of the spirit stones that have been mined in Heishi County in recent years, and I will check them first."
Zhang Mu planned to make a simple judgment through the accounts first.
Tao Qi ordered someone to bring the account book, Zhang Mu immediately looked through it, and found that the annual output of spirit stones in Heishi County did not change much and did not change much, but the output suddenly decreased after the appearance of the corpse demon.
Seeing this, Zhang Mu asked Tao Qi.
"The Spirit Stone Mine Cave here is frequently attacked by corpse demons, do you know?"
When Tao Qi heard the word corpse demon, he frowned and said: "The old man knows it, I heard that the envoy called those monsters corpse demons in his words, can the envoy know something about those monsters?" ”
"I know a little bit about it." Zhang Mu said.
Tao Qi's eyes opened slightly, and said, "Is there a way for the envoy to find these monsters and corpse demons to hide?" ”
Zhang Mu deliberately mentioned the corpse demon, but he actually wanted to see Tao Qi's reaction.
At this time, seeing that Tao Qi was very concerned about how to find these corpse demons, he secretly noticed the change in the expression on Tao Qi's face and said.
"If these corpses are the same as the ones I've seen before, it shouldn't be difficult to find."
Tao Qi listened, and said with a slightly anxious expression on his face.
"Since the envoy knows how to find these corpse demons, can you help the old man get rid of these banes?"
Zhang Mu also wanted to get rid of the corpse demons as soon as possible when he saw Tao Qi's reaction, on the surface, it seemed to belong to the category of normal reactions, and he couldn't conclude for a while whether Tao Qi had anything to do with these corpse demons.
After a moment of silence, he decided to get rid of these corpse demons first, and then talk about the follow-up, so he answered.
"Yes."
Seeing that Zhang Mu agreed, Tao Qi immediately shouted at a young man outside the door who was refining qi ninefold.
"Wang Qi, you go and gather a team of people and stand by in the yazhong at any time."
Then he said to Zhang Mu.
"Let's set off immediately, I wonder if the envoy has any objections?"
"Anytime you go." Zhang Mu said.
After a while.
Outside the door of the main hall, more than a dozen qi refining guards stood side by side, and the guards ordered Wang Qi to enter the main hall, first bowing slightly to Zhang Mu and saying.
"I've seen the Patrol Envoy."
Then he said to Tao Qi.
"Qiqi County Deacon, the guards have been assembled."
Tao Qi nodded, led Zhang Mu out of the main hall, and said to more than a dozen qi refining guards.
"The guards obey the order, now you set out with your own deacon to exterminate those troubled corpse demons"
The guards replied, "Yes."
Immediately, they sacrificed their flying spirit weapons and rose into the air.
Zhang Mu and Tao Qi's cultivation was above Qi refining, and they flew directly to the front of the guards, and led everyone to Hugang Town, where corpse demons attacked the most.
After flying away for a long time, in the middle of the Lingshi Mine Cave in Hugang Town, Tao Qi said to Zhang Mu.
"Please also ask the envoy to show the way."
Zhang Mu glanced at the low ridge below, tried to sense the traces of blood qi around him, and found that the chaos was extremely chaotic, so he said.
"All of us are so angry that it's hard to tell the traces of the corpse demon coming and going for a while."
"Please take the guards to stop aside, and when I find the corpse demon lair here, I will notify you to go and exterminate it."
Tao Qi nodded, and led the guards to the side of the mountain rock.
Zhang Mu also fell around the Lingshi Mine Cave and began to use the "Thousand Miles Blood Shadow Technique" to distinguish the traces of qi and blood left by the corpse demon here.
Then, Zhang Mu followed the guidance of these traces and flew into the dense mountain forest.
Due to the large number of corpse demons here, the traces of qi and blood are very obvious.
It only took Zhang Mu half a ring to find their hiding place, a flat grotto covered under broken trees and dead branches.
Zhang Mu carefully went in to investigate, and found that there were more than 200 corpse demons hidden here, as well as two iron-smelting corpse demons.
Zhang Mu realized that it was not difficult to destroy these corpse demons with his current strength, but his purpose at this time was mainly to test Tao Qi, so after confirming it, he returned to the spirit stone mine cave in Hugang Town.
Tao Qi saw Zhang Mu returning, and stepped forward to say.
"Envoy, have you found the lair of the corpse demon?"
Zhang Mu bowed his head and said.
"I have found it, Tao County Deacon is now bringing people with me to destroy these scourges together."
Tao Qi beckoned the guards to follow behind Zhang Mu and flew towards the cave where the corpse demon was hiding.