Woo! ——

Woo! ——

The sound of birds in the forest woke Lu Sheng up, and when he opened his eyes again, it was the early morning of the next day, and he didn't sleep very comfortably.

When you get up, your neck seems to be stiff down.

Mei Chao and the others woke up early, and now they have finished washing their bodies, and after seeing Lu Sheng wake up, they shouted:

"It's cool in the morning, come and take a shower, and the sun will be hot at noon!"

Lu Sheng didn't know what to do today, so he just did what they told him.

When I was about to leave, the sun rose in the sky, and the temperature was indeed sweating. In the scorching summer heat, away from the greenery of the jungle, the environment on the open road is like an oven.

"Big brother, where are we going?"

After walking out of the woods, under the big sun, Lu Sheng reluctantly opened his eyes and asked Mei Chao, and soon after, Mei Chao pointed to the front with his chin:

"Well, it's almost there, just ahead."

Lu Sheng narrowed his eyebrows and looked ahead, a hundred meters away was a city, and there was a large plaque hanging on the city gate, and the plaque said [Huacheng].

But Lu Sheng was illiterate.

"What's that?"

Mei Chao probably reacted and dictated:

"It's called [Birch City], and there is none, birch, birch!"

“…… Oh. ”

Even though Lu Sheng still didn't understand, he still didn't ask anymore.

After entering Huacheng, Lu Sheng had a sense of familiarity, not because the environment here was similar to Houjiu City, but because of the atmosphere of people here, which gave Lu Sheng a ...... It's a decadent feeling.

There are quite a lot of residents, and the population is not a few, but most of the people who go out to wander the streets are bloodless and look like they haven't eaten enough for three days.

Lu Sheng knew too well what it was like to have no food, but when he looked at those listless people, he didn't feel like he was hungry.

The more you look at it, the stranger it gets.

"Big brother, why are they all unmotivated?"

Mei Chao didn't seem to care, glanced around roughly, and then walked into the town. When the residents saw Mei Chao and others coming, these residents turned their faces as if they had seen the master, and ran up happily to greet them:

"Ah, benefactor, you're finally here!"

"Benefactor, when will it start?"

"Benefactor, our family of three, I can't hold it anymore."

“……”

A group of people were suddenly surrounded by them, they were noisy, and Lu Sheng was very surprised and puzzled, what happened to them? Why are they all called benefactors to Mei Chao?

Mei Chao smiled at each other, as if she was demonstrating to Lu Sheng, and said to these fathers and fellow villagers:

"Today is the last few days, everyone works together, and endless wealth is waiting for us ahead!"

It was another way to draw cakes, and Lu Sheng listened to Mei Chao on the side how tempting it was to tell these fathers and villagers, that it was gold, silver, treasure, and big fish and meat. There are even residents who come to seek marriage and have children, and Mei Chao also takes care of it.

'What the hell, this big brother I think is really so powerful?' ’

Lu Sheng was a little suspicious, but due to his own position, he and Mei Chao seemed to have become grasshoppers on the same rope. had to learn and obey Mei Chao's arrangement:

"You guys go get busy, list all these people, and let them line up."

Mei Chao instructed, and the second child took Lu Sheng to help.

"Come, come, come! Ladies and gentlemen, everyone here today must also work hard, as much as they can out, we will all remember everyone's great kindness, and we will not treat you badly if there are results in the future~"

As he spoke, Lu Sheng was arranged to the front of the long line.

This is the very center of the town of Huacheng, and it is a square with a table and chairs in the center.

There were a few strange props on the table that had been prepared at some point, and there were several empty barrels on the ground behind them, next to the chairs, with the barrels and lids lifted aside.

The second brother brought Lu Sheng to the table, sat down on the chair himself, and greeted the first resident in front of the long queue with a pretended cordiality:

"Yo, I'm familiar with you, come on, come on, hurry up and finish smoking and then go home to recuperate."

"Hmm...... Okay, okay uh. ”

Lu Sheng looked at it in a blink of an eye, the first man to step forward, obviously his hair was not white, but he was already skinny, his eyes were black, his cheeks were sunken, his pupils were dilated, and he was completely like a walking corpse.

Remembering that Lu Sheng himself couldn't have been hungry like this for three days before......

'Finished drawing?' ’

What's to be done?

"Sixth, look at it well, study hard, and then you will be in this position!"

The second brother shouted at Lu Sheng, so frightened that Lu Sheng immediately stared at the desktop and watched the operation of the second brother.

I saw the second brother pick up a strip of cloth on the table, stretched it out and tied it to the man's outstretched arm, and the man consciously lifted the sleeves of his long coat, at this time, Lu Sheng saw a shocking scene:

There are several, more than a dozen dense scars on your man's wrists, and there are traces of blood that don't look like they're dry, I'm afraid it's not a scabbed wound just yesterday?

But before Lu Sheng could think of anything else, he saw the second brother take out a knife from his waist and slash it neatly at the man's outstretched wrist and in those dense scars!

opened his wrist and was opened......

Blood seeped out like water.

"Hurry up, don't waste it, go to the bucket and pick it up, and if it doesn't flow, you can bandage it yourself."

After the second brother opened his wrist, he hurriedly commanded, and the man also cooperated to run to one of the empty barrels and squatted down, gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, watching his blood continue to flow out and into the barrel.

Lu Sheng was still shocked for a long time before he could react, and saw that the second brother had opened another hole in the second person's hand, and also urged:

"Go and go, don't waste it on the table."

"Uh, okay, okay."

There was also a bunch of strips of cloth on the table, one tied to each person's arm, and then ......

A bloody opening in the wrist, one, one,

Another ......

Lu Sheng couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

He was deeply shocked.

After a while, the second brother, who had already cut hundreds of people, raised his arm, which was still holding a knife, wiped the sweat on his forehead, turned to Lu Sheng and said:

"Whew, what's the matter, sixth, learn it, this kind of is actually very easy, come! Try your hand. ”

This? Relaxed?

What are they doing here? Why do you want to let these ordinary people bleed?

Moreover, their inhabitants still seem to be very willing, is there any benefit, and they have to exchange their lives for the benefit?

Lu Sheng was quite hesitant, the second child saw the reluctance in Lu Sheng's heart, the second child put down the knife in his hand, leaned forward, and played 'feelings' for Lu Sheng:

"Sixth, you also finished talking about your way last night, we are almost the same experience, you ......"

As he spoke, the second brother pulled himself aside to avoid the ears of the residents.

In a corner of the square, the second brother whispered to Lu Sheng:

"You say, why do we live in this world?"

Lu Sheng said frankly:

"For food, for a full stomach."

"What else?"

Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment and added:

"And ...... For money, a lot, a lot of money. ”

The second brother had an epiphany and a cheerful face, and said happily:

"Eh, isn't that right, money, it's money~, as long as you have money, you can't buy anything, right? With money, you can eat whatever you want and buy whatever you want. ”

Lu Sheng was puzzled:

"That'...... Why let their blood go? ”

"Tsk, you don't understand this, seeing that you are our person, I'll tell you the second brother......"

The second child concisely and clearly explained to Lu Sheng the cause and process of the incident, until it developed into the current scene.

It turned out that at the beginning, it was Que Shengting's order to come down, saying that there was a reward for us to do things, and there was a lot of reward, the purpose was to save blood, ask for people's blood, the more the better, a bucket of blood, the price given to Que Shengting can be exchanged for ten taels of gold!

Maybe Lu Sheng is not clear about the concept of gold taels, after all, Lu Sheng has never really touched money, let alone spent money.

It was only with the excited expression on the second brother's face that he could barely feel the temptation of the number.

"Look, a bucket of ten taels of gold is right, a full bucket of blood requires more than 20 people a day, and these people are counted according to the number of times, one person will be bled once, and he will give two taels of silver, and he will not give out more than fifty taels of silver if he fills a bucket."

"Oh......"

"But hey! A bucket of ten taels of gold obtained from Que Shengting's side, when converted, is one hundred taels of silver! Right, half, open! You say, is it a thief who earns? ”

Having said so much, Lu Sheng didn't understand it very well.

Seeing that the second brother was so excited, Lu Sheng was also enthusiastic, so he could only face it with embarrassment:

"Hmm,...... Yes, it's very profitable. ”

Then the second child got up and patted Lu Sheng's back vigorously:

"Then what are you hesitating about, let's go! Go! Earn money, earn money! ”

After being brought back to the table and chair by the second brother, the second brother stood next to him and watched, watching Lu Sheng's operation. Lu Sheng didn't do anything harmful when he was a child, and in his impression, going to the wild to pick mushrooms when he was a child was a bad thing to destroy nature. And now it's going to ......

Lu Sheng sat down, but before he could pick up the blood-stained knife on the table, a thin and slender arm in front of the table took the initiative to pull it over.

He ...... Aren't you afraid of pain? ’

Looking up, the person holding her arms was still a woman, about the same age as herself, but she was too thin to look good. may be because of anemia, deeply sunken eye sockets, and white lips, but there is a smile on her face, quietly waiting for Lu Sheng to give her .......

'I ......'

Lu Sheng's eyes were full of melancholy, he didn't want to do this, but the second brother said that he could make money in this way......

Of course, they are all willing and voluntary, because the sect called [Que Shengting] gave money in advance, and Mei Chao and the others will also distribute money to the residents on time and on time after collecting blood every day.

Everyone accepts it, and everyone is happy to do it......

Everybody has money to take......

But Lu Sheng's hand that picked up the knife couldn't stop trembling.

Trembling and slowly moving towards the wrist full of scars, Lu Sheng forcibly persuaded himself in his heart that it was all for money, for money......

"Hey, benefactor, wait."

The woman's words interrupted Lu Sheng's movements, and Lu Sheng thought that this person had changed his mind and didn't want to blead for money. I was still thinking about a little joy, but she wasn't:

"Benefactor, you forgot to tie strips of cloth."

It's just reminding Lu Sheng that the steps must be remembered.

Boom –

Lu Sheng still waved the knife.

The blood mouth opened, and the woman suddenly gritted her teeth, endured the pain and walked away consciously, and went to the barrel that was still not full to squat and bleed. Lu Sheng didn't dare to look back at her situation again, frowning tightly, trying to blur the vision in front of him.

Cha.

Second, third......

Every time he slashed, Lu Sheng's heart stabbed as if he had been stabbed by a knife.

'For money, so rich, for money, so rich......

Lu Sheng was numbing himself.

The second child on the side still wanted to stare at him for a while, lest this newly recruited kid would rebel, but he didn't expect it to be quite good, and after getting acquainted with it, he moved very quickly, and he did it neatly.

The second child smiled with satisfaction, and then left Lu Sheng's side, no longer staying here to supervise Lu Sheng.

And Lu Sheng is still doing it diligently...... Doing these things that you think you don't have a conscience......

But he didn't have a choice.

Leave?

Running away and going somewhere else, I don't even know a word, and no one takes me with me, where can I still make money?

……

Shangguan Yuan played these strange things to the palace, hoping that the emperor could think about it. After all, the number and reason for the deaths of the people in Huacheng are too ridiculous: they died of shock due to blood loss.

In less than two days, Huacheng roughly counted that hundreds of people died.

"What does the magistrate eat, and he can't answer the reason for it?"

Ge Lao paced in the hall, angrily threw the brush in his hand out, throwing it several meters away. The ink on the tip of the pen splashed on the ground, and the scholar frowned:

"Master, do you want to see for yourself?"

Shangguan Yuan had a dark face:

"You don't need to look to guess that there are people in the sect who are restless, now it's up to the emperor to see if he can detect the clues, if his old man's brain is not good, I will go up and talk to him in person."

"Master, it's impulsive and bad."

"Or are the lives of those people worthless?"

The scholar didn't say anything more, he knew that now that the elder was angry, he must not be able to talk about Shangguan Yuan.

It is mainly up to the emperor to arrange it, it is estimated that the emperor sees that the payment of the music is the elder of the pavilion, no matter how outrageous the content is, you can roughly feel the emotions of the elder of the pavilion, and most of them will be approved.

Because......

The emperor understands the character of the elder, because there is no approved twist and turn, the elder will secretly run out.

The next day, the recital that came back approved the request of the elder, and Shangguan Yuan did not hesitate or prepare, and directly took a bundle of paper fans with him and walked out.

"Huh? Take me, sir! ”

The scholar also hurried to follow.

The two left the palace together, and soon left Wolong City.

In Wolong City, my father-in-law immediately ran to report:

"Emperor, Emperor—"

A man with a face that looks more than fifty years old, but his temperament is dignified and upright, and his spirit is unseasoning, wearing a dragon robe, a jade bead curtain hat on his head, and looking at the documents in front of the table with low eyebrows. Hearing that Gonggong Zhao stepped forward and shouted, the emperor said:

"Gone?"

Zhao Gonggong lowered his head, bent over and responded weakly:

"Back to the emperor, yes."

The emperor raised his eyes, and his eyes swept over Zhao Gong to look outside the gate of the palace, the magnificent stone piers of the crested ibis, row by row, row by row. Heavily guarded, layer by layer.

His eyebrows and eyes were clear, clear and clear, but there was a bit of sadness in his eyes:

"The matter of Huacheng, the widow has had it, and it is a dereliction of duty for the widow to let the little pavilion work for it, whether it is good to go, but it is also good."

After that, he sighed slightly.

Gonggong Zhao waited in the hall, and the emperor had no other important matters, so he just raised his hand and gave up:

"Let's go down."

"The emperor's dragon is healthy, and the slave has retired."

The world does not listen to the announcement, even if it is the emperor, what can it do?

The situation on the side of Hou Jiucheng, the emperor often thinks of ways to change it, but it seems that it is just something to use, or someone may be obstructing it. Roughly known, but there is no evidence to a trumped-up crime?

Hehe, it's easy to say, it's also a big sect, how can there be those easy things.

I don't know if Xiaoge can calm down......

After Shangguan Yuan left Wolong City, he asked the scholar to take a carriage, and he flew away alone.

"Master, where do we meet?"

Shangguan Yuan replied:

"Wait for me there in Birch City."

After that, he walked away, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Hearing what Elder Ge said, I'm afraid that he wouldn't be alone to deal with something first. The boy was worried, but in this case, he really couldn't guess where the master would go.

Skimming over Huacheng, Shangguan Yuan flew to the Heihe River basin near the easternmost part of the Qiujin Continent.

His half-step realm can already easily fly over the Black River without being hindered by the terrain. However, the human race and the demon race have an agreement, and the Fragment Continent and the Wasteland Continent are separated by the Black River, and the two races do not offend each other.

If the Terrans who originally lived on the wasteland continent intentionally infringed on the life of the demon race, they would be abandoned and exiled to the Fragment Continent.

This was signed thousands of years ago when the Great Demon was fateful.

So far, the two communities have complied with it, and there has been no uncontrollable situation.

But now, it seems that some ants feel that this fragmented continent is hot, and they can't stand still......

After flying to the place, now it is the sect not far from the side of the Black River: [Que Shengting].

The sect of Que Shengting was located on flat land, with no hills or basins around, and the boundaries of their sect were clearly marked by a ring of walls. The buildings in the city wall are actually no different from ordinary towns, and the overall area occupied is half a circle larger than that of Nankeng City.

Hovering high in the sky, Shangguan Yuan's divine consciousness amplified, and a sentence resounded in the sky, so that everyone in Que Shengting knew it:

"Que Lao'er, come out!"

Shangguan Yuan was originally a wandering monk living on the wasteland continent, with no sect support and no background. After the birth of the Fragment Continent, Shangguan Yuan came here to live voluntarily, and the picture was a comfortable and pure one.

But now, someone is trying to break this piece of purity, which makes Shangguan Yuan very unhappy.

"Who's coming?"

There was also a monk in the sect who was shouting at Shangguan Yuan, and the court master of Que Shengting dared not come out to see him as soon as possible, which made Shangguan Yuan's heart a little angry.

"Little man, it's your turn to bark under the eyes of the old man in this pavilion?"

With his palms facing down, Shangguan Yuan's condensed spiritual power burst into a sword shuttle.

Shout!! ——

As fast as an arrow from a string, a white light fell in an instant, and the unknown elder in the sect was silent again.

Shangguan Yuan shouted again angrily:

"Que Lao'er, if you don't come out again, the elder of this pavilion will step on your court sect!"