Qin Zheng stood on the edge of Qiandao Lake, looked at the people who were getting closer and closer, and remembered Yifan's request to come to look for him a few days ago, to go to Tongling City to check, consciously leak the news of the existence of Mo Ghosts, and lure the snake out of the cave.

"Senior brother!" Qin Yifan took a few steps over, "How is it?"

"I have already sent the news, and in two or three days, there should be a result," Qin Zheng replied, nodding to the carefree people who came from behind, "You don't have to be too anxious, wait and see." ”

"That's good," Qin Yifan nodded and looked around, "There are quite a lot of people coming this time!"

"Well, the Liang family is also here," Qin Zheng whispered, looked at the location of the boundary entrance, and walked over to three people, the leader of the cultivation is the highest, the late stage of Jindan, and the two people who followed behind him are in the middle of Jindan, "The front is Liang Feng, no accident, when he is promoted to Yuanying, he will be the next city lord." ”

"Young Pavilion Master Qin, I'm really sorry to come to salute you for so long," Liang Feng came over and saluted, "I went to travel outside, and I just came back." ”

"The young pavilion master doesn't dare to be it, just call me Qin Zheng," Qin Zheng returned the salute.

"Daoyou Qin Zheng, this is..." Liang Feng had already investigated the identities of these people, but he still pretended not to know, and asked suspiciously.

"Qin Yifan," Qin Zheng pointed to Qin Yifan beside him and said, and then looked at the carefree people not far away, "Over there are Shen Kongming, Huo Zijun, Zhen Hao, Lin Qi and Wu Yi," After speaking, he turned around, "This is Liang Feng's fellow Daoist of the Liang family in Tongling City." ”

The two sides greeted each other, and Liang Feng had a smile on his face, "It turned out to be a free Taoist friend, but I didn't expect to meet here." ”

Qin Yifan didn't speak, only nodded.

"This phantom has appeared for a few months, and I still don't know why!" Liang Feng didn't care, and said casually, "More and more people are attracted to it. ”

"Yes," Qin Zheng said casually, glancing up at the moon, "It's almost time." ”

Mo Ghost has been standing in the middle of several people, did not make a sound, heard his words and raised his head, the moon was almost directly above, and at this time, the number of monks around had also reached its peak, and many monks in Tongling City rushed over today.

"Something is wrong. ”

Qin Zheng discovered the abnormality at the first time, the sky was clear today, there was no dark cloud in the sky, and it stands to reason that the phantom should have appeared.

"Ahem, yes, why hasn't it appeared yet?" Qin Yifan was expressionless, pretending to be dignified, but unconsciously licked his lips, revealing a trace of emotion, "Today's weather is good." ”

As time passed, the wind and waves on Qiandao Lake were calm, and the surrounding monks gradually became noisy.

"Senior brother, what's going on?" Although Qin Yifan was talking to Qin Zheng, he didn't look at him, he kept staring at the lake, afraid that Qin Zheng would see something, "It's all this time, why is there no phantom yet?"

"I don't know," Qin Zheng's attention was all on the phantom, and he didn't notice this abnormality of Qin Yifan, "I'll go over and take a look." ”

"Huh?" Qin Yifan looked at him and glanced back at Mo Ghost.

"Let's go over too," it was Huo Zijun who spoke, and walked directly in the direction of Qiandao Lake, and several people reacted quickly and followed behind him.

There are dozens of monks here, looking on the lake for a whole night, but the soul lamp was taken away by Mo Ghost, naturally there will be no trace here, and after dawn, the crowd gradually dispersed.

Qin Zheng returned to his room, frowning slightly, unable to understand why the phantom suddenly disappeared.

"Young Pavilion Master. ”

Hearing this voice, Qin Zheng turned around, it was the guard sent by the sect to him, Wen Qing, who asked him to take his token a few days ago and go to several towns in the mortal realm to get a list of mortals in the past fifty years, which was also what Qin Yifan was looking for, more precisely, for Mo Ghost Ghost.

"Did you get the thing?"

"Naturally," Wen Qing untied a bag from his waist, his hand paused slightly, and his eyes flickered for a moment, but Qin Zheng was thinking about things at this time and didn't notice it, "Oh, Young Pavilion Master, I heard that the phantom on Qiandao Lake didn't appear last night?"

"Hmm," Qin Zheng nodded, took the bag, glanced at it casually, and then frowned even tighter, and said in a cold voice, "This is what you found?"

The inside of the bag is not a jade slip, but a yellow paper, densely stuffed inside, listed up to estimate a few people tall, each piece of paper has a name written on it, but there is no distinction between the living and the dead, it seems, I don't know how troublesome it is.

"Young Pavilion Master, you are in a hurry, so I didn't go to find them one by one, but ordered each town to copy the list together..." Wen Qing lowered her head, her eyes flickering.

Qin Zheng didn't speak, threw the brocade bag on his head, and dropped a few pieces of yellow paper.

"The young pavilion master is angry!" Wen Qing knelt on the ground, with a panic in his heart, but when he thought of the spirit stone promised by the Liang family, his heart was crossed, "I thought about taking it back and sorting it out, but I came to see you first, and I didn't have time yet." ”

"So, isn't it mine?" Qin Zheng laughed angrily, but the more at this time, the calmer his mind became.

"That's not what my subordinates meant, and I ask the young pavilion master to give me a few days, and I will sort it out completely," Wen Qing arched his hand and buried his head in the crook of his arm, "There are more than thirty large and small cities in the Tongling mortal realm, and the number of people is too much!"

Qin Zheng squinted his eyes, looked at him coldly, and snapped his fingers, "Send him back to Tianji Pavilion and interrogate him properly." ”

"Young Pavilion Master!" Wen Qing raised his head suddenly, his heart beating hard, "What do you mean by this? Did I do anything wrong? Even if this thing is not done this time, it will not send me back to Tianji Pavilion!"

"Hmph, do you still need a reason for me to deal with you?" Qin Zheng was very different from the past at this time.

Wen Qingleng was there, he didn't seem to expect Qin Zheng to say such a thing, he dared to agree to the Liang family dragging this matter, just because he felt that Qin Zheng looked elegant and easy-going on weekdays, as long as he made peace, there should be no big problem.

When his arm was caught, he reacted, "Don't move me!"

Qin Zheng waved his hand and motioned for the dark guard to let him go, "Honestly tell me who instructed this matter, and I can consider letting you go." ”

"Yes..." Wen Qing wanted to tell the truth, but Liang Feng's last sentence suddenly came to mind in his mind.

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"If you are accidentally discovered, what will Wenqing Daoyou do?"

"This..."

"You, listen to me, don't admit it, I haven't given you anything now, no matter who comes, there is no evidence, but if you admit it, even if whoever agrees, you still make a mistake, are you right?"

"Yes, that's what the young city lord said. ”

"And if you think about it, you didn't do anything from beginning to end, you just messed up the matter of collecting names, what can Qin Zheng do if he gets angry again? If he dares to severely punish you for this, it will be unfair, then he, the young pavilion master, just doesn't want to be it, understand?"

"I understand, don't worry!"

"So no matter what he wants to blackmail you, the most likely thing is to deceive you, you bite me to death, and in the end nothing happens! But if you confess to me, I will not admit it, no one can do anything to me without evidence, and in the end it is you who will receive the damage. ”

"Don't worry, I understand this, then you promise me..."

"As long as this period of time passes, what you want will naturally come to you, I have already sworn a demon oath, and I can't break my oath for this little thing, so you'd better keep your promise. ”

"Good!"

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"No... No one instructed me, it was I who did not do well. Wen Qing knelt on the ground in a dejected manner, he couldn't say it, if he said it, it was really all gone!

"I'll give you another chance!" Qin Zheng walked over and squatted in front of him.

Wen Qing avoided his eyes, only shook his head, and never spoke again, the hand under his sleeve was cold and held tightly.

"Senior brother?"

When Qin Zheng heard this voice, the expression on his face instantly softened, he got up and sorted out the folds on his robe, and slowly turned his head, "You're here!"

"Yes," Qin Yifan looked at Wen Qing who was kneeling, his eyes flashed slightly, and he pointed at him, "I saw him come back just now, didn't you say that he just went to collect news?" He spoke more and more quietly, looking at Qin Zheng's face.

"Oh, it's okay, he's not doing well," Qin Zheng picked up the brocade bag on the ground very naturally, put the yellow paper scattered on the ground into it, as if nothing had happened, and handed it to Qin Yifan, "Take a look, the list can be sorted out by yourself, or I can let someone sort it out and send it over." ”

"Huh?" Qin Yifan took it and glanced at it casually, he was dizzy when he looked at the name inside, but for ghosts, it shouldn't make any difference, "Oh, let's just do it ourselves, how can we trouble you!"

"Okay, then you take it back first, it's inconvenient today, I'll go and make amends with you another day," Qin Zheng turned his back and said with a smile.

"Okay, then you get busy first," Qin Yifan nodded, walked out with the bag, and after going out, he took a look, and saw that Qin Zheng was still staring at this side, and smiled awkwardly, "Senior brother, then I'll go!"

Qin Zheng watched Qin Yifan leave, and looked back at Wen Qing on the ground with deep meaning in his eyes.

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"I'm scared to death!" Qin Yifan took the bag and walked back to Shen Kongming's hut quickly, kneeling on the ground, "My God, I've never seen my senior brother so angry, that aura, I feel it from afar!"

"What's going on?" asked Wu Yan, who was leaning back on the mat, strange at the sight of him.

"The guard who collected the news made a mistake, and Senior Brother is questioning him, it's really not the right time for me to go!" Qin Yifan pouted and threw the bag to Mo Ghost who was fiddling with flowers and plants by the window, "You can take a look at this first." ”

"Didn't you say that your senior brother has the best temper, how can you be so scared?"

"If he really doesn't have a temper, he won't be able to be the young pavilion master," Shen Kongming opened the fan and walked towards Mo Ghost's side, "Just like this young master, if I don't have some real skills, I can't be the young pavilion master of Yunxiao Pavilion!"

"Also," he tilted his head, "what did the guard do wrong?"

"Did you make a mistake in collecting this information?" Mo Ghost took out a stack of paper casually and glanced at it, "It's just that the towns are not divided according to time, and they are not even marked with the dead and the living, what is the use of this information?"

"Yes, it's the name of a piece of paper," Shen Kongming took it, "Oh, it's not all, at least it also marks which year, but the order of this paper is out of order, and I can't see anything." ”

"No wonder Senior Brother is so angry," Qin Yifan whispered, "It scared me." ”

"Qin Zheng is angry, I'm afraid it's more than this," Mo Ghost looked at the messy arrangement of papers in the bag, "This shouldn't be an accident, but deliberate, or rather, someone wants us to know about this later." ”

"Is there any difference between morning and night?

"Before and after, it will be delayed for at least ten days and a half months, who knows what to do?" Mo Ghost shrugged, "And I want to know even more, Qin Zheng's guard, has admitted who instructed him to do this." ”

"Tsk, what do you say..." Qin Yifan's mouth became round, "Could it be that the guard didn't admit it, and the senior brother is going crazy?"

"I think I know that the Lin family did it, right?" Shen Kongming snorted coldly, "Who else would do such a thing besides them?" He took out the list and looked at it again, "I can't see anything about this, what should we do?"

"Actually, I know almost everything I want to know," Mo Ghost put the bag on the table, "It's nothing more than an estimate of how many people die each year." ”

"You mean, look at the number of people who enter and exit the boundary every day?" After Shen Kongming came back with her, he noticed that she was standing by the window almost every day, although her eyes were not always paying attention to that side, but her divine sense was paying attention.

"Well, there are only two entrances and exits in the Tongling Mortal Realm, one east and one west," Mo Ghost looked at the mortals who came in from within the formation, "The west side where I am currently located is farther away from the big town." ”

"On the first day we came back, there were about a hundred people coming in and out, and there were more than thirty people to escort the coffin," Mo Ghost's mind appeared what he had seen a few days ago, "The next day, there was a little more, there was a group of people who came back together, there was no coffin, only the spiritual position, roughly calculated, there were more than a dozen." ”

"Do you remember everything?" Shen Kongming sneered, and stayed away from her.

"Generally speaking, there are nearly twenty people on average every day, and at least a few thousand a year, plus another entrance, tens of thousands shouldn't be a difficult task," Mo Ghost hugged his arms and lowered his head slightly.

"This Tongling Mortal Realm is not a big realm in the first place, is there 100,000 people? One tenth of them died in a year?" Qin Yifan and the little monk glanced at each other.

"Since the reconstruction of the ancient city of Tongling, the mortals here have gone to Tongling City to beg for a living, and tens of thousands of years of reproduction have long adapted to the frequency of death, haven't you noticed? ”

Mo Ghost's chin pointed lightly into the distance, and there happened to be a couple returning with their children, and the family was reunited, so lively. However, why does she think that in the past two days, fewer dead people have come in and out, and more people have reunited?

Looking down at the bag on the table, perhaps, someone had received some news?

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