The head of the overseer of the Beimen Minling Camp was not the first official in the entire Tongchuan City to be killed.

Three months ago, that is, the first day when Ren Pingsheng was just sent to the Minling camp, Lord Lizheng in Longmen Town, on the way home from the Lizheng Mansion in his little donkey chariot that day, was hit in the head by a white pebble flying from nowhere, and his brain burst to death on the spot.

That night, Fu Longwen, the head of the Longmen Town Ya Gang Leader, who is well known as Fu Da Bantou in the town, was found dead in the stinky ditch at the entrance of the town, and the cause of death was exactly the same as that of Lord Lizheng.

One night half a month later, in the section of Qinglongmen in the east of the new city, the supervisor of a construction site selected a young woman from the female workers' shed in the Minling Camp overnight, saying that she would do some miscellaneous labor. It is said that the woman disappeared on her way back to the shed after finishing her chores that night and has not been seen since.

At this time, there were no less than 50,000 men and women at the entire Xincheng construction site, and it was very common for people to occasionally disappear or die unexpectedly.

But the reason why this incident has been widely publicized and familiar to people is mainly because the supervisor who selected the missing female worker was found dead in his temporary building the next night, covered with wounds, shriveled corpses, skin and bones, as if overnight, drained of blood and water from his body, the situation was very horrific.

What's even more terrifying is that in the hands of the overseer, he is holding a horned knife tightly, and all the wounds on his body are scraped by himself with that knife before his death!

At this time, not only did it alarm the Yamen, the lord of Tongchuan City, but the best officials in the city arrested it quickly and dispatched all of them to solve the case, and the Tongshan Sect also sent the Dharma Protector monks of the sect to assist. The intervention of the Tongshan Sect is not because of the supervision of a construction site, it is a great official position, the key is still. This method of death is said to be the result of the Demon Sect's unique evil art to seduce the souls of the living. The person who has been seduced by the vitality of the soul is described as withered, but does not die, but becomes an unconscious, infinitely powerful madman, and no one can control him.

Fortunately, this kind of walking corpse madman does not hurt people, but will only try his best to harm himself until he dies.

When the soldiers of the Guardian Corps surveyed the scene, they found the woman who had been reported missing, unclothed, with her hands and feet tied, and a strip of cloth stuffed in her mouth, lying on the bed of the overseer.

The woman's body was only a few old flesh wounds from whips or wooden sticks, and because she had been tied for a long time, her hands and feet had not fully recovered from the deep scars of ropes.

The woman was imprisoned in an extremely secret dungeon outside the old city of Tongchuan and interrogated day and night.

It is said that the family of the missing woman knelt outside the Qinglongmen construction site and begged for an explanation, but never got any news.

In the past three months, at the construction site in the east of the city, the construction site in the south of the city, the construction site in the north of the city, and inside and outside the old city of Tongchuan, there have been officials and family members who have died unexpectedly, and the way of death is almost the same.

Although the Tongchuan City Guardian Corps, the official family, the Martial Academy, and the Tongshan Sect have continuously sent sergeants, arresting fast, martial artists and monks with a high realm, and the whole city is under martial law to search and arrest, there is still no trace of the murderer.

Moreover, people are still being killed one after another. It made the people in the city panic, and it was rumored that there was a "dark night impermanence" in the city, which came and went without a trace, and specialized in killing people at night. All kinds of speculations and speculations have also come one after another, and some say that there are murderers, and there are two murderers. One specializes in seducing souls with evil magic, and the other specializes in killing people with flying stones, but the Dharma Protector monks sent by the Kiriyama sect say that the killer may be the same person.

As for the two different methods of killing, they are just a trick of the old suspicious array. Because, only a person with the evil art of the Demon Sect can have such a strong physique, and with pure physical strength, he sends out flying stones from afar and shatters people's heads.

From all kinds of signs, it can be judged that those flying stones that smashed the skulls were not cast by qi practitioners with the method of imperial objects, but were thrown with pure physical strength, and the person who threw the stones, every time he killed someone, the distance between him and the deceased was not less than fifty paces.

In extraordinary times, the construction site in the north of the city seems to have become the only safe and sound pure land in the entire Tongchuan City, and there has been nothing abnormal.

At this point, the middle-aged overseer was hit in the head by an identical pebble and died in the cave of the city gate.

A pure land is no longer peaceful.

On this day, the people at the North Gate construction site did not get to work on time early in the morning. Because early in the morning, the people's huts in this area were surrounded by countless soldiers in black clothes and black armor. All the people received the order to stay put, waiting for the examination.

Ren Ping's corpse was lying on his bunk, and it was rare to have a peaceful sleep. The so-called bunk is nothing more than a simple shelf in the shed, with a few wooden planks, on which is covered with a layer of thatch cut back by oneself in the suburbs, and then spread with its own straw mats.

It's cold to say, but this bunk in Ren Pingsheng's life is already the most luxurious existence in the entire shed. Others' are either scraped together from the construction site and laid directly on the ground, or they pick up two bundles of straw and pad them on the ground.

Forty or fifty people in a shed, all in a pile of three or five, looked frightened, like lambs to the slaughter, whispering. Like Ren Pingsheng, who can still lie down peacefully, this is the only one, and there is no other semicolon.

The man who led a dozen black-armored soldiers into the shed was a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. The man did not have the uniform of an apologetic sergeant, he was dressed in civilian clothes, and the fluff around his lips was not overgrown, but he had a wide mouth and a majestic appearance, and he had the demeanor of a general.

The young man, instructing the dozen generals behind him, gathered all the people into a corner of the shed. Ren Pingsheng and those people who were gathered in groups of three or five reacted very quickly, and once they received the order, they immediately rushed away and ran to the designated corner.

But as soon as Ren Pingsheng took two steps, he was stretched out horizontally by a white satin sleeve, blocking the way. The young man in a gorgeous costume had a frosty face, "Where are you?"

"Yinduo Township, Peixiu Village. Ren Pingsheng looked tired and said lightly. For some reason, as soon as he saw this man in fancy clothes, a sense of disgust rose in his heart, as if this person was born with an inseparable holiday with himself. But he didn't take it too seriously, anyway, there were few people around him who looked pleasing to the eye.

"Age?"

"Fifteen. ”

"Why did you come out to serve in labor at the age of fifteen?" the man in the fancy clothes looked more and more cold and hard.

"I have to ask the officials of Longmen Town about this. Ren Pingsheng said expressionlessly.

The man in the fancy dress was stunned, and his eyes looked at the young man in Tsing Yi very unkindly. “...... Why do you have so many covers?"

This question is more intriguing. Xuanhuang World is a place where the weak eat the strong, and among the people who are also from poor backgrounds, it is no exception. A teenager with a body like this, no matter how many good things you have, it won't take half a day to be divided up by those men with thicker arms and legs.

This is easy to say, not easy to say, it's not counted after the partition, since you can get something, then you have to continue to find a way to get more for the big brothers.

The corners of Ren Pingsheng's mouth curled slightly, and he didn't smile, "The overseer here is not only loyal to his duties, but also cares for the people. Ren Pingsheng pointed to the crowded corner over there, "Besides, look at them, they are all high-spirited, they don't grab things, and they often take care of the weak." ”

There were countless people in that corner, who were full of slander, but they didn't dare to say anything. This boy who has been here for nearly four months is simply a demon.

Those who can live in this shed are basically either "gangsters" or "black hukou", and there is not much movement; the occasional exchange is also because of the "convener" of a certain people, who naturalized him and found a serious owner.

Those who were interested in Ren Pingsheng's "family property", without exception, were beaten fat, and they were covered with injuries, but on the surface, they couldn't even see half of the bruises.

was beaten, and he had to help the teenager raise supplies and nail the bed frame. This kind of thing is very common, and no one dares to complain.

The man in gorgeous clothes went around Ren Pingsheng, but he couldn't find anything wrong. Ren Pingsheng's bedding has been turned over by those black-armored soldiers, and even the thatch has been smoothed out a little, and there is nothing suspicious.

"At a young age, he talks well, but why did he become a folk servant?" The man in fancy clothes didn't know whether he was asking him or talking to himself.

didn't name or surname, Ren Pingsheng didn't bother to pay attention, even if he wanted to answer, it was still the same sentence, and he had to ask the officials in Longmen Town.

If you want to ask the officials in Longmen Town, most of them have not answered. Because of the official who summoned Ren Pingsheng, he had died unexpectedly and lay in the stinky ditch all night. When Fu Longwen was scooped up, the book on his body that had been recorded for the people was soaked in pieces.

In other words, the twenty or thirty people sent by Longmen Town that day actually have no provenance, and no one will worry about their naturalization.

I didn't find anything here, the man in the Chinese costume was finally going to leave with the soldiers, and when he went out, his face was full of unwillingness, and he looked back at Ren Pingsheng twice.

Suddenly, the air in the whole shed froze, and people only felt that their breath was stagnant. I saw a white shadow sweeping in from the door, and the fluttering sleeves were unfolded and punched the young man in green shirt standing alone!

This punch is as swift as the wind, and there is no room for people to react.

The body of the young man in the green shirt flew out far away and smashed on the wall of the shed, and there was a big hole in the wall.

When Ren Pingsheng curled up and lay on the field outside the shed like a steamed prawn, he saw the originally majestic wide-mouthed square face appear in the hole in the wall, but he changed his face to a smile, "Boy, if you don't have the ability, just talk well." is accustomed to other people's high manners, and it is easy to die as a teenager. ”

The men huddled in the corner, smiling and reluctant, watched the men in fancy clothes and a group of soldiers leave until they disappeared.

When the men turned their heads again, they couldn't help but be stunned in place. The young man in Tsing Yi, who was lying on the ground just now, didn't know when, was already standing quietly behind everyone again, with a look of disdain. In the young man's mouth, he also took a dog's tail grass that grew outside the hole in the board house.

"Which, Yuan Shao, after all, he is a member of the official family......" It was still one of the middle-aged men who was old and serious, reacted quickly, and hurriedly said, "We are all ant people, but without your Yuan Shao's fists, I dare not be disrespectful." ”

"Understood. Ren Pingsheng's expression was strange, and with a casual "phew", he spit out the grass holding the dog's tail and spit on the ground, "If we are other people's dogs, we must have the consciousness of a dog, right?"

The middle-aged man didn't dare to take over, so he hurriedly turned around and sorted out the bed luggage that had been turned up by the soldiers before.

The others, cautiously walking, silently dispersed.

Ren Pingsheng's gaze passed through the door, looking in the direction where the man in the fancy dress disappeared, that face, he remembered.

It's just that in his heart, he is silently muttering another thing - who is the other person who is called the impermanence of the night?