Chapter 285: Panic Spreads
After a day of calm, news came again that a villager had been killed.
There are more than 3,000 villagers in Kowloon City, and more than 160 people have been assassinated at this time, which is equivalent to 1/20 of the villagers in Kowloon City in just 10 days!
That's a scary number!
Even after the horrific assassination, Wei Xuanji issued martial law, and the entire Kowloon City was full of guards and spies, but he did not expect to trigger a more unimaginable wave of terror. In less than eight hours, more than 40 villagers were killed, and none of them survived.
The guards all over the street seem to irritate the murderer!
The murderer is killing people like crazy, causing great panic!
The people of the city scolded Wei Xuanji's recklessness one after another, which angered the murderer!
Wei Xuanji originally wanted to catch the murderer as soon as possible and give an explanation to the villagers, but at this time, he became the target of the people of the entire Kowloon City!
In order to save their lives, the citizens began to flee in a hurry!
They no longer believe in the protection of the guards, they no longer believe in Wei Xuanji, and they no longer believe in Kowloon City!
Ignoring Wei Xuanji's warning, they forcibly opened the city gate and escaped from Kowloon City. But they all died inexplicably in the woods outside Kowloon City.
All of them were hung from trees outside the city, like a kite, fluttering in the wind.
The panic was spreading, and Wei Xuanji had lost control of the city's citizens.
The people of the city began to want to flee with their families, and the streets and alleys at the gate of Kowloon City were crowded with surging people, who knew that going out was death, but they rushed out with everyone, and the murderer could not kill everyone at once.
It's just that fortunately, Wei Xuanji had already expected this step and sent heavy troops to guard the city gate.
The assassination continues.
The murderer seemed to be completely oblivious to this, and in just one day, after killing more than 40 more city residents, he began to turn to important people in Kowloon City.
Some of the petty officials in Kowloon City were killed one after another! Fortunately, the Dawn Legion was protecting them, and they successfully prevented several assassinations!
However, the murderer is a haunting ghost, who comes and goes without a trace, and although it prevents his assassination for a while, it also seems to anger him.
Almost every half hour or so, the news of someone being killed must come out, and Rao is the nerves of the people of Kowloon City are made of steel and cannot afford such torture.
In just ten days, this Kowloon City, which was originally full of happiness and vitality with happy life and people, was reduced to hell.
It may be that several failed assassinations of high-ranking officials stimulated the murderer, and an even more tragic thing happened the next day!
Xiang Caifang was assassinated!
On that day, Xiang Caifang and twenty Dawn Legion guards had just come out of the Refining Hall and walked onto the street, when he passed by a restaurant next to the street, a sword light erupted from a private room on the third floor of the restaurant, which instantly exploded half of Xiang Caifang's cheeks!
Blood, minced flesh and shattered bones splattered the streets.
Xiang Caifang, who only had half a head left, died on the spot!
It's just that what is unexpected is that there are many citizens in Kowloon City laughing and applauding, saying that the officials only enjoy themselves, and don't care about the lives of their citizens at all, and close the city gate and let them wait for death!
As soon as Xiang Caifang died, the entire high-level of Kowloon City was alarmed, and the core figures of Kowloon City, such as Jiang Cheng, Wei Xuanji, Shao Zeng, and Xiaofan, all came, some of them were indignant, some were gloomy, some were worried, and some were anxious......
Jiang Cheng grabbed Wei Xuanji and asked with tears in his eyes: "What should I do? Uncle Xiang, his body is already cold! How can I save him!"
Wei Xuanji's eyes were also moist, and his throat squirmed but he couldn't speak.
On the other side, the Dawn Guardians team had already dispatched quickly at the first time and surrounded the entire restaurant, but found nothing!
Although he controlled everyone in the restaurant at the first time, the murderer was possessed by someone else's body, and the dawn guards present couldn't tell who the murderer was!
After all, with their cultivation, no one could see through the soul of everyone in the restaurant!
This includes Jiang Cheng, who has cultivated the Immortal Heavenly Scripture, can't do it.
They had no choice but to lock these people up and interrogate them one by one!
But in fact, the murderer was indeed in the restaurant, but during the interrogation, the murderer possessed an interrogator and got out.
Wei Xuanji walked through the street with a group of guards, his brows furrowed, and he pondered a series of questions such as why the murderer attacked Kowloon City and who sent it.
He was thinking hard about how to catch the murderer, and he had no clue, and his head was very swollen.
The fully armed guards around him vigilantly observed everything around him as if they were facing a great enemy, for fear that someone would suddenly approach Wei Xuanji.
At that moment, a beggar rushed up to the side of the street and shouted, "Sir, give me something to eat, my lord, do well......
Such a despicable assassination method, how can it hide from the shrewd guards, I saw one of the guards step forward to block the beggar who rushed towards Wei Xuanji, I saw him sneer, and as soon as his wrist flipped, he grabbed the beggar's wrist, only to hear a click, the beggar's wrist bone was crushed by him, and a sharp knife fell out of his sleeve.
The other guards quickly surrounded the beggar and caught the beggar on the spot.
At this moment, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in the eyes of a city-citizen who was only three zhang away from Wei Xuanji, and he rushed towards Wei Xuanji with a knife!
At this time, all the guards went to subdue the beggars, and Wei Xuanji was empty!
However, just as the city-citizen pounced in front of Wei Xuanji, a turquoise claw light hit the back of the city-citizen's head, and the city-citizen's body exploded like a watermelon with a scream.
It was Jiang Cheng's hand, and when he learned that Wei Xuanji came out with more than a dozen guards, he immediately felt bad, and then immediately chased him out.
"Uncle Wei, are you okay? Fortunately, I arrived in time!" Jiang Cheng, who had finished the battle, the sharp claws like ten daggers retracted the tips of the ten fingers and turned into the white and tender little hands again.
He looked Wei Xuanji up and down, and when he saw that Wei Xuanji was fine, he walked over to Wei Xuanji and said, "Uncle Wei will not go out in the future!"
Wei Xuanji looked at the dead citycitizen, his face was very solemn, and he didn't say a word for a long time.
Jiang Cheng saw that Wei Xuanji's face was ugly, so he asked curiously, "Uncle Wei, what's wrong with you?"
Wei Xuanji sighed and said, "In the end, it has developed to this point!"
Jiang Cheng asked puzzledly, "Uncle Wei, what happened to the end?"
Captain Wei Xuan took a breath and said with a look of despair: "I have led troops for many years, and I have seen countless people do what they will do in the face of death, and I have seen that the human heart is the most terrible thing in the world! When you save others from slaves to city citizens, the city people are grateful to you! When you meet a strong enemy, those who enjoyed glory and wealth because of you in the past are unwilling to share your suffering! People are always like this, after their basic needs are satisfied, they will always expect more, and once they are not satisfied, even if you are a savior, they will be cursed as demons!"
Jiang Cheng still didn't understand, but when he heard the captured beggar cursing Wei Xuanji all the time, he immediately understood what was going on!
"I want to avenge my son!"
"If it weren't for the order of the surnamed Wei to block the city gate, how could my son be killed!"
"If he hadn't blocked the city gates, we wouldn't have waited to die in the city, watching our loved ones die!
The beggar yelled frantically at Wei Xuanji, and Wei Xuanji was sad.
Jiang Cheng was shocked! At this time, a trace of despair flashed in his heart!
The beggar and the dead citizen were ordinary citizens, and they weren't possessed by that thing at all!
They wanted to assassinate Wei Xuanji themselves!
It's no wonder that Wei Xuanji said such strange things!
Jiang Cheng's face also looked sad with Wei Xuanji's face. He understood that as more people died in the city, the more panicked the city's citizens became, and they would blame the authorities for their inability to protect them.
And this blame, when their loved ones die, turns into hatred and hatred!
At this point, this incident is a good example!
Jiang Cheng believed that as more people died in the city, there would be more and more assassinations of Wei Xuanji and other people in power!
From then on, they had to guard not only against the monsters that would possess them, but also against the people who had lost themselves to hatred!