After I was reborn, I became the most ruthless cub in the whole continent

Chapter 217 The Poor Man

"Strange, this Xunfanglou is doing business at night, why is it so quiet tonight?" Someone in the yamen murmured.

In the past, Xunfang Building, which was decorated with lights, festoons, and laughter, had only two lanterns hanging in front of the gate, and there was no light from inside.

The small yamen servant sniffed, but he didn't smell the dizzying aroma mixed with the fragrance of powder and incense that he would smell when passing by on weekdays.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon." Xie Ke imitated his master and uncle when he went down the mountain to catch the demon. Because he had no beard to twirl, he touched his chin instead.

Daoist, does this mean that there are demons in the Xunfang Tower?

The yamen servants couldn't understand the meaning of the Taoist chief's actions, they only understood the literal meaning of the words, and all of them looked serious.

"What does the Taoist priest need to catch the monster, I will send someone to prepare it." The county magistrate was sweating coldly, looking at the Xunfang Tower in front of him, as if he saw a monster who chose to eat people.

"Dao——Taoist, this lantern—" The little yamen servant looked at the lantern carefully, showing a look of horror.

The lantern was blood red, but it was not an ordinary red paper lantern. It was exactly the same as the human skin lantern used by the skeleton demon who attacked the yard earlier.

"It seems that this is the lair of the skeleton demon." Xie Ke threw out two charms, which turned into two balls of rune fire and burned the human skin lantern, and the skeleton of the lantern fell to the ground, revealing the dark bones inside.

Xie Ke saw the guilty look of the county magistrate who rushed over, and realized that things were not as simple as he thought at first.

Spiritual power covered his eyes, Xie Ke's eyes flashed a golden light, and the world in front of him changed.

The county magistrate who is full of anger but is indeed a living person, Xunfanglou who is shrouded in resentment, and several government servants who are full of resentment...

The skeleton demon's power comes from resentment, and ordinary skeleton demons can only be regarded as low-level evil spirits, and the soaring resentment in the Xunfang Building obviously cannot be accumulated in a day or two.

His cultivation base is not enough, and the Xunfang Building whose resentment is almost condensed into substance cannot rush in without preparation.

"There should be no living people in this building."

"Wait until dawn." Xie Ke sighed.

I wanted to come to Xunfang Building to investigate the situation before, because I wanted to save people.

As it is now, if you go in, you will die.

So I can only wait for the dawn, after which everything can be seen clearly.

The county magistrate's face was unnatural, and he replied stiffly: "Then there will be a chief laborer."

The door of Xunfang Building opened wide with a creak, and the door leaf swayed, making a weird and piercing sound, resembling the shrill laughter of ghosts.

Xie Ke was unmoved, and with a flick of his wrist, he threw out several talisman papers to infuse spiritual power, forming a simple defensive talisman array.

The talisman array emitted a faint golden light, and the servants subconsciously moved towards the talisman array, for fear that they would not be within the protection range of the talisman array.

A gust of cold wind blew past, making the door leaves make strange noises. The county magistrate was surrounded by a group of yamen servants and servants, and he still couldn't help feeling a chill down his spine.

Raising his eyes inadvertently, he met a pair of blood-red eyes at the window on the second floor of Xunfang Building that opened at some time, and was immediately frightened and pouted.

"grown ups!"

"My lord, what's wrong with you, my lord!"

Hearing the movement behind him, Xie Ke held the wooden sword in both hands, only feeling that they were noisy and unnecessary.

"Daozhang! Come and see your lord!"

"I'm not an adult. I can't cure frightened patients. I'll send you adults back and ask a doctor to see you." Xie Ke said coldly.

The status of a cultivator is far from being comparable to that of a county magistrate. As a cultivator, he does not need to bow down even in front of the emperor.

Cultivators are not subject to secular kingship, and are divided into ranks and powers.The reason why Xie Ke came here was because he received the task of killing the evil spirits in Qingshan County from his master.

Originally, I thought that the task of killing the skeleton demon would be considered complete, and that I came to Xunfanglou just to close it up and avoid twists and turns in regeneration. I never thought that the task would be more complicated here.

He spent a huge sum of ten taels of silver to reserve a guest room in the inn, but he was exposed to the cold wind outside, and he felt panicked when he thought about it.

"Help! Help! Killed! Help! There are monsters! Help!"

A man's cry for help suddenly came from the Xunfang Building, the broken voice was not obvious, but the yamen servants who were outside the Xunfang Building still heard it clearly.

Xie Ke clicked his tongue, tightened his robe, and remained unmoved.

"Daoist! Someone is calling for help! Didn't you hear that?!"

"What did you hear?"

"Are you sure that's a person?" Xie Ke glanced at the servant who was speaking, and found that the servants left behind were a little more angry.

It seemed that the anger was directed at him.

"Help—help—" A figure fell from the open window on the second floor of Xunfang Building, making a dull sound.

This is always a real person.

Angry in his heart, the yamen servant, who could no longer stand still, left the range of the talisman array to check on the situation of the person who fell down. Bantou Zheng didn't go there, but his eyes were full of dissatisfaction.

"Prince Xiaodao, you said that there is no one alive in Xunfang Building, and you just fell downstairs—" Zheng Bantou hadn't finished his sentence when he saw the yamen servant who went to check the situation froze.

The movements of the figures on the ground and those half squatting changed.

The half-squatting yamen servant fell to the ground, and the figure on the ground stood up again in a distorted posture, and laughed a few times. They couldn't see the movement of the figure clearly, and could only hear the sound of water dripping on the bluestone ground, chewing meat. block sound...

what happened?

All the yamen servants couldn't believe what they heard and saw.

how could be?

Isn't that a person?
Xie Ke taunted and smiled, the wooden sword wrapped around a talisman and stabbed it, the talisman ignited when it got close to the standing figure, the wooden sword flew straight over, pierced the "person"'s body, and nailed him On the doorpost of Xunfang Tower.

With the help of the burning flame of the spell, the servants also saw the appearance of the "person".

The bloody mass in his hand was still stained with blood, his face was black and blue, and he didn't look like a living person.

But, wasn't he the one who called for help just now?
The little yamen servant felt his throat was blocked by something and couldn't speak.

This was the first time he saw someone killed in front of him, and it was his colleague who had been with him day and night. If he was the one who died just now, would it be him who died?

Banto Zheng opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't.

He didn't expect this to be the case.

All the impulsive thoughts in my mind disappeared without a trace, leaving only full of fear.

how come?
Xie Ke didn't speak, and didn't take back the wooden sword. After a rooster crowed from an unknown yard, the night faded away little by little. When the morning light broke and dawn came, the yamen servants all stayed in the defensive talisman array resenting their lives.

During the period, there were other noises in the Xunfang Building. With the lessons learned from the past, everyone gritted their teeth and looked red, waiting for the dawn.

The time has never felt so long, it is clearly only the second half of the night, but it seems like a whole day.

"You can go in." Xie Ke recited a formula to clear the mind, walked to the doorpost of Xunfang Building and took out the wooden sword. The corpse impaled by the wooden sword slipped and fell to the ground.

When the yamen servants saw the death of the dead yamen servants, their eyes turned red one by one.

Just as he was about to kick the corpse of Yaoxie, who had killed someone, to vent his anger, Bantou Zheng looked at the corpse on the ground in disbelief, and held back the angry servant.

"This is……"

"Brother Lin's body..."

He clearly remembered that the corpses of Brother Lin and his wife were sent to Yi Zhuang. How could Brother Lin's corpse appear in Xunfang Tower? ! !

Xie Ke didn't understand this, and after carefully asking about the situation, his expression became more serious.

Is it a dead body?Or was the corpse controlled by other evil spirits?

"The corpses of the people killed in the city will be parked in Yizhuang?"

"The corpse of Wang Yuanwai is still in the mansion, and the corpses of other people who were killed have been sent to Yizhuang."

"Is there a list?" Xie Ke asked again.

"I keep it in my mind." The little yamen servant shook his head first, and then said.

"Go prepare the firewood first, and burn all the corpses left in the Yizhuang. If there are no corpses in the Yizhuang, we will prepare to burn Xunfanglou." Xie Ke said coldly.

The little yamen servant didn't dare to guess what Xie Ke meant, so he just followed suit.

Yizhuang was outside the city, and Bantou Zheng borrowed the horse from the post station and led the people over. He opened Lin Yu s coffin with trembling hands, and seeing the empty coffin, anger ignited again in his heart.

"Damn monster! It's not enough to kill people, but also to disturb the peace after death!"

The yamen servants opened the coffins one by one, and the coffins were empty.

Firewood was quickly piled up outside the Xunfang Building. The people around saw the movement here, and after learning that there were evil spirits in the Xunfang Building, they all brought firewood from their homes.

"Come in with me." Xie Ke pointed to the small yamen servant, and then stepped into the Xunfang Building holding a wooden sword.

The little yamen servant shook his body, gritted his teeth and followed.

When passing by before, the little yamen servant looked from outside the door and saw many colorful silk silks hanging in the Xunfang building.

It was the first time I walked in today, but I saw that there were all white silk hanging inside.

The gorgeous screens and exquisite lanterns before have all become dilapidated, and thick dust has accumulated on the table.

Xie Ke looked at the messy footprints on the ground, and there was a trace of irony in his eyes.

"Daozhang, why did this place suddenly become like this? I passed by a few days ago, isn't it like this?" The little yamen servant said with some fear.

"Some people wanted this place to become like this, so it became like this." Xie Ke replied casually, and then led the little yamen servants to find all the corpses in Xunfang Building.

There are dozens more corpses than those lost in Yizhuang.

Some corpses look no different from living people, with rosy cheeks, and you can only know that they are corpses by sniffing.

The expression of the little yamen servant has changed from crying or not to being stunned. He confronted some of the corpses in Xunfang Building with the deceased who had been heartbroken earlier, and some of the corpses had turned into skinny bones. The skeleton frame can only barely be identified based on the characteristics of the clothes, and they can generally match.

But the extra corpses... The little yamen servant looked at the corpses that were obviously children's corpses, and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

"Little Daoist..." The little yamen servant's voice was dry, he wanted to know something from the little Daoist, but Xie Ke just gave him a deep look, then turned and walked out.

"It took you a long time to go to Yizhuang." Before walking out of Xunfang Building, Xie Ke said something in a low voice.

The little yamen servant didn't know what he thought of after hearing it clearly, and his face suddenly turned pale.

After leaving the Xunfang Building, people gathered around to ask about the situation, but the small yamen servant was empty-headed, and he answered every question.

"What's going on inside?"

"People are dead, all are dead."

"Who's in there?"

"They are all the corpses of Yizhuang..." The little yamen servant looked in a daze, as if he had been greatly stimulated.

Xie Ke glanced at him, then looked in another direction without any trace.

There was an inn. The county magistrate lived in that inn after he fainted. Now the county magistrate's servants are all guarding there, staring at this side closely like a follower.

Knowing that the bodies of those who died a few days ago were in the Xunfang Building, the crowd was shocked, and after a while, someone wanted to break into it.

"My son is inside! How can I let him lie in this dirty place! Let me in! Let me in!"

"The body must be burned immediately, ma'am, if you insist on bringing your son's body out, you can only burn it in the open space next to it." The yamen servants supported their tired bodies one by one, stopping the aunt who wanted to break in , Keep explaining to excited people one after another.

It seems that setting fire to Xunfang Tower will not work.

Xie Ke noticed that the county magistrate was being carefully supported by the maid, and smiled mockingly again.

If it weren't for the discipline of the master's school, he would have given up on this task.

When he didn't see that there were still a few half-baked bodies of outer disciples of the Taoist sect?There are so many children's bones piled up in one place glaringly, people will feel that something is wrong when they see it.

But who had a hand in it?

Song Song walked towards Xunfang Building with a small face, dragging a big bag and carrying a small bag. He first saw a young man in a Taoist robe standing outside the crowd, and after slowly moving over, he stretched out a hand to pull him away. Pull the corner of the other party's clothes.

As soon as Xie Ke lowered his eyes, he saw a white and tender bun face. With such a bun face, one could tell that he was sleeping well.

"Fellow Daoist, this place is not a good place. When things are over, come back to the mountain with me."

"The place is not good because the people who manage it are not good. If you change it to a good place, it will be better." Song Song shook his head and retorted.

"What did fellow Taoists say about that skeleton demon at night?" Xie Ke tasted it, rarely smiling.

"The orphans here are not doing well, and some children of ordinary people are not doing well either."

"And the elder sister in this building." Song Song looked up at Xunfang Building.

She didn't sleep all night.

After the little Taoist priest left, she opened the small bundle, and the remnants of the skeleton demon hidden inside were captured by the evil-killing system, as well as the soul fragments of the grudge-eating ghost whose soul was scattered.

The relationship between the Grudge Eater and the Skeleton Demon is very simple. The Grudge Eater is driven by the Skeleton Demon voluntarily, and part of its soul is swallowed up by the Skeleton Demon. hunting.

At first, it was just for revenge.

The skeleton demon used to be a lady in the boudoir, with a dignified and gentle temperament. If there were no accidents, she should have become a wife and mother.

On the day of her wedding, she was spotted by the county magistrate, kidnapped by force, and imprisoned in the backyard.

After finally escaping, he found that the man who was going to marry in the past had a beautiful wife and concubine in his arms, and his parents who loved her both died of illness.

(End of this chapter)