Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 761

Shenjun Hall, Yushu Pavilion.

The servants sent urgent reports one after another.

Hong Juncheng sat behind the desk, practicing calligraphy with great interest, and he didn't bother to read the urgent report, so he only asked Qin Yan to read it to him.

"A strange monster appeared on Huxian Street and injured people. The Ministry of Criminal Justice has sent people to arrest it."

Hong Juncheng wrote the pen calmly, as if he did not hear the content of the urgent report.

Not long after, the urgent report came again.

"A strange monster has appeared in Huangyefang, and more than [-] people have been injured. The Ministry of punishment has sent people to arrest it."

Hong Juncheng put down the brush, feeling dissatisfied with the writing, tore up the previous words, and asked the servant to spread out a new paper to rewrite.

"A strange monster appeared in Qingyue, killing more than [-] people, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice is doing its best to arrest it."

Hong Juncheng still turned a deaf ear.

He finished writing four big characters: God is coming to the prosperous age!
"Qin Yan, how do you see the four characters written?"

Qin Yan stepped forward and looked carefully for a moment.

It is a very dangerous thing to identify calligraphy for Hong Juncheng.

You can't speak layman's terms and make random comments, which is regarded as deceiving the emperor.

You can't say yes directly, you have to explain what is good, otherwise it is also a crime of deceiving the emperor.

Say good things, but also say bad things, otherwise it is flattery.

If you say something bad, you can't say it too directly, otherwise it will be disrespectful.

But you can't say it too euphemistically, otherwise you will still be deceiving the emperor.

For the sake of calligraphy, countless servants lost their heads. Qin Yan knew calligraphy, and knew how to handle the heat, and was especially appreciated by Hong Juncheng.

After reading these four words, Qin Yan first praised them: "Shenjun's brushstrokes are strong, the ink marks are very vigorous, and the words are imposing. When the old slave reads them, his eyes hurt and it is difficult to look directly at them for a long time."

Hong Juncheng nodded and said: "When writing these four words, I really used a lot of strength. Tell me, what are the shortcomings of these four words?"

Qin Yan thought for a moment and said: "Rong Laonu dared to say that when Shenjun moved his pen tonight, he was a little hasty. Look at this stroke, the pen is sharp and full of strength, but it looks a little abrupt."

Hong Juncheng smiled slightly: "That's all, let's rewrite one."

Rewrite a picture?
Qin Yan remained calm, her heart was tumbling.

He realized he had said the wrong thing.

The so-called sudden change in writing was entirely based on Qin Yan's speculation.

There was a strange phenomenon in Shenlin City, and more than a hundred people lost their lives.

With such a big event, according to Qin Yan's speculation, Hong Juncheng couldn't be in a hurry, even if he pretended not to be in a hurry, he couldn't really be in a hurry, so he said that Hong Juncheng was in a hurry.

But now Hong Juncheng is still concentrating on writing, he is really not in a hurry.

If Qin Yan could not correctly guess Hong Juncheng's intentions, he might lose his life.

This time, Hong Juncheng wrote four words: God bestows peace.

As soon as the words were written, Hong Juncheng asked Qin Yan to comment. Qin Yan looked at it for a while, and was about to speak, but saw a servant came forward to pass: "Shen Jun, Zhang Jingwen, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, please see me."

Hong Juncheng was silent for a moment, his brows wrinkled little by little.

Qin Yan glanced at the waiter, still expressionless.

He knew that the servant was going to suffer.

Hong Juncheng returned to the desk, looked at the four big characters just written, and tore it up with a wave of his hand.
"disappointed!"

The servant knelt on the ground and shivered, Hong Juncheng frowned, ordered him to be taken down, and given fifty lashes.

Whether the fifty lashes can be saved or not depends on the fortune of the servant.

He came at the wrong time.

But what if he didn't come in just now?

If he doesn't come in, his secret will be compromised, and he will definitely die.

Doesn't he have a way out?
In the Shenjun Hall, in the eyes of Hong Juncheng, a servant cannot be regarded as a human being. It was his turn to be on duty today, and he was met by the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, so he was doomed to escape.

Hong Juncheng didn't summon the minister of punishment, he knew what the minister of punishment was going to say.

The Ministry of Punishment must not be able to resist the strange monsters. Hong Juncheng knew where those strange monsters came from, and he also knew how many catties and taels of the waste in the Ministry of Justice.

But Hong Juncheng still ignored it, he waved the brush again, and wrote four big characters: God Bless Antai.

"Qin Yan, let's see how the calligraphy is written again?"

……

East of the city, Huxian Street.

A gigantic beast more than ten feet tall crashed into a residential house.

This giant beast is shaped like a bull, with two huge horns on its head, but the horns do not grow from the top of the head, but from the ears.

At the end of each of the two horns was a human face, one crying and crying, the other laughing loudly.

With shrill laughter and cries, the giant beast rushed into the house, first knocked down an old man, then stepped up and trampled into flesh and blood.

There are four people in this family, and the old man's son just got married last month.

Seeing that the old man died, the old man's son panicked and didn't know what to do.

The old lady shouted: "Take your wife, hurry up..."

Before he finished speaking, the horn came out from the old woman's chest, and the face at the end of the horn was still laughing loudly.

"Hey hey hey~"

This laugh scared half of the life of the daughter-in-law, and she couldn't even walk.

The son hugged his daughter-in-law, jumped out of the window and escaped. Just as he rushed to the street, he saw a huge boar stuffing a dead body into its stomach.

This wild boar is about as tall as a house, and its head is bigger than a water tank, but there is no mouth on this head.

The boar's snout is five or six feet long, standing vertically on its stomach, with four tusks turned left and right.

The wild boar stuffed two corpses into its belly, chewed for a while, but didn't swallow them, and spit out a lump of meat paste.

The meat paste was steaming, wriggling and rolling on the ground, and after a while, it turned into an earthworm half the height of a person, covered in mucus and blood, slowly crawling towards the young couple.

The young couple turned their heads and ran wildly in fright. The giant bull had already crashed through the courtyard wall and chased after them.

woooo~
The boar growled.

"Hey hey hey~"

The face on the horns is still smiling.

The couple's legs gave way and they fell to the ground.

Beside the couple, there was a hut facing the street. Su Shiqun, a member of the criminal department, and two officials were squatting on the ground, each holding a saber, covering their mouths, and sobbing softly.

Su Shiqun cried: "Go out and have a look, what was the sound just now?"

An official sobbed and said, "Brother, you are so courageous, go out and have a look."

Another officer cried hoarsely: "Fart your mother, who the hell are you calling bold?"

Yuanwailang Su Shiqun wiped his tears and said, "You can go as you please, you still dare to disobey orders!"

The officer cried: "Master, I have been with you for so many years, and you want to talk about Chawayao, Chayinghua, and Chayinmenzi, when did I get vague?

Go up and pull hair, slap your face, put on shackles, and get up, I have never been soft on those women!But, okay, this, this won't work! "

The three of them were ordered to search for the strange monster on Huxian Street, but they hid in a blacksmith's house as soon as they saw the strange monster.

The blacksmith and his wife and children shivered in a corner.

"Huh~ah!"

There was movement in the yard, it seemed that dozens of people, men, women, old and young, were wailing together.

The monster entered the yard, the child cried in fright, the daughter-in-law hugged the child and cried, and the blacksmith hugged the daughter-in-law tightly.

Seeing that the two officials refused to move, Su Shiqun pointed to the blacksmith and said, "Go out and have a look!"

How could the blacksmith dare to go out, holding his wife and children and shaking his head.

Su Shiqun yelled: "I will risk my life to protect your family, and I will ask you to do something, but you dare to push back! Bring this unruly wife and child to me!"

It is not difficult to catch women and children. The two officials wiped away their tears and were about to step forward with their sabers in hand. The blacksmith hurriedly got up and said, "I'll go, I'll go right away."

"Huh~ah!"

As the blacksmith walked towards the door, the growling in the yard grew louder.

The blacksmith's daughter-in-law hugged the child, gritted her teeth, and followed her man to the door.

The blacksmith turned his head and said with tears in his eyes, "Why did you come out after me?"

The daughter-in-law cried: "If we want to live, we will live together, and if we die, we will die together."

Su Shiqun whispered to the officer: "Catch the two of them quickly, or they will all run away!"

Just as the two officials were about to step forward, they found that the blacksmith had already opened the door, and quickly retreated back into the room.

Su Shiqun scolded: "A bunch of trash, you will lose the face of the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

The two officials bowed their heads in silence.

The blacksmith family came to the yard and saw the porter from the next yard standing at the door.

From the appearance, the porter seems to be normal, but his clothes are messy.

There were no other monsters in the yard. Where did the roar come from?

The blacksmith asked carefully: "Brother, how is your family? Sister-in-law, are they all right?"

After waiting for a long time, the porter finally spoke: "Your sister-in-law, I don't know if she is okay, why don't you ask her."

While speaking, the porter slowly raised his hand, lifted his head off, and hugged it to his chest.

On the broken neck, another head grew out, which was the porter's daughter-in-law.

His daughter-in-law had disheveled hair, bloody face, opened her mouth, and shouted at the blacksmith's family: "Huh~ah!"

The porter held his own head in his arms, opened his mouth wide, and shouted along with his wife.

The roar just now was made by the two of them together.

Seeing the porter rushing over with his wife's head on his head, the blacksmith dragged his wife and children aside.

The porter ran away and blocked the door of the house. The blacksmith picked up his son and dragged his daughter-in-law, and ran out of the yard.

Just as he was about to rush out of the yard, he saw an old woman with half of an old man's body hanging from her waist, with arms like a praying mantis, rushing towards the blacksmith.

The blacksmith dodged, and the daughter-in-law was so frightened that she couldn't dodge.

The blacksmith turned around and hugged his wife tightly.

The daughter-in-law hugged the child tightly in her arms.

The family of three closed their eyes.

puff!puff!
Two muffled beeps!

The old woman's head fell to the ground, and her body was split in two.

"Open your eyes, what about you!"

The blacksmith was still in shock. With tears in his eyes, he opened his eyes and looked at the tall man in front of him.

The man wore a mask and held an iron halberd in his hand.

The blacksmith hugged his wife and children tightly. He didn't know this man, and he couldn't believe that his family of three was still alive.
The porter who was blocking the door of the house rushed over again with his head in his hands, and the blacksmith was at a loss.

Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward and chopped the porter in half with a halberd.

Dozens of tentacles grew out of the fracture, and they twisted and fumbled around. Xu Zhiqiong threw a spell, which attracted a beam of flames and burned the two corpses to ashes.

The young couple who fled to the street were also rescued. Looking at the corpses of the old woman and the old man at the gate of the yard, the man cried, "This is my father and my mother."

Xu Zhiqiong was startled: "Your father and your mother?"

The man cried: "They were killed by monsters, and somehow they came back to life."

Will people who are killed by monsters become monsters again?

Xu Zhiqiong didn't quite believe it, and the man's wife said beside him: "The worm (earthworm) on the street just now was also created by a dead person!"

Xu Zhiqiong gritted his teeth secretly.

Yuan Chengfeng, you bastard!

Xu Zhiqiong asked, "Is there anyone else in the room?"

Just as the blacksmith was about to speak, his wife said beside him, "There is no one else."

The blacksmith looked at his wife in surprise.

The wife gritted her teeth and said, "There really is no one else."

Xu Zhiqiong didn't ask any further questions, and put everyone in the mansion at the intersection of the street.

Wailang Su Shiqun, member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, was still trembling in the room with two officials.

There was another roar from outside the house.

Su Shiqun cried, "Which of you two will come out to see?"

The officer cried: "My lord, why don't we run away, we can't stay in this broken house!"

Two officials helped Su Shiqun up, but Su Shiqun's legs were weak and he couldn't walk.

The two officials left Su Shiqun behind and ran towards the door.

The door slammed, and a human head about the size of a water tank rolled in, lay on the body of an official, and bit off the head of the official, creaking and chewing slowly.

Another officer wanted to rush out, but the huge head protruded a tongue from his forehead, wrapped the officer around, and sent it into his mouth.

Su Shiqun howled loudly, cursing while crying: "Where is that family of evil people? Where did they go? They are all evil people, they know their own lives, and they don't care about the life and death of the court officials. They have no law, no court. If you don't have any gods, you should kill them all..."

The huge head pressed on Su Shiqun's body, opened his mouth wide, and slowly engulfed Su Shiqun's head.

……

In the Yushu Pavilion, Hong Juncheng was still splashing ink and wrote dozens of pieces in a row, but he was not very satisfied.

Qin Yan was very nervous. He didn't know whether Hong Juncheng was dissatisfied with the words or his judgment.

The servant sent another urgent report.

"In the east, north, and south of the city, strange monsters continue one after another, hurting countless people, and those who are killed by strange monsters will also turn into strange monsters."

The dead also become aberrations.

Hong Juncheng put down the brush, this time he couldn't ignore it.

If you keep letting it go, there will be more and more strange monsters, and the entire city of Shenlin will be out of control.

And there are also strange things in the south of the city. The officials of the fourth rank and above in Shenlin City all live in the south of the city.

Hong Juncheng pondered for a moment and said: "Qin Yan, go and call Liu Jinshu, Fu'an Wei of the Black Clothes Camp."

Liu Jinshu, the commander of the Fu'an camp, was dressed in black.

Qin Yan understood what Hong Juncheng meant.

In the entire Fu'an camp, there was only one battalion captain, and no one else.

(End of this chapter)