Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 781
Hong Zhenkang left Shenlin City in a sedan chair and walked all the way towards Yanzhou.

He asked the guards to avoid people's eyes and ears as much as possible, and he was worried about encountering strong men on the road, so he didn't allow the guards to disperse their actions.

Just thirty li after walking out of Shenlin City, he met the magistrate of Yangong County and led the people along the road to greet him.

Now that he was recognized by the magistrate, Lu Wang didn't want to refute his face, and had a light meal with the magistrate from noon to dusk, and went on the road at dawn the next day. After walking [-] miles, he met the magistrate of Anyu County again.

The hospitality was hard to turn down, so King Lu stayed for another light meal, this time until late at night.

At dawn the next day, King Lu set off again, walked for more than [-] miles, and encountered a team in Quguang County...

Hong Zhenkang knew that the rush was urgent, but he couldn't let go of this kindness. The tears at the corner of his mouth and the longing in his heart made him stay again and again.

It can't be blamed that Lu Wang is not promising. He was imprisoned for 20 years. He suffered too much. After he came out, he lived in Hong Zhenji's house.

After finally recovering his identity, he only had 80 taels of silver in his hands, and Hong Zhenji's face depended on Hong Zhenji's face when he spent the money. Even the expenses for this trip were borrowed from patchwork, and his life was really tight.

Now there is finally such a group of people, offering delicious food on the table, whispering good things in their ears, good girls warming up in bed, and good money to give away before leaving.

With regard to this friendship, how can Lu Wang refuse it?

The original three-day journey ended up taking nearly ten days because of the hospitality of the magistrates along the way.

Even so, Hong Zhenkang was not particularly satisfied. When passing through the Yanzhou prefecture, the magistrate even said he was sick and would not come to see him.

The magistrate really didn't dare to see him, and the matter of adding a gift failed, the magistrate of Yanzhou thought that Hong Zhenkang was asking for money, so he was too scared to go out.

Hearing that Hong Zhenkang detoured to Muhua County, the magistrate just let go of his heart.

Strange, why did Wang Lu go to Muhua County?

Yanzhou is a relatively prosperous area in Qiancheng, but Muhua County is a special case of Yanzhou.

Muhua County, named after Muhua Mountain, has a vast area, resulting in most parts of Muhua County being barren mountains and wild mountains.

What Hong Zhenkang is going to is the second peak of Muhua Mountain - Yuezhi Peak.

Yuezhi Peak is the second highest peak of Muhua Mountain, but the mountain is far more steep than the main peak. Since ancient times, few people have visited it. Especially in recent years, it has been rumored that there are monsters on the mountain. peak.

Hong Zhenkang took the hundred and ten people to the foot of Yuezhi Peak according to the location on the letter, and walked towards the mountain along a mountain road full of thorns.

The Yuezhi Peak is steep, and the mountain road is difficult to walk. We set out from the early morning and went until dusk before reaching the halfway up the mountain.

That night, everyone camped on the mountainside, and Ling Zhengze, Wang Junwu, and Gong Yinde shared a tent.

Yinde, the Seventh Grade Yin Yang Touring Knife Palace, said: "Why does this place smell so strange?"

Wang Junwu, an eighth-rank Mohist swordsman, sniffled: "Why don't I smell anything?"

"Your noses have been choked by sawdust, how can you still smell it?" Gong Yinde taunted Wang Junwu, then looked at Lingzheng, "Your nose is easier to use, can you smell it?"

Lingzheng looked around and said, "There is Yin Qi, there is decaying Qi, there seems to be something different around here."

Although Wang Junwu hated Gong Yinde, he had great trust in Lingzheng. Hearing this, he picked up his tools and said, "I'll set up some traps around the camp."

Gong Yin pulled back Wang Junwu, shook his head and said: "Don't worry about the surroundings of the camp, I know your little ability, you can't hold the whole camp, and set up traps around the three of us."

Wang Junwu thought it was reasonable, and planted traps around the camp of the three of them.

Lingzheng asked Wang Junwu to go to sleep first, and he and Gong Yinde took turns on duty.

Calculating the time, before and after the third watch, the Yin Qi became more and more intense, and Gong Yinde, who was choked by the rotten air, coughed!
Many people in the camp woke up, but Hong Zhenkang slept soundly in the tent. He was used to sleeping in the dungeon, and he was used to all the smells.

Gong Yinde took out the talisman, looked around carefully, there was a sound of footsteps in the distance, the sound was noisy and messy, and the source could not be identified.

He summoned a gust of wind with a spell to disperse the dense fog, but saw a bloated man walking towards the tent staggeringly.

Who is this man?How come you are so fat?

Gong Yinde saw a huge lump of meat and walked towards him slowly.

Because his body was too huge, his head looked like an egg placed on a jar, and it seemed that four firewoods were inserted around the jar, which were his short and slender limbs.

Gong Yinde threw a spell again, regardless of his low level of cultivation, the spells are of the highest quality, this spell summoned a thunderbolt, and the lightning just hit the strange man, burning his head to ashes and blowing up his body in half.

The air was filled with the smell of burnt fat, and a large piece of blown butter landed at Gong Yinde's feet.

Gong Yinde resisted vomiting and stared at the strange man for a long time.

The weird man's two legs were still intact, and with half of his body, he continued to move towards Gong Yinde.

Gong Yinde shouted: "I saw a ghost!"

Lingzheng came to the side, shook his head and said, "This is not a ghost, it's a living corpse."

Gong Yinde said in amazement: "When did you wake up? Have you seen a living corpse?"

"I've seen it a few times." Lingzheng touched the saber at his waist, but he didn't draw it out after all. He seemed to be a little worried, "Brother, you should set the fire on him. This corpse may be poisonous. If I get close I am afraid that I will suffer."

Gong Yinde pulled out another talisman, threw it into the air, mobilized Yin and Yang Qi, and hit the talisman accurately.

The spell instantly turned into a fireball and flew towards the living corpse.

The fireball exploded, igniting the sticky grease all over the corpse.

The living corpse seemed to be unresponsive, and continued to move towards the camp with its body covered in flames.

Gong Yinde panicked: "Well, how can we deal with this?"

Lingzheng lowered the corners of his eyes, looked around, and sighed softly: "This one is easy to deal with, but the others are hard to say."

still got more?
Gong Yinde's heart tightened, and he followed Ling Zhengzheng's line of sight.

The burning living corpse became the light source in the dense fog. Against the backdrop of the fire, Gong Yinde saw many bloated and slow figures walking towards the camp, staggeringly.

"Thirty? Fifty? This, there must be a hundred!"

The movement in this room attracted a lot of sabers, and everyone was shocked when they saw the living corpse approaching.

Two yin and yang practitioners lit fires around the camp to observe the movement, but they saw hundreds of bloated living corpses surrounding the camp.

Some You Dao ran for their lives directly, and some You Dao did their best to wake up Hong Zhenkang from the camp first.

Seeing the surroundings, Hong Zhenkang let out a wail and sat on the ground, the thick yellow stuff flowing out of his trousers.

A group of servants howled louder than Wang Lu, and blew more than him.

Seeing that many You Dao had already run out of the camp, Gong Yinde said to Ling Zheng: "Brother Ling, let's go too."

Lingzheng shook his head and said: "Brother Gong, you must not run away. There are so many living corpses suddenly appearing. There must be corpse demons on this mountain. If you are ordered, you will definitely die!"

Before he finished speaking, there was a scream from the east, and he followed the sound, but saw a Killer Dao You Dao had just rushed out of the camp, and was surrounded by four living corpses.

Killing Dao has the strongest combat power of the same rank. This Killing Dao has eight ranks of cultivation, but in front of the living corpse, he can't come up with the means to defeat the enemy.

He chopped off a living corpse with a single knife.

But the severed living corpse didn't die, and the half living corpse on the ground crawled all the way, hugging the Youdao's leg.

Before the man could break free, another living corpse came again, he stabbed into the chest of the living corpse, the chest was full of grease, the blade was stuck in it and could not be pulled out.

The man struggled to pull the long knife, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his calf, and the half-lived corpse on the ground tore off a large piece of flesh from his leg.

The man lowered his head and glanced at his calf. A tall living corpse behind him spit a mouthful of fat on the back of his head. The foul-smelling sticky stuff hung on his face, blocking his sight.

Before he could wipe off the oil on his face, another living corpse stepped forward, grabbed his hair, and gnawed on his face.

"help me……"

That You Dao screamed heart-piercingly for a long time, and was eaten alive by the living corpse!

Seeing such a scene, there were more than a dozen wandering swordsmen left in the camp who could not escape.

They accepted Lingzheng's statement that if they placed an order at this time, they would be sent to death.

Lingzheng shouted: "Everyone, protect the yin and yang, live corpses are not afraid of being chopped with knives and axes, they can only be burned!"

They formed a group, killing Daoists, Mohists, and Confucians outside, blocking the living corpses, and protecting the yin and yang practitioners.

The yin and yang practitioners stayed in the middle, even setting fire and adding wind, it was all up to them to kill the enemy.

At dawn, [-]% of the living corpses were killed, [-]% of the living corpses left after eating and drinking, and the remaining half retreated without a fight.

Lingzheng wiped off the oil on the knife, looked at the twilight sky, and muttered to himself: "These living corpses are afraid of the sky, it seems that the corpse demon has not yet been cultivated."

The butler tremblingly counted the number of people, and there were 13 left in You Dao, six in the servants, and the rest went into the stomachs of the living corpses.

Where did these living corpses come from?

Hong Zhenkang did not know.

His sedan chair was torn to shreds, his luggage was also shredded, and he didn't even have a change of clothes.

I wanted to go down the mountain at this point, but Hong Zhenkang was really unwilling to pay so much money and lost so many servants, and ordered everyone to continue walking up the mountain after his pants were dirty and dried.

After walking on the mountain for another whole day, at nightfall, the living corpses came again, the servants were all dead, and there were only five Yu Dao left. See a manor.

The steward turned around and asked Hong Zhenkang: "Master, are you talking about this place?"

Hong Zhenkang recalled the contents of the letter, and this is what he was talking about.

"Everyone, follow me to capture this manor, and I will reward you a lot!"

Hong Zhenkang looked excited, but he saw a group of You Dao's faces turning pale.

Gong Yinde snorted coldly: "My lord, what do you mean by taking it down? This manor doesn't belong to your family? We entered the yard, so we have to help you grab the money?"

Hong Zhenkang didn't dare to make a sound.

Wang Junwu, the eighth rank of the Mohist family, was an honest man. He stepped forward and said to Hong Zhenkang, "My lord, this business trip is too dangerous. The price you gave is not appropriate."

Hong Zhenkang heard the words and said: "As long as this Zhuangzi is taken down, I will reward you with an extra 200 taels each!"

When Wang Junwu heard this, he felt relieved, and Gong Yinde sneered in his heart, otherwise Wang Junwu, a fool, would not be able to make a fortune in his life.

It's already this time, still thinking about the 200 taels of silver?

Seeing that Lingzheng is someone who can accomplish things, Gong Yinde stepped forward and said in a low voice: "There is a lot of money in this village, we brothers should just take what we can and leave overnight!"

Lingzheng whispered: "I also have this plan, but I can't leave tonight, and I will definitely meet a living corpse."

Gong Yinde nodded and said: "Well, when it's about to dawn tomorrow, let's leave this house first. When we encounter living corpses, we two brothers will clean them up. When dawn comes, I will use the formation to rush down without these burdens. One day Should be able to go down."

While the two were discussing, they had already arrived at the gate of the house.

Hong Zhenkang shouted: "Everyone, break through the gate first!"

Gong Yinde looked at Hong Zhenkang and said: "My lord, at least go up and ask, we are exhausted, if we can not fight, then don't!"

Hong Zhenkang said angrily: "What are you calling here for? Do you still need me to come forward for such a thing?"

A group of wandering swords waited in place, they really couldn't move.

Hong Zhenkang saw that Zhishi didn't move his saber, turned to the housekeeper and said, "Go up and have a look first."

The butler did not dare to disobey, walked to the door tremblingly, and slapped the door several times.

No one answered in the house for a long time, and everyone could only wait in front of the door.

A wandering knife was worried that the living corpses would come again, so he really didn't want to wait, so he jumped from the courtyard wall into the courtyard.

After walking through the front yard and the back yard, the Youdao squatted on the wall and shouted: "My lord, there is no one here, come in!"

When he heard that there was no one, Hong Zhenkang became suspicious.

Since there are a lot of silver and armaments stored here, how could there be no one guarding them?
Could it be that everything was taken away by Hong Zhenji?

But it shouldn't take so much time on the road.

Full of anger, Hong Zhenkang rushed into the courtyard, ordered everyone to light torches, and searched around.

Wang Junwu is very familiar with the structure of this kind of house, and after a while, he found a cellar in the main courtyard.

Opening the cellar and looking inside, Wang Junwu shouted, "My lord, there is silver here!"

Hong Zhenkang was overjoyed, and rushed to the cellar, and saw that the 50 taels of silver ingots were stacked neatly, filling the entire cellar.

"Quick, move out!"

Everyone started to move money out, counting while moving.

After moving for more than two hours, all the money was moved to the yard. The housekeeper said to Hong Zhenkang, "My lord, there are more than 300 million taels of money in total!"

"It's only more than 300 million taels?" Hong Zhenkang was very disappointed and couldn't help muttering, "Didn't the letter say that there were more than 700 million taels?"

"More than 300 million taels is a lot!" Xu Zhiqiong said comfortingly, "I wrote that letter blindly."

(End of this chapter)