my causal simulator

Chapter 128 Ecstasy

After understanding the general flow of this mission, Lin Shuhang now has three things to determine first.

First, whether there are secret passages leading to the outside of the city in the burning houses on both sides of Nantong Street.

Second, if there is a secret road in Nantong Street, among the civilians who were driven to the North Camp by myself, there must be a secret agent from Ma Xiang. Who is this person?
As for Gu worms, Lin Shuhang has a way to prevent them in advance, but this also involves the third thing he needs to confirm.

The bandit attacked the city for the second time after the Gu worm in his body broke out. This was obviously because he was afraid of his previous strategy of defending the city and wanted to get rid of himself first. Will the time and method of the second siege change accordingly?
The steps of coaxing He Xiangling and Xi Jian naturally became more and more skillful, but after driving away the people on Nantong Street, there was an extra procedure to search the house.

Not only did the soldiers search, but Lin Shuhang personally went into battle, but since the secret roads of the government agencies, and the houses on Nantong Street stretching for nearly a kilometer, with hundreds of houses, it is not easy to search them all in just two or three hours.

We could only allocate hundreds of soldiers and let them hammer one by one on the ground with a sledgehammer. If there is a secret passage below, it must be empty, and there will be echoes from the hammer. It is to order the sergeant to knock inch by inch.

But after working all night, until the early morning of the next day, when the time for the bandits to attack the city was approaching, they still did not find any clues.

It felt like there was no progress, but before setting fire to the thieves, I had a few more questions and answers with Ma Xiang, and asked Ma Xiang's identity, which was indeed the deity.

If one plan fails, there will be two plans.

First, in the early morning of the next day, he went to the prison in Luoxian County, picked out some vicious death row prisoners, fetched some ordinary clothes from where they kept their clothes, and then changed back to Lin Xingye's attire, and went to find Cuilan.

There was a 'reminder' from the other party when I was looking for Cuilan last time, this time I didn't call my wife again, and I deliberately imitated the style of a rogue, and also looked flustered, only saying that I caused trouble and wanted to go out of the city for a while. Cuilan didn't let Cuilan see the flaw, and before leaving, she put the clothes of the death row prisoner at home, and then searched all her original things, and told Cuilan that if someone pretends to be him to search for the old clothes, don't say anything, just put this Just give them a few pieces.

Cuilan did not doubt him, although she felt that her husband was behaving strangely, she also knew that he must have caused a great disaster, so she agreed with her tears.

The reason why the death row is used instead is just that I don't want the person who made the voodoo to have other harmful methods, so that I won't be able to guard against it.

The second strategy is to find out who is the spy among the civilians who are now being driven to the northern camp.

But after all, they are all meritorious citizens, and direct interrogation is unreasonable. Don't look at the gang of civil servants in the governor's office who were still singing praises to him last night, but now everyone is thinking about how to get a share of this day's great credit Well, if I wantonly interrogate meritorious people without any evidence, I will definitely become the target of criticism by these literati.

That will not only harm the foundation of benevolence and righteousness that I want to establish for the descendants of the Lin family. After all, the word benevolence and righteousness is the real life-saving talisman in the Three Kingdoms era. , I will give you some thin noodles.

What is also important is that Xi Jian has soft ears. If there is a disagreement between civil and martial arts, and he finds an excuse for the other party to tear his face, he is afraid that part of the military power in his hands will be taken back by Xi Jian. How can he resist the second wave of bandits in a few days? Siege?
So after returning from Cuilan, he immediately changed back to Lin Pingzhi's identity and issued two official documents.

The first is to recruit soldiers to deal with the second wave of bandits attacking the city. Although the population of Luo County is not large, the notice of recruiting soldiers is not very effective, but one more soldier always needs more power.

The second is to keep all the civilians on Nantong Street who should have been released in the North Camp, register and make a book, and call them in the morning and evening. Without Lin Pingzhi's general order, no one is allowed to go out.

The reason is: Lin Gongcao is grateful for everyone's help in breaking the thieves. Now that everyone's houses have been burned down, he really has a conscience. He should rebuild the houses for all civilians. Within a few days, he will find skilled craftsmen, and then go door-to-door to discuss with everyone. For the structure of the new house, all requirements can be mentioned, and we should try our best to meet them without exceeding the budget.

During this period, Lin Gongcao will support all the civilians who stayed in Beiying with military salary.

But since they eat military salary and live in the barracks, they naturally have to observe military etiquette.

Those who do not want to comply can also leave after applying. However, Luo County is busy now. When the skilled craftsmen come, the meritorious service will not be notified. Without the blueprints, naturally there will be no house, so the person who applied to leave Those civilians are tantamount to giving up Lin Gongcao's compensation automatically.

This is the way to see fish in clear water.

Register the civilians, and you can see their names. Lin Cuilan once said that the person who went to fetch Lin Xingye's clothes was Boss Zhang's thug Zhao Wu.

Moreover, for real civilians, houses are their lifeblood, and it is impossible not to let them go, but only the spies and bandits, seeing the failure of the siege, either want to escape quickly, or want to take care of the horses who don't know how to survive. However, it is absolutely unbearable to let them stay in the barracks for a mere house.

The only problem is that it takes money to do it...

But fortunately, the merit of breaking the thief last night is equivalent to saving Xi Jian's life, and with the wind blowing from He Xiangling's pillow, the matter of going to Xi Jian for money was also successfully finalized.

As soon as Lin Shuhang's announcement was posted, the governor's office had already ordered the recruitment of skilled craftsmen from various counties.

Of course, people continue to search the burnt ruins, check the secret passages of the agency, and other things are also going on at the same time.

I thought that after planting so many spots, there would always be one or two places to bloom, but I didn't expect that things were far more complicated than Lin Shuhang imagined.

The method of seeing fish in clear water did not work, no one asked to leave, and no one was missing day and night.

Either I guessed wrong, and there are no spies among them, or there are smart and talented people in the secret work, who have seen through my own method of seeing fish in clear water, knowing that coming out at this time is self-confessed secret work, so I kept it secret .

The search of the ruins didn't turn up any results. Lin Shuhang had almost plowed all the ruins, and he was only three feet away from the ground, but he still didn't see any secret passages.

They even poured water gradually to see if there was any leakage on the ground, but they still found nothing, so Lin Shuhang had to give up temporarily. He just sent soldiers to guard the ruins and even patrolled outside the city at all times, paying attention to whether there were secret passages opened. such as.

As for the death row prisoner's clothes placed at Lin Cuilan's place, no one came to pick them up.

That's right... Lin Shuhang slapped his forehead.

Although Zhao Wu's name is not listed in Beiying Dianmao's roster, it is very likely that the other party used a pseudonym when registering. Since this person is Boss Zhang's subordinate, he only needs to ask Boss Zhang to identify him. This boss can also be regarded as a spy.

After such an investigation, Boss Zhang really identified Zhao Wu and took him down immediately, but the subsequent interrogation still did not make any progress.

This person is very strong-willed, torture cannot extract a confession, no matter whether he asks his accomplices or the secret room of Nantong Avenue, he will not answer.

Lin Shuhang then thought of the strange books he got from Nanhua Zhenren earlier.

"Ecstasy Scripture".

Frankly speaking, Lin Shuhang began to feel the practicality of these four strange books more and more.

Although evil arts are not allowed in the righteous way, they are only used by some so-called upright gentlemen to flaunt their reputations. But all arts are knowledge. What is the difference between good and evil?But they are all expounding the way of the universe and everything, it just depends on where you use it.

The Mihun Heart Sutra mainly tells the mystery of the soul. The soul is a four-dimensional existence, but if it wants to exist in three dimensions, it must have a three-dimensional body.

The so-called hypnosis and fascination are spells that act on the four dimensions. At the beginning, they were just a way to confirm the essence of the soul, but if they are slightly modified, they can immediately become a way to extract confessions and confuse people's hearts.

The method seems to be very simple, specific actions, specific environment, and the most important thing is to control the sound. The volume and speech speed at a specific frequency are the most likely to cause people to sink.

But this stuff is easier said than done. Most modern hypnotists need to select some people with special voices to match the frequency of that voice. Not everyone can become a hypnotist, but in the In the Soul Heart Sutra, the audio can be changed by controlling the Lingyuan.

This requires a high degree of control over the Lingyuan, especially in the process of speaking, the Lingyuan has to adapt to the changes in your tone, which must be accumulated over time.

[Ecstasy (Xuan, Elementary): Confused the minds of others to achieve the purpose of manipulation, it has little effect on the strong-willed, proficiency 8/1000]

...It seems that a lot of practice is needed, and the object of this practice can only be Zhao Wu.

Lin Shuhang simply lived in the dungeon.

It is not only to interrogate Zhao Wu, but also to practice ecstasy, and by the way, to guard against Gu worms that may still appear.

The method of preventing Gu insects is simple and crude. Close all doors and windows, then buy a large amount of sulfur and saltpeter, and sprinkle them in a circle along all the door cracks and corners.

But all insects, no matter what kind of insects they are, are more sensitive to irritating things like sulfur, and they can't get in, so I can let myself practice and extract confessions with peace of mind in the past few days.

As for going out, you can only rely on your spiritual energy, and keep your true energy overflowing at all times. Ordinary Gu worms cannot get close, but it will consume a lot of spiritual energy. Lin Shuhang estimated that with the level of Zifu Qihai, Sex can only last for about two hours at most, but this has to be saved until the last day, when the bandits attack the city.

fifth day...

The successive recruitments in the previous two days increased the number of soldiers in the city from nearly 800 to just over 900.

However, the news from the spies in Mianzhu was still the same as last time, the rebel army was "infighting" and fought each other out of the city, and a large number of people were missing.

Lin Shuhang was not surprised, it seemed that what was supposed to come would eventually come.

The soldiers in the city have already been dispatched and deployed to defend the east gate, but this time it will not be so easy to use fire tactics. In broad daylight, if the streets are cleared of people, the bandits will be suspicious. If they occupy the city first The head is in Tu Xujin, and Luo County is broken.

It can only be defended stubbornly, so a large number of defensive equipment, such as rolling logs, bows and arrows, have been stored on the top of the east gate in advance. Luo County, calculated according to the time, can just arrive at the evening of the fifth day. As long as the defense of the city is delayed until then, it can be broken by then.

The reason for the troop transfer is also very simple, everyone is doing meritorious service, how can it be that only the governor has no merit?Calling Yanyan over can ensure the safety of Luoxian County first, and at the same time, Xi Jian can also go north with the army and cut down Mianzhu himself with a thunderous force. The first achievement will naturally be the governor's lord.

Since Xi Jian took office, there have been many complaints from the people, but he has not made any political achievements. This is a great opportunity to perform, and He Xiangling didn't need to blow the pillow wind, so he agreed directly.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner. It depends on whether Zhao Wu and others have been arrested, and the history has changed, whether there will be a second wave of Gu insects and bandits attacking the city.

(End of this chapter)