Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

While Gu Simiao was doing her exercises and breathing, Lu Chen walked to the door, raised his head, and looked at the ice wall that covered the entire Xingping County like an upside-down bowl, feeling even more shocked.

Although I know that Gu Simiao is very strong, it can even be said that she is the ceiling for ordinary cultivators today. Even if Fu Hua and Chai Hongyu, who are both in the Guiyi realm, and are both generals of the Zhu Kingdom and have been famous for a long time, are facing each other head-on. None of them are her match.

But he didn't expect that Gu Simiao's strength could be so strong.

Even if the Guiyi Realm warrior himself can change the situation of the battle, it is too outrageous to single-handedly launch a spell that is more powerful than a heaven-level formation.

Even Fu Hua, who is proficient in formations, is simply unable to do it now.

At this moment, Lu Chen refreshed his understanding of Gu Simiao's strength.

There is no doubt that the only person in this world who can suppress Gu Simiao is the Holy King who is above the cultivators and possesses the holy relics.

At this time, several government officials ran over in a panic.

"Master Lu Lu!"

They ran to Lu Chen and knelt down, out of breath and said: "It's not bad, the county magistrate, he...he..."

Lu Chen came to his senses immediately, frowned and asked, "What's wrong with him? And, where are the other assistant officials? Where are the county magistrate, the chief registrar, and others? Why haven't you come here for so long?"

The leader of the Yamen finally regained his composure and responded with a panicked look on his face: "Returning to Mr. Lu, I just followed your instructions and went to look for him at the county magistrate's house. When we arrived, the county magistrate's residence was found. The door is open, and there is so much blood inside."

Hearing this, Lu Chen understood instantly.

"Were all killed?"

咕咚

It seemed that he was recalling some terrible scene, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"Yes, Mr. Lu, I have seen with my own eyes that more than thirty members of the county prince's family were all killed. No one survived, and the death was extremely miserable."

Lu Chen took a deep breath.

"What about the rest?"

As he spoke, he looked at the other government officials.

"Reply to Mr. Lu."

As he stared at them, the government officials suddenly became nervous and said with frightened expressions:

"Twelve members of Master Li's family were all killed."

"The same is true for Liu County Cheng's family."

"The king catches the head"

Almost all the prominent figures in the county government were killed, and their whole families were massacred.

click

After hearing their answers, Lu Chen couldn't help clenching his fists.

Xingping County officials were exterminated

Ancient evil formation

Although I don't know what the other party's purpose is, such thorough preparations and careful plans must have a big purpose.

They were dignified officials of the imperial court, blessed by the power of the emperor. Logically speaking, before the county fell, they should not be so easy to kill, but in the end they were killed quietly.

If he and Gu Simiao hadn't just happened to be hanging out here, the court might not have received any news when everyone in Xingping County was dead.

Xingping County was originally the transportation artery of Shuntian Prefecture. Most of the merchants from all over the world entered and exited the capital through here. A lot of food, cloth, tribute and other materials also came in and out from here. Its importance can be imagined.

Especially in the past year since Lu Chen came to power, as his fiefdom, even if he didn't care about it, Xingping County's special political status has further added to this land with a strong foundation, and its development has almost become what he promoted. The results of the New Deal are reflected.

Although it is only a county, its scale is no less than that of a county.

If such an important place turned into a dead city, it would be a big blow to Daxia, which was in a state of recuperation and economic development, and to Lu Chen's own reputation.

However, Lu Chen couldn't be happy no matter what.

Regardless of whether the other party was targeting him or simply plotting evil against Xingye County and involving the people, even if the system's compensation conditions were met and he could ascend on the spot, he would not be able to go to the fairy world with peace of mind.

He even left a knot in his heart and was forever bound by his inner demons.

"at this point."

Lu Chen stopped thinking about it. The most important thing now was to deal with the current situation.

"Don't panic, please follow my orders."

Hearing what Lu Chen said, all the government officials felt relieved and looked at him with gratitude. As people from Xing'an County, they are naturally familiar with the only nobleman from the Great Xia Dynasty who was granted a title to Xing'an County, a large and extremely wealthy county. Even if they have never met him, they have heard of his name and deeds. Now, All the people with a little bit of prestige in the county government were dead. Without a leader, they didn't know how to deal with it.

Big men like Lu Chen did not run away immediately regardless of their life or death, but did their duty and stood up to lead them. How could they not be moved?

"Young Master, please give me your orders, but I will only follow your orders."

Lu Chen waved his hand.

"Farewell, Mr. Gong, I am the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. You can just call me Mr. Lu."

"Yes! Lu Shangshu."

Everyone responded in unison.

Lu Chen nodded, and then began to order everyone in an orderly manner. Those who should organize manpower to ensure public security and maintain order should go to the six gates, those who should activate the magic circle should go to the spiritual warehouse, those who should calm the people should go to the warehouse to raid people, and those who should go to the sentry tower to observe the enemy's situation Go and stand guard.

Under his arrangement, the huge county government began to operate rapidly.

Hundreds of yamen servants and policemen left the yamen in groups and rushed to various parts of the county.

Along the way, there were constant calls from police officers, stating emphatically that Mr. Lu was in the city now and would spend time with them, so that the people should not panic, stay at home with peace of mind, and stop running around.

As soon as the people saw the officials moving around, they felt a little relieved.

The more times this happens, the more afraid the government will not do anything. If the government ignores them, they, ordinary people without any power, will basically have to resign themselves to their fate.

Regardless of whether the government has the ability to handle this strange situation, at least the Xing'an County government has the heart to do it, and it can even be said to do its duty. This alone is very rare in the world.

When they heard that Lu Chen was actually in Xingping County, almost everyone got excited.

Although Lu Chen's name is not known to everyone throughout Daxia, in Gyeonggi, especially in Xingping County, for the people here, the name itself is a reassurance. .

It can even be said that Lu Chen's prestige in the capital is almost equal to that of the empress.

This is a rare good official who is willing to think about ordinary people!

Gradually, as the government officials ran around calling and Gu Simiao summoned ice butterflies to kill the evil spirits, the turmoil in the city slowly subsided.

At this moment, Gu Simiao suddenly opened her eyes.

His eyes were full of solemnity.

"Have you finally shown up?"

She whispered softly, then stood up suddenly, mobilized some of the spiritual power she had just recovered in her body, grabbed the long sword in her hand and walked out. At the same time, she said to Lu Chen behind her without looking back: "Huai Yu, wait for me here."

As he spoke, countless ice butterflies descended from the sky and surrounded the room.

The next second, all the ice butterflies lined up in the Tiangang Formation, and in the biting frost, the surrounding space gradually distorted.

Under the attack of the biting cold air, the space was even eroded to the critical point of fragmentation, and space cracks may form at any time.

Of course, Lu Chen, a rookie in the Three Talents Realm, couldn't see these tricks.

However, when he saw Gu Simiao actually raising her hand to create a spell for herself that was obviously a protective formation before leaving, he still instinctively felt something was wrong.

"and many more."

He reached out and grabbed Gu Simiao's shoulders.

The body of the Guiyi Realm expert, which contained extremely powerful power, was held lightly by him.

"Miss Gu, have you discovered the enemy?"

Gu Simiao hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Ah."

Then she added: "The large formation that those people prepared with great effort was blocked by me and blocked from being fully launched. They will definitely not be willing to give in. They will definitely try their best to break my way of protecting the city. Just now I sensed how many directions there are in the south direction of the city. An evil spirit has forced its way through the barrier, and just in case, I have to hurry up and rush over."

She specifically emphasized the words seize the time.

Lu Chen immediately understood that this meant that he didn't want to go with him. (End of chapter)