I become a god in another world

Chapter 292: Inquire about information
Chapter 292

It was as if Zhao Fusheng had not been under investigation by the Demon Suppression Division before, and was just a newcomer who appeared out of nowhere after the evil spirits in the Demon Suppression Division of Wan'an County were resurrected.

Zheng He's file mentioned that the double ghost case had at least reached the level of a catastrophic disaster.

Despite such a horrific ghost disaster, the ghost handler from Wan'an County managed to solve the case in a very short time.

"Zheng He's report did not mention how Zhao Fusheng drove the ghost away, it only said that Baozhi's crisis was resolved." The young man rested his chin on his palm and looked at the old man who was cooking in the distance:
"I think Zheng He is just talking nonsense, what about the double ghost case, what about breaking free from the constraints of the Soul Fate Book..." The young man sneered, with a cunning look in his eyes:
"As long as you know a little bit about the details, you won't believe his lies."

"Brother, what do you think?" After hearing what he said, the square-faced and bearded man turned to look at the big man in the middle.

The big man didn't say anything.

His expression was calm, and when he looked at people, his pupils captured their shadows. There was no fluctuation of emotion in his eyes, giving people a feeling of utmost calmness.

It was as if it had lost all its joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and was just a ghost without any emotions.

Although the bearded man had known him for many years and knew his true situation, when he turned around and looked at him, he still felt his scalp tingling and shrank in his heart.

At this moment, he was as if being stared at by a terrible evil spirit. A chill rose from his spine and quickly spread to his limbs.

His thigh muscles instinctively tensed and his toes gripped the ground, but he forcibly suppressed the urge to escape at any time.

Fortunately, the big man seemed to know that his eyes were lethal, and he turned his head away with a cold look.

The feeling of being stared at by a terrifying ghost disappeared in an instant.

The bearded man couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Although he has known his elder brother for many years, he has recently become increasingly afraid to meet his elder brother's eyes, and has become increasingly afraid of him, even feeling that he is a little strange.

The big man didn't say anything.

The bearded man had no choice but to ask and answer his own questions:
"I don't think Zheng He has the guts to deceive the county government," he calmed down and said:
"Moreover, he later declined Ding Datong's invitation to return to Beijing to 'retire' and instead requested to be exiled to Wan'an County. This cannot be false."

The young man guessed:
"It's possible that he was worried that the evil spirit would not be revived and he would die in Ding Datong's hands, so he deliberately thought of a way to escape and hide in Wan'an County."

As everyone knows, Wan'an County is the place that the Demon Suppression Bureau decided to give up after discussion.

The place is shrouded in ghost fog.

Wherever ghost fog appears, the probability of evil spirits reviving increases greatly.

Moreover, the ghost fog is like raising a Gu. Once the evil ghosts that are revived in the ghost fog grow up, they will cause harm to one side and quickly cause ghost cases. As the evil ghosts kill too many people and advance in level, the situation will worsen and become out of control.

It is also because of this that as soon as the ghost fog appeared in the Han Dynasty, the imperial court would abandon the place as soon as possible.

Once all the people in the ghost fog die, that place becomes a real den of ghosts, and living people will never return.

"Hide in Wan'an County?" The young man curled his lips and said:

"What's the point? The chances of encountering ghosts in the ghost fog are much higher—"

Before he finished speaking, the big man who had been silent finally spoke:

"Not strong."

The big man's voice was hoarse, as if there was a handful of sand in his throat, and the sound of his words made people frown.

His words were incoherent, but the young man and the square-faced bearded man had known him for a long time and seemed to understand the meaning of his words.

The national face was stunned:
"Brother, are you saying that the evil spirit here is not strong?"

The big man didn't say anything, he just looked up.

It just rained heavily today, and the weather doesn't look very good at the moment, but this kind of bad weather is different from the smog caused by excessive evil spirits.

The bearded man turned his gaze to the old man who was busy cooking and suddenly waved at him:
"Father, come here for a moment."

The old man was puzzled, but seeing that the three people were staring at him, he had no choice but to put down the broken fan in his hand, rubbed the mud in his hand, and walked towards the three people.

"What do the three guests need?" the old man asked anxiously.

The youngest boy knocked on the table:
"I heard that your Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division has a new commander?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

"..."

The old man showed a puzzled look on his face and turned to look at the square-faced man uneasily.

The square-faced man smiled bitterly.

Although it is a county town under the jurisdiction of the county, for ordinary people, I am afraid that many people only know throughout their lives that there is a county government and a demon-suppression bureau in the county, and that there are officials in charge of these subordinate offices.

It's already good enough to be able to figure out which of the two is in charge of internal affairs and people's livelihood, and which one is in charge of ghost cases. Talking to them about the replacement of the command officers and the command envoys, and asking them to clarify the relationship, is just making things difficult for them.

He knew the boy's temperament well, so he interrupted and asked:

"Father, has there been any ghost incidents in Wan'an County recently?"

"Yes."

When the old man heard the word "ghost", he immediately perked up and nodded:
"Earlier, I heard that the Confucius Temple in the south of the city was haunted and many people died. At that time, everyone was afraid and did not dare to go to the south of the city."

As soon as he finished speaking, the three of them looked at each other.

Ordinary people in the city are slow to receive news. They may not know what is happening right now, but they will definitely have heard of bloody incidents that have happened in the past.

The square-faced man became interested and asked:

"Earlier? When?"

"When?" The old man was stunned for a moment before he said:

"Just earlier—"

The square-faced man rummaged in his waist pouch for a while, then pulled out two silver grains:
"Tell me when you have thought it through."

When the old man saw the silver, greed showed in his eyes at first. He wanted to reach out to touch it, but he didn't dare to do so, and he licked his lips anxiously.

"When did the Confucius Temple in the south of the city become haunted?"

The square-faced man pushed two silver coins in front of the old man and asked him.

When the old man saw his action, he was overjoyed and quickly grabbed the two silver coins in his palm and squeezed them tightly. Then he showed a suspicious look:
"Guest, this is not fake, is it?"

This world is difficult.

Who would just take out money and give it to others casually?

He was a little scared and wanted to return the silver he had obtained, but he was reluctant to do so.

"I don't need to use fake silver to coax you." The square-faced man said calmly:

"If you don't reply, what I'm going to give you won't be silver."

After saying this, he lifted up a part of his clothes, revealing a short axe tucked into his belt underneath.

The blade of the short axe was sharpened to a gleaming shine, and the handle was old and stained with a dark brown substance, which made it look particularly eerie.

The old man took a deep breath. The threat and inducement immediately made him behave himself:
"About three or four months ago, it was said that the imperial court went to clean up the place, and it became clean now."

"Three or four months ago?"

The three people entering the city exchanged glances.

Counting from the time, it was about ten months ago that the magistrate of Wan'an County submitted a secret letter to the imperial court, mentioning that Zhao Qiming, the then chief of the Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division, was in poor condition - it was thought that at that time, Zhao Qiming was on the verge of a ghost reviving.

He is the type of person who follows in his father's footsteps. The ghosts he controls are the same evil ghosts that his father once controlled, so they are somewhat useless.

The ghosts who give first and take later are of little use to the Demon Suppression Division. Considering the frequent ghost disasters in Wan'an County in recent years and the appearance of ghost fog, the heads of the Demon Suppression Division's prefectures and counties discussed the matter and reported to the Imperial Capital Headquarters, and finally decided to give up the rescue.

According to the speculation of Ding Datong of the prefecture, with Zhao Qiming's strength, he could only hold out for two months at most before the evil spirit would revive. After that, Wan'an County would lose its support.

Those who received the news in advance fled one after another, and eventually contact was cut off. People outside did not know exactly when Zhao Qiming had the accident.

If it weren't for Zheng He's later report, people outside would have thought that Wan'an County would sooner or later become a ghost town.

Everyone's attention was not focused on Wan'an County until Zheng He's file caught Ding Datong's attention.

In fact, there are still disputes among the prefectures and counties about the report on Zheng He.

If this incident had not happened suddenly, the county government would not have sent people to Wan'an County to investigate...

Thinking of this, the square-faced man suppressed his distracting thoughts and looked at the old man again:
"Does this mean that the Demon Suppression Department has solved this ghost case?"

The old man nodded.

The young man next to him was a little unconvinced, but he didn't open his mouth when he heard the square-faced man asking the question.

The square-faced man asked again:
"Did any more ghost disasters happen afterwards?"

The old man said:
"Not long after that, some people died in the west of the city."

"It's also a ghost disaster?!" The young man couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this, and then muttered:
“This happens too often.”

"I guess so." The old man nodded.

The square-faced man asked:

"Did this ghost disaster expand later?"

The old man was a little surprised:
"How could it expand? The court solved it at that time."

His words immediately silenced the three of them.

"Solve, solve?" Even though his square face looked quite calm, he lost his composure when he heard this.

His expression changed slightly and he glanced at the big man who still had his face covered.

The big man's expression didn't change, but the two of them were too familiar with each other. Even though the big man had thick eyebrows and looked like a beast, the square-faced man could still tell that his big brother seemed to have frowned...

"How could the court solve two ghost disasters so quickly?"

He asked hesitantly.

The old man just shook his head:
"If this isn't resolved, what can we do with just the death of a person?"

No one could answer his question.

The young man does not believe:

"Solving two ghost cases so quickly? I don't believe it."

"Anyway, no one died back there," said the old man.

"..."

"..."

"..."

The three of them were silent again.

Ordinary people don’t know much about ghost cases, nor do they know the procedures for handling them. They only know that if a ghost appears, they must report it to the Demon Suppression Bureau.

As for how the Demon Suppression Division would handle the matter, or even whether it would handle the matter at all, and whether it could eventually resolve the troubles smoothly, they had no idea.

The local officials could write random reports to deceive the court and their superiors, but there was one thing they could not hide: the ghost disaster had not been resolved and would still harm the local area.

At this time, the old man was not clear about the case handling process, nor did he know how to solve the ghost disaster, but there were no more deaths in the two cases he mentioned - so there was no doubt that these two cases were solved.

"……this……"

The young man was speechless for a moment. He looked at the square-faced man, and the square-faced man looked at the big man.

The big man knocked on the table twice, and the square-faced man calmed down and asked again:

"Then which direction is this Demon Suppression Division? Please point the way for me later."

"You guys are going to the Demon Suppression Division?"

When the old man heard this, he asked casually.

"We have an acquaintance who has entered the Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division. We came here just to see his—"

The square-faced man smiled.

"I see." The old man showed envy on his face:
"Joining the Demon Suppression Department is a lucrative job. You are lucky to have such an acquaintance."

After that, he casually said something:

"But it's not certain whether the Demon Suppression Division is in the mansion today."

His words startled the young man, and he asked:

"How do you say this?"

"Mr. Xu held a grand ceremony today. All the important people in the county went. The officials from the Demon Suppression Division also went. They said they had invited ghosts to appear to bring happiness to the Xu family. Many people saw it at the time."

The old man said happily:

"Afterwards, the Xu family brought several baskets of money as alms. I went there earlier and received a reward of one cent. I came back late, so the stove has just started to heat up."

"..."

The boy's expression was stunned again.

"Inviting ghosts to bring happiness?" He subconsciously looked at the square-faced man:
"Brother, what does this mean? Why don't I understand?"

Can ghosts bring happiness? Where would ghosts not scare people to death and make them wish their parents had given them two legs to run fast enough?
"..." The square-faced man was also stunned. Facing the young man's question, he didn't know how to answer and just shook his head instinctively.

"I don't understand either, but the adults said that the Xu family has been immune to ghosts since then." The old man said this, patted the dust off his clothes, and said carefully:

"Three gentlemen, have you finished your questions? I have to go light a fire and make some tea—"

“Brother—” The square-faced man looked at the big man, and the big man turned his gaze away.

The square-faced man knew what was going on and said:
"go Go."

Before the old man was about to leave, he said:
"By the way, which direction is the Xu family? Please show me the way later."

"Tsk." The old man thought of the two silver coins he had just received and nodded happily.

Afterwards the old man boiled water to make tea and cooked three bowls of noodle soup.

Among them, the young man and the square-faced man picked up their bowls and ate with big mouthfuls. Only the big man was different from the other two.

He did not take off the sweat towel, but pushed it over his face and brought the bowl of boiling hot soup to his mouth. The noodle soup had just come out of the pot. The two people next to him were grimacing in pain as they ate it with chopsticks. But the big man seemed not to be afraid of the heat at all. He opened his mouth and sucked the whole bowl of noodle soup into his mouth.

The big man calmly placed the empty bowl on the table, making a 'dong' sound.

The young man and the square-faced man next to him seemed to have been accustomed to his behavior and continued to eat their food in the bowls.

The old man who was still cleaning the stove inadvertently turned his head to take a look, and when he saw the empty bowl on the table, he was stunned for a moment.

……

After the three of them finished eating, they paid again.

The old man received three silver coins today and was very happy. He simply stopped doing business, asked the three people to wait for a while, sealed the stove, carried the goods to the house of a familiar person nearby, closed the stall, and then personally led these people to Xu's house.

At the same time as these three men were heading towards the Xu family, in the Demon Suppression Division and the county government office, County Magistrate Pang and Wu Shaochun also learned the news that three strangers had entered Wan'an County.