I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Since the fox spirit became Zhang Chen's skill, it has been in an invisible state to outsiders, and ordinary mortals cannot see it at all. The fox spirit appeared in the field swaggeringly, and the surrounding yamen runners turned a blind eye to it.

Because he was escorted by the yamen runners, Zhang Chen did not answer the fox spirit's words, but stared at the dejected fox spirit. Obviously, the fox spirit had failed to persuade the bookworm.

"I need money! I need silver," Zhang Chen muttered to himself in a low voice. The yamen runners could not hear him, but he believed that the fox spirit could definitely hear him.

"You can speak loudly now! I have already cast an illusion, and these people can't hear us," the fox spirit said, following beside Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this. He didn't expect the fox spirit to have such abilities: "I need money! I need a lot of silver!"

"Silver is easy to talk about. Wait here for a while. The village chief in the village still has dozens of taels of silver hidden in his house. I will fetch it for you."

Without saying a word, the fox spirit disappeared from Zhang Chen's eyes like a whirlwind. In just over thirty breaths, Zhang Chen felt a weight in his sleeve, and there were already some things inside.

Although the fox spirit's transportation method cannot conceal matter now, the fox spirit is an eighth-order great demon, and it is easy to cast illusions to deceive ordinary people.

"I'm sorry, I failed to persuade that scholar. Can you give him a way out?" The fox spirit put the silver in Zhang Chen's sleeve and apologized in a low voice.

Touching the silver in his sleeve, Zhang Chen suddenly felt that having 'the fox spirit as a living skill' was an extremely good feeling, simply good to the extreme.

Zhang Chen did not answer the fox spirit's words, but instead put the fox spirit away, looked at the leading constable, took out the silver from his sleeve, and then stepped forward: "This lord, I have a little something for you here, and I hope you won't dislike it."

As he spoke, Zhang Chen directly stuffed all the silver over. Anyway, it wasn't his silver, so he didn't feel bad about spending it.

With the fox spirit as a living skill, would he still be afraid of not having silver to spend in the future?

There are many wealthy families in the city, and those are all his granaries!

The constable was surprised to grip the silver in his hand. It was probably twenty taels of silver. How come he didn't find it when he searched this kid before?

But there was no need to pursue this. Anyway, the silver was in his hands now, and the constable immediately smiled, his attitude greatly changed:

"My surname is Liu, you can call me Constable Liu!"

Constable Liu stuffed the silver in his hand into his sleeve, and then said to a yamen runner beside him: "What are you standing there for? Why don't you quickly remove the shackles and fetters for this little brother?"

At this time, a constable hurriedly stepped forward and removed the shackles from Zhang Chen's body.

Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from the village, and the figures of Zhang Shi and others gradually disappeared, Constable Liu touched the silver in his sleeve, and then looked at Zhang Chen with his eyes:

"It seems you know what's what, I'll give you a tip! You're in big trouble this time! If you can come up with three hundred taels of silver, you might have a chance to bribe someone and get the county magistrate to clear you. If you don't have three hundred taels of silver, if you have any last words, just say them, and we'll relay them for you, otherwise you may not have a chance."

Zhang Chen's expression changed when he heard this, and his face turned pale in an instant. He behaved like a normal village youth, and even stammered when he spoke: "Constable Liu, why do you say that? I didn't do anything, why would the master blame me? Isn't it a normal court confrontation? Why would it be like this?"

"It was originally an insignificant normal confrontation. Even if Zhang Chen lost an ear, it wouldn't be anything. He could just pay some money to settle it. But your two houses were razed to the ground, everything within fifty meters was destroyed, and a pit several meters deep appeared on the ground. What kind of power is this? If we don't investigate clearly, do you think you can still get out?"

Zhang Chen pretended to be stunned when he heard this, constantly mobilizing the crystals in his body, drawing blood from his face, making his face look even paler: "What does this have to do with me? I was hunting in the mountains, I am innocent! If according to what the official said, Zhang Chen actually survived the explosion, even if there is a problem, it should be Zhang Chen! After all, the ground was blown out of a big pit, how is it that the poor scholar Zhang Chen is still alive? Only losing an ear?"

"You're right, so now that poor scholar Zhang Chen has gone to the government yamen to sue you, he has already turned himself in and been arrested and imprisoned in the prison, and then Zhang Chen opened his mouth to identify you. Do you understand what I mean?" Constable Liu said: "Such a big thing has happened, if we don't investigate clearly, people will die! Many, many people will die! Even the county magistrate will be implicated. I heard people say that the Pingbian Prince's Mansion has already begun to investigate and prepare to find out the truth of the matter and trace the source of that power."

"You should be clear that no matter who masters this power, the world will change."

Zhang Chen's heart sank when he heard this. As expected, the worst situation had happened. No matter in which era, once gunpowder appeared, it would definitely be a shocking event.

He probably understood the meaning of Constable Liu's words. If it were in the twenty-first century, if there was a sudden unexplained explosion, or even an energy explosion that exceeded everyone's understanding, the government would also do everything possible to investigate clearly and block all information that could be blocked.

If you don't investigate clearly, how can the government sleep soundly?

There is no doubt that the gunpowder that Zhang Chen ignited is on this list. For the people of this era, it is simply equivalent to dropping a nuclear weapon directly in World War II. If the terrifying deterrent power is not investigated clearly, who dares to relax?

"It's not just the government yamen, but also the Pingbian Prince's Mansion, and the spies of those foreign races on the border, and even the imperial court's Inspectorate Division, will secretly send experts to investigate. The northern region will be completely chaotic in the future, with spies from all sides appearing on the stage, and you and Zhang Chen are the parties involved. Do you think you can escape the relationship if you don't investigate clearly?"

Zhang Chen was immediately anxious when he heard this: "How did I become a party involved? What does it have to do with me? At that time, I was hunting in the mountains, and Zhang Chen was at home. He is the party involved! He caused the trouble, and seeing that he couldn't shirk it, he wanted to frame me. I am really going to be wronged to death."

"Of course, the scholar Zhang Chen is the most suspicious, after all, he was at the scene of the explosion at the time, and he was the first eyewitness, a party involved. But who told your two families to be neighbors? He is now biting you, insisting that you wanted to kill him, that the explosion was related to you, what do you think we should do? Of course, it is better to kill by mistake than to let go," Constable Liu said with sympathy in his voice, looking at Zhang Chen with his eyes, always feeling that this guy was just an unlucky guy.

He also believed that this matter had nothing to do with Zhang Chen, after all, Zhang Chen was wandering in the mountains at the time, completely unaware of what happened in the village. But the scholar Zhang Chen was at the scene of the crime. Even a fool could tell who had the biggest suspicion. But now the key is that the scholar Zhang Chen opened his mouth to bite Zhang Chen to death, completely unwilling to let go, leaving no choice but to do so.

"How could I have that ability? Perhaps it was some kind of thunder that struck and blew up the house?" Zhang Chen repeatedly cried out for injustice.

"It's impossible for a thunder explosion to create a pit in the earth! The Inspectorate has examined it, and it's not the power of thunder," said Liu Butou.

The power of thunder is very strong, capable of striking animals and trees, but it cannot strike the earth! Zhang Chen also knew that this explanation was unconvincing. There are frequent lightning strikes in later generations, but no one has ever seen the ground being split into a large pit!

What splits the earth into a pit isn't lightning, it's a missile!

"But I didn't do it! If I had that power, I would have become a guest of honor long ago, why would I still need to work so hard to go into the mountains to hunt?" Zhang Chen kept shouting injustice.

"Of course I know you didn't do it! Not only do I know, but everyone knows you didn't do it. Otherwise, it would be the guys from the Inspectorate who came to arrest you, not us ordinary constables. But now the magistrate needs to find a scapegoat to give an explanation to the Prince's Mansion and the Inspectorate. The scholar alone seems a bit light, a poor scholar's guilt doesn't seem to be enough. If we add you, it might be barely enough, so you understand what I mean, right?" Liu Butou said with a smile.

Zhang Chen was speechless upon hearing this. He suddenly remembered a saying from his previous life: Sometimes, the person who wronged you knows better than you how wronged you are.

Without a doubt, Zhang Chen had encountered this now.

However, he was not anxious, after all, he still had the fake death technique to escape.

The group traveled all the way to the county town. This was the first time that the previous Zhang Chen, plus the current Zhang Chen, had come to the county town.

It's just that the county town was a bit disappointing. In the distance was a city, with very high city walls, about five meters high. Soldiers holding spears and wearing ordinary clothes stood at the city gate, checking the passing pedestrians.

Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the soldiers, and he thought to himself: "Everyone has been deceived by TV dramas. Where do the soldiers guarding the city gate have armor to wear? I'm afraid only the elite in the army have the opportunity to wear armor, right?"

"This county town is old and small. What county town? It's similar to the rural towns of the past." Zhang Chen passed through the city gate. The soldiers guarding the city gate saw the constables and let them pass directly. After Zhang Chen entered the city, looking at the restaurants on both sides, a look of disappointment appeared on his face.

The restaurants were at most three meters high, and very old and dilapidated. Most of them were only one story high.

People came and went on the streets, busily shuttling between the streets and alleys, constantly busy. Everyone was wearing ragged clothes, skinny, and their faces were sallow. Their eyes were numb and without any vitality.

"Numbness!" A thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind as he looked at the people coming and going on the street.

Apart from numbness, it seemed that no other word could describe it. The people of the entire county town were lifeless, without the vitality that people should have.

There were not many vendors on the street, sparsely setting up stalls, and they were often driven away by the soldiers in the city.

"Does this world also have city management?" Zhang Chen looked at the soldiers overturning the stalls, and couldn't help but look surprised.

"Speaking of county town, it's similar to the towns in the south, not even as good as those small tourist towns in later generations," Zhang Chen thought to himself.

The last bit of curiosity he had about the ancient county town had now disappeared completely, with no more curiosity left.

As he was talking, he came straight to the yamen. The so-called yamen was just a courtyard with some structure, far from looking as majestic as it did on TV.

However, the moment Zhang Chen saw the county yamen, his pupils suddenly shrank, and the golden light in his eyes automatically flowed out at this moment.

In his Dharma Eye, the originally unremarkable county yamen was now shrouded in a layer of purple light. The purple light was very domineering. Even the golden light in Zhang Chen's pupils, after reflecting the purple light, seemed to be rendered and invaded by the purple light. The golden light was actually stained with a trace of purple, as if it was about to be swallowed and infected by the purple light.

The feeling was like two dyes, the other party was purple, and he was golden yellow.

But when the two dyes met, his golden yellow was actually neutralized by the purple and was about to be transformed into purple. He was immediately shocked and quickly closed the golden light.

Then he saw the golden light flowing in his body, dissolving the purple light that had penetrated through his pupils, and Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

When he went to sense the other skills, he found that they were all heavy and obscure, and it was extremely difficult to mobilize them. On the contrary, the dragon energy was unusually active at this time, as if there was a feeling of a dragon returning to the sea.

"What is the purple aura that shrouds the county yamen? Could it be the destiny of the human dynasty? In the past, the human dynasty had the saying of destiny! If we say that the greatest destiny in the world, it must be the dynasty's destiny. Otherwise, how could the dynasty slay the dragon?" A thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind.

Fortunately, the Beast Taming Technique could still be used, and the Blood Control Technique could also be used as usual, which gradually relaxed Zhang Chen's heart.

Even if the situation was worse, he could just fake his death!

Moreover, he could feel that the fox spirit, protected by his own dragon energy, could still be summoned.

"Fortunately! I still have skills that I can use!" Zhang Chen secretly relaxed.

At least he could fake his death, and he could use the fox spirit to counterattack at a critical moment.

"Hurry up and report to the master, the suspect Zhang Chen has been brought here, and please ask the master to give the order." Liu Butou shouted to the yamen servant at the door, and then said to the yamen servant beside him: "Lock him up."

At this time, the yamen servant took out chains again and locked Zhang Chen's hands and feet, and then said to Zhang Chen: "How to deal with it next depends on the county magistrate's decision. I only hope that you can get out of here sooner, that the county magistrate can return your innocence and send you home to reunite with your family as soon as possible, otherwise…"

Liu Butou didn't elaborate on what would happen otherwise, but Zhang Chen could hear that it was definitely not a good word.

"This world is really a bunch of corrupt officials!" Zhang Chen said silently.

It's too dark!

A group of people stood in the yard and waited for a while, and a yamen servant said: "The master has ordered that he be taken to the hall for questioning."

Liu Butou nodded upon hearing this and led Zhang Chen towards the hall.

"Majesty ~"

A burst of majestic shouts rang out, and from afar, someone was heard shouting: "Where is the prisoner Zhang Chen?"