manynovel Chapter 111: Mouse Digging a Hole
Chapter 111: Mouse Digging a Hole
"Since he is Senior Nie's beloved disciple, then all this is a misunderstanding."
Wu Jing had a strange expression when he spoke.
After saying that, he bowed to Shen Xiaoyin again and said, "That's it. The matter of the Pantheon will be fully investigated by my government army.
However, the day when the blood moon is approaching, I will have to continue to trouble you, the Night Patrol Division, with the task of clearing out the evil spirits. This is a matter of great importance, and you and I must each perform our duties.
As for Brother Yang Qing, my Operations Department has not found any problems. It's all a misunderstanding. I can only say that he has good luck."
"My Night Tour Division has strict review procedures, and all those who are selected are of clean background. This time it is you who want to investigate, and my Night Tour Division is just cooperating and proving our innocence."
Shen Xiaoyin nodded and said with a smile.
“That’s right, thank you Commander Shen for your understanding.
Oh, by the way, there is one thing I forgot to tell Commander Shen. There is no need to investigate the matter of the Liu family in the east of the city any further.
We sent people to hold the Liu family in Baisha Mansion accountable. They said that they were tricked and someone must have impersonated the young master of the Liu family.
In order to prove their innocence, they recalled the young master of the Liu family and sent a team of more than 70 monks to Hengzhou Prefecture to assist in the defense, to ensure that we can safely survive this night of the blood moon.
The Baisha Mansion Liu family has guaranteed it with its hundreds of years of good reputation, so I think there shouldn't be any problems."
These words made Shen Xiaoyin frown, but the defense of the city was not the responsibility of the Night Patrol Division. Their main responsibility was to kill evil spirits, so they had no choice but to do this.
Afterwards, after the other party said goodbye, Shen Xiaoyin encouraged Yang Qing and Xia Wan, and hurried away with his people.
Now that the war is imminent, they have endless work to do and preparations to make.
On the way, Yang Tiechi asked Wu Jing curiously, "What is the origin of that boy's master? How come I didn't know that there was such a great god hidden in the Heroes' Shrine of Hengyue Mountain?"
"Oh, great god? You're just a frightened loser." Wu Jing said with a sigh.
"As for his origins, it is indeed glorious. He was born into an aristocratic family. When he was young, he studied under the master of the Xuanmen sect of Shu Kingdom, Tianshi Mansion. When he was young, he also worked as a night watchman. His Taoist hand seals are the best among his peers.
However, in a battle to encircle and suppress high-level evil spirits seventy years ago, all members of his team were slaughtered, and he himself became haunted by inner demons and could not bear to see the end of the evil spirits.
In the end, because of this, he was mocked by all the monks in Shu Kingdom. After he could no longer make a living there, he fled to our Hengzhou Prefecture. In order to avoid evil spirits, he found a job as a tomb keeper in the Martyrs' Shrine.
With the protection of the heroes in the Shrine, you will not be attacked by evil spirits and can spend your old age there in peace.
If it weren't for the fact that my Operations Research Department has good intelligence capabilities, I probably wouldn't have known the origins of this old man."
"If that's the case, then there's really nothing to investigate further. He's a loser who was brilliant in his youth but is now scared.
In that case, the kid named Yang Qing is really lucky. I guess he is the successor of the old man, so he probably gave him all the good things he had. "
"Haha, who said it wasn't?" Wu Jing said with envy in his eyes.
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At the same time, inside the Liu family compound.
The ghost monkey was now kneeling in front of Yagyu Fuguang and Kondo Yuki, with countless whip marks on his body and his face full of pain and fear, as if he had suffered severe punishment before this.
"So, you were deceived by the Night Watchman you captured and killed before he died, and were lured to a young master, and the mandrill and the wild beast were killed by that guy?"
"Yes, if I hadn't been smart and thought of coming back to report the situation, I would have probably followed the same fate as the mandrill and the wild beast."
"Humph! Shut up! You don't have that much courage. If you want to run away, just run away. Don't talk so nicely!"
Kondo Yuki's face turned pale as he scolded the ghost monkey.
Then he looked at Liu Fusheng with a look of self-blame on his face and asked, "Liu Sheng-san, I was too careless before. I, the Seven Kondo People, am to blame for the failure of this incident. Please punish me, Liu Sheng-san."
“Brother Kondo, you are a registered samurai noble of the Akita clan, but you can’t even do something as trivial as raiding a mine. To be honest, you have brought shame to us samurai nobles.
As a true samurai noble, you are not my vassal, so I am indeed not qualified to punish you.
How about this? Hengzhou Prefecture must be on alert now. Why don't you take your so-called Kondo Seven and evacuate here to avoid the limelight."
Liu Fusheng seemed to speak in a gentle manner, but to Kondo Yuki, his words were full of sarcasm.
If they really followed Liu Fusheng's suggestion and the Kondo Seven withdrew from Hengzhou Prefecture, they would basically become a joke among the Akita clan in the future.
They failed in the first mission and were asked to "return the goods" by the mission commander, which was almost like calling them useless by name.
"Yagyu-san, please give me another chance!"
Kondo Yugi knelt down on one knee and begged.
"Brother Kondo, you messed up the first thing I asked you to do, how can you expect me to give you a chance?
So, you better go and prove yourself as one of the Kondo Seven.
To wash away the shame is nothing more than greater glory or heroic sacrifice.
Go and prove your bravery, and find something for them to do, so that these night watchmen and government soldiers don't have too much free time."
Liu Sheng Fuguang tapped the table rhythmically with his fingers and spoke casually.
"Hey, we, the Kondo Five, are very good at finding things for people to do. Brother Yagyu, just wait and see."
Kondo Yuki patted his chest and agreed readily. After a while, he took the remaining people and left the Liu family mansion.
Looking at the figures of the Kondo Five leaving, Liu Fusheng murmured, "Mountain spirits and wild monsters are mountain spirits and wild monsters after all. They will never be able to appear on the stage and cannot be considered as real Shikigami."
At midnight, three miles south of the Hengzhou city wall, a slope suddenly rose up. Soon, two huge claws stretched out from the rise, revealing a deep hole in the ground. Then a big guy with huge incisors and shaped like a mouse crawled out from it.
"Graybeard, you, the shikigami, are really good at digging holes."
After the big rat called Graybeard came out of the hole, an evil creature like a praying mantis also came out.
"That's right, otherwise the boss wouldn't have sent me to dig a passage between the city and the outside world.
As for that guy with the armored body, although his original form is a pangolin and his speed in digging tunnels is not slow, he is still a little bit behind me.
He should have finished digging almost everything now, so I'll leave the rest to you."
"Thank you for your hard work, Graybeard-kun. I'm ready. Please take a rest."
After saying this, the evil mantis-like creature began to collapse at the sternum, revealing a fan-like partition, and began to emit rhythmic sounds similar to the chirping of insects as it breathed.
The sound of insects chirping spread far away. After a while, there were a lot of footsteps. When the footsteps got closer and closer, they turned out to be real evil spirits.
Seeing that many evil spirits were attracted by his insect-like sounds, the mantis-like evil spirit continued to make insect-like sounds, and even jumped into the tunnel dug by Huixu, and lured all the evil spirits into the tunnel.
This mantis is one of the Kondo Five, his shikigami is called Mushikama, and he has the ability to attract evil spirits.
In order to create some trouble for the Night Patrol of Hengzhou Prefecture, Kondo Yuki came up with a way to lure evil spirits from outside the city into the city.
The original seven of them all had their shikigami of the mountain spirit and wild monster type, and after revealing their forms, they all resembled evil animals. One of them was a mouse with a gray beard, and another was a pangolin with an armor-carrying body, both of whom were good at digging holes.
Kondo Yuki then arranged for one of them to dig a tunnel from two or three miles outside the city to the inside of the city, and the other to dig out criss-crossing tunnels in the inner city and try to dig through the cellars that ordinary residents used to hide at night.
After Chongjian had lured a large number of evil spirits in from outside the city through the tunnels, he ordered Huixu and Tuzhuijia to dig through the walls of the cellar and the tunnels, and let the evil spirits launch a large wave of attacks at night.
By then, as long as they are fast enough, they will be able to make the Hengzhou Prefecture flourish everywhere.
And the fact was just as Kondo Yuki had expected. The Tuozhuijia was very capable of digging tunnels. In just one day, it dug countless crisscrossing tunnels underground in Hengzhou Prefecture.
One of the tunnels even happened to be dug in a corner of the underground ghost market.
The so-called underground ghost market can be regarded as a collection of a city’s slums and black markets. It is usually located underground and is filled with gangs, refugees, and all kinds of people. Here you can buy all kinds of stolen goods, contraband, and even human beings.
As night falls, the population of the ghost market starts to increase. Some of them are truly homeless, while others come to sell stolen goods or "hunt for treasure."
But as the wall of a cave in the ghost market broke, a rodent suddenly rushed into the bustling ghost market.
Then the second, third, and more evil spirits came out.
For a moment, all the people in the evil spirits and ghost market screamed, but some were excited and others were afraid.
At the same time, screams were heard everywhere in Hengzhou Prefecture. The cellars in many houses were broken into by evil spirits, and a large number of evil spirits poured into the city.
In the east, south and north of the city, warning fireworks exploded everywhere.
Shen Xiaoyin's face turned pale when he received the warning. He knew without guessing that this was the method used by the Pantheon.
But the incident happened suddenly, and they were seriously short of manpower. In desperation, on the one hand, they sent people to ask the government army for help, and on the other hand, they formed a drum seal and began to recall some of the night watchmen who were hunting evil spirits outside the city.