Rivers and lakes in another world

Chapter 295 Provocation
After listening to Zhao Ying's narration, Chen Zheng and others can be said to have placed their suspicion on the Five Ghosts Sect, because the strength of the Five Ghosts Sect cannot be estimated, and there is no other more favorable evidence left at the scene. , so they still don't have any clue as to where they should go to find Chen Zheng from the Five Ghost Sect.

However, Chen Zheng arranged for people to pass the news that the assailant might be a remnant of the Five Ghost Sect to the Intelligence Department, the City Guard Army, and the City Guard Mansion respectively.

The leader of the intelligence department is called Ma Rui.It looks ordinary, like an ordinary person, but the essence in the eyes can show the extraordinaryness of this person, the ordinary appearance is just a disguise, in order to be able to better complete the task.

Although they are all different departments of the Military Intelligence Department, people from the Intelligence Department and the Operations Department never interfere with each other's activities. Each department has its own secrets, so Chen Zheng and others did not ask about the intelligence department. What exactly did the people appear in the palace, but after listening to the reminder from the action team, they also mobilized people to start looking up all kinds of things about the five ghosts from various ancient books.

Of course, the same is true for the city guard mansion and the city guard army.

Now they have too little information in their hands, so Chen Zheng directly reminded his subordinates to pay attention to some safety, and try not to be too far away from their current station.

The next two or three days were uneventful.

Dingbei City was peaceful, and everyone seemed to have forgotten that the murderer had not yet been caught in the murder case that just happened in the city a few days ago.

As a result, on the fourth day, another small family, which was about the same size as the Wang family, was also wiped out. The wounds and sobriety on the deceased's body were basically consistent with the Wang family's. Obviously, that group of people did not leave at all, and they chose their targets again.

But this time, just after the official dealt with the situation of this small family, another extermination case occurred in the city, but this time it was not a family but a small chamber of commerce.It is a chamber of commerce established by several small businessmen who gathered together to keep warm.A total of more than [-] people, including guards and coachmen, were killed.

The goods left in the chamber of commerce have not been moved at all, and the method of death is exactly the same as the previous two cases.

During the three consecutive times of extermination, the tactics were like a withdrawal. It is obvious that there is such a group of suspected remnants of the five ghosts lurking in Dingbei City. The frequency of their actions is becoming more and more frequent. Either they have urgent needs, or It was they who were provoking the officials of Dingbei City.

The impact of the three massacres can be said to be very large.Especially in a big city with commercial transactions like Dingbei City, there are a lot of business travelers coming and going.Merchants who travel between Beiyan and the grassland will choose to trade here because it is convenient and fast enough.

But a very important prerequisite for doing business in Dingbei City is safety.Once a war broke out, such as the situation where the prairie invaded the border, the trade in Dingbei City would be greatly reduced.This kind of border city will face the threat of war anytime and anywhere.No matter how daring a businessman is, he can't risk his own life to rush into Dingbei City to do business in the flames of war.

However, there are some similarities between the serial extermination incidents and the coming of war this time.

More than 200 people have been killed so far in less than a week.The murderer came and went without a trace.Despite official appeasement notices and even increased patrols in the city, they have so far failed to capture a single murderer.

Moreover, there is also a rumor circulating that such a cruel method should be the practice of the Five Ghost Sects of a demon sect in ancient times. They acted ruthlessly and extremely cruelly.Not only can it eat human internal organs, but it is also said that it can control the five ghosts, so it is very troublesome to deal with, and it can often kill people invisible.The reason why the city guards didn't find anything during this week was because people from the Five Ghost Sect were controlling the ghosts to kill people, so they were so silent.

As soon as this statement came out, it spread sequentially.At first, people didn't really believe it, but later on, the idea became more and more widespread, as if someone was pushing it from behind, sweeping the whole city.

For a moment, people were in panic, after all, no one wanted to die suddenly for no reason, and it might be at the hands of ghosts.It cannot be denied that the theory of ghosts still exists in Yuanwu Continent.I haven't seen anything like a ghost.But there were still a few cases of that kind of ghost killing.Many merchants and common people heard that there were ghosts killing people in the city recently, and they were so afraid that they couldn't sleep.Some people have to keep the lights on when they fall asleep at night, and fall asleep shivering all over.

There are also some who are less courageous and choose to leave Dingbei City first to avoid the limelight, and then come back to live after the time for this series of ghosts to kill the family has passed.

In Dingbei City, which was prosperous for a while, the flow of people has been greatly reduced, and the business travelers who come and go are much less affected by this time.It is estimated that the commercial tax revenue in the city may decrease by a large part this month.

Despite the city walls and the protection of the city guards, there are always people who feel that danger will come to them. If these people are not caught, they will not appear in the city for a day.

On the contrary, some big families in the city still have dignitaries, and they are more confident. Their homes are full of well-trained servants and guards, and some people patrol and watch all night.There must be at least a few hundred people at the top and bottom. I wonder if those small families can compare.Because the targets of these murderers so far have been those small families and small chambers of commerce, so the number of masters of these people may not be many, and it may be that people from these big families occupy the dominant position in terms of numbers.

Two very different scenes were formed in Dingbei City at this time.A group of people are desperately trying to run outside, and there is a group of people in the city where the old god is, very calm.

The impact of this incident is not limited to this. It is not only the image of the people, but also invisibly weakens the credibility of Beiyan officials in people's hearts. No, it's really a bit five.He also began to complain in his heart why the people in the city guard's mansion and the city guard didn't take action as soon as possible.

I collect so much tax from everyone every month, but what's the point of existence if I can't even handle the murder well?Wouldn't it be all out to eat, drink and have fun?There are always some people who think so maliciously.

If these people knew that not only the City Guard Mansion, but also the City Guard Army, the Intelligence Department of the Military Intelligence Department, and the Action Team were all at a loss, they might not have continued to complain, but had chosen to run away.

Now the officials in these three places all look very bad, even a little annoyed.

This group of people from the Five Ghosts Sect was too unscrupulous. It was obvious that they cleaned up the scene carefully when they made their first move, without leaving many traces. They were very careful, for fear of being discovered.But when there was no solid evidence in Dingbei City, they became more daring, and they directly carried out two murder cases after only hiccupping for two or three days.

What's even worse is that anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is the murderer's provocation to the government.There was even a very obvious cut half of the internal organs left at the chamber of commerce.

This is a naked humiliation and an aboveboard slap in the face of Beiyan officials.It is a very serious provocation.But this is their own fault. They really found no trace of the murderer.It is really difficult to find a murderer who is probably hiding in a city with such a large number of people.Even people from the Intelligence Department and the Action Team encountered the same difficulty.

Even if they knew that the murderer might be a member of the Five Ghost Sect, these people have not appeared in front of their eyes so far, and there are still a lot of strange groups that come and go in Dingbei City, and they are all staring at inns, restaurants and other places. , found very few indeed.

It made a group of people angry and anxious, but there was nothing they could do.

There is no way, if you can't even trace the person's whereabouts, how to find the target and arrest the person, this is not a difficulty for the strong.

The top priority of Dingbei City officials is to discover the whereabouts of these murderers, even if they are a suspected target.However, these people from the Five Ghost Sect seem to be extra cautious. This may have something to do with their behavior and habits over the years. In order to preserve the martial arts inheritance of the sect, they have put a lot of effort into lurking and invisible martial arts. .

The resident of the action team at this time.

Chen Zheng and a group of people are sitting here having a meeting to discuss.Everyone's complexion is not very good.This incident of exterminating the door can be said to have severely slapped the action team in the face. As a good arrester, he can't even trace the murderer's track, and his ability to spread the word to his group will be doubted.

"Brother Shen, haven't we found any clues that we can use so far?" Chen Zheng asked.

Shen Kuo said helplessly: "There is really no way. We have not found any trace of that group of people so far. Maybe it is like the rumors in the neighborhood that these people from the Five Ghost Sect really use ghosts to kill people, so It’s not that easy for us to find.”

"Do these Five Ghost Sects also have some magic to control ghosts?" Chen Zheng asked curiously.He is very curious about this aspect.In my previous life, I was ignorant and ignorant, and I had never heard of ghosts, and I had never carefully understood them on Blue Star, and I even read relatively few ghost novels.

But the Yuanwu Continent is also a world of high martial arts, do these things really exist?"

Shen Kuo nodded: "It's not bad to say it's a ghost, but there are still some differences from what is said in the storybook."

The ghosts in the stories all have their own minds, emotions, and joys, and they can act according to their own preferences.Some are willing to help others, and their kindness should be repaid by a spring.Some have evil intentions and are filled with resentment.

But in fact, the ghosts that really exist on the Yuanwu Continent are not like that.For example, Yin Xiu in the alien sect, and the five ghost sects, the ghosts they control are actually an alternative way of martial arts, but the process of cultivation may be a bit cruel.

The ghosts in their hands have no sanity, and all actions must be controlled by these warriors.Moreover, the effects of each ghost are different. They will continue to change with the warrior's sacrifice and are not static.And the appearance of a ghost does not represent a life, it may even be more.

Strictly speaking, these ghosts in the warrior world are an energy body formed by the spiritual power in the primordial spirit.It seems transparent, but it can affect the outside world.But it's not that just a person's primordial power can be cultivated into a ghost.

Ordinary people who have never practiced cultivation may have the power of the primordial spirit on their bodies the size of a grain of rice. If ordinary people are to condense ghosts, it will take countless lives to gather together.

The warrior is a better choice.Although not every warrior can learn the mystical method of primordial spirit and know how to use his primordial power to carry out a certain degree of attack and defense.But in the process of every warrior's cultivation, when the vitality of heaven and earth is nourishing the body, the primordial spirit is also feeling the rules of heaven and earth, and the primordial spirit is also slowly developing and growing, and a layer of primordial spirit barrier can be formed when it reaches the state of Tongmai It's time to simply defend against the attacks of the meta-occult method.

Therefore, the best material for refining ghosts is dead warriors.If the time of death is not long, these yin cultivators can still try to extract the power of the soul from the corpse, and after reaching a certain scale, they can try to condense their own ghosts.

As for the development direction of this ghost and its various magical uses, it all depends on the means of the refiner.And the control power of the refiner also determines the fighting power of the ghost to a certain extent.

Because these ghosts are all energy bodies, if they don't use the true energy defense immediately, they are likely to be attacked successfully.

Of course, high-level fighters are born with very keen senses, and they will not let those ghosts approach quietly, and some people carry all kinds of magic weapons for detection, which are also first-class treasures. , whether it is an assassin lurking in the shadows or these somewhat mysterious ghosts will be discovered.

Although the concealment of these ghosts is very good, it is always beneficial to use them to kill people in secret, but they are not so strong when facing the power of Taoism and Buddhism, and the sects that know how to refine ghosts are now very powerful. Because they are being suppressed by the righteous way, some famous people like Wuguimen have long secretly dared not show their faces, and only dared to do some small tricks in secret.

Only some yin cultivators who are mysterious, have countless means, and are still acting alone have the courage to walk outside in a fair manner.

As for the reason, many of these yin cultivators are single-handed, and only when they reach home will they be released to walk the rivers and lakes, so every yin cultivator is very strong, and with all kinds of weird and exotic moves, it can be said to be very powerful. Tricky, whether it is righteous warriors or magic warriors, they are respectful and far away from them. If you can avoid them, choose and avoid them.

(End of this chapter)