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That night, Dafeng County completely changed.

All the officers and soldiers on duty at the four gates were controlled or taken over by the officers and soldiers from the capital.

Hundreds of elite soldiers quietly entered the city in several batches.

Qunfang Building.

At the time when singing and dancing were on the rise, a large group of officers and soldiers suddenly came and surrounded them.

The old lady's face turned pale with fright, and she bravely stepped forward and smiled: "Masters, are there any misunderstandings, our Qunfang Building has always

Before she could finish speaking, the leading officer slapped her across the face and shouted loudly, "Take it!"

"Yes!"

The two soldiers responded in unison, and immediately stepped forward like tigers and wolves to lock the old lady.

"Go in and search, and all suspicious persons will be taken down, and anyone who resists will be killed on the spot!"

"Follow the order!"

The sound was so loud that all the girls and guests in the building were terrified and hid everywhere.

At the same time, the Wei family.

"Master, it's not good, there are a lot of officers and soldiers coming outside."

A servant stumbled and ran into a wing room in the inner courtyard to report.

"Officers and soldiers?"

The Patriarch of the Wei family was startled, and hastily walked out of the house with a knife in hand.

"Who led the team?"

"I don't know"

Hearing this, Wei Xiu faintly felt a little bad.

In terms of the relationship between the Wei family and the government, it is impossible for officers and soldiers to come to find trouble for no reason.

Just as he was wondering, there was already a sound of beating and killing and a loud shout from outside: "Listen, people of the Wei family, the evidence is convincing for you to have an affair with another race, I advise you to catch it without a fight, or you will be killed!"

Now, Wei Xiu finally understood that the matter had been revealed.

It is impossible to catch him without a fight, because he knows in his heart that once he is caught, he will be killed, so it is better to kill a bloody path.

The Wei family started their fortune by running a bodyguard company, so naturally there are many disciples who are good at martial arts.

This is also Wei Xiu's confidence to resist.

"Everyone, kill me!"

Wei Xiu roared loudly, and at the same time waved his knife viciously and jumped onto the roof, trying to break out from the air.

I don't know

"Whoa, whoa, whoa"

Just before he recovered from the roof, there was a dense sound of breaking through the air, and he was shot into a hedgehog in an instant.

This is not an ordinary bow and arrow, but a special crossbow equipped by the imperial guards in the capital.

Although the shooting range is not as good as that of bows and arrows, it is light and easy to carry, and it can be fired in bursts, and its lethality is quite strong in a small range.

When Wei Xiu died, all the dragons had no leader.

The disciples of the Wei family fell into panic, their morale lost, and they retreated steadily. Some died, some surrendered, and some were captured.

On the other hand, the county government was also controlled.

The reason why the Wei family is so unscrupulous is not unrelated to the officials of the yamen.

Just as a group of officers and soldiers were arresting everywhere, Gu Ming followed two black shadows over the city wall like a ghost in the night and left the city.

Even Zana didn't know about the existence of these two people. After all, her status in the organization was not high, and it was Baru who confessed.

This guy was beheaded by Gu Ming, and his meridians were abolished by Zana to prevent this guy from fighting with trapped beasts.

In this way, what else does Baru think?

Just want to die quickly.

However, he thought it would not be so easy to die.

At least, before dying, one has to experience a period of despair and pain that is worse than death.

There is a deserted valley more than ten miles away from Dafeng County.

Gu Ming followed the two fish that slipped through the net all the way to this place.

Those two people from the Western Regions were very careful. After entering the ravine, they ran in two directions, one left and one right.

Gu Ming lacked the ability to separate himself, so he could only choose a target at random and continue to follow.

The other party didn't know whether he had noticed that someone was following him or was too careful, so he started to circle around.

But this is good, it gives Gu Ming a chance to get acquainted with the environment here.

After going around for about half an hour, the bearded man from the Western Regions just rushed to a gentle slope on the west side of the valley.

After following for a while, Gu Ming suddenly found a broken stone tablet in the grass. It looked like it was hundreds of thousands of years old and had been corroded by wind and moon.

However, the two words engraved on it can still be vaguely recognized: General.

There is only the upper half of the stele, and the handwriting is obviously incomplete.

"General?"

Gu Ming was quite puzzled.

Could it be a place name?General Mountain?General post?

Because most people like to use the names, titles, deeds, or allusions of some local bigwigs as place names, which can be regarded as a kind of honor or face project.

Continue to walk up the hillside for a while, and suddenly there is a small dilapidated temple in front of you.

The man with the beard from the Western Regions stopped and looked around for a few moments, then quickly entered the temple.

Gu Ming didn't catch up immediately, and continued to hide in the dark to observe.

As expected, after a while, the bearded man came out again and continued to look around

"What an old fox!"

Gu Ming couldn't help but secretly sighed.

After the other party entered again, Gu Ming waited for another cup of tea before quietly approaching the ruined temple.

When I got closer, I found that there were characters engraved on the top of the ruined temple. Although it was badly weathered, I could still recognize the characters as: Temple of the General.

Now Gu Ming finally understood the origin of the stone tablet below.

Temple, in the earliest days, originally referred to the place where ancestors were worshipped, which was later called ancestral hall.

Later, Buddhism flourished, and temples were generally called temples.

However, a temple can be called a temple, but a temple is not necessarily a temple.

For example, in the Temple of the Earth, although the Lord of the Earth is located in the lower realm, he is also a Taoist deity who is listed as a fairy.

There is also the Taimiao, which is generally a place where the royal family worships the ancestors of the past dynasties.

There are also many small temples among the people, which are used to worship the gods in the minds of some local people.

Presumably this general was a big man in the eyes of the people back then, so he made a special trip to build a temple for him

Chapter 181 Catch the turtle in the urn and catch it all!

After observing outside for a while, Gu Ming confirmed that there was no one in the temple, and then walked in.

The temple is not big, and a small half has collapsed.

The inside was empty, not even a candlestick left, only a statue sitting on the high platform in the middle.

However, the statue is incomplete.

From the perspective of style, the statue is a suit of armor, which should be the image of the enshrined general.

Gu Ming looked around, and with a thought, he began to show his discernment.

There is only one door to enter and exit this temple, so how could the people from the Western Regions who entered this temple disappear out of thin air?

The only possibility is that this temple must have hidden secrets.

Sure enough, this scan quickly found a secret door, just behind the high platform behind the statue.

This secret door was originally quite hidden, and it seemed that some kind of mechanism should have been set up in the past.

I don't know if it was destroyed or it was damaged naturally for too long. The mechanism has failed. Just push it lightly with your hand, and a small entrance will be revealed.

A series of narrow steps spiraled down into the dark depths.

There was a sense of mystery.

How did those people from the Western Regions find such a hidden place?

Could it be another secret base?

Gu Ming stood outside thinking for a while, and observed carefully for a while, but found no trace of people or other institutions, and then bent down and stepped on the steps slowly down.

The steps were in a spiral shape, and when they turned about seven or eight times, a faint light came into view.

At this time, Gu Ming stopped, and once again used the skill of discerning the details with all his strength. The beauty of this skill is that within the range, any slight fluctuations cannot be concealed from his perception.

Although the result of perception is not as intuitive as what the eyes see, the effect is even stronger.

It is said that seeing is believing and hearing is believing.

In fact, what the eyes see may not be true, especially in the world of Liao Zhai, there are so many demons and ghosts, and they are ever-changing, how can the naked eye see through them?

Not long after, Gu Ming couldn't help frowning.

Because he sensed that there was a relatively closed space below, and besides the two men from the Western Regions who followed before, there was another strange aura, which looked like a human being but not a human, or a ghost but not a ghost.

From the looks of it, this organization is really evil!

Now that we have encountered it, why not just kill it?

Of course, Gu Ming is not conceited or blind, but confident.

From the observation just now, judging from the opponent's aura, there is no problem at all with one against three.

Then come and catch a turtle in a urn!

Below is a stone chamber, about ten feet square.

There are some wine, food, and some miscellaneous things piled up inside. It seems that it is really a secret stronghold of the other party.

Just in response to an old saying: the cunning rabbit has three holes.

In the stone room, the three of them were sitting around and plotting together.

Two of them were men from the Western Regions, and the other was dressed in black, with a haggard face, and his skin was dark, wrinkled and dry, like old withered bark.

The whole person looks very much like a dried mummy, and there is a faint black air between the breaths, which is even more strange.

This person did not speak Persian, and the other party also used Central Plains dialect when talking with him.

It sounded like the words of this strange man in black robe were even weirder than those of the two barbarian men. They were dull and dry, as if they were coming out of his stomach.

The reason why this person's breath is so strange is because he is no longer a human being!

Nor are ghosts.

It's the living dead in the legends of the rivers and lakes.

It is generally believed in the rivers and lakes that the living dead originated from western Hunan and southern Xinjiang, and belonged to a combination of poison, Gu, and witchcraft.

It is said that this is an extreme way of cultivation.

Some wizards or Gu masters were seriously injured, or their lifespan was nearing the end, and they had no intention of leaving the world, so they used secret techniques to refine their bodies.

The specific method is rarely known to the outside world, but according to rumors in the world, the living dead are actually a combination of poisonous corpses and Gu insects.

It is equivalent to refining oneself into a human-shaped poisonous Gu, merging the soul with the body, so as to achieve the purpose of stealing the sky and changing the sun.