I was held captive by demons

Those armored soldiers stood aside, watching everyone's movements vigilantly, as if they would immediately attack each other with their swords if anyone made any changes.

It is clearly a peaceful age, without wars, but the atmosphere is so dignified.

Could it be that these people in the Hejian Mansion already know the reality of the world and the chaos of demons raging in the world?That's why they set up checkpoints and are heavily guarded?

But this group of mortal soldiers, although full of blood, can only bully monsters with less than a hundred years of practice.

As long as a monster with more than a hundred years of practice can easily break through this city gate.Is it meaningful that they are so vigilant?

Kong Ning was confused.

After queuing in the crowd for a while, Kong Ning finally understood why the soldiers were heavily guarded.

What these soldiers are guarding against is not monsters, but living people.

The bulletin board next to the city gate is covered with various blood-red arrest warrants.

The wanted persons above are all Jiangyang robbers who committed vicious murders in Hejian Mansion.

Wanted criminals, that's normal.

It's just that the number of arrest warrants is a bit intimidating.

Just from the number of these arrest warrants, we can roughly outline an extremely chaotic world.

It is not clear whether the demons harm people or not, but those mortals who are high-spirited and skilled in martial arts have obviously lost their restraint, causing disasters recklessly in the world, and it is difficult to control.

The land of Hejian Mansion alone has become so chaotic...

The emptiness in the crowd was slightly speechless.

Obviously there are no famines and wars, but the world has become so chaotic, a dark and hopeless end-time scene.

The vast world beyond Shanlan County is much more dangerous than he expected.

He led Caiwei to the front of the team and was inspected by the patrolling soldiers.

Although Caiwei has cat ears and animal eyes and a tail, Kong Ning's illusion can easily confuse these mortals.

Coupled with the guide issued by the Shanlan County Government, Kong Ning easily entered the city gate.

After entering the city gate, what they saw was a crowd of people shuttling back and forth.

Hejian Mansion is indeed extremely lively, and the streets are crowded with each other and bustling.

It's just that there is no loud shouting here.

Those street vendors all stood silently behind the stalls, observing the surrounding situation vigilantly, as if something was wrong and they were about to run away at any moment.

The whole city, although people come and go, is extremely prosperous, but it is still everywhere, revealing a strange depression.

Kongning and Caiwei didn't go far when they saw a fierce quarrel ahead.

Surrounded by the crowd, a man beat a woman while holding her down.

While beating and cursing: "I told you to run! I told you to steal!"

The woman's face was covered with blood from his beating, she screamed and struggled.But among the crowd watching around, no one reached out to help.

Not even a voice of discussion.

The people huddled together watched all this silently, and no one spoke.

Only the man's scolding kept ringing.

"Let you disobey women! Let you disobey women!"

Such an incongruous combination of noise and silence made this scene inexplicably weird.

As the crowd watched, the man beat and cursed.

But at this moment, the sound of horseshoes came from a distance.

"Who is making trouble!"

Kong Ning turned his head, and saw several yamen arresters coming here on fast horses.Everyone on the street along the way gave way one after another.

And when the man heard the sound of the horse's hooves, he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his arms, and stabbed it fiercely into the woman's heart.

"I told you to steal people!"

The moment the dagger pierced the woman's heart, the disheveled woman froze and fell down.

The crowd of onlookers dispersed one after another.

Several arresters on fast horses rushed over, only to see the man yell, and use the dagger that stabbed his wife to death, and pull hard on his neck.

Immediately, blood spurted wildly.

The two corpses of a man and a woman just fell on the streets of the busy city.

As for the onlookers, from the beginning to the end, no one wanted to stop the persuasion, and they all watched silently.

Now that the crowd dispersed, the police officers reined in their horses and stopped, looking at the two corpses on the ground, but they didn't react too excitedly.

It seems to be used to it.

The leading arrester quickly said, "Zhao San, go and inform the family of the deceased, and tell them to come and clean up the body and clean the road."

After speaking, the group of arresters were ready to leave.

But when the leading police officer turned around, he suddenly saw Kong Ning in the crowd.

He was slightly taken aback, a little surprised.

"Kongning? Why did you come to Hejian Mansion?" Zhang Rong, who used to be a policeman in Shanlan County and is now a fast catcher in Hejian Mansion, said happily.

He got off his horse, ran to Kong Ning, and said with a smile: "When you come to Hejian Mansion, don't tell my brother, so I can clean up the dust for you!"

Zhang Rong was very happy to meet an old acquaintance.

Kong Ning looked at him, at the dispersed crowd, and at the two corpses lying in a pool of blood with wide open eyes.

He smiled and said, "Zhang Tou, your Hejian Mansion..."

After a pause, Kong Ning added: "The folk customs are simple and simple."

Zhang Rong was slightly startled by this, and then smiled helplessly.

"Naturally, it can't compare to the stability and peace of Shanlan County... Sigh..."

As he spoke, he couldn't help sighing, and said, "But this is all good. There are many more sinister things than this."

"You will know if you stay in Hejian Mansion for a few more days."

"The world outside is really not for people. I regret coming back..."

Chapter 125

Seeing Kong Ning, Zhang Rong was very happy.

That kind of joy is clearly a feeling of being depressed and eager to vent when you meet an old friend in a foreign land.

It's just that this Hejian Mansion is obviously Zhang Rong's hometown, shouldn't he be happy when he returns to his hometown?

It seems that this former boss is not having a good time after returning to Hejian Mansion?

Kong Ning thought in his heart.

And Zhang Rong had already greeted several other policemen and asked them to leave first, so he dragged Kong Ning away.

As for the two corpses on the ground, almost no one paid attention to them except for a policeman who stayed behind to guard them.

Zhang Rong asked curiously as he walked.

"Why did you come to Hejian Mansion? Did Lord Liu send you on business?"

"Also, who is the doll on your back? Why haven't I seen it before?"

Zhang Rong asked curiously.

Kong Ning smiled and said: "This is my apprentice, Xu Caiwei...Caiwei, send Uncle Zhang hello."

The little girl called out timidly, "Hello, Uncle Zhang."

Zhang Rong suddenly smiled, nodded and said: "Okay, okay... this little girl is quite cute. But your apprentice? When did you accept an apprentice? You also accepted a girl doll, don't you think you are trying to get me?" Can the family martial arts be passed on to her?"

"Also, where is your wife? Su Yan is such a beautiful new wife, you won't let her stay alone in the vacant room, will you? Traveling so far alone, you still have to live in Hejian Mansion for a long time? Leave your new wife at home? You It's also a big heart..."

"Why don't you take her with you?"

"But it's fine if you don't bring it. The outside is not a good place. It can't compare with the safety of Shanlan County..."

Zhang Rongxu chattered, and led Kong Ning into a teahouse by the roadside.

In the lobby on the first floor, there were scattered tea drinkers.But just like on the street outside, these tea drinkers are equally silent, at most whispering among each other, while most people are drinking tea in silence without saying a word.

The entire lobby of the tea shop exuded an evil sense of oppression.

Several tea doctors standing against the corner also looked weak, they did not shuttle between the tables and chairs, but glanced around indifferently, thinking about something.

There was only one storyteller sitting on the stage, loudly telling the story of a martial artist who went up the mountain to fight against evil.

But the voice fell in the dead hall of the tea shop, but it was inexplicably empty and strange.

It seems that there is only this storyteller left in the whole teahouse.

Zhang Rong walked into the tea shop with Kong Ning, and the shopkeeper immediately greeted him, and said with a smile on his face, "Master Zhang came so early today..."

But even if the shopkeeper warmly welcomed the guests, his voice was lowered a few degrees, and he didn't dare to make any noise at all.

Such a weird situation made Kong Ning frowned slightly.

Residents of this Hejian Mansion have a sinister aura everywhere.

On the official road outside the city, all the people coming and going were silent and did not dare to talk.

People on the streets in the city, even when watching the excitement, no one pointed and talked.All shut their mouths and watched everything coldly.

Now, even teahouses, which are supposed to be noisy places, are so eerily quiet... These people come to the teahouse to drink tea, and they don't talk loudly, it's really weird.

But Zhang Rong is used to it.

His voice was also not loud, and he said to the shopkeeper, "Arrange a private room for me."

So under the personal guidance of the shopkeeper, Kong Ning and Zhang Rong went up to the second floor and entered a private room facing the street.

Above the second floor, it is quieter.The entire second floor is filled with individually closed private rooms. After entering the private room, Kong Ning and Zhang Rong ordered a pot of tea, two plates of pastries, and a plate of cold dishes. They declined the shopkeeper's suggestion to let the girl play the music, and sent them away. The shopkeeper went out.

After Kong Ning watched the shopkeeper leave, he asked.

"Zhang Tou, why is there an evil character everywhere in this Hejian Mansion..."

Kong Ning asked straight to the point.

Zhang Rong sighed after hearing this, and said: "The evil nature is right... Now this world is really chaotic to the extreme."

"A few years ago, I lived in Shanlan County for a long time, and occasionally came back and didn't stay too long. I only reunited with my family. Although I noticed something weird, I didn't take it too seriously."

"But after coming back and staying for a long time, I realized that the world outside has changed into the ghost it is now."

"Sixteen years ago, when I went to Shanlan with Mr. Liu to take office, Hejian Mansion was still prosperous and lively, and there were not many murders throughout the year."

"But today's Hejian Mansion seems to be haunted by ghosts. There are murder cases every three days."

"The people in the city are all like gunpowder kegs, and they will explode at a single touch. The trivial things can cause people to kill people with knives, blood is often splashed on the streets or the whole family is wiped out."

"People who are brought back to the Yamen to be sentenced to death every month can fill up the prison cells in Shanlan County."

"There are also those high-ranking martial arts people who ran rampant everywhere, killing villagers and humiliating women, causing harm to one side. The official notice board issued by the Yamen is almost too big to post."

"But it's useless. Those people in the martial arts are still making trouble everywhere, and they have no restraint."

"In order to suppress those thieves, the yamen issued a reward again, attracting a group of people who are greedy for money and profit to hunt down and kill the criminals who offered the reward."

"Those guys carry big knives and long guns every day, gather together, swagger around the city and gather crowds to fight, and from time to time they will cause you a few murders."

"It's so fucking disgusting!"

As soon as Zhang Rong opened his mouth, he couldn't help complaining bitterly about the hard work in the yamen and the sinister and chaotic world situation.

The more Kong Ning listened, the more he frowned.

Because judging from what Zhang Rong said, the outside world is like a purgatory on earth.

Everyone lives in fear, and accidents and disasters may happen at any time.