Daming prepares the emperor

The Zhenyao Department was established not long ago, but the site selection is very good.At the beginning, Zhu Biao picked out the abandoned houses of landlords and wealthy households for it. It was originally a good place, but now it has been expanded and repaired, which is very grand.

The courtyard is deep, with one layer inside the other, covering a wide area. Every few feet, a patrol team walks through different routes without interfering with each other and is heavily guarded.

Influenced by Zhu Biao's novel ideas from later generations, the functions of each department here are unprecedented.

For example, a reception was set up at the entrance, and windows were used. There were two shifts a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and the staff were all experienced priests and masters.

Next to the reception is the notice board for accepting tasks. On it are the monsters that have recently been registered, verified, and need to be dealt with by the common people, as well as the amount of rewards. Cultivators who have not joined the office can also catch monsters to get money .

Under the strict rules and regulations, although the old Taoist was thinking about eight pieces of crab meat, crab roe and crab along the way, the office is not an unreasonable organization, nor is it to fall out with monsters to the point of life and death. Monsters that cause trouble and do not hurt anyone, as long as they are verified, they will be released the next day, and they will be sent into the mountains by special personnel.

A few burly men with their upper bodies bare, showing their strong muscles, lifted the hairy crab together and carried him to the gate of the prison.

Standing at the prison door was a monk who was blind in both eyes. Because of his loss of vision, his hearing became more acute, and he could feel movements that other monks could not. It is suitable for other jobs, so I was assigned here to watch the door.

The leading man said: "Master! This is a monster captured by Taoist Wang. It's a big crab. I'll lock him up in No. 20 of Hall B. Other adults will come to interrogate him later."

The monk nodded and let him in.

Although the dungeon was dark, it was neither damp nor had an unpleasant smell. It was clean and tidy. There was an oil lamp lit every few meters. It was made of shark oil. It was always bright and stable, and the flame was very bright.

The levels of the dungeon are very simple, that is, A, B, C, D, W, Ji, G, Xin, Rengui. They are classified according to the ability and difficulty of catching monsters. The crab monster may not be very powerful, but it is too big. After the word B, there are more goblins. Big cell.

"Just put it here."

The dungeon where the monsters are held is built underground. After entering the door, you can see a special railway track that stretches into the depths of the darkness. It is not clear how long it is. There are tools like mine carts on it, and the monsters are placed on the car People can push them away, saving time and effort.

At the door of the compartment, the big men stopped the car, opened the cell door, pushed the crab, and the crab slid into the room. They closed the iron door again, and the whole room automatically lit up when they tapped the yellow symbol on the door. Strips of black mantras showing the thickness of arms, glowing with golden light, rolled on the four walls, forming a magic circle.

Regardless of the old Taoist's rope, the defense measures of the dungeon are also very reliable.

The big men retreated, and after a while, a middle-aged official in black and holding a small book appeared at the door.

With a writing brush in his mouth, he opened the book and pulled the rope hanging beside the yellow talisman.

As soon as the rope was pulled, the talismans circulating in the room suddenly stopped, emitting crackling blue lightning, and the electricity hit the crab.

Although the power of the electric light is huge, it doesn't hurt much. It's just a special magic technique, which can wake up the prisoners without hurting them.

After all, this is a prison cell. If you want to use punishment, the torture cell is next door, so you have to be careful.

The hairy crab, who had been in a coma until now, was finally awakened by the electric shock. His eyes stood up vertically, staring straight at the little official outside the door, and slowly, slowly spit out a bubble.

The petty official felt his scalp tingling from seeing it. When the office was first established, he was transferred here, and he "received" many monsters who came and went, both good and bad, smart and not so smart. , but there are still few crabs as big as this one, so I inevitably feel a little uncomfortable.

And the monsters on the land are okay, but the monsters in the water... most of them look so weird that they can't be seen at all.

He coughed twice, quickly adjusted his state, knocked on the iron door, first adopted a gentle way of speaking, and said: "Listen, the crab inside, you are now in the prison of the Yingtianfu Town Demon Office. If you have any grievances, hurry up!" Come on, what laws have been violated, who have been killed, and who are the enemies, and tell them quickly!"

He had already made preparations before coming here, knowing that this was a misunderstood monster, and he didn't bring any personal emotions, thinking that the interrogation would end soon, just go through the process.

Unexpectedly, the crab was stunned for a moment, and said, "I... come from... the Qinhuai River... and my home is in Poyang Lake."

Maybe it was because it was sleepy, or maybe it hadn't spoken for a long time. After it spoke, it hesitated, and it took a long time to finish a sentence.

The little official looked serious, nodded, and wrote down the address in the notebook, followed by the Qinhuai River and Poyang Lake.

"Why come to Yingtian?"

"I'm here to visit relatives..."

"Well, visiting relatives."

The word "visiting relatives" was added to the book.

"What are you looking for?"

"Find my cousin."

"What kind of monster is cousin? How old is it?"

"It's a tortoise... I can't remember how old it is."

The little official frowned, and with a strange expression, he wrote his cousin turtle in the column of family members, thinking that these monsters really are abstinent meat and vegetables, hungry and hungry, whoever they catch will marry whomever they catch, bastards and crabs can still become relatives.

"Hey, if you visit relatives, you will visit relatives. Why do you want to scare people around in the city? What's the use of the plaster on your back?"

"I'm in the river..." The crab's spirit recovered a lot, and his speech gradually became more agile, "I was swimming in the river, and suddenly a thunderbolt struck me, severely wounding me...the ointment on my back is for me to heal my wounds , The herbs are picked by myself."

Footsteps were suddenly heard in the corridor, and a figure in Taoist robes slowly approached, hearing the words, said: "Xiao Li, there is no need to interrogate it!"

"Ah?" The little official scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Old Wang, what do you mean? It's not in line with our office's regulations not to have a trial."

"You don't understand." The old Taoist held a duck bone in his mouth, patted the little official on the shoulder, wiped his greasy hands clean, and said, "Everyone who can be struck by lightning is a heinous crime." Monsters, either did something harmful to nature, or they were contaminated with great karma, and they were connected with evil people and evil monsters."

"Oh I got it."

The hairy crab was in a hurry, its pincers rattled under the restraint of the rope, creaking like a pair of scissors, it finally woke up, and hurriedly said: "You, you, don't listen to him, I have nothing. did it!"

Sensing its struggle, the spell in the dungeon retreated from the wall. In the process of shrinking, it swelled extremely, turning into golden chains that surrounded the crab in circles, and then shrank back with a buzzing sound. It's tightly bound.

"Oh? So you were lying just now?"

"That, that, that's not true."

The hairy crab stuttered in fright.

"I, I, was indeed struck by lightning!"

"Look, it confessed." The old Taoist wanted to pat the little official's shoulder again, but realized that the oil on his hands had been wiped clean, so he retracted halfway, "Send it to the execution room, look at it." With a stubborn appearance, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell the truth within ten days and half a month."

The little official agreed, adjusted the cart, and seemed to be ready to call someone to do it.

The old Taoist put his hands behind his back, smacked his lips, stroked his beard, and was about to go out to see how the old man in the cafeteria was eating. It was not safe at night, and he was thinking of sending him home.

Halfway through, he turned around again and shouted, "Hey—Xiao Li, if this hairy crab is sentenced to death in the end, remember to ask Aunt Huang to give me a leg to eat!"

The little official was collecting the brush, and he also called out in response: "Okay."

Two shouts penetrated the entire corridor, and the entire B-shaped prison heard the voices. For a while, all the monsters imprisoned in the room were fighting for the ground with their heads. They were extremely painful and humiliated. When their eyes went dark, Feel hopeless.

Of course the hairy crab also felt that it was outrageous, and he didn't know how to explain it. It usually doesn't think it's stupid, because its companions in the river don't know much about it, but now it thinks it's stupid.

"Wait! I, I was struck by accident. I just passed by, and there was a thunder..."

The little official thinks it has a good personality, not like a demon that does many evils, but he will never let himself believe in it casually, so he said: "You go to the torture room first, there is a medicinal soup for telling the truth, and there are people with a lot of experience. Rich witch, if you are really innocent, you will be able to leave the city the day after tomorrow."

"Oh." The crab was overjoyed.

The little official said again: "Our office takes the way of people and monsters living in harmony and building Yingtian City together. It's very disciplined. Don't worry, the Taoist priest is just a little bit bold, and he's a little drunk."

The crab couldn't help asking: "Does that mean he didn't actually eat monsters, but just to scare me?"

The ears in the cell were all pricked up.

The little official smiled and said: "That's not true, Mr. Wang really likes to eat. On the day when he could eat the most, Aunt Huang cooked five or six monsters for him. I think...it seems to be a good rabbit. "

"Spicy rabbit head is really good." The little official recalled, "The rabbit is two feet long, and a big iron pot is used to stew the head alone."

boom.

A rabbit spirit that killed eight people knocked his head against the wall and passed out.

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Another bang.

The old Taoist closed the cell door, smiled and exchanged one-sided greetings with the doorkeeper monk, walked out of the eaves, twisted his waist and legs in the moonlight, and went straight to his supper step by step.

The moon in the courtyard is as cool as water.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon is also getting fatter. It is already very round, like a silver plate hanging in the sky. At this moment, the sky is vast, with no clouds left behind, and the moonlight is pure and white.

People in thousands of households have fallen asleep.

In Yanque Lake outside the city, the reflection of light on the sparkling water is quite beautiful.

From left to right, there are three black shadows crouching on the guardrail of the gazebo by the lake. Only when you get closer can you see that they are monsters such as carp, turtle, and loach.

Loach hesitated, looked at the second brother who was looking up at the moon, and said softly: "Second brother, eat moon cakes and calm down?"

After saying this, it snatched a meat-filled mooncake from the carp's hand with a bang, and placed it in the tortoise's mouth.

The carp took a bite and spit out a bubble.

The tortoise sighed, and said worryingly, "I have no appetite."

"You say this, where can my cousin go?"