Chapter 35 Suspected of a traitor
"The city lord does not need to underestimate himself." Jiang Yu grabbed a few chestnuts he got from Yuan Heng and played with them while comforting Wen Renhuai, "They trust us very much. Loving you is enough to show that you are a good city lord."
No matter how good he is, at least he cares about the people of Lingdu, is willing to understand them, listens to their thoughts, and can get along with them.
Wen Renhuai smiled slightly, stopped outside the main hall, handed the things in his arms to the servants who came up, and opened the curtain for them personally: "Everyone, please."
Jiang Yu entered the room one by one.
As soon as we sat down, a maid came up with tea.
Just as Jiang Yu picked up the warm tea, Wen Renhuai, who was sitting at the top, coughed twice and went straight to the point and told them about things in the city.
"Since half a month ago, people have been missing one after another."
Jiang Yu immediately put down the tea cup in his hand, sat upright, and concentrated all his attention, not wanting to miss any word from Wen Renhuai's mouth.
Wen Renhuai continued: "At first, I didn't pay much attention. I thought someone was accidentally lost, so I only sent a few guards from the mansion to help find the person."
"Unexpectedly, the people I sent did not come back, and more and more people disappeared in the city. Later, people began to die tragically at home, and someone reported it to me, and I realized that this matter might be more serious than I thought. "More."
"I took a few guards with some skills to guard the city for several nights. I finally saw the murderer, but he was attacked by his accomplices who were hiding in the dark, and he was unconscious for a few days."
As he spoke, he coughed twice: "Thanks to my wife at home supporting me these days, otherwise, I don't know how many things would happen in the city because of the murderer."
At this point, Wen Renhuai lowered his eyes, his face gloomy, and his face was a little paler than before: "She has fought with the murderer several times in the past few days, and she suffered a lot of injuries. After I woke up, she became a woman again. He lost his appearance and fell into a coma."
"Is Madam's injury serious?" Jiang Yu leaned forward slightly, with concern on his face, "I have a lot of pills with me, which Madam can use."
More than just a lot of pills, Jiang Yu calculated the contents of her storage necklace. Today, even if Wen Renhuai said that the other party had only one breath left, she was sure to save him.
Wen Renhuai was stunned. He didn't know whether he didn't expect Jiang Yu to be so generous or something else. His expression was a little stunned for a moment.
But he quickly adjusted his expression: "Thank you for your kindness, girl. I have already asked the doctor to repair it. He said that it is no longer a serious problem. Just take good care of it. Panacea is hard to find, so I won't waste the girl's medicine. "
Jiang Yu tilted his head slightly. Seeing that he looked weak and unrecovered, he didn't quite believe in the strength of the medical cultivator he mentioned.
However, the other party finally revived Wen Renhuai.
Jiang Yu said nothing more about this matter.
Yuan Heng asked: "Has the city lord ever seen the murderer's true face?"
Fang He and Sang Yang both focused their eyes.
Under the expectant gazes of several people, Wen Renhuai slowly shook his head: "It was dark at the time and they were wearing masks. I didn't see clearly what they looked like, but they were evil spirits and not people from the city. Even if It’s useless to see clearly.”
"Evil demons?" Yuan Heng was not surprised. Apart from degenerate monks, the only ones who could do these things were the demons and demons who were bent on doing evil and wanted to unify the three realms through evil cultivation. "There are two of them?" Wen Renhuai He shook his head and said with a wry smile: "More than that."
"After these things happened, people did not dare to go out at night, but some people thought that evil spirits only appeared at night, so they wanted to escape Lingdu during the day."
"This is not possible!" Fang He said in shock, "There has never been a saying that evil spirits can only appear at night. If they don't enter the city during the day, they are probably just afraid of being discovered by the guards patrolling the city. Maybe they are guarding outside the city. Now, if you leave the city gate, you will really be at the mercy of evil spirits."
"Yes, this is also the reason why I sealed the city." Wen Renhuai nodded, "They left the city, it just suits the evil spirit's wishes."
He continued: "Those who left the city, except for one person who escaped from the hands of the evil spirits by luck, all fell into the hands of the evil spirits."
"This was the man who said there were countless evil spirits outside the city, so he stayed in the woods outside the city waiting for someone to come out of the city. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured and died not long after."
Sang Yang thought for a while and was a little surprised: "Then looking at it this way, we just need to kill all the evil spirits outside the city?"
This doesn't sound like it requires much thinking. As long as you have enough cultivation, solving this problem is a piece of cake.
After all, if there were no evil spirits in Lingdu City, they wouldn't have to bother to find out where the evil spirits were hiding one by one.
Thinking about it this way, this mission is not very difficult.
Unexpectedly, before Sang Yang could breathe a sigh of relief, Wen Renhuai spoke again: "The main thing is the group of evil spirits outside the city, but -"
He seemed to be hesitant. It was not until the other five people in the room looked at him suspiciously that he continued to speak: "I suspect there is a traitor in the city."
He lowered his eyes and stared at his own reflection in the tea cup on the table. He clasped his hands together and rubbed them uneasily. He explained: "Lingdu City has been built for a long time. Although the security protection cannot be said to be impregnable, it should be there." There are still some formations. These formations were passed down from our ancestors. Even if they cannot kill some high-level evil demons, they should still be able to block them. However, these evil demons who sneaked into the city have cleverly avoided these formations. The positions of these formations are very tricky, and they are designed to target evil spirits. If you are not careful, you will fall into the formation. Except for the people who set up the formation, few people know that the evil spirits cannot avoid these formations without help. ”
Yuan Heng immediately asked: "Who is setting up the formation?"
"There are two of them." Wen Renhuai replied, "One is my wife's confidant maid, and the other is me."
Confidant maid?
Jiang Yu was a little confused when he heard this. It's not that the maid can't practice, it's just that this matter sounds inconsistent.
The violation is that she arranges the arrangements as a maid, how can she convince other people in the city lord's mansion?
And she can arrange the entire city's formations, so why does the city lord's palace still let her just be a maid?
Jiang Yu was still thinking. As if seeing her doubts, Wen Renhuai, the superior, took the initiative to explain: "This maid was originally a disciple of the Changyun Sword Sect. She has good cultivation and has studied the formations. She left Changyun Sword Sect. After the Yunjian sect was attacked by evil spirits, she was accidentally seriously injured and fell off a cliff. She was rescued by my wife and has been in Lingdu ever since. My wife and I saw that she had some cultivation skills and originally wanted her to be a tutor in the mansion, but She said she would stay here to repay her kindness and then leave. She didn’t want to be too far away from her benefactor, so we let her go. Later, she became a personal maid next to my wife. "
Wen Renhuai was silent for a moment: "She can't be the traitor. She was injured by evil spirits in the past and almost lost her life. She hates evil cultivators the most. She has killed many evil cultivators for Lingdu in recent years."
(End of chapter)