Chapter 61 Black Wind Mountains
“If you want to know the whole territory’s information, you need the Demon Suppressor to view it.” Cui Fan said.
The Demon Suppressor can also lead a team to slay demons alone, but he is only responsible for rural towns.
However, the purpose of his words was not to reject Li Hao. He changed his tone and said with a smile: "But you have come from afar and are eager to kill demons. Naturally, I have to agree to this request. Please come with me."
With that said, he led Li Hao and others into a side room of the Demon Suppression Department.
There was a guard here, and Cui Fan was very familiar with him. He said hello and led a few people inside.
In the room, there is a map hanging, which is the boundary map of Cangyu City, covering more than a dozen small towns and many villages in the surrounding area.
Cui Fan took out a book from the shelf and turned around and handed it to Li Hao.
"This is the demon-slaying record near our Cangyu City in the past six months. Take your time and read it. After lunch later, I will take you to inspect it in the afternoon..." Cui Fan said with a smile.
Li Hao opened the book and started reading it carefully.
Li Yuanzhao also came to the side curiously and watched carefully.
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In a wealthy mansion on the outskirts of the city.
"Mr. Yan, ten coins."
"Mr. Zhang, eight coins."
A young and beautiful woman with a plump figure leaned on the soft couch, slowly flipping through the account books, and said to the accounting clerk next to her: "There have been frequent disasters this year, and the harvest of the sharecroppers is not good. I asked the master to give them exemptions." Please pay some taxes, it’s too painful..."
Mr. Accountant was slightly startled, then lowered his head and said, "Madam, I'm merciful, but it's difficult for the concierges to do business this year. If taxes are cut again, the government's revenue and expenditure will shrink."
"We just have to be frugal and let the farmers have a good year." The beautiful woman said softly and warmly.
When the accountant heard this, he nodded and said, "Then I'll go back and talk to the master."
"Madam, you are pregnant. You must be tired after reading the account books all morning. It's time to rest."
Next to her, the pretty maid said with concern.
The beautiful woman gently caressed her swollen belly, with a bit more kindness and tenderness in her eyes. She closed the ledger, and with the help of the maid, she slowly got up and returned to her bedroom.
"I will go to the kitchen to bring you some snacks, madam." The maid helped the beautiful woman to lie down on the bed and said obediently.
The beautiful woman nodded slightly.
As the maid left and the door closed lightly, she gently stroked her belly and whispered to herself: "My child, the Chinese New Year is almost here, and I will see you soon."
Her eyes were watery, containing gentle expectation.
"Hehe, do you want to see me so much?"
Suddenly, a strange child's voice came from the quiet room, but it was quite sharp.
The beautiful woman came back from her thoughts, couldn't help but open her eyes wide, and looked at her belly in surprise.
She heard clearly that the sound came from her eight-month-old belly.
"you……"
Before she could figure out what was going on, she saw her belly suddenly bulge and swell more and more, followed by bursts of tearing pain.
There was a pop, suddenly, and it burst from the belly button, but no blood spurted out. Instead, it was like an air bag bursting and quickly drying up.
A wet, skinny head covered with blood slowly stretched out from the beautiful woman's belly, but behind the head was a slender strange limb like a snake's tail, which looked like both a snake and a footless centipede, twisting gently.
Seeing this horrifying scene, even the beautiful woman with a calm mind who had been running the house for many years was so frightened that she screamed and fainted on the spot.
"How hypocritical. Your child has already come out and you don't want to see it anymore."
The skinny head laughed strangely and opened its mouth, which was full of sharp teeth.
Then, its body swam, climbed up to the beautiful woman's upper body, suddenly opened its mouth, and actually bit the beautiful woman's head.
Then he swallowed his entire upper body, and his slender body became bulging.
"Evil beast!!"
Suddenly, an angry voice sounded.
Golden light passed by, and a slender figure passed through the wall and rushed directly into the room. It was Song Yueyao with a fluttering figure.
"Um?"
The monster who was eating the beautiful woman was startled, and his face suddenly changed. He hurriedly spat out the half-eaten beautiful woman, and then swam away like a poisonous snake, climbing over the window on the other side, trying to escape.
"The golden lock traps the dragon!"
Song Yueyao's face was cold and she quickly made a hand gesture.
In addition to being able to leave the body, the soul cannot cause physical harm, but it can use magical powers to break some of the weird magic of monsters.
And this Golden Lock Trapped Dragon is a sealing magical power, belonging to the method of wandering.
I saw golden light suddenly rising up, trapping the skinny snake-like monster inside, unable to escape while struggling.
Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps rushing towards her. Song Yueyao's body rushed out of the window, jumped down, and slashed at the monster in the golden light with a sword.
"Spare my life..." The monster begged in panic.
But the sword light was so sharp that it cut off his head and rolled it to the ground.
Song Yueyao swung two more swords to cut off her body, and then quickly moved to the bed in the room, only to see that the beautiful woman's face was bloody and showed signs of decay.
Looking at its abdomen, it was actually empty, and its internal organs had long been eaten away.
It's too late... Her face changed and became a little ugly. Even though she had experience in slaying demons, she still felt angry. At this time, all the servants and maids in the mansion rushed over, as well as the master of the mansion, a middle-aged wealthy businessman in his forties.
Song Yueyao immediately asked the people accompanying him to seal the room to prevent ordinary people from seeing it.
"Are you the Demon Suppressing Department?!"
The master of the mansion was also well-informed. He recognized the official uniform of Tian Congzhi who had closed his family at a glance. His face changed and he hurriedly said: "Where is Lian'er? What's wrong with Lian'er?"
"There is a demon inside, please don't come close."
Tian Congzhi is a disciple of the Black Palace, and his mission here is to assist Song Yueyao in handling the case. He has already seen the tragic situation in the room and said in a deep voice.
"Where did the monster come from in my house? Do you guys have any misunderstanding? Let me see Lian'er!" The master pushed Tian Congzhi and said through gritted teeth.
Song Yueyao pushed the door open and walked out. She had put away her sword. She glanced at the young man and said, "Your wife is dead. She was killed by a monster. I killed the monster. You can bury her alive."
"Dead, dead?"
The master was so shocked that he was stunned, and then he pushed like crazy to rush in.
Tian Congzhi couldn't do anything to ordinary people, so he could only try his best to stop him. Seeing this, Song Yueyao shook her head slightly at him and motioned for him to get out of the way.
You have to see it eventually, after all, you have to bury it later.
The middle-aged man rushed into the room and immediately saw the miserable scene. He was stunned in place as if five thunders had struck his head.
Song Yueyao told Tian Congzhi: "You stay here to take care of the funeral affairs, and I'll go to the city guard."
"good."
Tian Congzhi agreed.
Before Song Yueyao could leave, the middle-aged man suddenly grabbed her arm, his eyes red, and roared at her angrily: "Why, why didn't you come earlier, why?!"
"You give back my Lian'er, you give back my Lian'er!!"
Song Yueyao's face changed slightly, and she subconsciously broke away. With a flick of her hand, she knocked the middle-aged man to the ground.
The middle-aged man fell down and didn't bother to fight anymore. He just grabbed his head in collapse and burst into tears: "She said that it was her first time to be a mother and she even wanted to name the child. Okay, why, why do you do this to Lian'er, God, you are unfair!"
The screams spread throughout the courtyard, and the servants and maids who were blocked outside the door all heard it and were all shocked.
A trace of guilt flashed through Song Yueyao's heart. Looking at the middle-aged man who was almost abnormal, he knew that he would not listen to anything he said at this time. He just tightened the sword in his hand without saying a word, turned around and left quickly.
Yes, why can't it be faster... She bit her thin lips slightly.
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In the city lord's mansion.
Song Yueyao arrived quickly and acted quickly.
"Mr. Yue, are you looking for me?"
Song Yueyao saw the city guard here, who was responsible for the safety of the entire Cangyu City.
Yue Shuhong was in his forties, and he had an air of elegance all over him. He looked at the woman running towards him, and a flash of emotion flashed deep in his eyes.
He reached the realm of divine movement in his early twenties, and was still close to the state of perfection. This was the gap between the top monsters and himself.
"Governor Song, thank you for your hard work. I asked you to slay the demon just after you arrived yesterday. Thanks to you, the town was saved from disaster." Yue Shuhong said with a chuckle.
Song Yueyao had just come out of the mansion. She was in a bad mood and said with a low expression: "It is our duty as warriors to eliminate demons. It's nothing. I wonder why Mr. Yue wants me?"
Yue Shuhong had been in a high position for a long time and knew a lot of people. Seeing that he was not the kind of person who liked flattery, he suddenly felt good in his heart and his expression became serious:
I believe Governor Song has seen the recent events in our city. The monster slaying files have been released. Monsters have appeared frequently in the past six months, and about half a month ago, many monsters gathered in the Black Wind Mountains a hundred miles east of the city, and the passing escort teams encountered unexpected events. "
Yue Shuhong spread out a map of the entire territory on the table and pointed to a mountain range on the east side: "I sent people to investigate and sacrificed four demon suppressing masters to find out some information."
Speaking of this, he looked at Song Yueyao with terrifyingly serious eyes: "Among these monsters, there is a big monster who wants to command the nearby little monsters and annex the entire Cangyu City!"
Song Yueyao was startled, and her face suddenly changed. There were millions of people in Cangyu City, could they all be embezzled? Does this monster want to massacre the city?
This kind of thing is not common even on the border.
"Then have you informed the Xia family?" Song Yueyao asked immediately.
The Xia family is one of the four great generals, and Qizhou is the big state they guard.
Yue Shuhong smiled bitterly and said: "I have informed you, but the Xia family seems to be fighting on another battlefield. They said that they would wait until the monster really attacks and then send someone to collect it. Let me wait and not be caught in the act."
A flash of anger flashed across Song Yueyao's eyes, but she knew that the Divine General's Mansion was not something she could discuss. If what was said here was secretly spread to the Xia family's ears, it would be somewhat detrimental to Tan Gong. She asked: "Then this news , is it true or false?”
Yue Shuhong looked solemn and said seriously: "Of course it is true."
Then he added: "But I'm not 100% sure, so...if possible, do you think it would be possible for Governor Song to come forward and ask the Xia family for help?"
Song Yueyao frowned. She was not familiar with the Yue City Guards and did not want to be used as a weapon.
After thinking about it, she said: "I only have the status of governor, so I may not be able to invite you. So, I will go and find out the truth first."
Yue Shuhong seemed to expect that she would say this, and nodded: "Okay, how about I go with you? There is a big demon in the Black Wind Mountain Range, which is too dangerous."
"No need, I'll just investigate from the edge." Song Yueyao said and immediately left with him.
Seeing the other party leaving, Yue Shuhong stared at him for a long time and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
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Another place, in the Demon Suppression Department.
Li Hao has read through the recent demon slaying records. In addition, he also saw some information on the traces of other monsters.
"Black Wind Mountain Range, monsters gather..." Li Hao narrowed his eyes.
(End of chapter)