In the past, the Nanshan Inspection Station Yamen, which had basically no presence except when paying was released, seemed to be overcrowded again under the gathering of whistles.
Li Jinghong was sitting in the lobby. There were armored patrols inside and outside the house, but they seemed not to give Li Jinghong the slightest sense of security.
His face was pale and he was still frightened. Li Jinghong even trembled uncontrollably.
The house was in a mess, and a big hole was broken in the roof. Several mummies could be seen buried in the ruins.
The resentful spirit... seems to have appeared again, and this time the target is the county captain of Qinghe County, Qianhu Li Jinghong!
Wu Shuo walked into the room cautiously, and when he saw the mummy buried in the ruins, his expression changed slightly.
But when he saw the pale-faced Li Jinghong, he quickly lowered his head: "Thousand households, the two hundred households in the town have been assembled."
At this time, Li Jinghong seemed to have reacted from the still-existing fear, and looked at Wu Shuo, about to make arrangements, but when the words came to his lips, he hesitated.
The existence of immortal cultivators, no matter how he arranges it, seems... to have no meaning!
"Just the same as before..."
Li Jinghong waved his hand feebly.
Wu Shuo hesitated for a while, but finally left without saying anything.
In the room, Li Jinghong was still sitting upright, but after the panic dissipated, what was left might be a deep sense of unwillingness...
In the inspection office's yamen, many inspection inspectors who had just gathered dispersed under orders one after another.
It’s nothing different from usual, it’s just that the situation is not right today and there are a lot less slackers.
Chu Mu had arrived in front of Mingxintang. Looking at the closed doors and windows of Mingxintang in front of him, the last trace of luck in his heart was completely gone.
He had been in this world for several months, and in his memory, Mingxin Hall opened on time at every hour and quarter every day for several months, and there was not a day's deviation.
Today, Mingxintang, for the rare occasion, has not opened its doors, which seems to have proved a lot of things.
Chu Mu looked as usual, leading a team of patrolmen to wander around the street. As if inadvertently, he was also looking at the houses on the street.
In particular, the homes of several apprentices of Mingxintang were the focus of Chu Mu's observation.
Without exception, the doors of the apprentices' homes were all closed. Chu Mu found an excuse to leave the team, climbed over the wall and went into the hospital to observe. All the houses were deserted.
"What are the methods used by cultivators of immortality?"
Chu Mu thought to himself, as far as he knew, the apprentices of Mingxintang all had good family backgrounds.
In Nanshan Town, there are all well-known people. It is not like Mr. Li's whole family will move out just by giving a hint.
And with Mr. Li's character, it is very likely that he will not sit back and watch these apprentices being implicated by him, and it seems normal to use some means.
Chu Mu couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he thought of himself.
Immediately thinking about the scene he had seen before and the news he had just learned from Wu Shuo at the inspection station, a clear clue emerged in Chu Mu's mind.
In other words, in the early morning, the resentful spirit attacked Li Jinghong, and then he was noticed by the man in white and chased him.
There is no problem with the context, and Li Jinghong's life and death has nothing to do with him.
The point is... is it the boy from Qili Village who came back?
Or... a strategy to lure the enemy?
Chu Mu inquired clearly, and found out that the man in white had not put away all the ores mined in the mysterious spiritual mine. They were all still piled at the bottom of the mine.
And Mr. Li's goal is that pile of ore.
Just lure the man in white away...
But then, Chu Mu became a little confused again.
The man in white is a member of the so-called Nanshan Li family, a cultivator of immortality with his back against the big tree.
Judging from the importance he attaches to the mysterious "spiritual mine", if there was such a thing as the legendary storage bag, he would probably have put away the mined ore long ago.
Instead, it has been piled in the open for several months.
Then the problem comes. The man in white, a family of immortal cultivators, has no storage of immortal cultivation items, and Mr. Li is just a casual cultivator...
If this was really a strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain, how could those thousands of kilograms of ore be taken away quietly?
Chu Mu looked towards the direction of the mine. He estimated that everything would be revealed today.
If this is really the strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
Then... I'm afraid it's not just these apprentices who want to escape, but him, Chu Mu.
After all, if the man in white returns and finds that he has been tricked, where can he vent his anger?
The anger of the cultivators, even if it only affects them, is not something that ordinary mortals can bear.
Li Jinghong couldn't bear it, and no one else could bear it!
Chu Mu pursed his lips, combing through the clues carefully, and his nervous heart completely relaxed.
He hoped it was as he guessed.
In that case, he would still be a nobody. Whether he stayed or left, at least in the current situation, he would not attract attention and no one would care.
Chu Mu looked towards the direction of the mine, his eyes moving slightly.
"Brother Mu..."
Xu Yuan, who was beside him, couldn't help but speak out. He wanted to ask, but he obviously didn't know how to speak.
"Be patient and don't be impatient."
Chu Mu patted Xu Yuan on the shoulder and explained a few words in a low voice. Although he didn't say much, the meaning revealed clearly made Xu Yuan less anxious.
Next, Chu Mu wandered around the street as usual.
As the saying goes, everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
Now he is just waiting for an east wind.
The east wind hit, confirming all the guesses and cutting off any escape route, so he felt less regretful.
To Chu Mu, the situation was clear, but to everyone except him, it was obviously still a mystery.
The reappearance of the resentful soul seems to have almost spread the fear in people's hearts.
There were only a few residents in Nanshan Town. After the news spread, the scene of dragging their families and leaving seemed to have happened again in Nanshan Town.
People are also excited about inspections, but after several disturbances, there are not many local inspections in Nanshan Town.
Most of the rest of the inspections were recruited from other places, and most of them had only heard about the resentful souls and had never seen or experienced it with their own eyes.
Although people's hearts are moving, it is still within control.
There is no doubt that Nanshan Town, which has been peaceful for a long time, is once again noisy.
The mines, which were only a few hundred meters apart, had been dead silent since the civil uprising.
Today, when the hustle and bustle of Nanshan Town is rising, this dead silence is also completely broken by sudden changes.
At the bottom of the mine, there is mining area 19 where the mysterious spiritual mine is located.
The commotion and turmoil also started from this.
The corvees were as numb as ever, working mechanically in the mines that devoured human lives.
The man in white didn't care about the life of the consumables, and he obviously didn't care about the guards' inspections either.
A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist. In the face of life and death, most people's thoughts are to protect themselves wisely.
There are two hundred households and nearly three hundred patrols stationed in these dozen or so mining areas.
Its duties include suppressing corvee labor and guarding "mineral materials"...
The mineral materials piled up with human lives are usually piled in the open space outside the mining area.
This evil mineral material was obviously avoided by the guards during their inspections.
They say they are guarding them, but they can only take a look at them from a distance. No one dares to inspect them closely without taking their lives seriously.
But now, in broad daylight, the mountains of mineral materials suddenly disappeared.
It seems that one second, there were piles of mountains, and the next second, there was only... an open space?
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