Li Dao's fist was getting closer and closer to the sloppy old man's head.
With his strength, let alone an ordinary flesh and blood body, even a body made of fine steel would be deformed under his punch.
Looking at the sloppy old man who still looked indifferent, Li Dao continued to speed up his hands. Just as Xue Bing thought, his punch was directly aimed at killing him.
Because he came to Tiannan City for several days and found nothing, he no longer had much patience.
If this sloppy old man was really pretending to be stupid, he would definitely react to his fatal punch.
If he is really stupid, then just kill him.
Rather than letting him continue to be humiliated after being stupid, it is better to give him a happy life and let him go on the road with peace of mind.
Seeing that the punch was about to land, the moment Li Dao's fist missed the sloppy old man by just a hair, an invisible wave spread from the old man.
At the same time, the sloppy old man's cloudy eyes suddenly showed a clear look.
Then, a majestic flow of true energy overflowed and instantly enveloped the sloppy old man.
At this moment, Li Dao's fist collided with the true essence.
But just after the two collided, the sloppy old man suddenly showed a look of astonishment on his face.
Then, he watched helplessly as the real energy he used to resist the attack instantly collapsed under that physical fist.
Bang!
With one punch, the sloppy old man's head fell into the stone slab, exploding a lot of rubble.
"Boss!"
At this time, Xue Bing on the side couldn't help but stammered, "Just now...there seemed to be real energy fluctuations just now."
"Yeah, I saw it too."
Xue Bing glanced at the sloppy old man and said cautiously, "This old man won't be beaten to death directly."
Hearing this, Li Dao shook his head, "He's not dead, he probably just fainted."
The reason why I say this is because the system did not send him a notification sound.
"Now what?"
"Since he's not dead, let's take him back again and wait until he wakes up to see how things go."
...
"call!"
There was a sound of rapid breathing, and the sloppy old man suddenly sat up from the chair.
At this time, the sloppy old man's eyes were no longer stupid, and became as bright as ordinary people.
"hiss!"
After coming back to his senses, the sloppy old man suddenly took a breath of cold air. He raised his hand and subconsciously touched his head, only to find that there was a layer of bandage wrapped around his head.
Suddenly, his eyes were like daggers, and he glanced around fiercely.
Then, he saw a young man drinking tea sitting on the main seat beside him, and opposite him was a man with a curious face.
After that, he looked around again, his pupils trembled when he saw clearly, and he murmured, "Is this the Governor's Mansion?"
Finally, he glanced at Li Dao and Xue Bing, and then asked, "Who are you?"
Before Li Dao could answer, Xue Bing on the side took the lead and introduced, "This is our boss and the newly appointed governor of Southern Xinjiang not long ago."
"Are you the new governor?"
The sloppy old man looked at Li Dao with a look of surprise in his eyes.
Xue Bing asked, "What? You don't believe it."
The sloppy old man shook his head, "It's not that I don't believe it, I just feel that the new governor is a bit too young."
Seemingly thinking of something, he looked at Li Dao and said, "Did you offend someone?"
Xue Bing subconsciously said, "How do you know?"
The sloppy old man said bluntly, "It's no big deal. The only possibility of being sent to southern Xinjiang at this time is to offend someone."
Thinking of this, the sloppy old man continued, "Listen to my advice and find a way to leave Southern Xinjiang. This place is not suitable for you."
"Deputy City Lord!"
At this time, Li Dao, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.
"Um?"
"I don't know what to call it?"
"Zhou Sheng."
"Then I will call you Deputy City Lord Zhou."
Li Dao asked, "I wonder why, Deputy City Lord Zhou, you pretended to be stupid before?"
"Pretending to be stupid?"
Mr. Zhou was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "I'm not pretending to be stupid."
"You didn't pretend to be stupid? What did you do before?"
Hearing this, Zhou Sheng said, "Since you have come to Southern Xinjiang, you should know what the specialties of Southern Xinjiang are."
"Are you talking about Gu Master? Could it be..."
"Well, you guessed it right. I wasn't stupid before, I was just bewitched."
After saying that, Zhou Sheng pointed to his head and continued, "That Gu is right here. In order to suppress this Gu, most of my mind was focused on fighting it."
"Because of this, the body can only be controlled by instinct."
Hearing this, Xue Bing asked, "Then why do you keep drinking?"
Zhou Sheng replied, "After being poisoned, my brain has been feeling a tingling sensation from needles. Drinking wine may be an instinctive attempt to numb the pain."
"You are conscious now, what about the poison in your brain?"
After hearing Xue Bing's words, a strange look suddenly appeared on Zhou Sheng's face. He looked back at Li Dao and said, "Under the stimulation of life and death crisis, my consciousness passively returned."
"Under normal circumstances, after my consciousness returns, the bug in my mind will take the opportunity to eat away at my brain."
"However, not long ago, I woke up and used my true essence to check and found that the Gu insect suddenly died."
Xue Bing asked subconsciously, "Dead? How did you die?"
Zhou Sheng said bluntly, "Those who were shocked to death by external forces."
Hearing this answer, Xue Bing was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at his boss.
Li Dao was also surprised by Zhou Sheng's answer.
But although it was a good thing, he didn't want to discuss these issues for the time being.
So, Li Dao opened his mouth and said, "Deputy City Lord Zhou, I have some questions to ask you. I wonder if I can answer them?"
Hearing this, Zhou Sheng glanced at Li Dao and said slowly, "I wonder what the Governor wants to know?"
Li Dao then asked the question that he had been thinking about for a long time.
"I want to know why the previous governor left everything in southern Xinjiang and fled."
After hearing this question, Zhou Sheng's expression appeared unnatural for a moment, but he soon calmed down.
He replied, "My Lord Governor, this is the wrong question. Everyone knows that the last Lord Governor was attacked and killed and was forced to resign. He did not escape as you said."
"Everybody knows?"
Hearing this, Li Dao shook his head and said immediately, "I don't want to listen to the rest of the people. Now, I just want to hear how you, the deputy city lord, responded."
Hearing this, Zhou Sheng suddenly became silent.
After a long time, he spoke slowly, and this time his voice became hoarse for no reason.
"Why should you listen to my answer?"
"Because I think you should have a different answer."
Therefore, Li Dao recounted his previous analysis process.
After finishing speaking, he asked, "Do you think that if the previous governor really resigned because he was attacked and killed, the court would have remained silent?"
Hearing this, Zhou Sheng took a deep breath, and then exhaled.
Finally, he slowly raised his head and said, "What if I say that I actually don't know why he left us?"
