Horse hooves swept across the smoke and dust, and every house in Jiangkou Town was closed. There was a thick sandy atmosphere in the dim night.
There was the sound of horses snorting all around, and the entire town was surrounded inside and outside.
The mayor was brought to Cheng Hentie by a soldier.
Cheng Hentie was riding on the horse with his chest raised and majestic.
At first, he ignored the mayor and shouted to his soldiers: "Search for me! Search from house to house! Don't let a single mosquito escape."
Following Cheng Hentie's order, the soldiers began to rush into the houses of the town, and countless frightened screams could be heard in the quiet night.
The mayor listened to the sounds around him, his expression unchanged, but he walked up to Cheng Hentie's horse and whispered: "General, we are all ordinary people."
Cheng Hentie was now arrogant. His first solo mission was to lead thousands of people to annihilate a folk cult of two to three hundred people.
Such a simple task made him feel a little unsatisfied, but the size was also a credit, and it would count as a reward if he did this kind of good thing delivered to his door every time.
Cheng Hentie had been with the army for a year, and he was finally able to take the lead in a serious manner in military uniform. Even if it was not a big event, he still had to show off in front of the soldiers.
How could a small town mayor catch his eye?
Cheng Hentie still ignored him and silently glanced around, seeing his soldiers taking out the people in the town one by one.
At this time, a soldier came over on horseback: "General Qi, we have searched all around, and the traces of the bandits have disappeared here. Those people must be hiding in the town."
Hearing this, Cheng Hentie became even more convinced and stared at the mayor with a sneer: "Old man, have you heard everything? This general is hunting down the demon from the Holy Lotus Sect. The demon suddenly disappeared when he arrived at your place. You'd better give me some help. General, be honest and tell me where those monsters are hiding."
The mayor remained calm and showed no fear in the face of countless soldiers: "General, I have already said that the people in this town are ordinary people, and we have not seen any monsters at all."
"Don't tell me? Do you know what the crime of harboring is?"
The mayor snorted: "Even a general cannot frame good people at will."
It was rare for Cheng Hentie to be so majestic, but he was so scorned by a small mayor. He was a little annoyed at the moment. He dismounted and came over, grabbed the mayor's collar, and slapped him with a slap.
The mayor was quite old. He was slapped in the face by Cheng Hentie, and blood quickly oozed from the corner of his mouth.
"You idiot, how dare you show off in front of this general!"
As he said that, he raised his hand as if to hit again.
At this time, a soldier next to him stopped him and lowered his voice and explained in a low voice: "General, the general said that we should not disturb the people during this trip. If this man is injured and disabled, it will not be good if the matter reaches the ears of the general." Bar?"
Cheng Hentie frowned when he heard this.
Thinking about it, the tasks of this trip are relatively simple. One is to rescue people, and the other is to suppress bandits. If such things cannot be handled well, there will be no place for him in the army in the future.
Cheng Hentie loosened his hand angrily and pointed at the mayor's nose: "You won't tell me, right? I'll pick them out one by one, and then take you back with you to question them."
After saying that, Cheng Hentie waved his hand: "Come here, bring everyone out of the town!"
The next second, the house where Bai Song was located was broken into by several officers and soldiers.
The same thing happened earlier in other houses, and now every house on the street is bringing people out.
The residence where Bai Song was staying was a family of three. Seeing the officers and soldiers coming, the couple hurriedly protected Bai Song and said seriously: "Don't worry, Immortal, go out with them, we will definitely not let anyone hurt you!"
After saying that, several soldiers broke in and rudely pulled the family and Bai Song outside.
It took a full hour to gather all the townspeople.
Bai Song was taken to the widest street in the town and surrounded by soldiers.
In addition to the common people, there were also everyone who came from Mingjian Villa with Bai Song.
The group of them were now all dressed in common people's clothes, mingling among the thousands of residents in the town, and all of them looked very nervous.
When they came out, they had seen with their own eyes that there were so many people in this team that they couldn't even see the end of the team in the dark. They couldn't even count the soldiers on the streets of the town, not to mention the soldiers surrounding them outside the town?
There is such a huge disparity in the number of people. Once discovered, except for a few super masters, everyone else among them will definitely die.
Even if they use clothing as a cover, these people in the world have a temperament that is completely different from ordinary people, and it is easy to distinguish them.
Sure enough, Cheng Hentie stopped in front of a person and grabbed a woman's wrist.
Cheng Hentie walked up to the mayor proudly: "The girls in your town are really pretty. Wouldn't it be unfair to have such a delicate beauty in a small town? With her beauty, the oiran in the capital can't do more than that, right?"
The woman who was caught was Qing'er.
Bai Song's pupils narrowed and he stared at Cheng Hentie who was holding Qing'er's chin without scruples and looking up and down wantonly.
"This is the daughter of the Liu family in our town! She has grown up in this town since she was a child!" the mayor said sternly, walked up to Cheng Hentie, and opened Cheng Hentie's hand.
"Presumptuous!" Cheng Hentie was furious and put his foot in the mayor's abdomen. The mayor almost fell to his knees in pain, but he looked at Qing'er and blocked him firmly behind him.
Cheng Hentie glanced at the crowd. Even in the darkness, he could see several people who were obviously not ordinary people.
Seeing that these townspeople were stubborn, Cheng Hentie didn't bother to spend more time and shouted: "Catch all the suspicious people!"
The soldiers took action, and the people from the Holy Lotus Sect and Mingjian Villa also realized that they could no longer hide, and were about to fight to the death with the enemy. Suddenly, the mayor shouted: "Who dares!"
Then he dragged his injured body towards Cheng Hentie and took out a dagger.
Cheng Hentie was startled, not because he was afraid of a common man, but because he was shocked that the other party dared to show his weapon to a lieutenant general. Could he be crazy?
"Oh, you old immortal, do you really want to die?"
Cheng Hentie also drew his sword. If the mayor took one more step forward, he would really kill someone.
Unexpectedly, the mayor did not move forward, but instead stabbed himself in the chest!
There was a pop, blood spurted out, and sporadic drops of blood flew onto Cheng Hentie's face, completely covering Cheng Hentie.
Bai Song was also startled and didn't understand what was going on.
The mayor was still breathing. He squatted on the ground with blood at the corner of his mouth. He stared at Cheng Hentie and sneered: "Isn't the general going to arrest people from the Holy Lotus Sect? We have more than 1,200 people in Jiangkou Town, all of whom are members of the Holy Lotus Sect." People! Since the general wants to arrest us, let’s arrest all of us!”
