In fact, as soon as Jiang Tian finished speaking, someone in the crowd of spectators who had been surrounded by his subordinates suddenly started shouting loudly. At least several figures jumped out of the scene as if a nest had exploded. However, the next moment, Lin Jiulang and his men quickly forced him back.
"It doesn't matter, everyone is kneeling down with their heads in their hands, waiting for screening." I saw them shouting in unison: while raising their spears and knives, they struck forward. Suddenly, someone who couldn't dodge ran away, and at the same time, they pierced each other's arms. He and his thigh started fighting in the air with blood gushing out.
This bloody scene also shocked the surrounding people on the spot, crying and shouting for their mothers, and fell to the ground with their heads in their hands. The few people who retreated were immediately exposed again; however, this time they were greeted by powerful crossbows that were cocked and fired.
When faced with a life-and-death crisis, the reactions of these people were also different; some fell to the ground and used their hands and feet to fly away in reverse while rolling and crawling; some stretched out their hands to pull down the villagers on the ground, wanting to use them as shields. But it couldn't match the speed of the crossbow arrow, and he was immediately shot through and fell to the ground.
Others hunched over, stepped on the human body on the ground without hesitation, turned around and jumped into the shallow beach on the shore, struggling to splash into the water; others ducked behind their companions, and then The powerful crossbows fired at close range were strung together into candied haws...
But there was another person who roared angrily on the spot, stretched out his hand and shot away several crossbow bolts one after another. Then, before he could use up his explosive breath, he was hit by short arrows thrown one after another. , was hit in the arm and lower abdomen; he was pinned to the ground on his back.
After a while, the chaos subsided. A total of three corpses and one seriously injured survivor were presented to Jiang Tian. As for the one who jumped into the river but was swept away by the rolling waves before he could swim far, he could only hope for his own good luck.
"God has no eyes!" However, the only seriously injured man alive stared at the Pinglu County magistrate in despair and said: "You, a dog official, escaped this time by chance; but the blood debt of the Xishan brothers will not be paid. Even if I’m gone, there will still be people who will settle accounts with you!”
"Bastard! Bastard! What a bastard are you talking about!" When Magistrate Zhao heard this, he said in a panic, regardless of his anger: "The Shanpeng Association came down to the mountain to become a naturalized person. I originally used my future as a guarantee to get the permission. You look for a place to settle, but when you look back you are gone, how dare you rely on me!"
"Dog officer, don't pretend to be stupid. Aren't you the one who secretly led the troops up the mountain and killed several sheds of old, weak, women and children?" But the living man got into a fierce argument and roared: "It's a pity that all their heads were chopped off. , only the naked body that has been harmed is left, didn’t you kill the good and take the credit?”
"How is this possible? You are too ignorant; you are from a literary class, not a military officer!" Magistrate Zhao became more and more angry after hearing this: "How can the power of beheading be compared to this officer?" Under the past administration, you solicited more performance appraisals for household registrations? Now you are falsely accusing me!"
"Impossible, you idiot, don't use clever words to confuse right and wrong." The seriously injured man saw his breath weakening during the intense emotional struggle: "I only regret that the revenge opportunity we have prepared so hard has been disturbed by this accident. ..." Then he passed out.
"The lower officials are so incompetent that I actually asked Shang Xian to see such an ugly behavior." Then, the mournful Magistrate Zhao turned to Jiang Tian who was watching and said sadly: "Please Shang Xian do your best for me." Be a witness; prepare for future interrogations and detailed inquiries from superiors..."
"I am only in charge of a county, and on weekdays I only command some people and soldiers; I don't have the ability and authority to send troops to suppress mountains and search and kill." However, he continued to explain with a wry smile: "This I'm afraid it's a sudden misfortune that will fall on the official."
"County Magistrate Zhao, how many people are there in the mountain sheds under your rule?" Jiang Tian was moved when he heard this, and asked: "When did you start recruiting the mountain sheds? When did something happen to them? ”
"Going back to Shangxian, these mountain shack families are more or less outlaws who are unwilling to obey the tax. Therefore, in a few years or more, even those who have suffered a little bit of famine can gather here. Once in a while," County Magistrate Zhao sighed, "but in good years, they will come down the mountain to ask for work again."
"I am also obsessed with utilitarianism, so I want to make a mid-level and upper-level performance appraisal during my term of office, and persuade people to go up the mountain to persuade them to naturalize, so that the national records will look better. But I don't want to cause trouble; now These aliens died unjustly, and my tenure has come to an end."
"In the final analysis, this probably happened after the autumn of the previous year. It happened that because the river was dry, we had to recruit people; but last year, I sent people to the mountains to search again, but they reported that several mountain shack settlements had been abandoned. ; Now it seems that those people did not reply truthfully!"
"Then do you think there are those beings around you who have the ability and opportunity to do such a thing?" Jiang Tian heard this but did not answer his words, and continued to ask calmly: " Have you ever considered similar suspects?"
"Shangxian...Shangxian, you are making it too difficult for me to get down." Magistrate Zhao's face suddenly fell, and he said sadly: "I'm just a minor county official, I don't dare to I don’t dare to think about it; otherwise, not to mention losing my official position, I’m afraid I’ll be guilty of a serious crime.”
"Okay, let's just look at the present for now." Jiang Tian also shook his head and retracted Jiao Qianyanshen's temptation: "Since these people are all here for you, County Magistrate Zhao, that also means, The right person I'm looking for is not among them; let's start with these people and start over."
However, this time the expanded screening had only been carried out for a short time; Jiang Tian suddenly got up and walked straight to the outside, to a shed selling cheap tea; he suddenly said to an old man holding a child, "I don't know. , how do the human organs taste?"
"..." The old man with a wrinkled face and unclear hearing and vision managed a flattering smile as if he had not heard anything: "The official is here, what do you want to drink, little old man, there is nothing good here... "The next moment, the sword flashed, and the arm he was holding the child suddenly broke and fell to the ground.
"Ah..." In an instant, he burst out with an incredible scream, but the next moment he suddenly flew away and hit the household items behind the tea shed. When he stood up again, his body was no longer stooped. The skin at the joints burst rapidly and grew and swelled;
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a humanoid monster with blood-covered skin all over its body and sharp claws and protruding joints. It almost had a fishy stench and pounced on Jiang Tian, only to be hurled at him in the air. In the center of the arrow support, with a cry, it rolled down and knocked down the tea shed.
Then, a claw tip tore out from the rolled-up tarpaulin. More arrows were guided by this, and they were shot densely in the middle; and the sergeant came forward with his spear very skillfully, and used it to stab the tarpaulin in a fan-like distribution, which was constantly struggling and shaking.
However, except for the bloody splashes of the first few stabs, the subsequent stabs fell into the empty space; at the same time, at the other end of the tarpaulin, a figure shrunk a lot again; but in the gap between the spearheads Suddenly it flew out; after a few ups and downs, it ran to the edge of the woods in the blink of an eye.
Then, blood suddenly burst out from his thigh, and he fell to the muddy ground in an instant, splattering a long trail of blood; but it was Jiang Tian who took action secretly. Despite this, the opponent, who was still tenacious in life, could still continue to climb into the forest with his remaining arms.
This time, as a large net with a bag head came down, and the net hook embedded in the flesh wrapped it up; the monster who transformed into an old man in the tea shed stopped struggling. The prompt in Jiang Tian's field of vision also changed to "Abnormal Aberration (Endangered)."
However, the monster that was carried back in the hook net also quickly shrank and shriveled up amid the constant dripping of dirty blood. Finally, it turned into the appearance of a dying old man again; only, it was as bloody as a skinned monkey. There are still strands of sticky skin on his body.
It looks scary and terrifying. At this time, someone belatedly realized and screamed: "This is not the old man from the Tian family who has been selling tea here for many years..., what kind of monster is this that has transformed into his appearance? Go and find it, the old man from the Tian family is here." where."
