"It's so desolate here."
When entering the city, Li Fan was riding on a horse. His eyes seemed casual and casual, but in fact he was looking carefully and paying attention to his surroundings.
This is where Nanxing Province is located close to southern Sichuan. Due to its remote location, it is desolate and backward. Even the county seat is visibly depressed.
As they walked forward, all they saw along the street were dilapidated and low-rise houses, which looked like they had not been repaired for a long time.
There were a few business travelers on the dilapidated dirt road, and there were even vendors selling goods along the street, but they all looked weak.
If you look closely, you will see that the clothes of the people here have absolutely nothing to do with glamour. Even their bodies are on the thin side, and both men and women, old and young, have the same sallow complexion.
Walking all the way down, I couldn't even see a white person.
"The imperial court has provided relief to various parties for many years, and the national treasury is empty. It has long been unable to provide any silver, and there are not many local taxes to collect, so we can only muddle along."
Liu Bing, who had recently been promoted, was not brave enough to pick up Li Bin's message.
"Besides, the virtues of those local officials are as good as three feet higher...
If the people catch up with the good times, they can barely make ends meet. If the times are bad, it will be really difficult to survive. "
"Tsk." Li Ao chuckled, but it didn't mean much.
People in the area had never seen a tall horse, and seeing Li Jin dressed neatly, they couldn't help but look at him.
Suddenly, Li Fan's eyes moved slightly.
He felt a gaze on him.
In that sight, there is a different scrutiny from other people!
Li Fan didn't look back, but his strange power was activated, his eyes turned along the void, and he chased after him.
Such a scene seemed to appear in front of Li Bin.
On the nearby street, in an alley, a middle-aged man with long hair tied up, wearing a hard worker's coat, was hiding in the dark, quietly watching with a solemn expression.
After a moment, he seemed to make a judgment and ran into the depths of the alley at the back, arriving in front of a house.
Li Fan couldn't hear the sound from that far away, but it was easy to tell from the movement of the other person's lips that he was calling the people inside.
After a while, a middle-aged man wearing brocade clothes and looking like a businessman came out.
The man in short coat bowed and reported something to him.
"Foreigners...suspicious..."
Li Fan could barely read something through lip reading.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised in a smile.
Because the middle-aged man in brocade was wearing a token owned by the leader of the Gu Xin Demon Sect's Xiang Master level.
The salute performed by the man in the short coat is also a unique code of the Gu Xin Demon Cult.
The Demon-Suppressing Division has long understood this.
"Sure enough, someone is targeting us!
Demonic cult activities are rampant in this place, and it seems that the local government has long been unable to control the situation. "
"Otherwise, we can simply sell the items as a flaw and let them attack, then capture the leader and interrogate him directly?"
Yang Yan suggested lazily.
"That's fine, but you have to move quickly. If the subordinates here suddenly lose contact, the middle and high-level officials will definitely be alert."
Li Shu came up with his plan.
"Let everyone take a rest first, recharge their batteries, and then make plans."
After a while, Li Jinren arrived at the inn in the city and settled down.
Liu Bing was ordered to take his masters to hand over to Yi Cheng. After a while, he came back with the chief here and reported with a hint of helplessness: "My lord, there is no way to replace good horses in this place, but there is still some fine grain left. It can be done." Feed our horses."
With a bit of panic, the chief quickly explained: "My lord, please forgive me, there is really nothing we can do."
"It doesn't matter, just arrange our rooms." Li Fan waved his hand.
Immediately, he hinted to Liu Bing and others: "Don't be lazy and watch carefully."
There are many strangers here, and they are not afraid of fighting head-on with them, but they are afraid that the other party will drug them and poison their mounts.
In that case, it would be much more troublesome to get on the road.
After a while, the people who went to contact the grassroots organization of the Demon Suppression Division also came back, but they only brought back one flag deputy.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Our General Lin Qi personally took Sa to investigate a case. He has not returned for three days."
The grassroots organization in this place is a flag team under the jurisdiction of the general flag, which is already considered to be highly qualified in the county.
In many places, there were either teams or no foreigners stationed at all. When an incident occurred, they had to be mobilized from nearby towns.
When encountering strange events, it is also common to go out to investigate.
Li Fan heard this and did not blame him. He just asked him about some local conditions.
As expected, the result is that Haiyan and Heqing are peaceful.
…
That night, everyone had a good rest and nothing happened.
"The local demon sect's incense master is too cowardly. He just asks people to stare at us and doesn't even dare to test it."
The plan to lure the snake out of the cave failed, and Yang Yan couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.
She was also counting on those members of the Demon Cult to gather together and attack, just in time to catch them all in one fell swoop.
Li Wei: "Isn't it just right? Everyone should have a rest and the horses should recover before we can continue on the road.
By the way, can you still feel the presence of that suspected immortal corpse now? "
Hearing this, Yang Yan looked solemn.
"It's getting clearer."
Li Wei: "Before departure, I checked with my father on the recent trends of the Demon Sect and found that they had made big moves in the old capital. Judging from the latest situation, they should have successfully unearthed the immortal corpse.
Only later did we realize that the ringing in the sky might have caused the God of Fire to approach, and then the source demons interfered with each other..."
When he came here, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.
Could it be that he accidentally used the copied Yibao mobile phone and caused trouble?
However, there is no evidence for this kind of thing at all, and there is no need to rush to take the blame.
The most urgent task is to find someone with enough weight to ask clearly whether the Demon Cult has obtained the original body of the corpse of the Outer Immortal.
People in the Demon Cult have always had some mysterious connection with each other. Li Ao vaguely guessed that it was probably the flow of some kind of flesh and blood or strange origin.
Similar to the existence of reincarnated bodies, soul boys, and saints.
etc……
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Li Fan's mind, and he vaguely noticed something.
He suddenly felt that his previous guess about something was probably wrong.
But this vague feeling only passed by for a moment, because his thoughts were interrupted before he had time to sort them out.
Liu Changxi and Huang Dahu, who were sent out to investigate the news, returned.
"Sir, those Demon Cult monsters are gathering, and it seems they plan to attack at night!"
"Have they gathered? Well, let's go, let's take the initiative and capture them to ask for directions!"
