Inside an ordinary small house in Pinganfang, east of Qingshan County.
Although the house is small, it is well-equipped. Water wells, stoves, vegetable plots, and pig pens are all available.
Old man Liu lay down in his rocking chair early in the morning, lazily staring at the sun that was obscured by fog and looked like a fluorescent lamp in the sky.
"I'm old, I'm old after all. But after working hard for half a month, I'm as tired as my old age. I'm becoming less and less energetic." He couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.
"Finally settled."
"After a while, the fog cleared, and I went to find matchmaker Zhang."
The bad foggy day still couldn't affect his good mood.
"Find a concubine to warm the bed. I will be satisfied for the rest of my life."
"We also need to find out which family has children they can't afford to raise. They can't be too old, otherwise they will still belong to others when they are raised."
Old man Liu had a longing smile on his face.
"Go when the fog clears, go when the fog clears..."
He murmured in a low voice, with hope, slowly fell into sleep, and slowly died.
…
The backyard of the county government office in Qingshan County.
Since the county magistrate disappeared, County Magistrate Li Qing actually took control of Qingshan County.
He blatantly moved to the county magistrate's residence.
The world is in chaos, and no one cares about a small Qingshan County.
The sky was getting brighter and Li Qing slowly stood up. He felt like he had a headache, his eyes were swollen, his limbs were sore, as if he hadn't slept all night.
"Come here." He shouted weakly in a hoarse voice.
But after shouting for a long time, no one came to help him get up.
Li Qing endured the discomfort and struggled to leave the bedroom angrily.
"You have to find a doctor." He clearly felt something was wrong with his body.
He rushed into the small cubicle next to the bedroom, which was the temporary residence of the personal maid.
The maid who should have gotten up early was still curled up in bed.
A maid got up later than his master? !
Damn it!
He ran to the bed angrily and raised his hand to beat the maid violently.
But what he faced was an extremely pale face.
If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of her chest, he would have thought that this maid was dead!
"Something's wrong!" Li Qing staggered back.
Did someone poison themselves?
He rushed out of the room in a hurry.
I saw the servants and guards guarding outside the room staggering around like they were drunk.
His face was pale and his energy and blood were depleted!
"Something's wrong! Something's very wrong!"
"Somebody come!"
"Someone is coming!"
…
Qingshan County South Official Road.
The long motorcade suddenly stopped, and a burst of noise came from the front of the motorcade.
"Something happened?" Chen Mu tried his best to look forward.
But the thick fog obscured it, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"Zhen Fan, go take a look in front!" Zhang Ye stuck his head out of the window and shouted to the carriage behind him.
"okay!"
A thin man jumped off the carriage at the back and quickly disappeared into the mist.
Half an hour later, the thin man returned again.
"Boss, someone is dead in front."
"It is said that he is a young master from the Zuo family."
"Silent, sudden death."
"The young master's mother is making a fuss out front."
Chen Mu frowned slightly, wondering why someone suddenly died.
"It's not a good sign that someone died just after setting off." Zhang Ye sighed, and then complained, "This young master didn't care about the time when he died, but he died now. Doesn't this delay things?!"
"Something's wrong." Chen Mu frowned tightly.
"Brother, don't be afraid. It's just a death. Brother is here..." Zhang Ye patted Chen Mu on the shoulder and laughed.
Chen Mu glanced at the other party indifferently.
Zhang Ye felt his heart tightening. A familiar feeling of limp limbs made him dare not move. He opened his mouth but couldn't say a word, like a duck being strangled by the neck.
When he came back to his senses, he was immediately embarrassed. I was actually frightened by a white-faced scholar!
He stared and was about to give the other party a fierce look. But he found that Chen Mu had turned his head and ignored him.
"What's wrong?" Jie Jia turned to look at Chen Mu.
"It's too quiet."
He lived in Xiaodongshan for three months. There are constant chirping of insects and birds every day.
He had felt something was wrong since he arrived here early in the morning, but he finally realized it now.
A cold light flashed in Jie Jia's eyes, and his figure suddenly disappeared.
Three breaths later, he appeared with a thumb-sized gray spider in his hand.
The spider lay in the palm of his hand, lying limp and motionless.
Jie Jia disappeared again and came back with three more grasshoppers.
Just as soft and motionless.
Jie Jia's face suddenly turned ugly.
"Let's go!" Chen Mu slapped the horse in front of him on the butt.
The carriage immediately rolled forward.
…
"What are you doing!" A black horse blocked the carriage, and a bald man on the horse shouted: "Didn't I tell you, stay where you are, no one is allowed to move!"
"What do you call this big brother? We are really bored staying where we are, so we just want to go for a walk in front of us and explore the way for everyone in advance." Chen Mu said with a smile.
"Don't you understand what I'm saying? Stay where you are!" The bald man glanced at Jie Jia and said coldly.
"Be careful, brother, take it to drink tea. Let's go to the front to get some fresh air." Chen Mu took out a piece of broken silver from his arms and threw it to the bald man.
The strong man caught it and put it in his arms with a smile, his face turned cold again: "Go back!"
Chen Mu looked at Jiejia with a smile: "This guy takes money but doesn't do anything. His professional ethics is far worse than yours."
As he spoke, he suppressed his smile, looked at the strong man calmly, and lightly kicked the horse's ass with his toes.
The carriage hit the strong man in black and hit him!
The bald man's expression changed. He couldn't hit two horses with one horse.
Pull the reins immediately and avoid the carriage.
Standing on the side of the road, seeing Jiejia being calm and silent, Chen Mu ignored him completely.
The strong man laughed angrily.
How dare a fair-faced boy turn a deaf ear to my words?
He turned over and dismounted, with a ferocious smile on his face, and reached out to grab Chen Mu's neck.
The team was in trouble, people's hearts were unstable, and they just needed someone to establish their authority.
Isn’t this coming?
laugh!
A soft sound.
He felt his fingers get cold, and his eyes flashed with silver light.
The sharp sword tip passed through the gap between the index and middle fingers and appeared out of thin air in front of his eyes.
At this moment, the tip of the sword was only a grain of rice away from the eyeballs.
The bald man seemed to have been pressed on the stop button and stood motionless.
He didn't even dare to blink for fear of being cut by the blade.
Chen Mu had no expression on his face and said in a cold voice: "If you dare to stop the carriage, I will kill you."
laugh!
It's like not seeing where the sword comes from.
No one saw where the sword went back.
The sword tip disappeared before the bald man's eyes, and he felt as if he was exhausted, and his back was covered with sweat.
Just now, he really felt like he was dying.
"What's going on?!" a hoarse voice asked coldly.
An old man in his fifties with half-white hair came over.
The bald man's energy was shaken, and he walked up to the old man in two steps and clasped his fists respectfully.
"Mr. Zuo, I have caused you trouble." The bald man said with an apologetic look, "There was an accident in the convoy. In order to find out the cause, I asked everyone to stand by where they are."
"A silver-booted guard disobeyed orders. I have expelled them." The bald man said respectfully.
Immediately he looked at Chen Mujiejia and said coldly: "Go away. The Xue family warehouse does not need to drag the disobedient silver boots!"
Jie Jia rolled his eyes and glanced at Master Zuo. The reins in his hands shook slightly, and the carriage gurgled forward.
Chen Mu had no expression on his face and didn't even look at the two of them. He just leaned on the carriage and was lost in thought.
Being ignored by the two men, the strong man's face suddenly turned red.
"Mr. Zuo, the disobedient people have been driven away. You can go and have a rest. We will deal with it as soon as possible..." But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Mr. Zuo.
"Inform the team and set off immediately!"
"Mr. Zuo, if something happens to the young master, we can't act so hastily. We have to eliminate hidden dangers first..."
"I told you, let's go immediately!" Mr. Zuo stared at the bald man.
That look is very clear, if you don't obey, I will replace you!
The bald man was full of words in his chest, and said with an aggrieved look on his face: "Yes!"
Mr. Zuo glanced at the black carriage going away again.
He glared at the strong man with cold eyes: "Speed up and keep up with them!"
…
On a black carriage.
Chengming held a Bigu Pill in one hand, biting it on the left side and one on the right side. He enjoyed eating it.
Du Huai, the fat county lieutenant, huddled in the carriage without saying a word, but his eyes rolled, not knowing what he was thinking.
Zhang Ye leaned against the inner wall of the carriage. I feel like my back is wet with sweat, and it's sticky and uncomfortable, but I don't dare to scratch it.
From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at Chen Mu outside the carriage.
Is this really a thin scholar?
He had been staring at Chen Mu just now, but he didn't notice how the other party drew his sword and put it away? !
Being a warrior, he subconsciously placed himself in the position of a bald man.
Can't help it! There's no way to prevent it!
Master!
A master who can kill himself!
Thinking that he had just slapped someone on the shoulder carelessly, joking in his heart that they were afraid of death, Zhang Ye felt a chill on his forehead.
This scholar, he doesn’t hold grudges...
…
The carriage moved slowly. But Chen Mu's hair stood up all over his body, and he felt worse and worse.
So he grabbed the whip and drove the carriage into flight. .
Regardless of the passengers in the carriage complaining about the bumps, they ran for more than 20 miles and out of the thick fog before stopping the carriage and letting the horses rest.
Jumped off the carriage and looked back towards the road.
The white mist is like a ball of cotton, firmly covering a ten-mile radius of Qingshan County and cannot be blown by the wind.
Looking from the outside, there is only a vast expanse of white.
Not long after, a rumble came from behind.
Zuo's team also ran out of the thick fog in embarrassment.
Seeing Chen Mu and others resting on the roadside, they slowed down and waited for the convoy to completely escape the white fog. Stop the convoy and rest where you are.
The run just now caused a lot of trouble for this huge convoy.
The personnel are in confusion and need to be re-checked and arranged; the goods are jolted and scattered and need to be re-bundled.
Not long after, the motorcade suddenly became noisy again.
"Boss, I heard that four more people died. Some were old and some young, and they were all frail and sick." Zhen Fan went to the black car to report.
As soon as Zuo's motorcade stopped, he secretly went over to collect information.
"Fuck! It's crazy! Fortunately we ran fast!" Zhang Ye's back was suddenly wet with sweat again.
The inexplicable death made him think of evil spirits causing chaos.
Qingshan County has not been peaceful recently.
There might be these unclean things in the fog.
Zhang Ye couldn't help but be surprised when he looked at Chen Mu.
This Scholar Chen is amazing! I realized something was wrong in advance.
Seeing Chen Mu staring at Bai Wu expressionlessly, he felt more and more mysterious.
…
"Is it a ghost?" Chen Mu asked Jie Jia.
"No." Jie Jia stood beside Chen Mu with his hands behind his back.
There was only a slit left in his eyes, and his bright yellow eyes stared thoughtfully at the mist.
"There must be something wrong with the fog."
"Fog?" Chen Mu couldn't help but think of the London smog incident that he had occasionally heard of in his previous life.
In 1952, due to the influence of airflow, it was difficult for the smoke and exhaust gases from coal-burning factory production and residential heating to spread, and the smog enveloped London for five days. During this period, the morbidity and mortality rates among citizens increased sharply.
According to subsequent statistics, as many as 4,000 people died due to the smog.
But Qingshan County is just an ancient city from another world. How much exhaust gas is there?
The huge Qingshan County town was tightly shrouded in white mist.
It was quiet, like a dead city, with no sound at all.
Looking at it from a distance, Chen Mu couldn't help but feel frightened.
"The place of right and wrong..."
