In the darkness, in a small village more than ten miles away from the Deer Park, beside a well, the smell of blood quietly spread in the darkness. An old man who was watching the well fell in a small wooden house not far from the well. Along with the old man, a dog also fell and continued to bleed...
The wooden house was newly built. Originally, the well didn't need to be guarded. However, the atmosphere in the capital region has been tense these days. The legend of the plague of corpses has spread everywhere, and people are in a panic. In addition to organizing militia to patrol the village during the day, Zhaojia Village also found some orphans and widows in the village to guard the wells in the village at night to prevent them from being tampered with. Not only in Zhaojia Village, but also in and outside the city of the capital region, the wells everywhere are guarded at night...
"Hurry up, bring the things over..." Two black shadows were gathering around the well. One of them had a knife in his hand and was speaking in a low voice, "The dog just barked a few times. Let's hurry up, or someone will come..."
"Okay..." Another black shadow came to the well stealthily, carrying a large clay pot more than half a meter high on his back, and opened the lid of the pottery pot. Even in the darkness, a disgusting smell instantly spread out.
The man holding the knife ran over, and the two of them lifted the big pottery jar together, moved it to the side of the well, and stood upside down...
With a "splash...", a bunch of fragmented things that could no longer be recognized poured out from the big pottery jar and all into the well.
Just after pouring, a dark shadow seemed to be startled. His hand shook, and he threw something in his hand to the ground, and then stomped on it twice.
"What's wrong?" another dark shadow asked in a deep voice.
"A maggot crawled onto my hand, luckily I was wearing gloves..." a dark shadow replied while panting, seeming to be frightened.
"Hurry up and return the same way..."
"Um… "
The two black shadows immediately ran away, and when they left, they even did not forget to take the big pottery jar with them...
Less than half a minute after the two of them left the well, Yan Liqiang's figure fell from the sky and landed at the well. Yan Liqiang's eyes flashed, and he took a look at this place and basically knew what happened here...
Although it was dark at this moment, in Yan Liqiang's eyes, it was almost the same as daytime.
The bodies of the old man and the dog were lying on the ground, both killed by a single knife. There was blood all over the ground. There was some filth near the well. As soon as I got close to the well, a familiar fishy smell came to my face. There were also some red maggots crawling around the well.
The White Lotus Sect is truly insane!
The gleam in Yan Liqiang's eyes turned into murderous intent. He looked up at the sky again, and with a flash of his body, he immediately chased towards the place where the two black shadows disappeared. In less than a minute, he saw the two black shadows who had just left here in a forest near the village.
The two Heiyin, with their bodies and faces wrapped in black clothes and gloves on their hands, were running quickly. One of them was actually carrying a large pottery jar on his back. Judging from his cultivation, one of them had advanced to a warrior, and the other, the one carrying the large pottery jar, was just a jack of all trades. In Yan Liqiang's eyes, they were both trash.
It was these two people who just left a bloody corpse in the well
Yan Liqiang wanted to take action, but he held back. These were just two insignificant minions. Yan Liqiang wanted to see if he could catch the big fish of the White Lotus Sect by following these two minions...
In less than two minutes, the two White Lotus thugs passed through the woods behind the village and came to a river. They took off their night clothes and gloves from head to toe, and threw everything into the pottery jar, including the knife in one of their hands. They put two stones in the pottery jar and threw it directly into the river. Then the two of them bypassed the river and ran away along the dirt road in the field, hiding themselves...
Of course, the two men could not have imagined that Yan Liqiang was following them and saw everything. It was the middle of the night and there were certainly no people in the wild. The two men were familiar with the route and ran along the weed-covered path in the wild for more than ten minutes. Then they came to another village and quietly climbed into a house through the half-closed window of a house near a fish pond on the edge of the village.
One of them quietly closed the window and lowered the curtains, while the other one ran to the door and looked into the yard through the crack in the door...
With a click, the flint in the room lit up, and then an oil lamp was lit. In the light of the oil lamp, two faces that looked relieved yet filled with hatred and resentment were revealed.
The two faces, one was in his fifties, full of wrinkles, dark skin, and a gray beard, looking honest, and the other was in his twenties, pale, with a long scar on his forehead, disfigured, with high cheekbones, and a somewhat dull look, but with a fierce look in his eyes...
The room was very big, with long and short wooden boards and strips placed inside, as well as a half-finished cabinet. Carpentry tools such as planes, chisels and saws were placed on a table, and a big bed was in the corner of the room. It looked a bit messy, like a carpenter's workplace.
The young man in his twenties was panting and poured a glass of water from the table. Just as he was about to drink it, the old man slapped him hard on the palm and said in a low and stern voice, "Did you forget to wash your hands with wine first..."
The young man in his twenties trembled, quickly put down the cup in his hand, picked up a wine jug on the table, and washed his hands with the wine in the jug. The old man then took the jug, poured the wine, washed his hands, then sat down on the chair with some relaxation and let out a long breath.
The young man drank a glass of water in big gulps, wiped his face, panted and asked in a low voice, "Master...will our affairs tonight...will not be discovered by others?"
The old man glanced at the young man, picked up a pipe on the table, slowly rolled a little tobacco on the copper head of the pipe, lit it with the oil lamp on the table, took a deep puff of the cigarette, squinted his eyes, "Of course, if you don't say it and I don't say it, who would know? Do you really think those lackeys in the court can do everything? Hehe, they are more afraid than us now. The emperor is going to run away, but he left them to die in the capital..."
"What if... what if a zombie plague really breaks out?"
“We have been lurking in the Imperial Capital for seven years. This is the only mission from the sect we have received in these seven years. Don’t worry, in five or six days, we will leave this capital area. We are not afraid even if there is a corpse plague. It would be best if a corpse plague really breaks out, so that all the people in the court in the Imperial Capital can be killed, and there will be fewer beasts that harm people…” the old man said cruelly while smoking a cigarette.
"Ah, have the higher-ups agreed to let us leave?"
"Of course, as the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to raise an army and only a moment to deploy it. We have stayed here as carpenters for so many years just for this one mission. When the incense master gave us the jar, he allowed us to leave. We will leave in a few days. When we get to Jinling, we will be able to find the contact person in the sect to take us away from the capital..."
"What a pity! I thought we could kill a few corrupt officials this time..." The young man said fiercely, touching the scar on his forehead, "But I didn't expect that Xu Laogou's family had already escaped. This revenge can only be avenged later..."
"There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. This heavenly calamity was brought about by our Holy Lord in order to take the life of this imperial court and change the Han Empire..." Laitou's eyes flashed with fanaticism, and he took long puffs of the cigarette in his hand. "Our Holy Lord has great magical powers. He can call the wind and rain and pick the stars and the moon. He will definitely lead us to establish the kingdom of heaven and make all the local tyrants, evil gentry, corrupt officials who oppress the people work like slaves for us..."
"Will there really be such a day?"
"There will definitely be one!" the old man nodded and said affirmatively.
Yan Liqiang followed the two people, originally wanting to follow the clues to see if he could catch the big fish of the White Lotus Sect. However, after arriving here, he listened to what the two people said, and then flew around the outside of the house. Finally, he finally confirmed that the two people he met tonight were just two small characters planted by the White Lotus Sect in the capital area. This is not a base of the White Lotus Sect. It is just that the place where the two people live seems to be a carpenter's workshop. The identities of the two people should be carpenters in this village. There is no one here to contact the two people...
There is no point in wasting time with these two small characters, and there will be no great gains. It is better to ask them directly to find out the truth. Yan Liqiang thought of this and dodged to the door of the room. He exerted his strength and opened the door. He flashed and rushed into the room...
(End of this chapter)