"who?"
When the door was opened by Yan Liqiang, the old man who was smoking had already come to his senses. Yan Liqiang was very fast, and there was almost only a faint shadow when he rushed in. The old man felt a dark shadow rushing towards him, and without thinking, he pulled the cigarette in his hand towards Yan Liqiang, and wanted to stand up from the chair...
But Yan Liqiang would never give him a chance. The old man had just smoked half of his cigarette and his butt had just left the chair when he felt a shock in his hand and then his whole body went numb. He sat back on the chair. The young man next to him was a beat slower to react. When he felt something was wrong, he took out a dagger from his pocket, but before he could even stab it out, his whole body went numb as if he had been electrocuted and he also collapsed on the chair.
It was not until Yan Liqiang took down the two men in an instant, making them lose their fighting power, that the flame of the oil lamp on the table in front of them shook violently twice in the wind brought by Yan Liqiang. The flame suddenly dimmed, then lit up again, returning to its previous state.
The old man and the young man looked at Yan Liqiang standing in front of them, and then looked at the door that seemed like it had never been opened. Their faces turned pale in an instant. No matter how dumb they were, they both knew that the young man in front of them was a super master beyond their imagination. Not to mention the two of them, even if there were ten times more people, they would not be able to fight back in front of this young man.
"Wow..." Yan Liqiang casually threw the old man's pipe and the dagger on the young man's body onto the table in front of the two men, and glanced at them. "Tell me, what happened tonight?"
The young man looked at Yan Liqiang with a look of fear and hatred. His body could not move, but he still bit his lip and said nothing. When he heard Yan Liqiang's question, the young man glanced at the old man.
"Who are you?" The old man calmed himself down, squinted his eyes and stared at Yan Liqiang and asked, "You look so young, are you also a lackey of the court..."
Hawkdog? Yan Liqiang smiled. This was the first time he had heard someone say this about him. But he did not deny it. "If you say so, then it is true. Right now, in the capital, the only one who can fight against your White Lotus Sect is the imperial court..."
The old man looked at Yan Liqiang and sneered, "What do you want me to say?"
"Who is your incense master? How did the blood corpse come into your hands? Are there other White Lotus followers hiding in the capital area besides you two?" Yan Liqiang stared into the old man's eyes and asked three questions in a row.
The old man looked at Yan Liqiang without saying a word, his expression full of disdain. The expression on his face even reminded Yan Liqiang of the arrested underground party members he saw on TV in his previous life. "You lackeys of the imperial court want me to betray my brothers in the church. I tell you, that's a dream. Since I, Li Dachuan, dare to settle down in the capital and work for the church, I have already put my head on the belt. Do you think I am afraid of you? If you want to kill me, kill me. If you want to shave me, shave me. Why waste your words?"
"Master, if you want to kill or rob me, I will accompany you!" The young man next to him who had not spoken yet also spoke up.
“Haha, Liuzi, our relationship as master and disciple is worth it. You have suffered a lot following me these years. Master has never let you have a good life. I’m afraid we will have to meet in heaven in the future. Then Master will repay you well…” said the old man proudly.
"This life was given to me by you, Master. If it weren't for you, Master, all my bones would have been eaten clean by wild dogs. When I get to heaven, I will honor you very much!" The young man also laughed.
Yan Liqiang was somewhat moved by the master and disciple. He said in a deep voice, "It seems that you two also come from poor backgrounds, but what you did tonight, once it triggers the corpse plague, will cut off the livelihood of tens of millions of people in the capital. You are not the enemy of the court, but the enemy of tens of millions of poor people!"
“In the eyes of the imperial court, the people of the capital are just like pigs and dogs. Even if they don’t die from the plague, they will die from the calamity in a few months. If they die from the plague now, they can drag a few of the imperial court’s dog officials to be buried with them. What’s wrong with that…” The old man looked at Yan Liqiang and smiled, with a trace of black blood slowly flowing out of the corner of his mouth. “You lackeys, you work for the imperial court’s dog officials and dog emperors, and oppress the people. Sooner or later… you will… die… badly…”
After saying this, the old man's head dropped...
“Master…” the young man yelled, tears streaming down his face. He raised his head and gave Yan Liqiang a vicious look with a miserable smile on his face. Then, black blood flowed out of his mouth. His body twitched slightly on the chair twice and then stopped moving.
The poison was hidden in the teeth of the two men. Yan Liqiang knew that when the thought of suicide flashed through the old man's mind, he did not stop him. At this time, it would be a big mistake to let the two men go. If these two men were left to the court and the government, they would never survive and would suffer more torture before they died. Perhaps this was the best outcome.
Although the old man did not ask the three questions just now, Yan Liqiang already knew the answers.
The old man and the incense master he mentioned had a single line of contact. The old man did not know the true identity of their incense master because the incense master always covered his face when he met him. The identity of the incense master was confirmed by the man's incense master's identity badge and a meeting etiquette of their White Lotus Sect.
The blood corpse was delivered by their incense master at night a month ago, and it was placed in that big pottery jar. Even the time when they would launch the attack tonight and discard the blood corpse had been determined a month ago. Since then, the old man has never seen their incense master again in this month.
Apart from their incense leader, the old man didn't know any other hidden members of the White Lotus Sect in the entire capital area.
Seeing the two dead people on the chair, Yan Liqiang felt extremely heavy-hearted. He finally understood why the court had gone to great lengths to send so many people but still failed to catch those people who spread the blood corpses in the White Lotus Sect. Because those people were all the internal responses that the White Lotus Sect had arranged in the capital area a long time ago. They had taken root in the capital area a long time ago and had various ordinary people's identities as cover. Moreover, they had a single line of contact with the higher-ups. After those people received the task of spreading the blood corpses, they evacuated as soon as the task was completed. In the past few months, many people in the entire capital area have evacuated legally with the road permits or run away secretly, so the court could not investigate them at all. And a month ago, it was easy for the White Lotus Sect to transport the blood corpses in the pottery jars to the capital area. They could easily accomplish it by finding a ship and hiring a escort team...
The White Lotus Sect was so cunning and shrewd that Yan Liqiang couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
Like the two people who just died, they did not develop any White Lotus followers in the Imperial Capital City, nor did they contact other members of the White Lotus Sect. Instead, they lived as carpenters, like silent bombs. Everything seemed to be preparing for this day. Thinking further, perhaps the White Lotus Sect had already planned and launched the "corpse plague attack" in the Imperial Capital City many years ago. This time, it was the heavenly calamity that was leaked by himself that allowed the White Lotus Sect to play this card in advance. If the news of the heavenly calamity had not been leaked, I really don't know when the White Lotus Sect would decide to use this card.
Yan Liqiang left the carpenter workshop in the village with a heavy heart. When he returned to the village where he had just discarded the bloody corpse, the people in that village still had not noticed anything unusual about the wellhead. It was not until Yan Liqiang made a loud noise that the nearby residents were suddenly awakened.
An hour later, the whole village was ablaze with torches and crowded with people. The whole village was alarmed. Many people had gathered around the well. A space had been cleared within ten meters of the well mouth, and no one was allowed to approach. Several young men wrapped in cloth from head to toe, after drinking a few sips of courageous wine, were trembling with fear as they poured carts of lime into the well. Then someone poured pine oil into the well and lit the fire. When the fire was extinguished, the whole well was filled with soil by the villagers...
Yan Liqiang did not show up, but hid in the dark, watching the actions of the villagers. After finding that there was nothing wrong with the treatment of the villagers, he set off and returned to the Deer Garden.
When Yan Liqiang returned to Luyuan, it was almost dawn. After a night of hard work, Yan Liqiang did not continue to sleep, but practiced the Yijing Xisuijing several times. He was full of energy. Then, Li Zi, who was now Eunuch Li, came to Yan Liqiang's yard in person and told Yan Liqiang a piece of news. Eunuch Liu had returned to the Imperial Capital at dawn today and wanted to see Yan Liqiang...
(End of this chapter)