Chapter 32: The Road Meets the Officials
Not long after Zou Heng returned to the mountain, he was thinking about whether to go and see if he could help Li Sheng, but Li Sheng's figure had already appeared in his vision and walked back step by step.
His body is full of burnt marks, and his armor looks a little broken and looks very embarrassed, but with his temperament, it shows the feeling of an iron-blooded general in the army.
"How, is it? Is it because of the pursuit?" Zou Heng took two steps forward, looking at Li Sheng, and asked at him.
In fact, he already knew the answer to this question. Apart from the burning traces, there were no obvious traces of fighting on Li Sheng's body. In addition to the power of the warlock, it was unlikely that he could catch up with the other party.
Upon hearing this, Li Sheng shook his head as expected.
"I didn't catch up, and the other party could distinguish several fake bodies. I couldn't tell the truth for a while, so he escaped!"
"What a pity, the warlock is very powerful. Almost all of the magic spells cast are spell-level and have very powerful power. If the opponent takes action again next time, it will probably be difficult to deal with it!" Although he already knew the answer, Zou Heng was still a little disappointed when he actually heard that Li Sheng said that the warlock had escaped.
"Um!"
Li Sheng just nodded gently this time and did not continue to worry about this topic.
Immediately afterwards, he glanced at the burnt hillside, then looked at Zou Heng, then walked behind and reorganized the team.
It was confirmed that King Ren was safe and sound, and there was not much loss in the team. Except for a few who were slightly injured, all the personnel were reduced during the attack. It has to be said that it was not easy, thanks to Zou Heng and Li Sheng.
Li Sheng also saw that Zou Heng had a clear smell of blood on his body now. It was estimated that another warlock just now could not escape from Zou Heng's hands and should have been killed. This is a good thing.
After moving the team a little, the group set off again. This time everyone became more vigilant, so they didn't leave very quickly. It was not until dark that they finally arrived near a village and were about to camp next to the village tonight.
There was still some distance away. Zou Heng saw that there seemed to be a fire at the entrance of the village ahead, and a few figures gathered there.
After getting closer, Zou Heng found that there were really people there, and there were quite a few people, with about a dozen. Seeing that they were dressed, they were not ordinary people, but they were like officials.
These people also discovered the team of Zou Heng and others. After all, a team of more than 100 people approached here when they were so quiet, which seemed quite conspicuous.
After discovering the team of Zou Heng and others, a few people soon came up to negotiate among the people at the entrance of the village.
"The government handles the case, the person who comes to the scene will stop. Please report your identity!"
Among the few people who walked forward, the leader should be an official. At the beginning, he spoke very enthusiastically, but after walking closer and seeing everyone's outfits, he immediately became much more polite.
A soldier behind Li Sheng went forward and spoke to the official: "We are soldiers under the command of the rear general. We are ordered to go to the royal capital. We pass here and prepare to set up camp here. Who are you waiting for and what case are you dealing with?"
The officials who walked up to the front immediately bowed when they heard the words of the soldiers, and then quickly explained: "We are officials from Fengyang City. After receiving reports from the people under our rule, they said that evil spirits appeared in this village. Today, they specially invited the sorcerers from the temple in the city to deal with the evil spirits here. The sorcerers have entered the village. We are staying at the entrance of the village to wait!"
"Evil!" Hearing that evil appeared here, Zou Heng, as a sorcerer, immediately raised his hands, passed by his eyes, and performed the eye opening technique.
A light flashed in his eyes, and Zou Heng's pupils became like wild animals. When he looked at the village ahead again, he immediately discovered that the village ahead was indeed shrouded in the village ahead, which was inconspicuous in the darkness.
Li Sheng, who was riding on the horse, suddenly asked, "How long has the warlock you invited have been in?"
When they heard Li Sheng’s question, those people did not dare to neglect. Although Li Sheng looked a little embarrassed, with their eyesight, they could naturally see that Li Sheng should be the leader of the team, and quickly replied.
"We have been waiting here for almost two hours. In fact, we have been here since noon. However, at noon, the mage I invited did not find any trace of evil. We can only wait until the evening to see if evil will appear, so we can only wait here!"
After hearing the other party's explanation, Li Sheng nodded slightly and did not continue to ask questions.
The reason why he asked this question was that he felt that these people were already at night and were still standing at the entrance of the village. It was a bit abnormal. Usually, there were few people going out at night, and officials of Yu State would not do their jobs to this extent. They knew that the night was dangerous and had to come out to handle cases, especially those involving evil cases. This explanation made sense.
Zou Heng did not speak, but he looked at the top of the village. He found that the evil aura above the village had begun to slowly dissipate, which means that the warlock inside should have solved the evil aura.
Not long after, a man walked out of the village, carrying a shoulder bag on his waist, and he was also dressed as a very typical warlock, but his clothes looked much more luxurious than Zou Heng.
Zou Heng looked at the warlock who walked out carefully. The other party was about forty years old, with a little thin face and average appearance, giving people a feeling of being serious. He should be a more serious person, and he knew it was definitely not easy to mess with at first glance.
At the first glance of seeing this person, Zou Heng felt a sense of threat from the other party. He had felt this feeling from his previous master, and that was the heyday of his previous master, when his cultivation level was at the Tongxuan realm.
Zou Heng knew that if there were no accidents, this sorcerer who seemed serious was definitely a master in the Tongxuan realm.
As if he had noticed Zou Heng's gaze, the warlock turned his head and turned his gaze to Zou Heng. Zou Heng did not avoid the other party's gaze at this time. He just put his left hand into a sword finger and put his left hand on his chest, held the elbow of his left hand with his right hand, and then bowed his head far away and bowed.
This is the etiquette used by sorcerers when they encounter senior masters, which is to express respect. However, this way of ceremonies is not fixed. This is the case in Yu Kingdom. If you go to other places, the way of luggage will be different.
Seeing Zou Hengli, the sorcerer showed no signs. He just nodded slightly and said to the officials who came with him.
"The evil has been removed, there are some corpses inside. You can move the corpse to the tree full of corpses and burn it together!"
"Yes, Master, please wait here, we will go immediately!" The dozen or so officials who came with him agreed immediately, and then walked into the village, Zou Heng, Li Sheng and others followed.
We plan to set up camp here tonight. Now there is evil here. Although it has been solved, we still have to come in and see what is going on now.
After entering the village, Zou Heng found that the village was almost empty except for them. The doors of most houses were open. From the doors, it was messy inside. I don’t know what I had experienced.
Not long after entering the village, Zou Heng saw a dead tree next to a half-collapsed house. There were more than ten corpses hanging on the branches of the tree, including men, women, and young, making the tree look very strange and even terrifying.
In addition to these corpses, the officials who came in first carried out several corpses from other rooms and carried them around the tree.
Looking at these dead bodies, Zou Heng felt an inexplicable feeling. The scene in front of him was a more miserable scene he saw after coming to this world. Because of evil, so many people have died in this village. I wonder if there are still people who survived.
"What level is this evil? So many people died?" Li Sheng asked with a frown at the corpses.
"It's just a resentment. The existence of evil is very strange in itself. The evil in this village has merged into the old house. Everything is as usual during the day. This tree and the abandoned house will not appear at all. Only at night can you see this tree and the abandoned house."
"The people in this village were attracted to this abandoned house at night and hung themselves on the tree. Fortunately, they found this evil stranger earlier. Otherwise, if such evil stranger grew up, it would be difficult to deal with it!"
The sorcerer who had reached the level of Tongxuan explained. After he finished speaking, he glanced at Zou Heng again, then frowned slightly, and said to Zou Heng again.
"Soterics who are practicing the law should try to stay in a relatively safe place and practice well. Don't rush to wander around. Only when you reach the level of alchemist will you be qualified to wander around!"
Zou Heng was looking at the corpses, but he didn't expect that the warlock would suddenly say this to him, which surprised him very much.
"Thank you for your kindness, I understand that I just have to do some things and I can't help myself!" Zou Heng quickly turned around and bowed to the other party and said.
In this world, when you meet someone who is not related to you, there are not many people who can remind you kindly, but I didn’t expect that I would meet someone here.
Chapter completed!