Longhe County has basically become He Ping's territory. His large number of subordinates are like parasites, living under the roots of the big tree in Longhe County and infiltrating into the major gangs rooted at the bottom.

Embezzle and grow.

As time went by, it gradually became stronger, and this force hidden in the dark began to turn its back on the guest and secretly controlled the overall situation.

Nowadays, He Ping's forces have long become the new masters of Longhe County's secrets. They have many eyes and ears, and their manpower is spread all over the place, whether it is the main thoroughfares or prosperous places, including the shops, docks, teahouses in the county,

Restaurants, brothels, and all walks of life in the county, at least half of them, have been brought under his control.

He Ping basically regards Longhe County as his own territory and treats it as his forbidden area. Of course, when he hears "serial murderers", the first thing he thinks about is that someone is causing trouble on his territory!

Can this be tolerated?!

"No, there seems to be something fishy about this. At least, the murderer came all the way from Fenglian Prefecture," He Fusheng said indifferently: "This man's name is Sa Shili, and everyone in the world calls him

Known as the "Hell Painter", it is said that thirty years ago, this man committed the murder of seventy-two members of the Guan family in Chaohai Prefecture in one night. The Guan family was a famous local family.

Just remove him from Chao Haizhou."

"'Hell Painter' Sa Shili?"

He Ping hummed. He didn't pay much attention at first. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and frowned.

"...But why is this person called the 'Hell Painter'?"

Butler He Fusheng said loudly.

"It is said that Sa Shili himself was a painter with outstanding painting skills. Later he became obsessed with painting, robbed living people everywhere, and killed people to paint... Every time Sa Shili killed someone, he would depict their death in a picture.

In the "Eighteen Hell Pictures", the eighteen hell pictures are tongue pulling, scissors, iron tree, evil mirror, steamer, copper pillar, knife mountain, iceberg, oil pan, cow pit, stone pressure..."

About thirty years ago, the "Hell Painter" Sa Shili committed a murder in Chaohai Prefecture and went into hiding. After five years, he went to other places one after another and committed a series of murders.

, doing many evil things.

Every time Sa Shili kidnapped and killed people, he would imitate the jailers in hell and use various methods of punishment and torture for the dead to kill.

At the same time, when a body is discovered, a picture of the deceased being tortured in hell will be left at the scene.

——The idea of ​​the eighteen levels of hell originates from the Buddhist theory of the six hells. It is different from the concept of the Nine Nether Palaces in the Great Netherworld. In Buddhism, the hells are places where sinners are imprisoned. Those with deep karma,

Ghosts who fall into hell will also suffer various punishments in hell to pay for their sins in life.

Among those who died in the hands of Sa Shili, some had their tongues pulled out, some were put in a frying pan, or were chopped into pieces with thousands of knives. Those who died tragically in his hands showed extremely cruel death conditions.

The government sent people around to trace his whereabouts, but it took a long time to find out, and Nasa Shili was nowhere to be found...

"In other words, this Sa Shili committed a crime thirty years ago, and then thirty years later, this person came out and committed a crime again?"

After He Ping heard these words, he asked doubtfully: "What evidence is there? This was what the hell painter did. If he was the murderer thirty years ago, then he should be quite old now. This person

You had already escaped from the law, so why did you come out to kill again? There is obviously something fishy about this, right?"

"Maybe so?"

When the housekeeper heard his words, a wry smile appeared on his face.

"I heard that the reason for this inference is that the paintings left behind by Sa Shili after the murder are exactly the same as those made thirty years ago. The government has not yet come to a clear conclusion and is still pursuing this case, but there are rumors among the public.

It’s spread in a decent way…”

"Is there no conclusion from the government?"

At the same time, a trace of doubt emerged in He Ping's heart.

"This 'Hell Painter' Sa Shili, could he be a monk who paints immortals? He specializes in drawing drawings of people. This kind of evil thing is very similar to the style of painting immortals!"

The Tao of Painting Immortals and the Nine Evils of Immortality are collectively known as the "Tenth Evil in the World". This sect's style of acting tends to be mysterious and mysterious. It has not been traced for hundreds of years and is considered to have lost its inheritance by the spiritual community.

'Speaking of which, I also got an ebony box from the attic of the 'Gaotang Meng Pavilion', which contained the 'Painting Gu Spirit Insect' used by the Painting Immortal Dao for painting. In addition, there was a scroll, that

"Banana Deer Dream Brush" is not the inheritance of the immortal way of painting, it just teaches people how to learn painting.'

He Ping also got a map from "Banana Deer Dream Pen", which pointed to a remote place.

Moreover, he also learned that the remote location recorded in "Banana Deer Dream Brush" involves the inheritance of the Immortal Painting Dao... It is a pity, considering that there is no way to enter the inheritance of the Immortal Painting Dao, he has little interest in this inheritance, and has no

Continue to investigate.

"In this case, let Qi Baiyi, Liu Bai and others also go to investigate. By the way, we should also mobilize the manpower in our city. Longhe County is already our foundation. If something goes wrong, it will inevitably cause trouble.

Cause unnecessary trouble..."

He Ping is not worried about the abilities of this "hell painter" Sa Shili. Even if this person has inherited the Immortal Painting Dao and practiced powerful spells, as long as the other party has not entered the Dao, he will not be able to jump a few times in the palm of his hand.

He just felt that if this matter made too big a fuss, it would inevitably attract the "ghost bats" from the Evil Slayer Division.

The people of the Evil Slayer Division may not pose any serious threat to He Ping, but the Evil Slayer Division does have Dao-level masters, and He Ping does not want to run into them and expose his identity.

"If this 'Hell Painter' continues to cause trouble and attracts people from the Evil Slayer Division to come to Longhe County to investigate, it will obviously be disadvantageous for me..."

He Ping thought about it and felt that he couldn't leave this matter alone.

"Send more manpower to investigate this matter, and ask He Zhongheng to put up a bounty, saying that local wealthy businessmen will pay for any clues about 'Hell Painter' Sa Shili. Whoever can provide important information will be rewarded."

No less."

He Fusheng nodded and responded quickly.

"Okay, you go down first..." He Ping waved his hand, and He Fusheng lowered his head and slowly exited the wing.

After the butler He Fusheng left, he took out the Pan Chi Jade Jue from his arms.

This Pan Chi jade jue had vibrated many times in the past few days, but He Ping was still overseas at the time, so he naturally ignored it.

In addition, he had told Indaro before that he was going to practice in seclusion, so he had taken a leave of absence, and he was not worried about Indaro asking him to do things temporarily.

"It should be Indaro looking for me. I feel a little anxious. Let's see what's going on?"

When he connected to Pan Chi Yujue, he heard a strange woman's voice.

"Moshiro, why did you answer the call so late? Do you know that you almost missed the point?"

"Who are you?"

He Ping frowned slightly. In Mosiuluo's memory, he probably didn't recognize this person.

"Of course you don't know me. My codename in Dongmi is 'Jinyao Peacock', and I am one of the leaders of the Twelve Golden Generals. What is going on with you? No response for so many days?"

The woman's voice was not impatient, her tone was gentle, but there was also a hint of sternness.

"It turns out to be Mr. Jin Yao Peacock, Mr. Indaro has told you about you."

When He Ping heard this, he quickly slowed down his tone and said calmly: "Is there something going on with Mr. Indaro and he didn't inform Mr. Jin Yao Peacock? I have been practicing in seclusion a few days ago, and today I just

After leaving customs, I was negligent and did not receive the summons."

"Well……"

When Jin Yao Peacock heard this, he seemed to sigh, and his tone became much more relaxed.

"Then I blamed you wrongly! Indaro made some mistakes when handing over to me, and he forgot to inform me of these details... Forget about gossiping, let me get down to business first. There is an important mission this time, which requires twelve of you.

General Jin will take action. In addition, Indaro and Miqiluo have already set off ahead of others. You and the other five people will be responsible for another part of this mission."

"What's the mission?"

He Ping asked calmly.

"kill."

Jin Yao Peacock said calmly: "This person's name is Xiao Si'an, and he is the supervisory envoy in the imperial court. He recently had a funeral in his family, so he asked for leave to go home to observe mourning... The order from above was to take advantage of his return home.

To get rid of Xiao Si'an, it is best to be more ruthless and to eradicate the Xiao family to prevent future troubles."

Kill a supervisor?

Thoughts flowed in He Ping's mind. Most of the civil servants selected by the imperial court had nothing to do with the spiritual world. If that was the case, Xiao Si'an was just an ordinary person. To kill such an ordinary person, did it really take the Thirteen Golden Generals to kill him?

"Could it be involved in the struggle in the imperial court? I guess the top management of Dongmi should be a very high-ranking member of the royal family of the Great You Dynasty. I don't know why this Xiao Yushi is involved.

When the government is in chaos, this leads to the disaster of killing!"

Jin Yao Peacock explained the plan in detail and then hung up the contact with him.

"To kill a civil servant in the court, this kind of task requires us to go out to the Thirteen Golden Generals. It seems that the inside story is not simple..."

He Ping is quite interested in Dongmi as an organization. He has also gained a lot of benefits from Dongmi through Masuro's vest. In his opinion, there is no need to fall out with Dongmi at this time.

Since you don’t fall out, you can only complete the task...

"It's murder and arson again, and it's eradication! I have really become a member of an evil organization..."

He Ping shook his head and stood up slowly.

…

"This is the Xiao family's mansion?"

A tall figure wearing a golden mask was standing on a semi-convex cliff, looking down from a high position. In the far distance, he saw an ancient town covered with bluestone brick walls. There was also a luxurious hotel in the town.

The mansion. There are many lights in this mansion, but white cloths are hung everywhere, which is obviously a funeral.

"Hey, hey, let's hold a funeral... It's a good idea. Anyway, a lot of people will die later, so it saves us having to hold another funeral."
To be continued...