"The chief arrester is called Zhao Weiguo. Like me, he is also the chief arrester of Xuzhou." He Kui said while complaining and claiming credit, "In so many years, I have not even seen him a few times, and all the big and small things outside have been ignored.
I took care of it, so he has been hiding away and meditating in the water prison every day..."
"Wait, what did you say? Water prison?!" Lin Ji suddenly realized.
From the ancient stories told by Lu Guangmu, we know that beneath Weicheng there was once a water prison where dragons were imprisoned.
However, Supervisor Tiansi sent a chief to guard the place all day long...
That should be right!
"Let's go! Take me to see it."
"Ah?" He Kui was stunned for a moment and said, "Sir, what's so interesting about that water prison? Since I arrived in Weicheng, I haven't seen a single person imprisoned in that water prison. Oh, no! An old man has been imprisoned.
, died within a few days.”
"Lead the way!" Lin Ji ordered without any hesitation.
"Okay, okay!" He Kui responded quickly and led the way.
I walked along a sloping alley for seven or eight miles, but there was still no end in sight.
The high walls on both sides are more than ten feet long, and they are made of huge rocks as big as square tables. They look very old.
The top of the wall is densely covered with arrows, and there is an extremely heavy beacon tower built every half mile.
Obviously, this is not just designed to prevent jailbreaks!
Once someone rushes up from here, thousands of arrows will be fired from both sides of the wall. What will it be like?
The further you go down, the heavier the water vapor becomes.
An extremely fishy and salty smell of sea water hit my nostrils.
"How far is it?" Lin Ji asked.
"Half of it." He Kui was full of complaints but did not dare to say anything, pretending to be kind, "Sir, this water prison is really not interesting. It is far away, boring, and full of the fishy smell of the sea. We are in Weicheng.
Although the place is not big, there are many interesting places. For example, the Honghua Building is a good place to go! The music is beautiful, the wine is beautiful, and the people are even more beautiful. Big figures from outside want to..."
"Stop talking nonsense and leave quickly!" Lin Ji urged.
"Yes!" He Kui quickly shut up, reluctantly but could only speed up his pace.
After another three or four miles, after turning around a high wall more than three feet thick, a step up to a hundred feet long appeared in front.
At the end stood a large rusty iron gate.
He Kui pointed forward and said: "Look, sir, that is the Water Prison. Except for Zhao Weiguo, there is no one there."
Lin Ji frowned: "Are you sure he is the only one here?"
"Yes!" He Kui responded, "This place is twenty miles round trip, and there is not much to see. Let alone people, you can't even see a dog! I have only been here twice, once.
It was just to see what was new after he took office, and the other time was... before he went to the General Directorate to report on his duties that year."
Lin Ji walked down the steps and asked, "What about the future? Will he go there by himself?"
"No!" He Kui followed closely and said, "He also has a younger brother named Zhao Weimin, who is the deputy arrester at the same level as me. When I met you that time, Zhao Weiguo was also practicing in the water prison for some reason.
Shi Ni's meridians were injured, and his brother was bitten by Qinggangzi and couldn't even get out of bed, so he asked me to do it for him. From then on, he would do it by himself."
It’s Qinggangzi again!
Lin Ji asked calmly: "What about his brother? Where is he now?"
"Dead?" He Kui said nonchalantly.
"died?"
"Yeah." He Kui nodded, "This is strange to say. It would be difficult for an ordinary person to survive if he was bitten by Qinggangzi, but Zhao Weimin is also a cultivator in the four realms and managed to return to Weicheng in one breath.
, he was given a few injections by Zhang Jinghuai, an old miracle doctor who has been passed down from generation to generation, and some blood was given. But the strange thing was that he died a few days after returning home. When he died, I happened to be away from Weicheng on a business trip.
."
"Later I heard that there seemed to be some epidemic disease, and dozens of members of the Zhao family died. This matter was so big that even the heads of the four major families came over and used the Dao Seal artifact to clear it up.
Clean. By the way, sir, the stall where you just ate seawater boiled food is not far from the Zhao family’s old house, and no one lives there until now.”
Judging from Lin Ji's many years of experience in handling cases in the Supervisory Office, this matter is getting more and more bizarre. It is definitely not that simple!
He couldn't understand even more. He knew that Weicheng was extremely important, but why hadn't Gao Qunshu or Fang Yunshan been replaced for more than ten years? He had been using such a bastard to wait for death, not to mention having experience in handling cases and even the slightest bit of vigilance.
Who is the head catcher in Weicheng?
And the Zhao brothers, who are the chief and deputy head catchers, are even weirder!
Soon, the two of them arrived at the large iron gate at the bottom of the steps.
It didn't matter that it was far away, but now standing in front of it, I immediately felt that this door was really unusually tall!
It is almost thirty feet tall and more than one foot thick.
From top to bottom, there are nine layers of locks.
There is a knife hanging high above the porch.
Although it is carved in stone, it seems to contain an infinite pressure that makes people dare not look up and look at it!
Lin Ji raised his head and glanced up. After being surrounded by layers of layers, only a narrow strip in the middle was left in the sky above his head.
There was a mist all around, and even the air seemed extra heavy.
I calculated it secretly and found that the path I had just taken was always diagonally downward. If calculated in vertical terms.
It's at least four to five hundred feet above the ground!
"Sir, there is a small door here." He Kui pointed to a hole on the side.
Lin Ji was speechless and ducked in through the hole in the stone wall that looked like a robber's cave.
What comes into view is a long corridor paved with bluestone. The stone walls on both sides are densely covered with conch-shaped creatures of different sizes. Strangely, all of them can glow.
It is said to be a long corridor, but it is also terrifyingly wide, enough to accommodate two carriages driving side by side.
Deeper there was a dim light, which was not very clear, but there seemed to be two vague figures.
Lin Ji drew out the green sword with one hand and quickly approached, only to find that they were two stone sculptures of the same size.
One carries a long sword at his waist, the other carries a large spear.
Just like the majestic long knife hanging on the porch, there is an inexplicable pressure hidden there.
"Captain Zhao, Master Lin Tianguan is here!" He Kui suddenly raised his neck and shouted.
The echoes spread far and wide along the deep corridor, as if they were being passed on by thousands of people one after another, for a long time.
"Shut up!" Lin Ji shouted, turned a corner and continued walking forward.
This time, the other side of the long corridor was no longer a stone wall, but was divided into extremely large cells. The iron pillars were as thick as an arm.
There seemed to be some writing engraved under the uneven rust. Lin Ji reached out and wiped away the rust, but he couldn't help but be stunned!
The patterns and handwriting engraved on the iron pillar are exactly the same as those on the Demon-Conquering Pestle!
Didn't it mean that this formation was made by the Dao Formation Sect?
How come there are Buddhist mantras and patterns?
Boom!
At this moment, a crisp sound came from a dark place in the distance.