In fact, as Jiang Tian finished his words, someone in the crowd of spectators who had been surrounded by his subordinates suddenly started shouting loudly. It was like a nest exploded on the spot, and at least several figures jumped out. However, the next moment,
Lin Jiulang and his men quickly forced him back.
"It doesn't matter, everyone is kneeling down with their heads in their hands, waiting for screening." I saw them shouting in unison: while raising their spears and knives, they struck forward, and immediately one of them fled away, and at the same time, they stabbed each other through the arms.
He and his thigh were fighting in the air with blood gushing out.
And this bloody scene also shocked the people who were surrounded on the spot. They cried for their fathers and mothers, and fell to the ground with their heads in their hands. Immediately, the few people who retreated were exposed again;
However, this time they were greeted by powerful crossbows that were cocked and fired.
When faced with a life-and-death crisis, the reactions of these people were also different; some fell to the ground and used their hands and feet to fly in the opposite direction while rolling and crawling; some stretched out their hands to pull the villagers on the ground, wanting to use them as shields.
But it couldn't match the speed of the crossbow arrow, and he was shot through immediately and fell to the ground.
Others hunched over, stepped on the human body on the ground without hesitation, turned around and jumped into the shallow river beach on the shore, struggling to splash into the water; others ducked behind their companions, and then
The powerful crossbows fired at close range were strung together into candied haws...
But there was another person who roared angrily on the spot, stretched out his hand and shot away several crossbow bolts one after another. Then, before he could use up his explosive breath, he was hit by short arrows thrown one after another.
, was hit in the arm and lower abdomen; he was pinned to the ground on his back.
After a while, as the chaos subsided, a total of three corpses and one seriously injured survivor were presented to Jiang Tian. As for another one, he jumped into the river, but before he could swim far, he was swept away by the rolling waves.
If you are swept away, you can only ask for blessings.
"God has no eyes!" However, the only seriously injured man alive stared at the Pinglu County magistrate in despair and said: "You, a dog official, escaped this time by luck; but the blood debt of the Xishan brothers will not be paid.
Even if I'm gone, there will still be people to settle accounts with you!"
"Bastard! Bastard! What a bastard are you talking about!" Magistrate Zhao heard this, but he ignored his anger and said: "The Shanpeng Association went down to the mountain to become a naturalized person. Originally, I used my future as a guarantee to get the permission.
You look for a place to settle down, but when you look back you are all gone, how dare you rely on me!"
"Dog officer, don't pretend to be stupid. Isn't it you who secretly led the troops up the mountain and killed several sheds of old, weak, women and children?" But the living man got into a fierce argument and roared: "It's a pity that all their heads were chopped off.
, only the naked body that has been harmed is left, didn’t you kill the good and take the credit?”
"How is this possible? You are too ignorant; you are from a literary class, not a military officer!" Magistrate Zhao became more and more angry after hearing this: "How can the power of beheading be compared to this officer?
Under the past administration, you solicited more performance appraisals for your household registration? Now you are falsely accusing me of it!"
"Impossible. Don't use your clever words to confuse right and wrong." The seriously injured man saw his breath weakening during the fierce emotional struggle: "I only regret that the opportunity for revenge that we have prepared so hard has been disturbed by this accident.
..." Then he passed out.
"This lowly official is so incompetent that Shang Xian was exposed to such an ugly behavior." Then, the mournful Magistrate Zhao turned to Jiang Fang, who was watching, and said sadly: "Please Shang Xian, please do it for me."
Be a witness; prepare for future interrogations and detailed inquiries from superiors..."
"I am only in charge of a county, and I only command a few people and soldiers on weekdays; I don't have the ability and authority to send troops to suppress mountains and search and kill." However, he continued to explain with a wry smile: "This
I'm afraid it's a sudden misfortune that will fall on the official."
"County Magistrate Zhao, how many people are there in the mountain sheds here under your rule?" Jiang Tian felt moved when he heard this, and asked: "When did you start recruiting mountain sheds? When did something happen to them?
Already."
"Going back to Shangxian, these shack families are more or less outlaws who are unwilling to obey the tax. Therefore, in a few years or more, even those who have suffered a little bit of famine can gather here.
Once upon a time," County Magistrate Zhao sighed, "but in good years, they will come down the mountain to ask for work again."
"I am also obsessed with utilitarianism, so I want to make a mid-level and upper-level performance appraisal during my term of office, and persuade people to go up the mountain to persuade them to naturalize, so that the national records will look better. But I don't want to cause trouble; now
These aliens have died unjustly, and my term of office has come to an end."
"In the final analysis, this probably happened after the autumn of the previous year. It happened that because the river was dry, we had to recruit people; but last year, I sent people to the mountains to search again, but they reported that several mountain shack settlements had been abandoned.
; Now it seems that those people did not reply truthfully!"
"Then do you think there are those beings around you who have the ability and opportunity to do such a thing?" Jiang Tian heard this but did not answer his words, and continued to ask calmly: "
Have you ever considered similar suspects?"
"Shangxian...Shangxian, you are making it too difficult for me to get down." Magistrate Zhao's face suddenly fell, and he said sadly: "I'm just a minor county official, I don't dare to
I don’t dare to think about it; otherwise, not to mention losing my official position, I’m afraid I’ll be guilty of a serious crime.”
"Okay, let's just look at the present for now." Jiang Tian also shook his head and retracted Jiao Qianyanshen's temptation: "Since these people are all here for you, County Magistrate Zhao, that also means,
The right person I'm looking for is not among them; let's start with these people and start over."
However, this time the expanded screening had only been carried out for a short time; Jiang Tian suddenly stood up and walked straight to the outside, in front of a shed selling cheap tea; he suddenly said to an old man holding a child, "I don't know.
, how do human organs taste?”
"..." The old man with a wrinkled face and unclear hearing and vision managed a flattering smile as if he had not heard anything: "The official is here, what do you want to drink, little old man, there is nothing good...
"The next moment, there was a flash of sword light, and the arm he was holding the child suddenly broke and fell to the ground.
"Ah..." In an instant, he burst out with an unbelievable scream, but at the next moment he suddenly flew away and hit the furniture behind the tea shed. When he stood up again, his figure was no longer rickety.
, the skin bursts rapidly at the joints and grows and swells;
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a humanoid monster with blood-covered skin all over its body and sharp claws and protruding joints. It almost had a fishy stench as it pounced towards Jiang Tian, only to be hurled at him in the air.
In the center of the arrow holder, he screamed and rolled down, knocking down the tea shed.
Then, a claw tip tore out from the rolled-up tarp. More arrows were guided by this, and they shot densely in the middle. Another soldier stepped forward with his spear very skillfully, and fired.
This is a fan-shaped distribution that stabs the tarpaulin that is constantly struggling and shaking.
However, apart from the splash of blood from the first few stabs, the subsequent stabs all fell into the empty space; at the same time, at the other end of the tarpaulin, a figure that had shrunk a lot again; but in the gap between the spearheads
Suddenly it flew out; after a few ups and downs, it ran to the edge of the woods in the blink of an eye.
Then, his thigh suddenly burst out with blood, and he fell to the muddy ground in an instant, splattering a large trail of blood; but it was Jiang Tian who took action secretly. Despite this, the stubborn opponent who still lives his life unexpectedly managed to
He could still use his remaining arms to climb into the forest.
This time, as a large net with a bag head shrouded it, and the net hook embedded in the flesh wrapped it up; this monster that transformed into an old man in the tea shed was dying and stopped struggling. And in Jiang Tian's field of vision
The prompt also changed to "Abnormal Aberration (Endangered)."
However, the monster that was carried back in the hook net also quickly shrank and shriveled up in the dripping blood. Finally, it turned into the appearance of a dying old man again; it was just that it was as bloody as a skinned monkey.
There are still strands of sticky skin on his body.
It looked both scary and frightening. At this time, someone suddenly realized and screamed: "This is not the old man from the Tian family who has been selling tea here for many years... What kind of monster is this that has transformed into his appearance?"
Quickly go and find out where the Tian family’s grandson is.”