Chapter 48: The Knot of Death
This is a wolf demon, male.
At first, some clues were discovered by the informant below. The official practitioners of the yamen then intervened and quickly confirmed his identity and living habits, etc.
The strength of this monster should be the ninth grade, but Liu Rui, who was confirmed by the informant or the official cultivator, commented on it: it is quite dangerous.
Because this guy is not only very strong, he also has a pair of sharp claws, which are said to be as hard as steel in an instant, and can easily capture deep claw marks on large stones. Moreover, this monster is quite cruel and cunning by nature.
This guy often steals pigs raised by residents' homes in several shops in the south, but in comparison, it is obvious that it prefers to eat the numerous wanderings and half-closed doors on the south bank of the Lingjiang River in Dashiqiao.
As for his treacherous, it is because this guy goes out of the city to commit crimes every half month, runs dozens of miles away, creates a killing, revealing his identity as a wolf demon, but he runs away after killing people, and does not eat. The county Zhuyamen has received many reports on this type of case in the past six months, and is still being investigated, but it is difficult to capture the traces of this guy, because everyone has been wrongly judging that it is a wild wolf who has just become a demon who has wandered outside the city, and he still doesn't know how to practice. He is purely a natural love for killing.
But after discovering its existence, the county Zhuyamen quickly linked the disappearance of many wanderings in Dashiqiaofang with the attacks and murders outside the city, and soon completely locked its whereabouts.
Then there is hunting.
Zhou Ang and Chen Fan are currently included in the county Zhuyamen, and there are a total of ten practitioners. This time, all of them are dispatched.
First of all, of course, it is because of the pursuit of foolproofness, considering the cruelty of this wolf demon, considering that it may be the eighth-grade monster, etc.
But there is another important point, that is, monsters are not so easy to discover. Once one is discovered, everyone needs to share a little credit, even if it is just a little sense of participation.
For official practitioners, killing monsters is a great contribution.
The monster's corpses, especially demon pills, demon essences, etc., are almost top-level seized.
In the performance evaluation standards of official cultivators at all levels, even if a conspiracy of secret sects such as Chunfenghui and Magnolia Sect was solved, killing several, arresting several, and rescued several, etc., is considered a considerable case. However, unless it reaches the level of an important figure like Li Ming or Han Zhen, its score will definitely be worse than that of killing monsters in the performance evaluation system.
Killing an eighth-level illusionist of the Magnolia Sect, they also seized their small iron card. The merit was only signed with two people's names. No matter how much, there was no credit. The "Thunder Beard" who was captured at that time, because he was found to be the ninth level, he could only write one person's name.
No matter how many evil the other party does or how many people he kills, it is the case.
But killing a ninth-grade monster is enough to list five people's names, and everyone has accumulated merits. If you get a demon yuan after killing the weasel demon last time, you can list all the names of the eight official cultivators in the county yamen at that time. As well as the investigators, archers, etc., you can also have ordinary credits to share.
Otherwise, a dead ninth-grade fox demon in the inn would not be worthy of Gao Jing and Liu Wei, the county staff of the county yamen, who was in the county yamen, to have a personal dispute.
Zhou Ang’s understanding is: monsters are the natural enemy of human beings!
The Spring Breeze Meeting, the Magnolia Sect, the Tongtian Sect, etc., no matter how bad things are, they are just a disease of mustard ringworm, and monsters are the greatest enemy of life and death for thousands of years.
The former is a criminal, while the latter is a life-and-death life.
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This roundup was completely under the control of official practitioners from beginning to end.
Like Gao Jing, Zhou Ang took one direction separately and took charge of the overall arrest.
The wolf demon was indeed fierce and cunning, with a very strong combat power, but the one responsible for capturing it was a professional demon hunting team that cooperated with tacit understanding, had rich experience, and had basically figured out its background.
Therefore, Gao Jing and Zhou Ang couldn't use any action. This guy had already been cut off by Fang Jun's heavy sword.
No one was injured, but the earthen walls of two families were collapsed. He said that the government had handled the case, and no one dared to go over and pursue it. However, when the matter was over, Wei Ci still went there on behalf of the county Zhuyamen. The family compensated 500 yuan for them to repair it themselves.
Everyone was very happy in the end.
July is about to pass, this is the first demon corpse harvested by the county yamen.
It is said that there is no great contribution, and this monster is only a ninth grade. When it is reported, it is impossible to fill in Zhou Ang's name. Perhaps the subsequent reward may be given a material reward of five or ten taels of silver, but for Zhou Ang, it is secondary.
More importantly, just participating, in fact, just watching his comrade-in-arms kill a wolf demon, but Zhou Ang's cultivation, which had been stagnant for more than half a month, suddenly showed signs of activeness again.
In addition to being surprised, Zhou Ang suddenly felt fighting spirit before he knew it.
In fact, half a month ago, before the Li Ming case came out, Zhou Ang had already learned from the old servant of Mr. Lu Duan's house that there should be many monsters hidden in Lingzhou City. The other party had even woken up and asked the county jail to "clean up" the county yamen. Zhou Ang also knew that killing monsters could greatly help him practice, but it was too difficult to find monsters.
There are official practitioners in the county and county who have been rooted in the city for many years, and there are a large number of informants below, who can provide various clues. It is still extremely difficult to discover and lock a monster, not to mention that Zhou Ang is just a commander who is barely a commander.
Therefore, for the matter of killing monsters, the difficulty is never to kill, but to find them - although the monsters are often not weak in combat, it is not easy to kill them.
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After everything was cleaned up, Fang Jun, who had definitely received the first prize, would have treated him to the guests in the evening of that day. Everyone had a happy meal in the second hall, and everyone drank some wine until the evening was over.
Zhou Ang had already sent Lu Chunsheng to pick him up. At this moment, he was about to leave the yamen after drinking, but he still saw Lu Jin waiting at the door. Zhou Ang didn't say anything, but just laughed and greeted Lu Jin together. The two of them walked home.
It will be almost a month since he entered the yamen. Although he could not really get in touch with the core things and the county Zhu Yamen has not handled any major cases in the past month, Lu Jin gradually learned about the special nature of the county Zhu Yamen. However, looking at his appearance, he had no intention of retreating.
After chatting all the way, I asked him a lot of questions. This big man was honest and answered whatever he asked. Although he didn't hide it, he was definitely not a good chat partner.
When he got home, Zhou Ang went to the backyard to ask his mother for help, and then he was sent back by Zhou Cai to rest early, but in fact, Zhou Ang did not drink too much. After taking a cold shower in the yard, he changed into a pair of shorts. Although he was tilted on the bed, he actually couldn't sleep.
So he simply ran to the study room again and lit the light to read.
So far, he has seen nearly sixty volumes of "Book of Han". I have to say that while his knowledge has increased, he has also dug up a lot of inspiring information from this book.
So for him, this is not a chore.
It is a very enjoyable thing for him to dig out some clues from seemingly ordinary historical materials, organize and associate them together, and deduce the ups and downs of some practitioners and secret sects from hundreds of years ago.
So once he starts to study, he can often calm down and concentrate very quickly.
When he saw this, he didn't stop until a candle burned to his head.
It was already dark outside the window.
There were dozens of mosquitoes, and they tried to rush into the room with the lights at the window again and again, but they could not rush in.
There is no moon or stars outside the window, but it is just a suppressed darkness.
This seems to be another heavy rain brewing.
After stretching, Zhou Ang closed the book in his hand, subconsciously picked up the mirror at hand, rubbed it for a while, picked up the bamboo cards, blew the light, got up and returned to the bedroom, and put everything under the pillow.
When he was lying in bed and had to sleep, he couldn't help but think: It would be great if the mirror could help him find the monsters in the city.
Unfortunately, after various experiments over the past period of time, in addition to the limitations of scope, the "view" of the mirror seems to be able to help you find and lock in the people you already know, at least you know, but you cannot take the initiative to "discover" something for yourself.
In this regard, Zhou Ang believes that his current strength is still too weak.
Because judging from the strength shown by the mirror in past events, this should be within its business scope, so it may be that its strength is too low to mobilize this part of its functions.
However, this happened to form a dead knot: I needed to kill demons to improve my cultivation, but it was not easy to find. If I couldn't find it, I could only endure it slowly and practice slowly. If I could improve my strength slowly, I would be unable to call this part of the function of the mirror.
Perfect dead knot.
Zhou Ang sighed, but he quickly stopped and closed his eyes.
Some thoughts flashed through his mind, but he fell asleep quickly.
I don’t know how long it took, but he felt something was wrong. The subconscious alertness made him overcome his greed for sleep in his mind and opened his eyes all at once.
Then, he was stunned.
In front of me was a lush forest, and I was in it, wearing only a pair of big shorts, lying on a large bluestone under the tree.
Chapter completed!