The queen must start from the head

Chapter 153 The Tragedy in the Imperial City
On Luohuang Mountain, as soon as Mu Lian landed, she found that she was stepping on the rotting corpse of a hare.

She moved her feet a few steps away, and looked around, all the wild animals in the mountains were dead.Many trees also have black spots, as if sick.

Mu Lian frowned, wrapped herself in holy power, and walked forward.

When she almost circled the mountain, she still couldn't find the source of these evil spirits.

The black air is evenly distributed and permeates the air. If it is not a source of infection exposed on the surface, it can only be something underground that diffuses this evil air.

Mu Lian is going to make a move, open a road leading to the underground, and go down to have a look.

At this moment, a swaying short figure appeared in her sight.

The visitor called out to her tremblingly, "If you dare to ask, is the head of Mu Lianmu face to face?"

"Yes, I am Mu Lian."

Hearing Mu Lian's answer, a little old man about three inches tall slowly appeared in the black air.He has thinning hair, a head shaped like a peach, and holds a strangely shaped cane in his hand.

After seeing who came, Mu Lian thought for a while, and then remembered who it was.

"It turned out to be you. Peach tree spirit, you came just in time. Do you know where there is so much monster energy coming from Luohuang Mountain?"

This peach tree spirit used to live on the top of Luohuang Mountain, and was once tamed by Mu Lian.It was only later that the Wushuang faction moved away, and Mu Lian lost contact with the many spirits living here.

Seeing that it was indeed Mu Lian, Tao Shu was overjoyed.In just one year, the opponent was able to protect his body with holy light, which was obviously a great improvement in strength.

It hastily bowed to Mu Lian, and immediately knelt down, kowtowed and cried out, "Master Mu! The little old man is looking forward to your coming! If you don't come again, the spirits and monsters on Luohuang Mountain will die!" , but they will all die!"

Seeing this, Mu Lian waved her sleeves and helped him up.

Tao Shujing got up, wiped away her tears and said, "How did Luohuang Mountain become like this, I have to tell Master Mu slowly. This place is not a place to stay for a long time, and Master Mu please follow me first." I come."

After it finished speaking, it leaned on crutches and walked forward.

Mu Lian did not suspect him, after all, the other party had been suppressed by her before, so he would never do anything to resist and hurt her.

In Luohuang Mountain, Mu Lian was following the Peach Tree Spirit to find the reason for the sudden change here.

And in the imperial city thousands of miles away from here, few people would come out and walk around after the night fell.

But the moon is hiding behind the dark clouds, and on all the streets of the bleak imperial city, there are people in nightgowns, or bare-chested and only shorts, wandering aimlessly in groups with.

Although these people have their eyes open, there is no expression in their eyes.

When they passed by the door of a dog owner's house, the dog on guard inside suddenly barked, and the owner in the yard was so startled that he quickly put on his clothes and got up to see if something happened outside.

After he came out, he glanced at the yard, and found that there were no thieves in the yard at all, and everything was normal.

Seeing his owner appear, the big yellow-haired dog who had barked wildly came up to him wagging his tail, licking the other's hand to please him, but the latter slapped the dog on the forehead angrily, "It's the middle of the night! , and no one came to the door, what is your name? If you wake up the neighbors, I will be told tomorrow, and I will use you to make soup when the Chinese New Year comes this year!"

The yellow dog that had been slapped by him shrank its neck, then turned its head suddenly, and suddenly barked its teeth towards the door, as if it saw something unclean.

The dog owner followed the direction of the dog's head and looked up the yard, only to see a man lying on the wall of his yard.Because of the backlight, his face was blurred and couldn't be seen clearly.

Seeing that there was really someone outside and climbing on the wall of the yard, the dog owner became a little panicked.

"The one on the wall, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you staring at on the wall of my house? Go down quickly, do you hear me? If you don't go down again, I will call someone!"

The dog owner boldly said a few words aloud.Xindao, it's really strange, the walls of my own courtyard are built so high, how did this person climb up?

If the dog owner opened the courtyard door and went out to have a look, he would find that a group of people were densely packed under the person who climbed up the wall.It is these people who are piled up layer by layer like arhats, so that this person can climb to the top.

The person on the wall didn't react at all when he heard the owner's words. He even stepped over the wall with one foot and was about to extend his second foot.

Seeing this, the big yellow dog started barking like crazy.

The owner of the dog was also panicked, and in a hurry, he picked up a pole that was placed in the yard and was about to hit the person who came.

Who would have thought that when he slapped down heavily with a few shoulder-carrels, the opponent didn't respond, didn't even make a snort, as if all the blows he just hit were on the cotton.

A few bead-sized beads of sweat rolled down his forehead in an instant. The dog owner was completely panicked, and he shouted loudly to his neighbors, "Come on! Help! A thief is here! There are thieves! Come and catch the thieves!"

In the next room, a drowsy woman nudged the person beside her with her elbow and said, "Master, the person next door seems to be shouting something, do you want to go and have a look?"

The man turned over, closed his eyes and muttered, "What are you looking at? It's the middle of the night, and you still keep people from sleeping? We'll talk about it tomorrow."

The mother-in-law didn't speak anymore.

But she listened carefully for a while, and found that after a few more shouts from the next door, there was no movement.

She thought to herself, the thief must have been scared away.After all, how could there be such a bold thief in the world who would not run away after being caught by his master?

The next day, the mother-in-law got up early, and then urged her man to come and see the neighbor.

The man changed his clothes reluctantly, washed his face, and went out.

Unexpectedly, when his husband and wife went out, there was already a group of people around the door of the next door.

Feeling that something was wrong, the man hurriedly squeezed from the outside to the inside, shouting as he squeezed, "Let's go, let's go, I'm the neighbor of this house!"

For a moment, the eyes of the surrounding people looked at him differently, and they automatically avoided him, and a space was vacated for a while, and he was easily squeezed to the front.

In the inner circle, several elderly people were standing outside the threshold of the yard, whispering to each other.

"...It's too cruel, how can this kind of thing look like it was done by humans?"

"In my opinion, nine out of ten are demons."

"In the imperial city, why are there demons again? Didn't Your Majesty issue a 'Decree to Eliminate Demons' before?"

"Maybe, some people have recruited another group..."

At this time, the man was already standing outside the threshold. Through the gap, he clearly saw two blood-stained skeletons lying in the yard of this family.

A large, apparently human skeleton, and a small, apparently dog-like skeleton.

After watching this scene, the man immediately felt sour in his stomach, and there was something rushing up desperately inside.However, he didn't eat breakfast before going out, and now he retched a few times, unable to spit out anything.

It just so happened that at this time, the officials of the Imperial City Department who heard the news and came to handle the case heard from the crowd that there was a man here who was the neighbor of the deceased, so they pushed through the crowd and found the man who was still retching.

The man who found that there was an extra hand on his shoulder was suddenly taken aback. When he turned around, he saw an adult wearing an official uniform.

"You are the neighbor of the deceased? Tell me, what happened last night."

This lord's face doesn't look fierce, and he speaks kindly.

The man talked about how he heard the neighbor shouting that there was a thief last night, but after shouting a few times, there was no movement.

He originally thought that the other party drove the thief away, but who would have thought that he was actually killed!

The official nodded after hearing this, and asked the scribes around him to write down what the man had said just now, and then he took his assistant and went in to start the autopsy.

After the autopsy, it was time to inspect the scene again, busy with work, and most of the day passed.

By the time the closed door of the house was opened again, few of the people who watched the excitement outside had left.

All the members of the Imperial City Division who came out of the courtyard had solemn expressions.

According to Wu Zuo's analysis, the flesh and blood on the two skeletons were not eaten by monsters, but human beings!On the body of this person and dog, all the teeth marks of densely packed people are left behind!
People eat people, if this news spreads in the imperial city, God knows how much panic it will cause the people!
Therefore, the leading official of the Imperial City Department ordered the people below to carry the two skeletons back to the Yamen first, while the others were ordered not to disclose any news about this case.

On the way back to the Imperial City Division, the leading official frowns and is full of preoccupations.

On the side of the road, a few idlers were sitting in a street restaurant and chatting.

One of them suddenly felt that his teeth were cramped, so he asked the shop owner to borrow a toothpick to pick it out, and found that there were bloody shreds of meat.

"Old Li, pick it lightly, the gap between your teeth is bleeding from you." One person said kindly.

Only Lao Li, who picks his teeth, knows that he has been picking his teeth for more than 20 years and has never had bleeding.Moreover, my family has never eaten meat dishes since yesterday. Where did this bloody shredded pork come from?

But this kind of trivial matter, Lao Li was only puzzled for a moment, and then immediately put it behind him, and didn't care.

That night, Lao Li, who was sleeping on the bed, got up skillfully at midnight, put on his shoes, and walked out of the house.The old wife who was sleeping beside him didn't notice it at all.

Outside the door, a group of his "companions" were walking aimlessly on the street, and Lao Li quickly joined the ranks.They are constantly looking for a target that can be used tonight.

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The next day, the Imperial City Division received a similar case again and immediately sent several officials to the scene to investigate.

This time, a total of three families turned into bloody skeletons.

One is a young man, one is a couple with children, and the other is a middle-aged businessman who lost his wife and lives alone.

According to the confessions of the neighbors, the three families did not make any calls for help last night, nor did they hear any unusual movements next door.

This kind of tragedy happened for two days in a row, and all kinds of rumors began to spread among the people, and the pressure on the Imperial City Division suddenly doubled.These rumors point to the monster clan committing the crime, rather than cannibalism, so the panic of the people is still within the controllable range.

But the director of the Imperial City Department, who knows the inside story, knows that once such a thing like cannibalism occurs in the imperial city, it will cause chaos among the people in the imperial city and everyone will be in danger.

At that time, he, the director, will be the leader.

No, he must find a way to find out all those who eat people at night!
That night, a curfew was imposed in the imperial city.At the same time, the Imperial City Division also asked the military department to seconded several black armor troops to station at the entrances and exits of each block, ready for battle.

Under the shadow of this tense atmosphere, midnight fell again.

"Stop! You don't sleep most of the night, why are you swaying on the street?"

A soldier in black armor just came out of an alley, when he looked up, he saw a young man in obscene clothes standing on the street in a daze.

He immediately yelled at the other party.

The young man who heard someone talking slowly turned his head around and looked at the black armored soldier.

The black armored soldier had already put his hand on the long sword at his waist, there was something wrong with the person in front of him!His eyes looked dull, as if he was being controlled by something.

He tentatively pulled out the sword at his waist, pointed the tip of the sword at this person and shook it a few times, but the other person's expression was still dumb, and he didn't respond at all.

The black armored soldier murmured to himself suspiciously, "What the hell is going on..."

Before he finished speaking, he glanced at the surroundings from the corner of his left and right eyes, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

This street is so quiet!
What about the brother who guarded with him at the other intersection?He had clearly told the other party that he would come out when his convenience was over!Where did the other person go now?

At this time, the young man in front of the Heijiajun suddenly let out a deep cry in a high-pitched voice.

The black armored soldier was so frightened that he put the sword in his hand on the opponent's neck, and cursed in his mouth, "In the middle of the night, what did you suddenly call?!"

However, the young man remained motionless, his eyes glazed over, as if the person being held around his neck with a sword was not himself.

The more the black armored soldier looked at the young man's face, the more frightened he felt, and he even had the idea of ​​running away.Could this person be possessed by those ghosts mentioned in the storybook?
Before he could make a decision, a commoner staggering towards him suddenly appeared at the intersection ahead.Then, following this common man, a third person and a fourth person appeared...

Not long after, dozens of hundreds of people with slow steps and dull eyes all walked towards the black armored soldier.

Until then, the young man in front of the black armor soldier suddenly grinned, revealing a mouthful of bloody teeth.

Seeing this horrific scene, and thinking about why he was here tonight, the black armored soldier finally knew where his missing companion had gone.

escape!Run away!
This idea quickly occupied the brain of the black armored soldier, and he turned around and ran away.

Because it is on an empty street, the speed of the "people" is limited, as long as he is not surrounded by a group of people or blocked in a dead end, he can still escape.

At another street corner, looking at the "common people" who were constantly gathering together on this street, a leader of the Black Armored Army gritted his teeth, and finally ordered everyone to retreat.

Now he doesn't know what happened to these people at all. Unless it is a last resort, he can't kill people at will. Right now, choosing to retreat is the only way out.

On the other side, the chief of the Imperial City Department, who was awakened overnight by the subordinates, immediately understood the seriousness of the matter after hearing what his subordinates said.

There have been several brutal murders in the imperial city recently. As the director, he naturally knows that this is not caused by the monster clan, but by someone eating people.

But what he never expected was that the culprit was not a certain person or a few people, but a group of people!

According to the news reported from various street corners tonight, there are at least a few thousand people who are cannibals who wander the streets at night.This is thousands of people, if they are all taken down, how many people will be used to catch them?What's more, these people are now unknown and insane, even if they want to investigate, there is no way to find out!
For a moment, the director of the Imperial City Department felt that he was overwhelmed by these things.

He thought carefully for a long time, and finally ordered to the subordinate who was waiting for him to find a way to silence all those who knew the inside story tonight.

This matter must not be leaked, at least not now, otherwise the entire imperial city will be in chaos immediately!
Orders from above are followed by those below.

Soon, there were no other people on the streets of the imperial city except for the wandering "common people".

Except for the few black armor soldiers who died, the other black armor soldiers withdrew to their original camp.

In order to silence and suppress the death of several black armored soldiers, the director of the Imperial City Department had to take out some benefits from his private treasury. Although the mosquitoes were small, they could still hurt him.

The next day, the sun still rose as usual.

The people in the imperial city continued their busy lives, immersed in peace and tranquility, completely unaware that there was a huge dark net covering them in the city.

　A word of truth weighs more than a world.

　　——Add more today, pay tribute to Dr. Li Wenliang

　　
　　
　
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