chewing dragon

Chapter 307 Sorcery
"It's three o'clock in the middle of the night, everything is safe and sound!"

The moonlight was dim and the cold was biting. Two watchmen walked slowly along the old streets of the ancient city.

One holds the bang and the other holds the gong. The two of them work in tandem, knocking while walking.

"Tuk Tuk!"

"Boom!"

"Zi Shi San..." The middle-aged watchman holding a bang walked in front and stopped abruptly before finishing the sentence.

The watchman holding the gong in the back was younger. At this time, his pupils shrank. He quickly took two steps forward and shouted: "Who is it? If you are walking around on the street at this time, aren't you afraid that we will turn you around and send you to the county government for a slap in the face?"

Not far in front of the two watchmen, I saw five guys wearing thick leather jackets and big fur hats walking in a file. Two of them were carrying a wooden barrel on their shoulders.

The leader was a fat man with a puffy chest and belly, and he was wrapped in a woolen coat. He was round and looked like a bear.

He didn't care about the threat of the young watchman. Instead, he laughed and said: "Thank you two! We are driving the mountain people, so we came out of the mountains and went into the city to exchange for some food and cloth, so that we could go home to celebrate the winter and celebrate the New Year."

The young watchman immediately opened his eyes: "Who are you hiding? It's the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the surrounding mountains have long been covered by heavy snow. You..."

While he was speaking, his arm was suddenly pulled by the middle-aged watchman beside him, and he could not say the next words.

The middle-aged watchman took a step forward and said in a much calmer tone: "Snakes have their own paths, and rats have their own paths. Each has its own path."

"A few of us are on our way in the middle of the night. I think there is something urgent. As long as there is no trouble... Although the two of us who are on duty are ordered to patrol the streets, we are not the bureaucracy of the yamen after all, and we cannot meddle in other people's business."

"It's just that the city has not been peaceful recently, and there have been several evil murder cases. I advise you not to wander around at night, so as not to bump into something and bring disaster to yourself and your family."

The fat man who claimed to be a mountain driver was stunned and kept walking: "Is there still this thing? Didn't you see the notice at the city gate? I dare to ask you two, what is the evil nature of those murders?"

Seeing his expression of disbelief, the young watchman suddenly felt that his companion's good intentions had gone to waste, and shouted angrily: "Can we still lie to you? Those people died so miserably, all of them were..."

Before he could finish another sentence, the young watchman received a hammer on the head.

"What are you talking about! Do you really want to be a servant in the government office so that you can talk easily?"

The middle-aged watchman yelled loudly and said to the big fat man and others who came closer: "You said you were a mountain driver, so you should know that hearing about some things will be a disaster, but you can't pry around."

Hearing this, the big fat man nodded repeatedly, clasped his fists towards him and said, "Thank you for your advice, brother! I won't ask any more questions, just rush back to the inn, close the doors and windows and go to sleep!"

Seeing that this man only thanked his companion, the young watchman became more and more dissatisfied and muttered: "It's bad luck. It's useless to close the doors and windows. The shopkeeper of Dafeng Bank slept in the silver cellar, and the iron fence was bigger than the county's The people in the Yamen prison are still rough, but they are not..."

This time he learned the lesson and shut up angrily without waiting for a beating.

The young watchman's eyes fell on the two wooden barrels carried by the mountaineers, and he asked without thinking: "What kind of mountain goods do you guys have in these barrels?"

Hearing this, the five mountaineers stopped in unison.

After a brief silence, the big fat man laughed and winked at a companion carrying the barrel: "In that case, we might as well let these two keep an eye on it for us and see if we can sell it at a higher price!"

The middle-aged watchman shook his head quickly: "It's better not to bother, we are just two poor watchers, what can we do?"

"Oh, if we didn't know how to make a living, we wouldn't have to do this terrible job! Don't delay here, we'd better hurry back to the inn!"

But no one paid any attention to what he said.

A heavy wooden barrel fell to the ground, making a muffled sound, and then the lid of the barrel was suddenly opened.The two watchmen looked subconsciously and saw that the buckets were full of lime.

Seeing this, the middle-aged watchman relaxed, and the young one burst out laughing: "Look at you guys dressed like dogs, it turns out you are just a few Kuhaha who are burning lime in the mountains, what kind of business are you doing?" Driving away the mountaineers?”

The big fat man laughed and didn't refute. He just reached out and dug in the bucket.

A thick layer of lime was pushed aside by him, revealing half of a pale human face.

The big fat man kept holding on, and as more and more lime was peeled away, more and more faces were revealed.

It's not a head, it's just a face. It looks like it was cut off from the head. It's extremely intact and not even stained with any lime. At first glance, it looks like it's just sleeping with its eyes closed, and it has an indescribable weird solemnity.

The fat man fished out a human face from the barrel and waved it in front of the two watchmen. He had a sinister smile and frighteningly white teeth.

"If I remember correctly, this face was peeled off in the silver cellar of Dafeng Bank!"

With a bang, the wooden clapper fell to the ground.

The young watchman's face was paler than the face of the dead man so close at hand, his body was shaking like chaff, his lips were trembling, but he could not utter a single word.

The middle-aged watchman also had an earthy complexion. He raised the gong in his hand and was about to ring it when he was bullied by two so-called mountaineers.

One of them scratched with his fingernail, and the hand holding the gong hammer was immediately severed at the wrist.

Another person reached out and touched his face, and the middle-aged watchman's entire face immediately fell off.

The person who took action easily caught the face and threw it into a wooden barrel nearby. It was accompanied by the face of the young watchman and was covered with lime together.

The two corpses slumped to the ground and their faces were gone, leaving only the occipital skulls that were unbearable to look at.

The barrel was sealed again and carried on the shoulders again.

The five people looked at each other, and the big fat man sighed: "Although the watchman is a lowly servant, he can still be regarded as a government official. This place is becoming more and more unbearable!"

"Well...it seems that a new army has been stationed in the south of the city. Let's go from the north overnight!"

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of flapping wings suddenly came from above the heads of the five people.

The big fat man looked up and saw a bat as big as a domestic goose flying straight over, his eyes filled with blood.

"Bah! I follow you wherever you go. You're so damn haunted, and you know how to pick up ready-made ones all day long!"

The big fat man spat bitterly, waved his arms and walked away.

The others hurriedly followed, all of them walking as fast as flying without touching the ground, and soon they arrived under a city wall.

The five people walked up the wall, and it was as if they were walking on flat ground. In just a few breaths, they climbed up the not-so-high city wall of this small town.

This city top was empty and unmanned, and only the firelight could be seen in the direction of the city gate.

The five people jumped down without hesitation, floating like feathers towards the vast wilderness north of the city, and disappeared in an instant.

　Today, my daughter-in-law was discharged from the hospital and went home to rest. After cleaning for a long time, she only coded a small chapter and will resume the big chapter tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)