Chapter 215 My Responsibilities
The clouds covered the moon, leaving only the starlight.
Wei Yang listened to the sound of fighting outside the canyon and was frightened for a moment. He couldn't help but look at Lin Ye.
When he saw Consultant Lin still sitting there calmly, he felt relieved.
It shouldn't be a big problem.
Soon he knew what the sound of war and battle outside the canyon was.
An army, judging from their attire, should be the army of the Han Dynasty.
Wei Yang watched as the old village chief stood up and went to greet the leader of the army. Through the conversation between the village chief and the leader, Wei Yang learned that the leader was a captain, who was ordered by the governor of Beidi County, Chen Qian, to pursue the enemy.
The village chief told the captain that they were villagers seeking refuge, and asked the villagers to provide food to the soldiers. However, when the village chief took the villagers to prepare food, he did not notice the captain's cold eyes.
"Sir, our superiors ordered us to come out and kill the enemy, but the enemy has already fled. If we fail to kill the enemy, we will not be able to report back."
"So what do you think?"
"The villagers here have already moved from their original residence, and their household registration is no longer available. Moreover, the people of this village moved without the consent of the government, which is equivalent to evading military service, and they should be severely punished according to the law."
"In that case, why don't we kill these people and use their heads to pretend to be the enemy. Then you can report to Lord Chen."
The captain hesitated for a few breaths, and then swung his sword.
Wei Yang witnessed the bloodiest and cruelest scene in his life.
These soldiers rushed into the village and raised their spears at the villagers who were giving them food. In just a quarter of an hour, there was no one left alive in the entire village.
Looking at the child lying not far in front of him with his eyes wide open, Wei Yang felt his whole body trembling, not because of fear or chill, but because of anger.
Kill innocent people and take credit for it!
These soldiers actually massacred innocent civilians of their own country.
After watching these soldiers kill the villagers and then raise their swords to chop off the villagers' heads, Wei Yang could no longer bear it and was about to rush over to grab the butcher knife in the hand of the soldier who was about to chop the child in front of him. Unfortunately, his hand went straight through the sword and even through the soldier's body.
Wei Yang was stunned, and the next moment he looked at Lin Ye.
"These are things that happened thousands of years ago. They are facts and cannot be stopped."
Lin Ye shook his head. If he could stop it, he would have stopped it long ago.
The soldiers cut off the heads of all the villagers, looted all the food, and then set a big fire, carrying the heads of seventy-three villagers out of the canyon in the firelight.
Killing innocent people to claim credit was a common practice among ancient frontier generals.
He didn't think these four words in history meant much, but after seeing it with his own eyes, he knew what these four words meant.
Especially the moment before, these villagers still appeared alive in front of him.
The fire did not last long and soon dissipated because of a heavy rain falling from the sky.
The rainstorm extinguished the flames of sin and washed away the blood on the villagers' bodies. Seventy-three headless bodies lay on the ground.
Looking at these headless corpses, Wei Yang suddenly understood why those children made him remember their names and facial features.
"My name is Maodan!"
"My name is Maoqiu!"
"My name is Maomao!"
"Uncle, you have to remember our names."
"Uncle, my name is Maomao. Don't forget, I have a mole on my face."
"Let's go!"
Lin Ye stood up and walked out of the canyon, and Wei Yang followed silently. When the two of them reached the entrance of the canyon, the figure of the old village chief appeared again, saluted to the two of them, and then turned around to lead the way forward.
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There is an ancient temple in the deep mountains.
A local Buddhist temple appeared in front of Lin Ye and Wei Yang.
The old village chief stood at the door of the temple, looking at it with some fear, and did not dare to step in.
"My dear, why did you bring us here?"
Wei Yang asked in confusion. He originally thought that the old village chief would take them to find the villagers' heads, but he didn't expect that he and Consultant Lin would be brought to the temple.
"My dear guests, the heads of our villagers have been in this temple for more than a thousand years. All the resentment has dissipated. We just want to take back the skulls and bury them with the bodies so that we can be reincarnated."
The old village chief knelt down in front of Lin Ye and Wei Yang and said, "I hope you two can help me."
"Why do you have to do this, old man? I should do my part in eating your sumptuous feast."
Lin Ye raised his right hand slightly, and the old man stood up uncontrollably. Looking at this quiet ancient temple, Lin Ye strode in, and Wei Yang followed closely behind.
Entering the ancient temple, Wei Yang saw seventy-three pointed stone pagodas erected in the temple courtyard. Each stone pagoda was about two meters high, wide at the bottom and pointed at the top, and a talisman was pasted on each stone pagoda.
In the main hall directly in front of the courtyard stands a stone statue.
Seeing the stone statue, Wei Yang had a look of surprise on his face. This stone statue was exactly the same as the one that was previously smashed by Consultant Lin. The difference was that this stone statue of Bodhisattva was larger, three times the size of the former, and had various colors on its body.
Not only did these colors fail to increase the beauty of the stone statue, but they made the Bodhisattva's face look somewhat hideous and weird . Just by looking at the Bodhisattva, Wei Yang felt a chill in his heart.
"Chen Qian, the governor of Hanbei County, is a high-ranking official, but he is willing to hide in this small temple!"
Lin Ye's sudden words made Wei Yang alert. He looked around but didn't find any other figures in the yard.
"Who are you? Why do you want to be my enemy?"
A hoarse voice came from the hall. Wei Yang looked inside the hall and found that the mouth of the stone Bodhisattva was moving.
The Beidi County Governor Chen Qian is actually this stone sculpture of Bodhisattva?
"I'm not your enemy. I was just asked by those villagers who died unjustly to retrieve their heads so that they can be reincarnated in the underworld in ."
"You are here for these resentful ghosts? At the beginning, these resentful ghosts were full of resentment. I suppressed their heads here with the intention of saving them. Since you have been entrusted by them, I will give you a favor today and let you take these heads away."
This Governor Chen was very easy to talk to, so Lin Ye smiled and said, "Since you are so easy to talk to, why don't you let me finish my duty?"
"What are your duties?"
"Kill the ghosts and slay the evil!"
Lin Ye uttered this sentence softly, and the entire temple became silent because of his words.
He was not being mysterious when he said this. Lin Ye had also discovered a change in himself during these days. That was that if a ghost somewhere had been wronged, he would be able to sense it as long as he was close to it.
He thought about it carefully and realized that this special thing started after he refined the City God Seal. After thinking for a while, he roughly found the reason.
The City God Seal belongs to the City God, who has jurisdiction over the ghosts of an area. If a ghost suffers injustice, he can seek justice from the City God in the underworld.
I have refined the City God Seal, but I am not the City God, so I can only sense something vaguely. Those wronged ghosts may also sense it, so they come to me to complain and seek justice.
In a sense, I can also be considered an extra-curricular underworld official.
