Chapter 34: Sheep in the Tiger's Mouth
Things changed at Fengshan Mine a few days ago. Seven managers died under unclear circumstances. Mine Supervisor Sun, who had been oppressed for many years, suddenly gained power and issued orders.
A mysterious masked man was placed as the mine manager.
The man was very generous. In less than half a day, he had paid off all the wages that had been owed to the miners. Although the silver was a little hot in their pockets, the poor miners became much quieter.
Originally, the diehards of Ruyifang were colluding in Fengshan Street, planning to "set things right" at night. However, by the afternoon, the miners who were originally willing to help became perfunctory.
Let them go out and deliver the letter.
They all said that immortals had set up bans on the mountain roads and ordinary people dared not violate them.
Encourage them to kill Sun the mine supervisor.
But they also said that if a high-ranking official of the imperial court is killed, his life will be cut off forever.
All in all, it's just a delay of sorts.
Just verbal promises but no real action.
The working people also have their own simple wisdom. Although they know that Ruyifang is powerful locally, now that the mine supervisor Sun has risen up in resistance, he has killed seven managers.
Now the two sides are at war to the death. Even if the sky falls, with Lord Sun holding it up, they will not be the first to fall.
Ruyifang had been exploiting the miners for many years, and seemed to have taken advantage of them completely. However, on the first day that Sun Mine Supervisor came to power, everyone benefited.
Everyone has a scale in their heart.
Common people like them did not dare to directly resist the powerful Ruyifang.
But now with a court official like Sun Kuangjian taking the lead, and saying that he has already reported to the prefect, and with the help of the legendary immortals, it seems like a different world has taken place.
At this moment, everyone was happy to not help either side, making those diehard followers of Ruyifang feel as if they had lost their parents.
Seeing that their master was about to lose power, they became extremely anxious, and several of them ventured out of the mountain that night, but they were ambushed and knocked unconscious by Liu Laosi who was guarding there.
With the assistance of the chip's night vision mode and the pulse pistol's stun mode, Liu Laosi is no longer the rogue he was yesterday, and dealing with a few lackeys is no problem at all.
However, he strictly followed Jiang Xia's instructions and did not kill anyone.
Time turned to the morning of the next day, and several Ruyifang lackeys who had sneaked out at night and were planning to leave the mountain woke up in a daze.
They were dressed no differently from the miners. They did not wear good clothes or live in good houses like the stewards. Some of them were pale and thin, looking like poor people.
It seems that Ruyifang did not give them much reward for their "loyalty".
Jiang Xia really couldn't understand, after getting into such a mess, why would he still work so wholeheartedly for a bad boss?
Is it possible that he is addicted to being a slave?
"cough"
He coughed lightly, startling the lackeys who had just woken up from anesthesia and making them turn their heads.
When they looked back, they saw a man wearing an opera mask and holding a paper fan, standing in the shadow of the corner of the shabby thatched house, looking like a scholar, looking at them.
Combined with the previous rumors in the mining area, they knew that they had fallen into the hands of the "immortal" who was beside Mine Supervisor Sun, and they were all scared out of their wits.
Without any need for Jiang Xia's intimidation, he dragged his limp body, knelt on the ground, and begged loudly for mercy.
“That doesn’t have to be the case.”
Jiang Xia didn't say anything.
But his voice, like a ghost, rang in the minds of these people, very clearly, and the voice reverberated in their brains like an echo.
Several people were shocked for a moment.
this……
Isn’t this the method used by immortals?
"You have helped the tyrant to commit atrocities and have no knowledge of the right path. You should have been reduced to ashes. However, God has mercy on the living. I will give you a way out. Are you willing?"
Jiang Xia said again.
The people in front of me looked at each other. In this situation, even if they used their butts to think, they knew what this "immortal" in front of them wanted them to do.
They also want to survive, but not everyone has a good brain.
Immediately, one person stood up straight and trembled as he said:
"Ruyifang is so powerful that we dare not provoke it. We hope that the immortal will show mercy. In the future, we will never..."
"boom"
Before he could finish his beg for mercy, a muffled sound was heard, as if a watermelon had exploded from the inside, scattering red and white everywhere and covering the people around him with blood.
The headless corpse was still in a kneeling position. It swayed a few times before falling to the ground, a bloody mess. The people nearby were so frightened that they covered their mouths and wanted to vomit.
But no one dared to move.
Jiang Xia slowly retracted his outstretched fingers, leisurely pulled out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and wiped the blood stains on his fingers.
He whispered:
"If you insist on being a dog instead of a good person, don't blame me for not giving you face. There is a head-exploding spell in your brains. I control everything you think. If you still want to deceive me, this will be your fate!"
"Grandpa Immortal, spare my life!"
Immediately, one of them lay on the ground with his head touching the ground, trembling, snot and tears pouring out of his head, and howled at the top of his lungs:
"From now on, I will never reconcile with Ruyifang and will never have anything to do with those thieves again. I am willing to serve the immortal and only ask that you spare my life.
I have an elderly mother to support and children to take care of.
Spare my life! "
Several others followed suit, cursing and swearing, and they almost wrote a letter in blood to express their feelings.
Just now I saw an immortal explode that man's head with one finger in mid-air. This method is definitely an immortal technique. It seems like an evil practice. Who wouldn't be afraid?
But in fact, it was just a button pulse bomb buried in the brain, implanted in the brains of these people together with the lowest quality chips. For Rogge, it was just a "minor operation" that could be completed in ten minutes.
However, since we have spent so much effort on these people, it is definitely not as simple as just making them kneel down and beg for mercy.
Jiang Xia put his hands behind his back, posing like a shaman. He said slowly:
"You are all Fengming people and should abide by the imperial decrees. Lord Sun represents the majesty of the imperial court. If you dare to go against Lord Sun, you are offending the imperial court.
Anyone who is against the imperial court is a traitor!
Traitors and traitors shall be punished by everyone!"
He chopped down with his left hand and made a vicious gesture, which frightened several people and made them shrink their heads again. The brave leader trembled and responded:
"Yes, yes, what the Immortal Grandpa said is right. We have already gained enlightenment and will never dare to disobey Lord Sun's authority. It is because we have been blinded by greed that we continue to collude with Ruyifang.
I will never do that again."
"good!"
Jiang Xia laughed loudly and said:
"Since you have repented, Lord Sun has an important task for you and the others to do. As long as you work hard, I will remove the head-exploding curse for you."
Several people below secretly groaned, but no one dared to speak.
Still the brave one raised his head and said confidently:
"Please tell me, sir, that no matter what it is, we will do it carefully and will not leak the secret to the thieves."
"very good."
Jiang Xia laughed loudly and said:
"Go out of the mountain and leak the secrets of what happened in Fengming Mountain to the Ruyifang stronghold outside the mountain. Tell them everything exactly as it happened. There is no need to hide anything. Then encourage them to join forces to attack. The bigger the commotion, the better.
As long as there are more than a hundred thieves coming over here, I will break the spell for you.
Wipe the blood off your body first.
Then go ahead. ”
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Another day later, outside Fengshan, in the marginal prefecture city of Fengyang County, in a local business in Ruyifang, the chief steward received an urgent report. With a big belly, he had to end his daily enjoyment and rush here.
In the inner hall of the shop, the chief steward listened to a few ragged Ruyifang hangers-on, who were kneeling on the ground, telling him the whole story of what happened at the Fengshan Mine.
After hearing this, the steward's forehead was covered with cold sweat.
"boom"
The butler, who had always been pampered, clenched his fist and smashed it on the table next to him, causing the tea bowl to jump and the tea to splash everywhere. He cursed in a timid manner:
"Rebellion! Rebellion! How dare a mere mine supervisor do such a disobedient thing! Killing my manager and occupying my mine, this is truly a rebellion!"
"Yes, Master, our Ruyifang is so prestigious, when has it ever been treated so humiliatingly?"
The few hangers-on kneeling on the ground looked at each other and immediately started making noise.
Everyone was aggrieved and said some inflammatory words. There was also a bold and eloquent one who cried and hugged the butler's legs and howled desperately:
"Master, you have to make the decision for us.
The seven stewards died miserably, without a complete corpse. That damned Sun Xiuting slapped our Ruyifang in the face. If the owner and Bao Ye blame us, we will all be dead."
This acting is terrible.
However, he was acting in his true colors with fear in his heart and tears in his eyes.
And the words are also very hurtful .
The chief steward was originally just angry and had not thought about this. But when he heard what these idlers said unintentionally, cold sweat broke out on his back.
Indeed, this happened in his business district.
If he fails to handle the matter properly, he will appear incompetent. With the sinister mind of the abbot and Bao Ye's disregard for human life and his fickle character, he, as the chief steward, will probably not escape accountability.
However, being able to become a big manager in the Ruyifang system, this middle-aged man with a big belly is not a useless guy. He immediately calmed down, stroked his well-groomed beard, and thought for a while.
He quickly grasped a key point, his eyes lit up, and he asked in a cold voice:
"Don't worry, let's talk about the matter again. You just said that Mining Supervisor Sun has an immortal to help him?"
"have."
The hanger-on who was holding the steward's leg was startled when he heard the word "immortal". He said cautiously:
"It is said that Sun Xiuting encountered a monk in the mountains and asked him for help. He then set an ambush and lured the stewards into the ambush, then used the earth-shaking magic to kill the stewards.
That immortal was in Fengshan Street, acting arrogantly and killing several loyal brothers with his palm lightning. Many people saw it, so it couldn't be fake."
"Um."
The chief steward narrowed his eyes and asked again:
"Besides that immortal, is there anyone else helping Sun Gou?"
“Nothing.”
The gang had already spoken in unison on the road, and now they all shouted:
"The foremen in the mines are all loyal to Ruyifang, but they are threatened by the evil man and dare not take any action. As long as the master sends troops to the mines to subdue the evil man, everything will be settled."
"Haha, I am just an ordinary person, how can I control the immortal cultivators?"
The master's face looked better now. He slowly picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.
As if he had a pearl in his hand, he said:
"But this Sun Gou is really bold. The Immortal Alliance has issued a clear order to forbid cultivators from intervening in the affairs of the mortal world, but he still dares to collude with the demons to do this. I'm afraid he is desperate and is risking everything. He is really crazy.
You guys are quite loyal and dare to sneak out to report the news. There must be something good for you.
Don't worry, I will gather the brothers in the town right away and go back with you to the mine to quell the rebellion. You guys will be responsible for leading the way. As for that evil cultivator, you'll be in charge of that.
Oh, the master has his own magic way to deal with him!"
Hearing this, the hangers-on felt relieved.
My life is saved.
The eloquent man knelt on the ground, rolled his eyes again, and whispered:
"Master, the murder of seven of our managers has caused unrest in the mines. It would be better to send more people to calm down the place and show the prestige of Ruyifang.
The elder master might as well go and suppress it in person, so that he can give an explanation to the abbot and Master Bao when the time comes."
"Of course I will go."
The chief steward held the tea bowl and glanced at the ragged hanger-on. He thought that this man had some little schemes and had risked his life to come and report the news. He was loyal and could be used, and was someone who could be cultivated.
Afterwards, let this man be appointed a minor manager in a mine and let him be grateful.
