Chapter 60: Desire to Die
“The ghost mother has come to the world… ah!”
"Send my remaining soul...ah!"
A dozen members of the Ghost Mother Worshipping Sect, waving shining mattocks and shouting slogans, rushed towards Lu Yi.
Lu Yi stuffed the coarse cloth package to Ah Hu, then ran towards him at full speed.
On the wall, the long-legged girl screamed "Ah!"
She looked at Lu Yi's extremely swift and unpredictable figure with an expression of interest.
Lu Yi's palms were surrounded by faint blue light, and he kept slapping out one palm after another, which landed on the elbows and shoulders of the Ghost Worshiping Mother Sect members.
These people looked sinister and seemed extremely difficult to deal with.
But their strength is very mediocre.
There is only one person in the Tuomai realm, and he is probably at the first or second level of Tuomai. The technique he practices is also of a low-level standard.
The others were only at the Peiyuan realm level and were no match for Lu Yi.
In just a few breaths, more than a dozen men had their arms broken and their knees shattered by Lu Yi's kicks. They fell to the ground screaming in pain, their faces distorted and they kept cursing.
They used the most filthy words in the market to greet Lu Yi, and kept talking about Lu Yi's ancestors.
"You guys, do you want to die?"
Lu Yi stood beside these people, with his hands behind his back, looking down at them twisting and twitching on the ground.
A group of people looked at Lu Yi with their teeth bared, and shouted slogans such as "The Ghost Mother has come to the world".
Lu Yu was certain that these guys really wanted to die!
Then he heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air from the north.
Lu Yi's face changed slightly, he called out to Ah Hu, and hurriedly ran towards the northern exit of the alley at full speed. The alley was not long, and the short distance passed in the blink of an eye. When Lu Yi rushed out of the alley, he saw a group of men and women wearing the same gray and black short-sleeved shirts, carrying mattocks, Luoyang shovels, short knives, small axes and other weapons, desperately attacking the Survey Department's headquarters.
There are probably around three to four hundred of these people.
They had no armor, no shields, no protective gear, no long weapons, no heavy weapons, no bows and crossbows, etc. They just relied on some ordinary short weapons, shouted the slogan "The Ghost Mother has come to the world", and continued to charge towards the garrison.
On the courtyard wall of the garrison, dozens of guard archers lined up in a row, drawing their bows and shooting arrows with expressionless faces. Waves of arrows flew out with piercing whistles and pierced fiercely into the chests of these people.
When Lu Yi rushed out of the alley, more than a hundred people had already fallen to the ground, with more or less arrows sticking out of their bodies. They were twitching all over, spitting blood and wailing on the ground.
Even so , those who could still speak were still shouting the slogan "The Ghost Mother has come to the world" intermittently.
It can be seen that most of these people have practiced some basic martial arts, and their physiques are stronger than ordinary people, but not by much.
Only a very small number of people have stepped into the threshold of Peiyuan Realm.
There are only two or three people who have the strength to reach Tuomai realm.
The two or three Tuomai Realm masters, as well as a dozen Peiyuan Realm 'masters', were being beaten on the street at the main entrance by twenty young eunuchs holding soft swords and with figures as elusive as ghosts.
These young eunuchs who were transferred from Jiuqu Garden to Lu Yi had extremely fast steps and movements, and their skills were extremely feminine. When they swung their swords, flashes of cold light were fast and sharp, but there was not even the slightest sound of breaking through the air.
Their strength is much higher than those followers of the Ghost Mother Cult, and one person can have the upper hand against three or five opponents.
Even so, they still joined forces with twenty people to fight against a dozen enemies.
Not only that, they actually formed a rather mysterious sword formation, with endless sword lights that surrounded these 'masters' of the Ghost Mother Cult.
Sword lights flew everywhere, and sword wounds kept appearing on the bodies of these "masters".
Blood splattered everywhere, and these 'masters' were still able to shout their slogans at first, but as more and more wounds appeared on their bodies, especially as more and more flesh was cut off, their slogans gradually turned into mournful wails.
Arrows fell in waves.
Most of the Ghost Worshipping Cult members who attacked the main gate of the garrison were shot to death by arrows, and the chants of the remaining hundred or so people became weak.
With a loud bang, the vermilion lacquered gate opened, and a team of hundreds of guards wearing dragon scale armor, holding heavy steel shields with rhinoceros hide and animal mask patterns, and holding spears, rushed out in a military formation.
With just one charge, more than a hundred members of the Ghost Mother Cult were completely defeated. There were many bloody holes on their bodies. They screamed hysterically and were no longer able to struggle.
At the doors of the neighbors' houses on both sides, people like housekeepers were peeking around, and on the walls of several nearby houses, guards holding swords poked their heads out.
Last night, there was a huge fire at the Bai family mansion.
Early in the morning, at the gate of Lu Yi’s residence, hundreds of people were shouting and killing, causing a river of blood.
Under the feet of the emperor, the best place, the magnificent capital of Haojing, the prosperous and shunfang, turned out to be like a battlefield. The wind even carried a long sigh from a scholar: "The eunuch party forced the good people to rebel. This Dayin will perish sooner or later!"
Lu Yi said nothing, and strode towards the gate with Ah Hu where the ground was covered in blood.
A young eunuch suddenly broke away from the sword formation, blowing his nose and glaring at the direction where the long sigh came from: "Who said that nonsense? A good citizen? Would a good citizen come to kill people so early in the morning? Who said that just now? You are so brave, stand up for me, eunuch!"
No one said anything.
Seeing that Lu Yi's men had taken control of the situation, the housekeepers and guards retreated to their own yards and closed the doors heavily.
For a moment, apart from his subordinates and the members of the Ghost Worshiping Mother Cult who were killed, there was not a single ghost to be seen on the street in front of Lu Yi's gate...
No, the ghost is still there.
There was a lively green light flashing in Lu Yi's eyes. He saw that from the bodies of those killed members of the Ghost Worshipping Mother Sect, wisps of bright red blood rose into the air and flew upwards.
He looked up and saw a translucent red lantern quietly suspended in the air hundreds of feet above the ground, beneath the thick dark clouds. Streams of blood energy flew into the red lantern like a flock of birds returning to their nests, and the translucent, hazy and erratic red lantern gradually solidified.
Lu Yi took a deep breath.
These members of the Ghost Mother Worshipping Cult are clearly seeking death.
When they die, their blood, energy, and other strange and inexplicable things will be absorbed by the red lantern.
The red lantern gradually transformed from a hazy and transparent state into a solid entity, and its aura gradually became stronger. Gradually, Lu Yi felt a bone-chilling evil chill slowly floating down from the sky.
“Don’t kill!”
Lu Yi shouted, "Catch them alive, try to catch them alive!"
It would have been better if Lu Yi didn't speak. As soon as he opened his mouth, the "masters" who were surrounded by the young eunuchs' sword formation suddenly jumped up, howling one by one, and rushed towards the young eunuchs at the risk of their lives.
Their faces were distorted, their eyes were red, and their mouths were wide open, revealing white teeth and red tongues. They pounced on us waving weapons like mad ghosts. Regardless of their strength, they were at least scary enough.
Before these young eunuchs were transferred to Lu Yi's side, they had been trained in the inner court. How could they have ever seen such a desperate and desperate man of the underworld?
They shuddered with fear and swung the soft swords in their hands.
With a "puff" sound, more than a dozen "experts" leaned their heads forward and put themselves under the sword.
More than a dozen huge heads flew high into the air, and the blood formed a thick layer on the ground.
Lu Yi stamped his feet in fear and looked up at the red lantern floating under the dark clouds.
A group of young eunuchs were stunned and looked up at the sky following Lu Yi's gaze.
They did not have as good eyesight as Lu Yu and could not see the details of the red lanterns, but after all, they were all masters with good cultivation, and they could vaguely see a little red light looming under the dark clouds.
A young eunuch in a red robe came up to Lu Yi with a hunched back and asked softly, "Sir, have we done something wrong?"
Lu Yi sighed and patted the young eunuch on the shoulder: "It's okay, they are determined to die, it's not your fault. No one is injured, right? If they are injured, treat them quickly. Some people say that their weapons are all quenched with corpse poison, they are not easy to treat."
The young eunuch felt three points lighter after being gently patted by Lu Wu's big hand.
He smiled and said hurriedly, "Oh, thank you for your concern, my lord. We were very careful and no one was hurt... Oh, oh, I heard that the people outside the palace were very brutal, but I didn't expect it to be true. They actually came here to die?"
Lu Yu nodded, frowned, and stared at the red lantern helplessly.
It was hundreds of feet above the ground, and Lu Yi had no way to deal with it now.
Simply abandoning this matter, Lu Yi looked at the street and said in a deep voice: "Notify the Yushunfang Ling Yamen and ask them to collect the bodies. All those who are alive will be escorted to the Shougong Prison."
Taking the rough cloth package from Ah Hu, Lu Yi said in a deep voice: "Check where these people came from."
A young eunuch approached a head that had been cut off by his sword and gently kicked it with his toes, turning it around so that its face was facing the sky.
He suddenly shouted, "Oh, sir, I know this man. Last night, the coffins for the six guard brothers were purchased from his coffin shop."
"Six identical six-inch planks of ash coffin are still in our yard." The young eunuch was surprised and said, "When he brought the waiter to deliver the goods to our door last night, he looked so kind. I didn't expect that he would gather his accomplices early in the morning and come to our door to kill people!"
"Coffin shop?" Lu Yi widened his eyes and looked at the young eunuch in astonishment.
Another coffin shop?
Moreover, since they can have six-inch thick ash coffins, this shop is obviously not doing business. The six-inch thick coffin board is already very expensive.
"It can't be that all the coffin shops in Gaojing are run by people who worship the Ghost Mother Cult, right?"
Lu Yi was so angry that he almost laughed out loud. If this was really the case, then this Ghost Mother Worship Cult was really... I really didn't know how to describe it.
"Go, inform the warden of this matter as quickly as possible."
"Thoroughly check all the coffin shops in Gaojing. Maybe we can make a great contribution!"
Lu Yi raised his head and looked at the red lantern floating motionlessly in the sky.
