Chapter 96: Secret Weapon—Picking Stars!
"Wei Wuxie's real name is Duan Wuxie!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Yuanming's heart skipped a beat.
And it was at this beat that he, who was used to holding his breath when he was alone with Ge Wanshan, relaxed his mouth and nose uncontrollably and took a shallow breath.
Oops!!!
Duan Yuanming was shocked!
He didn't feel anything unusual with this shallow breath, but the high-level training from the Duan family made him instinctively sense that something was wrong!
He thought that there was a high possibility that he had been infected.
For example, the Soul-Bewitching Incense that can make the Tongmai realm lose all its strength, the Soul-Confusing Powder that can make the thoughts above the Tongmai realm scattered, and many more...
They are all colorless, tasteless, soundless and invisible things.
Damn it!
Why?!
Why would Ge Wanshan attack him?
Did Ge Wanshan guess something? !
……No!
No matter what Ge Wanshan guessed, he had no way of knowing the relationship between him and Wuxie.
The most likely one is a water ghost...but the question is, how did the water ghost know this? !
Even within the Duan family, only a few core people know about this matter!
Unless the water ghost can lurk around me quietly and for at least half a year, because the last time I contacted Wuxie was half a year ago... No, there is no need at all!
I went to the prison last night and mentioned it to that retainer!
In a flash, Duan Yuanming thought a lot. Except that he still believed that Xu Chong was a water ghost and didn't understand how a water ghost could get so close without being discovered, he almost completely restored the truth.
Including the water ghost who pretended to be Wei Wuxie and traded with Ge Wanshan in the identity of a member of the Duan family!
At this point, it was obvious what Ge Wanshan was going to do next - kill himself and frame the long-dead Duan Wuxie!
If it was the Soul-Loving Incense, it would be fine. I still have a few dozen breaths to deal with it before I completely lose my strength.
If it is the God-Confusing Powder...
Compared with the slower-acting precious medicine like the Soul-Loving Incense, the Soul-Confusing Powder, as a 'magic medicine', would completely mess up his thoughts as long as he inhaled just a tiny bit, or a few breaths at most.
By then, let alone his tenth level Tongmai, even if he is above the Tongmai level, he will be at the mercy of others!
Moreover, no traces were found on the body afterwards.
No! You can't gamble!
This must be the God-Confusing Powder!
As soon as he thought of this, Duan Yuanming suddenly burst out with his last bit of strength and soared into the sky.
yes.
If he has been poisoned by the God-Confusing Powder, it would be too late for him to leave now, because in a few breaths, he would still be in a state where he could be at the mercy of others.
But don’t forget, he is the lord of Zhanghua Mansion and the second son of the Duan family!
As long as he rushed out of the inner hall and exposed himself to the public within these few breaths, who would dare to kill him? !
The water ghost might dare to do so, but in that case he would have to abandon his current identity, which would not only cause him to lose a good situation, but he might not even be able to kill himself.
Because Ge Wanshan will never let it go.
As long as he rushed out of the inner hall and exposed himself to everyone, Ge Wanshan would no longer have the conditions to kill someone silently and frame Wei Wuxie.
In that case, Ge Wanshan would have to rush forward to protect himself!
Otherwise, if he died not far away, and Ge Wanshan had the ability to save him but did not do so, then no matter who the murderer was, he would not be able to escape the wrath of the Duan family!
As he jumped up suddenly, Duan Yuanming took advantage of the last moment to take in Ge Wanshan's surprised expression, and then there was a loud bang.
He crashed through the roof of the first floor.
Next comes the second and third floors.
...Boom, boom!
Ge Wanshan was dumbfounded.
To be honest, he really didn't expect Duan Yuanming's reaction to be so quick.
In his opinion, just as the words came out of his mouth, within two breaths, Duan Yuanming burst out with the power of the tenth level of Tongmai and shot up.
However, because of his momentary confusion, he had lost the best opportunity to intercept.
Once the roof of the first floor was breached, he would know that he had no chance to kill Duan Yuanming... Not only that, he would have to do everything he could to save him?
Ge Wanshan's mood plummeted to the bottom, and he roared in frustration.
"There's an assassin! Protect the Lord!"
Ge Wanshan used all his strength to roar, and it sounded almost simultaneously with the third roar of the roof being breached, covering an area of several miles around the government office.
All the government officials had been rushing to the inner hall when the first roar was heard. When they heard this roar, they accelerated with all their might.
The same voice was heard by Xu Chong, who had just absorbed the spiritual energy from the corpse after making sure that there was nothing unusual in Xie Changkong's last vision.
“Damn it!”
In an instant, Xu Chong appeared outside the prison and saw Duan Yuanming who had just broken through the roof in the distance.
"How does Ge Wanshan do things?"
Xu Chong looked grim, but he was not panicked at all.
If Duan Yuanming had chosen a horizontal breakthrough, he would not have had any solution for the time being, but he chose a vertical breakthrough, exposing himself at high altitude.
"In that case... Wind-Breaking Hand, give it to me!"
Adding the energy provided by the assassin Zhong Dahe, the accumulation over the past half month, and Xie Changkong's 16 points, his spiritual energy has reached a record high of 35 points.
At this moment, a thought came to mind and most of it was gone in an instant.
Wind-Breaking Hand (reaching the pinnacle)—Wind-Breaking Hand (unprecedented)…Picking Stars (mastering everything)!
Star Picking was directly promoted to the fourth level!
At this time, Duan Yuanming still maintained an upward trend.
"Secret weapon - picking stars!"
Xu Chong uttered a few words lightly and stretched out his hand to explore.
His target was the towering green pine tree located in the northeast of the inner hall!
Dou Tianyuan used the first level of Tongmai strength and the lowest level of Zhaixing, relying only on a leaf, and was able to pierce through the tree trunk from such a long distance with a pull and release.
Then if you use a higher level of strength, a higher level of star picking, or a more solid object, can you kill people just by collecting it?
Xu Chong had thought about this problem a long time ago and concluded that it is likely possible.
Therefore, when performing this Star-Picking move, he used all his strength in the 'collection' phase.
The results came out quickly.
The green pines to the northeast of the inner hall, starting from the highest treetops, suddenly bent down towards the direction where Xu Chong was.
It looks like the pine tree has come alive and is bowing towards the southwest.
If it happened under normal circumstances, it would probably be a strange story that people would talk about with relish.
Unfortunately, today, at this moment, there is one more person in the direction where Qingsong bowed.
Duan Yuanming.
At this time, Duan Yuanming had just climbed to the highest point, and the Soul-Confusing Powder had already begun to take effect. He was at a point where his old strength was exhausted and he couldn't muster any new strength at all.
He could only watch helplessly as he was enveloped by the shadow, and then his body was pierced by countless branches and continued to be torn into pieces under the subsequent force.
——Crack! !
The trunk of the pine tree could not withstand such a degree of bending, and it suddenly bent and broke in the middle, carrying the body parts hanging on the treetops and smashing onto the roof of the inner hall of the government office.
Coincidentally.
Ge Wanshan had just leaped to the third level.
Before he could continue across the rooftop, a large dark shadow descended.
All kinds of broken tiles, beams, columns and floor slammed down on him. As soon as they made contact, Ge Wanshan vomited blood and was then pressed down by the subsequent force.
Amid the shaking and roaring, the entire inner hall collapsed completely.
Ge Wanshan and Duan Yuanming's body parts were buried deep underground.
Xu Chong, the instigator of the incident, had no idea about this at all.
At this moment, his sternum was broken and he fell in the same position as before in the same posture.
Screams, footsteps, shouting... Starting from the government office, the riot gradually spread to the entire city of Zhanghua.
And all this has nothing to do with Xu Chong.
The only thing he can do now is to play the role of the victim.
It was not until half an hour later that someone found Xie Changkong, whose head and body were separated, and Xu Chong, who was in a coma, in the prison.
As expected, as one of the possible insiders, Xu Chong received very good medical treatment, including various bone-setting and stomach medicines. After all the operations, it was completely dark.
And Xu Chong also chose to wake up at the right time.
“Cough cough cough…”
After a series of coughs, Xu Chong opened his eyes.
This is an unfamiliar room. Judging from its layout and specifications, it should be an official residence in the government office.
——Squeak.
The door opened and a middle-aged man walked in. "You're finally awake."
"You are... He Tongzhi?"
Xu Chong asked tentatively.
He only had a brief understanding of the government officials and had met them only once, which was yesterday when he went to the inner hall to find Ge Wanshan.
"Exactly."
He Tongzhi nodded without any expression.
After getting the recognition, Xu Chong struggled to get up, but the injury on his chest was affected as soon as he moved, and the pain made his mouth grimaced.
"Just lie down."
He Tongzhi moved a stool and sat down next to the bed: "I have a few questions for you, and you need to answer truthfully."
"Excuse me, sir."
Xu Chong lay down and nodded.
"Do you remember what happened before you fell into a coma?"
He Tongzhi asked.
"Before I fainted?"
Xu Chong's face showed confusion. He looked down at his chest and said, "I remember that I was interrogating that Taiping Dao rebel."
"Just remember it."
He Tongzhi nodded. "From the time you entered the cell until you were injured and unconscious, tell me everything you said, did, heard, and saw during this period."
"Is that so? Good."
Xu Chong agreed, and after a brief thought, he spoke: "After I entered the cell, the traitor named Xie Changkong spoke first, saying, 'You again? Sending a small character like you, do you have no one else to use?'..."
Just like that, Xu Chong did not hide a single word and recounted in detail everything that happened after he entered the cell.
During this time, He Tongzhi's eyes trembled repeatedly, and his body leaned back unconsciously, wanting to stay away from Xu Chongyuan.
Making prisoners eat their own flesh... putting aside how cruel it is, isn't this a bit against the law?
Xu Chong was totally unaware of this and just kept saying, "'Really! But I know some things about Wei Wuxie! This also includes', I just heard this and I don't know anything else after that."
After he finished speaking, before He Tongzhi could speak, Xu Chong continued, "Didn't they say that he was completely restrained, even worse than an ordinary person? How could he make me, who is at the first level of Tongmai, lose consciousness in an instant... If he wanted to kill me, would I be dead now?"
The deep dissatisfaction was evident in his words, he was just short of cursing.
He Tongzhi frowned and said coldly: "Xie Changkong is dead."
"If you're dead, then you're dead... What? Dead?!"
Xu Chong’s eyes suddenly widened.
After a moment of shock, he continued to talk to himself: "It seems that it's not that he doesn't want to kill me, but someone saved me? Is it Lord Fujun or Lord Qianhu?"
"No one will save you."
He Tongzhi shook his head and said calmly: "The Lord is dead too."
"What?!!!"
This time, Xu Chong's voice was so loud that it could be heard outside the building.
But it stopped abruptly halfway, and was followed by a series of coughs and groans of pain.
"Someone from the Blood Robe Guard will come to pick you up in a while."
He Tongzhi stood up and pushed the door open.
Not long after, I met Ge Wanshan in the main hall.
"How about it?"
The blood-stained robe on Ge Wanshan's body was slightly damaged, but he did not look seriously injured.
"He knows nothing."
He Tongzhi sighed, "It seems that the murderer didn't want him to get any information from the interrogation, so he knocked him unconscious before he could even open his mouth."
"Is that so..."
Ge Wanshan breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned, "Why didn't you kill him?"
"I checked his injuries. It was probably a casual blow to the seventh or eighth level of Tongmai. His ribs almost pierced his heart."
He Tongzhi explained, and asked with some doubt: "Why would the captain suspect him?"
"I'm not doubting him, but the death of Lord Fujun was too strange, and I can't miss anything."
Ge Wanshan shook his head to cover it up, and said with some fear: "That method of controlling a tree to kill people is simply, simply..."
To be honest, if it weren't for the magic blood robe he was wearing, he wouldn't have died, but he would have been seriously injured.
"Master Qian Hu, don't worry too much. The garrison and the Blood-clothed Guards have surrounded the county government office. That person will not dare to show up again."
He Tongzhi comforted him.
Don’t dare?
Ge Wanshan does not agree with these two words.
He Tongzhi was just an official and didn't understand what that method represented.
But he understood.
It is very likely that it is above Tongmai... and above!
It would be almost the same if you change "dare not" to "won't".
Ge Wanshan waved his hand, "Master Fujun has already passed away. I guess that person will never come out again, whether he dares or not. What's more important now is...how do we explain to the court and the Duan family?"
"There is no other way except to report the truth."
He Tongzhi sighed sadly, "Whether it's the prefect of a prefecture or the direct descendant of the Duan family, it is destined that this matter cannot be covered up."
"It seems that this is the only way..."
Ge Wanshan also sighed.
that's all.
The city of Zhanghuafu was under martial law.
The government office, the Blood-Clothed Guards, and the garrison worked together to patrol, stand guard, and defend the city at all times.
The bodies of Xie Changkong and Duan Yuanming were preserved as close to their original state as possible.
The prison and the inner hall, the two crime scenes, have also been maintained in their original state.
The murder weapon, Qingsong, was strictly guarded and no one was allowed to approach.
Just to wait for someone from the capital.
