Chapter 532 Speculation
Chapter 532 Speculation
The old man's face was ashen and he looked very scary.
Fortunately, Tian Lin and others were experienced monks, so they were not frightened by his expression.
"Mummy? Our door is tightly closed. No mummy has ever come in, and we have never seen a mummy."
Zhou Ting opened his mouth, and the old man sniffed his nose and said sinisterly: "But I clearly smell the smell of a mummy - a mummy, could it be that the officials have hidden it?"
As soon as he said this, the faces of the people present changed.
"We don't have any mummies here. You should look for them somewhere else."
After hearing this, the old man said, "Whether there is a mummy or not, I will find out after searching the house."
He was about to step forward when Tian Lin grabbed his wrist.
In just a moment, a large amount of corpse gas erupted from the old man's body.
Such a strong corpse gas made everyone present change their faces, not to mention Tian Lin who was closest to the old man and was also infected by the corpse gas.
However, Tian Lin, who was tainted by the corpse's aura, looked very relaxed, and said with a smile: "There are still many secret documents of the court in our room, and it is not convenient for you to search."
The old man was stunned for a moment, then said, "Don't worry, sir. I will never rummage through anything."
Tian Lin's face darkened, but he still didn't let go of the old man's wrist, and said, "I said, the room contains official documents from the imperial court, and there is no mummy here that you are looking for—"
Tian Lin's eyes were fierce, and his murderous aura was even more terrifying than that of the old man.
Everyone watched as the old man poured a large amount of corpse qi into Tian Lin's body, but Tian Lin showed no intention of giving in.
The two sides were in a stalemate, and the corpse qi that flowed into Tian Lin's body did not hurt Tian Lin. Instead, his corpse qi was lost and absorbed too much by Tian Lin, and his cultivation level actually fell from the Jindan realm to the foundation building realm.
"Excuse me, I'm sorry. The mummy is definitely not in your rooms. I'm sorry, I'm leaving now."
What no one expected was that the old man actually compromised.
Everyone watched the old man leave the guest room and finally return to the Peach Room before closing the door.
When the old man left, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Zhou Ting couldn't help but look at Tian Lin and said, "Junior Brother Tian is indeed very courageous. If it were an ordinary person, he would have been scared when he saw the evil spirit. How could he dare to threaten the evil spirit?"
Tian Lin said: "First, we are officials in its eyes. Since ancient times, there has been no common people who are not afraid of officials, so it is not us but him that should be afraid. In addition, Wang Yuanji was rescued by us, so we must not let him find her in our room, otherwise, we don't know what will happen.
Because of these two points, I dare to take such a tough stance. "
"Although this time the old man was scared away, he still has to give an explanation to the old village chief. Will the old village chief come to our house tomorrow?"
Mei Xiangu's words made the people present go from being happy to worried again.
Wang Yuanji, who had been hiding under the bed, said, "I beg you, brothers and sisters, please don't hand me over. I will work like a slave and repay you."
The Jurchen disciple snorted coldly, "You are in such a terrible state now, you don't even know if you can survive, what kind of bullshit reward are you talking about?"
Tian Lin turned his head and walked towards the bed. Zhou Ting followed closely behind him and said to Wang Yuanji under the bed: "Junior Sister Wang, there is no danger for the time being, why don't you come out."
But Wang Yuanji's voice sounded from under the bed, "Brother, I won't go out. If I go out, I will be caught by the villagers."
After hearing this, Zhou Ting stopped trying to persuade him to get out from under the bed and instead said softly:
"Don't worry, Junior Sister. With us here, no one can catch you! But in order to get you out of here, you must cooperate with us and tell us everything you know."
Wang Yuanji nodded repeatedly after hearing this, and began to answer Zhou Ting's questions without hiding anything. According to Wang Yuanji, she came to this Ping'an Village with Senior Brother Zuo.
The only difference between them and Tian Lin and the others was that Senior Brother Zuo and the others came in as tourists.
The village's old night watchman and the village chief were very polite to them and arranged for them to stay in the guest room together.
But soon, they discovered that these evil spirits would find ways to kill people every day -
Senior Brother Zuo has the highest level of cultivation and was the first to realize that something was wrong.
But when Senior Brother Zuo led them to escape from the village, one of his fellow disciples was beaten to death by a mace. Then another disciple could not bear the pressure and fled at night, but was eventually killed by the soldiers outside the village.
According to Wang Yuanji, these villagers were killed by soldiers.
The soldiers came to the village to collect the bodies on the orders of the county magistrate, but the villagers did not raise enough bodies to hand over in a year.
In a rage, the soldiers massacred all the villagers in the village, and then turned them into mummies to fill the gaps.
This is why all the villagers died and were filled with resentment.
"According to Senior Brother Zuo's observation, it is extremely dangerous during the day, and the villagers will kill you. It is also not safe at night, because the house will eventually be unable to stop the soldiers outside. In this case, people without official status can only seek death in the end?"
After being judged as a white person, Mei Xiangu asked Wang Yuanji: "According to what your Senior Brother Zhou said, the so-called officials are all men, right?"
Wang Yuanji said: "The status of an official is not divided according to gender, because there are only three of us, Brother Zuo, who are fellow apprentices. But there are five officials."
When this was said, Tian Lin and others were surprised: "How can there be five, not four?"
Tian Lin and others had gotten some information from the old village chief, who called them "four military lords" at the time. From this, they could infer that, logically, only four of them should be officials.
But why did Wang Yuanji say that five of them were officials?
"Since the official status is not divided according to gender, then it is still unclear who among us is an official and who is a commoner."
Mei Xiangu sneered and looked at the others.
According to Wang Yuanji's statement, there are also speculations from Tian Lin and others.
These villagers would kill white travelers, mummify them, and use them to pay taxes.
So if you have an official status, you don't have to worry about being killed by the villagers. But if you are a commoner, you will encounter danger no matter whether it is day or night.
"I think that Junior Brother Tian and I should be officials."
Zhou Ting said: "The old village chief and the old night watchman have both called me and Junior Brother Tian "official masters" - so Junior Brother Tian and I should be the official masters in their eyes; as for the remaining two, I can't guess who among the junior brothers and sisters is a commoner and who is an official."
"Is being a white person necessarily dangerous? I don't think so."
Another male disciple said, "According to Junior Sister Wang, there should be five officials, but don't we only have four?"
Tian Lin said: "Sir, there should be five of you - wasn't there a disciple among us who was killed by a mace? Perhaps, that dead fellow disciple is the missing fifth one."
When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized what was going on. At the same time, the night watchman sounded outside, and daybreak had arrived.
(End of this chapter)