Repugnant Gateway 3

by Zhi Bai

  An Zheng said: "If we place the punishment on the evil person for his retribution, the evil person will feel better."

  He turned around. "Dig through all the open space in the yard!"

  The soldiers and officials of the Board of Justice's Fanggu began to move. Everyone's hands trembled as they dug out corpses. No one wished to dig them out. When those children died, the oldest would probably be no more than ten years old. This sort of sin would cause even Buddha to feel the wrath of Vajra. Still, they saw more bodies. Three more graves were found in the yard. Although the number of corpses dug out was not as many as the previous one, there were at least two to three hundred of them. These corpses had existed for a little longer, An Zheng judged that it was fifteen to ten years ago.

  "So this started about fifteen years ago?"

  Tan Taiche frowned, "Go back and investigate carefully, what happened to the Gao Family fifteen years ago, to the point where they started to commit murder in such a deranged manner."

  An Zheng suddenly thought back to what Zhuge Chouyun had said not long ago, about rearing the Blood Withering Vine in the ancient tomb. But very quickly, An Zheng rejected it … Zhuge Chouyun had said it before, the best way to raise the dried blood vines to protect the tombs was to massacre the entire clan. No matter how overbearing the Gao Clan was, they would not dare to do such a thing. Moreover, these corpses were clearly not of the same race. No family could withstand a disaster like losing all their children and young women in the last ten years.

  An Chengli felt his stomach churning. He did not want to stay in this place for even a second longer. I'll go back and report this to the king first. It's best to let the Board of Justice thoroughly investigate this matter. "

  Then he turned and walked away, almost running.

  Wang Kaitai was silent for a while, before he said: "This matter cannot be spread out for the time being, if it is leaked out too early, the imperial government will not be able to take the anger and anger of the citizens. Especially the Ministry of Justice and the Fanggu. "

  , who had already rushed over, hurriedly nodded. "Yes, yes, yes … If this matter were to be spread out now, the Fanggu would be surrounded by people so many that not even a drop of water would be able to trickle through. "

  An Zheng took a glance at the direction in which An Chengli left before looking at Xu Zhengsheng, "Master Xu, have you ever heard of what happened to the Gao Family fifteen years ago?"

  "Fifteen years ago?"

  Xu Zhengsheng knew that this matter was too big, so he did not dare neglect it. He carefully thought for a while: "This official remembers that more than a decade ago, it seems like the eldest son of the Gao Family, who is also Gao Yuanhu's big brother, had an accident? Other than that, no one seemed to have heard that something had happened to the Gao Family. Oh right, it seemed like the old lady from the Gao family had personally come out more than ten years ago to look for famous doctors. Some of the famous people in the Fanggu, such as the doctor and doctor, were all invited. Other than that, the Gao family sent people to almost all of the other countries, and they went to Mount Cang Man to look for ancient medicines. "

  An Zheng nodded, could this be the reason behind the deaths of these children and young women?

  And just at this moment, An Chengli was not in the Sky Protection Hall, there was only Nie Qing left by his side.

  Nie Qing, who was standing behind Mu Changyan, had a wooden face. After An Chengli had walked for a while, his eyes suddenly shone with a terrifying light. He grabbed Mu Changyan's neck from behind, and then smashed onto the back of Mu Changyan's head with a palm. Mu Changyan didn't even have the time to react before he was knocked unconscious.

  Nie Qing took out a small jade bottle from his embrace, poured out a very disgusting bug, and stuffed it into Mu Changyan's mouth.

  Then he took out a cloth bag and opened it to reveal a row of silver needles inside. Nie Qing stood there, expressionlessly using a needle on Mu Changyan's body. His movements were quick but stiff. In just a few short minutes, all the silver needles had entered Mu Changyan's body. On the outside, there were almost no traces of them.

  Nie Qing's eyes flashed with an evil glint, causing people to shiver from the cold.

  Chapter 238 - Blooming of Persimmon Flower

  The people from the Board of Justice and the Fanggu spent half a day and a night, but still could not uncover all of the corpses in the pit. In order to preserve the evidence, each body was removed with great care. Some of the corpses were entangled with the ones beside them, so it was obvious that they were thrown away at random. All the bodies that could be examined were missing hearts.

  Tan Taiche felt that his heart had a strong endurance, but after half a day and a night, he almost collapsed. A young man who had left the clan in his teens and started off with ten thousand taels of silver, who now controlled over two hundred auction houses behind the scenes, was so shocked by this scene that he almost collapsed. One could imagine how the others would react.

  An Zheng sat in the corner and drank his wine in one gulp.

  What is evil?

  Those scoundrels who bully people on the street are bad.

  Only people like the Gao Family were truly evil.

  Who could imagine how the people of the Gao family could sleep so peacefully on top of these thousands of corpses? After all these years, aren't they afraid of being haunted? Was he not afraid that he would suffer such a fate someday in the future? He wondered what would happen to his children if they suffered such a disaster in the future.

  No, they won't.

  Of course they wouldn't feel guilty. Of course they wouldn't feel sad. They wouldn't think that ghosts would be able to stop them, because they were the ones who killed people. Even if they were ghosts, they still thought that they should be afraid of them. As for the future, how could they possibly think about it? If they could feel guilty, they wouldn't have been able to do anything to him.

  Just like that, An Zheng drank one mouthful of wine after another, looking at the people who had busied themselves for the whole night.

  Du Shoushou walked over with an oil paper package in his hands. Usually, An Zheng liked to eat this the most, he practically never got tired of eating it every day. Du Shoushou said that he was a truly devoted person. When he ate the biscuit, his eyes seemed to become infatuated with a boy.

  An Zheng took the sesame seed cake. He didn't want to worry Du Shoushou so he didn't hesitate to eat it.

  "You must be very sad. Me too."

  Du Shoushou squatted beside him: "You actually can't even eat, right? I can tell from your eyes. In the past when you ate sesame seed cakes, you weren't like this … Actually, I couldn't eat it either, but I still forced myself to eat six sesame seed cakes just now, so why do you think that was the case? "

  An Zheng said: "I have strength after eating my fill."

  Du Shoushou nodded: "You and I only have one heart …. That's right, only after eating one's fill would one have strength. Only after you've eaten your fill can you kill those evil people. What do you think a Civil Servant in charge of recording the number of corpses in the Ministry of Justice said when I came in? He who says that the hateful person must have something to be pitiful about … The Gao Family must have encountered some difficulty. Otherwise, how could such a large family do anything bad? "

  "Damn it, fat grandpa's kick nearly broke his waist. With regards to this kind of evil person, fat grandpa does not wish to hear any words related to tolerance. "

  An Zheng passed the wine jug to Du Shoushou: "Well fought, next time when you kick him in the crotch, he won't have the rights to have children, and won't be able to teach him well."

  Du Shoushou laughed: "Let's go, we have to do what we need to do. You found this case by accident, and it's a consolation to the dead. In the future, he would kill all of their enemies and pay tribute to them. There was nothing else to do now. Chasing down the culprit was a matter for the future, and the Gao Family had alrea
dy apprehended the culprit. Since the case was out, as long as the Ministry of Justice thoroughly investigated the culprit, they would always be able to find some clues. We've been killing this many people for fifteen years. There must be a lot of people in the Gao Family who are aware of this. "

  An Zheng acknowledged his presence. "You asked Xiao Liu'er and Xiao Yezi to go back?"

  Du Shoushou nodded his head: "Let's go back, the two of them really can't stay here anymore. Let alone the two girls, even those guys can't take it."

  An Zheng stood up and took the kitten from Du Shoushou's embrace, "good old man, I thank you on behalf of the dead."

  Du Shoushou walked beside An Zheng and said: "good old man's Eye of Nine Incarnations are extremely sensitive to death aura. Back then, it had come into contact with this type of death aura in who knows how many large tombs."

  An Zheng said: "Zhuge Chouyun said, Eye of Nine Incarnations are all about devouring treasures of various characteristics of the world, as long as there is a universal way, the Eye of Nine Incarnations can open reincarnation … She had no idea what it meant to open the cycle of reincarnation. However, looking at how good old man's eyes are filled with stars, I believe that he has already devoured a lot of treasures with different characteristics. "

  Du Shoushou said: "Who knows, maybe in the future, you might even become a giant lion that will scare you a little."

  's task for An Zheng was to thoroughly search the Gao Family. The matter of the corpse had already been taken over by the Ministry of Justice, so An Zheng and Du Shoushou continued to look around the Gao Family's residence. The room was empty. Whatever valuable things could be seen with the naked eye had already been moved away. He walked around the room and found nothing worth noting.

  The two of them picked up the conversation, because they both knew that each other's hearts were clogged. Therefore, they could choose a more relaxed topic to talk about and try not to think about the corpses in the front yard.

  The courtyard in the back was a bit smaller, but it looked a lot quieter. It was said that this courtyard belonged to the old lady. An Zheng had seen the old lady once, so he did not have much of an impression of her. She looked like an ordinary old woman. Her hair was white and her face was full of wrinkles. However, she had been in power for so long. Each of her actions had an aura that ordinary people did not have.

  There were a lot of plants growing in the courtyard. An Zheng noticed that there was a small isolated courtyard in the corner.

  He asked one of the guards, "Who lives in that small yard over there?"

  The soldier replied, "Reporting to Your Lordship, it is said that Gao Yuanhu's brother, Gao Yuan Tree, lives in the small courtyard over there. I only heard it from someone else when I came in to rob the house, so I don't know the details. "

  An Zheng acknowledged his as he turned to look at his, only to see his walking over with big strides.

  "Why are you here?"

  An Zheng asked.

  Tan Taiche looked around, "Last night, I went back to the Ministry of Justice and interrogated all the higher status members of the Gao Family that were in custody. At the beginning, there was no breakthrough at all, and all of them insisted on not knowing anything. Actually, when dealing with people like the bad guys and the bad guys, persuading them was nonsense, and they still needed to be punished. After fighting for half the night, there's finally someone who couldn't take it anymore and admitted defeat. "

  He pointed at the small courtyard. "I heard that it was for him."

  "Gao Yuan Tree?"

  An Zheng asked.

  Tan Taiche replied, "That's right, it is said that over ten years ago, the Gao Family was the one with the most talent and had the highest possibility of surpassing the Higher Completion Stage and becoming a Sky Realm expert. According to the rumors, the Gao Clan had always had a powerful hidden expert guarding them. This person was the husband of the madame from the previous generation. His name was Gao Yun. Gao Yun is someone from a hundred years ago, and is not very famous.

  Seeing that An Zheng still had some sesame seed cakes in his hands, Tan Taiche took them and ate while saying, "Gao Yun is an expert at the peak of the Higher Completion Stage, what I want to do the most is to break through the Higher Completion Stage and enter the Lower Celestial Stage. But in his entire life, he had never been able to reach this height. Thus, he placed this hope on his grandson, that is to say, on Gao Yuan. Gao Yuanshu had been endowed with outstanding talent since he was young, and when he was ten years old, he had already lost out by a large margin to his peers. After the age of ten, Gao Yuan tree was taken away by Gao Yun to train in secret. After that, Gao Yuanhu became the person in charge of the Gao Family on the surface. Since Gao Yuan Tree became an expert of the Higher Completion Stage at his age, even in the case of Da Xi, it would be extremely rare. "

  "No one would have thought that Gao Yuan Tree would be so paranoid by his grandfather, Gao Yun. There's nothing he wouldn't do in order to pursue the heavenly realm. More than ten years ago, he failed to break through into the Heavenly Realm. His Qi went berserk, and it was said that he was heavily injured, and became as bloodthirsty as his life … "It's unknown where the Gao family heard the rumors, saying that the young boys and girls' hearts could save him, so the old lady from the Gao family gave the order."

  "This matter is strictly confidential, whoever says it will kill the entire family. Furthermore, not many people knew about it, and the majority of them came from the outside of Fanggu. After he had dug his heart out alive, he immediately buried it. "In order to ensure that the news didn't leak out, the Gao Family has always been empty. That big yard in front of us doesn't have many people living there."

  Du Shoushou scolded: "If I catch him, kill him ten thousand times."

  Tan Taiche shook his head, "That old lady had always thought that Gao Yuanshu was the future of the Gao Family. As a result, even though Gao Yuanshu had gone berserk and was bloodthirsty, she still did not give up. The Gao Family met with such a huge problem, she would rather give up on Gao Yuanhu to bring a cripple away. Can you imagine how paranoid that old lady was? So don't be anxious, this kind of person can't see losing. Losing her would make her crazy, even if she could endure it for the time being, she wouldn't be able to hold it back for a long time. She will come back for revenge. "

  An Zheng agreed with Tan Taiche's analysis. He walked towards the isolated courtyard on the Gao Yuan Tree.

  Tan Taiche said: "I will follow along with you guys, just in case I report anything else."

  The three of them walked towards the small courtyard, and before they even reached the door, An Zheng already felt that the cat on his shoulder was a little uneasy. It swung back and forth on its shoulders as if it were afraid of something. A moment later, the cat climbed down from his shoulder and into his arms.

  Tan Taiche didn't know about the uniqueness of the good old man, so he smiled: "This place has a dense amount of Yin Qi, and cats are very strange too. I heard that people can see things that they can't. Let's be careful, there might really be something strange in this small courtyard. "

  An Zheng passed the good old man to Du Shoushou: "You stay behind."

  Du Shoushou acknowledged, and was ready to summon his Triton at any time. It was clearly just a small courtyard that was empty, but these people all had the same feeling as if they were facing a great enemy. Maybe it was because of good old man's abnormal movements, even Tan Taiche was affected.

  Du Shoushou thought as he walked, Enchantment Cloth, oh Enchantment Cloth, master, you better not fly out on your own.

  He entered the house nervously, but the courtyard was strangely quiet. As soon as he entered, he saw a small path. On both sides of the path, there were two persimmon trees. These two persimmon trees seem to have been around for at least a few decades. The persimmon trees could usually grow very high, but these two persimmon trees did not exceed the roof. The crown of the trees grew horizontally. It was as if two huge umbrellas had
been opened in the yard, shrouding the entire house.

  "Persimmon tree?"

  Du Shoushou, who had finally entered the door, was stunned for a moment. "The people from the Gao Family are truly puzzling, why would they plant two large persimmon trees like this?"

  It was at this moment that good old man, who was in Du Shoushou's embrace, meowed and stuffed his head into Du Shoushou's embrace, causing his entire body to tremble. And the Enchantment Cloth that was in Du Shoushou's embrace, seemed to want to make a move!

  An Zheng stopped and said, "There seems to be something strange with these two trees."

  Tan Taiche looked carefully: "Other than its size, there doesn't seem to be anything else special about it."

  "Yes!"

  An Zheng pointed out, "It's already late autumn... But do you see, there's not a single persimmon. "

  As he was speaking, the two giant persimmon trees suddenly bloomed. Hundred flowers suddenly bloomed one after another.

  Du Shoushou was shocked, "Fuck, what's going on?"

  The persimmon trees originally had small flowers, but the flowers on the two persimmon trees were as big as washbasins, densely packed together. As if hearing someone speak, all the flowers turned towards the three of them … The front of the flower seemed to be a deathly pale human face with a wide grin on its face.

  Chapter 239 - Latin

  Two flowers bloomed.

  All the flowers had turned to face the three of them. And each of those white and miserable flowers was almost as big as a washbasin, like a pale human face with a wide grin on its face. At this moment, even though the three of them were all experts, they were still shocked.

  "Be careful!"

  An Zheng shouted, and then waved his hand, signalling the two people behind to withdraw.

  But at this time, the cat let out a cry and fiercely rushed into Du Shoushou's embrace, as if only that piece of Enchantment Cloth could give it a sense of security. Du Shoushou hugged his tightly, afraid that the Enchantment Cloth would rush out. An Zheng was originally at the front, but now he was in the back. The three began to retreat, but only now did they realize that they had no other way out. It was unknown when the door to the small courtyard closed by itself without making a sound.