"Do you recognize him?" Xie Bangui, who was dripping with water, seemed not to notice Gao Sheng's pale face.

"He is Wang Huchen!" Gao Sheng's face was as white as paper: "He is the missing fourth magistrate of Zhenshui County. He and I were in the same martial arts examination. How did he become a supervisor?"

"Oh!" Xie Bangui agreed disapprovingly, and jumped into the water again. This time, Xie Bangui didn't swim back until the sun turned west, holding a bottle in his hand: "Go back to the county office first.

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Lao Qian pursed his lips to the government servant kneeling by the river: "What should they do?"

"If you want to worship, just let them continue to worship. If you want to die, no one can stop you." Xie Bangui is not a person who refuses to save others, but he is not a bad person who is always compassionate.

Gao Sheng made a bonfire: "Brother, let's find another place to live. I always feel uncomfortable in this place."

Xie Bangui turned over the weapons picked out from the river by the light of the fire: "There is no safer place in Zhenshui County than the county government office. The government office is a place where a mirror hangs high, where yin and yang are judged, and it represents the majesty of the imperial court.

With the blessing of luck, evil things will not dare to approach the Yamen."

Gao Sheng's eyes were about to well up again: "But, didn't those ghosts come in last night? You mean, those are not ordinary ghosts?"

Xie Bangui patted his forehead and said, "When did you become smarter? I just wanted to give you some comfort, okay?"

Mei Xin'er saw how pitiful Gao Sheng was and couldn't bear to say: "He is right. Those who can enter the ordinary county government must at least reach the level of ghost soldiers. Didn't you see that most of the evil ghosts were outside last night?"

"It's okay, it's okay..." Gao Sheng felt a little relieved now: "Brother, after looking at it for half an hour, did you notice anything?"

Xie Bangui casually handed him half of the spear: "Look at the rust on this weapon and the degree of decay of the wood of the execution platform... Although these things are over a hundred years old, they are not antiquities. They are all things from this dynasty.

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Lao Qian looked at the spear and said: "Yes, it is indeed the standard weapon of this dynasty, and the shield array used by those ghosts last night was basically the dragon armor shield that has been commonly used in recent years."

"He..." Gao Sheng pointed to the corpse thrown in the corner: "Wang Huchen had a hundred-man team equipped with dragon armor, and they all turned into ghosts?"

With Gao Sheng, Lao Qian felt a chill rising from under his feet, and shivered violently as he leaned against the fire.

"Sir...Sir...Help!" A group of government officials rushed in rolling and crawling: "The execution platform, the execution platform has appeared again! Xiao Liuzi and Lao Wang have been pulled into the river, please help me!"

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Xie Bangui shook his head and said, "It's hopeless. No one dares to go into the water now."

The catcher who stopped Xie Bangui from entering the water at noon shouted angrily: "Are you still an official of the imperial court? Why don't you save me?"

Xie Bangui sneered and said: "My master told me that there are three types of people in the world who cannot be saved. One is the treacherous and evil person. If you save such a person, it will be a crime. The second is the ungrateful person. Even if you save this kind of person, you will have to do it again."

Kill him to avoid harming others and himself. The third is a person who seeks death on his own. There is no point in saving such a person."

"You, you..." The policeman pointed at Xie Bangui and his whole body was shaking with anger: "You mean we are looking for death?"

"Isn't it?" Xie Bangui's smile became even colder: "How dare you kneel down by the river at night to worship God? It would be faster to wipe your own neck."

"We..." The yamen official knew that Xie Bangui was telling the truth, but he said stubbornly: "We are begging Grandpa River God to show his kindness and let us innocents go."

Xie Bangui pointed to the door: "Your grandfather is here. Come in quickly if you don't want to die. Be careful not to step on the cinnabar circle in front of the door."

The execution platform appeared again. In the past, every time the water came out of the execution platform, it was shocking, but this time it was silent. It was like a piece of driftwood drifting along the river, floating up and down on the river. Two government officials covered in blood were killed.

Their heads and feet were hung upside down on the wooden frame of the execution platform, and lines of blood followed their drooping fingers, splashing bright red blood in the black water.

"Xiao Liuzi, Lao Wang... they are all dead..." A group of government officials were so frightened that they peeed and crawled into the cinnabar circle.

Only the yamen servant who was quarreling with Xie Bangui knelt down with a bang, kowtowed and shouted: "Grandpa River God, have mercy on me, Grandpa River God, have mercy on me..."

"Fool!" Mei Xin'er was so anxious that she stamped her feet: "Thank Bangui, please save him quickly!"

Although Xie Bangui had a tough talk, he really couldn't do anything when the situation came to pass. He put on his Juehun Claw and threw out the iron rope to grab the man's shoulder. Unexpectedly, when the officer heard the sound of wind behind him, he immediately pulled out his sword.

He retorts outwardly: "Who wants you to be troublesome?"

Xie Bangui originally thought that rescuing people with his flying claws would be a simple matter. There was no internal energy injected into the Soul-Destroying Claw at all. The steel claw, which was completely controlled by the mechanism, was knocked into the air by the waist knife. Xie Bangui hurriedly released his internal energy in shock and anger.

Controlling the flying claw, the Soul-Destroying Claw threw a silver arc in the air and grabbed the officer's shoulder again.

The Soul-Destroying Claw was half a foot away from the officer's shoulder, and a low roar suddenly came from the execution platform: "Execution!"

The yamen servant screamed and blood rushed to his shoulders, legs, neck, and wrists. Suddenly, several hollow iron pipes as thick as a finger and half a foot long came out. Blood arrows as thick as a thumb spurted out along the iron pipes, hot.

The blood threw ten arcs in the air and fell to the ground. The uncooled blood was steaming and flowing on the stone beach.

Amidst the heart-rending screams of the yamen servant, his exposed flesh shriveled up inch by inch, shrinking into a sallow mummy in the blink of an eye. Only a pair of eyeballs that had not lost water protruded from their sockets.

When I came out, I was full of resentment, unwillingness and regret.

After Xingtai killed Liu Tou'er, he quietly sank into the water and did not attack the county government again.

"Touer Liu...Touer Liu...Touer Liu..." A group of government servants cried and fought but did not dare to step out of the door.

Xie Bangui said deeply: "As expected, there are more than one torture tools. There are also more than one executioners."

"This is torture and bloodletting!"

Among the death sentences publicly executed in the Ming Dynasty, hanging was the lightest, followed by beheading, and the highest was Lingchi. As for those unbelievable and extremely cruel punishments, it was not that they did not exist but were rarely used on public execution grounds. Bloodletting was one of them.

Lao Qian stammered: "Does it mean that the more fiercely we resist, the more cruel the punishment will be?"

Xie Bangui shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

Fatty Gao pointed at Wang Huchen's body and said, "Then what happened to him? How did he become a supervisor?"

"He has become a ghost!"

Fatty Gao asked nervously: "What is a slave ghost?"

Lao Qian took a breath of cold air: "They are the ghosts who were enslaved after being killed by evil things. They have lost all their memories and have no consciousness. They can only obey orders. Is it the execution platform or something else that enslaves Mr. Wang?"

"I can't say for sure! And he's not the only slave ghost." Xie Bangui pulled out the porcelain bottle he brought out from the river. A group of green fireflies flew out of the bottle, turning into a ghost soldier holding a spear in the wind.

.This ghost soldier is no longer as cold and fierce as before, floating in the air stupidly.

"Ghost!" Gao Sheng raised his hand and struck a palm, with a thunderous sound, the extremely violent innate true energy exploded in the body of the ghost soldier, instantly exploding it into phosphorus fire.
Chapter completed!