Chapter 36 The Stone Stele in the Ruins
After a carp got up, Hu Qinghan washed up briefly, glanced at the ground in the middle of the room, and walked out of the door.
At this time, Li Shangbai and Shi Yunsheng also happened to come from Cemeteries No. 8 and No. 10.
The three of them went to the affairs building together.
"Is there something big happening? The sect actually rings six times of alarm bells." As he walked, Li Shangbai spoke in confusion.
"It should be true." Hu Qinghan, who knew it well, nodded in confusion.
There have been too many things happening in the sect recently. New disciples were recruited, the alarm bell mountain collapsed, serial killers committed crimes again, and some ruins seemed to appear underground.
However, during the past two days, the evil aura that emerged from the ground gradually weakened and disappeared. I don’t know what happened.
Shi Yunsheng was silent as always, as if nothing had to do with him.
After a while, the three of them arrived at the affairs building.
At this time, I saw a lot of people gathered. Wang Longzhou on the platform was already waiting, just like the principal who was waiting for all the students in the class to come downstairs to gather together when he was studying in his previous life.
After about ten minutes, Wang Longzhou took a step forward and a quiet sound made the entire square silent.
I heard him say: "I won't say much nonsense, let's announce a few things below."
"First, the sect encountered an earthquake that was rare in a thousand years, causing many ground to crack, but everyone will be worried and they will soon be anxious to fill the cracks."
"Secondly, the recruitment of new disciples by the sect will not be delayed. If you have a suitable candidate, you can recommend it. As long as you successfully join the sect, the recommender will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
As soon as Wang Longzhou finished speaking, Hu Qinghan almost broke out with a word from me. He recommended Shi Yunsheng, but Tian Zhenyun did not give him an introduction fee. Could it be that he embezzled it?
"Third, recently, the serial killer committed another crime, and three more people were killed." Wang Longzhou said again.
This time, the discussions of the crowd began to become noisy.
What else can be recruited for earthquakes? Although it is a big deal, serial killers are related to their lives, and everyone is worried.
Wang Longzhou continued to speak: "Next to report the list of dead disciples, Zhang Dong, Liu Xiaotu, Liang Yuan, whoever has clues, report to the deacon Elder immediately."
The people below were talking louder.
Hu Qinghan didn't expect that two people died besides Zhang Dong.
He looked at Li Shangbai beside him. The other party seemed to be closed down these days, but he didn't go out. Who knows. As long as he went out, it would be very simple to kill three people quietly.
While he was thinking this, Wang Longzhou said again: "But this time, we got a useful clue. A disciple named Zhu Xiaonong in the sect was also attacked by the serial killer, but he escaped by luck. Although he was injured, his life was not bad. More importantly, Zhu Xiaonong saw some characteristics of the serial killer, so let Zhu Xiaonong come up and describe it to everyone."
Everyone below raised their necks and looked at the stage.
Then Hu Qinghan, who was standing on tiptoe, saw Zhu Xiaonong limping onto the platform with a crutch and a bandage wrapped around his left leg.
After Wang Longzhou cast an encouraging look at him, Zhu Xiaonong nodded, stood in the middle of the high platform, facing everyone:
"Dear fellow students, I am Zhu Xiaonong from the Procurement Department. When I got up to pee last night, I saw a black shadow standing outside my door as soon as I opened the door. The other party was holding a knife emitting yin energy. Fortunately, I was still strong and reacted quickly. When the other party raised the knife and slashed, I retreated to the house and fought with the other party for more than 300 rounds. During the process, I kept calling for help, so that my classmates around me could hear it. The other party saw that they could not succeed, so they immediately ran away. However, I was also injured, and a cut in the instep was cut, and a lot of blood was flowing."
"I asked you to talk about his characteristics, not to let you describe the process." Wang Longzhou reminded him.
"Yes!" Zhu Xiaonong nodded to Wang Longzhou, and then faced everyone, "The other party is a man, he is a little taller."
"Is there any more!" Wang Longzhou asked.
"It's gone." Zhu Xiaonong shook his head.
Everyone said that's it?
“It’s a little taller…”
Hu Qinghan looked at Li Shangbai next to him without a trace, touching his chin and revealing contemplation.
This senior brother is about 1.8 meters tall.
However, people who are a little taller are everywhere in sects, especially qi refiners and martial artists, who can temper their bodies to a certain extent. People like Zhang Chong who are 1.65 meters tall are relatively rare in sects.
At this time, Zhu Xiaonong bowed to everyone and went down.
Wang Longzhou walked forward and looked at everyone and said, "The knife used by the murderer is quite special. By checking Zhu Xiaonong's wounds, we found that the knife is a magic weapon that can devour the soul. However, this magic weapon must maintain its power and the soul in it is immortal. It must be nourished in a place with heavy yin energy on weekdays. This is also a clue. Everyone should pay more attention on weekdays."
This gave Hu Qinghan another reminder, to place the magic weapon in a place with heavy yin energy. If Li Shangbai was the murderer, then the place with heavy yin energy would definitely be a tomb.
Just go and check Li Shangbai's tomb quietly. If you find that magic weapon, it means that Li Shangbai is the murderer.
"The fourth thing is announced now." Wang Longzhou's voice sounded again.
Everyone whispered to each other and calmed down, but they didn't expect that there would be something to be announced.
"After the earthquake of the sect, an ancient ruin was found underground. My Xuanyin Sect has sincerely invited several friends from Zhongzhou Shentu to come and assist in the investigation. Now, a strange stone tablet has been unearthed underground. As long as you touch this stone tablet, you will have a certain chance to see different pictures. But there are also certain risks, which will cause damage to the soul. After research, it was found that the lower the strength, the less risk of touching the stone tablet. So now the sect has decided to recruit ten volunteers among the gray-clothed disciples and those who are willing to take the risk to touch the stone tablet can be rewarded with five taels of silver."
As soon as Wang Longzhou finished speaking, everyone started talking again.
Ancient ruins, stone tablets, souls and other words constantly pop out from different people.
Five taels of silver are at risk of the soul being damaged, and only some pictures can be seen. For everyone, this is at most aroused by curiosity, but when they think of the soul being damaged, most people still give up this idea.
"Elder, I'm willing!"
At this time, only a sound sounded. The one who spoke was Zhu Xiaonong with a crutch.
"Disciple is willing, too."
A voice came from Hu Qinghan's side.
Hu Qinghan turned his head and saw that it was Li Shangbai.
"Disciple is willing, too."
Another voice from someone came from the front.
Hu Qinghan was also curious about why when he touched the stone tablet, he saw the picture, his right eyelid twitched three times.
Hu Qinghan raised his hand without hesitation and called out loudly, "Disciple is willing, too."
Seeing him raise his hand, Mamazi Shi Yunsheng also shouted: "There are disciples."
Hu Qinghan and the other two looked at each other, and they all signed up.
After a while, Wang Longzhou suppressed his hand: "Enough is enough. The disciples who just signed up for the initiative come and gather. Let's go now. The fellow Taoists from Zhongzhou Shentu have been waiting for a long time."
Three hundred people dispersed, and Hu Qinghan and ten other registered disciples took the initiative to walk towards the high platform.
After seeing Hu Qinghan and the other two, Wang Longzhou recognized him. He only heard him say to Tian Zhenyun beside him: "Xiaotian is very good. Three of his disciples under him have voluntarily signed up."
Tian Zhenyun was overjoyed, but shook his head, "Elder Wang, you're welcome, this should be trained."
"Let's go." Wang Longzhou nodded.
Then he, Elder Hetian and another female deacon, took Hu Qinghan and more than ten gray-clothed disciples, and walked towards the collapsed alert mountain.
When he arrived at the Alert Bell Mountain, Hu Qinghan saw a huge crack between the mountain and the ground. At the edge of the crack, there was something composed of wooden boards, similar to an elevator.
After Wang Longzhou and the two elders stood up, Hu Qinghan and others also stood up.
Then everyone slowly descended with the simple lifting ladder.
Candlelights have been placed on the walls of the crack. Although there is no evil spirit, Hu Qinghan and other gray-clothed disciples still feel a cold breath.
Hu Qinghan was a little surprised that Wang Longzhou explained four things today. However, he did not mention Xiangying at all, and the missing Zhang Chong.
After thinking about it, he guessed that it was probably the disappearance and death of the white-clothed disciples, and that it would not be known to ordinary people. The senior management is currently trying to deal with this matter.
Now it is a turbulent time. If the gray-clothed disciples know that even the white-clothed disciples have died and disappeared, people will definitely be panic.
But he was still going to find an opportunity and inquire without a trace.
Although he felt that Xiangying was dead, he did not see the body with his own eyes for the sake of caution that day, so he was not sure.
The elevator descended for at least ten minutes, and in Hu Qinghan's opinion, it had been several hundred meters before he stopped.
They finally got underground.
The ground was cold, and with the help of candlelight placed everywhere, you could barely see that there was indeed a ruin around you.
Among the ruins, there are some obviously huge stones that have been dug by hand, and some are carved with patterns such as flowers, birds, insects and fish.
Hu Qinghan has heard of the word "In ancient times". It refers to a period of time in this world, which is extremely far away from now.
It is said that in ancient times, there were monks who could fly and escape from the earth.
However, because of a certain period of time, the spiritual energy suddenly became thinner and slowly disappeared, resulting in a fault in civilization.
When humans slowly rise again, the monks are gone, and there are only lower-level Qi Refiners and Martial Artsmen.
Therefore, all high-level Qi Refiners and high-level martial artists are extremely interested in ancient ruins.
Ancient ruins were discovered underground in the Xuanyin Sect, which was a big deal. Especially this ancient ruins, there was even evil spirits coming out, which was of great significance to the Xuanyin Sect, which likes to make corpses and raise ghosts.
But in this case, the sect invited people from Zhongzhou Shentu to investigate, and they really couldn't figure out why.
Hu Qinghan guessed that it was probably because the Xuanyin Sect knew that the cake was too big and could not be swallowed by himself, so he took the initiative to invite people from Zhongzhou Shendi to share it. In this case, the Xuanyin Sect could still share the pie and at the same time turn other small sects out.
When he arrived here, Elder Wang walked towards the depths of the ruins with ease, and Hu Qinghan and others followed silently.
While everyone was looking around, they could see obvious tension on their faces.
After walking for more than half an hour, Wang Longzhou finally stopped.
At this time, even without his reminder, everyone's eyes looked at something directly in front of him.
It was a blue stone tablet that was two meters high and three meters wide on one side.
The stone tablet is arc-shaped, with obvious part of it still buried underground, only the tip of the iceberg exposed. Judging from the exposed outside, the stone tablet should be round.
The blue stone tablet emits a faint glow, which can be seen at a glance in the dark underground.
Now there are a few people standing in front of the stone tablet.
Chapter completed!