There is a god in the sky

Chapter 73 Xikou Post Station 7

Back on the ground, the group of people looked pale and grim, clearly having experienced something terrible.

Fu Qingyan, who hadn't followed earlier, asked Xiao Ji curiously, "Why are you all looking at me like that... wait, what's that stinky smell?"

They had just emerged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, so their bodies were inevitably tainted with the stench of death.

Xiao Ji patted himself off and pushed Fu Qingyan away. "Go to the kitchen and boil some water, make a lot."

They all need to take a good shower and change into clean clothes.

Fu Qingyan had never done this kind of work before, so in the end, Xuan'er followed him to the kitchen to start the fire.

After Xiao Ji sat down, he said to the group of people, "Your statues are too ugly, so I destroyed them."

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The group of believers twisted and lunged at Xiao Ji, shouting, "Bastard! You deserve to die!"

"You dare to destroy the idol, you will be punished!"

Xiao Jihao asked leisurely, "What kind of retribution will I suffer? Who is your god? How powerful is he?"

"Ignorant child, the Serpent King not only governs life, but also death. You will all go to the Avici Hell after you die!"

"How come another snake king has appeared? Is there such a deity?"

Xiao Ji asked the people around him.

Everyone shook their heads in unison, "Never heard of it, don't know what kind of unorthodox master it is."

Seeing that the group of believers were so angry that they were about to kill, Xiao Ji asked again, "You brought so many corpses here just to sacrifice to the Serpent King?"

The young man asked in shock, "You opened the secret room?"

Sui Feng stretched out an arm and asked, "Smell this, what's that stench?"

They were the ones who brought the body here; the stench of a dead body must be very familiar to them.

"You...you have disturbed the Serpent King's offerings!"

"I have destroyed the statues of the Serpent King. What's the point of keeping the sacrificial offerings? Those corpses have already begun to rot. I intend to burn them all!"

"No!" the man shouted, his expression panicked.

Those were the ninety-nine corpses he had painstakingly collected. Although they weren't enough, the number ninety-nine could represent countless.

"Why not? Your gods are not my gods, and I am not afraid of the wrath of this little snake king!"

Xiao Ji waved his hand, and Sui Feng cooperated by going to find tung oil.

He actually found a large barrel of tung oil in the backyard.

"Don't burn it! Don't burn it!" the man shouted anxiously.

"What's your name?" Xiao Ji asked him.

The other person turned their face away and did not answer.

The officers drew their swords and held them to his neck. "Answer whatever the magistrate asks, or don't blame us for being ruthless."

The knife pressed against his wound, causing him to break out in a cold sweat from the pain.

“Master Guo…” someone answered for him.

"Which sect or school of Celestial Masters?"

No one answered this time, because they didn't know either. They usually called him "Celestial Master" without even knowing his real name.

"Fine, if you don't want to talk about it, then forget it. The imperial court forbids cults from spreading heresy and misleading the public. If your actions today are reported to the imperial court, you should at least be sentenced to exile. Just hand them over to the local government for questioning."

"Take them away." Sui Feng ordered the officers to escort the criminals, carrying tung oil down into the underground cave.

Guo Xiangdong forcefully shoved aside the officials, got up, and rushed towards Xiao Ji.

"They are all the Serpent King's most loyal followers, destined to give their lives for him, and cannot leave this place... Haha, none of you will leave here!"

Shen Lan noticed a tinderbox hidden in his bound hands and saw that he had run towards the southwest corner of the hall, and she immediately felt something was wrong.

"Quick! Stop him!"

Sui Feng swiftly grabbed the person, but he threw away the tinder with its lid off.

The flames rose against the wind.

The tinderbox eventually fell to the ground in the corner.

"Sizzle..." Sparks burst forth little by little.

Then a fuse was lit.

Before Shen Lan could even utter a word, Xiao Ji's voice rang out: "Run out of here!"

He casually picked up Fu Qingyan, who was closest to him, and then grabbed Shen Lan's arm.

Shen Lan shook him off, rushed towards Xuan'er, picked her up, and used her lightness skill to dash out of the hall.

A group of people rushed out, and just as they reached the courtyard, they heard a loud "boom" of an explosion behind them.

"Lie down!" Shen Lan shouted.

Everyone fell to the ground, their ears ringing. The horses were terrified and ran wildly. Two horses broke their reins and ran out of the post station.

The inn collapsed.

The old wooden building was destroyed by bombing and then caught fire, making it completely beyond saving.

This was the first time Shen Lan had ever seen gunpowder in the Da Xi Dynasty. With such a commotion, the amount of gunpowder the other side had hidden must have been considerable.

She helped Xuan'er up and turned to look at the others.

Fortunately, all of them managed to escape, but the two officers who were at the back had wounds on their backs, probably from being cut by flying stones.

Xiao Ji also stood up, helped the terrified Fu Qingyan to the side, and then took a few steps forward.

Amid the ruins, a few people were still wailing, while the rest were broken into pieces and no longer resembled human beings.

"My lord, the fire is too big to be put out," Sui Feng sighed.

Xiao Ji turned around and took a deep breath. "This matter must be investigated thoroughly. Where did he get so much gunpowder? This matter may implicate the military."

Gunpowder was something completely controlled by the imperial court, and was even used only in the military, with very strict regulations. It was strange that it had appeared in this remote post station.

"So he originally intended to kill these people, just for the sake of sacrifice?" Shen Lan couldn't understand.

Sui Feng told her, "Indeed, some cults have strange rules, and there have been cases of believers committing suicide as sacrifices, but these believers probably don't even know what they believe in."

"What's even more frightening is that there are probably many more cults like this, and an ordinary person can't get their hands on this gunpowder."

Similarly, an organization capable of obtaining gunpowder could not possibly have only such a small number of people.

The sounds inside completely stopped.

The fire was still burning. Shen Lan walked over to the edge. Her toolbox was still inside; once the fire burned out, only a few pieces of iron would remain.

That was a complete set of tools that she had slowly accumulated over ten years.

The rest of the people's luggage was mostly in their guest rooms, with only some left in the carriage.

This night was both thrilling and devastating.

As the sun rose, everyone stood quietly in the courtyard, unable to come to their senses for a long time.

"My lord, what should we do next?" Sui Feng asked Xiao Ji.

They were just passing through and asked for a place to stay for the night, never expecting to get involved in such a big case.

"Send someone back to the prefectural government to report the case, and let Prefect Jiang conduct a thorough investigation within Jianzhou. Leave the rest to the prefectural government."

Sui Feng nodded, then looked at Shen Lan walking around the fire and whispered, "Miss Shen was very fast just now, her lightness skill is better than mine."

"Yes, it's very fast." Xiao Ji noticed it as well.

However, there was no need to say this explicitly. He instructed Suifeng, "It's enough that we know. There's no need to ask Miss Shen."

Everyone has their own little secrets. Shen Lan didn't want to reveal them, and they didn't need to force her.

Sui Feng said self-deprecatingly, "This time I believe Sui Ying's words."

This Miss Shen must be hiding some incredible talent!