Changsheng: I will win my life with martial arts, and I will defeat the demons in this chaotic world

Lu Ren did not leave in a hurry, but wandered aimlessly in the city.

At noon, he walked into a restaurant with the most traffic and ordered a few dishes and a pot of wine.

When the waiter served the dishes, he asked around and learned that Shanyin County had been very peaceful for nearly half a month, and he had never heard of any demons or bloodshed.

Ordinarily, such a result should be enough to make Lu Ren feel relieved.

But he still couldn't calm down.

Often the calmer the sea, the undercurrents have already surged under the sea.

During the meal, he pricked up his ears to listen to the conversations of the guests around him. They were all ordinary family matters, and there was no valuable information.

Lu Ren drank a pot of wine depressedly, and a hint of drunkenness appeared on his face.

He secretly thought in his heart: Am I really thinking too much?

After leaving the restaurant, Lu Ren was going to visit Lin Jinyan's villa.

On the way, he passed a blacksmith shop.

It was here that he made his twelve black iron darts by himself.

The boss is a straightforward middle-aged man who likes to be shirtless, showing off his bronze skin, and hammering iron tools in front of the furnace.

The black iron material was provided to him for free.

To express his gratitude, although Lu Ren did not agree to the other party's request to become his apprentice, he still guided him on the many insights he gained after deducing"One Hundred Solutions to Weapons".

In a hurry, Lu Ren only taught him briefly, and he didn't know how much the other party could learn.

Since we are here, we should go in and take a look.

At this moment, Li Zhuang, the owner of the blacksmith shop, was talking to a customer.

Lu Ren did not interrupt, but looked around the shop casually.

The walls were full of various types of finished products, including farm tools for work and swords that can kill people.

Compared with the last time, the quality of this batch of finished products has obviously risen by more than one level.

Li Zhuang's forging skills have improved significantly.

It seems that he is really born to be a blacksmith.

After exchanging opinions with the customer and respectfully seeing him off, Li Zhuang finally noticed that there was one more person in the store.

"Who are you......."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Ren turned around and looked at Li Zhuang.

The latter was stunned for a moment, then said with joy:"Master Lu, you are back!"

Lu Ren smiled and shook his head:"I told you not to call me Master, just call me Master."

Li Zhuang smiled and touched the back of his head, and said excitedly:"Master Lu, the forging skills you taught me last time really benefited me a lot. Many old customers said that my skills have improved a lot, and they are scrambling to come to me to customize weapons!"

"I am just responsible for teaching. If you can learn it, it is your own ability. You don't need to thank me."

"No matter what, Master Lu is my great benefactor. I know that I am not worthy of being your apprentice because of my dullness. I am very grateful for your guidance."

Lu Ren said:"You are already very good now. If you continue to work hard to hone your skills, you will be the best blacksmith in Shanyin County."

Li Zhuang was a little embarrassed by the praise, and smiled and said:"Master Lu, are you in a hurry to leave? Come to my house later, and I will ask my wife to cook some of her specialties to treat you.""

"Forget about the meal, I came here to ask you a few questions."

Li Zhuang seemed a little regretful:"Mr. Lu, feel free to ask whatever you want to ask, I will tell you everything I know."

Lu Ren thought for a moment and said:"How do you feel about the time since Magistrate Wang Min took office?"

"County Magistrate Wang is very nice!" Li Zhuang said without any hesitation:"He is a good official, he treats all the people equally, and he is very serious and responsible........."

He listed a lot of Wang Min's advantages one after another, and his eyes were shining with a fanatical light.

Seeing him like this, Lu Ren frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong.

A county magistrate who had only been in office for half a month, no matter how good his character was, could not win the hearts of the people to such an extent in such a short time, right?

He continued to ask:"What achievements has County Magistrate Wang made during this period?"

When Li Zhuang heard this question, his face suddenly froze, as if his brain had crashed.

He held his head with both hands, as if he was thinking about something.

"Can't you remember?" Lu Ren looked at him in confusion.

Li Zhuang's expression became struggling and painful, as if he didn't hear Lu Ren's words at all.

""Li Zhuang, what's wrong with you?"

Lu Ren patted him gently.

However, the latter did not respond.

After waiting for a moment, Li Zhuang seemed to remember something. He looked at Lu Ren with shining eyes, grabbed his arms tightly with both hands, and said loudly:"County Magistrate Wang is a good official. He treats all people equally..........."

This was a repetition of the previous sentence.

Moreover, he couldn't stop once he started talking, repeating the same words over and over again, with a kind of madness in his eyes.

Lu Ren looked at his irrational appearance, and his heart was slightly shocked.

There is a problem!

A big problem!

He thought for a moment and changed the way he asked:"County Magistrate Wang is a bad guy, right?" As soon as the voice fell, Li Zhuang's face suddenly turned fierce, staring at Lu Ren with uncontrollable anger, and shouted:"You are not allowed to say that about County Magistrate Wang! You are a bad guy, I will kill you!"

As he said, Li Zhuang casually took a kitchen knife from the wall and chopped at Lu Ren.

Lu Ren took a step back with a solemn expression, swung his arm to knock the kitchen knife away, and then clamped Li Zhuang, making him unable to move.

However, Li Zhuang struggled to break free like a mad dog, biting and roaring

""Li Zhuang, wake up, are you crazy?"

Lu Ren shouted in his ear, trying to wake him up.

But Li Zhuang still did not respond and continued to attack Lu Ren.

What was going on?

Lu Ren really didn't understand why a person who was fine just now suddenly went crazy?

Was it because he mentioned something bad about Wang Min?

But even so, Li Zhuang only needed to argue and explain it clearly for Wang Min. Why did he become so crazy?

Lu Ren felt like he accidentally triggered a bug in a system, which led to Li Zhuang's emotional breakdown.

At this time, he noticed that Li Zhuang's life breath was gradually weakening.

If this continued, Li Zhuang would die in less than half an hour........

Damn it, who is behind this?

After a brief hesitation, Lu Ren decisively knocked him out with a palm knife.

Li Zhuang closed his eyes instantly and fell into a coma.

And the state of life breath fading away also stagnated.

Seeing this, Lu Ren breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Zhuang's life was temporarily saved.

But if the truth behind this cannot be found out as soon as possible, he will definitely continue to go crazy and accelerate the end of his life.

Lu Ren's eyes became sharp.

All the problems are caused by Wang Min!

This good official who is deeply loved by the people in the rumor may not be as simple as he imagined.

Lu Ren stayed in the blacksmith shop for a while until Li Zhuang woke up.

He touched his head and looked at Lu Ren with confusion.

"Mr. Lu, what happened to me?"

Lu Ren narrowed his eyes and asked,"Do you really not remember anything?"

"Well........"Li Zhuang recalled for a moment:"I remember you had some questions for me? What are they? Go ahead and ask."

Lu Ren's face changed slightly, and he thought: I dare not ask again.

He still didn't know the specific reason why Li Zhuang went crazy. If he was tested again, his life might be in danger.

He shook his head gently and said casually:"Nothing, I just want to ask how old your child is."

Speaking of children, a trace of fatherly tenderness emerged in Li Zhuang's eyes.

He smiled innocently and said to Lu Ren:"My child is nine years old this year. She is a girl, but she is too wild. She hangs out with a bunch of boys all day.

I plan to send her to a private school in the future to learn poetry, books, rituals and music, otherwise it will be a problem whether she can get married in the future."

It is hard to imagine that the person who is now Li Zhuang and the person who just shouted to kill Lu Ren are the same person

"Well, that's good, but you still have to pay attention to the way and scale of education, don't push the child too hard, and try to let her do what she likes."

Li Zhuang nodded and said very sincerely:"Thank you for your advice, Mr. Lu, I have taken note of your words."

"That's all, see you again if we have the chance."

After saying that, Lu Ren turned around and left the blacksmith shop with a heavy heart.

Later, in order to verify his guess, he decided to find a few more people to conduct experiments.

His first target was the stall owner selling fruits on the roadside.

Lu Ren walked up and pretended to pick fruits.

The stall owner greeted him enthusiastically:"Sir, these oranges of mine are just picked from the mountain. They are big and sweet. You can try them first and then decide whether to buy them."

After Lu Ren tasted a slice, he found that it was exactly as the stall owner described, very juicy, and sweet and delicious.

He picked a few and handed them to the stall owner. While the other party was weighing them, he asked the same question as Li Zhuang:"What kind of person is County Magistrate Wang? What achievements has he made during his tenure?"

The stall owner's hand holding the scale bar stopped in mid-air for a moment, and the smile on his face disappeared, replaced by an expression of pain and numbness.

This reaction was surprisingly consistent with Li Zhuang's.

After waiting for a while, the stall owner answered mechanically:"County Magistrate Wang is a good official. He treats all people equally........"

When Lu Ren heard this identical answer, he was even more shocked.

What kind of trick was this?

He asked different people the same question, and the answers he got were exactly the same.

Lu Ren was sure that he had chosen the person randomly, so it was impossible for the stall owner and Li Zhuang to have communicated in advance.

It seemed more like someone had implanted a virus program in these people's minds.

Once stimulated by external factors, they would give the same response.

"I don't want oranges anymore." Lu Ren left a silver coin and hurried away.

Behind him, the stall owner continued to repeat the sentence with dull eyes.

Lu Ren's scalp tingled.

Who is this new county magistrate, and what is his intention?

To be on the safe side, Lu Ren tried more than a dozen people in succession.

Without exception, they all had the same reactions and answers.

At this point, Lu Ren finally realized that the people of the whole city seemed to have been secretly controlled by an invisible force.

Most of the time, they are still themselves, ordinary civilians, with their own lives and stories.

But once the topic of Wang Min is involved, they seem to have suddenly become a different person, crazy and numb, as if they have lost their human instincts and become a walking corpse.

Lu Ren thought of Zhang He's distress signal.

Could it be that........He had already discovered this suspicious point at that time, so he used this to warn and ask for help from the people around the Demon Suppression Division?

But the problem is why didn't he mention a word when he met him, and even lied that the signal was accidentally sent by a child?

Lu Ren hesitated whether to go to the Demon Suppression Division base again to find Zhang He to ask him clearly.

He guessed that Zhang He must have been threatened in some way and did not dare to tell him the truth openly.

Wang Min's ability to influence the minds of the people in the city shows that his strength is unfathomable.

Zhang He may be worried that Lu Ren does not have enough strength to match him, so he chose to conceal it.

I remember that Zhang He consciously guided him to stay in the city for a few more days. Did he want him to discover this suspicious point and then convey the news in time?

If so, he should not go to Zhang He at this time.

Wang Min's spies cover the entire city, and his every move cannot escape the other party's surveillance.

"It was too risky to stay in the city, so we had to leave the city before dark and pass the news back to the branch office. We couldn't let Zhang He's efforts go to waste."

Lu Ren didn't think he could solve this unprecedented situation by himself.���There is a crisis.

Wang Min's danger level is even far greater than that of the wolf demon that almost massacred Shanyang City.

After all, the wolf demon only wants to eat people to become stronger, but what is Wang Min's purpose?

Lu Ren found that he could not see through this person at all.

He can freely control the thoughts of the people in the city. Doesn't it mean that they will do whatever he wants these people to do seriously?

This is much more terrible than a one-sided massacre.

Time is running out, Lu Ren immediately turned around and walked out of the city.

I am afraid that even the six-star demon-suppressing lieutenant will find it difficult to deal with this incident, and it is necessary to ask the demon-suppressing envoys of the branch to come forward!

When he was about to reach the city gate, Lu Ren found that the streets were empty and there was no one.

At this time, a cold wind blew towards him.

The dust floating in the air fascinated Lu Ren's eyes.

He instinctively raised his arm to cover it.

However, the next moment, he felt that his vision seemed to suddenly go dark.

Lu Ren put down his arm, looked around, and was extremely horrified.

The sky is dark!

You know, it was less than two hours since he had lunch.

Normally, it would be around three or four in the afternoon, and it would be at least two hours before dark........Why is it dark at this time?

Lu Ren looked up and found that the sky was as dark as ink. It was definitely not the natural phenomenon of dark clouds covering the city before a rainstorm, but the real dark sky!

Lu Ren's heart trembled, and after swallowing his saliva, he quickened his pace and walked towards the city gate.

"Stop!"

The city gate was already closed.

A solemn guard holding a knife blocked Lu Ren's way.

"What are you doing?"

Lu Ren narrowed his eyes and said,"I want to leave the city."

The guard said coldly,"It's dark, the whole city is under curfew, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and anyone who violates the order will be executed!"

"Whose order is this?"

"Humph, of course it's an order from the court."

No!"

Lu Ren's eyes flashed with doubt.

He didn't remember the court issuing such an order.

Whether it was a county town or a prefecture town, entry and exit would be restricted after dark, but it would never be so strict, and it would be impossible to execute violators on the spot.

Since it was not an order from the court, then........The person who issued this order could only be the real person in power in Shanyin County, Wang Min!

"Can you please make some concessions? I have something urgent to do." Lu Ren stuffed a few gold coins into the other party's pocket.

However, the guard threw the coins directly on the ground, looking as if he regarded money as dirt. He drew his knife coldly, pointed at Lu Ren and said,"Leave quickly, or you will die!"

Lu Ren hesitated, and a hint of murderous aura emanated from him.

Since he refused to let him go, he had no choice but to kill him.