The Secret Way of Immortality

Because of the additional hundred or so people needing to be accommodated, the temporary camp became unusually bloated, and food supplies were immediately strained.

Li Yaoyang went to Camelback Mountain to inspect the Disaster Relief Zone, no longer paying attention to the chaotic situation.

After the crowd was checked by several prison guards, Song Zongwu directly handed them over to Ren Qing.

Ren Qing thought back to his time in the Fire Worker Hall, when he was the one acting as a hands-off manager, but now he had to do all the dirty and tiring work.

Sigh...

He had no choice but to temporarily stop mining and focus his energy on handling affairs.

The newly arrived constables were easy enough to deal with, since there were only twenty or so of them in total.

Ren Qing took the opportunity to meet them, carefully examining each one with the information flow, and found nothing unusual.

The hunters were a bit more troublesome.

Several of them had suffered injuries due to wild animal attacks, so a wooden hut was specially vacated to accommodate them.

Ren Qing had Wang Sheng take the hunters there, while he quickly signaled the constables to prepare food, with several bonfires cooking at the same time, making the camp smoky.

Then, he went non-stop to arrange for the prisoners.

Ren Qing pondered for a long time.

After thinking it over, only the cave could accommodate them. After more than ten days of hard work, it had become quite spacious.

Locking them inside the cave and isolating them from the outside world would also make management easier.

Of course, the first thing to do was to confirm the prisoners' condition using the information flow.

Ren Qing checked the information of hundreds of people in a row, his head aching slightly, but still without any results. It seemed that Song Rong had already given up.

However, he did discover that several prisoners with physical disabilities had practiced spells. Their left arms were all weak, as if the bones had been removed.

According to the information flow, the spells they practiced were similar to the Divine Foot Sutra, but none of them had mastered it.

This spell was called "Snake Molting Art".

[Snake Molting Art]

[Created by Taoist Mu She, cultivating this art requires being immersed in a specific medicinal liquid from a young age, making the whole body as soft as if boneless, in order to be successfully cultivated.]

This reminded Ren Qing of the "Snake Scale Gang" in the eastern district of Sanxiang City, and there might be a connection between the two.

He had the constables seal the entrance and exit of the cave, and specially sent people to guard the prisoners, and would consider how to arrange mining tomorrow.

After Ren Qing finished all this, he was still a little uneasy.

He took some dry food and went to the hunters' wooden house, and smelled a medicinal smell as soon as he approached.

Ren Qing couldn't help but take a deep breath, and touched the blood heart in his arms with his right hand.

The constables and prisoners were fine, so the problem was likely with the hunters. He still remembered the dozen or so people who disappeared from Pingdingshan Village.

If something unexpected happened, he only hoped that it would not affect the Disaster Relief Zone.

Zhou Wuqian, who was smoking a dry pipe outside the wooden house, saw Ren Qing approaching. Knowing that the other party was in charge of the camp, he quickly greeted him.

"Sir, I am Zhou Wuqian. I used to work in the yamen, and I was a groom for the county magistrate for several years."

Ren Qing nodded and asked, "Old man Zhou, how are the injured hunters?"

Zhou Wuqian glanced at the other hunters, and straightened his back and replied, "Sir, as you know, the wild animals have been extremely ferocious these days."

He pointed to the house and continued, "Several young lads were bitten by wild animals on the road, and now they can only recuperate..."

Ren Qing frowned slightly.

Zhou Wuqian added with a smile, "Sir, we dare not ask for your yamen's reward money during the recuperation period. We will find our own herbs."

"Where are you from, and what kind of wild animals attacked you?"

"Returning to sir, we are from Tao Xing Village, and encountered several hungry wolves when we came out."

Wolves?

Why wolves again?

"Let me see the injuries first."

Ren Qing patted Zhou Wuqian on the shoulder, and the two walked into the wooden house one after the other.

There were more than a dozen hunters living in the house, so it seemed unusually crowded.

They stared at Ren Qing with suspicious eyes, and took the initiative to move away to make room, and the atmosphere became silent.

Ren Qing noticed that there were freshly dried medicinal herbs by the window. These herbs were common in the mountains and forests, and had the effect of treating external injuries.

In the corner of the house, three hunters were lying flat and wailing constantly.

Two hunters were injured in the chest and abdomen, and the remaining one was more seriously injured. His hands and feet had been bandaged, which should have been caused by a wild animal attack.

The simply treated herbs were applied to the wound and changed every half a day.

The injuries were not fatal, unless they caused tetanus or rabies.

"Eat something, and in the future, the camp's meat will depend on you."

Ren Qing took out the dry food and distributed some to each hunter, mainly to check the information.

Still nothing unusual, even a little too normal.

Honestly, if Ren Qing and Song Rong switched positions, he would never let go of such a good opportunity to infiltrate the camp.

"Thank you, sir..."

Zhou Wuqian took the dry food with a happy expression. It seemed that apart from those scary prison guards, the constables were still very easy to talk to.

Ren Qing bent down to touch the injured, pretending to listen to the pulse beating on his neck.

The results were all ordinary hunters, and they didn't seem to be possessed by spells. Their minds were not affected when communicating.

If Song Rong used his eyeballs to control others, the released person would inevitably be as erratic as Wang Bingquan, the fishmonger.

After Ren Qing made sure that nothing was missed, he got up and walked out of the house.

Could it be that Song Rong was afraid of the large number of prison guards, so he gave up entering the Disaster Relief Zone?

Ren Qing vaguely sensed something was wrong, but all he could do at the moment was to be more careful, and he couldn't delay the progress of sealing off the forbidden area because of this.

Fortunately, there was Mu Yi, who had turned into a tree person, and she could be on guard in the camp.

The next few days were relatively calm. After the constables did not have to engage in hard labor, the speed of improving the living environment was much faster.

The prisoners were successively put into mining the mountain, but they were all unimportant branches.

They were not allowed to leave the cave on weekdays, and the food and water were brought in by the constables, and the waste was taken out.

In order to prevent the prisoners from causing trouble, Ren Qing would disperse and reassign everyone every day, and even when they went to the toilet, they were guarded by constables.

The camp gradually got on the right track.

However, what made Ren Qing feel strange was that the large wild animals nearby disappeared at the same time. Now the hunters can only catch some wild rabbits and field mice.

And Zhou Wuqian believed it was caused by frequent hunting.

When Ren Qing had nothing to do, he went out to look for clues with his double pupils. After going a little further away from the camp, he could indeed find wild animals appearing.

He told Song Zongwu about the matter, and since then, a large number of Gu worms have been added within ten miles of the camp, and any disturbance can be detected by Li Yaoyang.

Logically speaking, even Ren Qing himself couldn't see any flaws.

He still made routine inspections every day, and was finally able to resume mining, so as to find the opportunity for the human skin book to break through.

And he could try to use the Great Miao Saber to chisel the stone wall.

After a long period of training, Ren Qing could feel the transformation of his saber technique.

As long as he can use the stone wall to go a step further, then it will be considered a real entry.