Twilight Boundary

With a "bang" kick, the door was opened, and Hu Ma rushed directly into the village.

After a quick glance, I saw that this was a lively village with brightly lit lights and servants coming and going. Chickens, ducks, and pig legs were placed on the flowing mats one after another, as well as delicacies. During the banquets, servants went around and toasted, and the musicians on both sides worked hard. puffed up his cheeks.

On the chairs in front of the table, there were countless well-dressed rich men and their wives. They were holding wine glasses and wishing the birthday of the white-bearded old squire on the top table, who was accompanied by pretty women on both sides. , saying compliments to him with a smile on his face.

As soon as Hu Ma broke in, he brought with him a murderous aura, which made the lively scene dim. Everyone at the banquet turned around and looked at him in surprise.

The white-bearded old squire who was celebrating his birthday at the table was stunned for a moment, let go of the two women in his arms, suddenly slammed the table, and shouted: "Master, I am celebrating my birthday, who of you dare to barge in?" ?”

Hu Ma wore the smiling mask on her face, smiled solemnly, and strode forward to greet him: "The Zhencong Mansion is here to kill someone."

"Ah yes..."

When the white-bearded old squire suddenly heard these words, he was startled and shouted: "Brother, if you have something to say, please tell me..."

But seeing that Hu Ma kept walking, he waved his sleeves, and suddenly the tables, chairs, and even the guests in the room were all swept into Hu Ma's face with his sleeve. At the same time, he jumped up and was about to go to the table. Run at the back door.

"Hmph! Are you worthy of calling us brothers?"

While Hu Ma sneered, he raised the Punishing Officer's sword in his hand and blew hard on the black bone on the handle. Suddenly, a wave of evil energy suddenly surged forward.

Hu La La!

When the evil spirit passed by, the big house suddenly became chaotic. The lanterns were extinguished one by one and fell to the ground. The guests also ran away in all directions. Some of them were still in the air and were blown to pieces by the evil spirit. However, the original They are paper figures one by one.

The lively banquet has also changed. There are no exquisite tables and chairs. They are just rotten wood, piles of straw that have been soaked for countless years, and a few stones and damasks arranged haphazardly around them.

There were no delicacies. What was placed on the stone were just rotten or semi-rotten arms and legs, hearts, livers and internal organs.

But it turned out that hungry ghosts had come to Mingzhou to cause trouble before, and they were all killed. The nearby residents were worried about the plague, so they buried them in mass graves. However, they did not expect that these lonely ghosts would be taken advantage of, and they would be killed again. Dig it out and eat the flesh and blood noodles here.

And the old squire with a white beard who had passed his birthday, now look at it, a few rags fell off his body, and he suddenly turned into a strange bearded python. Seeing that he couldn't escape, he huddled among the rocks and stared. A pair of strange eyes, a hissing sound coming from his mouth, and he could vaguely hear shouting:

"Wait a minute, even the Zhencheng Mansion has to be reasonable. If you set up an altar, call my name, and ask me to go, wouldn't that be enough..."

"..."

Hu Ma interrupted directly and said in a cold voice: "I invited you to eat some noodles and you went. That's still reasonable. Now that I'm here to catch you, what can you say?"

"Wow..."

The strange python was immediately furious, and with a roar, it sprang out from among the rocks, biting Hu Ma's face. Under the scales of its body, traces of strange mist actually seeped out, making people dizzy just by smelling it.

Hu Ma took a deep breath and inhaled all the strange mist under the mask, which shocked the strange python, and then he was overjoyed: "You dare to inhale my immortal energy, and I'm afraid you won't die?"

Before he finished speaking, Hu Ma lifted up the mask on his face, exposed his mouth, and then suddenly let out a loud shout. The strange mist that was sucked in suddenly spurted out with soaring firepower, like a cannon. , and hit the strange python directly.

The monster python was hit so hard that it screamed in agony and flew out, making a strange hissing mess and extremely frightened.

"Don't you know, we're just trying to catch someone with a knife..."

Hu Ma took the opportunity to step forward and shouted: "...Actually, he is a sectarian?"

The strange python really didn't know about this. It didn't get close to the battle formation in front of Mingzhou City. Now it was suddenly seriously injured. The snake's body was writhing and was about to escape. However, Hu Ma had already caught up with him and stepped on his neck. The head was chopped off with a knife.

He picked up a straw rope from the side, tied it up, put the punishing officer's sword on the sole of his shoe, wiped off the blood, put it back into its sheath, asked for the measuring boots again, and then strode back.

"Crack!"

In front of the altar, Aunt Zhang was distracted and waiting worriedly. Unexpectedly, Hu Ma rushed back in just half an hour, and threw a bearded snake head the size of a calf into the basket, followed immediately by another. A long list was handed over directly.

"Auntie, let's continue to make trouble. First, call out all the guys in Mingzhou Prefecture who don't follow the orders given by the altar!"

"..."

Aunt Zhang glanced at the head of the strange snake, and her heart trembled slightly. Grandma Qi Gu next to her looked at it, and some of the white hairs on her head stood up.

Continue to raise the altar, recite the incantation, and call out names one by one, but some are willing to come, some are not, and some are detained on the altar. With a wisp of black smoke, they transform into human forms and hurriedly kowtow. Come: "Young man, I'm here to ask you a question. What's the point of summoning me?"

"If you ask why the young one in front of you didn't follow the order, then I have something to say. It's not that I didn't want to come. I was actually ordered to stay in one place and didn't dare to leave without permission. I hope you'll forgive me..."

"..."

Aunt Zhang was stunned. She was an honest person and didn't know how to decide this matter. Hu Ma next to the altar snorted coldly and asked for Aunt Zhang: "Whose order?"

"yes……"

The other party hesitated: "It's the life of a Lord..."

Hu Ma's expression suddenly changed and he shouted: "You must obey the orders of the Lord of the Palace, but you ignore the orders of my Zhenzong Palace? How dare you talk nonsense in front of the interrogating officer?"

Saying that he was indiscriminate, he stepped forward and chopped it with a knife. The evil spirit of the punishing officer's sword was rolling, and he chopped it on the altar. Hundreds of miles away, a spirit screamed and suddenly lost its head.

It doesn't matter, just let Xiao Hongtang pick it up.

There were also people who were summoned and immediately knelt on the altar and cried: "It's not that I didn't obey the order, it's actually the order from the Zhenzhou Mansion that summoned the evil spirit from Mingzhou, and I have always been subject to the orders of the Donkey Danzi Village." Support, and this Lvdanzi Village does not belong to Mingzhou..."

Hu Ma shouted: "Nonsense, why does it say it is in Mingzhou in our Hundred Ghost Record?"

The spirit said: "Hey, twenty years ago, it belonged to Mingzhou, but then there was a flood in the village and it moved ten miles west, so it belongs to Gunzhou, not Mingzhou..."

"You still hehehe?"

Hu Ma widened his eyes and sneered: "So, you belong to Mingzhou in terms of the imperial decree, but you belong to Gunzhou in terms of land?"

"Then I won't make it difficult for you. I'll split it in half. I'll let you live in the Gunzhou half. I'll kill the Mingzhou half directly as a warning to others!"

"..."

"..."

Repeatedly, several people were summoned one after another and interrogated one by one. Those who made false statements were killed, those who were disrespectful were killed, and those who showed disobedience were killed. Those who refused to come were taken out with a knife on the spot and chopped off with one blow. .

After only one night, there were already more than a dozen heads in the basket, all kinds of heads, including spirits and monsters, dead people and broken bones, and paper figures and plants. They were full of heads, full of resentment. Even Aunt Zhang on the altar looked at them. They all relented.

She had never done anything so arrogant and deceptive in her life, and she couldn't help but have doubts: "Brother the shopkeeper, is it really okay for us to do this?"

Hu Ma then turned to Aunt Zhang and explained patiently: "Auntie doesn't understand enough. Our Zhencong Mansion borrows the will of all living beings to implement the rules of yin and yang. You can understand that the Zhencong Mansion is the one in this world. Lao Huotangzi, everyone in the world is blessed by him.”

"We, the ghosts in the Zhenzong Mansion, burn incense and offer sacrifices to the Old Huotang on behalf of the people of the world. They are also responsible for cleaning up the filth and filth in the Old Huotang."

"Those who are recorded in the Hundred Ghosts Record but do not listen to the orders on the altar are the filth in the pond. They should have been ordered to come, but they have developed second thoughts. If we do not clean them up, this hot pond will , how can we protect the people better?"

"..."

"Cleaning up the old fire pond?"

Aunt Zhang is known as the big wanderer, and she certainly has some knowledge. She was not intolerant in her temperament in the past, but now that she is doing such things, her knowledge is not up to par. After listening to Hu Ma's words, she finally understood: " It’s not like I’ve never encountered this kind of thing before.”

"Old fire ponds between villages may have deteriorated due to bad geomantic omen, or they may have been possessed by ghosts and monsters, causing grievances, debts, and backlash against children and grandchildren. We ghosts need to take care of them."

"It's just that since they didn't come earlier, and now they are summoned again, not many people listen to the advice. This night, I looked at those who refused to come. Some of them were unable to be invited by me, and some seemed to be covered by something. , hidden..."

"Brother the shopkeeper, even if you look for them one by one, where can you find them?"

"Perhaps, only by asking them to come out of the Zhencheng Mansion can we issue an order and force them to the altar for questioning..."

"..."

Hu Ma listened, but shook her head and said: "Agu, you shouldn't use the Zhencheng Mansion for this kind of thing. That noble man in the mountain...hey, it's not convenient for him to come forward."

"So now, only those of us who are under the command of the Zhenzong Mansion can handle this matter, but we don't have to worry about it. You just need to follow the Hundred Ghost Records and go through them one by one."

"If you are not convinced, ask them to reason with Grandma Qi. If you don't come, if you don't listen to persuasion... just have someone send the list to me."

"..."

As he spoke, he held the official's sword under his arm, and he had some expectations: "Now we are not afraid of cutting off too many heads. To be honest, I think this is not enough..."

These murderous words made Agu Zhang stunned, feeling that he seemed to be a bit too murderous.

In the blink of an eye, he saw his headless kid lying in front of the basket, dazed, so he hurriedly trained it and walked away quickly, but Hu Ma smiled at the headless kid and said: "You're welcome, I like it." Whichever one you choose, we don’t lack this thing now.”