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Chapter 2783 Monster's Nesting Doll
Chapter 2783 Monster's Nesting Doll
Yes, Wen Rensheng couldn't help but laugh after seeing the actions of the five people.
One thing they hadn't thought of yet: after inviting the tiger in, the wolf was killed.
But the tiger stayed too.
It's like a story about a hunter who was good at imitating the roar of wild beasts. When he encountered a wild beast, he would imitate a beast that was more powerful than himself and scare it away.
Until one day, I entered the nesting doll mode.
Powerful beasts came one after another, and he had to imitate more powerful beasts until the most powerful beast appeared.
And now, Lin Feng, the monster hunter, is facing this situation.
……
Sure enough, it was just as Wen Rensheng expected.
No one had ever imagined that after the incense monster was driven away, strange things would happen again and again as the scholars went to take up posts in various places.
In fact, when the emperor encountered a huge threat, he had already restored the Ming Dynasty to its modern state through the supplies of double-penetrating doors.
But after a battle with the incense monster, the incense monster restored the control area to the Ming Dynasty state...
Pull repeatedly.
Until now the incense monster died.
……
A small town in a remote mountain area.
Liu Xing'an was a fellow Jinshi from many years ago.
The emperor had been tossing around in various ways before, and he had no chance to take office.
Now that the monsters have retreated, he quickly found a way to get the actual post of a county magistrate.
So he took his master and a guard with him to take up the post.
He came from a poor family, and was able to pass the imperial examination entirely due to his talent and hard work.
Plus he became the son-in-law of a retired official.
But my father-in-law also has a son and didn’t give him much financial support.
I have already done him a great favor by covering his expenses for going to Beijing for the exam, as well as the handling fees.
He borrowed the money to support his position from a bank called Youjian.
Lending money to feudal officials and sending legal advisors and guards to supervise the collection of debts in real time, it can be said that the ancient money houses were sometimes even better at risk control than modern banks.
If we really follow the methods used by the ancients, I believe many simple bad debts will not occur.
Because we can find out if we just send someone in to take a look.
The lawyer is responsible for finding money for him, and the guard is responsible for guarding the money, and they also have the role of supervising each other.
Of course, the two could easily collude with each other and collect far more money than Liu Xing'an borrowed.
As for the excess, it naturally falls into their pockets.
The money house only cares about collecting the money it deserves, so these two people are very motivated.
Soon they arrived at this small mountain town.
After arriving, the three were dumbfounded.
Because the chief accountant at that time told them: "Old father, our city's tax revenue has been collected for fifty years."
“People used to believe in evil things and sold their property to burn incense.”
"The local industries are farming, textiles, and incense making. Other than that, all other industries are declining." The chief clerk sighed.
"This is outrageous! They are indeed a group of evil creatures. They have made the people unable to concentrate on their work and only care about bowing and burning incense!" The fellow Jinshi was very angry.
Although he wanted to scrape the land.
But the land is gone, how can we scrape it?
Moreover, he was a first-time seventh-rank county magistrate and had no one under his command.
It is very difficult to plunder by force.
The lawyer looked around and called the chief clerk aside.
He took out a small piece of silver, probably only three cents, and handed it to the other party.
The chief clerk had a look of contempt in his eyes, but he said, "Master, if you have any questions, just ask. You don't have to pay."
"Are there any local tyrants?" the master asked directly, "Our master would like to visit one or two."
"As for powerful people, there are none here. After all, everyone is poor." The chief clerk said as he put the silver into his sleeve pocket.
The sleeves are big and have bags sewn on them, and when collecting money, they are all masters of magic.
"Are there any wealthy families in the area?"
"Neither does this."
"You can have this."
"This really doesn't exist."
The chief clerk and the legal advisor were tired of arguing with each other.
Wouldn't it be better for these three poor, ignorant fellows to just stay here for three years and then be transferred away?
You still want to plunder, but don’t you even know where this place is?
There are mountains everywhere, and the people will flee into the mountains when they are forced into a corner.
Once the imperial court sends people to check the household registration and cover it up, it will be another troublesome matter.
After all, the current imperial court is different from the previous Ming Dynasty.
There are too many new things in the court now.
By taking a picture from the sky, you can know the number of households and the amount of land.
You can't hide it even if you want to.
The chief clerk was also very angry. Why create so many new things?
Wasn’t the old one pretty good?
As a result, he is now restricted in everything he does.
This fellow Jinshi and his legal advisor were also greedy and stupid, and they didn't even consider what time it was.
Did you think it was during the previous dynasty?
The chief clerk finally made an excuse to prepare dinner for everyone, and then left in a hurry.
Liu Xingan sighed, sat in the shabby government office with drafts coming in from all sides, and said to his lawyer:
"What can I do?"
The master was confident: "Master, the debt you owe has been settled."
"Where?"
"It was on the chief clerk. I tried to test him with three taels of silver just now, but he was full of disdain."
"This means that the other party has at least a hundred taels of wealth, or even more."
Liu Xingan was immediately overjoyed: "That's great, I only borrowed 200 taels from your bank when I came here."
"I have to return two hundred and fifty taels by the end of the year. I can pay it back now."
The lawyer continued, "But it's not easy to get the chief clerk to pay. I've read stories from the past dynasties. In a remote place like this, killing a county magistrate is a piece of cake."
"Just report afterwards that you fell and died while out and that's all."
"Unless the court is in a prosperous period, it will only conduct a perfunctory inspection."
"What should we do?"
"So we have to take the initiative to create a situation where the master needs to play a role."
"Then how to make it?" Liu Xingan suddenly became interested.
"Master, please allow me to introduce you to the real owner of our bank." The lawyer smiled slightly and took out a Western jade Buddha from his sleeve.
"What is this thing? It looks very valuable. Are you going to sell it to the chief clerk?" This was all Liu Xing'an could think of.
"Haha, of course not. Instead, we want them to worship this foreign Buddha. Then they will have a support and a future, and we will have money and a future." The lawyer said with a smile.
"It's brilliant. It's really brilliant." Liu Xing'an immediately understood what his master did.
Although he also felt that his master was taking the wrong path and would cause big problems.
But the problem is, there is money in doing this.
Then it'll be fine.
So the three of them started to discuss it.
In this way, traces of Cthulhu appeared in this mountain city.
And Wen Rensheng saw this scene.
He looked at the master.
The phantom of a faceless mad god appeared behind the other party.
Sure enough.
Five lucky monster hunters thought they had succeeded in killing someone by borrowing a knife.
But they never thought that by doing so, they would only attract a bigger monster.
……
Two years later, on this day.
In the early morning, the mountain town was shrouded in a thick layer of fog. The sunlight could not penetrate this thick barrier, and the whole town looked particularly gloomy.
Residents came out of their homes one after another, preparing to start their day's work.
Of course, before working, they would go to a small temple at the street corner and worship the foreign Buddha.
Not to mention, since the appearance of this foreign Buddha, their barren mountain land has begun to produce good harvests.
This place is originally hot and humid, and we can have three or four harvests a year. It's just that the mountainous land has no nutrients and there is a lot of rain.
Too much rain is not good for agriculture either, as it can easily wash away precious fertility.
Although the tropical rainforest appears lush, the soil is actually very poor.
Now, their mountains can produce two stones of grain per acre, or 240 kilograms.
This number was very impressive in the feudal era.
Of course, you can't compare with people outside.
I heard that people outside used the good seeds and fertilizers distributed by the emperor and produced 2000 kilograms per acre of land. It's really scary.
They were already very satisfied and were very grateful to the new elderly parents.
Every time I burn incense to the foreign Buddha, I don’t forget to burn some incense for my elderly parents.
……
At this time, the residents' elderly parents, the county magistrate Liu Xing'an, were counting silver in the backyard.
These were all sent by the residents.
In the past two years, there have been bumper harvests of grain every year, as well as various specialty fruits.
So the residents had money and started to offer offerings, and finally the money came to him.
But as he was counting the money, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
He soon discovered that there was a strange smell in the air.
It was like a mixture of rotting corpses and damp mud, disgusting.
Liu Xingan thought about it and suddenly realized:
"No wonder the saints say that money stinks, it really stinks!"
Then he picked up the silver again and said, "If I don't go to hell, who will? I'll be the only one who gets humiliated!"
……
And at this time.
On the street, a few crows were circling in the air, making shrill cries.
Suddenly, a crow fell from the sky, landed heavily on the ground, twitched a few times and then stopped moving.
The old people who saw this scene looked at each other in bewilderment.
An ominous feeling welled up in their hearts.
It seems that similar things happened when we believed in those monsters.
Not long after, the sky suddenly turned dark, covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder.
Flashes of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the mountain city.
Soon, accompanied by lightning, a huge crack appeared on the ground, and black smoke came out of the crack, mixed with strange whispers.
The residents stepped back in horror, looks of horror on their faces.
Suddenly, a slime-like monster crawled out from the crack.
Its body is dark black and covered with eyes and tentacles.
It has three flowers on its head and five large tentacles.
What a great scene of three flowers gathering at the top of the head and five qi returning to the origin.
The appearance of this monster caused panic among the residents.
They screamed and ran away in all directions.
In the streets, people pushed and shoved, fell to the ground, and trampled on each other.
Some residents tried to take shelter in their homes, but the monster's tentacles reached their windows and dragged them out of the houses.
The lawyer was drinking spicy soup at the moment, and calculating how much money he had recovered.
Thanks to the power of the foreign Bodhisattva, he had already recovered the money invested by his employer in advance, and he also took nearly 50% for himself.
If he wasn't a bodyguard, he would actually be making as much money as his employer.
This is why the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.
But as he was drinking, the ground suddenly shook and his soup spilled all over the floor.
"What happened?"
Then he watched in horror as a gigantic monster wreaked havoc in the town, its tentacles flailing and piercing the roofs of houses and smashing through walls.
It moved quickly on the street, leaving deep footprints with every step.
The rocky road was crushed by it.
The monster also let out a low roar, as if venting its endless anger.
I could faintly hear two words: "Nai, Ya..."
Isn’t that the name of your employer?
Wait, how could such a monster appear?
He just wanted to worship the Buddha and the real dragon, but he never thought that the real dragon would appear in the world!
He is "Ye Gong who loves dragons".
And now, it was clear that order was about to break down.
The master immediately went to find the guard who was sleeping in a building.
"Lao Zhang, run away!"
"What happened?" Guard Zhang hurriedly put on his clothes and looked outside:
"My Cao..."
He couldn't believe his eyes.
But years of walking experience allowed him to react quickly.
No matter how dangerous the monster is, the important thing is to run away.
He then took his master with him and some dry food.
As for the valuables, I carry them with me.
Silver was too heavy, so they had exported it and exchanged it for silver notes within the past two years.
In fact, at this point, their money has already reached the hands of the boss.
The silver notes their employer gave them were not the general type, but specially printed.
There are debt repayment amounts listed above.
Taking one means paying back a sum of money and cannot be redeemed again.
Only excess can be redeemed.
The order of the mountain city collapsed in an instant.
What shocked the legal advisor and the guards was that there were still some yamen runners and clerks trying to maintain order.
"Damn it, why don't they run away? Why do they stay and face this sudden monster?" The guard felt incredible.
He ran out of the city with his master.
Those people bought him some time.
This made him want to call the other person stupid, but he couldn't say it.
"Their weapons are useless!" The master knew why.
This is all thanks to the emperor's previous promotion of education.
Let clerks and yamen runners have channels for promotion and be respected.
Obviously these people want to make a contribution, or they simply want to protect their fellow villagers and families.
Regardless, they are warriors.
Although the master is greedy, he still admires the warriors.
I saw the yamen runners stabbing the monster with spears.
But the sharp steel spear head only left some shallow marks on the monster's body and could not cause fatal damage to it.
And just as it was inserted, it slipped away.
Another group of soldiers tried to attack the monster with arrows.
But the monster's tentacles easily deflected the arrows and knocked the soldiers away.
At this time, facing the invasion of monsters, in the chaos, there are still some brave residents who took up weapons and tried to resist the monsters' attacks.
They shot at the monsters with hunting bows and even with earthen muskets, and stabbed them with spears.
But the monsters were too powerful and their attacks were just a tickle.
The monster's tentacles rolled them up and slammed them to the ground, tearing their bodies apart.
Not only that, as time went on, the monster with three flowers and five spirits killed more and more people, and it began to summon its own kind.
More monsters kept crawling out of the crack.
They have different shapes, some look like spiders, some look like octopuses, and some look like centipedes.
These monsters were exactly the three killed by the Faceless Mad God.
"They are coming!"
“The Lord has come again!”
The people of the mountain city could not help but be shocked by these familiar scenes.
(End of this chapter)