Chapter 174: Different Paths, No Mutual Scheme.

Xiao Fen stood above the eaves of the middle gate. From beginning to end, he only said one sentence, yet he made the Commandant suffer repeated setbacks. At this time, a gentle breeze came, blowing Xiao Fen’s clothes making a hunting sound. In the sunlight, it gave rise to a feeling of floating like an Immortal.

Even if he was not a real Immortal, at least this style of behavior looked open and aboveboard, definitely not like some evildoer.

Seeing this, everyone turned their heads to look at the Commandant, waiting for his response.

The Commandant turned his head and glared fiercely at Xiao Fen. He shouted in a low voice: “Charge the gate! Kill inside! Kill without mercy!”

Hearing the Commandant’s words, everyone secretly shook their heads, filled with dissatisfaction.

Just as Xiao Fen had said, not all of these Constables were enemies. More Constables were sent by superior officers. They were already somewhat resistant to this matter.

Later on, the situation changed from clearing the streets to surrounding a deserted house. This matter came too suddenly. Many people felt somewhat uneasy in their hearts.

Later, rumors spread that this was a haunted house. Many people who entered never came out. The Little Immortal from the White Cloud Temple was finally going to exorcise the demons, but who would have thought that as soon as he entered this house, the house was surrounded from behind. No matter how one looked at it, something felt wrong.

In the end, the situation turned into what it was now. Too many Constables wanted to back out. If it were not for the vague sight of people behind them taking out knives, the Constables in this courtyard would probably have dispersed long ago.

However, those few Imperial Guard wearing Flying Fish uniforms did not feel that they were delicate and noble. Hearing the Commandant’s words, each of them suddenly exerted force and rushed towards the gate.

Xiao Fen looked down from above, the corner of his mouth raising slightly.

These Imperial Guard were probably all fake. Even those Flying Fish uniforms probably had problems.

One had to know that the Imperial Guard were experts in raiding homes. For real Imperial Guard strongmen, such a locked gate was just a matter of climbing walls and breaking locks. There was no need to use such dead strength. Only strongmen from the countryside would use such a dead method without technique.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen’s heart moved. He suddenly thought of a new method. He closed his eyes for a rest, created a ball of Armor Corrosive Poison, and threw it towards those Imperial Guard who were preparing to charge and ram the gate.

With a “bang”, that ball of poison hit an Imperial Guard and shattered. The poison liquid splashed everywhere. Those fake Imperial Guard beside him were caught off guard and were splashed all over.

Those people felt something abnormal. They wiped their faces and looked up, only to see Xiao Fen standing on the eaves with a meaningful smile. Just as they did not understand the meaning, they felt their bodies go cold. The clothes on their bodies had unknowingly rotted into a sorry state. Then they suddenly saw the people behind them showing killing intent in their eyes. The Constables kept pulling out waist knives with a clanging sound and surrounded them.

Seeing this scene, the Commandant’s face changed, and he shouted: “You lowly runners! You don’t know the severity! You dare to collide with the Emperor’s personal army!”

A Constable turned his head and asked: “Are they really the Emperor’s personal army?”

The Commandant was just about to answer when someone gently tugged his sleeve from the side. Knowing something was wrong, he changed his words: “These are all Southern City Imperial Guard. That Hundred Household Jiang is real. The people were all brought by him. There can be no fakes.”

Another officer smiled coldly and said: “What a ‘there can be no fakes’.”

These words were truly harsh and mean. The Commandant’s face changed, and he was about to flare up, but he saw the crowd surging at the entrance, already surrounding those few Imperial Guard. After a while, a human head flew out from the crowd. A group of Constables shouted there: “Well killed! Well killed! This White Lotus Sect cultist deserves death more than anyone.”

Hearing these words, the Commandant’s vision went black. His body swayed. He forced himself to stay calm and shouted loudly: “Under the bright daylight, where would White Lotus Sect come from? Do not falsely accuse and kill good people!”

As soon as the voice fell, a headless corpse was thrown out from the pile of people. On the back of this corpse was tattooed a statue of Maitreya Buddha, smiling broadly. However, this Buddha statue was splashed with blood stains. The smile was soaked in blood, indescribably ferocious and weird.

“It is just a Maitreya Buddha statue, just a Maitreya Buddha statue…”

The Commandant kept saying this, but his voice became lower and lower. It was not so much for those Constables to hear as it was for himself.

The White Lotus Sect caused trouble in the Capital City only in March. The runners and Constables were most wary of these cultists. How to identify White Lotus Sect cultists had long been a routine for these Constables. Being watched by so many Constables at the same time, there could truly be no mistake.

After a while, several more headless corpses were thrown out. Each of them had Maitreya Buddha statues on their backs, or on their chests, or on their abdomens. Although the postures were different, they were all smiling in the filth and blood, looking straight at the Commandant, as if saying: “You come, you come too.”

“How could they be discovered?”

The Commandant kept asking himself. That Southern City Hundred Household was a real Imperial Guard, but the others were not. They were hidden lines left behind after the White Lotus Sect caused trouble in the Capital City in March. They had been walking around using the name of the Imperial Guard. Originally, there was no problem. Somehow, today they actually capsized here.

Where would the Commandant know that the Armor Corrosive Poison created by Xiao Fen was best at corroding various types of armor? The clothes of those Imperial Guard were originally thin. How could they withstand the corrosion of this poison? In just an instant, the outer clothes were corroded away by the splashing poison, revealing those marks on their bodies.

Having suffered losses from the White Lotus Sect, the Nine City Constables were most alert to White Lotus Sect cultists at this time. If there was the slightest clue, they would go up to investigate, let alone the White Lotus remnants whose identities were completely exposed now. Without saying a word, they went up and started a slaughter.

These hidden lines were careless for a moment. They came out to ram the door without wearing weapons. Surrounded by numerous Constables, they still wanted to resist.

But they did not know that the Constables had a rule long ago. When meeting White Lotus Sect cultists, kill them on the spot, leaving no witnesses, to avoid future trouble when higher-ups investigated the source of the cultists. Therefore, in a few moments, together with that Imperial Guard Hundred Household, they were all killed cleanly by the Constables.

The Commandant was plotted against by Xiao Fen twice in a row and suffered repeated losses. Seeing that success was imminent but now about to fail, he wished he could grind his silver teeth to pieces. After the chaos on the Constable side ended, he reorganized his spirit and said loudly: “The White Lotus Sect cultists were killed very well. But the holy decree cannot be violated by you all. Now we must continue! Charge into this house and kill this evildoer!”

Many Constables heard this and felt even clearer in their hearts. They answered in unison, but their hands and feet were slow. They rushed towards the door panels with weak and floating strength. One by one, after crashing into it, they shouted that they could not crash, their bodies were injured, and so on. They just did not want to really break the door open, lest problems arise later and the big shots be fine while the little guys suffered.

Seeing these people working without putting in effort, the Commandant naturally knew what the problem was, but for a moment, he was also at a loss and did not know what to do.

Just at this moment, the middle gate suddenly made a “creak” and slowly opened by itself. The two stone lions blocking the middle gate were still in front of the eyes, but not a single shadow of an “evildoer” could be seen.

Looking again at the top of the head, where was the “evildoer” who could create fire knives and strip clothes with light in his hand?

Everyone saw this and felt some fear in their hearts. They secretly sucked in a breath of cold air. The weapons in their hands became a bit weak.

The Commandant saw this in his eyes, and his heart was angry again. He knew this situation could not wait any longer. Once the Eastern Depot came knocking on the door, the previous layout would probably fail.

Not only that, once the matter that the Imperial Guard Hundred Household was a White Lotus Sect remnant was exposed, it would probably set off another storm of blood in the Capital City. By then, perhaps that person’s big matter would have problems.

Thinking of this, the Commandant knew that if no one took the lead to enter this house, probably no one behind would follow, and the matter would be deadlocked here.

Having reached this point, he had no choice. He had to jump off his horse, strode to the front of the middle gate, and was about to walk in.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew head-on from the house. In this gust of wind, there was a faint smell of blood, and also a faint sound of a woman crying.

This gust of wind came very fast. In an instant, it blew through the entire front yard, but was unwilling to leave just like that. It only kept circling in the middle of the front yard. The sounds of women crying mixed in the wind became louder and louder, clearer and clearer.

Such a sight, let alone those Constables, even the Commandant was secretly shocked when he saw it.

What was in the backyard of this house, the Commandant was of course clear. But just now, he was busy chasing Xiao Fen and that Daoist Yuan, so he was somewhat negligent for a moment. At this time, he was truly riding a tiger and found it hard to get off. He had to proceed. After the wind stopped, the Commandant raised his hand and said: “Do not panic, do not panic. It is just that evildoer causing trouble. Kill the evildoer, and naturally everything will be clean. Everyone, follow me. To serve the Emperor is today.”

At this point, the Commandant had softened his stance. He no longer called the Constables “boys”, but called them “everyone”. However, such arrogance followed by humility made many Constables even more inclined to retreat. One by one, they tremblingly followed behind this Commandant, slowly walking into the middle courtyard of this house.

That Commandant was also experienced. Entering the middle courtyard, he immediately began to assign tasks. Someone go search the wing rooms, someone climb the tree and roof to look, someone be careful and guard, and so on. For a time, it was quite orderly.

Plus, that gloomy wind did not continue later. In the dilapidated house, for a time, there was nothing too terrifying. So gradually, the Constables who entered were slightly relieved, just thinking to make a hasty search and be done with it.

In less than the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the Constables reported back one after another. No evildoer was seen in the middle courtyard, nor on the roof.

“Only the backyard cannot be searched. Everyone, please proceed bravely.”

Hearing the Commandant’s words, everyone cursed secretly in their hearts. They did not move their bodies, only looking at the Commandant with their eyes, waiting for the Commandant to go first and continue towards the back door.

The Commandant was also extremely annoyed in his heart. If it were not for those few White Lotus Sect remnants acting recklessly earlier and rushing to the front, being designed and killed by the person standing on the middle gate just now, where would there be so many troublesome matters now.