Chapter 95: Cutting the Weeds and Digging Up the Roots

"Constable Fang, Magistrate Shen, do you feel your limbs growing weak and numb, your Inner Energy gradually fading away? So much for the 'Peerless Duo of Zither and Sword,' you are nothing more than this!"

Saying this, Ye Yu could not help but laugh out loud, his voice filled with an indescribable sense of triumph.

He had heard that this Magistrate Shen had defeated a master at the Xiantian Perfection realm, but so what? He had still fallen into his trap. The so-called 'Peerless Duo of Zither and Sword' were now nothing but lambs waiting for the slaughter.

"When did this happen!" He had the anti-toxin Jade Bead on his person, yet the bead had not changed color; how could he possibly be poisoned? And yet, the strange sensation in his body was telling him, truly and surely, that he had been poisoned!

"What, you seem very surprised. To tell you the truth, I smeared a Secret Medicine on the teacups I served you. The medicine itself is non-toxic and harmless, but if combined with the juice of the Yi grass added to the oil lamps, it naturally becomes a deadly poison!"

"Yi grass juice is usually added to candles or incense to repel insects. So, even if the oil lamps contained Yi grass juice, you wouldn't have paid it any mind, never realizing you had already fallen into my control!"

"No wonder!" He had relied too much on the anti-toxin Jade Bead; this thing was not omnipotent. At the very least, it could not detect these substances that were non-toxic on their own. Yet, when these non-toxic things were combined, they produced an unexpected effect.

It was not just Shen Yu and Fang Ziyi; every other constable present had fallen for it without exception, each of them paralyzed on the ground with weak limbs. It looked like this fellow intended to wipe them all out in one go.

Struggling to prop himself up, Fang Ziyi shouted in disbelief, "Constable Ye, why?"

"Why, you ask why! I have served the Capture Gate for forty years, dedicating my entire life to it. But in the end, what did I get? Aside from enemies everywhere, I have nothing left!"

At this moment, Ye Yu outside the stone door suddenly laughed again, though this time his laughter carried a hint of desolation. "My family all died in the retaliation of those enemies, and my friends and relatives avoid me like the plague!"

"Now that I am nearly sixty, the people at the Capture Gate think I am old and useless, and they want to kick me aside. On what grounds? You tell me, on what grounds!"

"Constable Ye, you have misunderstood. The Master's intention was to hope you could spend your later years in peace, without having to engage in killing anymore..."

"Bullshit!" Directly and rudely interrupting Fang Ziyi, Ye Yu did not believe him, or rather, he was unwilling to believe him.

Such a large sum of money had long ago caused him to abandon all his integrity and faith, but a person must always find an excuse to comfort themselves, even if it was just fooling oneself!

"Constable Fang, my apologies. Although we were colleagues, I have no choice! Blame yourself for being too diligent. Why work so hard for the Capture Gate? Now that others are paying a high price for your life, I can only say I'm sorry!"

"Constable Ye, Constable Ye!" At this moment, a shout came from an Iron Badge Constable nearby, "You want to kill them, but that has nothing to do with us!"

"Damn it!" Cursing inwardly, Shen Yu glanced back at Fang Ziyi. What kind of people does the Capture Gate recruit? Selling out their teammates at a critical moment without the slightest hesitation—the integrity of your Capture Gate is truly worrying!

"Haha!" This remark made Ye Yu outside laugh wildly again. After a long while, he said coldly, "Since I have decided to act, I must naturally cut the weeds and dig up the roots. I still want to take the money and live under an assumed name; I cannot leave behind any hidden dangers!"

After speaking, Ye Yu pressed a Mechanism outside, and a large amount of liquid suddenly poured out from the ground, quickly filling the secret chamber.

"Not good, it's lamp oil!" Everyone's expression changed drastically. With such a narrow secret chamber filled with lamp oil, one didn't need to be told what the outcome would be.

Once a spark fell into it, it would instantly become a sea of fire. Even if everyone here wasn't burned to death, they would be suffocated to death; there would be no other outcome!

"Goodbye, everyone!" Ye Yu outside smiled lightly and touched the Mechanism next to him. A spark appeared in the secret chamber, instantly igniting the lamp oil.

The raging fire rose up, as if to burn everything to ashes!

After doing all this, Ye Yu left calmly. He was a kind person, and he couldn't bear to hear the struggles and wails of those near death. Besides, he didn't believe that a group of people who had lost all their Martial Arts could escape from a sea of fire.

"Help!"

"Let me out!"

Facing the threat of death, the secret chamber was already in chaos. Even though these were the elites of the Capture Gate, it was impossible for them to look past Life and Death and face it calmly.

The wailing and angry cursing filled his ears, making Shen Yu feel a surge of irritation. He then roared, "Shut up, all of you, and get back!"

"Heaven Frost Fist!" Endless cold air radiated from Shen Yu's fists, and the terrifying chill brought by the invisible force almost enveloped everything, instantly making people feel as if they had entered the dead of winter.

The terrifying flames that had just seemed to burn everything were instantly extinguished by the cold air, leaving only a thick layer of frost on the ground.

"This, this..." The scene before them left everyone dumbfounded. Although Shen Yu had only made a single move, it was enough for them to feel the terrifying pressure that came in that instant.

This person is terrifying!

"Magistrate Shen, the poison in your body..."

"Hmph, it's just some insignificant poison; a little bit of effort and it's cleared!"

"A little bit of effort?" Fang Ziyi raised an eyebrow slightly. Listen to that, is that human talk? Open your eyes and look: everyone except you is paralyzed on the side with numb limbs, and you call this insignificant?

"Magistrate Shen, what are you going to do?" Just as they were eagerly waiting for Shen Yu to detoxify them, he walked straight to the stone door and began to study it. After a long while, he pulled a thin, long iron needle from somewhere and inserted it into the gap.

"Wait, you also understand Mechanism Arts?" This scene looked ridiculous in Fang Ziyi's eyes. It was one thing not to help them detoxify, but why pretend to be a Master of Mechanisms? Was that something an ordinary person could play with?

"I know a little!" While testing the contact with these Mechanisms, Shen Yu answered nonchalantly.

The other party's answer was beyond Fang Ziyi's expectations. What surprised him even more was that he seemed to hear the *click-clack* sound of the Mechanism moving. Wait, no—if that sound was an illusion, then the stone door opening bit by bit before his eyes couldn't be an illusion too.

This really was Mechanism Arts, and the level of attainment was definitely not low. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to break the Mechanism directly with a thin steel needle!

At this moment, he couldn't help but look up at Shen Yu again. The more he interacted with him, the more he found he couldn't understand this County Magistrate. The man seemed to be hidden in a fog, always able to provide unexpected surprises.

It would be one thing if his Martial Arts were high, but his medical skills were also terrifyingly strong—one could tolerate that since medicine and martial arts are inseparable. But to even understand such a niche subject as Mechanism Arts, one could only look up to him.

We are all human, so why are you the only one standing out?

As the stone door opened, Shen Yu ran out quickly, leaving behind a group of people staring at each other in dismay. Had this Magistrate forgotten about them? The poison in their bodies hadn't been cleared yet!

At this time, Shen Yu was holding the Yuanhong sword, striding outward. Since this Silver Badge Constable named Ye Yu dared to plot against him, he shouldn't blame him for being heartless; he wasn't planning to sheath his sword until it was stained with some of his blood.

"This money can certainly be given to you, but are you really sure they are already dead?"

When Shen Yu was about to reach the outside, a burst of conversation suddenly came from outside, making him subconsciously stop in his tracks. Holding his breath, he carefully lay in ambush.

"Rest assured, they have now been buried in a sea of fire; they are absolutely as dead as can be! What you promised me..."

"Don't worry, you'll get every bit of it. Here are five hundred thousand taels in silver notes; count them yourself!"

"Five hundred thousand taels?" Hearing this number, Shen Yu inside could not help but gasp. No wonder Ye Yu couldn't hold back; for such a large sum of money, let alone integrity, he would even sell his chastity!

"Many thanks!" Taking the silver notes from the other party, Ye Yu outside licked his fingers and began to count them. Gradually, his complexion turned more and more purple, then blacker and blacker, yet he himself was unaware of it. By the time he realized it, everything was already too late.

"Something's wrong, there's poison on these silver notes, you, you actually..."

"What 'you' what? Are you stupid? To cut the weeds and dig up the roots, I naturally have to get rid of you too, so that everything is foolproof! Besides, if I kill you, I don't have to pay a single cent!"