Chapter 133: All Dead (Part 2)

The philosopher Zhang Gui liked most in his previous life was named Rousseau.

This person was dissolute all his life, liked women, and never cared for his own children.

Whenever he had them, he sent them to an orphanage, letting them fend for themselves.

This kind of human nature can be described as extremely trashy and heartless.

But strangely, he wrote great philosophical treatises,

and openly defended his behavior of abandoning his wife and children,

"I am busy loving the world, so I cannot love my wife, lovers, and children!"

If it were anyone else with such shameless words and deeds, Zhang Gui would inevitably sneer.

But changing it to Rousseau, he seemed to understand a little; it was definitely not agreement, just understanding.

Just because Zhang Gui himself was also a 'two-faced person' who was willing to stand on the moral high ground and treat the masses with fairness, benevolence, and universal love,

yet rarely forgave 'people' in the individual sense, and was even a 'two-faced person' who would report every slight.

So if it weren't for knowing that there was a Mr. Yin in Prince Zhen's camp whom he absolutely could not contend with at this moment,

the first time Zhang Gui met Lü Zhenduan, he would have already used the 'Fate Meets Gray-Black' Divine Cluster to link with divine authority and also perform a sneak attack of impermanent death to avenge Prince Zhen's secret killing of Li Yunbo.

However, although Lü Zhenduan, as Prince Zhen's classmate, was extremely easy to trigger serious consequences of 'the rabbit dies and the fox grieves' due to his special status, he could not be killed for the time being.

But others, especially those traitors who jumped from Zhang Gui's command to Prince Zhen's camp, killing them would not cause much trouble.

Ancient sages of the Dongsheng Continent said, "Those pointed at by a thousand people will die without illness."

And traitors who 'offend their superiors and betray their masters' can be called 'pointed at by a thousand people' in the eyes of the vast majority of people.

Even if they occupy the righteousness, as long as they are not publicly executed, if they die inexplicably, they die.

Two hours later, it was still the main hall of the old camp yamen in Zhihai Town.

Lü Zhenduan looked at the dozen or so corpses on the ground, their vivid faces constantly flashing in his mind.

His face became greener and greener.

And even worse than his complexion was the old doctor who had been invited back to the camp yamen, along with his four or five shivering colleagues.

"Can you doctors see anything unusual about these corpses?"

Hearing the question from the master of the hall, the doctors looked at each other, and finally, the old doctor said with a dry voice:

"Zaicheng Lü, these subordinates of yours all died accidentally; there is, there is nothing unusual."

Lü Zhenduan asked expressionlessly again:

"Ten people, ten different ways of dying, and all are accidents.

Doctor Wei, you have been practicing medicine for decades; have you ever seen such a strange thing?"

Sweat seeped out of the old doctor's forehead, and he stammered, shaking his head:

"That, I have not; such a strange thing, let alone seen, I have never even heard of it.

If it were said that many people died in a few hours, that would not be strange.

More than twenty years ago, when I was practicing medicine in the Northern Frontier, I encountered the Heyang plague.

It was common for the living in the whole city to become corpses overnight; it was truly terrifying.

But for a group of people to meet their deaths one by one is simply too inconceivable."

"Since you know it is inconceivable, why do you still use such words to fob me off!"

Lü Zhenduan roared in a rage.

Zhang Gui gave him a head-on blow as soon as he returned.

Immediately afterward, so many subordinates died.

And he was completely suppressed by Zhang Gui in the name of the Longhu Shogunate; without these defected generals, he also lost the hub to command the soldiers.

Plus, even a fool knew that there was something tricky about the cause of death of these people.

Various pressures finally tore apart the elegant demeanor of this Imperial Academy student.

The old doctor shivered and said tremblingly:

"My Lord, calm your anger, calm your anger.

This matter is so strange, I am afraid, I am afraid it is not illness or disaster, or internal or external injury that caused death.

But, it is that they have encountered evil and met ghosts.

It is useless for you to find us doctors.

You have to find a gentleman who can avoid bad luck and seek good fortune to be the right medicine.

There is such a person at the pier now.

It is said that he is the first disciple of Master Liu Wuchang of the Siyang Commandery Merit Hall, named Liu Zaisheng.

He is young but looks old, has a strange face, and has quite a bit of research on numerology.

Why not invite him to try."

Hearing that he was kicking the ball, but things had come to this, and several doctors couldn't see any results even if they were beaten to death.

Lü Zhenduan could only nod calmly and send someone to invite the so-called 'first disciple of Master Liu Wuchang of the Siyang Commandery Merit Hall'.

It was just treating a dead horse as a living one.

But what he didn't know was that at this time, there was a subordinate with wide-open eyes, bloodshot eyes, and a deathly aura on his face, who was also 'begging' Liu Zaisheng to exorcise evil and save his life.

Zhihai Town Pier Commercial Square Diagonal Street.

In a two-story stone house with a black-bottomed, gold-edged plaque with the four characters 'Small Merit Room' hanging on the door.

A man wearing a cyan hemp robe, thin as a stick, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, who looked like an old man but actually claimed to be no more than thirty years old, stared at the young guest with a gloomy face for a long time.

At the same time, his fingers were constantly calculating.

"Mr. Zaisheng, haven't you calculated this yet? The last time I had my fortune told, it didn't take this long!"

The young man who had his fortune told was named Han Dafu, who had an older brother named Han Futai and a cousin named Zhou Shengge.

Initially, they were all deputy hundred-man commanders of the Longhu Shogunate.

Later, Zhang Gui disappeared, and Lü Zhenduan took over as the Shogunate Zaicheng.

Zhou Shengge, who considered himself shrewd, took Han Futai and Han Dafu to the 'Small Merit Room' to have their fortunes told.

They got the sign 'Great Fortune Only If You Start Anew'.

So he incited the two Han brothers to betray their master and defect to the enemy.

But no matter how he instigated, the older brother Han Futai remained loyal to Zhang Gui.

The younger brother Han Dafu, however, was moved, and eventually joined Prince Zhen's camp with Zhou Shengge.

As a result, both of them were promoted smoothly afterward.

But they didn't expect that after only a few days of good life, disaster suddenly struck.

Not to mention others, just say that Zhou Shengge was walking properly when he accidentally slipped.

His left leg tripped over his right leg, and he fell headfirst, actually breaking his spine on the spot, and fell to the ground as a corpse.

This scared Han Dafu, who was on the scene, almost out of his soul.

In half a day, the 'righteous brothers' they had just sworn to were suddenly dead one after another.

To say it wasn't strange, that would truly be strange!

Han Dafu thought back and remembered Liu Zaisheng, who had told him 'Great Fortune Only If You Start Anew'.

So he ran to the 'Small Merit Room' to avoid disaster or settle accounts.

Because it concerned his life, and he was anxious and angry, his speech lacked the politeness and patience of the last time he simply sought divination and asked about his fate.

"Now ten people have died one after another like this.

I won't even mention my cousin Zhou Shengge; the others, Qian Wanbao, Liu Fu, and it seems Feng Yingsheng, I heard they all came to you to have their fortunes told.

And they were all top signs.

But now they are all dead.

You have to give an explanation!"

Facing Han Dafu's full face of ferocity, Liu Zaisheng didn't seem to care at all and said leisurely:

"Don't be impatient; impatience won't get you hot tofu.

Alright, it's calculated; your fate is offended by Tai Sui, and wait, wait, wait, wait!

You, you, are you really one of the three generals who came to me for divination a few days ago?"

By the end, he had lost his initial calmness, and his tone was obviously much more urgent.

At the same time, Liu Zaisheng's face also became solemn.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 134 =====