[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday":3,"chapter-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-96":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2225154,4113,"Chapter 96: Fraudulent Corpse","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-96",96,"\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng’s voice was low, echoing in the alley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone felt a chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Miao border, far from the Central Plains, has been different from the Central Plains customs since ancient times. In the Great Shu, it was only a loose control, and it did not live with the Han people, and there was little contact and trade on weekdays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after that incident fifteen years ago, the Miao border almost became a forbidden area. If you broke in for no reason, not to mention whether you would be harmed by witchcraft, I’m afraid that in a few days, the Embroidered Uniform Guard would come to the door to interrogate you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, even if the people present were all mixed in the Southern Paojianghu, and many of them were in the Huguang region, not far from the Miao border. But the understanding of the Miao border and the Miao people was actually quite small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The less you know, the more you will have fantasies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, the Qingcheng Sect leader spoke: \"Leader Lao, are you a bit worried?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sacrificing livestock is something that happens in our Central Plains. It may not necessarily lead to human sacrifice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng sighed: \"Well, it’s best if I worry too much. It’s just that witchcraft is prevalent in the Miao border, bloody and strange, and the proportion of flesh and blood and raw sacrifice inside is not low. It is common for witchcraft to appear in this Miao King’s tomb.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway, there is only one road to go, and we will naturally know the result later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone had no other way to go, so they had to bite the bullet, light torches and secretly guard, and walk forward carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao and the other three still followed at the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone walked forward for one or two hundred meters, and stopped their steps one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng’s guess was confirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the walls on both sides, human skeletons appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those skeletons were not even scattered, but in complete styles, with various movements, and even a few skeletons’ finger bones stretched out of the wall, revealing a few knuckles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if they were poured into the wall while they were still alive. Struggling to stretch out a hand, they were suffocated inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paojianghu experts are not afraid of seeing blood, not afraid of swords. But encountering this situation, they couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, someone lifted their feet and walked forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone followed in silence, walked a distance forward, and their hearts sank deeper and deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distribution of skeletons on the wall has a fixed distance, about two or three feet. These skeletons correspond to the size of the animal’s body, and they are also arranged from small to large, so Lao Qifeng can make the judgment that \"human skeletons may appear later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the previous rules, after human skeletons, there should be skeletons of larger livestock such as cattle and horses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the human skeletons, there are skeletons of sheep-headed human bodies, human-bodied sheep hooves, human-headed sheep horns, all pieced together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are all ferocious, like living things, stretching out their limbs from the wall, as if to grab everyone’s sleeves and drag them into the wall together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng was silent for a while, and smiled bitterly: \"I guessed wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at this meaning, the skeletons behind are afraid that they are all mixed with humans and other livestock.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Human sheep, human pigs, human dogs, human chickens, human mice...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From the stone wall to here, it is from small to large, and then it should be from large to small. When we reach the place where humans and mouse skeletons are mixed, we should have reached the end of this road.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one responded to him, and even Lao Qifeng was just talking to vent his inner emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone walked forward, and the situation of the two walls was exactly the same as Lao Qifeng’s guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people present were all martial arts masters, at least second-rate, and at this moment they subconsciously quickened their pace, and walked to the end of this road in a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What came into view was a double-opening stone door, with no mechanism around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng looked at it for a while, turned his head to look at Li Miao, who had been leisurely following behind, occasionally talking and laughing with Yongjie and Yin Minjun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hero Li, is it convenient to come and see what mechanism this is, and can it be opened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao heard his greeting, but smiled: \"Leader Lao, there is no mechanism, it is just a stone door that can be pushed open at will.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The alley is narrow, so I won't squeeze over, you push it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng didn't want to open this door with his own hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the situation ahead, this place is strange, and I can't guarantee that the first person to open the door will encounter something, so he used the excuse of the mechanism to want Li Miao to open this door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Miao pushed it away, clearly seeing his intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng had spoken and given orders many times before, and at this moment he had vaguely established a dominant position among the crowd. If he didn't do it at this time, and forced others to open this door, he would be afraid that he would lose his previous efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Lao Qifeng gritted his teeth, operated the hard-body technique on his body, and internal energy surged to his feet, ready to dodge at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did he reach out and press on the stone door, starting to exert force to push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumbling—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone door made a sound and slowly opened a gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for the stale air and dust coming from inside, there was no other abnormality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Lao Qifeng also let go of his heart a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A change occurred!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!!——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scream suddenly sounded from the crowd!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lao Qifeng turned his head abruptly and looked in the direction of the sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I saw a Qingcheng Sect disciple, who was lying on the ground at this time, making a painful cry, covering his ankles with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From between his fingers, blue-black blood kept gushing out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qingcheng Sect leader flashed forward, pointed at the side of the disciple’s neck, wanting to control him first, and then check the injury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who would have thought that just as his fingertips reached the side of the disciple, the disciple suddenly lost his breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, he lost his life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s going on, who saw it!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a hurry, Lao Qifeng shouted abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recognized this Qingcheng Sect disciple; he was a second-rate expert from a major sect among the crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, even if he was the weakest, he was a real second-rate expert from a major sect! Even if he made a move himself, it would take three or five moves to take him down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he lose his life so easily after just crying out in pain and struggling on the ground for three or four breaths!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Miao King’s tomb is really strange! I should have considered it carefully before coming in!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qingcheng Sect leader’s hand had not yet been withdrawn, and he was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second-rate is the backbone of the sect. At this moment, one died inexplicably, and it was right in front of his eyes, which made him sad and angry?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when he was still stunned, in an instant, a figure appeared in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar!——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three sounds overlapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qingcheng Sect leader retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, the dead Qingcheng Sect disciple actually sat up abruptly, opened his mouth, and bit at his fingers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not injured because someone beside him reached out and slapped his hand away, letting the disciple’s teeth bite into the air. It even made a \"click\" sound of teeth colliding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up at the person who slapped his hand away, and it was Li Miao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk, there’s more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Miao looked at the headless corpse and punched its head.\u003C\u002Fp>",1382,"2026-06-17T21:41:15.265Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","770d3f74c9517df7a0aaa3796bbbec7d1d50b51952bba9e13faec1ed95b26eb5","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-97","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-95",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]