I become a god in another world

Chapter 506 Discussing Stay or Go
No. 506

Zhu Guangling's eyes were cold and his tone was calm:
"Take this woman and this child away."

He pointed at Chen Duozi and Kuai Manzhou.

Perhaps due to the influence of ghosts, his mind is actually somewhat disordered.

Especially under the heavy pressure at this time, the truth about the human-skin ghost hit his defenses and made him confused for a while.

He combined the current crisis with the situation when he was just born.

He no longer remembers his childhood memories. All his knowledge of the disintegration of his family and the suffering he suffered came from what his sister-in-law and clan members had told him.

According to his clansmen and sister-in-law, a ghost plague broke out in Yuzhou, and his father and brother died in the plague. He was still an infant. His sister-in-law, as a young widow, made a hasty and embarrassed decision: sell off all her property at a low price and flee Yuzhou with him.

Zhu Guangling, in a trance, associated Shangyang County with the ghost disaster in Yuzhou that year.

When Zhao Fusheng asked him this, he subconsciously let Chen Duozi and Kuai Manzhou go because Chen Duozi was the youngest among the crowd, and her identity was a metaphor for his sister-in-law, while Kuai Manzhou meant the child.

After he finished speaking, Zhao Fusheng sighed:
"Master Zhu——"

"Go right now."

Zhu Guangling said stubbornly.

Zhao Fusheng shook his head:
"What if I say that I don't want to leave by myself, but want to take all my people with me?"

"No."

Zhu Guangling flatly refused:
"I can't resist the human-skinned ghost mother. I need someone to help me contain it."

The selflessness and selfishness of human nature are all displayed in him at this moment.

Faced with the ghost disaster, he made a choice again.

He wanted to let Zhao Fusheng go because through a brief contact, he realized that Zhao Fusheng was powerful, but she still had humanity, and that she was restrained by ethics and reason. If such a person survived, she would definitely accept his favor and protect his sister-in-law and clan members.

But he was unwilling to let go of the ghost rider who was traveling with Zhao Fusheng.

Because these people can also play a certain role in the upcoming ghost disaster.

Even if they cannot subdue the human-skin ghost mother, as long as they can restrain the evil ghost for a moment and relieve his burden for a moment, that will be enough.

"It doesn't matter what you say."

Zhao Fusheng shook his head:
"We are from Wan'an County's Demon Suppression Division. If we want to leave, we leave together. If we want to stay, we stay together."

Her demeanor gradually became stronger, and she looked at Ding Datong:

"Datong is from Changping County. His duty is to escort the ghost fetus and meet with Lord Xie in the imperial capital. Now that his mission has been completed, he can leave."

"no!"

Zhu Guangling refused to give in:
"I won't let him go! You go! You take the others away!"

"It's useless for you to say that. My words are final." Zhao Fusheng's tone also turned cold and hard:

"Datong, pack your things immediately."

Zhu Guangling's face turned visibly darker, water began to seep from his nose, eyes, and ears, and he looked deathly-looking.

The temperature in the teahouse dropped suddenly.

Water began to seep out of the ground. The stove that was previously burning fiercely was extinguished by the powerful resentful aura of the evil spirit, and the boiling tea in the pot on the stove immediately cooled down.

There were dark clouds floating in the sky, and it looked like a storm was about to come.

"You must leave Shangyang County immediately, and no one else is allowed to leave!"

Zhu Guangling said coldly.

He appeared as a ghost and tried to force Zhao Fusheng to surrender.

Zhao Fusheng sneered, and suddenly became rebellious, and stood up as well:

"Am I afraid of you?"

The ghost disaster in Shangyang County is complicated now, so she has to use her merit points sparingly.

Therefore, Zhao Fusheng wanted to summon the evil ghosts who gave first and took later and the beggar ghosts to support the scene, but it turned out that the ghosts also bullied the good and feared the evil - under the terrible intimidation of Zhu Guangling's robbery-level evil ghost, the two disaster-level evil ghosts she controlled were completely crushed and could not be summoned no matter what.

"..."

We can lose the battle but not the battle. Zhao Fusheng raised his voice:

"Zhu Guangling, there are some things that you can't decide on your own! You don't have the power to decide who lives and who dies!"

The two men battled with words and momentum, neither of them giving in.

The sun was shining brightly in Qingzhengfang one moment, and the next moment dark clouds gathered, as if a storm was about to come.

Liu Yequan was waiting downstairs in Ding'an Tower. When he heard the thunder outside, a bad premonition came to his mind.

"This - this is Lord Zhu, Lord Zhu lost - lost -" Liu Yequan stuttered twice. He vaguely guessed that Zhu Guangling had lost control.

But he didn't dare say such words.

Zhu Guangling is very powerful and can control ghosts. If he loses control, the consequences will be disastrous.

But everything was normal when Lord Zhu came in the morning. What happened during that time? Why did it start to rain out of the blue?
What exactly happened in the teahouse on the rooftop?
He was anxious to know the truth.

At this moment, Zhang Chuanshi rushed out of the room in a rage:
"It's thundering, it's thundering——"

"What on earth is going on? Why is there thunder——"

He muttered words.

As soon as Liu Yequan saw him, a plan came to his mind:

"Old man, maybe the adults in the teahouse got angry during their conversation. Let's go and take a look."

The two came together, and as soon as they reached the roof, they saw Zhu Guangling and Zhao Fusheng confronting each other. Both sides were equally matched in momentum and neither of them gave in.

"You go." Zhu Guangling insisted.

"I do not go!"

Zhao Fusheng shook his head.

Ding Datong was caught in the middle, and Zhu Guangling looked at him as if he wanted to kill him on the spot.

"My two lords, please talk to each other in a nice way. Why get so angry——"

When Liu Yequan saw this, he bent his back, swayed his hands, and quickly stepped forward, trying to persuade with a sad face:
"You two are both reasonable people—"

Zhang Chuanshi approached with confusion:

"Meng Po, what happened?"

Meng Po said:
"There are human-skinned mother and child ghosts in Shangyang County. The mother ghost was previously controlled by Zang Xiongshan's ghost eyeball and fell into a dormant state. Lord Zhu misjudged the situation and thought that the only thorny problem in Shangyang County was the ghosts—"

Zhang Chuanshi had previously escaped under the pretext of going to the bathroom, and was not aware of the details of the conversation.

When he heard Meng Po's words, his face froze.

When he heard the words 'human-skin mother and child ghosts', his eyes revealed a complex expression.

Meng Po was still talking, he murmured:

"It's not a devil, it's a girl——"

Meng Po looked in the direction of Zhao Fusheng worriedly. She was afraid that Zhu Guangling had an unpredictable temperament and might be affected by the evil spirit and lose control, which would be detrimental to Zhao Fusheng.

Zhu Guangling has already revealed his ghost form, but Zhao Fusheng hasn't known why and hasn't summoned the door gods to protect him yet. She is worried that Zhao Fusheng will suffer, so she focuses most of her attention on this aspect.

When Zhang Chuanshi muttered to himself, she just let his mumbling pass by her ears and did not really listen to it into her consciousness.

Only after he finished speaking did Meng Po turn around and look at him:

"Xiao Zhang, what are you mumbling about?"

"No, it's okay." Zhang Chuanshi lowered his head.

Meng Po didn't want to guess what he was thinking at this moment, so she continued:

"The situation got out of control last night. Lord Zhu said that the human-skinned ghost mother is very likely to revive—"

Her words caused Zhang Chuanshi's expression to change immediately, but Meng Po didn't notice:
"In this case, the situation is more dangerous than expected. Master Zhu wants you to take Duozi and Manzhou away first, and we will stay behind to cover your rear."

After she said this, Zhang Chuanshi said nothing.

Meng Po was worried about Zhao Fusheng at first, but after a while she felt something was wrong.

She turned her head suddenly:

"Xiao Zhang, are you feeling unwell?" she asked in surprise and concern.

Zhang Chuanshi forced a smile:
"No, no, I can eat and sleep well, and I am alive and well. What's wrong with me?" "That's not right."

Meng Po asked in confusion: "You didn't even ask to leave first with Chen Niangzi and the others—"

Zhang Chuanshi was silent for a while, and did not answer her question, but asked back:

"Where is the master? Has the master agreed to leave?"

Meng Po always thought his expression was strange, but after hearing what he said, she shook her head:
"No, the master doesn't want to leave." She sighed:

"You know the temper of the adults. How could she leave us here to die? She left alone--"

When she said this, her eyes showed a kind, gentle and somewhat compassionate look:
"What the lord meant was that Lord Ding was not from Wan'an County. Lord Ding and others had completed their mission and asked them to leave first. Lord Zhu did not allow it, and that's when the two sides had a dispute."

After Meng Po explained this, Zhang Chuanshi and Liu Ye all understood.

Liu Yequan did not expect the situation to be so serious at first. When he heard that the mother and son ghosts in human skin in the Demon Suppression Bureau were about to revive, his face turned pale with fright. At this time, he no longer had the mind to stop the fight. He was thinking about how to escape from this ghost disaster.

"Master Zhu, I have parents and children to take care of. Please let me go. I will go to the capital and take care of your family for you."

His legs went weak and he spoke in a trembling voice.

Zhu Guangling ignored him and just looked at Zhao Fusheng:
"You go, take the children and women with you."

Zhao Fusheng shook his head:
"I told you, I'm not leaving. No one from the Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division is leaving. Ding Datong and his men are not from Wan'an County. His mission was to deliver the ghost fetus. Now that the ghost fetus has been delivered, his mission is complete. Let him go to the capital to report the news."

Zhu Guangling was about to speak when Zhao Fusheng sighed and raised his hand to interrupt him:

"Master Zhu, this is not the time for us to act rashly. Now that a catastrophe is imminent, if the evil spirit revives, we need to work together to capture your ghost. There is no need to waste our energy at this time."

Her words had an effect.

Zhu Guangling slowly controlled his evil spirit power. The thunder stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the moisture from the ground seeped deep into the earth.

The dead look on Zhu Guangling's face disappeared, but his expression remained stiff:

"You can't imagine how terrifying the human-skinned ghost mother is."

"I can imagine."

Zhao Fusheng nodded:
"I dealt with them last night. The power of the two human-skinned ghosts was amazing. Over the past forty years, the ghost minions of the human-skinned ghosts devoured dozens of generals—"

Zhu Guangling listened to her and added:
"Not only the generals, but also other ghost riders who accompanied them."

"In short, the human-skin mother and child ghost has many minions, and each of them is very powerful." Zhao Fusheng said:

"Being able to control these ghost minions proves that the Human Skin Ghost Mother's rank is definitely higher than her ghost minions."

"Yes!"

Zhu Guangling was afraid that she didn't understand the key point, so she wanted to stay without knowing her place.

Seeing that she was conscious and speaking clearly, he said:

"It's far above disaster level! If you stay, you will surely die."

"I see."

When Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, Zhu Guangling didn't understand:
"If you understand, why bother staying here to die?"

His arrangement was to save Zhao Fusheng's life. She was a smart person, didn't she know that?

"It's not certain whether you will die or not."

Zhao Fusheng smiled.

When disaster was imminent, Zhu Guangling didn't know how she could smile.

"We are all ghost riders, why should we kill each other? You can't drive me away. Once we fight, both sides will suffer losses." Zhao Fusheng saw that his expression softened and couldn't help but say:
"The most urgent task is to join forces and solve the problem in Shangyang County first."

Zhu Guangling's expression was uncertain:
"I want to take back my previous judgment of you, Lord Zhao. You don't seem to be very smart."

Zhao Fusheng was not angry at his words.

She sat back in her original position, beckoned Liu Yequan to come forward and change the water to make tea, and then said:
"I don't need others to judge whether I am smart or not. I know what I should do."

Zhu Guangling was angry:
"If you stay, you will die. You should be a good ghost rider. You are still rational and it is too early for you to lose control. Even if you go to the capital, you will definitely be a great general needed by the Demon Suppression Department of the imperial court—"

Zhao Fusheng did not comment on his comments:

"We are the ghost riders of the Demon Suppression Department."

"So what?" Zhu Guangling was puzzled.

Zhao Fusheng said:

"Ghost riders are a high wall of protection against ghosts standing in front of the public. The stronger I am, the more I should stay here. If I run away, who will be left to face the evil spirits? The people?"

"..." Zhu Guangling didn't respond, but from his past choices, everyone had already guessed his answer.

"You let me go because you trust my character and believe that I will accept your kindness." Zhao Fusheng smiled and said:
"But if I really leave at this time, would you be confident in handing over your people to me?"

Zhu Guangling's lips moved, and then he sighed:

"Do your best and obey destiny."

Seeing that he looked stubborn, Zhao Fusheng shook his head and stopped trying to persuade him.

Similarly, in Zhu Guangling's heart, he probably thought she was stubborn, old-fashioned, and probably didn't know how to live or die.

Both sides were silent for a while, and Zhao Fusheng looked at Ding Datong:

"You heard what happened just now. I won't say much. The situation here is dangerous. It is no longer suitable for the Lu family to stay here."

Fear flashed in Ding Datong's eyes.

He is a ghost rider, and his fear of ghosts is deep in his bones. He had to face the human-skin ghost himself last night. In front of such a fierce ghost, the ghosts he controls did not react at all - they were completely suppressed.

The ghost seen last night was just one of the ghost minions of the human-skin mother and child ghost. According to Zhu Guangling, there are more than dozens of such ghost minions in Shangyang County.

If he forced himself to stay, he would surely die.

Tao Lifang and Hu Rong were also scared.

Zhao Fusheng proposed to let the three of them go at this time, obviously wanting to give them a way out.

Ding Datong felt both grateful and ashamed. His heart was pounding and for a moment he was so angry that he wanted to impulsively say that he wanted to stay too.

But thinking of the terrifying evil spirit, he still didn't dare.

The desire to survive overwhelmed his impulsiveness, and he suddenly felt a heavy weight in his heart:
"grown ups--"

"Don't come here with all this crying and whining."

Zhao Fusheng frowned and shouted:
"Do you still want me to comfort you at this moment?!"

Ding Datong immediately lowered his head in shame and guilt.

"Take the Lu family and Li Dongping away for me—"

As soon as Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, Chen Duozi suddenly spoke up:
"My lord, I won't leave."

"Don't make trouble!"

Zhao Fusheng frowned and scolded, then softened his tone:
"To be honest, Madam Chen, your evil spirit is special. I originally planned to take you back to Wan'an County after this trip to the Imperial Capital—"

Her words made the terrified Liu Yequan couldn't help but turn his head to look at Chen Duozi - this woman looked pretty and ordinary, like an ordinary person, but no one expected that she was also a ghost rider.

It seems that this group of people are full of hidden talents. Fortunately, what happened last night was finally resolved peacefully. Otherwise, if they really offended Zhao Fusheng and his group and beat him to death, it seems that Zhu Guangling would not avenge him.

He was a little scared.

When Chen Duozi heard what Zhao Fusheng said, tears welled up in her eyes:

"I thought so too, but I was afraid that I was useless, so I didn't dare to mention it to the adults. I, I——"

"you listen to me."

Zhao Fusheng interrupted her:

"You are not in the Demon Suppression Division now. Although you can control ghosts, you are just an ordinary person. This matter has nothing to do with you. You have a family, a son, and a mother. This time you follow Ding Datong and others to the capital. With your ability to control ghosts, the Lu family will not have to worry about food and drink in the future, and will always live a rich life."

Chen Duozi choked up.

This kind of life was what she had always dreamed of, but for some reason, when she thought about still taking care of her husband and children, serving her family, and spending her whole life in the room and the kitchen, she didn't feel happy at all.

"I won't leave." She couldn't explain why, but just said stubbornly:

"Sir, please don't try to persuade me. I can't be persuaded. Since you said that you want to take me back to Wan'an County, I will just treat me as a member of the Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division. If we want to stay, we stay together. If we want to leave, we leave together."

A similar conversation between Zhu Guangling and Zhao Fusheng happened again, except that the people speaking were different.

I have something to do today. I have to run around outside all day. I may not have time to write. I will probably take a day off tomorrow~~~