Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 910 Brothel Notes
The dilapidated brothel was filled with a chilling atmosphere, and a cold wind blew through the hall, making an eerie howling sound.

The red paint on the door frame had peeled off, revealing holes from insects. A tattered gauze curtain hung on the broken carved railing, and the floor was covered with dust and suspicious stains.

Tap, tap tap...

Footsteps echoed down the stairs. Looking up, one could see a pair of delicate embroidered shoes at the corner of the stairs, followed by fair ankles, slender and shapely legs, and a graceful waist draped in a thin gauze skirt.

Her waist and legs swayed and twisted, light and agile, inspiring contemplation.

Further up...

Then there was nothing left.

The thing coming down the stairs consisted only of the lower half of its body, as if it had been cut off at the navel. The remaining part of the belly, holding the remaining internal organs, swayed with each step, and bloody intestines fell to the ground, dragging along the ground with each step of the waist and legs...

Wu Xian, Wang Wei, Hao Ze, and Shi Yan stood at the bottom of the stairs, silently watching the strange waist and legs, before slowly walking away...

It was around 2:30 a.m.

This is the brothel opposite the teahouse.

Yang Lin still died outside the teahouse.

Wu Xian couldn't heal him, nor could he take him to explore the blessed land while he was injured. If he died now, at least he could be resurrected. But if he were killed by the evil spirits of the chains, he wouldn't even have the chance to be resurrected.

Therefore, for him, dying now is the best option.

After Yang Lin died, his body was taken away by the tall, hunchbacked man. The tall man's destination should be the 'corpse pile' he passed on the right side of the second floor.

Wu Xian was also helpless about Yang Lin's death.

Because after his death, there were only three new recruits left, which meant that the second round of operations had failed.

It is foreseeable that the third and fourth rounds will not necessarily be successful either.

The situation on the first and third floors is still unknown, and there are only twelve new recruits left. In the third round, they can barely pick out six nimble-footed ones, but what about the fourth round...?

That would leave only the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the disabled!

Wu Xian rubbed his curly hair and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

……

Let's get back to the brothel.

Although the building looked gloomy and dilapidated, a closer look revealed that it was actually the safest of the four houses on the third floor.

Wu Xian led the newlyweds through the entire building, but they encountered some evil spirits without upper bodies.

There are about a dozen of these evil spirits that only have waists and legs, most of them are prostitutes, and a few are male.

They wandered aimlessly inside the brothel. Perhaps because they lacked eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, they were quite slow to react to the outside world. As long as they stood quietly to the side when it passed by, they would not be attacked.

But what if you accidentally bump into it...

Wang Wei still has bruises on his face; the guy who kicked him had a lot of black hair on the back of his foot...

During their exploration, they discovered a special room.

The room was in a secluded location, had no name, and was relatively well-preserved, having not been destroyed along with the brothel. There was an iron chain used to lock the ankles in the corner, and there were scratch marks from women on the wall. At the other end was a soft bed.

This room was probably used to imprison disobedient prostitutes or to hide the top courtesan from being forcibly taken.

There were many messages left in the room, with the most detailed being from a female prisoner named 'Gu Bixiu'. By piecing together all the messages, it became clear that this was a safe house. However, this safety was not absolute.

The safe house can only provide shelter once per night. The time is calculated from the moment someone enters and closes the door. The shelter time is a maximum of one hour. In addition, when the time reaches the third quarter of the Yin hour, which is 4:30 in the morning, the shelter will be forcibly removed.

When asylum is active, hourly crises can be ignored.

However, many commenters indicated that when the asylum was activated, it seemed like they weren't the only ones in the room...

Based on the description, safe houses are effective, but they cannot provide complete protection like a 'cage,' so their importance is not very high.

……

Wu Xian watched as the evil spirit, writhing its hips, departed.

Then, he led the three newcomers upstairs. The layout of the upstairs was similar to that of the second floor of the teahouse, and there was also a secret room used to hide treasures.

To everyone's disappointment, the chest containing the treasures in the secret chamber had been opened, and the treasures that should have been hidden there had vanished without a trace.

Only a county gazetteer remained at the bottom of the box.

After opening the county gazetteer, Wu Xian silently recited a couple of sentences, and his eyebrows rose.

This county gazetteer is different from the one in the teahouse; it actually contains useful information.

The preceding content consisted of anecdotes about literati that took place in brothels, so Wu Xian began reading directly from the more useful parts:

"On the night of Su Qi's return to the underworld, Magistrate Meng Longtu and his entire family hanged themselves, their corpses hanging like a forest!"

"The next day, the yamen runners, in their search for the true culprit, sealed off the den of iniquity. To their surprise, the brothel was indeed teeming with evil spirits. The runners fought with them, and everyone inside was cut in half at the waist, their upper bodies disappearing without a trace, leaving only their torsos walking around inside. From then on, the brothel fell into ruin, and people called it the Haunted Brothel!"

This is the county annals' definitive conclusion regarding brothels.

But behind that, there are several pages of crooked and messy records, and it's unclear who wrote them.

……

“My name is Suo Dabao. I’ve been hunchbacked and ugly since I was a child. But I have an unusually large appetite. My family couldn’t afford to feed me, so they abandoned me. I wandered around for many years and almost starved to death.”

“It was the brothel owners who took me in and made me a pimp in the brothel, sweeping the floor and running errands, so that I could at least make a living. Therefore, I am very grateful to them.”

"That day, the yamen runners came to seal off the building, and I was so scared that I hid in the dark room."

“When a constable passed by in the dark room, I secretly listened to his breathing and found that his voice was panting and wheezing, not like a human, but more like a jackal or wild beast.”

“I peeked through the observation hole in the secret room and discovered that these constables were not there to find the murderer, but to take the treasure from the old man and woman, which seemed to be called something like ‘Stone Ghost Mask’.”

“The mother-in-law and mother-in-law refused to hand over the mask, so the bailiffs attacked the girls, cutting three of them in half at once. Blood and entrails were spilled all over the ground.”

“The old man and woman pleaded desperately, saying that the girls in the building were all unfortunate and that this matter had nothing to do with them, and asked them to let them go, but the bailiffs were cold-blooded and unmoved.”

"Therefore, the father-in-law and mother-in-law had no choice but to compromise and take the treasures out from the second floor."

"The constables obtained the treasure and completed their mission, but in order to prevent the dismemberment from being exposed, they killed all the remaining people in the building. Everyone was cut in half at the waist, and the blood stained the ground red. Even the old man and woman were not spared."

“The screams were excruciating, but I dared not come out of the dark room, for I knew those constables would kill me.”

"At that moment, a horrifying scene unfolded: those who had been cut in half at the waist all managed to get up."

"Especially the father-in-law and mother-in-law, who let out a chilling laugh. She crawled like an insect, snatched the treasure from the bailiffs, and then disappeared..."

(End of this chapter)