Catching Monsters

Chapter 10: Fighting in the Air (Part )

The entrance to the government office dungeon is behind the government office, behind a picturesque rockery.

Pushing aside the flowers and plants on the right side of the rockery, a narrow entrance was revealed, and it was pitch black inside.

"Brother Jiang, do you really want to go in?" Qian Buchou confirmed again and again, and then said: "How about I go down first..."

Jiang Yun stared at him in confusion and said, "Captain Qian, there shouldn't be anything shameful down there, right?"

"No, no, absolutely not." Qian Buchou shook his head. Seeing that Jiang Yun was suspicious of him, he quickly said, "Don't worry, brother."

Qian Buchou scratched the back of his head and said awkwardly: "Brother, I will do anything except collude with demons. Demons and I cannot coexist!"

"Let's go then."

The entrance to the dungeon was very narrow. Jiang Yun followed behind and just as he entered, he smelled a musty odor. The environment inside was obviously not good.

Of course, Jiang Yun was also a little wary.

If he had nothing to hide, he wouldn't be so shy and unwilling to go to jail.

But soon, Jiang Yun's doubts were dispelled, and he finally understood why he didn't want to go to jail.

"Give me the money or not! Give me the money or not! Write a letter to your family! Tell them that if you don't pay thirty taels of silver, you can't leave!"

Before I even walked in, I heard sounds of beating and screaming coming from inside.

Inside the dungeon, there is a straight road with cells on both sides.

The air inside was stuffy and there was a musty smell and a hint of blood.

Bang bang bang.

As soon as he entered, Jiang Yun saw a constable beating a prisoner on the left.

The prisoner was in his thirties and had a bruised face and nose.

"Captain, why are you coming down?" The constable heard the footsteps, turned around, greeted Captain Qian in a flattering manner, and then picked up the whip beside him and asked: "How are you feeling, old man?"

"Why don't you try a few too and have some fun."

"I'm in a good mood." Qian Buchou said with a gloomy face.

"What about this little brother? You're welcome."

"Just shut up, he doesn't smoke either."

Jiang Yun was a little stunned. Had he entered a bandit's den?
After all, it is a government office...

Qian Buchou coughed and explained to Jiang Yun beside him: "This man colluded with bandits outside the city and oppressed the people. Finally, we caught him."

"Go, go, go inside."

Soon, there were sounds of beating again, and this time, the price was higher.

"My wife has already given me forty taels of silver. Please stop beating me, sir. Stop beating me."

"Forty taels of silver? How do you pay a beggar? Captain Qian said that without a hundred taels, you will never get out alive."

As he was talking, the constable who beat the man also saw Captain Qian and said, "Captain, this guy is stubborn. Why don't you sign an arrest warrant and I'll bring his wife in for trial."

Captain Qian explained awkwardly: "This man poisoned his parents...his crime is extremely heinous."

Afterwards, fearing that Jiang Yun would tell Xu Suwen about this, which would affect his image and lead to the loss of his official position, he hastily added: "I can only take 10% of the 100 taels of silver, and the master above will take the lion's share."

"Don't feel sorry for these guys."

"I still have a bottom line. These people have indeed committed serious crimes. We are just trying to squeeze out some more money."

"If I don't squeeze you, Captain Liu or Captain Wang will do the same thing, maybe even more cruelly."

"It is said that the government next door is very powerful. They will directly arrest people with no connections or backgrounds and interrogate them. Even if they have no crimes, they can still find out a lot."

"That's how you make money quickly."

Jiang Yun took a deep breath. It seemed that this kind of thing was not uncommon in the Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, he still knows the situation clearly and knows how to eat according to one's ability.

Don't think about things that are none of your business.

The two walked about a hundred meters and reached the end of the dungeon. "Is there any problem, Brother Jiang?" Qian Buchou looked at the wall at the end and then said with a smile: "See, I said it's okay."

"Let's go. This damn place is not good for your health if you stay there for too long. Let's get out first."

Qian Buchou turned around and walked a few steps. Jiang Yun frowned and looked around. He said, "Captain Qian, don't you find something wrong?"

"Something's wrong?" Qian Buchou frowned, looked around and shook his head.

"Didn't you notice that it was quiet?" Jiang Yun reminded.

Just now, the sounds of beating, screaming, begging for mercy, and all kinds of other sounds disappeared in an instant when they reached the end of the prison.

The entire prison fell into an eerie silence.

Qian Buchou's face trembled slightly and he looked towards the cells.

The constables and prisoners all disappeared, and the temperature in the cell gradually dropped.

"What should we do, brother?" Although Qian Buchou appears to be carefree and thick-skinned, he is actually very thoughtful: "Let's escape quickly."

"We are trapped in a ghost wall." Jiang Yun said in a deep voice: "We can't escape."

"My legs are on my body, how can I not run away?"

"you try."

Qian Buchou took a deep breath and ran towards the dungeon exit.

But as he ran, Jiang Yun appeared in front of him again.

I didn't know when I changed direction and returned to Jiang Yun.

"Try again!" Qian Buchou took a deep breath.

"I'll try again!"

……

In Nanzhou Prefecture, in a dark little house in an unknown mansion.

Sitting there was an old woman in her seventies, her face full of wrinkles, her nose slightly long, and a strong smell of medicine on her body.

In front of her was a small table, and on the table stood two palm-sized straw men.

One of the straw men was running on the table strangely. When it was about to reach the edge of the table, the old woman stretched out her slender fingers, picked up the straw man and turned it around.

The straw man turned around and ran back to the straw man who was standing still.

After repeating this over and over again, the old woman sneered, gently pulled out a strand of hair, and put it around the running straw man's neck.

……

Qian Buchu was running wildly, and at this moment, he was also sure that he could not escape from this prison.

He gritted his teeth and cursed: "Damn it, it really is a ghost, I..."

Before he finished his words, suddenly, a mark appeared on his neck out of nowhere, and then it became tighter and tighter.

In an instant, Qian Buchou's face turned red, as if a rope was strangled around his neck. Veins bulged on his forehead and he kept reaching for his neck.

I wanted to tear off the thing that was tied around my neck.

But his neck was empty.

"Help, help."

Seeing this, Jiang Yun, who was not far away, changed his expression and ran to Qian Buchou's side. He quickly took out the chicken blood he had prepared and wiped it on Qian Buchou's neck: "When the rooster crows and the sun rises, the evil spirits will have nowhere to hide."

A burst of green smoke erupted from the neck smeared with chicken blood.

In that gloomy little house, the old woman used her hair to tightly wrap the straw man.

Suddenly, her hair broke.

The old woman's eyes fell on the other little man: "Want to fight with me from a distance?"

"court death!"

(End of this chapter)