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Chapter 134: Encountering an Evil Spirit

It seemed that Lu Qing had made up his mind to present himself as a "miracle doctor" today, so he did not say a word, but just gestured, telling Zhu Yu and Fu Wen to mount their horses and set off.

The three of them rushed all the way and when they arrived at the Imperial Guards camp, everything seemed normal. The fireman in the camp was busy making breakfast, and smoke was curling up in a corner of the camp.

The soldiers in the camp were still conducting morning drills as usual. Situ Jing stood at the edge of the training ground, supervising them.

If he had not seen Captain Pang going crazy with his own eyes the night before, and if he had not examined his corpse with his own hands, just looking at the scene before him, Zhu Yu would have thought that it was all just a dream, and that nothing had actually happened in the Lizhou Imperial Guards camp.

Last night, many soldiers in the imperial guards were frightened and panic-stricken, but after just one night, they were able to return to their usual orderly state today. Situ Jing really has some ability and prestige.

When Situ Jing saw Zhu Yu, he hurriedly looked behind her, but he only saw a guard wearing a bronze mask, and did not see the golden-faced censor.

He finally withdrew his gaze and cast it on the "miracle doctor" in green robes and a veiled hat walking beside Zhu Yu. After a careful inspection, he guessed something and quickly suppressed his fleeting surprise. He walked over and bowed to them, "Everyone, did you rest well at the post station last night?"

"Thanks to the general," Lu Qing replied, "I didn't expect the army to be so lively this morning."

"Since it's poisoning, there's no point in locking up those soldiers who eat and live with Captain Pang. I'll release them and have them train with the others today to avoid causing panic by keeping them separated." Situ Jing replied.

He looked around and pointed to the perimeter of the school training grounds. "Let's talk while we walk."

The training ground of the Imperial Guards camp was very large, so large that one could not see the end of it. The middle was filled with Imperial Guards soldiers, who were training seriously under the guidance of their own commander. Some were practicing boxing, some were waving swords, and from time to time, a deafening and murderous shout would burst out from there.

"Last night, I carefully sorted out the commonalities between those who had been in trouble before." Situ Jing said to the three people as he led them along a relatively secluded area outside the school training ground. "Aside from being military officers of varying ranks in the barracks, those people really don't have any other similarities.

The causes of death of those people varied. Some of them had been outside the camp and had contact with outsiders before the accident.

But some of them never had any contact with outsiders from beginning to end, and even stayed in the camp all the time without leaving.

I only knew it more clearly after the old commander-in-chief had an accident. Before that, there were heavy rains in Huazhou at the beginning of summer, which caused floods. The military food in the camp was insufficient, so the old commander-in-chief sent a deputy governor with troops to escort a batch of food and grass to the Huazhou Imperial Guard camp.

The deputy commander was fine when he went there, but he died on the way back. In the end, he was carried back by the brothers who were delivering food with him. He died not long after he came back.

After the old commander-in-chief got into trouble, the camp sent a guard to the capital to deliver a message. The guard rode back at full speed with the news, but when he got back to the camp, he fell off his horse and died before he could even get off.

When these two people first went there, they met someone who looked nothing like them.

And the centurion last night didn't even leave the camp and had no contact with outsiders.

So, I'm sorry for my incompetence, I really can't find the connection between them."

Just as Lu Qing was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of someone approaching through the veil of his hat. "General, do you know that person?" Situ Jing turned and looked behind him, and saw the man striding towards him. "That's the deputy commander of the camp. He's been stationed in the Lizhou army for many years. He was already here before the previous commander arrived."

Although Zhu Yu had never met this deputy commander-in-chief, he was deeply impressed by him.

When the camp was in chaos the day before, this person did not show up from beginning to end after receiving the news from the camp.

The four men stopped and waited for the deputy commander to approach.

After all, the soldiers were well-trained, and he came closer in a short while.

"I'm sorry for being late, General!" The deputy commander walked up to Situ Jing, knelt on one knee with his fists clasped, and looked like he was asking for forgiveness. "Last night, I heard something happened in the camp, and I wanted to rush over immediately, but I had a headache and couldn't even open my eyes, let alone go out or ride a horse.

That night, I was terrified and could only drink a lot of medicine. At dawn today, I felt that my headache symptoms had eased a little and I could hold on, so I hurried back."

"Deputy Commander Zhou, please stand up quickly." Situ Jing bent down and helped the man up. "The matter in the camp last night has been handled properly. You don't have to worry about it.

As luck would have it, I just happened to invite a traveling doctor to come over and help see if there is any plague in our camp.

This miracle doctor has superb medical skills and can revive the dead and turn flesh into bones.

Since Deputy Commander Zhou just happened to have a headache, why not take this opportunity to ask a miracle doctor to take a look at you? If he can prescribe a medicine to help you get rid of the root of the problem, that would be great, and you won't have to suffer from it all the time."

As he spoke, he bowed to Lu Qing beside him and said, "Divine Doctor, this is my camp's Deputy Commander Zhou Kuang. I hope you can help me find a way to get rid of this ailment."

Lu Qing nodded slightly, his movements neither hurried nor slow, and his behavior was almost exactly the same as Yan Daoxin's pretentious behavior when Zhu Yu met him for the first day.

The deputy commander, Zhou Kuang, looked at the stranger in a dark blue robe and a veiled hat with some surprise, and hurriedly said to Situ Jing, "I dare not trouble the miracle doctor the general has invited. This headache is an old problem of mine. It only causes some pain when it flares up, but it passes. When it's not flaring up, I'm no different from an ordinary person.

Such a big thing has happened in our camp, and I don't think it's worth wasting time on a minor headache. I should hurry up and think of a solution!"

"General Zhou, what good plan do you have?" Situ Jing asked when he saw this.

"In my humble opinion, our camp may have run afoul of some evil spirit, which is why people have been having accidents one after another for such a long time."

Zhou Kuang moved closer to Situ Jing and whispered to him, as if even in broad daylight, saying these things would still make him nervous and afraid, "As soon as I arrived at the camp just now, I heard about Captain Pang's work. It was really weird!

I think we should find someone, pick an auspicious day, to come to our camp and perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits."

(End of this chapter)