Chapter 164: Lair

Huang Laocai had helped Er Gouzi a lot before, and Huang Fugui was working for him now, doing his best every day.

For these two reasons, Er Gouzi agreed to the job.

After sending Huang's father and son away, Er Gouzi stared at the gifts that filled the room in a daze.

When he first started receiving gifts, he was really happy.

It feels great to be at home and have all kinds of benefits delivered to your door.

In the past, he particularly hated those officials, thinking that they were too greedy for money.

Now he understands that he hated them because he couldn't get what he wanted.

After the passion at this moment, looking at the backs of Huang's father and son leaving, and the pile of gifts, he thought for a long time that he might not really be suitable for being an official.

The so-called favors in the officialdom are just a kind of affirmation of his value, which will be repaid in the future.

Forget it, I'd better not get involved in their official affairs in the future, and I'll be at ease farming in Shekou.

It's comfortable to eat the crops I grow myself.

However, since he has taken the position of the Agricultural Commandant, he still has to train his subordinates well. Unexpected events may happen, and they may be used one day.

Er Gouzi took time to go to the county city to help Huang Laocai get things done, and this time things went smoothly beyond his expectations.

In addition, he also gave Huang Fugui a bottle of Peiyuan Dan and asked him to take it back.

It would be more appropriate to raise Huang Mancang's cultivation to the fifth level of Qi training before taking the martial arts examination.

For the next period of time, Er Gouzi retreated to the mountains to practice every day and no longer interfered in any affairs in the officialdom.

He, the once sensational Agricultural Commandant, gradually faded from the sight of the officials.

Er Gouzi practiced the "Hongmeng Refining God" technique every day, and his spiritual consciousness was strengthened a lot.

Now it can cover an area of ​​30 feet in radius.

At the same time, the fine control of the spiritual consciousness has also been greatly enhanced, which is manifested in the more sensitive and changeable control of the magic weapon in battle.

Moreover, it is more difficult to be discovered when the spiritual sense can be used to restrain its own breath, or when the spiritual sense is transformed into a thin thread for exploration.

One day, Sun Wangcai came back from outside disguised as a beggar and asked to see Er Gouzi.

"Boss, I finally found a cult den."

In order to find the cult den, Sun Wangcai has been squatting every day and has been looking for more than a year.

Previously, many messengers sent by the cult to various places, as well as many undercovers in the villages, were found.

But he has never been able to find where the real den of the cult is.

And as time passed, many changes have taken place within the cult this year.

In the past, the undercovers in each village were just some ordinary farmers. Since last year, the cult has begun to distribute cultivation methods.

So this year, in addition to the original undercovers, many new members have joined the cult.

If it continues to develop in this way, it will not be long before the entire Anchang County will become the world of the cult again.

It's just that the cult's den has not been found, and it is not enough to eliminate a few messengers and undercovers.

In order to find the cult's den, in addition to Sun Wangcai, dozens of people were sent outside to search.

In this year, hundreds of talismans for invisibility and concealment were used, all of which were exchanged for elixirs, which made Er Gouzi feel bad.

"Where is it? How big is it?"

Er Gouzi asked hurriedly. He had been waiting for this news for too long.

"This cult's den is hidden so deep that it is almost hidden at the border."

Er Gouzi took out a map and asked Sun Wangcai to mark the location on it.

Sure enough, they had reached the border between Anchang County and the neighboring county. There were many barren mountains and sparsely populated areas in that area.

"When I came back, I arranged a few people to keep an eye on it."

"Boss, should we go and destroy them now?"

"Should we report to the county government?"

Facing these questions raised by Sun Wangcai, Er Gouzi had actually considered it for a long time.

He believed that the cult must have more than one den.

At first, he planned to find all the dens and then clean them up at the same time to eliminate the trouble forever.

But in this year, just finding this den cost him dozens of manpower and hundreds of talismans, which are all money.

To be honest, he just couldn't bear to part with the money.

For the same reason, he originally planned to notify the county government and let County Magistrate Ding send people to arrest the cult together.

Now he wants to take some of the spoils of the cult to recover the losses of more than a year.

In order to find the cult's nest in more than a year, he lost too much.

At worst, after the cultists are caught, they will be handed over to County Magistrate Ding, so that he can also get some credit.

As long as the cultists can be tortured to find other dens, they can act together with County Magistrate Ding.

The cult forces hidden in Anchang County will be eradicated.

"To prevent any trouble, let's start tonight."

"You go count all the people and be responsible for arresting the cult messengers and undercovers hiding in various places. At midnight tonight, we will start to act at the same time."

"I will go to the cult's lair alone."

Sun Wangcai got Er Gouzi's order and went to make preparations.

"Okay, I promise that none of those cultists will escape."

That night, Er Gouzi rode on the back of a goose and flew to the cult's lair.

He was not alone this time. There were several geese hidden in the gourd, as well as three big snakes and some small snake demons.

These three big snakes have not eaten since they had a meal in Daoxuan's secret collection last time.

"Er Gouzi, you keep letting my baby snakes work. You do so much work, but you don't let them eat people."

Er Gouzi brought the jade floor with him this time, and Chang Ling'er's voice kept repeating in his mind.

"Chang Ling'er, you are wrong to think this way. We are all a family. How can we care so much about doing some work?"

"Everyone deserves to contribute to their family, and they should not care about personal gains and losses."

Er Gouzi debated with Chang Linger through his spiritual consciousness, trying to correct her incorrect values.

"Look at Yushan again, how hard he works every day for his big family. You and your baby snake should learn from Yushan."

"But my baby snakes do more work. One snake can carry dozens of people."

"There are so many people at the foot of Shekou Mountain, but you are reluctant to give any of them to baby snakes. Do you still have any conscience?"

"Ask your conscience, is this the right thing to do? Have your family members gone hungry to work every day?"

In her mind, Chang Ling'er launched a bloody and tearful accusation against Er Gouzi.

"That's because your snake baby is too picky about food. He will eat your family's food even when he's hungry."

Those big snakes have been thinking about eating people at the foot of the mountain all day long. How could Ergouzi let them succeed?

"Even if baby snakes are not allowed to eat people, then they can't be allowed to eat grass, right?" Chang Ling'er was still dissatisfied.

"Why can't we eat grass? Didn't you see that the geese eat grass every day?

Others can eat grass, but your snake cannot eat it.

Think about it carefully, isn't it your own problem? "

These snakes just lack education. They have been sleeping for so long. When they wake up, they don’t think about making more contributions. They think about eating people all day long.

Besides, the fodder he provided were all spiritual herbs with spiritual energy.

Er Gouzi was having a heated debate with Chang Linger in his mind, and unknowingly he had flown near the cult's hidden lair.

Several people from Shekou Mountain had been hiding here for a long time. They were here to monitor and respond. Ergouzi landed next to them.

"Boss, we have been guarding here. They are hiding in the mountain opposite. There is a cave entrance behind the big rock."

Ergouzi looked at the foot of the mountain over there. It was quiet, and he didn't see a single person. He only heard the occasional chirping of insects and birds.

"Is this the only entrance? Are there any other exits?"

The military book says that when hiding in a cave, you must prepare other exits, otherwise you will be doomed if someone blocks the entrance and exit.

"My boss is really good at predicting things. There are two exits, one is on the other side of the mountain, and the other is at the foot of the mountain next to it."

"We all have people out there watching."

Several subordinates pointed in the direction of the other two exits and explained the specific locations to Ergouzi.

"I'll go inside and take a look. You continue to guard here. If you find anyone escaping, arrest them. No matter whether they live or die."

Ergouzi gave the order and walked alone in the dark to the foot of the opposite mountain.

After walking behind the rock at the foot of the mountain, I found a large cave entrance.

"Chang Ling'er, there are a lot of people here. Let your snake eat as much as you want today."

Ergouzi said, and put a big snake in from the hole.

The big snake stuck its head into the hole, smelled the human scent inside, and then swung its head and slipped in.

Not long after, panicked screams were heard coming from the cave.

Ergouzi did not follow him in, but walked to the other two cave entrances and stuffed the remaining two big snakes in respectively.

Then he rode on the back of the big white goose, flew around in the sky, and looked down.

Occasionally, there would be a few people who escaped, and he would throw an iron thorn seed over and turn it into a winding technique, tying them up tightly.

These cultists who escaped were only at the Qi training level, not even in the later stages of Qi training, so they couldn't escape from his grasp.

After a long time, no one in the cave escaped anymore, and Ergouzi walked in through a cave entrance.

After being harmed by several big snakes, the cave was in a mess, no one was seen, and many items fell to the ground.

In the innermost part of the cave, the three big snakes were so full that they were so stretched that they could not move.

"Chang Ling'er, have all the people inside been eaten by them?"

"That's for sure. My snake baby can even swallow the foundation. Here are just some Qi refining practitioners."

Er Gouzi was still preparing for a big fight. It turned out to be so easy, but the strength of the cult was not what he imagined.

Because during the last turmoil in Qingzhou, some cultists reached the late stage of Qi training. After such a long time, their strength was not as good as before.

After checking the cave, I did get some supplies, a few spiritual stones, a few elixirs, and dozens of blood pills.

Another blood-stained alchemy furnace was found.

After looking at these items, there are not many valuable things.

It looked like his loss was irreparable.

After putting the big snake and the supplies into the gourd, he could only walk out feeling a little disappointed.

Tonight, apart from a few snakes feasting, he gained nothing.

"Master, what's going on inside? Do you want us to go in and fight?"

Several of his men thought there was another fierce battle and were about to rush in and fight.

"No, they are all dead. Take these people back to Shekou Mountain."

Ergouzi glanced at the few cultists who were caught. They were all quite young, probably not yet 20 years old.

"You're young, you don't do good things, and you actually engage in a cult!"

"Bah! Dog officer!"

I didn’t expect that a cultist was so tough that he spat a mouthful of thick phlegm at Er Gouzi.

“I love my people like my own children!”

Er Gouzi felt a little aggrieved. He really treated his subordinates as family members, but he didn’t expect that he would be called a dog official one day.