Chapter 440 – Killing a City
Seeing An Zheng stand up, Zhou Zi’s face changed, his face was filled with fear: “This … “How is this possible?!”
An Zheng patted off the dust on his body, and said somewhat helplessly: “I had originally wanted you to tell me the truth yourself, but it seems that that wasn’t my forte, so I might as well use my own methods.”
He took a step forward, and Zhou Zicheng immediately waved his hand, “Kill!”
The twenty or so people wearing red brocade robes immediately took action. Their actions were uniform, and they were clearly well-trained. The right hands of these twenty men were thrown out at the same time. A thin chain was hidden inside the sleeves of their right arms. No one knew what material those chains were made of. They were only as thick as their pinky fingers, but they were extremely sturdy. More than twenty chains swung over, instantly bundling An Zheng up tightly, and wrapping him up to the point that he looked like a mummy.
However, just as the chains wrapped around An Zheng, a ball of purple lightning shot out from An Zheng’s body. The electric current shot out from the chains, and like a snaking electric snake, it quickly reached the bodies of the twenty or so people. In just a moment, the twenty or so guards immediately collapsed, their actions even more orderly than when they attacked.
After the electric current passed, smoke began to rise from their bodies as they lay there. The originally bright silk clothing on their bodies had been electrocuted into pieces. Each and every one of them were darker than the Da Yi he had met in the Secret Realm. When An Zheng made his move, he did not rush to kill people, so he gave himself some leeway. These people laid on the ground moaning. None of them could move. When they opened their mouths to moan, black smoke kept coming out from their mouths.
An Zheng’s shoulder shook, and all the chains fell to the ground. He looked at Zhou Zi’s pale face and said, “I’ll give you a chance. If I force you to say it out loud, you might suffer. At least tens of thousands of people on the border were starved to death, is it related to your City Lord Mansion? ”
Zhou Zi looked at the subordinates on the ground, then looked at An Zheng, a look of determination in his eyes: “You will never know the truth.”
His body trembled and he was about to use his martial arts to shatter his heart. But just as the Cultivation Power was about to explode from his heart, An Zheng’s hand had already arrived in front of him and pressed on his shoulder. Zhou Zijian, who had gathered all the Cultivation Power up and was about to explode his own heart, only felt a vast and mighty power surging from his shoulder into his own body, pressing down all of the Cultivation Power.
It was likerson who was about to stand up. A huge mountain suddenly fell down from above and he couldn’t get up no matter how hard he tried. Compared to An Zheng, his Cultivation Power was like a firefly trying to outshine the sun and moon.
An Zheng pressed a hand on Zhou Zijing’s shoulder, causing his spirit to soften, and witlop, he knelt down.
An Zheng asked: “Did something happen to Zhou Shen all these years? Originally, he wasn’t that kind of person. You are all his subordinates, so you know him better than I do. As far as I know, he ierson who hates evil as if it were his own. You people are the same as him, and all of you want to turn the ancient city of An into a paradise. “But now you guys are killing people too easily, just what exactly happened in there that caused all of you to change!”
Zhou Zi saw that blood was spewing out from his mouth, he raised his head and glared at An Zheng: “What do you know? Making the ancient city of An becomaradise has always been the dream of the mayor, and it’s also our dream. We’ve worked hard for so many years to let everyone live a peaceful and peaceful life, but we’ve never changed our minds. Even if you are stronger than me, don’t even think of getting a single word from me. ”
An Zheng shook his head: “Then I’m sorry.”
With one hand, he pressed down on Zhou Zijing’s head, and the Cultivation Power poured into his head like a waterfall. Zhou Ziwen’s face twisted at that moment, the muscles on his face throbbing uncontrollably. The whites of his eyes rolled up, and he couldn’t close them. In just a moment, blood was flowing out from his ears, nose, eyes, and mouth. An Zheng was originally a person who used violence to punish violence. He knew how to force a confession more than anyone in this world.
It was just that An Zheng did not like this method, especially before he was certain that the person he was going to interrogate was truly heinous and unforgivable. However, from the looks of it, the City Lord’s Mansion should know about the tens of thousands of people who had starved to death at the border. Even if the evil thing wasn’t done by the City Lord’s Mansion, they would still be held accountable for it if they didn’t investigate it. What’s more, this matter might havuge relationship with the City Lord’s Mansion.
In just a few seconds, Zhou Zi saw that his entire body had gone limp, if not for An Zheng’s hand sucking on his head, he would have long been paralyzed on the ground.
“Those people, were they killed by the people from your City Lord’s Mansion, were they Zhou Shen?!”
An Zheng asked loudly.
Zhou Zi’s body twitched a few times and more blood came out of his mouth. He said while trembling: “I …” I will never sell out the City Lord! ”
An Zheng released his hand, and Zhou Zi saw him shoot at you, and you fell to the ground.
“It really is him.”
An Zheng looked at Zhou Zi, and Zhou Zi saw that he was lying on the ground and twitching, but his eyes were filled with fear: “No... Cough cough … No! That matter had nothing to do with the City Lord. I was the one who did it! ”
An Zheng sighed: “Loyal Protector, you are too stupid. He alone would not be able to commit suceinous act. Since you know about it, it means that you were involved in it as well, so your death is not a pity. ”
He looked into Zhou Zicheng’s eyes and said, “I just don’t understand why Zhou Shen, who hated evil a lot, would commit suceinous crime! But no matter what it was, no matter how kind and fair he used to be, a crime was a crime and a death was a crime. As for why, I’ll make him say it himself. I promised those ghosts that I would find out the truth and avenge them. You are the first batch. ”
“Replace the Heavenly Dao and you will never be reincarnated!”
An Zheng’s palm pressed down, and countless purple electric currents snaked down from the sky, including those twenty odd lightning bolts. Everyone was directly smashed into smithereens, and both in body and spirit was annihilated. An Zheng waved his hand and a gust of wind came out from his sleeves and blew away the residue.
“Zhou Shen!”
A cold glint flashed past An Zheng’s eyes as he turned around and returned to the An Gu.
In the ancient city of An, just as the guards were about to change their positions, they saw a group of horses charging towards them. The soldiers hurriedly tried to stop them, but no one was there. They carefully examined the horses and found that all of them were marked with the marks of the yamen authorities. Their expressions immediately changed. Before they could run back to report, they felt a gust of wind blow past them. They didn’t see anything wrong with the wind, but when they turned around, they saw a man in a black robe already inside the city, striding towards the city.
“Stop!”
The leader of the soldiers shouted, took out his blade and rushed towards An Zheng.
An Zheng did not turn back as he walked in the direction of the City Lord’s Mansion. His pace was not very fast, it looked like he was strolling leisurely, but how could the weaker soldiers catch up? An Zheng realized that the people around him did not stop to watch just because there was someone chasing after him, as if everything that happened had nothing to do with them. Those who were doing business were still doing business; those who were walking were still walking; and those who were chatting by the side of the road.
An Zheng’s heart became colder and colder.
He looked at the clothes pole on the roadside and reached out to pull down the rope. Then, he casually swung it backwards. That rope was like an inverted rainbow as it coiled a few times in the air. In an instant, it had trapped all six or seven soldiers that were chasing after him. Then, it dragged them forward.
There was finally a reaction from the other side. At least a few hundred soldiers were rushing towards them from the front of the street, their swords drawn. An Zheng didn’t even look at them. Hundreds and thousands of arrows rained down on An Zheng like arrows, but An Zheng didn’t even make a single movement as he continued to advance. Those arrows that were a few metres away from An Zheng were crushed by the force. When they landed on the ground, they became dust. When An Zheng was walking forward, there was an enormous defensive force that had a diameter of more than five meters that could not be seen from the outside of his body. As An Zheng was walking forward, the defensive force knocked aside the surrounding soldiers and he was knocked upside down.
After An Zheng walked into the crowd, he walked while using the rope to catch people casually. Since there was not enough rope, he decided to summon the Nine Nether Thunder Bell and use it as a whip. By the time he crossed the street, he was dragging three or four hundred people behind him. These people roared and struggled, but there was no meaning to it at all. An Zheng’s hand trembled a little. An electric current passed through the Nine Hell Thunder Bell and all of the hundreds of people present fainted away in an instant.
Not long after these people were subdued, a squadron of cavalrymen came from afar. They were dressed the same as the ones An Zheng killed before, witotal of about 200 people. They lined up neatly and rushed towards An Zheng in an assault formation. An Zheng lifted his foot and stepped down. The streets a hundred meters away began to churn like ocean waves. The thick and solid stone slabs on the ground were completely shattered, as if an earthquake had occurred. In the midst of the earth, the two hundred cavalrymen were all overturned.
An Zheng flew through the air, dragging a long chain behind him that carried hundreds of people flying forward. When he brushed past the fallen cavalrymen, the electric current from the chains caused the cavalrymen to come over and trap them within the Nine Nether Thunder Bell.
After walking down two streets, An Zheng dragged the two hundred meter long captive behind him. These people were all lying on the ground and were dragged along by An Zheng, and none of them could even move.
However, even though the fight was so lively, no one was flustered nor was there anyone watching on the street. It was as if everyone was living in their own world and had nothing to do with it.
An Zheng’s heart became colder and colder, and the killing intent in his eyes leaked out.
He was getting closer and closer to the City Lord’s Mansion. Finally, he could no longer see any ordinary people on the other side of the street. Four strong men wearing iron armor stood in a row on the street. They were all at least two meters tall and as sturdy as iron towers. The armors they wore covered their entire bodies, leaving only their eyes exposed. Everyone held a two-handed heavy sword in their hands and looked at An Zheng coldly through the armor.
When the four extremely strong armored warriors saw An Zheng turn around and enter the main street of the City Lord’s Palace, they raised their double-handed heavy swords at the same time. Both of them held onto the hilt of their swords with both of their hands, and when the swords went up, the four heavy swords exploded with a ball of light.
“Armour of the Warriors: Defense Barrier!”
Following the shout, An Zheng immediately felt a change in his surrounding aura. The four of them seemed to have become one, forming an extremely powerful defensive barrier. An Zheng and the six or seven other captives behind him were all inside the barrier.
Zhou Shen who was dressed in casual clothes slowly walked out of the City Lord’s Palace. He stood on the stairs and looked at An Zheng, his eyes filled with exhaustion and worry.
“Who the hell are you?”
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