Chapter 12 The Ya Ren Prefecture's Intelligence Point

The Ya Ren Prefecture's intelligence point was located on the edge of the county magistrate's compound, in a small, dark, two-story building.

A black lantern hung from the small building, with the character "Ya" written on it, very clear.

Li Cheng颐 obtained his waist badge and came here as soon as possible, pushing the door open.

Inside, in the empty wooden hall, there was a curved counter, and behind the counter sat an indifferent old man with a haggard face.

*Pa.*

Li Cheng颐 entered the door and slapped the waist badge on the counter.

"I need to find the locations of these flowers, grasses, and trees!"

He took out a folded drawing from his pouch and placed it on the counter.

The old man picked up the drawing, unfolded it, flicked it, and carefully examined it.

"London plane tree, crape myrtle, wisteria, *Saussurea japonica*?"

He frowned.

"I've seen these flowers, but the names are different. The characteristics are the same, I don't know if they are what you want."

He had seen people come here to look for information on rare medicinal materials, but he had never seen anyone come to look for these ordinary plants and flowers.

At least Li Cheng颐 was the first.

"Give me the locations, what's the price?" Li Cheng颐 said.

"These are all ordinary intelligence, according to the standard price, five taels. Wait a moment."

The old man turned around and went into the room behind the curtain.

Before long, he came out with a piece of yellow paper the size of A4.

You could vaguely see that it was covered with writing.

The old man handed it to Li Cheng颐.

The latter took out the money and gave it to him.

After receiving the yellow paper, Li Cheng颐 carefully examined it.

He saw that the paper clearly stated that almost all the flowers, grasses, and trees were in a place called Wanmu Mountain.

"Could this Wanmu Mountain be..."

Li Cheng颐 frowned.

"You guessed right, they are all in Wanmu Mountain where Yao Xiangyu's mother is in seclusion," the old man nodded, his face expressionless.

"I'll give you a free message, going south from here, at the speed of a merchant caravan, it will take about a year to reach Wanmu Mountain."

"...Thank you." Li Cheng颐 turned around with the yellow paper and walked out of the Ya Ren Prefecture's stronghold.

He didn't buy the clues about the Illusory Rainbow Dragon for the time being, but planned to buy them separately. After all, it involved the Emperor, which was a bit sensitive, and needed to be slightly disguised.

For example, pretending to be interested by someone and then coming to buy information.

After all, money was also a suspicious point. Spending a lot of money to buy information as soon as you come would be a bit too eye-catching.

Standing in front of the small building, Li Cheng颐 looked at the writing on the yellow paper.

'Forget it, let's collect the evil thoughts first, and then talk about perfecting the three main flowers after accumulating enough flower qi.'

With a firm look in his eyes, he quickly left and returned to his residence.

In the following time, Li Cheng颐 officially started his job. His monthly salary was ten taels of silver, which was much better than his father, Wang Yi Feng.

His daily job was to lead a team to patrol around the city during the day. Occasionally, after the Blood Guards solved a battle, they needed to go to the scene to solve the remaining problems.

At first, he didn't know how to do it. Under the leadership of Deputy County Lord Lin Daquan, he did a few jobs and became familiar with it.

Wasn't it just destroying corpses and silencing the public?

Too simple.

Generally, the Blood Guards were very ruthless, and the scene was chaotic and bloody, but because Li Cheng颐 was the captain, he mainly led people to guard the scene and didn't do it himself.

So he just had to watch from the side.

Occasionally, if he encountered an infected person in the incubation period who still had some breath, slapping him to death was a more difficult task.

These were very difficult for ordinary martial artists, but for Li Cheng颐, he could kill them even if they were still alive.

For a whole month, he roughly figured out the routine and bought other information he needed.

Among them, the news about the Illusory Rainbow Dragon surprised him a little.

The intelligence mentioned that the Illusory Rainbow Dragon was called the Rainbow Scale Dragon here. There were once four evil dragons ravaging the world, but they were killed by the top experts among the bloodline martial artists, their flesh and blood eaten, and their dragon balls scattered and collected.

Li Cheng颐 was most concerned about the specific whereabouts of the dragon heart, but his intelligence purchase permission was insufficient.

To be precise, he did not have the purchase permission for the details of the whereabouts of all the Illusory Rainbow Dragon's flesh and blood.

Because eating dragon blood and dragon meat would greatly increase one's lifespan.

It was the elixir of immortality that everyone dreamed of.

As for the information about the God Restriction Heart Sutra, the Ya Ren Prefecture's stronghold had no authority to apply for it at all, let alone sell it.

The only thing he knew was that the full name of the God Restriction Heart Sutra was indeed the Heaven Severing Earth Destroying God Restriction Heart Sutra that Li Cheng颐 had seen before. The name was exactly the same.

After obtaining the intelligence situation, Li Cheng颐 did not act rashly. Before figuring out how deep the water was in this world, he had to follow the rules here and climb up.

Power was the biggest pillar here.

So, he began to prepare to make contributions.

Outside the county town.

In a man-made forest.

Two decapitated infected people in the incubation period lay on the ground, their bodies still twitching.

The Blood Guards had already left. Li Cheng颐, as the captain, quickly arrived at the scene with more than a dozen team members.

He roughly looked at the surrounding situation.

Five trees had fallen, and there were residual knife marks on the surrounding tree stumps and the ground. Obviously, the Blood Guard who took action was a knife expert.

"Both corpses were killed with one strike. It should be the Blood Guard, Master Xue, who took action."

The team member in charge of the inspection, Lao Huang, stood up and said in a deep voice.

The levels of the Blood Guards were a bit chaotic. At the county level, there were only the County Lord and Deputy County Lord. There were no captains or team leaders.

The strength of the bloodlines erupted back and forth, changing very quickly, and no one obeyed anyone. Therefore, their strength was determined by their own reputation.

Li Cheng颐 had roughly figured out the strength levels during these days while practicing his true qi.

Apart from the three County Lords and Deputy County Lords, Xue Peng could be ranked fifth among the experts.

"Apart from these two infected people, there's nothing else?" Li Cheng颐 stared at Lao Huang.

Just these two people, following the routine, without any movement, how was he going to make contributions and move up??

"Uh... no, just these two..." Lao Huang was a little confused, not knowing what the boss meant.

"It seems that years of comfortable life have made you a little slack."

Li Cheng颐 slowly drew out the saber behind his waist and sneered.

*Shua!*

In an instant, he took a step and rushed forward. The Pine Pattern True Qi that had reached sixty years of cultivation, plus it was three times the density, amplified his physical speed to nearly two hundred meters per second without using any other system's power.

This was the strength of the true qi experts in this world.

The dozen or so Divine Martial Division team members only felt a flash of white light, and Li Cheng颐 had already rushed into the depths of the forest and disappeared.

They were also experts with five to ten years of true qi cultivation, but at this time, they couldn't even see the captain's speed clearly.

Such strength!??

Lao Huang and several top elites in the team exchanged glances and saw shock in each other's eyes.

Soon, a flash of white light,

Li Cheng颐 returned to the scene with a seriously injured and unconscious man in his hand.

It was a middle-aged man wearing night clothes, his face covered, only his eyes exposed.

Li Cheng颐 threw the man down.

"Lao Huang, check him."

Lao Huang quickly stepped forward and looked at his eyelids.

"Hiss... also an infected person! And his tongue has been cut, and his ears have been pierced."

"Not bad, I just saw this guy sneaking around nearby. Now that I've caught him, he's indeed an accomplice," Li Cheng颐 said in a deep voice. "This guy was already seriously injured. I don't know which Blood Guard expert injured him. I suddenly ambushed him, and he immediately fell to the ground."

"Thanks to your vigilance, sir! You actually discovered an infected person in the incubation period that the Blood Guard adults didn't even discover! We've made a great contribution this time!"

Lao Huang immediately reacted.

The others also quickly came back to their senses, their eyes becoming eager.

This kind of situation was extremely rare.

If they encountered an intact infected person in the incubation period, it would be difficult for them to escape without a bitter battle.

And this could only be a weak infected person in the incubation period. If they encountered a stronger one, it was estimated that only the captain could escape.

That's why they could only be responsible for the aftermath.

They didn't expect that the captain would encounter an infected person in the incubation period who was already seriously injured!

This was simply a merit sent from heaven!

Immediately, a group of people happily divided up to report the news.

Soon, Deputy County Lord Wang Daquan was the first to arrive. He checked the newly appeared black-clothed man and confirmed that he was a newcomer outside of the Blood Guard's report.

He immediately praised Li Cheng颐 greatly.

Then, he killed the man on the spot, packed him in a sealed leather bag, and dragged him away.

"Good job! I'll record this contribution for you!" Lin Daquan patted Li Cheng颐 on the shoulder and smiled.

"Thank you, Deputy County Lord," Li Cheng颐 said with a smile.

"Thanks to you for discovering the remnants in advance, otherwise more innocent people would have died and been injured if he had spread the infection. There have been precedents before," Lin Daquan said with emotion.

"You're too kind, sir. This is what I should do," Li Cheng颐 said.

He looked calm, but in fact, he was calculating how much merit he needed to go further.

Catching a missed infected person like this could earn him a great contribution. According to the official promotion rules, if he wanted to be promoted in the short term, he needed three great contributions to move up a step.

So...

In the blink of an eye, three days later.

*Peng.*

Another black-clothed man was grabbed by Li Cheng颐 and thrown on the ground.

"Another infected person dressed like this! I didn't expect to be lucky enough to encounter him again, also seriously injured."

Lao Huang and the other team members had strange expressions. For a moment, they looked at the black-clothed man on the ground without speaking.

How could anyone in the world be so lucky?

Only a few days, and they encountered two identical infected people?

And they were both seriously injured?

"What? Why aren't you all talking? Lao Huang, come over and check," Li Cheng颐 said in a deep voice, his eyes narrowing.

In fact, there weren't that many infected people. He just used poisonous blood to infect the flower pickers and murderers in the city.

As for worrying about the situation being leaked?

That was impossible. He had already cut off the two men's ears and tongues.

He first beat them seriously injured, and then infected them. It was easy to create good materials for making contributions.

He also collected some evil thoughts.

Unfortunately, they were all garbage. There were too few evil thoughts. His purple jade orchid was still at the level of eighty something.

"Sir... we definitely believe you, but we also need the adults above to believe you." Lao Huang carefully said, choosing his words.

"I suspect they are scouts sent by an organization to investigate. There may be more infected people approaching in the future. What? Do you think I deliberately made fake goods?!"

Li Cheng颐's eyes turned cold, staring at Lao Huang.

The latter shrank back and smiled apologetically.

"How dare I?" Although he thought so in his heart, who would dare to talk nonsense without evidence?

Immediately, ten or so people divided up, and one person returned to the Divine Martial Division to report the news.

Soon, Deputy County Lord Lin Daquan arrived again, and County Lord Fu Ran also arrived.

The two frowned tightly, first checked the unconscious black-clothed man, and he was also deaf and mute.

Then the two of them looked at Li Cheng颐.

"A'Chen, how did you discover this person?" Lin Daquan asked.

Everyone was clever. The same coincidence happened twice in such a short period of time. Who wouldn't be suspicious?

(End of this chapter)