Chapter 66 Zhengyang Lei [Please read on! ]

"Commander Hu, to be honest, there was indeed a batch of goods in this warehouse, which disappeared in the fire that killed my husband."

Faced with Liang Yue's questioning, everyone in the company changed color, only Mrs. Zhang remained calm. After answering, she even asked a question in return.

She lowered her voice and said, "Are you sure you want to know what the goods are?"

Hu Tiehan said: "I have to confirm whether it has anything to do with the murder case."

"Okay." Madam Zhang nodded, and then said, "Can I have a word with you for a moment?"

She pulled Lao Hu out of the warehouse and whispered something to him.

The three little ones gathered at the window and peeked at what was happening outside.

Liang Yue pricked up his ears, but couldn't hear anything.

On the contrary, Chen Ju squinted his eyes and said, "Commander Hu, I know I was wrong. The things lost in the warehouse were indeed contraband... Madam Zhang, hehe, you don't want the court to know about this, right?... Commander Hu, don't be like this..."

Pang Chun was surprised and asked, "Chen Ju, how did you hear them talking? Teach me, I want to listen too."

Chen Ju glanced at him and said, "It's very simple. You can do it too. First, focus your energy on your ears, sink your energy into your dantian, bow your waist, concentrate your mind and calm your breath, and then start to weave."

Pang Chun had been following his instructions, but was suddenly startled when he heard the last sentence: "Huh?"

Liang Yue ignored the two of them and said to himself: "But judging from Commander Hu's expression, it should be a very shocking thing."

Although he couldn't hear any sound from the other end, Lao Hu's worries were clearly shown on his face and his eyes were almost popping out of their sockets, so it couldn't be fake.

really.

After a while, Hu Tiehan came back from outside and said to everyone in a deep voice, "Call it a day. Zhang Xingkai committed suicide. It's recorded in the book. There's no need to call the Ministry of Justice to come."

Chen Ju smiled proudly: "See, you still have to use my strategy!"

"How amazing! You actually predicted it." Pang Chun said in surprise.

Liang Yue looked at Hu Tiehan strangely, curious about what he had just heard.
While everyone was cleaning up the scene, he came forward and asked, "Brother Hu, there's obviously something fishy going on here. Are we just going to ignore it? If it's investigated in the future, won't we be held responsible?"

Hu Tiehan glanced at him subtly and said, "Since you asked, let me tell you something. Do you know what is in their warehouse?"

"What is it?" Liang Yue wondered.

Hu Tiehan paused for a moment and said, "Zhengyang Thunder, a full three hundred Zhengyang Thunders!"

Liang Yue's pupils shocked and he was greatly surprised.

Zhengyang Thunder.

This is military equipment!
It was because he was in the Imperial Capital Guard that he had heard of this thing. It was said to be a magical weapon filled with yang fire energy, buried underground when defending the city, and detonated with great power.

However, there has been no war that has threatened Longyuan City for hundreds of years, so there are not many stocks in the city.

There are usually 300 coins in stock in each of the three Imperial Guard headquarters in the east, south and west.

"In fact, I have heard about these things a long time ago." Hu Tiehan sighed, "It's nothing new in the Imperial Guard."

He pointed at the gate and said, "These businesses don't have any rebellious purposes in buying these things. It's just that Yuezhou is mountainous, and the construction of the project relies entirely on manpower to break the rocks in the mountains, which is very wasteful, and often civilians die in the mountains. Magical tools of the level of Zhengyang Thunder can greatly reduce the difficulty of breaking the mountains, so they sometimes buy them from the Imperial Capital Guards."

"But this business..." Liang Yue frowned and said, "Isn't the risk too great?"

"It seems huge, but in fact, there is generally no risk." Lao Hu explained: "The storage period of Zhengyang Thunder is three years. Once it exceeds three years, the Yang Fire inside will be unstable and there will be risks, and the Imperial Capital Guard must destroy it. The General Office usually sells this batch of Zhengyang Thunder to them six months in advance. As long as no one attacks Longyuan City during this half year, no one will find out. And there will be no war in Longyuan City at all, and these Zhengyang Thunders will be wasted in vain. The General Office uses it to make a profit, and they use it to open up the mountains, which can be regarded as making the best use of it."

Listening to him, Liang Yue also understood that the existence of this chain of interests was based on the peace of Longyuan City.

It is imperative to have a reserve of military equipment. It is impossible to wait until a war breaks out before distributing weapons, armor, and various magical instruments to soldiers.

However, Longyuan City had not been attacked by any military force for hundreds of years, and many of the weapons inside had exceeded their service life and were then destroyed.

The commander of the Imperial Capital Guard secretly sold the weapons that were about to expire, and then pretended to destroy them shortly afterwards. This kind of thing was definitely quite common among the Imperial Capital Guard.

This Zhengyang thunder that has been stored for two and a half years is definitely not the only one.

Because the benefits of this matter are huge, it is indeed not easy to detect when it is implemented.

"Moreover, the imperial court would never allow this kind of thing to be circulated among the people, so the buyer of the General Office must know everything about it. They must have made sure that Yueyang Company would use it for the project before selling it." Old Hu continued, "Since Yueyang Company was able to buy it, there must be someone with enough weight to guarantee it. What a pity..."

"Now that there's this commotion, the Zhengyang Thunder has been lost, and this is a big deal." Liang Yue continued.

"That's right!" Hu Tiehan nodded and said, "If these Zhengyang thunders are used for some heinous purpose, no one in this line will have a good ending."

"Then we do nothing?" Liang Yue asked again.

Old Hu looked helpless, "What to do? Report the situation to the General Office?"

Liang Yue thought about it and it was true.

The people above must have known the news first and were more anxious than them.

No matter which headquarters sold this batch of Zhengyang Lei, the headquarters of the three cities must work together to look for it, because none of them are clean.

"Someone will come and find this batch of Zhengyang Thunder. If no one finds it, they can only hope that nothing serious happens." Lao Hu spread his hands and said, "We don't need to do this. Let's just pretend we don't know and admit that Zhang Xingkai committed suicide. As for who killed him and who took the Zhengyang Thunder, it's not something we need to worry about." Liang Yue thought about it and it really made sense.

From Lao Hu's perspective, he found out about his boss's terrible deeds, and he didn't even know if there was anyone else above him, so playing dumb was the best way to deal with it.

No wonder Mrs. Zhang dared to tell him about this.

If those people in the interest chain can find out who killed Zhang Xingkai and track down the whereabouts of Zhengyang Lei, then everything will continue as usual and act as if nothing happened; if they cannot find the murderer and Zhengyang Lei, then they will hope that something else happens, otherwise once Zhengyang Lei explodes, all the people on the same boat will die.

As the Yuduwei garrison at the bottom of the food chain, the best thing to do is to do nothing.

"We, the Imperial Guards, are at the lowest level of the entire court. When we do things, we not only have to think about how to do them, but also whether we are needed to do them. Only in this way can we protect ourselves." Lao Hu shared his own experience.

In the time it took to say a few words, the scene had been cleaned up and the bodies had been collected.

A carriage slowly drove over. Madam Zhang stood beside the carriage and said to Hu Tiehan, "Thank you, Commander Hu and the brothers. I will ask the housekeeper to thank you later. I haven't had much rest since last night, so I will go back and rest first. I still have a lot of things to do later."

"Mrs. Zhang has indeed worked hard, so please accept our condolences," said Hu Tiehan.

The two of them already knew each other's little thoughts, but they still spoke in official language.

Just as the coachman lifted the curtain of the carriage and Mrs. Zhang was about to enter, a cold wind suddenly blew out from inside.

Liang Yue suddenly smelled a hint of danger.

He had been practicing with the Great Demon King Bai Yuan every day these days, so it would be a lie to say that he hadn't made any progress. His reaction speed to danger was now so fast that even Hu Tiehan, who was at a higher level, might not be able to match it.

Feeling this cold wind, Liang Yue's hair stood on end for no reason, and he immediately shouted, "Be careful!"

Seeing that the coachman and Mrs. Zhang were in front of him, he did not escape immediately. Instead, he grabbed the two of them one by one, and used the sword domain dragon skill under his feet to full effect. In an instant, he turned into a shadow and flew backwards several feet away.

Immediately afterwards, a blinding red light lit up from the carriage, containing a huge amount of yang fire energy, which exploded from it, extremely hot!

Boom——

With a deafening explosion, the entire carriage shattered on the spot, the horses were gone, and the sky turned into a bloody rain.

Even though Liang Yue dodged immediately, he was still blown more than ten feet away by the powerful explosion and then fell heavily to the ground.

With a bang, my ears started buzzing and I felt the world spinning.

It took him a while to see clearly what was in front of him.

Madam Zhang and the driver seemed to be less injured than herself because they were thrown out by her. They were also confused at the moment. The imperial guards drew their swords and surrounded her in a mess.

It took a long time for the situation to calm down.

Madam Zhang stood up and said to Liang Yue, "Thank you Liang Duwei for saving my life."

"It's my duty." Liang Yue nodded slightly without taking too much credit.

Turning back to look at Lao Hu, I found that his black face had completely turned into charcoal gray, and he was standing there with a tense look.

"Brother Hu, are you okay?" Liang Yue asked while holding back a laugh.

"Xiao Liang, let me discuss something... cough." As Lao Hu spoke, a puff of smoke came out first, "Next time you are in danger, call me."

Liang Yue said: "I thought Brother Hu's cultivation was much higher than mine, so he should be able to dodge..."

"Okay, I understand." Hu Tiehan stopped him from speaking. If he continued, it would be embarrassing. After thinking for a while, he said, "Of course I also dodged, but I didn't avoid it completely."

Liang Yue changed the subject and asked, "What kind of explosion was this? Why was it so powerful?"

Hu Tiehan said in a deep voice: "This is... Zhengyang Thunder."

Is this it?
Only then did Liang Yue realize how powerful the three hundred lost pieces of this thing were.

"It seems that they not only want to kill my husband, but also want to kill me." Mrs. Zhang looked resolute, and it seemed that the explosion just now did not scare her.

"Do we need to send some brothers to protect the safety here?" Hu Tiehan asked.

"No need to trouble Commander Hu." Madam Zhang said solemnly, "I want to see what other tricks they have."

Lao Hu was just being polite as a junior guard officer, but he didn't want to get involved in this mess. Since Madam Zhang said so, he naturally gave in and told his brothers to call it a day.

Go back and wash your face first.

Everyone was about to leave.

Liang Yue suddenly saw a familiar figure walking in.

A thin young man in white clothes with clear eyes was walking towards them from afar. He was none other than Li Mo, the disciple of the talisman lineage whom he had met that day.

He waved enthusiastically from afar, "Madam Zhang! My dear sister, I'm here to give you another talisman!"

　Good morning.

　
(End of this chapter)