Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 407 - 268: Extra Edition
Chen Ku ultimately did not choose to directly enter seclusion in the Hero King Realm and ’form an array’.
This step is a meticulous task; as he understands it, it’s akin to the process of engraving the lines of a grand formation circuit within the body like an integrated circuit.
He is still at Three Dragon Mountain right now.
To truly enter seclusion here, even if the grand formation is completed, he doesn’t know how much time it would take.
Not to mention the deadline for the bandit suppression order has been delayed for a month.
He hasn’t forgotten that Mr. Tianji on Liang Mountain is still planning to impersonate him to attack the official army; if he disappears for such a long time, wouldn’t that make the other party’s plan more successful?
Chen Ku walked out from the grand hall of Three Dragon Mountain.
He simply sniffed the scent on Hu Heida, followed the scent, and soon found the location of the inner treasury of this Three Dragon Mountain bandit den.
The huge underground cellar was filled with a number of treasure chests; casually opening one revealed they were filled with silver.
However, Chen Ku merely curled his lip.
Because after calculating all the treasures in these chests, at most, their total value was only about twenty thousand taels of silver.
"I thought Three Dragon Mountain might have some property, but unexpectedly there’s only twenty thousand silver."
Chen Ku thought:
"The reason seems simple: although these people are engaging in cost-free trades, robbing households, they nevertheless have to manage a mountain fortress with over a thousand bandits. Over a thousand people’s living expenses are a considerable fortune."
Besides, bandits don’t understand sustainable development; they typically spend lavishly, drinking in large bowls and eating meat in big mouthfuls. Once the money runs out, they simply go and rob again. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
Chen Ku unceremoniously collected this twenty thousand taels of silver.
After coming out, he wrapped up the heads of the two stockade masters in front of the hall, and then drove the clouds towards the nearest county town outside Three Dragon Mountain.
He Yang County.
Chen Ku headed directly to the county yamen.
"Important place of the yamen! No unauthorized entry!"
Facing the rebuke of the government officials at the entrance of the He Yang County yamen.
Chen Ku smiled slightly, said nothing, and directly showed his scholar document, pulled out the unconscious Hu Heida and the two heads he had behind him, and explained the situation in the simplest terms:
"I am Chen Ku, a martial scholar of Qiu Dragon Mansion, who took the order from the Martial Temple to suppress the bandits of Three Dragon Mountain. Now, I have successfully defeated the bandits; currently, the bandit threat on Three Dragon Mountain is mostly cleared, with only some women and children of the stockade and roaming bandits remaining, which are no longer a concern. I specifically came to inform the He Yang County Captain to send troops to reclaim Three Dragon Mountain and clean up the battlefield."
The government officials, upon seeing Chen Ku exhibit his martial scholar identity, were about to kneel immediately when they heard Chen Ku’s words, more shocked and not daring to neglect, hurriedly conveyed them inside the yamen.
In less than a moment, from inside the yamen, came out two officials, one wearing a blue seventh-grade official uniform, unmistakably the He Yang County Magistrate, the other in a blue ninth-grade official robe, precisely the He Yang County Captain.
The He Yang County Magistrate came out and incredulously asked:
"You said the bandits of over a thousand at Three Dragon Mountain have been completely eradicated by you alone, truly?"
Chen Ku did not speak, just revealed Hu Heida, saying: "If someone here knows him, they will know that my words are true."
"It’s him! Truly Hu Heida!"
A cry of surprise came from a capture official behind the County Captain, pointing to Hu Heida under Chen Ku’s hand, saying: "A year ago, he led two stockade masters from Three Dragon Mountain to He Yang County’s Flower Pavilion, swaggering to host guests; upon hearing, we went to capture him. But with a loud laugh, he killed thirteen of our brothers. It’s indeed him; I have nightmares about this person’s appearance!"
The two county officials were excited and incredulous at his words.
Looking again at Chen Ku:
"How could you alone possibly have subdued the bandits of Three Dragon Mountain?"
Chen Ku thought to himself: "Even the people of Three Dragon Mountain know I’m going to their fortress to suppress bandits; yet the local He Yang County knows nothing, no wonder this county has been oppressed by a bunch of bandits to the point of being breathless."
Thus said little more:
"I am merely here to inform you, so you can go tidy up Three Dragon Mountain. If you don’t believe it, that’s fine."
"This... Scholar Chen, don’t rush, we just need to send someone to Three Dragon Mountain to find out." The county official smiled, still wanting Chen Ku to stay a moment longer: "As for the bandit leader Hu Heida under your hands, I think..."
Chen Ku mildly laughed: "This won’t trouble you guys; I’ll take him to Qiu Dragon Mansion Martial Temple to close the case, as I have military matters at hand, since I have already come to report to He Yang County, I will now take my leave."
Saying this, he took Hu Heida and turned to leave He Yang County town.
The faces of the county official and county captain shifted slightly, but they knew that if the unconscious person was truly Hu Heida, this young man’s strength is unimaginable, where would they dare to stop him...
Single-handedly eliminating Three Dragon Mountain?
Though they were unwilling to believe it no matter what in their hearts.
Yet,
They could not stop the enormous merit from spreading some benefits to their hands.
The County Magistrate immediately ordered several arrest officers of the yamen:
"Quickly go to Three Dragon Mountain to verify the situation!"
Regarding their actions, Chen Ku did not care, the reason he did all this was only for someone to bear witness to him.
Both to prove that Three Dragon Mountain was indeed wiped out by him.
Also to ensure that Mr. Tianji’s baseless frame-up fell into nothing, impossible to achieve, as he had many witnesses coming and going.
...
Just as Chen Ku, with Hu Heida, was on the way back to the prefecture city to report.
Before long.
The government officials from He Yang County had also reached Three Dragon Mountain. Seeing the whole mountain filled with corpses, as tragic as a battlefield, they were completely dumbfounded.
