Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 464: Frequent Ghosts and Monsters

Chapter 464: Chapter 464: Frequent Ghosts and Monsters

"Don’t you always say you hope to have around a hundred and eighty guards?"

The County Magistrate wanted to cry but had no tears; the hundred and eighty people he imagined was completely different from the bandits.

What he wanted were guards who wouldn’t bite him, but the bandits might turn on him at any moment. What could he do?

The County Magistrate’s face was etched with refusal.

Li Wenli sighed, "Now that it has come to this, I will not hide it from you anymore. Actually, we have them under control. Now that I’m handing over the method of controlling them to you, they will naturally obey your commands.

The future is doomed to chaos. The Yamen lacks both people and armor. When chaos arises, it is the commoners who suffer. Having them by your side, at least you’ll have a contingency plan."

What Li Wenli said was exactly what the County Magistrate had in mind. He had been so earnest, and finally, the County Magistrate agreed to let them stay.

The County Magistrate finally nodded and agreed to shelter them. The bandits breathed a sigh of relief. Had the County Magistrate not taken them in, they would probably have been thrown out as useless, perhaps even used as fertilizer for flowerpots.

Now their lives were saved, and they had secured official positions with food provided by the government.

This was something they dared not even think of before yesterday.

The County Magistrate sent people to take these men down and arrange for them, planning to deploy them uniformly the next day.

After clearing the scene, the County Magistrate finally noticed a person loosely tied up in ropes on the ground.

"Who is this?"

"Black Six," Li Wenli answered.

"How did he end up like this?" The County Magistrate wondered, looking at Black Six lying limp as mud, occasionally twitching spasmodically, indicating his lack of understanding.

"We caught him at the Tomb of Zhongshan Mountain’s Overlord. However, when we arrived, the tomb had already been thrown into disarray by him.

He even turned the over eight hundred men who served him into Underworld Soldiers. We had no choice but to kill these more than eight hundred people inside the tomb. We were in such a hurry that we didn’t even have time to collect their Identity Plaques."

Clearly, Li Wenli was tactfully saying they had lost over eight hundred silver pieces, but the Lord County Magistrate heard only one message.

"You went to the Tomb of Zhongshan Mountain’s Overlord?"

Not only the Lord County Magistrate, but also the Deputy Magistrate, registrar, historiographer, and Uncle Master were all terrified.

They all huddled together in fear.

"You... you have a lot of nerve."

"?" Bai Junjun and Li Wenli looked clueless.

The County Magistrate looked apprehensively at Li Wenli and Bai Junjun for a long time, "You’re alright? You didn’t encounter any zombies, did you?"

"?" Both continued looking befuddled.

"Oh dear, the old folks in Dai County, no, those in the Eastern Land all know that Zhongshan Mountain is forbidden—it’s guarded by the Underworld Soldiers of the Zhongshan Mountain Overlord. Several hundred years ago, the Tomb Guardian Village left behind was dragged into the mountain caves by zombies and eaten clean. People who live nearby dare not approach that place.

You... how could you be so bold!"

The County Magistrate wailed with fear and grief, catching Li Wenli and Bai Junjun’s hands again, "What did you just say? That Black Six entered the tomb, and turned living people into Underworld Soldiers?"

"Yes." Both nodded.

"!!!" The County Magistrate almost jumped as if electrocuted, eventually circling back to his original question, "You’re alright?"

"..." Bai Junjun.

"..." Li Wenli.

If they were not alright, would they still be standing here? Is the County Magistrate out of his mind?

The County Magistrate and others looked them over several times, doubtingly, and only when assured they were completely unchanged did they finally breathe a sigh of relief. Then he recited all the strange legends about the Overlord of Zhongshan Mountain that had accumulated over nearly a thousand years.