Chapter 244: The Talisman Guides the Way
Pan Yun cut the rope on Song Bei's hand with a sword. He got up and put on his underwear.

After he put on his clothes, Pan Yun pointed at the bundle with his sword and said, "The next gift is a pair of pants. Who are your first and second in command?"

Song Bei said: "We obey the orders of the General's Mansion. The so-called first and second in command are just officials sent by the General's Mansion. In fact, all affairs in the Ming Dynasty are managed by me."

He said, "I know what you want to ask. I can tell you directly that I did this not only for money, but also for the glory of my Kikuchi family to rise again in Kyoto."

Pan Jun understood that he wanted to revive the family.

She looked into his eyes steadily and couldn't help but smile. Although she didn't know what he was hiding, most of what he said was true.

But... "Using the resources gained from burning, killing and looting to revive the family, aren't you afraid that your family will fall into hell forever?"

Song Bei: "As long as I can revive my family, I am not afraid of any ghosts or gods. Moreover, I was not afraid of them when they were human, let alone ghosts? My Kikuchi family is also blessed by the family gods."

Pan Jun sneered, threw the pants to him, and moved on to the next question.

She really did what she said and not only interrogated Song Bei, but also questioned the other Gray Guards.

Whenever she interrogated a person, she would single him out, and seal the mouths and ears of the others so that they could see but not hear, let alone speak.

Unless one can read lips, no one would know what she asked or what the other party answered.

By comparing multiple parties, you can know who is lying and who is telling the truth.

If anyone lied, she would give them a sword. Pan Xiaohei used medicine bags to attract many poisonous insects.

Pan Yun dug a shallow pit and sprinkled insect-attracting powder into it. After they all rolled around in the pit, she sprinkled insect repellent powder on the edge of the pit to prevent the poisonous insects from crawling out and escaping.

Pan Yun grabbed a centipede and placed it on the arm of a gray-clothed guard as he screamed in fear. Then he stabbed him in the arm with a sword. Blood gushed out and the centipede immediately twisted its body forward in joy.

Pan Yun put away his sword and squatted aside, saying to him helplessly: "You can't blame me for this. I just asked you what the name of the island where you hid the treasure was and where it was. You refused to answer such a simple question. Of course I have to punish you."

The Gray Guard screamed, "I told you, I told you."

Pan Jun said slowly: "What you said is false. I have asked several people before you, and your answer is different from theirs."

The Gray Guards screamed and were unable to speak. The Gray Guards nearby, whose hearing was blocked and who could not hear but could see, looked pale, having no idea what their companions were being punished for.

Ah Xin and the other two blue-clothed guards who were left behind to listen were speechless, because Pan Jun had never asked the first three gray-clothed guards this question.

Pan Yun watched him struggle in pain and said sarcastically, "Oh, this centipede's poison is so strong. Your blood has started to turn black, and your lips have also started to turn black. If you don't take the antidote in half an hour at most, you will be incurable, right?"

Pan Jun smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to be so loyal to the enemy. You even don't care about your own life. You are really amazing."

"But, although you are loyal to them, they may not think highly of you," Pan Yun said, "Just look at the clothes that Kikuchi Takeuchi is wearing, and you will know how many questions he has answered for me just now."

"You ronin are nothing but hooligans without surnames or families. If they were really kind to you, would they have given you surnames? Or given you prospects for development? Among those who followed them, is there anyone who could really leave the sea and go ashore to become a samurai?"

"They are using you as consumables, but you are worshipping them as gods. Little do you know that they will laugh at your stupidity. You are just a bunch of scoundrels without surnames, and you want to use your loyalty to get a surname and seek the protection of the family gods..."

Before Pan Jun finished speaking, the gray-clothed guard whose wound was scratched by the centipede screamed miserably. His eyes bulged out and he shouted angrily, "Shut up! Shut up! On the Shengui Island, on the Shengui Island in the northwest sea area."

He fell to the ground with a thud, muttering expressionlessly, "All the looted items were temporarily placed there, and then transported back to Hirado from there."

"Hirado?" Something flashed quickly through Pan Jun's mind, but so fast that she didn't catch it.

But she remembered the Turtle Island, so she asked, "How do I get to the Turtle Island? Do you have a sea map?"

The gray-clothed guard laughed bitterly and said, "I don't have a sea chart. Only Kikuchi-kun has a sea chart. Without a sea chart, no one can find the Turtle Island, not even Kikuchi-kun."

Pan Jun raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Song Bei, who was lying on the side with his acupuncture points pressed.

Song Bei didn't know why she suddenly looked at him. He was feeling nervous when he saw her smile sweetly at him.

Song Bei: ...

He became even more nervous.

As night fell, Pan Yun finally interrogated all the Gray Guards. She even lied to them to find out if there were any Japanese hiding among the Green Guards.

I cheated a few people, but the answers I got were all no.

Pan Yun said to A Xin: "Either they don't know, or they are so powerful that they are collectively deceiving me. But I think the second possibility is zero, because they even told me where the treasure is hidden, so they wouldn't lie to me about something like this."

A Xin said: "There can't be Japanese in our Qingyi Guards. We are all born and raised here and we are neighbors who know each other."

"You still think that Song Bei is a Han Chinese, a wronged illegitimate son of the Song family who had no choice but to venture out into the world, so your words are not reliable."

Ashin: ...

"Since Taoist Sanzhu doesn't believe me, why did he keep me here to listen?"

Pan Yun: "I asked you to stay here as witnesses. You know I didn't wrongly accuse these people. They are just Japanese pirates with ulterior motives."

Pan Yun patted his shoulder and said, "Although you are not smart, you value friendship. Your brothers trust you. I think the people on the island must trust you too. When the time comes, persuade them not to fight me for a group of pirates."

Ah Xin exhaled and nodded, "Master Sanzhu, don't worry. The people on the island are very reasonable. After knowing that they are Japanese pirates, they will definitely not protect them."

Pan Yun did not comment. Ah Xin was a capable man, and he could live well without Song Bei, so he overlooked a problem: other people, if they left Song Bei and stopped being pirates, might not be able to survive, or live well.

They will defend Song Bei even more resolutely than Zhu Zixun did, regardless of whether he is a Japanese pirate or not.

But Pan Yun did not say it out loud to attack Ashin.

As the night deepened, the spirit points in the woods became more conspicuous. However, unlike the densely packed spirit points before, the spirit points now were like fireflies in summer. Although there were many of them, they were not so densely packed as to make people frightened.

Miaozhen and his friends collected a lot of corpses. Some of them dug a pit, while others buried the collected corpses, and the spirit point disappeared.

Zhang Weiliang came back covered in mud and with a dazed look on his face, and said to Pan Yun, "I collected 28 corpses, but didn't find Zhang Weiqin."

Miaozhen: "I collected thirty."

Miaohe: "I also have 30."

Hu Jing: “Thirty-two.”

Su Ying: “Thirty-five.”

Others also reported their numbers.

Pan Yun nodded with satisfaction and said, "Everyone has done a good job. Let's take a rest for a night and continue tomorrow."

Li Ji asked, "But the person is still not found."

Pan Yun: "That's because they are too stupid. Never mind. I will give you some more instructions."

Pan Yun took out a fire talisman and a thunder talisman, stacked the two talismans, activated them with his fingers, and threw them out. Miao Zhen swung out a horizontal sword, which pierced through the talisman paper and carried it high into the sky. The fire talisman burned with a bang, and at the same time, lightning struck with a snap, sparks flew, and half of the sky was illuminated red.

Everyone below looked up at the sky, stunned.

Hu Jing murmured: "Just like fireworks..."

Su Ying knelt on the ground with a thud and looked up at the sky: "As expected, there is a mysterious technique, so Mazu really exists. May Mazu bless you, and the believers are guilty."

Pan Yun, who was standing beside him: ...

Wasn’t it she who created these spells and talismans?

Why worship Mazu instead of her?
The talisman was brought into the air with the horizontal sword and then dropped. Miao Zhen stretched out his hand to take it, but when he saw a flash of blue and white electricity on the sword, he immediately withdrew his hand.

No one caught the sword. It spun in the air for a few times and then stabbed into Zhu Zixun's leg with a clang. Zhu Zixun screamed "Ah——"

The knife went straight through the leg and stuck into the soil.

Pan Jun raised his eyebrows, first looked up at the two talismans that were still exploding, then walked forward and held the knife, "Master Zhu, do you want me to help you pull it out?"

Zhu Zixun glared at her and Miaozhen with a sweaty face, "You did it on purpose."

Miao Zhen saw Pan Yun looking at her and immediately said, "I can swear it's not true."

Pan Yun: "I believe my nephew. If she says it's not true, then it's not true. There were so many people standing on the ground, right under the knife, but it didn't stab anyone but you. It shows that you have done too many evil things and your luck is too bad."

"Master Zhu, God is punishing you. I think you need to do more good things, otherwise you will suffer more and more bad luck in the future."

Pan Xiaohei: "Meow, you should worry about yourself. You turned off the reminder function in the Spirit Realm Array after you killed the first person. Do you think that by turning it off, you can just ignore the deducted merits? Do you dare to look at the Niwan Palace? The merit bar in your Spirit Realm has returned to the starting point."

Pan Jun ignored him and continued talking to Zhu Zixun, "For example, can you also tell us a little bit about the inside story of the Japanese pirates?"

Zhu Zixun endured the pain and said: "I am not a Japanese pirate, and I don't know they are Japanese pirates. What inside information can I know about them?"

Pan Jun raised his lips, "I see. I thought you had been following him for seven or eight years, so you would know some secrets that we don't know."

Zhu Zixun said nothing.

Pan Jun withdrew his hand and stopped helping him to draw the knife, leaving him alone.

She looked up at the sky and walked to the side with a worried look on her face. "With such a big commotion, if Zhang Weiqin and the others still can't find the direction to get out, then they should be dead."

Zhu Zixun touched his wound with trembling hands and wanted to pull out the knife himself, but due to the length of the knife, he couldn't grab the handle at all. Moreover, he was a little timid to do it.

He couldn't help but look at Pan Yun.

Pan Jun still looked up at the sky and ignored him.

At this time, in addition to Zhang Weiqin and others in the woods, Xuanmiao and others who were far away on the sea also looked up at the sky with Pan Yun and others.

As soon as Xue Shao saw the fireworks that filled half the sky with red, he immediately asked Xuan Miao, "Master, what is this signal?"

"It's a signal to show people the way," Xuanmiao said, "It means they are okay."

　There is another chapter tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)