An institution like the Special Capture Division was established at the provincial and prefectural levels, but there was no such institution at the county level.
In places at the county level, whether it was theft and robbery or disasters caused by Evil Creatures, the county office was responsible for handling it.
There were Inner Force Realm and True Qi Realm martial artists in the county seat as well, but very few of them. For example, Shouyun County had only two True Qi Realm martial artists, and there were not many Inner Force Realm martial artists either. An existence like a Spirit Master almost certainly would not reside permanently in a county seat.
Therefore, once Evil Creatures were discovered causing trouble, the county office had some ability to deal with them. But if the Evil Creatures were more troublesome, they could only seek help from the Special Capture Division in the prefectural city.
Yu Chengan, the magistrate of Shouyun County, had been run ragged these past few days. Something had gone wrong on several nights in a row. Entire households had vanished from the county seat, leaving no living person to be found and no corpse to be seen. Everyone throughout the county was gripped by panic.
In the past few days, civilians had even begun fleeing the county. Quite a few families had moved lock, stock, and barrel to other counties. This was an extremely dangerous sign.
If things continued like this, Shouyun County might be left with nine empty homes out of ten, turning into a ghost town!
But that was not what gave him the biggest headache. What gave him the biggest headache was that something had happened to the Zhou Family of Shouyun.
The Zhou Family of Shouyun was an extremely special family because one of their