Chapter 9

"His time here was quite long!" Shi Ximing felt the提示 from the intermediate tracking talisman and judged based on the intensity of the aura.

In front of him was a rock formation, a relatively secluded spot in the garden.

After a while, a puzzled look appeared on his face.

Because he only sensed the aura of Chief Wang staying here, but not the aura of Chief Wang leaving.

Normally, Chief Wang should still be here.

Even if Chief Wang had died and his body was moved away, there would still be some aura clues left.

But the aura here indicated that Chief Wang had simply vanished after staying for two days.

Although Shi Ximing was deeply puzzled, the most important thing was not to find Chief Wang, but to find the item.

He waved his hand, and a green light flashed.

Although he did not fare well in the cultivation world, he was not without his strengths. His greatest strength was planting.

This was a garden, with various flowers and plants growing everywhere.

By stimulating the wood spirit energy, he could easily perceive the condition of the surrounding plants.

This was much more convenient than Li Shiming using a large server like the IBM z15 for analysis. In just a moment, a smile appeared on his face.

"I found it!" He came to the spot where the wooden box was buried.

The aura of a small patch of grass here was off. After stimulating the wood spirit energy, this small area stood out like a beacon in the night.

He reached out and dug up the surface soil, revealing the wooden box.

Seeing the wooden box, his smile grew even wider.

The wooden box looked ordinary, but the patterns on it were commonly used in the cultivation world to isolate auras.

Whatever was stored in such a wooden box definitely should not belong to the mortal world.

He did not take any protective measures. On one hand, this was the secular world, and such a small box could only trigger limited hidden weapons. Moreover, at the third level of Qi cultivation, he was immune to secular poisons. On the other hand, he was poor.

A初级 defensive talisman was worth three to four attack talismans, and he could not afford to waste them.

Opening the wooden box, he found that the inside was filled with a liquid like water. At the same time, he saw a white powder ignite as he opened the box.

If he had known what was in the wooden box, Shi Ximing would have run as far away as possible and used all the defensive talismans he was reluctant to use.

But due to the difference in knowledge systems, he had no recognition of the liquid or the white powder in the wooden box.

He thought it was a small trick used by Chief Wang to destroy the contents of the box if it fell into the wrong hands.

He hurriedly tried to take out the visible items from the box.

He saw two books, the material of which was commonly used in the cultivation world to ensure they would not decay for a thousand years.

Li Shiming had filled the wooden box with nitroglycerin. As for the white substance, it was white phosphorus.

This wooden box, made with unknown craftsmanship, had excellent sealing properties.

When Li Shiming came, he placed some nitroglycerin from the server room into the box, closed it, and removed the excess air from the box, transferring it back to the server room. He then placed a small amount of white phosphorus on the surface of the nitroglycerin.

Nitroglycerin is an extremely active explosive, and even a slight movement could trigger an explosion.

White phosphorus ignites upon contact with air.

The result of burning on nitroglycerin was what Shi Ximing encountered.

And it happened right in front of him. The amount of nitroglycerin in the box was about one kilogram.

One kilogram of nitroglycerin produces 715 liters of gaseous material and releases heat, with a temperature of about 3980°C and a pressure of approximately 9000 × 10^5 Pa.

Such an explosion in front of him, even if Shi Ximing had used a defensive talisman, a初级 defensive talisman would not have provided any protection, and even a中级 defensive talisman would have been limited in its effectiveness.

At the moment of the explosion, Shi Ximing also reacted, but it was already too late.

"Which Daoist friend set this trap? Why was there no trace of spiritual energy?" With a full heart of confusion, his body was torn apart by the terrifying explosion.

The explosion not only caused Shi Ximing's death but also left a five-meter radius around the explosion center completely empty. The unfortunate rock formation was blown into a sky full of debris.

In the small study, Li Shiming felt the entire room tremble, and the intense explosion sound made his ears ring.

"Master!" Outside, Si Qin let out a scream, calling for the master.

In Si Qin's heart, the master was her entire world.

"Si Qin, don't be afraid, I'll go see what happened!" Li Shiming reassured Si Qin.

"Master, don't go, wait for the guards to come!" Si Qin pulled Li Shiming, pleading.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine!" Li Shiming patted Si Qin's head.

Walking out of the courtyard, he saw the mess on the ground. Although the explosion was in the garden, the range of the debris was much larger.

Many flowers and plants were damaged by the debris, and dust swirled in the air, forming a gray mist.

He knew very well that the only way to trigger the hidden device he left was if someone found the wooden box.

In such a hidden location, so well concealed, and in the back garden of the government compound, ordinary people would not be able to find it silently even if they knew it was there.

The hidden device he left was to deal with the cultivator. It seemed that the one who was blown up this time was the cultivator.

As for whether the cultivator was killed by the explosion, the current scene could provide a judgment.

Under such a powerful explosion, if the cultivator could still survive, Li Shiming would doubt whether it was even human.

At this moment, the guards and servants from the government compound and the back yard were rushing to the garden in a panic.

The event in the garden where the governor lived was more serious than the killing of over thirty people at the Weiyuan Escort Agency.

Unlike those people who were aimlessly searching like headless flies, Li Shiming knew exactly where the explosion center was. He quickly headed to the rock formation.

The closer he got to the rock formation, the more he was amazed by the explosion he had created.

The full box of nitroglycerin had caused such a powerful explosion, turning the original rock formation into an empty space.

A deep pit, one meter in depth, appeared on the ground, and the surrounding area was completely destroyed.

Li Shiming's gaze focused as he saw the flesh and blood on the ground, the remains of a human body torn apart by the explosion.

This discovery made him feel relieved. No matter how much damage was caused, as long as the cultivator was killed, the biggest trouble was solved.

Then he saw a leather waist pouch on the ground. Despite the powerful explosion, the leather waist pouch was not damaged at all.

Li Shiming picked up the leather waist pouch. This leather waist pouch should have belonged to the cultivator.