After going upstairs to rest, they gathered in Shanhai's room again. It was already dark, and it was hard to take a breather. Mu Wan didn't want them to run and look at the dark sky again. She mentioned what happened during the day and the escort named Duan Yuesheng.
"It really pisses me off. I've never seen such an uneducated person!"
Shan Hai also laughed out loud, and Dai Luan echoed:
"How can anyone have three names? With so many words, it sounds like a compound surname."
Although there is no purpose, a group of people is more relaxed than ever. Only Shi Wuqi showed no expression. Miss Qi stood behind him and put her hands on his shoulders. As for him, he held his face with one hand and looked at the waning moon outside the window.
"What's wrong with you? You're so distracted." Mu Wan could tell. "Didn't you always be the first to come up and laugh at me?"
"Ah" he came back to his senses, "it's quite funny..."
"..."
It would be extremely inappropriate for the three of them not to notice anything now. Dai Luan raised her face and asked him:
"What's wrong with Wu Qi? Did you remember something from the past?"
"Well... I guess, it wasn't that long ago." He pinched his fingers, "That's about three or four years ago."
Shan Hai asked him what happened, but he hesitated to speak. He seemed to want to say something but didn't know where to start. He tried to formulate his words. No one rushed him, they all waited patiently for him to continue.
"When I was having dinner today, I saw a person. He was once a guest of the House of Weeping Corpses... It stands to reason that there were so many guests, I must not be able to remember them clearly, but he was one of the few human beings, so I had a slightly deeper impression. . Of course, after a long time, I almost forgot about it.”
"The world is so small," Dai Luan lamented, "but what a coincidence."
"Yes, it's a coincidence. What's even more coincidental is that today I finally realized that he has a kind of monster aura, which is somewhat similar to Liang Qiu. But I didn't think of Liang Qiu when I saw him alone, but after seeing him again, I finally recalled that evil spirit again.”
"Me?" Mu Wan raised his sleeve and sniffed, "Do I have any evil aura on me?"
"The Shikigami," he said, "is the Tengu."
"T-Tengu..." Mu Wan stood up suddenly, shaking the table, "Surprisingly..."
"Is he actually your relative?" Shanhai looked up at her, a little surprised.
"No...how should I put this?" She sat down slowly. "Actually, since my mother's ancestors made a contract with the Tengu clan more than five hundred years ago, there should be many descendants. But now, those who can serve There are actually only a few people who are Tengu. Although the pattern has not been discovered yet, maybe...it is talent? My brother has no qualifications and only holds an official position in the court. Maybe the person you are talking about has nothing to do with me. It’s blood.”
"yes."
"What's his name?"
"He didn't say his name, he only said his surname was Tang."
Shan Hai thought for a moment: "Tang family? Not necessarily... there are many people named Tang."
"I don't know about that. By the way, Liangqiu, let me ask you, can your Tengu become a human?"
Mu Wan's expression was a little subtle, which Shi Wuqi didn't expect.
"...What are you thinking about? How is this possible? Doesn't it take more than a thousand years for ordinary fairies to become adults? There has never been such an example in the Tengu clan. Even if it is a spell to become a human, they cannot Will do."
"That's weird." Shi Wuqi frowned, "What kind of spell is there in the mountains and seas that can temporarily transform monsters into human form?"
"Obstruction, blinding method...?"
Shi Wuqi shook his head.
"It's not a cover-up, I'm sure it must be a tengu... That day, he brought a weird child. If I hadn't seen the child at the dinner table, I wouldn't have remembered it."
"Huh?"
"The child looked very abnormal at first glance. His face was as pale as if he was sick. He couldn't tell whether he was male or female, and his hair was messy, like a wandering child. He didn't speak, his eyes were weird, and one of his hands was broken. , revealing the white bones."
"I-I'm going to see the doctor here," Dai Luan shouted, "What's the point of looking for you?"
"That child is a monster," he said. "I thought the child was injured and they were here to treat the wound. Unexpectedly, the man said he could grow back, but he came to me specifically. He heard that I can touch human bones. Zeng's life. So I touched Zeng's mouth suspiciously, but I couldn't see anything. I only knew that he was a Tengu monster."
"Impossible! Could it be that you remembered it wrong? Maybe he is another monster?"
"It must be a tengu." Shi Wuqi asserted.
"If there are other monsters that can turn into humans, there are too many. Tengu can't do that," Shanhai said. "But... there are ways to transform into humans."
His voice became lower and lower, as if he was hesitating about what he was about to say, or... something else. They all stared at him, making Shan Hai feel a little flustered.
"Many monsters have such a characteristic. If they eat a cow, they can turn into a cow; if they eat a tiger, they can turn into a tiger. If they eat...well, and this must be a very huge number. "
"..."
Human-eating monsters are nothing unusual. But a man-eating monster is much weirder if it's accompanied by a person.
"Then, what happened next?" Dai Luan asked.
"He didn't seem to get a satisfactory answer, so he shook his head and left. Since then, I have never heard from him again."
"If he really lets the Tengu go... This, this is really unreasonable, completely unconscionable and deviant!"
Mu Wan cursed. It was the first time they saw her so angry and they didn't dare to say a word. In fact, Shan Hai understands this feeling very well. For a cook, killing someone with a cooking knife is indeed outrageous.
"Maybe it ate bad people?" Dai Luan tried to comfort her.
"That's not the problem." She was still very emotional. "Using human flesh to feed shikigami...can you understand? I'm not talking about whether bad people should be eaten, but the matter itself...it is problematic. !”
As for what was wrong, she was stuck in her throat and couldn't say it. In fact, the matter itself is indeed beyond words. In fact, they all understand this strange feeling. In other words, certain things called conscience, morality, or other principles that are the bottom line of human beings make them feel that this kind of thing is "wrong."
"If I can see him, I will definitely teach him a lesson... It's really a disgrace to my bloodline."
"But the dog must be very difficult to deal with that day," Shanhai sighed, "The monsters that have eaten people are very difficult to deal with."
Seeing that the atmosphere was getting worse, Dai Luan searched for other topics.
"Well, we saw the sky in the north during the day. Can we go and see it tomorrow? Maybe it has something to do with monsters..."
Mu Wan, who was disgusted by the previous topic, already felt a little indifferent about this matter. Anyway, the sky is over, and if Shanhai insists on going, it can only be tomorrow. But at this moment, Shi Wuqi thought of something again. So, he told them all the discussions he heard at the next table during the day.
"It must be the work of monsters. Let's go take a look tomorrow morning."
After Shan Hai finished speaking, Mu Wan just remained silent. There was only one firebending monster she knew that she could think of.
She was right.
Halfway through the fourth watch, in the dark night, the monster in red was sitting on the ridge of the roof, watching the cat catching the mouse.
There is one mouse and two cats. They were all girls, and their footsteps were light and silent, not disturbing the silent night at all.
When they reached a wider area, the girl running ahead stopped. She was wearing a long sleeved white dress with dark green edges on the cuffs and placket, and free and easy ink spots splashed on the hem. If you look closely, you can see that it is just decorated with mottled dark green.
The other two girls were slightly younger than her. A pink and white gauze dress, the material is indeed very luxurious, suitable for the kind of cumbersome and cumbersome brocade clothes. But the piece on her body was cut to be light and close-fitting, completely different from the common styles of satin. The other girl's clothes were similar to hers, but the color was blue and white. When they all stopped, they placed the two instruments in front of them.
There should be no musical instruments in the Musicless City.
"You two little sisters, aren't you afraid of violating local laws?"
They didn't pay attention to her, they just stared at her quietly, with no trace of meaning in their eyes that could be read.
"you……"
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl in Tsing Yi raised her fingertips, and an unknown hidden weapon came towards her. She turned away for a moment, but after two breaths, she still felt burning pain. The concealed weapon was embedded in the pillar beside her, and she was sure that she had not been hit. But when I touched my face, the warm blood and stinging pain were so real. She looked slightly sideways and saw the bright moonlight sliding through the sky in the moonlight.
Wire……?
She drew out her sword, and the sharp blade crossed it, but the line was not broken, but instead played a chilling and harsh note. This thread was too strong. When she turned her head, she immediately discovered that it was actually a konghou string sent by the woman in green. Before she could figure out the other party's intention, the woman in pink clothes with the pipa lightly stepped on the strings and jumped behind her in a few steps, calmly and quietly.
The next moment, the sound of a sword being unsheathed burst into her ears - the top of the pipa was actually a sword hilt, and Senhan's sword fell from the sky. She turned back to put the sword back, if she had been a step too late, her face would have been scratched.
Difficult cats.
As the weapons connected, before the woman in green could make her next move, the vision of several people exploded in red.
Fire falls from the sky.
They each took a few steps back, and the fine flint completely widened the distance between the three of them. In this triangular layout, a red-clothed and black-haired monster appeared out of nowhere. He faced the two young girls and raised his voice.
"Can you two... give me Zou Wuchang some face?"
The two looked at each other, still not speaking. The girl in green clothes stood there stunned, but still raised her sword alertly and pointed it at his back. Lord Xueyue did not look back, he just raised his hand and said:
"If you don't go, you won't have a chance."
"...Thank you, Master, for your help."
She was silent for a long time, then turned around and retreated into the night.
But the mouse cannot escape death.
