Shi Wuqi didn't expect that she could catch up so quickly. It seemed that this girl's Qinggong had improved a lot while he was away. Mu Wan was a little surprised when he saw the person in front of him. Linyou was no different from the first time she met him. His intertwined hair, black and white robes, and his smile that was so respectful and teasing were all very familiar to her.
"Why are you here?" Mu Wan asked, "How dare you come?"
"Of course I dare. You who are the most troublesome are gone. Where am I doing, and what does it have to do with you?"
He was more beaten than before.
Neither of them got angry, and Shi Wuqi then interrogated him about Lord Yingyue. Linyou took a deep breath, and there was a hint of sadness in his eyes. The expression on his face was surprising.
Mu Wan didn't buy it: "What other tricks do you want to play?"
"It's nothing." He rubbed the bridge of his nose, "But you guys, tell me the truth, Master Yingyue, are you not going to live long?"
"Probably not. We don't know the actual situation. We only know that the person he is responsible for cannot control himself."
"Are you talking about the Laughing Wolf?" Linyou put his hands in his hands, "I know about him. If I tell you, can I protect Lord Yingyue's safety?"
There was a bit of regret in Shi Wuqi's words, but he couldn't tell whether they were sincere, like a businessman's half-cooling, half-pity response to a guest's complaint.
"It's not what we said."
"Then I'd better make an offer." Linyou smiled, "I can't suffer a loss."
Shi Wuqi rolled his eyes and took the third silver ingot. He put the money away with a smile, and then said slowly:
"The number of lives a human being can bear in his hands varies depending on the number of lives he can bear in his life. Soldiers have the duty of soldiers to protect their homes and country and obey the orders of the Lord. Those who die in their hands are a kind of calculation. Women have women. The suffering, being forced by fate, to protect children and grandchildren, and having to pick up a knife is also a kind of algorithm. Killing people for fun, these unnecessary sins are another kind of algorithm."
What Lin You said was clear and logical, and the two of them seemed to understand. But they didn't interrupt, waiting for him to continue.
"In comparison, the Laughing Wolf has too many human lives on its hands. The person who eats the killer's meal has already prepared to make people feel that death is not a pity. As for him, in addition to the meal list, he kills He killed too many people who shouldn't have been killed. The lives in his hands must have a number, and the specific number is decided by that adult."
"So he asked Lord Xueyue and Lord Yingyue to monitor him respectively?" Mu Wan thought, "Jun Yue's crimes are extremely evil, but he can somewhat control him... Well, who knows if he can. But Yingyue You miscalculated, isn't he as good as the Laughing Wolf?"
"Yingyue Jun has a lot of resentment and strong demon power. These are far better than the Laughing Wolf. However, in terms of martial arts and coordination, he is really no match for the cunning killer. If you use some tricks, he will be helpless. I think , the Smiling Wolf has killed too many people, and it is about to approach that number. Recently I heard that another girl died in Wule City, so I came to find her. I can feel that Yingyue Jun is indeed in Wule City. Either He's hiding, or he's busy chasing the Laughing Wolf, but I didn't find him anyway."
"If he kills too many people, will the Lord send down... something similar to heavenly punishment?" Mu Wan asked.
"No, no, no, girl, you are too stupid." Linyou smiled and shook his head, "Even the Lord of Naraku will not do such a thing. He will only give the impermanent ghosts who have neglected their duties the due punishment. But You have to know where the trouble lies... in the murdered ghosts. One or two women, three or four children, five, six, seven or eight cattle, sheep and dogs... maybe it's nothing. But if the ghosts are summoned by some kind of summons to gather together, Together, this power cannot be underestimated. Think about it, who is willing to deal with an irrational, huge monster?"
"But, even if that adult wants to punish him, why should he pay the price for the safety of the human world? This is unjustifiable."
Facing Mu Wan's doubts, Linyou's smile became a little dry. He looked helpless as if looking at a stupid child.
"The safety of the human world? That's the safety of you humans, right? Besides, isn't this your own fault?"
"I, you..."
She was speechless for a moment. But now she knows that what they should worry about most is the people in the City Prince's Mansion.
"I know about the matter of the fourth concubine of the city lord. I heard it from several fellow Taoists. Tell your partners to take it easy. I guess that the demon spirit has a prototype and wants to seduce more weak women and absorb them. They serve as 'companions', as a part of them. Or maybe the demon has already taken shape, but it's just dormant, no one can say for sure."
"They" will become more and more powerful and difficult to control.
They must be careful.
Before leaving, Mu Wan hesitated to ask something else. Maybe she just remembered it, or maybe she wanted to say it from the beginning. Linyou saw her hesitation and asked her if there was anything else she wanted to know.
"The spirit that separated from your body is now a monster named Xun."
"Yeah, I know. That's how most of them come about."
"I had a fate with it, do you know?"
"Then how do I know?" Linyou spread his hands, "Although he is my clone, he is still an independent individual. There are many differences and similarities between us."
"Is that so?" Mu Wan sighed softly, "Then I have no problem."
"Hey, wait a minute." Seeing that they were about to leave, Linyou took the last step to persuade him to stay, "Although I don't know what's going on there, I can give you some information on what you want to know."
Mu Wan looked at him suspiciously, and he continued: "It's not expensive. You can give me three copper coins first."
It's really not expensive, just a plate of side dishes. Shi Wuqi raised his eyebrows slightly, as if protesting against this differential treatment. Linyou explained seriously: "Boss, intelligence and fortune-telling are two prices. Tell me, girl, what do you want to know?"
"..."
She didn't know how to ask for a moment, so she opened her mouth without making a sound. She thought of several ways to ask, but they all felt inappropriate. After brewing for a long time, Mu Wan finally choked out this sentence.
"Is it still okay?"
Shi Wuqi slapped his face with one hand - a sentence full of loopholes.
Linyou didn't say much and asked her to throw the three coins. She raised her wrist, and as soon as the three coins left her hand, Linyou copied them over and grabbed them all in her hand. Before she could react, he said this immediately.
"What's yours will always come back. If it doesn't come back, it's not yours."
"What do you mean-"
Linyou snapped his fingers, and both the person and the stall turned into a ball of white smoke and disappeared in an instant.
"I think he's quite good at this kind of deception." Shi Wuqi squinted his eyes, "Why don't you ask when you will receive retribution?"
Mu Wan didn't bother to argue with him, so he turned around and left. Their next direction can only be the City Prince's Mansion. Although you may not be able to get in, maybe you can catch up with Shanhai and the others and be kicked out?
They didn't speak during the whole journey. But the further they walked toward the City Prince's Mansion, the more they felt something was wrong. Although the crowd gradually became denser, it seemed that everyone was not just passing through, but gathering in one direction. Their purpose is the same as both of them, in the same direction. This makes them feel bad.
Shi Wuqi's hearing was better, and he was trying to catch some fragments of words from people's whispers. The more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong, and his feet increased speed, frequently bumping into pedestrians. Unknowingly, he threw Mu Wan too far. She pushed through the crowd and chased after him, asking him what was going on.
"Something happened in the City Prince's Mansion."
These six simple words gave Mu Wan a hard punch in his heart. She felt her heart contract, and for a moment she forgot to breathe. When she came back to her senses, she also quickened her pace and asked as she ran:
"What's going on? No, maybe the monster hasn't..."
"I think we have all overlooked one thing." Shi Wuqi looked ugly. She rarely saw him like this.
"what exactly is it?"
"The people killed - Linyou refers to the number of dead people with a certain motive for killing. Regardless of the number determined by Yama, whether it is hundreds or thousands, I think, in fact... I am afraid it is enough. But we Everyone thought they still owed it.”
"Didn't he say there is still a possibility of hibernation?"
"Then how do you explain this?!"
Mu Wan looked diagonally ahead where he pointed, and saw that the sky was a strange color. Black, bluish, with a little bit of discrete red, it's like the sky where night, dawn and sunset coexist, has been randomly wiped into a ball. It is protected by a tall wall, so I don’t know what the situation is like inside. People only watched from a distance and did not have the courage to get closer. That weird sky might still be spreading. Shi Wuqi wasn't sure, but he had this suspicion.
Now, the whole world is about to know what the city lord has hidden from the world.
Therefore, there must be some opportunity that caused the demon to wake up from a certain state of sleep, or it decided that it did not want to sleep anymore. Something must have happened. The most likely thing is that "enough people are enough."
"We have all ignored...the people who should be ignored the least."
Mu Wan was shocked.
"Is it Aoki?!"
"Yes. Although she was killed by an accident or by Lord Kuchue in the end, she still died due to the Laughing Wolf's motive of putting people to death. I suspect that the number has been underestimated by one since that moment. .”
Perhaps even the Laughing Wolf didn't expect this.
Whether the guess is correct or not is no longer important, what matters is how to go in and help them. When the two rushed to the front of the crowd, there was a large open space. In front of the air, several guards held long guns, trembling against the wall, but retreated step by step. The air ahead under the clouds was of a strange color, as if separated by a thin film.
That was probably a barrier, a barrier that was born when the demon awakened. Just like an insect's egg, it was originally born to protect the soft and fragile life inside. When it emerges from its shell, it is a mature, destructive pest.
Shi Wuqi guessed correctly, the film was indeed spreading. One of the guards had the courage to stab him in with a spear. His weapon seemed to be sucked, and he held the tip of the gun tightly. He was probably stunned, and without letting go, he was actually dragged in by the barrier. It would be easier to handle if it was swallowed inside the barrier. He was actually forced into the barrier, and was "crushed" by this transparent, soft wall glowing with sparkling light. All the flesh and blood was squeezed out of the skin, and he was infinitely unfolded, turning into a thin and blurry "paper" of blood.
They have a delusion. The pink color of this barrier seems to be more intense, and it is expanding faster.
The one who comes is not good.
And extremely vicious.
