That night.
Jin'an and Kulijiang transferred to camels along the way and finally arrived at Yueqiang Kingdom before midnight.
Outside Yueqiang City under the dark night, there is still a ring of white salt used to exorcise demons. The last time Jin An and the others came to Yueqiang City at night, they were blocked outside the city gate and spent the night. Now things are different. They stood there. The soldiers guarding the city all knew Kulijiang, and they hurriedly opened the city gate with cheers and let the two people into the city.
The people of the Yueqiang Kingdom who were sleeping soundly in their houses heard the sound of camels running on the street and curiously opened the windows to check the situation, but the camels had already galloped away and they saw nothing.
Yueqiang King's Palace is an ancient castle with golden domes. During the day, the golden domes of these ancient castles were brilliant and magnificent, but now only the dark and blurry outlines remain.
Kulijiang's status in the Yueqiang Kingdom is not low. The two of them had a smooth journey and successfully met the princess Gulizar of the Yueqiang Kingdom.
The name Gulizal means the most beautiful flower blooming in the desert. When you see the princess, her face is pale and bloodless, her body is thin and haggard, her spirit is listless, her eyes are blank and have no focus. At first glance, you can see that she has been living with anxiety and tension for a long time. In a depressing and mentally destructive environment.
Many people gathered in Gulizar's boudoir, and the whole room was filled. The floor, table, balcony, and window sill were as bright as day.
Children in the desert are all brave. Although Gulizar was haggard and could not hide the fear and anxiety in her pupils, she bit her lips and did not let herself cry.
"Princess, this is the Taoist Priest Jin'an of Kangding Kingdom that I mentioned."
"Taoist Master Jin'an, this is the most beautiful flower blooming in our Yueqiang Kingdom, Princess Gulizar."
Seeing that the princess was safe and sound, Kuli Jiang finally let go of his worries for several days. After his brief introduction, Jin An looked up at the night outside and went straight to the topic.
"Black energy is emerging among people. The black energy in the Palace of Disaster is soaring to the sky. Recently, it has been entangled with unclean things. Both the Life Palace and the Baoshou Palace are dim and dull. If they are blocked by the black energy, there must be a bloody disaster. Be clear about the things that are entangled in you. I don’t want to let you go.”
"Have you done anything recently, princess? Which evil god has you unintentionally angered? I heard that your first nightmare started four or five days ago. Please think back to whether you said anything angry or angry in those days. He broke something."
After Jin An finished speaking a few words, he began to look at the room in front of him again.
"Huh?" He said softly.
"This room is simply decorated. It lacks many things that women need, the red and pink curtains, and a bed. This room is not the princess's boudoir. Take me to the princess's boudoir. I want to know about Hekmati Shaman. How did you die?"
Gulizar did not expect that the Han Taoist priest mentioned by Uncle Kulijiang would be so young, looking like he was in his early twenties.
Gulizal was thin and haggard, and refused the lady's offer to help her. As soon as her boudoir was mentioned, her eyes subconsciously showed fear. She was silent at first, and finally mustered up the courage to say with difficulty: "This is indeed not my boudoir. I have the same nightmare every night. I dream about a woman who cannot see clearly, sleeping with me back to back under the bed... Whenever I try to see her face clearly in my dream, the woman under the bed will turn her head and talk to me. We looked at each other, and I was immediately awakened by a nightmare..."
As if just saying these words took all his strength, Gulizal sat back on the chair with a pale face, breathing hard.
"I haven't slept for two days now. I can only take a nap during the day. I don't dare to sleep for too long. Since the shaman died, I am now particularly afraid that I will see the woman under the bed when I close my eyes." Gu. The more Lizal spoke, the paler her face became.
Looking at the haggard Princess of Yueqiang Kingdom, Jin An admired her courage. At least she was just frightened and she didn't break down and cry. If it were an ordinary person who had the same horrible nightmare for so many days in a row, she would have broken down even if she didn't. Afraid of crying.
Although he admired him, he still had to remind the princess of Yueqiang Kingdom: "Princess, it is you who got the dirty things, not the house or the bed. The dirty things will not change just because they change the room or the place." Let you go."
"The dirty thing that entangled you has a clear goal from the beginning. She just wants you to die. No matter how far the princess hides and how many people protect her, it will be useless. It will only increase the deaths of innocent ordinary people. Unless The princess can hide all the way to the ends of the earth without sleeping or resting."
"Since everything started in the princess's boudoir, then everything should be understood there to avoid the death of more innocent people."
After hearing Jin An's words, Kulijiang's expression changed. He was interrupted by Gulizar before he could speak.
Although the princess of the Yueqiang Kingdom was frightened and frightened, her eyes also flashed with perseverance: "Uncle Kulijiang, I can't hide in the palace forever just because I'm afraid of the storm. Gulizar is a desert. The most beautiful flowers bloom in the sky, and they are also the most tenacious flowers. I know that evading all the time is not an option. Since all this is my Gulizal’s life, I, Gulizal, am willing to face it bravely.”
Gulizal started to ask the maid to pack her things and decided to return to her original room to spend the night.
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Princess boudoir.
It had only been two days since anyone had stayed there. As soon as Jin An entered the room, he smelled a very light and strange musty smell. As soon as the weaker maid entered the room, goosebumps appeared all over her body, but a large number of royal palaces filed in. The guards and maids, as well as the light of candlelight, quickly brought warmth and popularity to the place again.
The maid cleaned quickly and the princess checked in again.
This was Jin An's first time entering the princess's boudoir. He found that the people in these deserts particularly liked glittering things. Whether it was carpets, lamp holders, tables, big beds... they were all inlaid with gold. It would be great to use the splendor here. Very realistic.
When no one was paying attention, Jin An secretly weighed the golden lamp holder. Good guy, it's heavy. This is a gold lamp holder, not painted with gold paint or covered with gold foil.
It is indeed a wealthy royal family. Even a small desert country is so wealthy that they use gold as a lamp holder.
But if you think about it carefully, besides gold, which is easy to store and collect, there seems to be no other valuable things that are easy to store in the desert.
Jin An put down the golden lamp holder and looked around the princess's boudoir. Then he stepped on the thick and soft carpet and walked to the princess's bed. He lifted the sheets and bent down to look under the bed. There was nothing abnormal.
He asked Princess Yueqiang: "Princess, when Shaman Hekmati kept vigil for you that night, where did he hide?"
Since returning to the boudoir, Gulizar has become much quieter. Perhaps even she knows that tonight is very dangerous, and maybe... she will lose her life. When she heard Jin An's question, she raised her finger in the direction of the wardrobe. .
Jin An was stunned.
Hiding in both the princess's boudoir and her wardrobe, this shaman is quite good at choosing places.
When Jin An pushed open the luxurious wardrobe edged with gold, there were no women's clothes in the wardrobe, only a pair of shoe prints.
The shoe prints run large.
Not a women's size.
It's a man's.
It seems that since Hekmati Shaman's incident, no one has cleaned or stayed in this princess's boudoir.
Jin An wanted to recreate what happened to the Hekmati shaman that night, so he followed the shoe prints, walked into the closet, and closed the door facing outside.
This Hekmati shaman is really good at finding places. After closing the cupboard door, his line of sight happens to be facing the princess's big bed. As he adjusts the angle, he can see everything under the bed when he squats down.
The princess boudoir has a large space, and the wardrobe is also very spacious, so people can see what is under the bed from the wardrobe.
While Jin An was still squatting in the closet, deep in thought, Kulijiang saw that Jin An had locked himself in the closet alone for a while without making any movement. He came to the closet with some concern and called out softly: "Priest Jin An, you Are you okay? Did you discover anything new?"
It is also difficult for Kulijiang, a man as strong as a black iron tower, who is usually used to speaking in a loud voice, but now he has to deliberately lower his voice and speak softly.
Jin An pushed open the cabinet door and walked out, saying it was nothing, and roughly told what he had discovered. After hearing this, Kulijiang asked in surprise: "Taoist Master Jin An, are you going to hide in the closet tonight too?"
Jin An chuckled and just shook his head without saying anything.
He continued to observe every detail of the princess's boudoir, checking for any oversights.
Logically speaking, he should go and see the body of Hekmati Shaman first tonight. There may be more clues on the body, but time is too tight tonight. The body is not in the palace. In order to waste time, he sealed the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman four times and the Concentric Lock. He had many unique tricks to defeat the enemy, but he was not afraid of a desert devil.
It was late at night.
At this time, there were only three people left in the princess's boudoir, Princess Gulizar of Yueqiang Kingdom, Jin'an, and Kulijiang.
Jin An asked the guards and maids to retreat. It would not be helpful for the ordinary people to stay here. Maybe he would have to take care of the safety of these ordinary people when he and the woman under the princess's bed started fighting.
As for Kulijiang, he insisted on staying.
Last time, Hekmati Shaman was killed by the devil, and the princess in the room almost had an accident, and it was almost too late to save her, so this time he insisted on staying by the princess's side no matter what.
He had watched the princess grow up since he was a child.
He couldn't just sit back and watch the princess fall into danger without doing anything, not to mention that as a member of the Royal Guards of the Yueqiang King's Palace, he had won the trust of the king and his family, and it was his duty to protect the royal family members.
Faced with Kulijiang's insistence on staying, Jin An didn't care. Kulijiang was not an ordinary person. He was also a top-notch master in the Kangding Kingdom. He had strong Qi and blood, and three yang fires were strong. Ordinary evil spirits could not get close to him. .
call--
The desert night wind blew into the house along the gauze curtains of the pavilion, and the lights in the room swayed gently in the breeze.
Kulijiang nervously grasped the handle of the knife on the table.
"It's just an ordinary breeze, no need to be too nervous." Jin An looked at Kulijiang, who was surrounded by grass and trees, and asked him to relax and not be nervous.
at this time.
Jin An and Ku Lijiang sat in front of a table covered with gold, which looked like a famous tree.
Princess Gulizal sat on the bed with her knees in her arms, her fear making her sleepless.
Kulijiang, a big man with a big beard, touched his nose lightly with his finger to hide his embarrassment: "Taoist Master Jin'an, how are we going to kill the devil tonight?"
"wait."
"When we sit here like this, will the devils not dare to come because there are so many of us? Should we learn from Hekmati Shaman and hide in the closet so that we can always see what's going on under the bed?"
"No need."
"Why?"
Jin An's answer was simple: "If she doesn't show up tonight, I will go directly to her and chop her into pieces."
Kulijiang looked shocked: "Taoist Master Jin'an, are you saying...that you have found where the devil comes from?"
No wonder he was filled with shock and surprise at this time. Jin An had only been here for an hour or two and had never left his sight. How did he find the devil's hiding place so quickly?
"I don't know where the devil is hiding, but your princess must know it. It depends on whether your princess is willing to answer our question." Jin An looked at the princess of Yueqiang Kingdom who was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, in a daze and unable to sleep. .
Kulijiang looked at Gulizar with doubts and doubts: "Princess, what on earth is going on?"
At this time, both people in the room were waiting for the answer.
The night wind outside the pavilion was still blowing into the room. Gulizar subconsciously lifted the quilt, as if to use the warmth in the quilt to embolden himself: "About half a year ago, a group of mysterious people came from Yueqiang Kingdom. desert travelers, they bluntly wanted to find my father, saying that they had the most precious treasure in their hands to dedicate to my father..."
"The thing they presented to my father was not a very precious treasure. It was just a painted pottery pot with several faces painted on it. I couldn't tell whether those faces were male or female. I've seen it a few times, but I always forget it. What do those faces look like…”
"Obviously I was looking at the worthless clay pots, but I gradually discovered that my father was starting to become wrong. He would hold on to one of the pots with human faces all day long, and put the pots across the table after breakfast. I also like to put the clay pot on the opposite side of the table during lunch and dinner. Later, I would also put the clay pot on the other side of the bed on the pillow when sleeping. My father has always loved my mother, but it has been more than ten years since my mother died of a serious illness. He has never forgotten my mother... He would hold a clay pot while eating and sleeping, saying that the clay pot was my mother, and he saw my mother in the clay pot."
