When Yu Jiuxu and Su Luochen returned to the inn, the door of the inn was open, but only the disciples of the Immortal Sect were helping to guard it. The innkeeper and waiter were not seen, so they probably had to rest first.
Seeing a few people coming back, everyone who had been waiting outside the inn slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
After scanning the surroundings, Ye Qingyao stepped forward, feeling a little uneasy. She nodded and said, "Tianjun, where is my master?"
After she said that, Su Luochen quickly glanced at everyone and frowned slightly: "He didn't come back?"
Just as he was talking, a spiritual energy flashed across the sky. Xu Changliu put away his sword and landed on the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief amidst everyone's puzzled expressions, "Hey, this village is not big and the road is quite difficult to find. How is it? Are everything okay? ?”
Everyone shook their heads and saw that there was nothing strange about him, so they didn't ask any more questions. They redeployed security and strengthened patrols. Disciples from three sects took turns on duty, and the rest went back to the inn to rest.
Several people walked into the inn. Xu Changliu followed the team. After thinking for a long time, he was the last one to walk into the inn.
Looking at Su Luochen who was about to walk upstairs, he suddenly coughed slightly. Su Luochen, who had not yet gone upstairs, paused slightly as if he felt something. He stood where he was and looked back, and saw Xu Changliu stopped at the door of the inn, staring at him with burning eyes.
Seeing him turn his head, the two of them looked at each other. Xu Changliu looked at him and asked him to take a step to speak. Su Luochen looked at her, and although she was suspicious, she turned around and followed him out.
Yu Jiuxu followed him, looked at the two of them with some confusion, and prepared to follow without thinking.
But just as she reached the door, Xu Changliu suddenly raised his hand to block her in the inn, "I'm looking for Su Luochen, so you don't have to come."
As they spoke, the two looked at each other. Yu Jiuxu blinked and stared at him. Somehow, compared to before, she always felt that there was a bit more chill in his eyes when he looked at her.
Yu Jiuxu didn't say anything. She turned to look at Su Luochen for a long time. When Su Luochen nodded to her, she turned around and left reluctantly.
Watching Yu Jiuxu go upstairs, Xu Changliu withdrew his eyes with a knife-like smile, his brows knitted together unconsciously, and he turned around and walked out of the inn with Su Luochen...
When the sky was gray and bright, Yu Jiuxu was awakened by a burst of noise. Logically speaking, such a remote village should not be very lively unless it was a festival.
She rubbed her eyes and stood up to put on her clothes in a daze. It was just dawn outside. Who was making so much noise?
While thinking, she had already stood up, put on her clothes, and opened the door. The noise became even louder, and she was sure it was coming from the inn.
Yu Jiuxu yawned, walked to the corridor, leaned down and looked down. All the disciples on duty after midnight yesterday were there, including Tang Zhixu and Song Wenhui, and even Xie Yuhan was here.
What exactly happened?
Suddenly a trace of curiosity arose, and Yu Jiuxu felt that most of his drowsiness had disappeared. He looked down and saw a stretcher in the center of the crowd. The stretcher was covered with white cloth, and the slightly convex shape in the middle was obviously a person.
Did someone die again last night?
But it's impossible. Wan Chuyue and Shen Jingzi chased her all night last night, so they probably didn't have time to harm the villagers.
Just as she was thinking about it, the door of the neighboring room opened. Mu Wenlan was biting her headband and tying her hands into a ponytail. When she came out, she just wrapped the hairband around it.
Seeing that Yu Jiuxu was still upstairs, she couldn't help but said, "Why are you still here? Tang Munian found it, didn't you go see it?"
found it? So fast?
Yu Jiuxu was startled. Although she said this, no one came to tell her. Of course she didn't know.
However, speaking of it, it seems that Xu Changliu and Su Luochen have not come back since last night.
"Let's go together."
While Yu Jiuxu was thinking about it, Mu Wenlan had already tied up her hair. The two of them walked downstairs together, passing through a group of onlookers, and stopped in front of the body with a white cloth covering its cheeks.
"I heard that it has been confirmed that it is Tang Munian." Mu Wenlan stood next to Yu Jiuxu, covering her face and speaking softly.
Yu Jiuxu didn't say anything, but just remembered the scene last night when Tang Munian was dragged away by Wan Chuyue's poison ivy.
In fact, she never quite understood it. Judging from Tang Munian's reaction at that time, it seemed that there was no discussion beforehand, which meant that he was being used by them.
But why kill him? Logically speaking, Guan Yubai should be quite short of manpower now. Although Tang Munian is not a good one, at least he cannot be said to be without value.
After all, nowadays, there are very few demon cultivators, basically none, let alone those who are willing to go through fire and water for him. People like Tang Munian are exactly what Guan Yubai needs.
Greedy, selfish, and extremely eager to surpass everyone. In order to reach a higher place, he can even ignore his relatives. Tang Jinnian is the best example.
But now he is dead?
While thinking, Yu Jiuxu knelt down and raised his hand to gently lift the white cloth covering Tang Munian's face.
The moment the white cloth was lifted, a stench came oncoming, along with the black air spreading out, like the smell of dead mice that had rotted for more than ten days in the scorching heat. It went straight to the brain, which really made people feel uncomfortable. It feels like you will die at any time if your eyes go dark.
"It stinks!"
For a moment, the smell spread inside and outside the inn, and the disciples around Xun who were watching the excitement retreated, wishing they could be thousands of miles away from him immediately.
Even Mu Wenlan felt nauseated unconsciously. The pungent smell hit her brain directly. While she was feeling dizzy, her stomach was still churning.
She couldn't help but take a step back, raised her hands to cover her mouth and nose, and carefully looked at the corpse in front of her.
I saw that the flesh on his face had begun to rot, and white worms could be vaguely seen crawling out of the flesh.
He obviously died last night, why did he become like this today? This is too weird.
As if to check the condition of the corpse more conveniently, Yu Jiuxu simply knelt down beside the corpse.
Speaking of which, when it was covered with white cloth, it didn't seem that smelly. She glanced at the white cloth and saw faintly blue pictures and texts on the white cloth. She thought it was used by Xianmen to keep the smell away.
While thinking, she raised her hand to open Tang Munian's eyelids. Sure enough, as she expected, there was only a black hole under the eyelids and the eyeball was gone. When she looked at the other one, it was the same situation.
This shows that he may not only have died in the hands of those two people, but something else may have killed him.
Just as he was thinking about it, Xu Changliu and Su Luochen came back from outside. Xu Changliu almost held his nose and walked in. As soon as he entered, he yelled: "Damn! What is so smelly?!"
When Yu Jiuxu heard the sound, she was about to open his mouth with her hand. When she raised her eyes, she met Xu Changliu's eyes, pinching his nose and suppressing his blush, and staring at her angrily.
Before she could react, she felt the collar tighten, and then her whole body was suddenly lifted up. Then the disciple beside her quickly covered the corpse's face with a white cloth.
For a moment, the putrid smell inside and outside the inn subsided a lot, and Yu Jiuxu was led gradually away from the corpse on the ground.
When she turned around, she saw clearly that the person was Ye Qingyao. She looked helpless and said, "Okay Xian'er, don't make trouble, you will be scolded later."
Yu Jiuxu sat on the chair speechlessly, barely knowing what to say.
At this time, Xu Changliu stood next to the corpse and waved to the disciples: "Okay, okay, don't leave this thing here, take it to Yizhuang first."
Seeing the body being carried out of the inn, Yu Jiuxu sighed helplessly. To say that the shell sometimes had a bad thing, that is, it was always being taken care of.
While she was thinking, Xu Changliu arrived behind her without knowing when, and a big hand fell on Yu Jiuxu's shoulder. Yu Jiuxu suddenly came back to his senses, and in a blink of an eye, he was looking into his smiling eyes.
