"Then, do you want to return this painting?"
Mountainside.
In the second half of the moon, judging from the sky, it was about two hours before sunrise.
Thick clouds drifted in, gradually covering the bright moon, and the trees in the forest were filled with shadows, making it look slightly eerie.
Looking at the scroll held by Chu Susu in both hands, Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei didn't know what to say.
Ever since the old monk made the two of them suffer a small loss with "Waiting Zen", Zheng Xiu had no hope at all for Chu Susu's "stealing technique".
Whether Chu Susu steals openly or blindly, although it is unpredictable, there are traces to follow. Fengbei will never be careless a third time if he is careless twice. Zheng Xiu does not think Chu Susu can learn from the old monk. The painting was stolen from his arms.
However, the old monk's behavior of showing the scroll in front of Zheng Xiu inadvertently complied with Chu Susu's rule of "stealing openly".
Chu Susu admitted that she was gambling.
She made the right bet.
But this seems to be wrong behavior.
Looking at the silent Zheng Xiu, Feng Bei took the initiative to take the painting from Chu Susu's hand, untied the rope and carried the scroll behind his back, saying: "It doesn't matter, just return the painting to the master afterwards."
Subtly, she gradually learned Zheng Xiu's "flexible" way of thinking.
"Then, that's all."
Zheng Xiu nodded and said in good conscience that he was indeed very interested in this painting.
If this scroll is really so incredible, and if there is a "world in the painting" that is equivalent to a ghost hidden in the scroll, as a "prisoner", Zheng Xiu must not miss it.
At present, Zheng Xiu has found out two ways to deepen the [Prisoner] door, one is to contact ghosts, and the other is to upgrade the cell.
"Eternal Purgatory" is being created. If he wants to have a two-pronged approach, he has to clean up the ghosts in this world.
Silently saying sorry to Master Waiting, in the dim light of the moon, Zheng Xiu led the way, and the three of them followed the path down the mountain.
On the way down the mountain, two ravens were circling in the sky, seemingly looking for something.
Feng Bei quickly recognized this as Dou Xie and Yue Yan's raven.
really.
The three people walking on the mountain road were about to go down the mountain. Yueyan walked through the woods, holding a bamboo hat by her hips, stepping flexibly in mid-air with her toes, and landed in front of Feng Bei and Zheng Xiu.
"Did you succeed?"
Seeing the three people going down the mountain, Yue Yan vaguely understood something.
Zheng Xiu nodded: "We succeeded."
Yueyan hooked her ten fingers and quickly retracted the "thread web" like a spider web set up in the mountain forest into her sleeves.
Boom.
Dou Xie was thrown to the ground by Yue Yan.
"I'm curious, how did you succeed? That old monk is so difficult to deal with."
"It's hard to say, let's talk about it when we get back."
Zheng Xiu looked back at Chu Susu, who was twisting her clothes like a child who had done something wrong and had an uneasy look on her face, but did not tell in detail how she obtained the cannibal painting.
Dou Xie got up from the ground and complained about Yue Yan's rude behavior.
On the way down the mountain.
Zheng Xiu asked about the fire in Yunliu Temple.
Yue Yan laughed dumbly: "You don't think that we set this fire, do you?"
Zheng Xiu shook his head and denied: "It's not enough." Master Zheng silently glanced at the Dou Xie and added in his heart.
What I worry about is that the naughty child is ignorant.
Dou Xie could see the deep meaning in Zheng Xiu's eyes, opened his mouth and pointed at himself.
Yueyan smiled and explained: "We went up the mountain in advance and told the monks our intentions, but the masters didn't want to see us. I sneaked in secretly, but was stopped on the stone steps with a 'Wait a minute'. "When talking about this, Yue Yan's face became a little more depressed: "I didn't expect that there would be such a master hiding in a temple. The world is so vast, there are all kinds of wonders."
"Later, Dou Xie and I discovered that there were some wanderers around Yunliu Temple who were trying to make a move. I caught one of them and made inquiries, only to learn that a few days ago, someone had spread the rumor within hundreds of miles of Yunliu Temple, saying that Yunliu Temple There is a valuable treasure hidden in the Liu Temple, which is an ancient painting by Gongsun Mo worth tens of thousands of gold. Ordinary people in the world don't know the pros and cons of sect magic, so they are like flies that smell the smell of meat and are attracted to it. "
Hearing this, Zheng Xiu frowned: "Who leaked the news?"
He always felt that everything was too coincidental and unusual.
Yueyan shrugged helplessly, pursed her lips and said, "Yueyan doesn't know about this."
Dou Xie covered his face and stepped forward in confusion, "Now that we have the paintings, let's just go back and recover. No matter who leaked the news."
Yue Yan smiled sweetly: "Although this kid talks without thinking, he is also somewhat irrational. Now that the painting has been obtained, no matter who is stirring up trouble in the dark, we will benefit in the end. Anyway, we can't stand up to those crippled gangs. People can't escape their involvement! Yue Yan speculates that it must be the group of disabled people who want to take advantage of the chaos, but they never expected that Master Waiting would be so powerful and you would succeed in the end."
Yue Yan's expression was relaxed and her face was full of spring breeze. As a typical office worker in Ye Weiyang, for her, the mission of this trip to Shuzhou was completed when Feng Bei and Zheng Xiu successfully obtained Gongsun Mo's calligraphy treasure from the old monk.
As for the colleagues who were taken away by the cannibal painting, this is not within the scope of Yue Yan's concerns.
Feng Bei did not hide anything from Yue Yan and the other two, and told her and Zheng Xiu's inferences.
She said that the painting was most likely a ghost of its own, because when she saw the cannibal painting, she saw the "Heart Fox" badge on the treetop. After learning about this, Yue Yan and Dou Xie showed surprise on their faces. The awe-inspiring and terrifying ghost was actually hidden in a painting. Even in the case handled by Ye Weiyang, it was a strange thing that had never been recorded.
After a few people met, they went down the mountain and were about to arrive at Jiangjun Town.
They then had two choices, either to rest overnight in General Town and leave the city at dawn; or to rush back to the Imperial City overnight to avoid accidents.
Chatting all the way and being alert at the same time, the five people walked to the gate of Jiangjun Town.
The city gates were wide open, and the city was silent in the dead of night.
After walking a hundred steps, Zheng Xiu suddenly touched his ear.
"There seems to be something wrong with the atmosphere."
Zheng Xiu frowned.
After a while, Feng Bei raised his eyes to look at the sky, frowned slightly, and said softly: "It's too quiet."
Yue Yan and Dou Xie didn't think anything was wrong at first. It was reasonable for the city to be quiet in the middle of the night. But when Feng Bei reminded her, Yue Yan savored the atmosphere in the city and suddenly felt that the silence was too weird.
At this moment, there was no other sound except the wind. They walked hundreds of steps without even hearing a dog barking. It was really strangely quiet.
Eee!
Eee!
Closed doors opened.
A shaky figure stepped out from behind the open door.
The five people who entered Jiangjun Town stopped. No matter how they looked at the changes in front of them, they seemed unusual.
In the blink of an eye, more and more people came out of the houses, alleys, and attics on the streets that were supposed to be deserted. Within a few breaths, the deserted streets suddenly became bustling and "lively." extraordinary.
But this kind of excitement made Zheng Xiu and others feel a chill behind them.
On the faces of the people who walked out, their eyes were narrowed, and the corners of their mouths were tilted to their ears, maintaining an exaggerated and weird "smile". The stiff expressions were like dull facial makeup stuck on their faces. There was no trace of life on their faces. They were more like zombie-like puppets than human beings.
"Hee hee hee--"
"Hey hey hey——"
"The slave family is here..."
"My lord, come and have some hot tea!"
"Hee hee hee!"
Weird smiles appeared on the grins of the people, coming from all directions. In an instant, the quiet streets were filled with strange laughter, and the whole city was enveloped in a "joyful" underworld atmosphere.
The crowd was huge and they rushed towards several people.
Yue Yan, Feng Bei, Zheng Xiu, and Chu Susu subconsciously took a few steps back, leaving only Dou Xie, who was at a loss, standing in front.
It looks like Dou Xie is taking the initiative.
In the blink of an eye, Dou Xie was pushed down by the crowd. They still maintained weird smiles on their faces and stretched out their hands to pinch Dou Xie's neck.
"Uuuuuu——"
Dou Xie was instantly surrounded and pressed down by dozens of people. He barely had time to dig out his textbook. Before he could read a few words, the handwritten book was snatched away by a hungry old courtesan from a brothel and thrown out of the crowd.
I saw Dou Xie screaming, moaning, shy, crying and struggling under the dark figures. I don’t know exactly what happened.
The four people who retreated silently observed for a while. In fact, Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei had already noticed something was wrong. They felt that these people looked strange, but in fact they were alive. Dou Xie took the initiative to verify this with his own experience.
"They are... living people!"
Seeing that Dou Xie was about to be stripped naked and his integrity was at stake, Zheng Xiu rushed into the crowd, kicked away the weird people with three punches and two kicks, held the Dou Xie in his hand like an eagle catching a chicken, and jumped on roof.
Yue Yan also carried Chu Susu up to the roof. Chu Susu had sharp eyes and put her hand into her arms. She flicked her wrist and the handwritten book lost in Dou Xie fell into Chu Susu's hand.
"What happened!"
Although Dou Xie was pushed down by a group of people and their hands were held up and down for a long time. But this moment the skill is only very insulting, but in fact the damage is not very high. Dou Xie looked at the people swarming on the street angrily and asked in disgrace. The reason why he became so angry was because he felt that he had been knocked down in front of him and had lost the face of Ye Weiyang Xingxu.
Except for Dou Xie, no one asked this question.
This was obviously a thaumaturgy performed by a thaumaturge.
What they should think about now is who it is and what technique it is.
"Something's wrong, get out of the city first!"
Zheng Xiu made a judgment in an instant, and Feng Bei nodded in agreement. The common people are controlled by inexplicable magic, but they are still alive. Unless they have to do so, they would not be willing to act unconscionably and massacre the common people.
suddenly.
Zheng Xiu's [intuition] was triggered, and the hairs all over his body stood on end. He suddenly turned around and saw a figure in black standing on the city gate where they entered the city. He wore a skull mask on his face and the skull was covered with seven-color patterns. In this dark night Looks extremely coquettish.
The mask looked very much like the facial makeup of a street actor.
The moment Zheng Xiu turned around, the colorful man in black smiled and took out a strange weapon from his waist.
The weapon is about two feet six long. From a distance, it looks like a pair of scissors, radiating cold light.
The man in black waved the "scissors" in front of him, and saw that the black night was easily cut open by the scissors like a thin piece of paper and divided into two halves. The night divided into two halves was like two sharp gray light curtains, attacking Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei.
The man in black clothes and colorful face was obviously well prepared. He disturbed the sight of several people with the sight of ordinary people, and suddenly took action in the chaos. The gray light curtain cut through was extremely fast. Almost as soon as Zheng Xiu noticed something strange and turned around, the light curtain was already in front of him.
The strangeness of the controlled people made Zheng Xiu dare not rashly use the other party's thaumaturgy. Thaumaturgy and thaumaturgy can be described in one word: miraculous. There are all kinds of strange thaumaturgy techniques that are hard to guard against. It is not a wise move to resort to thaumaturgy techniques before you understand the secrets of the opponent's thaumaturgy techniques.
"Fengbei!"
Zheng Xiu established a sufficient tacit understanding with Feng Bei along the way. As soon as Zheng Xiu said two words, Feng Bei was shocked and stretched out his palm towards Zheng Xiu.
"Snapped!"
Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei clapped their hands, leveraging each other's strength, and bounced to both sides. The gray light curtain seemed to cut the entire city in half, separating Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei.
"Oh? It's interesting, it's interesting!"
The man in black with a colorful face let out an exaggerated exclamation when he witnessed Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei's hands touching. But he didn't pause in his movements, and the weapon that looked like scissors in his hand struck out frequently, and the dark night in front of him was torn into pieces by his scissors. The torn night curtain was forcibly divided into separate spaces, separating everyone.
At this time, Zheng Xiu suddenly felt the attraction from his true body, and the distance of [Wandering] was limited. The strange space that the other party tore out with scissor weapons seemed to have weakened his "connection" with Feng Bei, affecting [Speed Travel] to some extent.
"I only heard that the monster favored you, but I never heard that you could touch the monster and be safe and sound. It's strange, weird, weird. Who are you!"
The man in black with colorful face jumped down from the city wall far away. Under his feet, dark shadows spread out, paving several "shadow paths" in mid-air. The man in black with colorful face just stepped on Following the road made of shadows, he quickly approached Zheng Xiu.
At this moment, Zheng Xiu was trapped by "black shadows" like high walls. The high walls of black shadows moved forward and back, high and low, forcibly dividing the small space where Zheng Xiu was into an irregular room.
The five people who walked down from Yunliu Temple were separated by a high wall of shadows. Because Yue Yan and Zheng Xiu were close to each other, they were grouped together.
Zheng Xiu and Yue Yan were silent at the same time.
The two of them stared at each other's chest at the same time.
The visitor was dressed in black clothes with cloud sleeves and three words written in wild cursive on the chest.
——"Shang Xian Si"!
Yue Yan couldn't hide the surprise on her face. She saw clearly the tattoo on the other person's chest and said in astonishment: "Shang Xian Si, shadow play, you don't laugh...why?"
"Ah?" The colorful man, whom Yue Yan called "Jun Buxiao", spread his hands and made an exaggerated questioning voice after hearing the words: "Oh? What's going on? Didn't you receive the Night Lord's secret mission?" said After that, Jun Buxiao did not let Yue Yan answer, but waved downwards: "Xiao Tangtang, you never told me about this. I thought these two stars were ours!"
Below, a shadow like a wall cloth "peels off", revealing another man in black. He was also wearing cloud-embroidered black clothes and a long black sheath sword hanging on his waist. Although he did not have his code name tattooed on his chest as grandly as Jun Buxiao, the black iron wood order on his waist But Yue Yan instantly understood the identity of the person hiding behind the shadow curtain by calling him Jun Buxiao.
"Xia Xian Si, don't move the knife, Gu Qiutang!"
Gu Qiutang frowned, as if he felt unhappy at the words "Xiao Tangtang". According to Gu Qiutang, he did not have an attack, but calmly replied: "The arrangements of the Night Lord are always difficult to predict."
"Okay, it's clear, it's clear, it's clear! Hey hey hey!" Jun Buxiao shook his head and said a line three times with a sonorous voice as if he was singing, as if he just remembered that he was trapped in " The two people in "Shadow Play" exaggerated laughter from behind the painted masks: "Brother, don't panic, our target this time is just the monster called 'Fengbei', you just need to stand here obediently, Stay still to keep you safe. Xiao Yueyue, although you are new here, you should also understand that our Ye Weiyang style does not like to hurt innocent people...unless it is absolutely necessary!"
Zheng Xiu, who had been silent since Jun Bu Smile and Gu Qiutang appeared, suddenly changed his expression and slapped Yue Yan on the chest.
"puff!"
Yueyan was unprepared and received a slap on her bulging chest. She groaned and blood flew out from the corner of her mouth.
Zheng Xiu roared angrily, his voice distorted by anger: "You actually betrayed us!? You have to die a good death!"
Yueyan clutched her chest and screamed in pain as she was slapped dozens of steps away by Zheng Xiu. Her back hit the high shadow wall, causing circles of dark ripples.
Yue Yan looked at Zheng Xiu standing alone on the roof in disbelief, with a look of shock on her face.
What surprised her was not that "Macho Man Zheng Shan" took action against her.
Not even because the macho man Zheng Shan slapped her breasts.
It's because Zheng Shan's roar had a strange tone, not normal.
If other people only think that this person is stressed and distorted in anger, he has lost his mentality.
But Yue Yan, who has a dual identity, tastes a different flavor from the changing tone.
It is a whistle that rarely appears in the secret whistle of the Zheng Brotherhood, but every Brotherhood assassin will keep it in mind - "whistle at the last resort"!
Once someone blows the whistle, it means things have come to a head and the whistleblower will find a way to distance himself from the Zheng family!
The shocked Yue Yan slipped from the shadow wall, and for a moment, lightning flashed in her heart, which was extremely confusing.
Why does Zheng Shan know the Brotherhood's secret whistle so well?
Why did he blow the whistle?
What is he going to do?
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)
