There is a curfew in Yanbo City. After nightfall, no one is allowed to walk around freely in the city's streets and squares. The only exception is Chunlaifang. Because the whole street here is full of erotic places such as brothels and prostitutes, it is also called Flower Street.
Speaking of which, it seems that every city has its own flower street.
And Chu Liang has been to the local flower street almost everywhere he goes, which is a bit strange when he thinks about it...
"I am a person who has escaped from vulgar taste. You don't have to look at me like this." He said helplessly.
After he asked about the location of Huajie and led the team over, Lin Bei and Shang Ziliang looked at him with subtle eyes.
That look in his eyes seemed to say... I never thought you, a handsome boy with delicate features, would be like this.
"Ah, yes, yes." After listening to Chu Liang's words, Shang Ziliang nodded repeatedly, "Although we go to visit brothels, we must also go there with a critical eye."
Lin Bei also nodded and said: "Yes, the whole street here is full of poor women with no clothes on. What's wrong with us paying for relief?"
"..." Chu Liang was speechless for a moment, and then said quickly: "We are here to do business, so put away your dirty faces."
With that said, he walked straight into the brothel with the largest reputation.
Due to the recent heart-cutting case, very few people came out at night, and the business in the brothel was very deserted. So when the nice girl at the door saw them, she immediately became very enthusiastic and welcomed the three of them in.
Chu Liang quickly waved his hand and refused. He found a table and ordered some fruit plate snacks. The three of them sat down for the time being.
After calming down, Lin Beicai said: "You are really the most upright person in your words and very fast on your feet. I usually have to hesitate when entering a brothel, for fear that acquaintances will see you. You don't betray anyone at all."
"This is my first time here. My father has never allowed me to come to a place like this before." Shang Ziliang looked around with excitement in his eyes, "Brother, I will be with you forever!"
"Don't talk about this yet." Chu Liang lowered his voice and asked the two of them to come closer: "I really came here to track down the demon cultivator."
"Okay, there are no outsiders here." Lin Bei said with a smile.
"I have been checking the files this afternoon and found that although the places where these victims were killed are scattered all over the city, the time is basically midnight. At this time, Yanbo City has a curfew, and usually no one is walking around outside." Chu. Liang explained, "Most of the passers-by walking alone outside should have a special identity."
"A scholar!" Lin Bei immediately answered.
"That's right, because the brothels here charge extra expensive fees for staying overnight, and many people don't need to stay that long..." Chu Liang continued.
Lin Bei heard this and murmured: "If it were me, I would definitely not die. I can't leave until dawn."
"Me too." Shang Ziliang said hurriedly.
"Cough." Chu Liang coughed and interrupted their digression.
"So they will go home at night?" Shang Ziliang quickly recovered his thoughts and asked.
"Yes, although there are patrols by curfew soldiers, experienced literati can escape. I just asked the soldiers guarding the city. Even if they are caught, if no crime is committed, they will usually be fined some money." Chu Liang said : "And this kind of person has naturally become the best target for demon cultivators."
"This demon cultivator is so hateful!" Lin Bei said angrily.
Strong empathy.
"He is targeting the literati who have returned home, and he will definitely not patrol the city to look for them, so this flower street must be his starting point." Chu Liang said in a deep voice, "Maybe he is waiting here like us at this moment. As night falls."
Lin Bei and Shang Ziliang suddenly became nervous when they heard this, and their breathing became heavy.
…
Li Si stood in the long street, holding a beef offal stall, with the pot in front of him boiling. He was short and thin, and no one passing by would notice him.
And the evil glint in his eyes.
Today's business is actually pretty good, because although there are fewer customers on this flower street, the number of vendors who dare to set up stalls has also dropped sharply, and he is the only one nearby.
No one would have thought that such an honest-looking street vendor could turn out to be a heart-cutting demon who killed seven people in a row.
Even Li Si himself couldn't think of it.
He had lived a simple life for the past thirty years, with a small hut outside the city and a strong and fierce wife. Every evening I push the cart into the city and sell snacks on the Flower Street. When it gets dark, I quickly push the cart home and take a nap during the day.
Looking at the prosperity and decay here every day, his heart has no fluctuations. He only feels that these gorgeous girls and the well-dressed nobles are two different worlds from himself, very close yet very far away.
Until that day ten years ago.
At that time, there was a thunderstorm in the sky, and the sky was as dark as ink. He found a cave to take shelter from the rain on the way home while pushing the cart, and accidentally fell into a big river.
This was not the first time he took shelter from the rain in this cave. He didn't know when there was such a cold river in the cave. He was swept far away by the river. When he got up again, he arrived at a strange place.
This place is cold and deep, with bones everywhere, like hell.
He picked up a book here, which actually recorded some cultivation methods. This is a cultivation method! And it doesn’t seem to require very high qualifications, and everyone can practice it.
Li Si never dared to think that he would have such an opportunity?
Is God coming to save my humble life?
It's just that this technique is very evil, and you have to kill a living person to get started. Li Si's heart was pounding when he saw it, thinking that this was probably the legendary magic technique, but it couldn't be discovered by anyone.
When he raised his head again, he found that the thunderstorm had stopped, and where was the river in front and behind? He was in a tomb in a barren mountain.
Only the book is still in my hand.
When he returned home, he was beaten and scolded by his wife because he lost his car. Li Si's anger started in his heart, and his evil began to grow in his courage. He directly killed his wife, which became a stepping stone for him to practice spiritual practice.
Thus he embarked on the path of cultivation.
The magical skills are very fast and do not require any resources, as long as they keep killing animals. In the process, Li Si's heart seemed to have been changed into becoming more twisted and crazy.
He had almost never been angry in the past few decades, but since he got this technique, he began to hate, hate his ugly wife, hate those dignitaries, hate those literati, hate those good girls, hate his own humbleness... This may not be something that was added to him by the exercises, but the seeds that originally existed in his heart. In the past decades, he had never realized that he hated these glamorous people so much.
And now, he has the power.
There is also anger.
It took him ten years to cultivate to the point of forming the elixir. During these ten years, he killed many people one after another in order to practice, but they were all near the village outside the city, and the interval was relatively long, so no one was able to find him. Some haven't even been discovered.
He gradually gained pleasure from killing.
But it also aroused some alarm. Now many people have moved away from his village, and those who remain dare not travel alone.
That's why he set the target of this pill formation in the city and on these people he has always hated.
Because he did it so cautiously, no one has discovered it yet. But he didn't have a storage weapon, so the human hearts he dug out before could only be preserved like pork, and they couldn't be stored for too long.
He had to hurry up.
There are still two more people. He only needs to kill two more people, and he will have the opportunity to form a pill, and then leave Yanbo City to explore the world.
Li Si's eyes were cold as he stared at the two figures in front of him, a rich man with a big belly and a servant in green clothes and a small hat. The servant was driving a carriage away from here.
Li Si thought silently in his heart...
After finishing this job, you can call it a day.
Good morning.
(End of chapter)
