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Chapter 35 Painted Skin Demon

The mountain city is considered a small city within the territory of Daxia, and the residents in the city have always lived and worked in peace and contentment, but just a few days ago everything was different.

Some people say that there was a monster in the city, and in broad daylight, it seduced the residents of the city into their houses, seduced their souls, skinned and removed their flesh, and when the city's police found out, the lost skin and bones were already covered with maggots. The smell of the villain makes people retch.

What's more, this incident happened frequently, and the policemen and demon slayers in the busy city were devastated, and even several powerful demon slayers died here.

Immediately, it can be said that everyone in the mountain city is in danger, young children dare not leave the house for half a step, strong men and young people dare not wander around at night.

Fang Bie, Yan Chixia, and Luo Ling stopped at the gate of the mountain city, but they didn't see any difference. The sound of gongs and drums resounded in the downtown area, and the sound of footsteps filled the entire street.

It is completely a scene of a small city full of traffic and free, how can it be seen that the world is in trouble with monsters.

Fang Bie looked normal and led the two into it.

The two of them planned to enter the mountain city and ask what was going on here, otherwise the three of them would be like headless chickens, and they might have to spend a few days here to get any clues.

The city mansion is very conspicuous among the small buildings in the mountain city. A huge courtyard stands in the center of the city. The vermilion tile walls and black and green tiles are very grand compared with the surrounding huts.

Just as Fang Bie and his party were walking on the road, they heard a shrill scream:

"what--"

A panicked old woman collapsed on the ground, trembling all over, and her eyes revealed shock and disbelief.

Fang Bie frowned, not because of the old woman, but because there was a disgusting rancid smell in the house that the old woman came out of. The smell of decay.

"Not right."

So Fang Bie moved his feet, and his figure disappeared into the crowd like smoke, and the next moment he appeared in the room where the old woman fell out of.

There was a disgust in the brows, and the method of restraining breath through inner movement calmed down the state of mind that was ruined by the stench.

In front of Fang Bie was a corpse without human skin lying on the bed. The flesh and blood on the corpse had already turned black, probably it had been a few days, and swarms of flies hovered over the corpse. Dried blood and corpse grease stained the sheets a color somewhere between reddish brown and gray.

"nausea."

Fang Bie flicked his sleeves, and a gust of wind rose from the ground, blowing all the putrid smell and flies out of the room.

At this moment, Yan Chixia and Luo Ling also rushed in. Yan Chixia knew at a glance that this was not an easy matter, because this skinning technique is absolutely something that no one can do, and Luo Ling suppressed the discomfort after seeing this scene. I went to check, but finally couldn't help but ran out and retched on the road.

Seeing this, Yan Chixia shook her head, expressing her understanding of Luo Ling, then turned her head and said to Fang Bie:
"As a ghost, this person has been dead for about seven days. She is a woman with a bone age of 21. She must have suffered from the pain of skinning while she was alive, and the pain died."

Don't be puzzled and said:
"Under the circumstances of such exposure, the smell of ordinary corpses can spread to this street in only three days, and this is a street with such a large traffic flow, why is it that no one noticed it for seven days?"

Yan Chixia's expression was serious, and she was also puzzled by this, but she also had some thoughts:
"What the ghosts of the mountain city did. They took the skin of a person and pretended to be a human being. They lived in place of the deceased for a period of time, and then... left."

"There are indeed such possibilities. Brother Yan, can you detect the ghostly spirit here?"

Yan Chixia listened to Fang's other words, closed her eyes and inspected carefully, but found nothing wrong, so she shook her head:
"Nothing found."

Fang Bie let out a sigh of relief, walked out of the house, and found for the first time that the air in this mountain city was so fresh:

"I'm going to ask the surrounding residents what the situation is about the people living here. You take Luo Ling to the government to call someone to come over to deal with this matter, and by the way, ask what the situation is here."

Yan Chixia rubbed her face with her hands and woke up:
"Okay, I'll go now, but I don't think this is an easy matter, and the victim is definitely not the only one, otherwise the city would not be full of storms if it is next to a monster."

Then Fang Bie left. In fact, he himself had some thoughts on this:
"Painted Skin Demon..."

Fang Bie stood on the street and looked at the houses next to him and had some ideas, so he went to the house next to him and knocked on the door.

"Hello, is anyone there?"

"..."

After a while, there was still no movement, his brows could not help but wrinkled, and he knocked harder a few times, but there was still no movement.

So he slapped the door hard, and the wooden door shattered into pieces of sawdust all over the sky, and the scene inside the room was presented before Fang Bie's eyes.

It was the layout of an ordinary house, except that a thick layer of ash had fallen on the tables and chairs, but there was a trace of rotten smell vaguely mixed in the rotten smell in the air.

Walking into the inner room, it was exactly as Fang Bie had imagined, a white bone lying peacefully on the bed.

"..."

Just when Fang Bie was silent, there was a sound of footsteps at the door, but the sound when the left and right feet landed was very unnatural, as if it was done deliberately.

As soon as Fang Bie turned his head, a thin man with pale complexion appeared at the door. The whiteness was the kind of whiteness that was close to flour, and the thinness was as thin as a skeleton.

A dry and hoarse voice came out of the man's mouth word by word:

"You...are...who...why...why...to...near...to..."

The two eyeballs hung in the eye sockets like decorations, each looking different, as if it would fall out at any time.

Fang Bie showed a sinister smile at the corner of his mouth:

"I didn't expect that there was a saying that I delivered it to my door."

And the man is still repeating his own question:
"You...are...who...why...why...to...near...to..."

Fang Bie didn't pay attention, he strode like a man in front of him, and punched him in the abdomen, and if this punch fell on an ordinary person, he would have fallen to the ground, but on this man Like that in a piece of cotton.

"You really are not human!"

The man also showed a ferocious smile when he heard Fang Bie's words, and the skin covered Fang Bie like a giant net.

With a flash of Fang Bie's waist, the human skin turned into strands and fell to the ground. The moment Jian Guang touched the human skin, a black air escaped from it and penetrated into the wall of the room. .

(End of this chapter)