Rebellious Contract Beast

As midnight approached, there was no one on the street. Stepping on the snow on the ground, Tsurumi Chuyun felt a little confused.

"People... people?"

"You ask me?"

"..."

She walked along the street in the dark to see if she could find any pedestrians, but after walking several streets and still not seeing anyone, she couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

She had only been in Jua City for less than a day. Although the people in the ghost market had already told her the address, how could she, a foreigner, know where the Oil Street Alley was?
She originally planned to finish refining the elixir and then ask for directions from someone on the street, but she never expected that Jua City would turn into a ghost town at night.

After standing there for a while, she suddenly heard the sound of people talking in the distance. She thought it was pedestrians on the street for the first time, so she walked quickly towards the intersection in the distance. When she turned her head, she saw Xue Xue. Five or six people walked in, but before Shen Yi could take a clear look, her expression suddenly changed and she quickly turned around and got into the alleyway.

"What are you doing? Isn't that human?"

"That's a pawn patrolling the city."

"Pawn..." Shen Yi was stunned for a moment and quickly realized that Jua City had experienced a war not long ago. Many houses were destroyed, leaving a large number of people homeless. Especially in the cold winter, there was no safe place. If your shelter is sheltered from the wind and rain, you will freeze to death.

At this time, if there is no security, some people will do some unethical things for the sake of survival. In order to maintain law and order in the city, there is a high probability that a curfew will be implemented.

"Curfew?"

"Ah."

"What should we do now? You can't just look around like a headless fly, right?"

"..."

Seeing that Chuyun didn't speak, He thought for a while and seemed to have thought of some way. He raised his hand to take off the hairband and scattered his hair. Then he squatted down and grabbed the snow mixed with mud on the ground and wiped it on his body. After finishing this, she ran out with disheveled hair.

The patrolling guards happened to come here. As soon as they saw them, Tsurumi Chuyun shouted with "joy" on his face.

"Brothers, save me!"

When her voice came, she immediately attracted the attention of several city guards. Seeing that she was a woman, they all gathered around her without any suspicion.

"It's already curfew at this hour, why is the girl still on the street?"

"You're in such a mess, maybe something happened?"

"Brothers, it was not my intention to break into the night. I was accidentally kidnapped here by some flower pickers during the day. I...I...wu..." As he said this, Tsurumi Chuyun couldn't help but cry softly. , Shen Yi looked at it and twisted his mouth.

"Good guy... look, this is called Emperor Yan."

The look of pear blossoms with raindrops made people feel pity for them. It also made several city patrol guards filled with righteous indignation, wishing they could catch those flower-picking thieves right now and put them to death.

Someone comforted her: "It's okay, girl, we are all here, you are safe."

"Where are the flower pickers? Don't worry, they will be dealt with severely when we catch them!"

"They... they ran away when they saw me escaping, and went over there..." Tsurumi Chuyun pointed at the alley where she just ran out, shrinking back and trembling appropriately.

After saying that, she glanced at several people, and the six city patrol guards also looked at each other. The leader said: "You, you, you, and you, the four of you, go in! Be sure to catch those What a daring person! You rebelled in broad daylight!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the four city patrol guards immediately took out the sabers from their waists and dived into the dark alley without any hesitation.

"Girl, where do you live? My brother and I will take you back first."

"Well, my family lives in Youjie Alley. Thank you so much, brothers."

"Thank you for nothing. You're welcome. Let's go. It's too cold outside, so don't freeze your body."

The leading city guard took the lead and walked forward, while the deceiving old witch followed quietly behind, raising her hand from time to time to wipe the extremely fake tears from the corners of her eyes.

"How was it?" she asked Shen Yi, seemingly satisfied with her performance just now.

Shen Yi rolled his eyes forcefully.

"6."

……

"What's the girl's name?"

"Jiang Yiyi."

"Jiang Yiyi...this name is really good. Is your father a cultural person?"

"That's it."

"The flower picker who kidnapped you didn't do anything to you, right?"

"No, there are many people during the day, so they don't dare to do anything to me."

"That's fine."

"Thank you so much for today. If you hadn't happened to show up, I might..."

"It's okay, it's okay. There won't be any more flower-picking thieves here... By the way, my name is Wang Yue. You can just call me Brother Wang. If anything happens in the future, you can come to the Duhou Mansion to find me."

"Thank you." He Jian Chuyun nodded lightly.

"..."

Later, Wang Yue chatted wordlessly, trying to find some topics to talk about, but she repeatedly responded with um and oh, and gradually, she stopped answering at all.

Wang Yue looked back and thought she was a little irritated, so he didn't pay much attention and said nothing more.

After a while, the three of them stopped. He pointed to a small street on the right and said, "We are here. This is Oil Street Alley."

"Thank you, Brother Wang. There is no need to send it away. I can just walk in by myself."

"Be careful on the road."

"Uh-huh."

Seeing that Chu Yun didn't stay long, He ran in quickly, turned into the alley and disappeared.

Wang and Yue looked at the dead vines climbing the walls in the alley, shook their heads, and left.

But they didn't know that Jiang Yiyi didn't go far, but hid in the alley. After confirming that they couldn't see him, his face returned to its original expression.

"Are you gone?"

"gone."

After receiving Shen Yi's confirmation, she poked her head out to take a look, then walked out gracefully while looking at the surrounding environment.

"The fourth door..." She faced the street with her back and saw the fourth small door from the first door. Wearing a mask and a hat, she raised her hand and knocked on the door.

Tuk Tuk Tuk.

The door was quickly opened, and a weak candlelight shone through the crack of the door, revealing a face that was also masked.

The other party looked up and down, and vaguely saw the white mask under the black veil through the dim light. Without saying anything, he opened the door completely.

"come in."

Tsurumi Chuyun nodded and entered the room, then looked at the layout here.

This should be a restaurant warehouse. There are many cabinets around, but most of them are already decayed. The cabinet doors are half open, revealing the dusty tableware inside. There is a round table on the left, but the legs of the table are sunk into the ground. , was obviously immobilized, and there were two other masked people sitting at the table.

In addition, there is an offering table against the innermost wall, with a clay statue placed on it and surrounded by incense candles, which is the only source of light in the entire room. "Buddha statue?" Shen Yi used the old witch's gaze to take a closer look and found that it was not the statue.

At present, it seems that there is no Buddhism in this world, so naturally there cannot be any Buddha statues.

The appearance of the clay statue is also very strange. There is a long whip stuck in the middle of the head, and it is only wearing a long, light and spacious cassock-like dress, with its chest and abdomen exposed.

As for why it is strange?
The main reason is his limbs. The two arms are extremely thick and the muscles on them are tied together, making it very ferocious, but the legs are so thin that they are just skin and bones.

How weird.

When Tsurumi Chuyun came in, the masked man who opened the door quickly closed the door and motioned to one of the people sitting at the round table with his eyes. The other person also bent down after seeing it.

click!
It seemed that some kind of mechanism had been activated. The next second Tsurumi Chuyun saw a large cabinet not far away rotating, revealing the deep tunnel behind it.

"It's down there." The masked man pointed to the tunnel and said this, then ignored her and sat back in his chair to continue playing cards.

He didn't stop when he saw Chuyun, turned around and entered the tunnel.

"Old witch, what was offered on the table just now?"

"Huh? You don't know?"

"What I don't know?"

"That's the Black God Woman."

"Black Goddess, oh~" Shen Yi suddenly realized. He had heard people talking about this thing. She had a female body and a male body, and had four faces. He didn't see the other three faces of the statue just now because of the angle.

There are many folk legends about the Black Goddess, and I can’t even finish them in a short time. In short, she is a secretive and changeable incarnation, which is very consistent with the existence of a ghost market.

The tunnel behind the cabinet was not long, only about ten meters, and it was reached quickly. The moment Tsurumi Chuyun opened the curtain and walked in, Shen Yi saw her vision blurred for a moment, but it soon returned to normal.

"what happened to you?"

"It's okay, I just felt dizzy."

"Oh."

She looked back at the curtain, with some doubts in her eyes. The curtain seemed to be a magic weapon with a very strong sound insulation effect. Through the curtain, half of the silent winter night seemed to disappear in front of her eyes, and the noisy sounds around her were like rushing. The river flows into the ears.

Turning his head and looking around, it seemed as if he had entered another world.

Behind the curtain is a magnificently decorated space. Every few steps you can see a lamp, illuminating the entire space as bright as day.

Countless figures shuttled between the neatly arranged seats. Instead, there were shouts, curses, and the sound of chips being thrown on the table. It was extremely lively.

If I hadn't known how I got in, I wouldn't have thought it was late at night at all.

Tsurumi Chuyun glanced around, and she could see the crazy looks of the gamblers.

Gambling houses are one of the characteristics of the ghost market. Although the gambling industry in many dynasties is not illegal, the ghost market itself is not on the surface, and the profits created by the gambling industry are naturally not taxed. Similarly, the managers The forces in the ghost market cannot ignore these interests.

In addition to the gambling house, there are three gates on the left and right, two of which are open. Let's talk about the one on the right first. There is a plaque on the door with the words "Lady's Cave" written on it. Guests wearing masks come in and out. , you can tell at a glance that it is a romantic place.

The door on the right is closed tightly. The plaque on the door reads "One hundred borrows and one return". The number of people entering and exiting is less than one-tenth of the number in the "Lady's Cave".

The door in front of her was also open, and she could clearly see a trading market with people coming and going inside.

In addition, there are two spiral mahogany stairs on both sides of the casino, leading to the second floor.

It should be an auction held in the ghost market, which is what Zhuo Mingjin said, the lining of linings. It was not the place Tsurumi Chuyun should go to at all, so she just took a glance and walked along the side. The walkway went straight into the market.

There are a lot of people here, but it is much quieter than the gambling house. The sellers in the stalls and the buyers watching while walking are very quiet.

Through the perspective of the old witch, Shen Yi saw a lot of strange things, which seemed to be magic weapons and the like. In some stalls, you can see some treasures of calligraphy and painting. Zhuo Mingjin said that buying these things in the ghost market costs a lot of money. Be cautious.

After all, the source is not clean. If it is taken out and someone discovers it, it will inevitably cause some trouble.

Then there are six-character signs hanging on some stalls, which read "Boiling Blood Pill" and "Shenxian Powder" together.

Needless to say what Boiling Blood Pill is, eating too much can easily make people become mentally dependent on it, but its main function is to temporarily enhance one's own strength at critical moments to get out of trouble.

The intense euphoria is just a side effect.

As for Shenxian Powder, it only has the side effects of Boiling Blood Pill, which is a drug that makes people feel ecstatic and excited!

"Good guy, pornography, gambling and drugs have all taken over." Shen Yi couldn't help but sigh when he saw that there were quite a lot of customers at the stall selling Shenxian Powder.

After walking along the aisle for a long time, he suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from the front. Tsurumi Chuyun couldn't help but look up. When he saw what it was clearly, his expression sank.

I saw a group of people surrounding them not far away, and on the floor in front of the crowd, there were racks of cages. There were probably more than a dozen of them, stacked in two layers.

Each cage was covered with a snow-white plush carpet. On the carpet, a fair-skinned girl was naked and curled up in a corner of the cage.

"Come and see! Come and see! This is the daughter of the blacksmith shop in the west of the city. She is right here. Look at this face and figure. 100 taels of silver is really not much!"

"And this, Third Master Xu's fourth daughter..."

"Hey, isn't this the granddaughter of old guy Zhang Shushu? You kidnapped her before she was even ten years old?"

"Hey, hey, the rules of the ghost market are, don't stretch out, don't stretch out. If you want to take away only 80 taels of silver, you are definitely a fool."

"..."

Shen Yi fell silent when he vaguely heard the exchanges coming from the crowd.

When He saw Chuyun noticed something, he frowned, turned around and walked back.

"Don't mess around."

"...Why are you anxious? I'm not stupid." Shen Yi said this angrily, and then fell silent again.

Looking at the girls in the cage, he felt an inexplicable discomfort, which came from a physiological aspect.

Since the ghost market dares to exist, there must be people who are trying to control it. What's the use of being angry?Like most people, he lives by the rules. If he doesn't have the absolute strength to break the rules, he can only be an indifferent or powerless spectator.

Now, in Shen Yi's opinion, this ghost market is no less than the rumored Black Snake Town on the Gray Land Swamp.

Maybe...it's not too much to give in, right?

A place filled with filth and sin.

"Old witch, don't you feel anything at all?"

"Have."

"What do you feel?"

"I'm afraid I'm one of those in the cage." Tsurumi Chuyun said this very seriously, and he shuddered just thinking about it.

"..." Shen Yi turned over and said nothing. She hesitated for a while and then asked, "How about we..."

"What do you mean?"

She looked back at the trafficker and seemed to make a gesture of wiping her neck.

"Oh~ you want to secretly kill that bitch?"

"Well, but not now."

"..." (end of this chapter)