Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 37
Gongsun Ce breathed a sigh of relief, took a few steps down the city ladder, and asked, "Did you die due to the epidemic?"

Zhan Zhao didn't answer, but the expression on his face gradually became solemn, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and the center of his brows gradually frowned into a word of Sichuan. He seemed to have thought of something, and then moved the torch to the man's neck, saying: "Mr. Gongsun, you Come and see."

Gongsun Ce stepped forward, but saw that the man's head was tilted to the side, only a little flesh and flesh remained on the neck to connect with the torso, he looked carefully at the wound but it was not smooth, it did not look like a sword wound, he doubted: "This is..."

Zhan Zhao slowly moved the torch to the man's abdomen: "The sharp claws cut off the neck and disembowelled the belly, which is very similar to the method used by the murder suspect in Ji'ao Villa."

Gongsun Ce reacted abruptly: "You mean... a cat demon?"

As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I felt wrong: "Didn't Sect Master Wen Gu say... that the cat demon has been captured in Yingzhou?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head and said, "I don't know." After a pause, he continued, "If it's not a cat demon, of course it's fine; if it's her... even better."

Gongsun Ce seldom heard Zhan Zhao speak like this, and his heart trembled. When he looked up, he seemed to see the fleeting murderous aura in his eyes, and he suspected that he had read it wrong. He straightened up and pondered: "This person is just dressed up by ordinary people... It stands to reason that even if the county magistrate closed the Xuanping gate, there should still be soldiers and guards in the city to patrol and guard... Where are the soldiers and guards? What happened to ordinary people? How did you get to the tower?"

This question will soon have an answer.

Because under the corner of the inner city wall, the corpses of soldiers and guards were lying all over the place, some of them fell to death abruptly.Most of the soldiers died in the same manner as the dead on the city ladder. Their bodies were covered with scratches, their intestines were rotten, and their internal organs rolled all over the ground. If it wasn't for the cold weather, they would have been rotten, smelly and full of maggots.

It seems that there is much more than a simple epidemic in Xuanping City.

Walking along the main street to the inner city, the more you walk in, the worse the stench will be. Even if you wear a medical towel to cover your face, you still feel sick and uncomfortable. Fortunately, Gongsun Ce brought a stick of Angelica dahurica and moxa with him, lit it and smoked it. It was better just now.

After walking for a while, Zhan Zhao stopped suddenly, and whispered to Gongsun Ce: "Mr. Gongsun, there seems to be a voice."

Gongsun Ce was stunned for a moment, and was about to reply that he hadn't heard anything, when suddenly he heard the sound of a gong, and a bustling crowd of people came from two streets away on the right, and someone shouted: "It's a trick, it's a trick, Trap her!"

At the same time, Zhan Zhao pulled it up flat, swept straight to the upper room, stretched a piece to the right, and said anxiously: "Mr. Gongsun, go this way."

Without waiting for Gongsun Ce's response, he stomped his feet, raised his breath and jumped over the eaves, his body flew away like an electric switch.

Not to mention how Gongsun Ce rushed to the place where the incident happened, but when Zhan Zhao arrived, he saw at least a hundred people in the streets and alleys, many young and old, many women and children, old and young, with or without The lotus hoe swings a stick or holds a fire with a lantern, and shouts loudly.In the middle of the street, a dozen or so men with big arms and round waists were holding on to a corner of the thick rope net.Zhan Zhao could see clearly, who was the one who was scrambling left and right in the rope net, not Li Ji?

Although Zhan Zhao had suspected that Li Ji was in the city at first, but thinking of Wen Guweiyu's words that "the cat demon Yingzhou was captured", he was not completely convinced of his guess. Now that he suddenly saw Li Ji, his heart ached The shock can be imagined.Just as he was in doubt, he heard Li Ji yell and break through the net, the dozen or so men were caught off guard, staggered, and with the exclamation of the bystanders, they all fell backwards.

Li Ji laughed loudly, turned around in mid-air, aimed at a girl who was standing there blankly, and made a gesture to grab her.

When he reached the air, he suddenly felt the sound of the wind beside his ears, he couldn't dodge it in time, his shoulder hurt, when he stretched out his hand to caress, two sleeve arrows went straight into the flesh.

Li Ji was furious in her heart, when she hurriedly turned her head, a sword light flashed in front of her eyes, she didn't dare to take it head-on, and darted to the side.Unexpectedly, that person followed him like a shadow, bullying him, his sword was cold, and his moves directly hit the vital points of his body, he didn't give her a chance to slow down.

Under the shadow of the fire, seeing this man's face covered with a medical scarf, she couldn't recognize his face, Li Ji couldn't help feeling anxious: How could this little Xuanping City have such a formidable opponent?
Normally, she would not look down on others in the future, but the bones of her hand were crushed by Wen Guweiyu last time, her skills are no longer as good as before, and she is more than enough to deal with ordinary people in the countryside. If she confronts a martial arts master, she will inevitably fall downwind.The current calculation has been decided: when there is a chance to breathe, he must mobilize the demon power and kill him with blood.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao seemed to see through her mind, turning his fingers like electricity, moving and changing moves, using fast strikes and fast swords with continuous momentum, the first move is not old, the second move has arrived, the move or the throat or seal the key point, for a while He actually killed Li Ji so dangerously that she couldn't look at each other from head to tail.The people in the street stared blankly, and it took a long time for someone to shout: "Brother, kill this monster!"

Li Ji sneered in her heart, and said to herself: You can be proud, wait for me to push you...

Thinking like this, Zhan Zhao's eyes suddenly showed a strange color, he suddenly stopped his move, and immediately jumped to the side.

Li Ji got off in an instant, and was overjoyed in her heart, saying that God had fulfilled her wishes and finally found her a chance to exert her demonic power.She didn't know it, but in the night sky behind her, a white chain with the tip of a gun was like a shooting star, piercing straight towards her back like a silver python exploring the sea.

There was just a soft puff, and when he lowered his head again, a section of silver-bright gun head was exposed in his heart, and the gun head was not stained with blood, which showed the speed of the attack.

Li Ji was completely stunned, she didn't feel the pain, she reached out to touch the silver gun tremblingly, before she touched it, she heard a very slight sound, the tip of the gun burst into countless crooked needles, each of which was buckled into Li Ji's heart, Ten thousand needles can pierce the heart, nothing is better than this.

Li Ji couldn't stand such pain, she let out a miserable cry, her whole body curled up into a ball, suddenly felt a strong pull back, her chains stretched, she couldn't help herself, and she flew upside down into the air.Strange to say, entering mid-air, it was like breaking into an invisible barrier, and just disappeared from everyone's eyes out of thin air.

Everyone shouted in shock, Zhan Zhao couldn't hide his astonishment, he stepped forward quickly, stopped at the place where Li Ji disappeared, and couldn't help reaching out to touch her.

Wherever he looked, between the sky and the earth, it seemed that someone had erected a huge transparent curtain, blinding his eyes.It seems that it is just another section of the street, but in fact, it is another world.

Zhan Zhao was absent-minded for a long time, and then he lowered his hands, laughing secretly at his whimsy.

He didn't know it, but just now, where he couldn't stop with his raised hand, there was a beautiful woman in white clothes, and beside the woman's feet, Li Ji was struggling and writhing in extreme pain.The woman in white didn't pay attention to Li Ji, just stared at Zhan Zhao's face covered with a medical scarf, her eyes were as bright as morning stars, and a gentle smile appeared on her lips.It wasn't until Zhan Zhao turned around that she sighed and murmured, "It's really similar...but, if it's Zhan Zhao, it's Ju Que."

He took a deep breath, and said to himself: "But it's nothing serious. When we arrive in Kaifeng, we will see it naturally."

Thinking of this, the gloomy look on the brows dissipated a lot, and she lowered her head to look at Li Ji: "Why, I can't take it anymore? You are so capable and dare to kill people in Yingzhou, I thought you were not afraid of anything... Get up Find a quiet place, let's sort out the accounts."

For a while, Li Ji fainted from the pain.

Fainting didn't make her feel much better, the pain perception became clearer, and every contraction of the heart was accompanied by the separation and insertion of countless crochet needles.In a daze, she seemed to see her own heart really swelled in front of her eyes. There were countless blood holes, gurgling blood, and a dazzling sharp knife on it. fall down.

Her head hurt like it was about to burst, she curled up unconsciously, her five fingers dug deeply into the ground, and a thought rushed into her mind: "Why do you have to suffer like this, why don't you die, why can't you die?" die?"

Just like that, moaning, convulsing, trembling, dying in heart-piercing pain, coming back to life, and finally opening his eyes.

Her eyes were already congested, and everything she saw was covered with a layer of blood mist. She turned her head with difficulty and looked around. It seemed that she was in a farmhouse.

The most ordinary farmhouse, with the uneven yellow mud floor underneath, a half-person-high firewood pile behind it, and a mud-rammed stove opposite, the outside of the stove is as black as the inside, and the paper pasted on the stove window is in tatters. Through the sparse slatted panes, one can see a high cold moon halfway up in the sky.

At the table of the Eight Immortals under the window, there seems to be a woman in white sitting, concentrating on flicking the candles on the table, taking a breath, the lamp goes out, and stretching out her fingers, the fire starts.Blow another breath, the lamp goes out again, stretch your fingers again, and the fire starts again...

One blow and one wave, never tired of it.

Li Ji suspected that she had made a mistake, so she couldn't help stretching out her hand and rubbing her eyes, then looked over there again.

Yes, a woman in white was sitting.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the woman didn't pay any attention to her, Li Ji couldn't help but asked, "Who are you? Why are you arresting me?"

The woman kept moving her hands, and said indifferently: "Looking at your real appearance, you should be a cat demon. How did you develop a pig's brain? Do you think that you can live a peaceful life after committing a crime in Yingzhou?"

Li Ji was taken aback, and subconsciously said: "Are you from Yingzhou? Aren't all the gods in Yingzhou asleep..." Suddenly realizing a slip of the tongue, she quickly stopped talking.

Sure enough, the woman stopped moving her hands and turned her head: "How are the gods in Yingzhou? Sleeping... asleep?"

Li Ji didn't dare to speak, and simply pretended to be deaf and dumb, but the woman, after a moment of thought, said: "It seems that after I left Yingzhou, you have been there again?"

Hearing that the woman guessed every sentence correctly, Li Ji couldn't help being startled and frightened—after returning from Yingzhou that day, following Wen Guweiyu's order, she did go to Yingzhou again on the next day, and poured the plague god's medicine on Yingzhou. Among the drinking springs of the continent.Before leaving, she was also worried about whether the Jinluan Temple would cause Yingzhou to be vigilant, but Wen Guwei said that in a month in the mortal world, there are at most one day in Yingzhou, and Jinluan Temple is rarely visited by people. Someone will find out that Duanmucui was murdered.

According to what this woman said, she should have discovered the accident shortly after Duanmucui's death, and left Yingzhou to pursue the murderer soon - so when she went to Yingzhou for the second time, she poured the medicine on other gods, but missed this incident. female.

Thinking of this, I felt regret: If I had known this, I should have gone to Jinluan to have a look.The blame is to blame myself for being too flustered after taking the medicine, and turning back in a hurry, I didn't take this point into consideration.

The woman looked carefully at Li Ji's face, and said with a sneer, "It seems that I guessed right again. Then I might as well make another guess. If the medicine is used to overwhelm the gods of Yingzhou, ordinary drugs won't work. Among them, only Taishang Laojun's Black Sweet Pill, Medicine King Sun Simiao's Anshen Decoction, and Sleeping Powder in the Plague God's medicine bag can work. Laojun is too far away, and even a little monster like you will be hooked. No; Sun Simiao is upright and upright, ashamed to associate with monsters, even if you force him, he will definitely not give you the prescription of the decoction; but this plague god..."

When talking about the God of Plague, the intentional accentuation seemed to have a lingering aftertaste. When I looked at the raccoon girl, I saw the frightened look flashing across her brows, and I felt a little bit more in my heart: "But this God of Plague, there is no one in the upper world." Mansion, wandering around the world all day long. Cowardly like a mouse, often bowing his head; vacillating, easy to be instigated by others; without money, easy to see profit and forget righteousness; Perfect for dragging it down and ganging up on it, right?"

When he said the word "right", he suddenly smiled, which was very bright.

Li Ji heard her speak out again, her heart was full of panic and fear, and she was about to open her mouth to excuse the plague god, when the woman waved her sleeves and said, "Do you want to speak for him? Hei, it's better not to open your mouth."

In a few words, he actually confirmed the crime of the God of Plague.

Li Ji was stunned for a long time, and suddenly felt fearful towards the woman in front of her: I hadn't spoken a few words, but she was tricking me into making so many inside stories out of nothing. , It is better not to speak anymore.

Fang made up his mind, and heard the woman say again: "It's just that I still don't understand... Although the status of the God of Plague is contemptible, he is also a god. How did a spirit like you get in touch with him? Could it be that someone helped you Matchmaking?"

Li Ji's heart was shocked, sweat dripped from her forehead in an instant, her heart sank, she wanted to change the topic, and said in a hissed voice: "Don't ask questions, didn't you chase all the way from Yingzhou? Come? That's right, I killed Duanmucui in the Jinluan Temple, if you want to kill or cut it, you can do as you like."

As soon as these words came out, I felt very happy, and looked up with a bit of viciousness, and saw that the woman was obviously stunned, with a puzzled look in her eyes.

Li Ji suddenly felt that she had pulled back the game, and stretched out her hand to brush away her disheveled and sweaty temple hair, the provocation in her eyes could not be concealed.Unexpectedly, the woman frowned and said, "What did you say? When did you kill me?"

What followed was an eerie silence.

Li Ji almost screamed: "Isn't Duanmucui the one I watched and killed in Jinluan?"

"Could it be that someone told you that Duanmucui was the one you killed while watching Jin Luan?"

With a cold rebuttal, Li Ji couldn't respond.

In a trance, my thoughts drifted away: what went wrong?

In the beginning, it was Wen Guweiyu who was unwilling to get her the elixir.

"Duanmucui was grounded in Jinluan Temple, bumped into her, never returned."

Then again?

Then, she secretly went to Yingzhou, and quietly entered the Jinluan Temple. She saw the woman and heard her say: "It's really suffocating to be confined in this Jinluan Temple alone."

From the beginning to the end, the woman never said that she was Duanmucui.

It was me, I thought she was, I thought she was, but it turned out...not.

A heart sank slowly, knowing that it would not help, but still clinging to the last ray of hope: "Aren't you grounded in the Jinluan Temple?"

"It was indeed banned." Duanmucui's lips flashed a sneer, "However, how dare the elders of Yingzhou really punish me? Don't you know that my backstage is very hard?"

Behind her, there is a huge god, so big that even the queen mother is afraid of it.

The raccoon girl finally despaired.

Her eyes became slack little by little, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "I admit it, but you don't want to get anything out of me."

"I don't want to get anything out of your mouth." Duanmucui smiled, "You told me everything I want to know." Meeting Li Ji's surprised eyes, Duanmucui's eyes flickered: "I was All the gods in Yingzhou know about the elder's confinement. But I was lifted by the elder, and among the gods in Yingzhou, there is only one person who doesn't know. This person took the initiative to ask the elder to be the master of the Xihualiu Sect. Therefore, he only knew that I was grounded, but he didn't know that I was lifted.

"Don't tell me that you don't know who this person is. Without him, you wouldn't be able to find "Yingzhou Map"—even if you did, you wouldn't know the secret of being able to go to Yingzhou during Shuo's day. For you and The God of Plague was the one who set up the bridge, so he must have been right."

Li Ji's face gradually turned pale.

She suddenly felt that Duanmucui was really scary.

Wen Guweiyu's words suddenly echoed so clearly in his ears——

"You should pay homage to the Bodhisattva, and bless you never to meet her in your life."

I thought that after meeting her, I was the one who ended her, but it turned out that I wanted to end it in her hands?
"No matter what kind of business you have with Wen Gu Weiyu or the God of Plague, I think it can be over by now. Or, with you, it can be over." Duanmucui stood up, "Wen Gu Wei Yu is not my opponent, it is impossible for him to save you from me...Of course, I doubt whether he will come to rescue you."

Li Ji suddenly found it funny.

Wen Guwei came to save himself?It's just a fool's dream.

Duanmucui is right, the cooperation between her and Wen Guweiyu can come to an end at this point.Looking back one by one, taking a detailed inventory, from the beginning to the end, her appearance was just a farce.

Along the way, he has fought for Wen Guweiyu a lot, what happened in the end?He didn't get the elixir, and was almost strangled to death by Wen Guweiyu, and finally, it was still in Duanmucui's hands.

How pleasant it was to be a demon in the ruined palace in Chang'an back then. Turning hands into clouds and hands into rain, the souls of the dead from far and near were all her servants. She must have gone crazy that day. Hearing Wen Guweiyu's words, he burst into blood. The upper brain wants to swallow the elixir and become a god of all ages.

So I stepped into this muddy water with a feverish head, and regretted it.

(End of this chapter)