dragon hunter

Chapter 253 Pingyang Art Shop
I knew in my heart that the painting mentioned by the Baihui guy was definitely not that easy to steal, and even if I got lucky enough to steal the painting, I might not be able to exchange it for the Huanyang Order.

But for that glimmer of hope, I still decided to give it a try, but before I went, I had to listen to the words of the white gray guy.

"We can help you steal the painting, but you have to answer a few questions for us." I stared at the white gray guy and said in a deep voice.

"I've said it a long time ago, and I know everything." The white gray man lay on the bed, crossing his legs.

"Through that well, after we return to the sun, where will we appear?" I squinted my eyes and asked.

"There are so many yin and yang wells in the Yang world, how do I know where you will appear?" Baihui spread his hands.

"Are there many yin and yang wells in the Yang world?" I asked anxiously.

"Of course, there are many yin and yang wells in the Yang world, and there will be more and more." The white gray man exhaled a puff of smoke, his eyes flashed secretively.

I thought of the bank of the Yellow River, the village full of dead people, combined with the answer given by the white gray man, I felt a creepy feeling in my heart.

"You're lying. According to what you said, Yang Realm will be messed up not long ago." Ghost Detective Xu asked in disbelief.

The white gray man was not in a hurry to argue, he took a puff of dry tobacco leisurely, shook his legs, and said, "Do you know how many 'livestock' peddlers like me are in the underworld?"

I didn't speak. I actually know very little about the underworld, and there is no detailed introduction in the Broken Physiognomy.

"I'm just a low-level peddler, but every month, there are at least twenty 'animals' that go out of my hands, and the 'animals' that you went to just now, the owner of the house, handle every month. Dozens of times that." Bai Hui said leisurely.

"The source of your 'livestock' is through the Yin-Yang Well?" I asked in a deep voice.

The white gray guy smiled, did not speak, glanced at us, and smoked his pipe.

Ghost Detective Xu and I looked at each other with a heavy heart. It seems that the existence of the Yellow River Ghost Village in the Yang Realm is by no means accidental. It seems that there is a pair of invisible black hands manipulating all this.

Pashmina sat up, staring at us playfully, dangling his legs over the edge of the bed.

I rubbed my face with my hands, and put all the messy thoughts in my head to the back of my mind.

How big is the stomach, how many bowls of rice to eat, and smuggling between Yin and Yang, these big propositions are not something I can worry about, let's talk about the current predicament first.

Reining in my mind, I asked Pashmina for more information about the painting.

Baihui said with a smile that the painting was in a shop called Pingyang Painting Shop, and it was a peony. It was usually hung in the most obvious place in the shop, so it was very recognizable.

I asked the owner of the shop, how is his strength, and how is the surrounding environment of the shop.

Bai Hui said that the owner of the shop was very mysterious. He hadn't met him a few times, so he didn't know the strength of the other party. As for the location of the shop, it was a bit out of the way.

I looked at the four paper figurines standing on both sides, and thought about it in my mind. I forced my hand, the odds of winning were too low, and the return token I snatched might not be usable, so I decided to go to the art shop to find out the situation.

Of course, I will not pin all my hopes of returning the sun on Baihui. Now that I know the existence of the order of returning the sun, I will naturally inquire about other ways to obtain it.

In the broken house of Baihui, I rested for a night. On the second day, Ghost Detective Xu and I went to the Pingyang painting shop to check the situation according to the direction pointed out by Baihui.

The location of the painting shop was at the end of an alley, and it was sparsely populated. When the ghost detective and I walked in, there was no sign of a ghost in the shop.

An old man with a goatee who looked like a shopkeeper sat behind the counter and dozed off, as if he didn't notice us.

I scanned around the art shop, but I didn't find the peony painting that Pashmina was talking about.

Ghost detective Xu walked to the counter, knocked on the table, saw the shopkeeper with the goatee, raised his head in confusion, and asked about the whereabouts of the peony painting.

The goatee shopkeeper was taken aback for a moment, then pointed out the door and said that the painting had just been bought.

I turned around and saw a little girl in her teens, bouncing down the alley with a one-meter-long box in her arms.

Ghost detective Xu winked at me, and immediately chased after the little loli. When he was leaving the art shop, he tripped over the threshold and almost fell.

I hesitated for a moment, worried that Ghost Detective Xu would encounter an accident, so I chased after him.

When I was leaving the painting shop, I was stopped by the goatee shopkeeper behind me. I turned around in doubt and stared at him puzzled.

"You also believed in that legend? Since the painting is sold, let me tell you the truth, it is an ordinary painting, don't take it too seriously." The goatee shopkeeper said.

I was at a loss, I didn't know what the other party was talking about, and it was not easy to ask, so I could only pay attention to this matter secretly.

When I walked out of the shop, I saw Ghost Detective Xu disappearing around the corner of the alley.

I ran away immediately, and chased over there, and vaguely heard the shopkeeper with the goatee behind me, who seemed to sigh something.

Turning a corner in a hurry, I happened to see Ghost Tanxu getting up from the ground in a messy figure.

"What's wrong?" I walked over worried.

"It's really evil. Every time I'm about to catch up with that little girl, a little accident will happen." Ghost detective Xu said with a puzzled expression.

My heart sank, once or twice can be said to be accidental, and it happens every time, it can only show that the little loli is definitely not simple.

"Lost it?" I looked up and glanced, but I didn't see the little loli.

Ghost Detective Xu shook his head, pointed to a big house opposite, and said that little loli went in.

I took a look at the big house, frowning slightly. From the layout point of view, this house is no worse than the one that the white gray guy took us to.

At this moment, a woman in white with a veil walked into the house.

Seeing the figure of the woman in white, a huge wave rose in my heart, and I couldn't help it, so I quickly chased after it.

The figure of the woman in white is actually very similar to the woman I suspected to be my mother when I was in the dark last time.

Before I could get any closer, the door of the house slammed shut.

I stood in front of the door in a daze, the complicated feeling in my heart was hard to describe in words.

"What's the matter, did you meet someone you know?" Ghost Detective Xu chased after him with a puzzled expression on his face.

I shook my head bitterly. Originally, I had the mentality of whether to do or not to the deal proposed by the white gray guy.

However, after seeing the woman in white, I made up my mind to go to that house and find out the truth.

I went around to the courtyard wall on the side of the house, found a relatively low place, jumped hard, and rolled over on it.

As soon as I landed, a figure jumped aside, I glanced sideways, it was Ghost Detective Xu.

I made a careful gesture and looked around cautiously. This is a remote side yard overgrown with weeds.

I leaned against the wall and slowly moved towards the circular arch, Ghost Detective Xu followed closely beside me, with a look of wariness on his face.

There were voices outside, and I stopped, clenching my fists nervously.

"I heard that Miss, the peony picture I bought this time has a painting charm hidden in it. I don't know if it's real."

"Who knows, but Missy is obsessed with painting, maybe Missy bought it for Missy."

It was two women's voices who spoke, and the two talked in a low voice, walking further and further away.

After the sound disappeared, I walked quickly to the arch, poked my head out cautiously, and looked at both sides. There was a bamboo forest path outside.

Although the bamboo is dead gray, it has a special charm, and it is relatively rare in the underworld.

I waved to Ghost Detective Xu, chose a direction, bent my body slightly, and sprinted past.

There are forks everywhere in the bamboo forest, like a maze. After walking around, I almost came back to the original place.

At this moment, footsteps could be heard faintly not far ahead. I nervously looked around and saw a bamboo room with the door ajar, so I dodged and hid inside.

Ghost Detective Xu has a nimble body, and he followed closely behind me, rushing into the bamboo house.

The bamboo house is empty, it seems to be a studio, but the style is very strange.

The paintings hanging on the bamboo walls include ink landscape paintings, western oil paintings, and even a few cartoons.

The sound of footsteps came from outside, and I was startled. I scanned around, but I couldn't find a place to hide. I could only pray in my heart, and the other party was just passing by.

But what was disappointing was that the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the other party seemed to be coming straight to the bamboo house.

Ghost Detective Xu and I communicated with each other with gestures, one left and one right, leaning on both sides of the door respectively, ready to strike first.

The bamboo door was gently pushed open, and a figure in white came in.

The moment the other party stepped into the door, I shot and reached out to cover the other party's mouth.

The figure in white was obviously defenseless, and turned his face in astonishment.

When I stretched my hand halfway, I realized something was wrong, the figure of the other party was too familiar.

When the other party turned around with a veiled face, my outstretched hand stopped suddenly.

On the other side, Ghost Detective Xu had already made a move. Just as his hand was on the shoulder of the woman in white, he suddenly exclaimed and retracted like an electric shock.

I stared at the woman in white, my expression fluctuating, and finally I gritted my teeth, shot like lightning, and tore off her veil.

A beautiful but completely unfamiliar pretty face appeared in my sight.

I stared blankly at the face opposite, feeling indescribably disappointed in my heart, she was not the woman I suspected to be my mother last time I met, even though they were so similar in figure.

The complexion of the woman in white changed, and a circle of golden wheels appeared around her pupils.

When the golden wheel was turning, I suddenly felt dizzy, and then I saw a hand as slender as green onions, pinching my neck.

The woman moved so fast that I couldn't react in time, and I was grabbed by her neck.

A gust of cold air flowed into the body, and then there was an itching and tingling sensation on the face, and the suppressed yin punishment resurfaced again.

"The body of yin punishment, are you from the Wang family?" The woman in white frowned slightly, and gradually tightened her fingers.

I looked puzzled, I didn't know which Wang's family the other party mentioned.

An extremely cloudy and extremely cold air flow continuously flowed into my body along the woman's fingers. Under the crisis, the golden soul flame of the palace of life emerged between the eyebrows.

(End of this chapter)