Seventy-two Changes of the Evil Spirits

The rain is falling early.

The cold wind wrapped drizzle and poured into the narrow alley, and it also showed a bit of sorrow.

Yu Mei moved with the wind, and quietly fell on the bluestone slab of water and falling flowers. The slender and powerful waist and lower head, the frosty white blade and the fiery red skirt set off each other.

She still said nothing.

After only the ghost face, two stern eyes were cast over.

One of the explanations is wrong, so I just overturned yesterday's covenant, just at this moment, right here, and fighting again.

Li Changan nailed the ghost under the sword.

Indulged for a while.

He didn't rush to explain the reason for saving the ghost, but he asked rhetorically.

"Miss Yu, can the demon plague in your mouth be cured?"

"It's impossible."

"Have you tried?"

Yu Mei's answer was categorical, and Li Changan's rhetorical question also blurted out.

However, when this question was asked, it was a mud cow entering the sea and received no response at all.

Li Changan frowned, and his heart gradually became clear.

What is the position of the Town Fu Division?

That is, in charge of the world's monsters, ghosts, witches, and monks, inspecting and suppressing all kinds of monsters and catastrophes. As for the safety of the common people, their wealth and wealth are not within the scope of their duties, and they will not be concerned.

Therefore, this generation has a lot of cruel actions, and they are often despised by the arena and Shilin.

However, this is the true color of the eagle dog!

Like Yan Xinglie and Long Tu, they are actually a small number of outliers who "put the cart before the horse".

"A person can become a demon from an illness, how can a demon not be cured and become a person?"

The Taoist asked unceremoniously.

"Have you ever tried a cure? If you haven't, how can you dare to kill innocent people indiscriminately?!"

this time.

Yu Mei finally responded.

"How can you be innocent if you kill and **** blood?"

"This is caused by the demon, not its nature."

"Falling into the devil's way, it's hard to turn back." Yu Mei's voice was as cold as ice, "How about saving a person? As long as the culprit is still there, the demon will never cease. Putting aside the minutiae and stepping up time to pursue the culprit is the truth. "

With these extremely "correct" words, Li Changan shook his head and laughed.

"So, one person is not enough to save?"

"insufficient."

The Taoist took a deep breath.

"Okay, okay, okay. Even if this person swallows his wife and eats his child, it is not a pity to kill. But next time, an innocent person will unfortunately contract the disease, what should I do?"

Yu Mei's answer is very simple.

"Kill it."

Li Changan was smirked by her.

"One person can be killed by the disease, but what if ten people? A hundred people? How about tens of thousands of people? Hecheng Demon Transformation, Hecheng Demon?"

The Taoist sneered and bowed his hands.

"If this is the case, you have to ask Master Yu to take care of it yourself. The poor are greedy and fearful of death, but you don't want ten thousand demons to eat your body, leaving only a little bit of bone scum."

When these words came out, the atmosphere at both ends had dropped to freezing point.

In the narrow alley, the hatchback was speechless.

Only Yu Yu cried bitterly and groaned intermittently with the pain of the ghost.

It's a long time.

Just when the Taoist priest thought that the other party couldn't bear to do it.

Yu Mei silently took the sword and returned it to its sheath, which was a signal of relaxation.

Li Changan also got off the donkey, put away his aggressive posture, and patiently persuaded:

"Furthermore, killing is only a temporary cure, and finding the culprit is a permanent cure."

He pointed to the ghost under his feet.

"This fellow retains the wisdom of being a human being, and can even pretend to be a normal person in the day to lie to us, maybe we know some of the culprits behind the scenes..."

The words are not finished.

"Daoist..."

At the back door of Zhou's house outside the alley, the call came to an abrupt end, and then Bo Tzuyu's voice rang out rashly.

"Don't panic, I'll help you."

Help you big-headed ghost.

Li Changan just slandered, and the red skirt on the other side, Yu Mei, was floating and wanted to evade.

He hurriedly stopped her:

"Wait a minute."

Yu Mei glanced at the alley and whispered:

"I can't reveal my identity by violence (harmonious)."

"I know."

Li Changan nodded.

This eyebrow has always been masquerading and covering up when he acts, and it has even attracted officials to encircle and suppress. If you reveal your identity early in the morning, where will there be a reward for the county government? But she must be scrupulous and conspiring to do so.

The Taoist priest had been aware of this for a long time, so he never told anyone about the matter between the two of them. But at the moment I stop her for...

"Poor Dao is not good with spells, and there is no means to suppress demons, so I have to use the girl's pinnacle."

Before dealing with the other ghost and the last time Aunt Tiger, Li Changan had a vague idea of ​​catching it alive, but he really didn't have any magical spells in his hands, so he could only kill things hastily.

But right now, although I don't have one, Yumei has it.

Otherwise, according to the Taoist's temperament, where would you be talking nonsense with her for a long time?

Yu Mei did not answer after hearing it, only when the figure disappeared over the wall.

A short needle broke through the air and sank behind Cugui's neck.

At this time, Bo Tzuyu finally arrived by stepping on the stagnant water.

He drew out the blade and made wild gestures, out of breath.

"Demon...Where is the demon girl?"

"Ran."

"Running?" His face was blank, "Why don't you chase?"

"How to chase?"

In the empty alley, Bo Tzuyu was speechless, his eyes turned coldly, and he caught a glimpse of Li Changan's footsteps that are neither human nor ghost nor fish.

"This is?"

"Zhou Huai."

"His~"

He choked into a cold rain.

…………

Zhouzhai main hall.

Li Changan lighted the lamp.

The candlelight faintly shone through the hall.

Bo Tzuyu was sent out to deal with the corpse of his colleague. Li Chang'an and Zhou Huai were the only ones in the room, oh, there was another one who listened to the corner.

The Taoist priest glanced at a certain place on the same beam, where a bright red faintly appeared.

"Pan Dao doesn't like talking nonsense with others, I know you can hear and see, so after I finish speaking, you will talk about it."

Li Chang'an put Zhou Huai, who had been struck by the Tingpo Needle, on the bed, and took a stool to sit on the opposite side.

"Do you recognize me?"

That's it.

The voice is calm, whispering.

"In the day, although you pretended to be foolish and filial, you deceived me and wait. In fact, you deliberately revealed the clue of'cake'. Although this clue is hidden (harmoniously) and obscure, as long as it is a caring person actually It's not difficult to detect, it's easier to find your father's location by following this clue."

"After all, in this small Xiaoshui city, it is really a remarkable thing for a famous person like you to appear in front of people with disheveled clothes and to buy a big basket of pancakes with your own hands."

"Why are you betraying your father?"

Taoist priests asked and answered themselves.

"I guess your disguise can only work during the day. At night, you will change back to the half-man, half-fish look. So you need to look away to get yourself out. But you never expected that we will come back. It has to be so fast."

Li Chang settled down.

"The premise of all this is that you know that those people can threaten you, threaten a monster. After all, ordinary servants will only become your food.

But in this Xiaoshui City, there are very few people who can really threaten you.

Such as being poor.

For example, someone who cleans up the demon secretly. "

On the beam of the room, Yu Mei's breathing was a little quick for a moment. Li Changan didn't respond, but leaned over and took out the short needle behind Zhou Huai's neck. Shi Shiran asked:

"So, who is warning you?"

Is Li Changan's inference rigorous?

Do not.

It is full of errors and omissions.

He just picked a bluff that looked like a bluff among thousands of possibilities. If you guessed it right, everyone was happy, but if you didn't guess it right... the big deal is to make up another scam. Anyway, everyone is in their own hands, just concoct them slowly.

as predicted.

After removing the Tingpo Needle, Cugui didn't say anything, but stared at the Taoist priest with a weird expression.

Guessed wrong?

Li Changan scratched his head straight.

Immeasurable Tianzun, we really don't want to do this.

But what else can I do? Give it to the government, I'm afraid it will scare the officials to death.

In desperation, the Taoist priests had to change their strategy and persuade each other gently.

"Don't worry, I don't mean to harm your life. On the contrary, I will ask a mage and a famous doctor to treat you. , I will be able to pay you back..."

"puff."

A sneer in the empty and bright room was particularly harsh.

This laughter did not come from the bitter Li Changan, nor the frowning eyebrows on the roof tiles, nor was it from Bo Ziyu, who was carrying the corpse outside with a hum.

The Taoist's eyes grew colder, and he grinned at Zhou Huai with a sneer.

"original."

it says.

"You don't know anything."

The cold wind from nowhere slipped into the house.

Shake the candlelight.

The dark and messy candle shadow was reflected on the face of the Taoist priest, and his expression became more and more indifferent.

"what for?"

"You want to know?"

The corners of Zhou Huai's mouth cracked more and more open, revealing two rows of fine teeth.

"Fuzzy, Sleepy Dreamer! It's okay to tell you, this Xiao..."

Halfway through the conversation, I stopped suddenly.

The remaining half got stuck in the throat, and only made some "whooping" noises.

Li Changan frowned.

"What about you?"

It couldn't respond, and its body trembled violently, and fine blood beads could not help seeping under its scales.

Its mouth was wide open, and it seemed to have exhausted all its strength and uttered four intermittent words.

"Peel...belly..."

Afterwards, his eyes were straightened, and a pair of pupils became more enlarged and expanded, like two deep holes, from which life and soul all slipped quietly, leaving a shriveled body gradually hardening.

he died.

…………

The red shadow flipped.

After all, Yu Mei couldn't restrain himself, jumped off the beam and fell into the house.

Li Changan winked at her, and she nodded silently, holding the sword in her hand.

The Taoist drew out his sword, turned the corpse of Cugui around, and pierced the tip of the sword into the belly of the fish, picking up the flesh little by little.

However, only a foot-long hole was opened.

suddenly.

The ghost seemed to be alive, and his stomach suddenly rose and closed.

Immediately afterwards.

A long shadow sprang out from the mouth of the fish belly, and with a strange smell, it hit the Taoist face.

Yu Mei beside her has been waiting for a long time.

Jianguang flashed one after another.

The thing was sent back and cut off.

The Taoist priest did not change his face, turned the tip of the sword, and fixed his eyes.

The long shadow turned out to be a slender bug.

The head is like a lamprey, and the torso is about the thickness of a goose egg, with a creamy white ring shape. The link has fine antennae, like the roots of plants. It can be imagined how these "roots" penetrate into the host's flesh and blood when it is hiding in the belly of the ghost.

Yumei only cut off its head and a small body, and Taiban's body was still in the belly of the ghost, with a slight twitch, it slowly slipped out of the fish's belly.

Yu Mei was wearing a mask and couldn't see her expression clearly.

Anyway, Li Changan looked at this ghost stuff, his scalp was numb.

All right.

Now I probably understand who was left with that altar of internal organs.

"Daoist."

Bo Tzuyu's voice bluffed outside the door.

However, Yu Mei was motionless and did not react at all. Li Changan hurriedly pushed her, she seemed to recover, stepped a little, and jumped onto the beam.

"I heard something, but what happened?"

Bo Tzuyu pushed open the door, and the storm broke in. But as soon as he saw the scene in the house, he turned pale, covered his mouth, and retched outside.

Li Changan quickly grabbed him back and asked at the beginning:

"Where are the other two ghosts?"

…………

Yizhuang in the north of the city.

The guard was a rickety old man, maybe he had been with the corpse for many years, and his complexion seemed to be no better than the corpse.

He pointed to the three corpses in the courtyard, as if introducing the cabbage in his vegetable garden.

"The day before yesterday, the long-haired lady said it was foul, so she burnt the firewood and kerosene early. It's the weird fish and the weird fish-like creature. If you two are late, I They were also burned together. As for those who died before, including the women who ate their own children, they were also picked up by relatives long ago, and I don’t know where they were buried. Only this great ambition, because he is a merchant, is waiting for his fellow villagers to drop by. He sent his body back, so he stayed in Zhuangzi."

When he finished speaking slowly, Li Changan bowed his hand.

"Troubled old man."

The old man waved his hand.

"The words are serious. This kid is also considered an old nephew, and he can help if he can help with a few small things."

After speaking, he smiled and stepped aside, leaving Bo Tzuyu standing in front of the corpse, holding a knife, shaking and looking at Li Changan.

"Daoist?"

Li Changan nodded.

"Pay attention to the corpse qi."

The smile on Bo Tzuyu's face was worse than crying.

The Taoist priest could only say, half comforting and half urging, "Don't worry, I'll be there to protect you."

The young catch is helpless.

Whoever let himself bite the bullet to follow up, with low martial arts and unable to do the work of supporting, he had to be responsible for peeling the corpse's belly.

He gritted his teeth and cut through the belly of the three corpses one by one.

But fortunately, no more bugs came out of it.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but saw that the Taoist priest looked solemn.

"No intestines."

What?

He turned his head to look closely, but saw that the three corpses had five internal organs, but they had no intestines.

Where are the intestines?

Or.

In the belly of the corpse, where did the things occupying the intestines go?

...

The two thanked the guards and said goodbye to Yizhuang.

See the night outside the door as deep as iron.

Li Changan couldn't help recalling the question and answer between himself and Yu Mei at the top of the Temple of Wine.

"Murdering geometry?"

"Thirty is seven."

The Taoist exhaled a deep breath.

Thirty-seven people!

Of these 37 people, how many people have this kind of weird bug in their stomachs? Is this kind of monster the source of the demon? If so, have those escaped bugs created more monsters, lurking in Xiaoshui City?

"Daoist." Bo Ziyu was a little worried. "What should I do next?"

Li Changan rubbed his temples tiredly.

I haven't had a good night's sleep in the past two days.

What can I do?

"Go back to sleep."