Half an hour later, the two arrived at a bustling commercial street in Lincheng, lined with shops, and although night had completely fallen, it was still illuminated by various lights.

Gu Yu took Pei Yan's hand through the bustling crowd, and finally found her destination after a few turns, she stood still in front of a pet store with many bird cages and aquariums at the door, and raised her eyebrows with some interest.

"Is this here?" Pei Yan was also looking here, and he didn't see anything special, so he couldn't help but ask curiously.

Gu Yan shook her head with a smile, stretched her neck to look into the store through the shelves, and raised her voice a little, "Is the boss there?"

"Hey, it's coming!" a female voice immediately replied.

After a while, a short, stocky middle-aged woman stepped out of the small room at the back of the store, with a pair of round-framed glasses on her white-faced face and a few playing cards in her hand, spread out like a small fan.

She looked at the cards in her hand intently, moved her steps to the counter and sat down, and said without raising her head: "Welcome, buy pets today with a nine-percent discount, buy three bait and fish food get one free, what do you need?"

Gu Yu leaned her elbows on the counter, bent her fingers and gently tapped the wooden tabletop, and asked with a smile, "Boss, are you selling flowers?"

The middle-aged woman was stunned when she heard this, looked up at her, pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and slowly widened her eyes after a moment.

Gu Yu coughed lightly, and Yu Guang gestured to Pei Yan who was standing behind her, "Boss?"

The middle-aged woman reacted immediately, instantly put away the shock on her face, rolled her eyes, and said: "You two want flowers, I really don't have them here, but I know a good place, there must be something you want there!"

With that, she took out the string of keys from under the counter, twisted herself and walked out, motioning for the two to follow her, and walked around a row of shelves to a small side door.

"This is the place to go, this is a night market that most people don't know about, except for the gate, only this door of my store can enter. ”

She moved away and lifted her hand to lift the curtain that was blocking the side door, revealing the scene behind the door.

It is actually a commercial street again, although the scale is not large, but the flow of people and the main street outside can be compared, the most characteristic is that there are few shops here, but there are a lot of stalls, many people are directly spread on the ground to spread blankets, on which or neatly or messily put their respective goods, and then put on two small lights that are not too bright, the overall look looks like a sudden time travel to the market decades ago.

The middle-aged woman took out two masks out of nowhere and handed them to Gu Yan, "You two are just in time, today happens to be our Lantern Festival, but all men, women and children who wear this mask can participate in the lighting meeting at ten o'clock in the evening." ”

Gu Yu understood, took the mask and gave it to Pei Yan, and when he didn't pay attention, she approached the middle-aged woman and said quickly and quietly in her ear: "My boyfriend is here for the first time, don't scare him." ”

The middle-aged woman nodded respectfully: "Yes, my lord." ”

After seeing the two of them enter the ghost market, she hurriedly ran to the counter and pulled out an old walkie-talkie, and said to the other end: "Attention departments, there is a big man from above who has come to visit for a private visit, and from now on enter the exercise mode, all non-humans in the ghost market must hide their identities and not expose themselves!"

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The real reason for entering the ghost market to wear a mask is not actually to participate in the so-called lighting conference, but to facilitate human beings to hide their identities, one is to prevent being recognized by acquaintances or people who know each other in reality, causing unnecessary incidents, and the other is because the ghost market occasionally auctions rare treasures in the world, and the people who buy them will inevitably be targeted by people with bad intentions.

The mask that Gu Yu gave Pei Yan was a fox face, with a plain white background, without a trace of other patterns, only a pair of eyes could be exposed, and her own was a butterfly-shaped mask, with gold lines painted on a black background, just covering most of her face.

The two quickly blended into the crowd of the ghost market, holding hands and wandering aimlessly.

The last time Gu Yu came to the ghost market was hundreds of years ago, at that time, the ghost market had formed a set of rules, managed by a powerful demon, and the ghosts who had nowhere to go entered here as "law enforcement officers", and people believed in ghosts and gods in the past, so most of the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in the ghost market would not deliberately turn into human forms. But with the changing times, the current ghost market will also be completely open to the public at some point, allowing ordinary mortals to enter the trade, so anyone who wants to do business here, regardless of the race, must pretend to be human.

Along the way, Gu Yu also saw a lot of human stalls, but most of them were sold with things from tomb robberies and gadgets mixed with real and fake, and there was nothing particularly worth her stopover.

Pei Yan had also learned about this kind of ghost market in the classics before, but he gave up practicing at a very young age, so this was really the first time he came, and his eyes hidden behind the mask swept in front of the small stalls, and he inevitably felt magical in his heart.

"Hey, there are really flower sellers?" Gu Yu glanced at and said in surprise.

Pei Yan followed her line of sight and saw that in an inconspicuous corner not far away, there was really a stall selling flowers.

The keeper of the stall was an old man who was hunched down on a small bench, with his head bowed as if he was napping, and he didn't greet anyone who came, and he didn't move, and it even looked like a stone statue at first glance.

Gu Yu was a little interested, but noticed that a thin man wearing a mask moved to the stall, first tentatively reached out and took a small potted plant and shook it in front of the old man, seeing that he didn't react, so he put the potted plant into the bag he was carrying on his side with the momentum of covering his ears and stealing the bell, and turned around and wanted to slip.

Seeing this, Gu Yan frowned slightly, walked forward quickly, grabbed the man's arm, and said coldly, "Go back." ”

The man was startled at first, and then saw that Gu Yu was a woman, so he became bolder, and after breaking away from her, he let out a disdainful "hum" from his nose, "It's your business!"

Pei Yan knew that Gu Yu had the ability, so he also went with her to see the righteous and brave, but after seeing this situation, his eyes were cold, he took a step forward, and instantly restrained the man who wanted to push Gu Yan, and stared at him coldly, "She said it, go back." ”

The man couldn't help but weaken his legs and feet by his eyes, knowing that he had kicked the iron plate today, his eyes rolled, and he hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I'll return it, I'll return it!"

The two of them were startled, and subconsciously went to pick up the potted plant, but when they looked back, they found that it was just a blink of an eye, and the man was gone, so they had to give up.

Gu Yu held the potted plant in her hand and put it back on the stall, but her movements were abrupt.

Her gaze fell on the sprout-like plants, and she touched them with her fingertips.

Obviously she looks so weak and ordinary, why does it give her an inexplicable sense of familiarity?