The majestic Milky Way spans the sky on this moonless night, the bright stars shine brightly, like a little diamond sprinkled on the vast deep blue velvet, and under this beautiful starlight, this ancient city with a history of hundreds of years is quietly sleeping in the embrace of the mountains, like a beautiful classical beauty, lying in the smoke and waves of the landscape.

"Weiyang Ancient City...... It's such a beautiful place, it's like a paradise. Jiang Yao followed the gluttony on the stone road of the ancient city, admiring the beautiful scenery around him, but the gluttony on the side seemed to have long been surprised, after glancing at the address on the note, he took Jiang Yao into a deserted alley, and walked towards the edge of the ancient city.

The faint voices gradually faded away, and Jiang Yao and the two walked into a hidden path independent of the city after going around and around, and finally stood in front of a quaint and magnificent mansion.

"This is it. ”

Gluttony looked up at the door number, stuffed the note in his hand into his pocket, and then stepped forward and knocked on the door of the house.

"Knock...... Knock knock ......

The dull sound of the heavy wooden door under the light knock of the brass ring was particularly noticeable in this lonely night. After three knocks, Tao Tao retreated a little and waited at the door with Jiang Yao.

[Who......]

An old voice came from behind the door, and a small pane suddenly opened on the dark door, and a pair of cloudy and protruding eyes came out gloomily from behind the pane.

"Who are you looking for?"

Those eyes stared at Tao Tao and Jiang Yao a few times, and their words were full of vigilance.

"Hello, my surname is Jiang, and this is ...... It's my partner. Jiang Yao stepped forward with a smile, trying his best to behave kindly, and disguised his gluttonous identity by the way.

"We came here through the introduction of Mr. Bi Fang, the head of the 'Baoyan Pavilion', in order to resolve the incident you have entrusted us. Here's our letter of introduction, please take a look. ”

Jiang Yao said, took out a paper document from his arms, and showed it in front of the eyes behind the pane.

"Commissioned ......?" The eyes narrowed slightly, glanced at the letter of introduction, and then looked Jiang Yao up and down, and after a while, those eyes disappeared into the darkness again, and at the same time, the sound of opening the door lock began to come from behind the wooden door.

"Squeak—"

The heavy wooden door finally opened slowly, and the owner of the cloudy eyes finally showed his dew in front of Jiang Yao and the others.

I saw that the thin old man in front of him seemed to be a doorman, he looked to be over seventy, his long gray hair was sparsely pulled, and he was hanging behind his head at random; a gray old robe was wrinkled and wrapped around his slender body, and he was still holding an old cigarette stick in his right hand, judging from the polished exterior paint of the cigarette stick, it was estimated that it was also very old; and the old man's protruding cloudy eyeballs looked at Jiang Yao and the two of them as soon as they entered the door, and they looked particularly mad against the pale cheeks of the old man's furrows.

"Come in, they're waiting in the front room. The old man said, and turned sideways to welcome the two in, and after pointing in a certain direction ahead, he turned and left.

Gluttony glanced at the old man's back and didn't say anything, and after thanking the old man, Jiang Yao followed the old man's instructions and looked forward, and then he saw the whole picture of this magnificent mansion.

Different from the stilted buildings of the Miao people in the ancient city, this is an ancient mansion similar to the Jiangnan Courtyard House. I saw that the whole house is rectangular, consisting of four parts: "front yard", "patio", "middle hall" and "back yard", which is a huge courtyard; the courtyard is surrounded by a fire-sealing courtyard wall several meters high, and under the courtyard wall, there is a red sand strip rock more than one meter high, which encloses the whole courtyard, which is quite "isolated from the world". The courtyard is arranged with two layers of corridors, all of which are wooden structures, and the decoration is very exquisite, but the most obvious is the main house with a wooden door facing the door, and the faint human voice comes from the house, as if this is the "guest hall" referred to by the old man.

"This house...... It's always a little depressing. Jiang Yao looked at this slightly gloomy ancient mansion, and felt some indescribable discomfort in his heart, and turned his head to look at the gluttony beside him, but saw the other party scan the surroundings, looking thoughtful.

"What's wrong?Is there something wrong?" Jiang Yao noticed the gluttonous expression and asked in a low voice.

"Hmm...... Here......"

The gluttonous words were not finished, but he heard the wooden door of the guest hall suddenly "creak" and was pushed open, with a crisp sound of high heels, a familiar figure walked out of the guest hall and paced towards Jiang Yao and the glutton.

"Hmph, where should I be, it turned out to be a stunned young man who couldn't even recognize the porcelain touch. ”

The cold tone was mixed with disdain, and Qingli's face was vaguely impatient, and before the person approached, the fierce "iceberg aura" had already rushed to his face.

"Y-Aren't you the ...... from yesterday!?"

Jiang Yao looked at the short-haired woman who appeared in front of him dumbfounded, less than twenty-four hours apart, he was already despised by this person for the second time. It was none other than the mysterious young woman who had freed Jiang Yao from the porcelain toucher yesterday.

"I don't know how you got introduced to the Treasure Pavilion, but I don't think you're good enough to be entrusted with your observational skills. The woman said unceremoniously, and raised her hand lightly to the gentleman old man behind her.

"Uncle Yun, send off. ”

After saying that, the woman simply turned around, stretched her long legs and prepared to go back to the house, and seeing that the woman had given an eviction order to herself so inexplicably, even Jiang Yao's good temper was a little angry.

"Please, please wait a minute! I'm here to find a herb dealer surnamed Chen, and I have no reason to leave until I see the client himself. ”

"Client?" the woman sneered. "Hmph, don't you understand? The client of this 'corpse mutiny' is me. ”

"You?" Jiang Yao was stunned, a little incredulous. "But...... Mr. Bi Fang told me that the client was a male ......"

"Chen Guangling, this is the name of the client you heard, right?" the woman interrupted Jiang Yao's words and said directly.

"Y-How do you know ......?"

"That's my dad. The woman hugged her elbows and looked at Jiang Yao impatiently. "I am his daughter, and I am also the acting director of the Chen family medicine store now, Chen Siyi. ”

The woman said, approaching Jiang Yao step by step, and the invisible pressure emanating from her body made Jiang Yao a little uncomfortable.

"My dad is now recuperating in another province, and I am acting for this transaction, and I have the right to judge who is trading with him. Now in my judgment, you are not qualified, things are that simple, do you have any questions?"

"I ......" Jiang Yao's poisonous tongue was so stunned that he couldn't speak for a moment, but he was unwilling to come all the way and return like this, and he was entangled, but he heard the gentleman old man behind Chen Siyi suddenly speak:

"Miss, since these two were introduced by the 'Baoyan Pavilion', they must not be ordinary people, why don't you let them try, how about it?"

The old man smiled, his eyes crossed over Jiang Yao, and looked at the gluttony next to him, while the taotao raised his eyes calmly, calmly met the old man's gaze, and did not speak.

"Yes, it's a misrepresentation to deny our capabilities just because of yesterday's turmoil. As soon as Jiang Yao heard that someone was speaking for him, he quickly climbed up the pole. "And, for this deal, I am the only one who pays the 'price'...... That is, you can only get paid after solving your case, so let's try to make sure that there is no loss to you. ”

"Taking on a deal that is beyond your ability is not only a waste of time for both parties, but also puts yourself in an unforeseen crisis. Chen Siyi shook his head, and his tone did not waver. "You didn't even find the Shishen Illusion I released yesterday, so it can be seen that you are not even a supernatural person, so how can you have the confidence to take on my case?"

Shikigami Void Image!?

Jiang Yao was stunned, he suddenly remembered the drunken man on the street yesterday who suddenly froze, and the meaningful words of the gluttony, and finally suddenly understood what the sense of oppression he felt at that time was. Temporarily cut off his qi veins, he was no longer able to distinguish demonic qi, let alone see those god-like virtual images that were already made of demonic qi, and this was his biggest weakness at present.

"Participating in a case where there may be demons as an ordinary person is purely self-defeating. Discerning demonic energy is the minimum threshold for investigating this incident, but unfortunately, you haven't even reached the threshold. Chen Siyi rubbed her eyebrows, and she didn't plan to bother talking anymore with a tired face. "You go back, I will contact the 'Baoyan Pavilion' to find other suitable trading parties. ”

"......" Jiang Yao was speechless, revealing that he had no mana, so he had no room for maneuver, and he had no other reason to convince the other party, so he could only freeze in place, but at this moment, he suddenly laughed when he heard the gluttony who had been silent for a long time, slowly stepped forward, and opened his mouth indifferently:

"'Discerning demonic energy'...... Hehe, there is nothing 'demonic' in this mansion, but the 'dead air' is particularly heavy. ”

Gluttony smiled, stared at the flash of surprise in Chen Siyi's eyes, and said calmly.

"Generally, there are only two kinds of places where the 'dead air' is heavy, one is a place where many corpses and dead things are piled up, such as cemeteries and sacrificial grounds, and the other is ...... It is a place where murders have occurred, especially the kind of murders that have only happened recently, and the resentment of the deceased has not yet dissipated. ”

Gluttonous gaze swept over Chen Siyi's increasingly ugly face, and he glanced at the gentleman old man behind him intentionally or unintentionally, and continued.

"You hope that someone can help you investigate the so-called 'corpse mutiny' case, but is this case really just a 'corpse fraud' that simply scares people, as the commission describes? Or is it ...... Are there any other secret secrets behind the scenes?"

"......" Chen Siyi was silent, her sharp eyes looked directly at the gluttonous face, and after a while, she finally spoke again, but this time her words seemed to be a little more indifferent, and her tone was even more unkind.

"I won't reveal any more information to you until you're qualified to accept commissions. Uncle Yun, send off!"

After issuing the eviction order again, Chen Siyi turned his head and walked to the guest hall behind him, but at this moment, he heard a frightened shout coming from the backyard, and then saw a young man running over in a panic and shouting anxiously at Chen Siyi:

"Miss, Miss, it's not good......! Again!!"