"What...... What's ......?"

Watching the huge snake head that rushed in front of him suddenly disappear, Zhou Wentao finally recovered from his petrified state and cast an incredible gaze on Jiang Yao.

"......" In the face of such a dramatic turn, Jiang Yao himself couldn't digest it for a while, but he quickly thought of something, immediately turned around, and took the bracelet to shine into the dark cellar behind him.

"Click...... Click......

The faint sound of footsteps came from far and near in the darkness, and at the end of the flashlight of the bracelet, two figures gradually appeared.

"You...... Are you ......!?" Looking at the two men and women in dark blue uniforms walking towards him in front of him, Jiang Yao's memory suddenly flashed back to the scene when he encountered the "trial" in "Penglai".

I saw that the blue-haired girl among the two had a delicate face and a lot of aura, as if she was only sixteen or seventeen years old, but her eyes were somewhat vigilant when she looked at Jiang Yao, and she walked carefully behind, while the tall young man in front of her had a heroic face, looking about the same age as Jiang Yao, but the expression on his face was quite cold, and a pair of light gray pupils stared straight at Jiang Yao, and his aura was comparable to an iceberg.

"I just wondered where the demonic qi came from, it turned out to be your ...... person with a 'colorless physique'. The young man looked at Jiang Yao, and opened his mouth after half a sound. "What are you doing here?"

"Hmph, I still want to ask you, and the snake just now...... Isn't it the Shikigami that you released?"

Seeing the two people in front of him, Jiang Yao immediately remembered that he had fought with the Shishen virtual statue in "Penglai", and the two people in front of him were the spirit envoys assigned by Lu Jingyi to come to "test" him, the blue-haired girl was named Qingyu, and the man next to her was named Mu Jianyun.

"The one just now is indeed my 'Shikigami' - 'Ba Snake'. Mu Jianyun said, raised the back of his hand, and saw a cyan text flash on the back of his hand, and then disappeared into his skin. "The snake will not attack ordinary people, but it will react to people or demons with demonic energy in their body, and if you have the power of a fierce beast, you will become the target of attack. ”

Mu Jianyun raised his head and glanced at Jiang Yao with a distrustful gaze. "I didn't see it was you in the dark, so I was hurt by mistake, sorry. ”

"I'm sorry for that later, you haven't answered my question yet. Jiang Yao looked back at Mu Jianyun in front of him indifferently, a series of unpleasant memories between the two of them before made him immediately think of a possibility, and his face couldn't help but sink. "You came here, should you have come here to monitor and test me on the orders of your leader, right?"

“…… Don't put gold on your face, and we're not idle enough to run around behind your ass. ”

Facing Jiang Yao's questioning, Qing Yu behind Mu Jianyun obviously showed a displeased expression on his face, muttered and immediately began to fight back, and flew a roll of his eyes by the way;

"I remember that because of the political factors in the upper echelons of your Lingyu Stage, the Lingyu Divine Envoys should not be able to interfere at will, which is why I and Gluttony came here to investigate the case. But now that you're here, if you're not here to watch over me and the glutton, then ......"

Jiang Yao paused for a moment, and suddenly stared at the young man with a calm face like a mischief, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and said, "Could it be that you are no longer the 'Spirit Imperial Divine Envoy', or that you have been swept out of the house by the 'Spirit Imperial Platform'?"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about!" As soon as he heard Jiang Yao actually question their identities, Qing Yu's face suddenly turned white, as if he had been humiliated, and hurriedly stepped forward to theorize. "We are the right-hand man of the leader! This is also an important ......."

"Qing Yu!"

Before she could finish speaking, Mu Jianyun suddenly reminded her, and Qing Yu immediately realized that she had fallen for Jiang Yao's agitation method, so she no longer continued to speak, but blinked her big watery eyes and glared at Jiang Yao angrily.

Tsk, almost clichéd.

Seeing that his "treacherous plan" did not succeed, Jiang Yao was also quite regretful in his heart, but judging from the reactions of the two, it can be confirmed that they were indeed not sent to monitor and test him, which alleviated the dissatisfaction in his heart a lot.

"The reason why we are here this time is also by chance. The young man pondered for a moment, and finally spoke. "Theoretically, we really can't intervene in this area at will, but if we encounter demons and harm people, we can't abandon them, we passed by a village when we went on a mission, and found traces of fallen demons attacking domestic animals, so we looked for clues and chased into this mountain. ”

"It turns out that the two people that Village Chief Li said earlier are your ......," Jiang Yao muttered to himself and looked up at the young man again. "And then, how did you end up in the cellars of this village?"

"That's a long story...... the young man said, a complicated look appeared on Qingjun's face, Jiang Yao looked at the traces of restraint on the hands of the two, and then raised his head to shine the flashlight behind the two, and found that there was a pile of hemp rope scattered on the wall in the depths of the wine cellar, and suddenly understood something.

"Hehe, it seems that you were planted in the hands of the villagers here during the investigation...... No wonder I found this in the guest room outside. Jiang Yao said, took out the diamond-shaped crystal from his pocket, and shook it at the two of them. "This thing...... It's yours, right?"

"Ah......h......h "This is my thing, please give it back to me. ”

"It's okay to give it back to you, but I need you to answer my questions. Jiang Yao raised the crystal in his hand and said unhurriedly.

"Since you are a person with abilities that ordinary people don't have, how can you become a prisoner so easily?" Jiang Yao said, glancing at the man beside the girl. "If you unleash Shikigami like you just did, it should be easy to subdue those villagers, right?"

"We have an iron rule that the Spirit Divine Envoy has, that is, you can't use your abilities to hurt ordinary people, this is the rule set at the beginning of the establishment of the Spirit Imperial Table, if there is a Spirit Imperial Divine Envoy who violates the rules to attack civilians, they will be disqualified, and will be punished the most severely. The young man replied coldly. "And there is certainly an element of our own negligence in our suffering, but there are also some other reasons, and I can't tell you the details, and you don't have to test us again. ”

After the young man finished speaking, he fell silent, and he didn't seem to intend to reveal half a word more, and Jiang Yao also obviously felt that the other party was defensive and unfriendly to him, and it was obvious that he couldn't dig out more information from them.

"Hmph, don't you need to be able to be tied up by ordinary people and become a prisoner? Jiang Yao smiled sarcastically, and then didn't bother to say much, and casually returned the crystal to Qing Yu, who seemed to be relieved, and her attitude towards Jiang Yao eased a little, she carefully took the crystal, and after looking at it for a while, she re-buttoned it on her neckline.

"Let's go, if you keep grinding, you'll be tied up for the second time. ”

Jiang Yao said, and was about to turn around and leave the basement, but found that Zhou Wentao was looking at the three of them blankly, and then realized that what he said just now seemed to be heard by the person who shouldn't have heard it the most.

"Little ...... Xiao Ya ...... You just ...... What are you talking about...... Why can't I understand?" Zhou Wentao stammered, looking at the two behind Jiang Yao. "Who are these two people? Do you know each other?"

The embarrassing atmosphere suddenly froze for two seconds, and in the end, Qing Yu was the first to react, changing his previous angry appearance, a sweet smile instantly appeared on his face, blinking his delicate and cute big eyes, and stretched out his hand at Zhou Wentao.

"Hello~ My name is Qing Yu, the young Qing, the feather of the feather, this is my colleague and my cousin Mu Jianyun, we are Jiang Yao's friends~ We were joking with Jiang Yao just now, didn't scare you, right?"

Qing Yu smiled, his voice was sweet and cute, and Zhou Wentao was obviously bluffed by the lovely girl in front of him, he stretched out his hand in a daze, as if he had forgotten the surprise question just now.

"Ah...... Hello, hello, I, my name is Zhou Wentao, and I am Jiang Yao's hair. 'Green Feather'...... Nice name......"

Zhou Wentao looked at the cute girl in front of him, and forgot to let go of his hand for a while, and looking at Zhou Wentao's stupid look, Jiang Yao's heart just wanted to support his forehead, and finally had to forcibly interject to let him return to reality.

"That...... Let's talk about the pleasantries later, but the most important thing for us to do now is to get out of here as soon as possible. ”

"Ahh......h That's right, that old man will be in trouble if he comes back, we have to get out of this ...... quickly" Zhou Wentao came back to his senses, and hurriedly blushed and let go of Qing Yu's hand, and at this moment, everyone suddenly heard a noisy sound floating from above the basement, and it seemed that the villagers who had traveled collectively had returned to the village one after another.

"Oops, I'm afraid the old man is coming back soon, let's go quickly!" Jiang Yao said, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to climb the basement stairs, but said that Cao Cao Cao had arrived, Jiang Yao had just leaned out of the basement entrance, and heard the courtyard gate outside "creak", and with a leisurely pace, the door of the main house also opened, obviously the owner of the house had returned.

Jiang Yao turned around and made a "silence" gesture to everyone, and then carefully retreated step by step, returning to the basement stairs, only poking out half of his head, and carefully looking at the thin old man at the door through the bed.

The faint oil lamp gradually lit up, and I saw the old man leaning against a chair at the door with his back to Jiang Yao, who seemed to be holding a long black sword in his hand, and was holding a piece of cloth, carefully wiping the blade of the sword.

Jiang Yao carefully observed the strange old man, estimating the distance between the other party and himself, if he wanted to succeed in a sneak attack at this distance, the difficulty was not ordinary, and if he could do it with the help of the silent action of the god illusion, the success rate would be quite high.

"The old man is back, you have to borrow your Shishen to control him, even if he is scared, don't let him lure the other villagers over. Jiang Yao retreated to the basement and whispered to Mu Jianyun below.

"Didn't you listen carefully to what I just said? I said that we Spirit Divine Envoys can't use their abilities on ordinary humans. Mu Jianyun's face turned pale, and he replied righteously.

"Why are you so old-fashioned, do you really want to be tied up again?" Jiang Yao frowned and said with disdain. "Besides, didn't you attack me with that snake just now?"

"No, you're not an ordinary human. ”

"You're ......!"

"Shhhh......h

Qing Yu's face turned pale, and he stopped the two of them in a loud voice, and Jiang Yao didn't care about arguing with Mu Jianyun at the moment, so he hurriedly poked his head out again and looked outside.

The trivial footsteps slowly leaned in the direction of the bed, and through the small space under the bed, Jiang Yao saw the old man's legs, and stood quietly beside the bed, motionless.