Dongqiao chased down all the way, not to mention Suxi, even a ghost was not seen.

"Lost?" Higashibashi gasped as he gritted his teeth and twisted his numb left shoulder. There were heavy dark shadows around him, and he looked a little cold, and after knowing that there were countless snakes lurking around the inn, he always had a feeling of being stared at by snakes.

To be on the safe side, he turned around and prepared to go back to the inn.

Strange to say, this time he didn't have the same nervousness as before, and the things that had been lurking in the dark to spy on him seemed to have disappeared, and there was no movement at all.

Dongqiao was relieved, but also a little puzzled, until he saw the shadow hidden in the shadows, he suddenly realized.

"Plain little lady." He cautiously did not step forward, but asked from a distance, "But is there anything you need help with?" ”

Su Xi quietly turned her head to look at Dongqiao, and then in Dongqiao's inquiring gaze, she turned her head and motioned him to look at the corner.

Dongqiao hesitated for a moment, but walked over to take a look.

The corner was pitch black, and he stared at it with wide eyes for a long time, and then he could barely see that there was a large water tank there.

The water tank was black as if there was no bottom in sight, and there was a kind of fishy smell that seemed to be absent.

Su Xi floated to the side of the East Bridge. Originally, he was far away and didn't notice it, but after standing side by side, Dongqiao seemed to have something in his sleeves, and he was still moving.

A slightly terrifying thought suddenly jumped into Higashihashi's mind, and he had to ask with a dry face: "What you have in your sleeve, is it a snake......

Su Xi replaced the answer with action. She raised her arm in front of Higashibashi, then shook her sleeve against the mouth of the water tank.

Countless slender black snakes fluttered out of Su Xi's sleeves, and all of them fell into the water tank. I don't know how many snakes are in the tank, and when the snakes fall, the sound of snake scales rubbing is endless, and it makes people's scalps numb, and a man in Dongqiao can't help it.

But Su Xi can be indifferent. After shaking off the snakes in her sleeves with an expressionless face, she suddenly turned around and stretched out her hand to Dongqiao.

Dongqiao still feels that his left shoulder is faintly numb, where can he dare to take it. It's a pity that although he wanted to hide, he didn't move as fast as Su Xi, and finally let Su Xi touch it, and his left shoulder, which had only eased up, was frozen to the bone.

Unexpectedly, Su Xi did not pat his body directly this time, but gently brushed his shoulder. When she withdrew her hand, she grabbed a stiff black snake in her hand.

She casually threw the snake into the water tank, then turned and began to sweep around her inn again.

Dongqiao was frightened, but also a little afraid. Thinking that the snake climbed on his body at some point, if Su Xi hadn't found it in time and froze it over, he was afraid that he would have been sucked dry and angry by the snake.

The situation couldn't be more obvious, Su Xi probably came to catch the snake on Hei Saburo's orders.

However, Hei Saburo did not choose the wrong person, Su Xi is a powerful ghost, and the cold on his body is quite heavy, and the snake is the most cold. Looking at the immobile water tank, you can see that the snakes inside have been frozen by the cold of Suxi.

After thinking about it, Dongqiao has nothing to worry about. He guarded the water tank, watched Su Xi go back and forth over and over again, and put all the snakes he had captured into the water tank.

I don't know how many snakes are near the inn, and I see that a water tank is about to be filled, and I haven't finished catching it yet. If it weren't for Hei Saburo showing up later and saying that there was no need to arrest him anymore, even if they were busy until dawn, they wouldn't be able to catch it cleanly.

"Well, I'm underestimating them." Looking at the jar full of snakes, Hei Saburo sighed very staggeredly, "I don't know how many of such lifeless raw snakes can be fed." I wanted to lock them up in the room together, but that Ren Keqing was ruthless enough to release all the snakes to forage for food on their own. It's useless to catch any more, and the rest depends on their own creation. Anyway, with this jar of snakes, even if the people of the Feather Cloak Clan come, we can be considered to have an explanation. ”

Dongqiao looked at Su Xi without moving, thought about it and asked, "What about the snake that has transformed before?" ”

"It serves other purposes." Hei Saburo twisted his fingers and said coldly, "I originally planned to return it to Xiao Yu and his party, but now I have changed my mind." Su Xi, now you go and seal the door. ”

Su Xi had already been instructed and knew what to do. After getting Hei Saburo's order, she sprinkled the prepared realgar outside Xiao Yu's room, and hung a sachet full of realgar on the doors and windows.

After that, she returned to Kurosaburo to resume her life.

Hei Saburo stared at the full tank of snakes and frowned slightly, and only said in a half-loud voice: "After sealing the tank, bury it in the ground, and when the feather-clad people come, dig it out and give it to them." ”

After that, he rolled up his sleeves and looked at the sky, and muttered to himself, "I really don't want to deal with the feather man—"

At that time, Tsing Yi was roasting a leg of lamb in the kitchen, when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the back door.

She stopped what she was doing and listened carefully, only to feel that the other party's knock on the door was sometimes heavy and sometimes light, like a drunk.

"Who?" She got up and asked, but there was no reply.

The more she thought about it, the more wrong it became, and she didn't dare to open the door, so she only raised her voice and continued, "Who the hell is it?" ”

Outside, there was still no answer, only the sound of knocking on the door became more and more frequent, mixed with the hissing sound of snake breath.

Tsing Yi reacted quickly, and he was afraid that a group of snakes had gathered outside.

She hurriedly put the half-roasted leg of lamb on the stove and ran out quickly.

Hei Saburo was not in the lobby, and Tsing Yi couldn't find him, so he casually pulled a new guy and said, "You come with me." ”

The new guy was very panicked and was pulled into the kitchen by Tsing Yi, and when she saw Tsing Yi looking at her with a stern face, she held her hand in horror and said, "Am I doing something wrong?" Tsing Yi, don't sue Lord Sù—"

"Don't panic." Tsing Yi said in a deep voice, "I came to you because I need your help with something." Something bad seemed to come from the back door, and it sounded like a snake. But because I can't see it, I don't dare to confirm it.,You're a monster.,Some magic power.,I'm sorry for you to help confirm it.。 ”

The guy breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then said with an earnest face: "No problem." ”

Before the guy opened the door, Tsing Yi still told him uneasily: "Be careful, if it's something powerful, you close the door immediately." There are prohibitions at the entrance and exit of the kitchen, and ordinary monsters can't enter. ”

The man agreed, and carefully opened a crack in the door. Then under Tsing Yi's nervous gaze, she sighed in surprise.

"There were a few people standing outside." The man looked back uncertainly, "It looks like a mortal, but there's something demonic about it, and then there are a lot of snakes crawling at their feet-"

“…… Open the door. Tsing Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Let me see." ”

The guy opened the back door according to his words and showed the people outside in front of Tsing Yi.

The person standing outside was the person Tsing Yi and Hei Saburo had seen together during the day, the servant brought by Ren Keqing.

All of them had their hair scattered, and their clothes were mottled with grass juice and mud marks, as if they had fought close to someone, and they looked a little wolf.

But their expressions were very calm and self-controlled, which greatly enhanced their impression in Tsing Yi's hearts.

"Are you guests coming to the hotel?" Tsing Yi asked with a cold face, "If you are a guest, please enter through the door of the inn, this is the kitchen, and outsiders are not allowed to enter." ”

The servants didn't seem to understand Tsing Yi's words, and when Tsing Yi instructed his men to take them through the gate into the inn, they raised their feet and prepared to come in through the door.

Tsing Yi's face sank, and when she was about to scold the other party, the guy who was sticking to the door suddenly screamed, and then she slammed the door back without waiting for Tsing Yi's command.

One of the servants had already stepped in with one foot, and the man had no time to back down when the door closed so suddenly, and the foot that had been buried in him smashed the door panel solidly.

The crisp sound of the fracture startled Tsing Yi's whole body, and she trembled and pointed to the foot that was hanging in the crack of the door, and said tremblingly: "Foot-foot-open the door and release his foot-"

The man was already frightened, and when he heard this, he quickly opened the door wider, and then with a flick of his hand, he pulled out the broken foot of the door.

This time the door is much smoother.

Tsing Yi lost his mind for about a moment, and finally calmed down again. She didn't seem to hear the man screaming.

It is said that ordinary mortals are most afraid of pain, not to mention fractures, or if they sprain their ankles in an accident, they will instinctively scream. But the servant didn't react at all.

"What's the matter, why are you scared like that all of a sudden?" Tsing Yi asked the guy seriously, "And did he faint?" I didn't hear him call. ”

"Qing-Tsing Yi-" said the man, his lips trembling, "that mortal is not an ordinary mortal, just now when he was about to enter the door, I saw a snake coming out of his stomach, and opened his mouth at me and wanted to bite, I was in a hurry - I closed the door again!" ”

"Snakes?" Tsing Yi suddenly had a bad premonition, she looked back at the stove, pondered for a moment, and finally bent down to pick up two extremely hot firewood and handed them to the buddy, "Those snakes are afraid of fire, we use fire to scare them away first, and then immediately pour some liquor at the back door, if there is realgar, sprinkle some realgar, generally snakes are afraid of these." ”

"Yes—" The man shook his hand and took the firewood, then took a deep breath and opened the door with a bang, waving the firewood wildly.

To their surprise, the servants and snakes were gone, leaving only a chaotic trail of snake feet and a trail of dark blood.

"I'm afraid something big is going to happen." Tsing Yi covered his pounding heart and whispered, "I hope it's not as ...... as I thought."

"What's wrong?" Hei Saburo heard the screams and quickly rushed back, he carefully checked Tsing Yi's face, and after confirming that she was not injured, he showed a smile, "I was busy dealing with the snakes outside just now, and I heard movement in the kitchen from a distance, and I thought something was wrong with you." Thankfully it's not you. ”

"It's the snake thing." Tsing Yi hurriedly told Sù Hei Saburo what Fang Cai had seen, "A few servants came just now, probably possessed by snakes, and their appearance is very strange." I looked at something like a puppet or a puppet, but when I looked at them, it looked like a normal person. I don't know if I'm thinking too much, I always think it's the snakes on their bodies that are doing the trick. Have you ever heard of a serpent possessing a mortal? ”――

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