Chapter 17: Standing by and Watching
It is definitely not possible to return the same way, so it will be 100% to run into Chenjiashan, and in desperation, Ouyang Xue took Luo Xue to take a detour to Anyang Town.
On the other side, Chen Jiashan, who was chasing Ouyang Xue, was more puzzled, after chasing for so long, why hadn't he caught up yet, it stands to reason that with his speed, it would only take a minute to catch up, but a few minutes passed, and he didn't even see a shadow.
"Looks like she's been rerouted."
"Hmph, do you think you can escape by diversion, as long as you are still in the territory of Yangcheng Mansion, you can't escape from the palm of my hand." Chen Jiashan would not be stupid and blindly search, but turned around and flew to the provincial capital of Yangchengfu.
The provincial capital of Yangcheng Prefecture is also called Yangcheng, it is one of the seventy-two prefectures of Qinwangzhou, the prefecture area is extremely broad, if it is placed in the yang, its area is as large as Xinjiang, because it is located in the northern edge of Qinwangzhou, which is the most scarce resource, so the whole state capital is not very rich.
It is also one of the five evil mansions in the seventy-two mansions, and the strength of the lord is also extremely strong, and the most annoying thing for the people is that the lord of the mansion not only does not manage the jurisdiction, but also participates in it, resulting in many residents in the mansion having to relocate, which also causes one of the least populaceous prefectures in the seventy-two mansions.
The lord of Yangcheng Mansion has been operating in this area for tens of thousands of years, and his power has penetrated every corner of the mansion, and he has long been rooted, he is the king here, every city, every village, and even every village has his people, and Chen Jiashan is one of his subordinates.
Chen Jiashan came to the door of a mansion in the capital, and after explaining his intention to the guard at the door, he waited quietly at the door until the subordinate who reported came out to pass the word, and then followed the subordinate into the house.
The owner of this mansion is named Zhang Xuan, who is the right-hand man of the Yang Mansion Lord, not only is he strong, but the most important thing is that he is the secret agent of the Yang Cheng Mansion, in this Yang Cheng Mansion, there is nothing he can't find.
Naturally, he didn't dare to disturb the lord of the mansion for such a small matter, and he had a good relationship with Zhang Xuan, so it would naturally not be difficult for him to visit and give some small gifts, not to mention just moving his mouth and handing it over to his subordinates.
What is friendship, friendship is the relationship of interests.
After the host and guest exchanged pleasantries, Zhang Xuan got straight to the point and said: "Lord Chen Zhai came to visit in person today, there must be some thorny questions." β
Chen Jiashan looked distressed, and said: "Alas, today was the day my two children got married, but I was killed by a thief on the way back from picking up my relatives. β
"Chen Zhai has seen the outside, with the friendship between you and me, it's just a trivial matter." Zhang Xuan sighed again: "Shuang'er has been practicing diligently since he was a child, and he also has a good talent, but this accident is a pity that he has worked hard for many years." β
"But no, this thief dares to kill my son for no reason, I will definitely crush her bones and scatter her ashes." Chen Jiashan gritted his teeth and said.
"Yes, he must be better off than dead, by the way, do you have the voice and appearance of this thief?" Zhang Xuan asked.
Chen Jiashan took out the bronze mirror and said, "Master Chen, please take a look." β
After reading it, Zhang Xuan thought for a while and said, "A female cultivator is so bold, I think it's better to arrest her back first, and then throw her into the barracks as a military girl when we are done." β
"It's a wonderful method."
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Ouyang Xue took Luo Xue around in a big circle, and it took a long time to finally arrive at Anyang Town.
You can see the majestic city wall from a distance, Ouyang Xue thought that Anyang Town should not be very big, after all, it is not a city, but after seeing the city wall that is more than ten kilometers long, she realized that her previous thoughts were a little naΓ―ve.
Although Anyang Town is only a town, its scale is not much smaller than a third-tier city in Yangjian, and there are more than 3 million permanent ghost residents in it, which is comparable to the bustling city of Yangjian.
"Sister, let's go down, the sky over the town is forbidden, otherwise the city defense array will attack us independently." Luo Xue reminded.
"Defending the city?" Ouyang Xue took a closer look at Anyang Town, and the town was indeed wrapped in a faint yellow aperture, which she hadn't paid attention to before, because if she didn't look carefully from a distance, she would really ignore this thin aperture.
Luo Xue nodded and said: "Every town in Huangquan has a formation to protect the city, even our cottage also has it, in addition to preventing the enemy from attacking, the biggest use is to resist the beast tide." β
"Beast tide?" Ouyang Xue was surprised: "Do you mean a demon beast?" β
"That's right, every ten years, there will be a beast tide, and every time the beast tide will have countless monsters and ghosts die, generally those who are related will go into the city to hide, and it doesn't matter if you can only choose to avoid it."
Ouyang Xue suddenly felt that this Yellow Spring was a hundred times more dangerous than she imagined, in addition to being vigilant against ghosts, she also had to be careful of these wild monsters, but fortunately, this kind of beast tide did not happen often.
Ouyang Xue fell in front of the city gate, there are many ghosts and monsters lining up in the city, and the guards at the gate are all from the evil ghost realm except for the captain and the deputy team, but she still found a strange place, only to see a strange beast next to the guard, like a monkey, but only one big eye, which can be described as weird, and the guards will let the strange beast take a look at it every time they interrogate a ghost, and can't help asking: "What kind of monster is that?" β
"That's a one-eyed monkey, its eyes can see through most of the illusions in the world, it is a very rare monster beast, it takes a lot of money to ask the monster hunter to go to the Ten Thousand Beasts Continent to catch it, I came to Anyang Town with my father a few years ago, and there was no monkey at that time." Luo Xue is also very curious about this strange monkey, maybe she has only heard of it and never seen it.
After Ouyang Xue heard this, she was a little shocked, but she quickly thought that if this monkey was really like what Luo Xue said, how could the owner of this monkey be willing to use it to guard the city gate, there must be some flaw in it.
"Want to run? Kill her for me! β
There was a sudden angry shout in front of him, Ouyang Xue looked over, and saw a female ghost of the evil ghost realm rushing out of the team, followed by more than a dozen guards chasing after him, and after a while, the fleeing ghost was surrounded, more than a dozen guards hit one, and after a while, the female ghost was killed by the guards on the spot.
This sudden incident caused a burst of discussion, Ouyang Xue also understood the cause of the matter from their discussion, it turned out that the female ghost who escaped changed her appearance and gender, and was seen through by the one-eyed monkey during the investigation, so the guards wanted to arrest her, and the female ghost naturally would not obey her, so there was the scene just now, Ouyang Xue didn't know why the female ghost changed her appearance, and she also changed into a man, could it be that the female ghost itself has a problem?
Luo Xue sighed: "Sister, she may just not want to be troubled by these guards because of her identity as a woman, so she will change into a man's appearance, this kind of thing is actually very common, but she doesn't know that this one-eyed monkey can see through her illusions." β
Ouyang Xue nodded, but she didn't express her opinion on this, if it was in the wild, she would definitely save the female ghost, but here, she chose to stand by, she came here to have a task to do, she had to stay in Anyang Town, so it was best if those guards could not be offended.
Ouyang Xue is not a pedantic wooden head, when helping others, there is also a premise, that is, to think about her as the center, if she helps others but affects her own affairs, it will be worth the loss.
For example, to save Luo Xue, if Ouyang Xue knew that killing Chen Shuang would attract Chen Jiashan, it is estimated that she would not be nosy, she is not a virgin, she is just doing what she can.