The next morning, the weather was gloomy.

On a verdant hillside, a man in a cloak and a black veil slowly walked out of a cave and came to a mountain path, looked around, and saw that there was no one around, so he reached out and took off his mask, let his mouth and nose breathe a few breaths of fresh air, and when his lungs were comfortable, he looked up at the cloudy sky, and then looked at the ground under his feet, and sighed to himself.

However, even if she took off her mask, it was just another mask, and this person was Su Sanniang, who had put on a fake beard and disguised herself as Feng Yuliang, and she had been in the cave behind her all night.

Su Sanniang only stayed at the entrance of the cave for a moment, then went down the mountain stream trail to a stream, leaned over towards the water, twisted her head up and down, left and right, and looked at her own reflection, as if she was not careful, this beautiful reflection would leave her.

After looking at it, he picked up a handful of stream water with both hands and brushed it on his face to wash away the dust and fatigue of the night.

As soon as she drank a few sips of water, Su Sanniang suddenly heard a sound of people in the distance, turned her head to look, and saw a passerby walking towards this side, so she quickly got up and hurried back to the cave to avoid pedestrians.

After a while, there was a whirring sound in Su Sanniang's mind, and when she was disturbed, she heard a faint man's voice from the whirring: "Sanniang, Su Sanniang, you may hear my voice?" ”

Su Sanniang recognized that this was Pu Zixuan's voice, immediately sat down, condensed her luck, and replied to Pu Zixuan with her mind: "Cut, who did I say, it turned out to be you!" Pu Zixuan, it seems that you have learned a little bit of the fur of the voice of the mind, I can hear it, but the sound is too small, the breath interference is too loud, it is not comfortable at all, you still have to practice. ”

Pu Zixuan didn't care about Su Sanniang's criticism, and said excitedly: "Wow, wow, you can really communicate in your head!" For the first time in my life, I was able to talk to someone so far away! Sanniang, am I more like a mature purification messenger now? Hahaha-"

"So-so." Su Sanniang was too lazy to talk to Pu Zixuan, and said, "Let's get down to business, if you don't have something serious, then listen to me." ”

"Yes, yes!" Pu Zixuan immediately responded, "Zhu Yuanliang and I have already arrived in Huzhou last night, and you Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people are so strict with those who enter the city, we finally got in and stayed in the city for one night, just to ask you, where are you now?" ”

Su Sanniang struggled to overcome the interference, recognized Pu Zixuan's weak voice, and responded, "You have already arrived in Huzhou?" Great, I'm in a cave in Yinshan outside Huzhou City, about seven or eight miles away from you, and I need your help, come quickly. ”

"What? Did something happen to you? ”

"Yes, it's not very smooth, I communicated with Chen Shuqing early in the morning, she said that you have split up, she is currently in Jinhua Mansion, and you and Zhu Yuanliang came to Huzhou, but unfortunately I can't take the initiative to contact you, so I've been waiting in this cave to see if I can wait for your news."

"Okay, what do you need us to do?"

"I'm sorry, you're not familiar with the sound of your mind now, and your voice is intermittent, so let's come over and talk in detail. If you come up from Mt. Kannon and walk along the mountain road, you will see the cave on the left side for a while...... To put it simply, I seem to have been attacked by a youkai......"

The last sentence did not reach Pu Zixuan's mind, and the thoughts of the two of them were already abruptly interrupted in the strong whirring.

Pu Zixuan in the inn said to Zhu Yuanliang beside him, half happy and half worried: "It's successful, I contacted Su Sanniang, however, she seems to be in trouble and is waiting for us in a cave in Guanyin Mountain." ”

"Caves?" Zhu Yuanliang was stunned and said, "This Sanniang is not good at escorting Hong Tianguifu, what are you doing in the cave?" ”

Pu Zixuan got out of bed, changed his clothes and said: "Don't ask, I must be in trouble, but it's a pity that my mind is still unstable, and I can't say it clearly for a while, when I get there, ask slowly." Then, he went out of the room and shouted, "Shop, check out—"

Zhu Yuanliang also put on a cloak and saw that he was worried, followed Pu Zixuan out of the door, and said regretfully: "Alas, I also said that I would go to Taihu Lake today, it's just that, it's important to get down to business." ”

The two of them left the inn, went up the street, and walked quickly towards the west gate.

The two were walking in a hurry, and suddenly, Zhu Yuanliang felt that something was hitting him in the back, and immediately instinctively shouted: "Pu Zixuan, there is a monster attack!" ”

The two of them quickly turned around and saw that everything was as usual on the bustling street, except that a rattan juju fell on the ground in front of them.

Not far away, an unkempt boy who looked like he was a teenager shouted, "Sorry, brother, can you help me pick up the ball?" ”

Seeing that it was just a child playing, the two of them put their minds at ease, Zhu Yuanliang hid the mechanical arm of his left hand, stretched out his right hand to pick up the juju, and took it in his hand to take a closer look.

was about to throw it back to the boy, but saw the boy's face full of nervousness and said, "Uncle, I didn't mean you, can you ask the brother next to you to help me bring it?" ”

"Uncle?" Zhu Yuanliang suddenly scolded with a fierce look on his face, "Hey, you kid, I'm the same age as him, you call him brother, but you call me uncle?" Am I that old? Also, why let him bring it to you? Am I that fierce? Are you afraid that I will eat you? ”

"Hahaha......" Pu Zixuan laughed, "Fat Dun, your scarred face, plus this strange outfit, it's weird not to scare other children." Come on, it's not a big deal, you give me the ball, I'll give it to him. ”

Pu Zixuan was about to reach out to take the juju, but Zhu Yuanliang was emotional, raised his hand to avoid Pu Zixuan, walked towards the boy, raised the juju to the old man and said, "Call me brother, and I will pay you back." ”

I don't want the little boy to stop talking, and he doesn't take the bow, but his face is gloomy, as if there is something unspeakable.

When Zhu Yuanliang saw the little boy's reaction like this, he was immediately disgusted by his rudeness, threw Keju on the ground, and turned to Pu Zixuan and said, "It's really unlucky, let's go." ”

When Zhu Yuanliang walked to Pu Zixuan, the little boy shouted timidly: "That brother over there, can you play with me for a while?" ”

If it were normal times, it would be okay to accompany him for entertainment, but at present, Su Sanniang was waiting for the two of them in the cave, Pu Zixuan didn't want to waste time, waved his hand and said, "Next time." ”

As he was talking, two patrols from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rushed over and reprimanded the two and the little boy, "Hey, you guys, what are you playing on the street?" Now that the whole city is under martial law, if it's okay, go home! ”

The little boy didn't dare to say anything more, so he picked up Keju and turned around and ran away.

Pu Zixuan arched his hand and said, "I'm sorry, two adults, we are about to go out of the city to run errands, and we don't dare to stay on the street longer." ”

The patrol said: "You have to think clearly, this is a special period, it is easy for you to get out of the city, but it is not so easy to come in again." ”

Pu Zixuan understood that Huzhou is one of the few territories in Zhejiang Province that is still controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because of the urgency of the war, entering the city needs to go through layers of interrogation, if there is no Su Sanniang asking for help, the two are too lazy to fight wits and courage with the officers and soldiers, but once they meet Su Sanniang, with Su Sanniang's identity as the "sand king", it is just easy to enter the city, so he responded: "I know, my lord, we have our own measure." He didn't say more, called a passing carriage on the side of the street, and rode in the direction of Guanyin Mountain.

……

When the two arrived at the foot of Guanyin Mountain, they beckoned the carriage to leave, walked up the mountain road, and walked nearly a stick of incense for about a while, and the two saw a cave on the left. Pu Zixuan shouted into the cave: "Su Sanniang, we have arrived, is this cave?" ”

Su Sanniang, who was leaning less and wrapped tightly, walked out of the cave, still looked around, and when she saw that there was no one else, she took off her veil and asked the two: "My face, can you see it clearly?" ”

The two were confused by Su Sanniang's strange outfit and questioning, and Pu Zixuan wondered: "Except that this fake beard looks a little unaccustomed, I don't see anything wrong." ”

Su Sanniang let out a breath and asked again, "Have you encountered any tricky monsters along the way?" ”

Pu Zixuan said: "If you say that on the way to Guanyin Mountain today, you have not met monsters, but since you arrived in Zhejiang, it is indeed strange things, in Changhua County, we have met a young child monster, to Hangzhou, and met a pair of mother and child monsters, are not strong in nature, but the ability is difficult to deal with tricky monsters. ”

"Then, this kind of monsters, are they all humanoid and half-demons, and they are all like small trees, unable to perceive demonic energy?"

Pu Zixuan exclaimed: "Yes, so to speak, Sanniang, you also met?" ”

Su Sanniang said: "Alas, it's a long story, I arrived in Tianjing first, originally to defend against the monsters who cooperated with the Qing Demon, but before and after, I encountered three different types of monsters. ”

"What three?" Zhu Yuanliang asked.

"That day the Tianjing defense battle happened to be the night of the full moon on June 16, we fought from night to early morning, first there was a strange bird attack on the city wall, this kind of monster should come to my heart, with my current strength, even on the night of the full moon, it is not a problem to deal with this kind of monster. Later, the Qing Demon blew up our city wall, and after the army entered the city, I found that there were several demonic spirits in their army, which were not coming at me, but should be a large beast demon assisting the Qing Demon in attacking the city. Later, I broke out of the encirclement with the loyal king Li Xiucheng, and when we arrived at the mountain road, we met a boy again, it was the kind of half-demon who could not sense the demonic energy, claiming to be a monster called the Red Yaksha sent to kill me, fortunately I was captured, and now he is still a ball of mud, wrapped by me, in this cave, helping me to cover up the power of purification. ”

"Red Yaksha?" Pu Zixuan exclaimed, "That's right, the Red Yaksha did send many half-demons to chase and kill us, and the few half-demons I mentioned just now were also sent by the Red Yaksha!" But Sanniang, since you have already caught him, why do you want to stay in this cave? ”

Su Sanniang looked around cautiously again, and finally stopped in front of the two of them, and said in a straight voice: "Now, you look at my feet and understand." ”

The two looked at Su Sanniang's legs, and saw that the black cloak covered all of his feet, revealing only a pair of white shoes, and there was nothing else unusual, Zhu Yuanliang wondered: "Your feet, are they injured?" ”

Su Sanniang said: "That's not true, but didn't you notice that something was missing on the ground?" ”

Pu Zixuan woke up like a dream at this time, and exclaimed: "Ahhhh......h Why don't you have a shadow? ”