"That...... What about the squad leader named Liu Han? ”

When Cao Zhe talked about the embarrassing situation of the remaining female gangs of the Shengyang Gang in the city guard after Wu Fang's defection, I suddenly thought of a familiar figure, that is, the cold and beautiful squad leader who both saved my life and made me out of embarrassment.

"The old witch left her behind!" Cao Zhe said, "The remaining female city guards have nowhere to go for the time being, so they are currently taking Liu Han as the main backbone, staying and barely holding on." ”

Did she stay?

I don't know if I should be happy or ...... Rejoice?

I was horrified by the feeling of relief and relief that I had somehow appeared!

What the? What does it matter to me whether people leave or not?

What if she stays? She said it last time, and if she finds me secretly watching her, she will ...... Just stomp on my eggs!

!

Why should I her for this? That fierce woman!

In any case, Wu Fang's defection really has nothing to do with me, at most, the interrogation he was subjected to when he entered and exited several city gates was more severe.

I began to follow the caravan led by Bu Ye again, walking in all directions in the underworld. Crystal City, Black Salt City, Cold Ice City, Hanging Tower Town, Stone Forest Village, Ghost Farm, I have walked through almost all the big and small Yin Cities. It takes a month or two to go one way and go back and forth in half a month.

I also took advantage of the opportunity to go to these foreign Yin Cities to buy and collect all kinds of Yin food materials. In addition to the original two Yin food recipes, Master taught me a new dish this time: "Ten Spiced Dog Meat Pot", which is currently the most suitable Yin meal for my realm.

However, it is indeed more difficult to find higher-level yin food materials, and they are very expensive, and many times they are priceless and unmarketable. Therefore, it is the most cost-effective to go directly to the production area to buy it while you are going to dart. This includes the most important ingredient of "Ten Spiced Dog Meat Pot": Cerberus meat!

In addition to walking between the various Yin Cities, of course, occasionally our caravans will also go to the underworld. But we could only go outside the ghost gate, and we were not allowed to enter. Each time, a messenger came out to stop the caravan, and then we were asked to unload the goods onto small carts and be transported into the underworld by some ghost servants.

The main body of the Ghost Gate Pass is a tall city wall, which is magnificent and gloomy. The city wall is about ten zhang high and thirty zhang wide, completely blocking the only underground cave that enters the underworld, and only opening three doors on the left, middle and right below. The middle gate is always closed, and only the king of Yama can enter and exit from it.

The left gate is the military gate, only the Yin army can walk, which is used to ensure the smooth entry and exit of the underworld when the army is dispatched. The right gate is the miscellaneous gate, from which the shadows, ghost servants, and some chartered caravans enter and exit, and it is also the most lively gate.

It is said that there is also a particularly mysterious place in the Ghost Gate Pass, which is the Receiving Division. After the death of the people in the yang world, their souls had no obsessions, so they were directly teleported to the Receiving Division in a muddy and fluttering manner. There is a special cha to verify their identity and then guide them to the queue to wait for reincarnation.

Of course, we can't see these scenes outside the gate, and we can only guess out of thin air.

After unloading the goods, Bu Ye arranged for us to rest in the local area for at least one night. Master told me before that there was a market outside the Ghost Gate, and its name was "Guanwai Market". Sure enough, Bu Ye took us to the inn where we stayed in Guanwaiji.

Guanwaiji is only one mile away from Ghost Gate Pass, and its scale is equivalent to a small yin city, but it is directly under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. It is said that every shop opened in it has a backer behind it, either the judge of a certain division, or the bull head and horse face or black and white impermanence, and at worst, one of the major Yin commanders.

In addition, the reason why it is called a "market" rather than a city or a town is because it is always just a "temporary" market that can be "abandoned" at any time!

After all, the Ghost Gate Pass is the gate of the underworld, and it is also the first gate to defend against foreign enemies. If it really comes to the time when the soldiers are coming to the city, the policy of "fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness" will definitely be implemented outside the gate. The Yin army will never allow such a city outside the city to exist outside the Ghost Gate, which will give the incoming enemy a good place to camp.

Of course, the underworld is deep underground, and the underworld is its jurisdiction, so how can it be possible to give others a chance to attack it? This is only theoretical. Therefore, the scale of the Guanwai market has been expanding, forming a small commercial market, especially prosperous, almost second only to Zuoqiu City.

After following Bu Ye to the inn and putting down my luggage, I ran out alone to wander around. Bu Ye and the other team members have long been accustomed to my "loner" style, and they all think that I am just a "curious baby", and they have to walk around every time they go to a new Yin City.

Bu Ye's perception of me has greatly improved now, and he simply treats me as the backbone of the team. When I asked him for leave, he only told me not to run too far and not to miss the time to return to the team like the first time, and then he was done.

I walked to the street and took a look, and the most different place between Guanwaiji and other Yin Cities is: there are more people and fewer ghosts!

This is the core boundary of the underworld, and chaos is never allowed, so the control of ghosts is very strict. Don't talk about wandering ghosts, even ghost slaves are strictly forbidden to be raised, and all shops can only use ghost servants.

From time to time, there will be a shadow on the street to patrol and randomly check the ghost books. If there were no ghost documents distributed by the underworld, those strange ghosts would have been caught red-handed in the underworld to be tried!

In this way, the strange ghosts who can come to the outside of the gate are nothing more than ghost servants who follow the caravan all the way. Before they can be recruited, they must take the initiative to register and be vouched for by the leaders of each caravan before they can receive a temporary ghost certificate.

The cumbersome regulations make each caravan deliberately control the number of ghost servants before coming to the underworld to do business, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to themselves.

Of course, it's only relative that there are more people and fewer ghosts. According to what I've observed on the street, the ratio of people and ghosts in the Kanwaiji is about six to four, which is actually about the same.

After a casual walk, I followed the smell of meat wafting from afar, and finally found the dog meat shop I had been looking for in a dark corner. This shop is really hidden, nested in the innermost narrow alley of the Kanwaiji, and there is not even a signboard hung out. But even so, the customers in the store are still full, and business is very prosperous.

Such a dog meat shop sells live dogs and dead dogs from the yang world on the surface, and they are stewed into fragrant dog meat, and the live dogs are stewed for Yin Xiu to eat, and the dead dogs are stewed for ghosts to eat. Of course, the store also sells Cerberus in private, and the living ones are also sold as dead ones, and the living ones can be bought back as pets, and the dead ones are stewed and eaten, and people and ghosts can eat them.

I stood in front of the store and looked, and I didn't mean to go in to find a place to sit down and eat dog meat, but went around to the back door of the dog meat shop from the outside. There was a fat man with a fat head and big ears who was chopping dog meat shirtless, covered in greasy, and I don't know if it was the sweat on his body, or the grease on the dog meat splashed and sticky?

I said to him, "Boss, I want to buy some raw dog meat." ”

The greasy fat man glanced at me with slanted eyes, and said coldly: "We only sell cooked dog meat here!" You go to the front and buy it! ”

I wasn't angry, I smiled and took out a dark purple waist tag from my bosom to show him. There is no text on the waist card, just a simple pattern engraved with a few strokes, but it can also be seen that it is a steaming dish.

As soon as the greasy fat man saw the waist card, his attitude suddenly changed, and his face was full of laughter.

"Oh, it turns out that the distinguished guest is a high-ranking disciple of the Ghost Dining Sect!"

I didn't nod either, just gave a vague "um".

The fat man poked his head out the alley outside the back door and saw that there was no one around, and then he gestured for me to go in with him, and then led me to the kitchen behind the dog meat shop.

There are three other cooks in the kitchen who are stewing dog meat, and the smell of meat is so strong that you can't help but feel appetizing!

But the fat man did not stop in the kitchen, but took me to a slaughterhouse on the back side of the kitchen. There were several large cages containing a dozen dogs of various kinds, and two people were skinning them. However, I didn't see any Cerberus in the cage.

The greasy fat man pointed to a large piece of dog meat on a meat table and said, "Guest, take a look, how many catties do you want to buy?" ”

I noticed that his eyes flashed as he said this, and doubts arose. The meat was thick and fishy, and there was a freshly peeled Cerberus skin next to it. I frowned, grabbed a piece of dog meat and sniffed it under my nose, then picked up the Cerberus skin and sniffed it.

Damn! Although the taste of these two is somewhat similar, it is definitely not peeled from the same dog's body!

I sneered at the fat man and said, "Boss, what do you mean by that?" Want to fool me with fake meat? ”

"Nope!" The greasy fat man was still acting, pretending to be aggrieved: "The guest has wronged me!" This is genuine Cerberus meat, freshly killed, and fresh! ”

I ignored him, picked up a sharp knife on the meat table, cut off a small piece of dog meat, and then lit a ghost fire in the palm of my hand to burn it. The small piece of dog meat did not show the color of the roast meat under the scorching fire, but turned black and wrinkled, and even emitted a rotten smell.

I picked up the dog skin from the ground again, burned it with a ghost fire, and set it on fire!

"Alright! All right! The greasy fat man quickly snatched the dog skin from my hand, threw it on the ground, and trampled on it with his foot to extinguish the ghost flame. Now he had nothing to say, so he had to change his face again, looking a little embarrassed.