Before six o'clock in the morning, Xiahoudun woke up. Thinking that it was Saturday and that it was just in time to prepare a good breakfast, I got up and washed up, and then went to the kitchen to get busy.

Xiahoudun thought about yesterday's email. The fact that he and Xiaoling are biological brothers and sisters means that all previous inferences about his background are not valid, and the direction of all investigations is lost again, which makes him even more confused about the mystery of his background at this time. But after thinking about it, whatever, anyway, my sister is my own sister, which is enough, compared with family affection, nothing else seems to matter.

Xia Houdun thought about this, his hands were not idle, making gnocchi, chopping vegetables, and heating the pot were all in order. After a while, the pimple was done, the vegetables were cut, and he stood there quietly waiting for the oil to boil so that he could start stir-frying the vegetables.

Suddenly, there were footsteps from upstairs, Xia Hou Ling didn't look up, he knew that it was Xia Hou Ling coming down.

Xiahou Ling came to the kitchen, hugged him tightly from behind Xiahoudun, and rested his head on his shoulder.

"Why do you wake up so early?" Xiahoudun asked.

Xiahou Ling was silent for a while before she spoke: "You will get married next week, and I want to stay with you for a while." ”

"That's right," Xiahoudun smiled and began to pour food into the pot, "I'm married, so you can't accompany me?" ”

"Then you can't hold it like this," Xiahou Ling pouted and hugged her tighter, "Sister Chen Xuan will be jealous." ”

"Tell me honestly," Xiahoudun stir-fried a few times, added boiling water to the pot, turned up the heat, and then turned around and hugged his sister head-on, "Did you have a boyfriend at school?" ”

"Nope!" Xiahou Ling snuggled in her brother's arms and said coquettishly: "I have high standards for finding a boyfriend, I want to find someone like the eldest brother, no one in the school meets the standards, not even like the second brother." ”

"Together, I belong to the inferior kind in your heart." At this time, Xiahou Yuan also came down from upstairs, with a depressed expression on his face, and then looked at the scene of Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Ling hugging each other, stunned for a while, and said teasingly: "So I just said, I always felt that I was very redundant in this house." ”

Xiahou Ling didn't speak, just stuck out her tongue at Xiahou Yuan, and then continued to hold Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan also grimaced at his sister, and then asked Xiahou Yuan, "Are everything ready?" ”

"There's nothing to prepare," let go of Xiahou Ling, then poured the beaten gnocchi into the pot, stirred it a few times with a frying spoon, then looked at Xiahou Yuan and said, "There are only two clothes in total, as well as those documents from yesterday." ”

Xiahou Yuan nodded, and then asked, "The train ticket has also been bought?" ”

"Bought it, tomorrow afternoon." Xiahoudun beat the egg flower into the soup, "For a day and a half, accompany Xiaoling, and it's up to you to send her back to school on Sunday." ”

"Don't worry." Xiahou Yuan answered, and went to the door to get the newspaper.

Xiahou Ling hugged Xiahoudun from behind again, and said coquettishly, "There is only one weekend left before you get married, and you can't get over it yet." I have to think about how I'm going to live and where I'm going. ”

"Okay, it's up to you for a day and a half." Xiahoudun brought breakfast to the dining table, and then said while taking off his apron, "Wherever you want to go, my brother will accompany you." ”

Time passed quickly, and after accompanying Xiahouling for the last and incomplete weekend before the wedding, Xiahoudun set off at two o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday and arrived at Xudu by high-speed train. The train station arranged a special car to take Xiahoudun to the guest house in Xudu, and after several hours of bumpy road, when he arrived at the hotel, it was already more than seven o'clock in the evening.

Xiahoudun got out of the car, closed the door and thanked the driver with a smile. After the car drove away, Xiahoudun stood at the door of the guest house, staring blankly at the signboard of the guest house, "Linglu Bureau Northern Guest House". It is said to be a guest house, but in fact it is not lower than a five-star hotel, and it has all kinds of high-end facilities, and it is the place where the Northern Operations Department of the Linglu Bureau receives internal and external dignitaries.

At this time, Xiahoudun didn't have the heart to pay attention to this exquisite, luxurious and comfortable residence, what he was thinking about was whether this emergency summoning would pre-arrange and formulate a special mission with high danger, and at the same time, he faintly felt that something unexpected would happen on this trip to Xudu.

Xiahou was stunned, and was about to step into the hall of the guest house with his luggage, but was stopped by a man who looked about the same age as him. The man was 1.8 meters tall, with a straight waist and an arrogant momentum. His hair is oily and shiny, his eyes are sharp and shiny, and he has a layer of green skin beard, which really looks capable and calm. He was dressed in a black suit that was required by the leader of the Action Group of the Spirit Recording Bureau, a gray trench coat, a dark red tie around his neck, and brown and white leather shoes on his feet. The man's left hand was slightly raised, his index finger rubbed the jade wrench on his thumb, and his right hand held a cigar cigarette that had just been lit, and said in a very heavy voice: "Oh, Xiahoudun, long time no see!" ”

Xiahoudun was stunned for a moment, and then showed a joyful smile, "Cao Ren, long time no see." ”

Cao Ren stepped forward, took out a delicate wooden box, opened it, revealing a row of high-end cigars inside, and handed it to Xiahoudun, "If I remember correctly, the last time we met was when you went to Qindao on a business trip." ”

"No." Xiahoudun waved his hand, thought for a while, and said, "Really, it was more than half a year ago. ”

Cao Ren took a deep puff of his cigarette, looked around, and asked Xiahoudun, "Didn't you bring your assistant here?" ”

Xiahou was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "The team members are busy, and it is not appropriate to call anyone." ”

When Cao Ren heard it, he let out his unique laugh with cigarettes and alcohol, "It is worthy of being the leader of Xiahou, this consciousness, our group of ordinary people are really incomparable." ”

Xiahoudun shook his head helplessly, not wanting to talk about this topic with Cao Ren, so he asked, "Have Zhang Liao and Dian Wei arrived?" ”

"Here we are." Cao Ren coughed and continued, "I went to dinner with my eldest brother." ”

Xiahoudun asked, "Why didn't you go with you?" ”

"What am I going to do?" Cao Ren had a disdainful expression on his face, "The most annoying table is the one who makes a lot of noise." ”

Xia Houdun smiled when he heard this: "You are the same as me, you don't like many people." ”

"Who says it's not," Cao Ren laughed, snuffed out the cigar in his hand, and invited Xiahoudun to the guest house, saying as he walked: "Let's go, let's finally see each other, we have to have a drink." ”

The two were just about to enter the door, but a young woman in a professional suit ran out of the guest house, looking panicked towards Cao Ren.

"Team leader, no, team leader!" The woman cried out, a look of fear on her face.

"Very presumptuous!" Seeing this, Cao Ren scolded angrily: "I didn't see Team Leader Xiahou here, what did he look like in a panic!" ”

"I'm sorry, Team Leader Xiahou." The woman first bowed to Xiahoudun and apologized, then turned to Cao Ren and said, "Team leader, there is a message from the department that a large number of corpses have been found in the mountains to the north, moving towards the residential area. ”

"What can I do with just a few corpses?" Cao Ren waved his hand, "You go back first, and wait for this seat to solve it in person!" ”

Seeing that the woman bowed to Cao Ren and left, Xiahoudun asked Cao Ren, "What is a corpse?" ”

"The corpse is a newly discovered spirit, and the basic judgment is that it is a corpse-shaped blood spirit, with an ugly appearance and a violent temperament." Cao Ren replied, "I have assisted Dian Wei in solving it in the northern part of Xudu a few times before, and these should be the remnants. ”

"I'm afraid it will hurt the surrounding residents." After listening to this, Xiahoudun said with some concern.

"Yes, without further ado," Cao Ren loosened his tie and said to Xiahoudun, "Forgive me for getting rid of those evil things, so that I can come back to eat and drink with you." ”

"Wait!" Xiahoudun stopped Cao Ren, who was about to leave, "It's all here, let's go with me too, see what the corpse looks like, and return to the group to do propaganda and prevention work." ”

Cao Ren laughed after hearing this, "Okay! With Brother Xiahou helping me, this battle will definitely be won. ”

Xiahoudun left his luggage in the lobby, and drove with Cao Ren to the place where the corpse was found.

Fortunately, when the corpses moved towards the village, they did not encounter passers-by because every family was at dinner, so they did not get angry, did not move fast, and there were no casualties.

Xiahoudun and Cao Ren got out of the car, Xiahoudun looked around, and found that the corpses came in groups, and saw that those corpses looked similar to the blood dragons, in the form of humans, and the whole body was blood-red, but the holes in the original eyes were gone, and all the corpses looked like they had no eyes, and there were many of them, at least thirty, and they were already very close to the residential area. Xiahoudun said to Cao Ren with some worry: "I didn't bring the equipment to use the formation, do you need me to lure the enemy away first?" ”

"It's okay, I have it," Cao Ren said and took out a small marble less than a centimeter in diameter from his arms, and said to Xiahoudun, "This is a newly developed barrier bead, you can cast a barrier array with one throw, you don't need to bring those bulky equipment, although it can only last five minutes, but it is enough." ”

Cao Ren threw the barrier bead, and with a flash of golden light, the barrier enveloped the battlefield.

Xiahou nodded at Cao Ren, and then walked towards the group of corpses. And when those corpses saw Xiahoudun coming, they all became extremely excited, and rushed towards Xiahoudun with a roar. Xiahoudun was not in a hurry, and punched the chest of the corpse spirit in front, only to see the corpse corpse screaming and turning into ashes. He leaped to his feet, unscrewed off the head of one of the corpses, and then in mid-air, he threw a three-part kick at the other, and both corpses turned into ashes at the same time.

Seeing this, Cao Ren burst out laughing, shouting "worthy of Xiahou Xuan", and at the same time stretched out his left hand forward, pointed five fingers at the group of corpses, and chanted "Referring to the thunder array". I saw five small rays of thunder light emanating from the five fingers of Cao Ren's left hand, rushing towards the corpse spirits, and in the middle of the process, they divided into ten more paths, hitting ten corpses respectively, killing three in an instant, and the remaining seven were either broken arms or legs.

"You're not bad!" Xiahoudun said, first getting rid of the seven crippled corpses one by one, and then using a coherent set of fists and kicks to deal with five.

Cao Ren rushed forward, and at the same time, with a wave of his right hand, he summoned a silver long knife. The knife is slender and sharp, the blade and the handle are integrated, the silver light is dazzling, and the name is "Angry Blood Blade".

Now that Cao Ren has summoned his weapons, he is bent on ending the battle as soon as possible. He brandished the angry blood blade and killed the corpse spirit, without dodging and blocking at all, cutting, splitting, slashing, and sudden, showing his superb knife skills, plus with the cooperation of Xiahoudun on the side, after a while, he wiped out all the remaining corpse spirits.

"Exactly five minutes," Cao Ren put away his weapon, took out the wooden box from his pocket, and took out a cigar, but he didn't rush to light it, just stuck it to his nose and asked, "The barrier has just disappeared." ”

"It's worthy of Cao Ren," Xiahoudun felt like he was appreciating an art every time he saw Cao Ren make a move, "The knife technique is really unique in the world." ”

Cao Ren smiled and said, "I didn't expect that you haven't summoned a weapon yet, and you are on par with the number of enemies I have killed, and your potential cannot be underestimated, it seems that next time we will have to have a good fight in the martial arts hall." ”

"Advice is always on hand for advice!" Xiahoudun looked at Cao Ren and said with a smile, and his expression quickly became serious, and asked, "Where did this group of monsters come from?" ”

Cao Renqing coughed and said, "According to Dian Wei, this monster was first discovered when he was on a mission in the area north of Xudu. It was said that someone had reported the crime, and that it was three dried corpses found in the woods. ”

"This is not unusual," Xiahoudun interjected, "The nature of the blood dragon is the essence of absorbing people. ”

"yes, that's what I thought at the time." Cao Ren shook his head and continued: "We all know that blood spirits will suck the essence of living beings, but they will not hurt the soul, that is to say, the living beings that are sucked are actually prostrated and died. ”

Xiahoudun nodded and said, "That's right. ”

"Well, something strange happened." Cao Ren put the cigar back into the wooden box, "The police were present at the time and proved that the deceased had died no more than 24 hours ago, but when our team members cooperated to investigate the scene, they found that the souls of these dried corpses were still there, but the spirit was gone." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Xiahoudun looked at Cao Ren in surprise.

Cao Ren smiled bitterly and continued to analyze: "In other words, this group of monsters is very likely to suck human spirits. ”

Xiahou was stunned for a moment, he looked directly at the place where he had just defeated the corpse spirit, although the corpse spirit had all turned into ashes, but the ugly faces in his mind were still vivid, "Subing the spirit can't get the energy they want, so what is the purpose of their survival?" Could it have been created for what purpose? ”

"I don't know yet." Cao Ren shook his head helplessly, pointed to the car next to him, and said, "Now that the task is complete, let's go back and talk while eating." ”

"It's fine." Xiahoudun nodded, walked in the direction of the car, didn't take a few steps, he suddenly smelled a strange smell, he sniffed a few times, and asked, "What is this smell?" ”

Hearing Xiahoudun's question, Cao Ren also sniffed twice and said, "Oh, by the way, after defeating the corpse spirit in the north before, there was also a faint smell of this kind, maybe this is the smell of the corpse spirit." ”

"It should be." Xiahoudun replied casually, followed Cao Ren into the car, and went back to the guest house.

After the two returned to the guest house, they ate some things casually, drank a few glasses, chatted about work, and talked about some short things in their parents, and then went back to their rooms to rest.