Gu Zi helped the girl up, and the girl trembled, her black eyes flashed with fear and uneasiness under her unkempt hair, and her hands mixed with blood and mud clung to Gu Zi's clothes.

"Please, I don't want to die!"

Gu Zi touched her head, and her voice was soft, "Don't be afraid, the snake demon is dead, you are not in danger"

"No, it's not her, and, and"

Speaking of this, the girl grabbed Guzi's hand tightly, twitched, and couldn't help but shed tears, "She killed my family, my father, mother, brothers and sisters died because of this, only I escaped, what she can't eat, even if she runs to the ends of the earth, she will find it, I will definitely die under her hands, please, save me!"

"Who is she?"

The girl raised her head, her eyes were red, there were tears in the corners of her eyes, and her wide eyes showed fear, "She is the most domineering and powerful demon hidden in Shuiyun City, she feeds on the people of Shuiyun, and no demon is allowed to touch it"

"What about the demon slasher in Shuiyun City?

The girl shook her head, most of Shui Yun's demon slashers were eaten by her, in the battle a month ago, the demon slashers lost most of them in order to take her down, and it was the woman who appeared just now to capture the snake demon and return.

A month ago, it was the time when Rong Lian's younger brother Rong Qing died.

"Hasn't that snake demon been corrected?"

The girl shook her head again, "I have a keen sense of smell since I was a child, although I have never seen her true face, but I know the smell of her body, I have secretly gone to the execution ground to see it, it is not her, she is still alive, and has been looking for me, every time I smell the smell of withered grass on her body, I know that she has come to me, and because of this, I have escaped her hunting again and again." I once asked Juyizhuang for help, but everyone knew that I was being targeted by the snake demon, so they didn't want to take me in."

"Have you ever asked the Demon Slayer for help?"

The girl shook her head again, bowed her head and was silent, and Guzi stood up.

"What's your name?"

"Zhang Xueji"

"Come with me"

The girl's eyes suddenly cleared, "Are you really willing to take me in?"

Gu Zi nodded, turned to leave, the girl followed, Gu Zi stopped, and the trembling girl also stopped, for fear that the young man in front of her would abandon her, only to see Gu Zi grab the spasmodic bamboo leaf green snake on the ground and put it in the cloth bag she carried, the girl took a few steps back, Gu Zi glanced at her, "Don't be afraid, it has been beaten back to its original shape, I will leave it useful, you come with me, I will protect you"

The girl's body was shocked, this sentence was deeply imprinted in her mind, how many years later, it was precisely because of this sentence that she bravely gave up her life for him, just to reply to him: You protect me, I also protect you.

The sun sets, the night swallows the whole sky, the sky is getting late, in the inn, the proprietress walks back and forth with a pu fan in her hand, looking anxious, the street is deserted, and the two figures walk slowly, "Changsheng, Changsheng, palm lamp!"

Changsheng shielded the flames of the oil lamp with his hand to prevent it from being blown out by the wind, and the proprietress craned her neck on the threshold to look, "How is it? Is it him?"

"It looks like it, but he's alone, and there are two people in front of him."

"What then?"

"Shall we close the door, it's a little creepy" Changsheng shrunk his neck and stepped back.

The proprietress patted him on the head, "How can this work, I, Yang Cuihua, am notoriously righteous on this street, he is going to die in my shop, so what has become of me?"

"Don't say it, it seems that it's really him, and he brought a girl back"

When the proprietress heard this, she poked her head out, but saw that the two had already climbed the steps to the door

When Gu Zi entered the door, he ordered: "Shopkeeper, arrange a room for her, and give her clean clothes."

"Okay," the proprietress readily agreed

Gu Zi went straight upstairs, leaving a dirty Zhang Xueji, the girl bowed her head, hesitated, the proprietress glanced at Changsheng, Changsheng led her upstairs, outside the door, the street in the distance gradually lit up the lights, a burst of endless shouting came, the proprietress quickly closed the door, dropped the bolt, patted her chest and shouted, "Bad luck!"

Then he blew out the lights in the lobby and turned back to his room, leaving only a burning ball of matches.

Gu Zi washed the hot water for Lu Caiyun, sat on the edge of the bed and thought, at most there was only a month and a half left, looking at Lu Caiyun's increasingly haggard face, Gu Zi was distressed.

"Brother Guzi!

A female voice shouted outside the window, Gu Zi opened the window, downstairs is a street, no one is remote during the day, I can't imagine that it is so lively at night, the street is full of red lanterns, the vendors come and go endlessly, a woman in a plain white robe is waving to Gu Zi, it is Rong Lian! Gu Zi is excited.

"Rong Lian, it's you!"

"It's me!Brother Gu Zi, I'm so lucky to find you" Rong Lian had tears in her eyes, "I haven't seen you for a long time, you've lost weight"

The two of them looked at each other upstairs and downstairs, "How do you know I'm here?"

"It's a long story, Brother Gu Zi, you come down, I have a lot to say to you"

"Okay, you wait a minute, I'll be right away!"

Suddenly, a burst of silver light flashed, Rong Lian let out an exclamation, Gu Zi turned around and saw a silver arrow on Rong Lian's body piercing through her body, "Rong Lian!"

Gu Zi roared heartbreakingly, his eyes widened in disbelief, he slowly turned around, Lu Caiyun was putting away the small silver bow, "Yun'er, why?"

Lu Caiyun stood sluggishly, Gu Zi forgot that she couldn't speak, no longer pressing, turned around angrily and wanted to go downstairs, Lu Caiyun grabbed him and pointed downstairs, Rong Lian turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated, revealing a white bone with a silver arrow, Gu Zi was surprised.

A figure rushed in and snapped the window shut, "Don't you want to die?" The person who came was small, and his delicate face was inlaid with a pair of bright eyes, and it was Zhang Xueji who he brought back.

"What's going on?" asked Guzi.

"These are all illusions, it is a dangerous situation created by monsters preying at night, once the people who are not determined to walk into this illusion, they can't get out before dawn, they will become the food of the demon's stomach, many children are young, greedy and lively, or people who have obsessions in their hearts are the most easily tempted, no matter what happens, don't easily go out of the door or open the window" Zhang Xueji said seriously.