"He's coming!" Xie Buzhi stared at the open space in the middle of the house. Strange to say, he could hear the footsteps of the other party very clearly, but he couldn't see where the other person was.

"Click, click, click" was another sound of footsteps. This time it came from behind. Fan Xuming was clever, turned around and stood with Xie Bezhi back to back.

"How could it be? There was no one with a voice, and it was too loud, wasn't it?!" From the faint sound at the beginning to the loud sound like thunder now, the black and white impermanence tightened their grips on the weapons in their hands, and their eyes looked straight ahead.

"Click, click, click"

"Click, click, click"

"Click, click, click"

The sound is getting louder and the tempo is getting faster. But there was no change on the ground, only this inexplicable sound on the empty field, but no one was there. It is impossible to find out what the sound came from.

"Be careful!" Xie Bezhi suddenly turned around and grabbed Fan Xuming's arm and dragged Fan Xuming aside. Then with a swing of the sickle. With a "bang", a flying blade was stuck on the ground.

"Yo-he, dodged?" a figure floated down from the sky, picking up the flying blade on the ground.

"What kind of hero is a sneak attack from behind?" from the first time I saw Mu Bairan to the present. Xie Bezhi hated Mu Bairan very much from the bottom of his heart.

"Oh, sneak in the back? I threw the blade out in front of the girl. The little girl's eyesight still needs more exercise. Mu Bairan chuckled.

"Where do you talk so much nonsense? You've come out, and you've been exposed. Get ready for a beating from this girl!"

Divine Realm

Liuhe City is famous for its willow trees, and a canal built by the first dynasty a hundred years ago made it a place for wealthy merchants, officials and even royalty to set up boats. The canal is lined with turquoise willow trees, and in late March every year, the catkins on the willow trees flutter in the wind, forming a beautiful spring picture with the canal.

Mu Wanyu leaned on the bow of the boat and looked at the pedestrians coming and going on both sides of the canal, as well as the stalls that she had never seen in the imperial city. Mu Wanyu dragged Gu Hanmo beside her excitedly and shouted, "Sister Hanmo, look, look at that, and that." What are they? I've never seen them in the Imperial City. ”

Gu Hanmo squeezed the cup tightly in his right hand, he didn't want a drop of tea in his cup to spill. This tea is made with four-leaf spring. These four leaf springs are in the imperial city, and one catty costs three hundred taels of silver. Gu Hanmo, who cherishes money like his life, doesn't want this cup of good tea to be spilled in this cabin.

"Sister Hanmo, Sister Hanmo, Sister Hanmo!" Seeing that Gu Hanmo didn't take care of herself, Mu Wanyu pouted and chanted Gu Hanmo's name over and over again, shaking his sleeves desperately over and over again.

In the end, the tea in Gu Hanmo's cup still spilled into the cabin. Gu Hanmo sighed lightly, put the teacup on the small table, glanced at Mu Wanyu, and asked softly, "What are you going to do?"

As soon as she heard Gu Hanmo ask what she was going to do, Mu Wanyu turned around and pouted, looking at Gu Hanmo with some unhappiness and muttering, "I knew you didn't listen to me." You didn't treat me like that before!"

"This pot costs a few hundred taels. In the moment you just struck, you scattered dozens of taels of silver. I didn't hit you, you should be content. Gu Hanmo looked at the teapot and teacup on the table, but there was no joy or sorrow on his face.

Mu Wanyu obediently lay into Gu Hanmo's arms and said obediently: "Sister, don't be angry. It's not the first time I've done this. Will you really run into that when you come to Liuhe this time?"

Gu Hanmo shook his head and said, "Not sure"

Mu Wanyu picked up the teacup on the table, drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, and then pillowed it on Gu Hanmo's lap and asked, "Have you ever seen that thing on it?"

"Seen"

"I heard Uncle Lou say the day before yesterday that the case you are going to handle this time is very strange. Brother, can you tell me what that bloody corpse looks like?" Mu Wanyu shook Gu Hanmo's hand.

The boatman at the stern of the boat shuddered when he heard the conversation between the brother and sister, and said, "Hey, two guests, please don't talk about this kind of topic on our boat, it's unlucky." “

Gu Hanmo took out a silver ingot from his arms, looked at the boatman and said, "Boatman, you take this silver, it is not for my sister's words just now, in addition," Gu Hanmo said and took out another piece and said: "Please also ask the boatman to tell me about the recent strange incident in this city." ”

The shopkeeper stopped the boat, came over from the stern, picked up the silver, touched it and put it in his pocket, and said with a smile on his face, "Since the guest said so, let's tell you about it too." ”

Gu Hanmo took another teacup from the small table, poured a cup of tea, and put it in front of the boat swinger. Mu Wanyu also sat up from Gu Hanmo's arms and waited earnestly for the boat swinger to speak.

The boat man took a sip of tea, looked around again and said, "This started a month ago, a month ago, a bunch of earth rats came here." They asked around about the tomb of the king of the west on the west hill behind the city. Then, three days later, they went up the mountain and never came down. ”

"Didn't the people in the city go up to look for it?" Gu Hanmo narrowed his eyes.

The boatman drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, shook his head, and said, "No, no one is happy with those earth rats." ”

Gu Hanmo poured another cup for the boat swinger and asked, "What do they have to do with the rumors in the city?"

The boat swinger stared at him and said softly: "A few days ago, Zhao Laosi, who was on the watch, saw it!"

"What do you see?" Mu Wanyu's eyes widened as she looked at the boat swinger.

The boat swinger was stunned for a moment and said, "I see, I see the leader of the group of earth rats!"

"Isn't it a good thing to have survivors?" Mu Wanyu said and turned her head to look at Gu Hanmo and asked, "You have been talking about earth rats. What's that?"

"Grave robbers. Gu Hanmo replied to Mu Wanyu briefly, and then poured a glass of water for the boat swinger and said, "That person is not human?"

"Hey, of course not! How can someone only have half a face! Listening to Zhao Laosi, who was beating the watchman, he saw the man walking on the street, muttering something in his mouth. When Zhao Laosi saw it, he was so frightened that he ran home to sleep. The next day, I heard that the owner of the East Street Pharmacy had died!

Gu Hanmo nodded, turned his head to look at the shore and said, "Boatman, just dock here." My sister is tired from the boat ride and should go back. “

The boatman nodded, returned to the stern, propped up his oars, and rowed toward the shore. went ashore, and Gu Hanmo gave the boatman two taels of silver. Mu Wanyu followed Gu Hanmo up from the ferry, looked at the stalls on the side of the street, frowned, and said, "I'm hungry, where are we staying today?"

Gu Hanmo looked up and saw that there was an inn not far away. Gu Hanmo pointed to the inn and said, "Live there." “

Looking at the ordinary inn, Mu Wanyu asked in a low voice: "Why did you choose that inn? Is there a problem with that inn? There are evil spirits in the store? There are ghosts?" Mu Wanyu began to speculate about the seemingly ordinary inn.

Gu Hanmo shook his head and said, "Because it's cheap"

Mu Wanyu didn't expect Gu Hanmo to say this, in her impression, although Gu Hanmo loves money, he is still very generous to himself, I don't know when he started to become so picky. Mu Wanyu thought about how to please her brother as she walked, and asked him to take her to live in the more advanced inn opposite. But Gu Hanmo didn't give Mu Wanyu time to think about this matter, Mu Wanyu lowered her head and was stunned, Gu Hanmo had already walked into the inn.

Mu Wanyu puffed out her mouth and stomped her feet, and reluctantly ran into the inn to keep up with Gu Hanmo's pace. But what she didn't know was that she hadn't guessed wrong just now, this inn was indeed not as ordinary as it seemed.