Chapter 43: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole
Su Qingmo's strange noise here was naturally heard by several people, and Mu Yuanjing, who was closest to her, reacted the fastest, and took the lead in pulling the person into his arms when his hand under the bed tried to pull Su Qingmo down.
"Are you alright?"
Su Qingmo leaned into Mu Yuanjing's arms in shock, except for a slight tingling pain in his ankle, there was no other discomfort.
Without giving a few people a chance to breathe, the laughter under the bed suddenly stopped, and then Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo were forcibly separated by a force, trapped in place and unable to move a bit.
Pei Lin, who had opened the eyes of the sky, took a full view of their situation and saw that each of them had a woman's soul body wrapped around their bodies, and it was those two soul bodies that made Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo unable to move.
Pei Lin took out the yellow talisman from his waist and was about to act, when he suddenly felt a coolness on his wrist, and then his hands were grabbed and twisted behind him, and at the same time, Wei Xu's cry came from his side, Pei Lin looked over and found that Wei Xu's condition was similar to that of Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo.
The purple gold bell on Su Qingmo's waist sounded without wind, and she was shocked: "There are resentful ghosts in this house!" ”
Pei Lin was restrained behind his back and kept pinching his hands, and said while trying to break free: "Those women who were killed because of the resurrection of Jiuyin." ”
Before coming to visit Yunxiang's room, Su Qingmo and Pei Lin didn't expect this to happen, usually speaking, the person used to revive the soul of the Nine Yin must be cut off and die, as for the reason, they don't want the deceased to remember the last moment before death, so that the soul of the deceased remains in a state of ignorance, unable to give birth to resentment and be polluted.
But the opposite is true today.
Su Qingmo didn't have time to think about the reason, and said to Pei Lin: "We must get out of here quickly." ”
Pei Lin didn't speak, his mouth kept silently reciting the mantra, and after a while, the restraints on his body were broken, and as soon as he got free, he threw the three yellow talismans on the other three who were also trapped.
Pei Lin said to Wei Xu: "You go and see if the window can be opened." ”
As he spoke, his feet kept moving in the direction of the door, pulling, and sure enough, as he expected, the door had been sealed by a strange force, and then he looked at Wei Xu, who shook his head at him.
Pei Lin walked to the window, took a quick look, and found that when the chance of success was greater, he bit his fingertips and drew a spell with a complex pattern on the palm of his hand, and when the blood was not enough, he continued to bite other fingers, during which Su Qingmo had already set up a rune boundary by the window to prevent changes.
Pei Lin didn't take much time to complete the spell, and then he lightly pressed his palm against the window lattice without pausing, and the strange thing was that no matter how hard Wei Xu tried, the window that had never moved was actually opened under Pei Lin's gentle movements.
Nuan Yulou Oiran s room is located on the second floor, although it doesn't look tall, but it is still easy to get injured if you really want to jump, Wei Xu took the first step and flew down from the window, followed by Mu Yuanjing, who was holding Su Qingmo, Pei Lin broke off.
After returning to the ground, Su Qingmo was put down, she looked at the half-open window, but she never saw Pei Lin's figure, and when she was anxious, Pei Lin poked her head out of it and said loudly: "You guys go first!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Lin disappeared from the window, looking as if he was dragged away by someone behind him, and then the window was also vigorously closed.
Su Qingmo walked around to the gate of the Nuan Yu Building, raised his feet and prepared to enter the Nuan Yu Building for the second time, but was stopped by Mu Yuanjing.
"Let's get out of here first, and then we'll think about it in the long run."
Su Qingmo shook off his hand, "I can't leave Pei Lin alone." ”
Mu Yuanjing was not angry because of her behavior, and said patiently: "Pei Lin will be fine, you believe me." ”
Seeing that the person did not let go, Mu Yuanjing continued: "Even if you go in now, you can't help him, and you may become a burden to him." ”
Su Qingmo calmed down, looked at Mu Yuanjinghu and said suspiciously: "How does the prince know that he will be fine?" What did he say to the prince? ”
In fact, Pei Lin really didn't say much, he just said 'Don't worry' in a voice that only the two of them could hear when Mu Yuanjing was about to jump out of the window with Su Qingmo in his arms, and it was precisely because of this sentence that Mu Yuanjing could have the confidence to stop Su Qingmo.
Although he didn't wait for Mu Yuanjing's answer, Su Qingmo's heart was still a lot more stable.
It was late at night, and after the curfew, the streets became empty, and several people rode to Linchuan Wangfu as they came, but the difference was that Pei Lin was missing from the team returning to the house.
After arriving at the palace, Su Qingmo insisted on waiting for Pei Lin's news in the study, two hours passed, and she couldn't stand the sleepiness and slept on the wide chair in the study.
Mu Yuanjing waited for Su Qingmo to fall asleep, and then quietly walked into the study, he looked at her silently for a long time, and finally sighed and leaned over to pick up the person and returned to Moxiangju.
On the second day, Su Qingmo woke up and was still thinking about Pei Lin's affairs, but fortunately, not long after breakfast, Yongan came in from outside and said, "Princess, Pei Lin is back." ”
Su Qingmo asked anxiously, "Where is he now?" ”
Yongan replied, "The man is in the study." ”
Hearing this, Su Qingmo left Moxiangju and quickly moved towards the study.
After Pei Lin, who was in the study, noticed that someone was coming, his eyes turned to the door of the study, and when he found out that it was Su Qingmo, he said hello with a smile.
Su Qingmo walked up to him in three or two steps, looked up and down, and was relieved when he found that there were no injuries.
Pei Lin's attention was attracted by her somewhat awkward walking posture, "What's wrong with your feet?" ”
After finishing speaking, he bent down and planned to lift the hem of Su Qingmo's skirt to take a look, but his movements stopped because of the sudden appearance of someone at the door of the study.
Only then did Pei Lin realize that there was something wrong with his behavior, and he hurriedly stood up and greeted the person at the door: "Lord Wang." ”
Mu Yuanjing nodded to him, then walked to Su Qingmo's side and helped her sit on the chair, and said with concern: "Is it better?" ”
Pei Lin interjected and asked Su Qingmo, "Are you injured?" ”
Su Qingmo told the truth about the situation, it turned out that the injury on his foot was caused in the Ruxiang room of Nuan Yulou the night before, when the ghost under the bed grabbed Su Qingmo's ankle, so that the yin qi entered the body, which made Su Qingmo's whole foot swollen, although the cold qi had been removed that night, but after all, it still caused some inconvenience in action.
After finishing speaking, Su Qingmo remembered the thrill in the rue room before, and asked Pei Lindao, "Why didn't my cousin come out with us in the end?" ”
"Because I found something unusual."
He carefully talked about the situation after Mu Yuanjing, Su Qingmo and Wei Xu left.
"After you left, I was going to jump out of the window, but I was pulled back by the ghosts at the moment before I recovered the runes, and then I found that all the ghosts in the room disappeared after pulling me back, and after the ghosts disappeared, they reappeared in front of me in just a moment, so I didn't choose to leave the room, but hid in the re-set rune realm, watching them appear and disappear again and again."
With Pei Lin's ability, how could he not dodge, so at that time, he deliberately let the ghost pull him back into the room.
Su Qingmo had never seen the real Nine Yin Resurrection, but even if he hadn't come into contact with her, he knew that what Pei Lin saw was not quite right.
She pondered, "According to what is written in the book, the soul required for the Nine Yin Soul Restoration should have been locked in the array since it left the body and could not be released. ”
Pei Lin agreed: "You're right, but this murderer not only released the souls of the dead, but also refined them into powerful ghosts. ”
Su Qingmo continued: "And the reason why the ghosts appear in the Nuanyu Building in a cycle is because once the ghosts are released from the magic circle, they will appear at the scene of the killing as soon as possible, and as for the reason why they disappear again, I am afraid that it is because the murderer is using the magic circle to forcibly summon the ghosts back." ”
Pei Lin nodded, Su Qingmo's guess was the same as his.
Mu Yuanjing, who had never spoken, asked, "What does this mean?" ”
Pei Lin affirmed: "It shows that the ghosts of the dead are out of control, and the murderer can no longer completely confine them in the magic circle." ”
After he finished speaking, he added: "Lord Wang, we can use this point to make a game to lure out the murderer." ”
Mu Yuanjing looked at Pei Lin quietly, waiting for his next step.
Pei Lin continued: "The ghosts used to resurrect the souls of the Nine Yin are becoming more and more unstable, the murderer's heart must be very anxious, he must also know that if he doesn't use those ghosts as soon as possible, it won't be long before the ghosts will leave the circle and become lonely ghosts and wild ghosts wandering between heaven and earth, and after that, if the murderer wants to gather nine souls again, I'm afraid it will be impossible anymore, so if we let people pretend to be Oiran and then live in Oiran's room in the Nuan Yu Building, in this case"
Mu Yuanjing said clearly: "If the murderer learns the news, then no matter how dangerous it is, he can only choose to do it. ”
Once the plan had been agreed, the three of them discussed and set it up in the study.
In the afternoon of the same day, the news that Nuan Yulou's bustard's mother was released by the Yin Shiya spread, and then the news that Nuan Yulou was about to elect a new Oiran that night was also spread to everyone.
Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo were sitting next to the exclusive room of the Oiran of Nuan Yulou at this time, and in front of them stood a woman with a cold temperament.
The woman was one of the few female guards in the hidden world, and after the plan to lure out the murderer was arranged, Mu Yuanjing sent her to sneak into the Nuan Yu Building.
Later, the election of the Oiran had already been arranged, and there would be no second person besides the female hermit, and even the guests who bought her first night were from the hermitage.
Mu Yuanjing instructed lightly: "You go first, pay attention to safety." ”
The female hermit guard walked out of the house, but after the door was opened, the bustard's mother was standing outside, and the momentum on the female hermit guard's body instantly became fierce, and she glanced at the bustard's mother.
The bustard's mother smiled stiffly, and the female guard withdrew her gaze and left calmly.
Mu Yuanjing looked at the people outside the door and said in a deep voice: "Something? ”
Mother Bustard crossed the threshold, took two more steps, and said cautiously: "If the prince catches the murderer, he will be executed on the spot?" ”
"It's not your turn to ask what this king is going to do."
Mother Bustard looked frightened, and knelt on the ground as soon as her legs became weak, "Lord forgive me." ”
Mu Yuanjing didn't pay attention to her anymore, and said coldly: "Go out." ”
The bustard's mother stood up tremblingly, and walked outside with a shaky body, remembering the time she had been in prison, and she realized how bold she really was.
After the bustard's mother left, Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo waited in the room for a while, and the election of the new Oiran began downstairs, and the process of electing the Oiran did not happen unexpectedly, and the result was as expected.
Because he was afraid that the female guard would have an accident, Pei Lin hid in the wardrobe in Oiran's room in advance, and a hidden hole was opened at the end of the wardrobe opposite the bed, so that Pei Lin could watch at any time.
The female hermit guard helped the guests who had been inserted by the hermit to return to the room according to the plan, and after placing the person on the bed, the female hermit closed the curtain, and the two people on the bed made a gesture to pull up the curtain again after the Zhou Gong salute, and then lay on the bed and slept with each other.
Pei Lin, who was hiding in the closet, didn't dare to move, and stayed up until the ugly time, and finally heard the sound coming from the window.
A scarlet flame the size of a soybean grain entered through the window paper, and then there was a fragrance in the room, and the words of Guo Zhi, the son of the Shaoqing family of Dali Temple, made Mu Yuanjing and others realize that the murderer may have used incense when he killed people, otherwise Guo Zhi would not have been unaware when the people around him were chopped off and died.
Pei Lin took out the antidote to the incense prepared in advance, put it in his mouth and swallowed it vigorously, and it didn't take long for his originally somewhat drowsy consciousness to wake up.
Presumably, the person outside the window was also afraid that the people in the room would not sleep deep enough, so the person waited for a long time, and only when Pei Lin was a little impatient did he make a move, first the window was opened carefully, and then a man dressed in black and masked rolled into the room neatly from outside the window.
The person who was always awake on the bed was not in a hurry, and the two of them calmed down and pretended to be asleep.
The masked man in black walked lightly to the side of the bed, and after seeing the outline of the person on the bed by the moonlight, he first moved the man on the bed to the ground, and then he pulled out the big knife he was carrying behind his back, raised his hands, and slashed at the neck of the other person on the bed.
The female guard's ears moved, and she quickly turned over to dodge when the blade came down, and the masked man in black was startled for a moment, and immediately left the big knife and planned to leave from the window, but who knew that the person who had been lying on the ground suddenly moved.
A carp stood up from the ground and quickly pressed the masked man in black to the ground.
The moment his head touched the ground, the masked man in black was still struggling.
The sound in the room alarmed Wei Xu, who was guarding outside, and he pushed the door in, followed by Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo.
Su Qingmo didn't find Pei Lin's figure after entering the door, and when she walked to the closet, she heard a faint moan coming from inside.
She opened the cabinet door and found Pei Lin squatting inside in an awkward position, she glanced at him, turned around and was about to leave, but she heard the person in the cabinet say a little weakly: "Quick, help me out"
Su Qingmo turned his head to look at him again.
Pei Lin had a hint of embarrassment on his face, "his legs are numb"
Su Qingmo looked at him and sighed helplessly.
There was a relaxed atmosphere between the two, which was just the opposite of the situation on Mu Yuanjing's side.
The man in black was still pressed to the ground, no matter from the figure or the dress, he could confirm that the other party was a man, Mu Yuanjing did not rush to uncover the cloth towel he covered his face, and after Pei Lin's legs were numb, he said, "Let's see if there is anything wrong with him?" ”
People who can use the Nine Yin Resurrection Soul, Mu Yuanjing doesn't want to take it lightly.
Pei Lin heard the strings and knew the elegant meaning, stepped forward and flipped through it carefully, and said to Mu Yuanjing: "It's very clean." ”
After getting his assurance, Wei Xu asked the hidden guard to lift the person up, and then he walked closer and reached out to remove the black scarf that the man in black was masked.
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