The shopkeeper opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, his expression changed from frightened to calm, from calm to depressed.

"Speak quickly!" Wu Zhiyuan gently pushed the wooden sword forward, urging in a deep voice.

The shopkeeper glanced at Wu Zhiyuan, and said in a flat tone: "Hand over the handkerchief with the map as soon as possible, otherwise you won't live long." Although the words are full of threats, they feel like advice.

"I'm afraid I won't live long if I hand it over." Wu Zhiyuan snorted coldly.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper let out a sneer, and suddenly stuffed his right hand into his mouth, Wu Zhiyuan vaguely saw that he was holding a red pill and stuffing it into his mouth with his second finger, and was about to stop it, but it was too late, and the shopkeeper swallowed the pill with a "grunt".

"If you can't get that handkerchief, you will die sooner or later, and it is better to die happily than to be tortured by Gu poison." The shopkeeper laughed a few times in despair, suddenly his body weakened, and he collapsed to the ground, followed by continuous violent convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and there was no movement in the blink of an eye, Wu Zhiyuan leaned over and saw that he had lost his breath.

"The torture of Gu poison?" Wu Zhiyuan muttered to himself, he clearly heard the shopkeeper say such a word, could it be that he was poisoned and blackmailed him?

Wu Zhiyuan pondered for a moment, thinking that it must be this reason, this shopkeeper must have also been tortured by Gu poison, so he was so jealous of Gu poison, and would rather take a violent poison and die happily than suffer from Gu poison and live secretly. But except for the Black Descending Sect, no one in the ordinary Jianghu sect can know how to refine Gu poison, the Moon Shadow Fuxian has lost his memory, and the Southern Heavenly Eagle is nowhere to be found, who else is doing evil with this poison?

"If you can't find something, you automatically take that soul chasing pill!" Wu Zhiyuan remembered that when he was in the woods, the man in black had said such a sentence to the shopkeeper, and now it seems that the red pill that he swallowed must be the "Soul Chasing Pill" that the man in black said. The shopkeeper died within half an hour after swallowing it, and it is not an exaggeration to call it "chasing souls".

It's a pity that I didn't get any useful clues from him, such as why they stole the babies, where the stolen babies were, what were their intentions in getting the handkerchief in the Maoshan treasure mirror, and who were they? Wu Zhiyuan suddenly remembered that the voice of the shopkeeper was a bit girlish, just like An Rushan, who had stolen the baby in the village before, thinking of this, he leaned forward and reached out to touch the crotch of the shopkeeper.

Sure enough, this shopkeeper also has no reproductive organs, if a person does not have reproductive organs, it may be a congenital malformation, this possibility exists, but now there are no two people, which has to be doubtful.

Is it a congenital malformation or an acquired castration? Wu Zhiyuan hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to take off the shopkeeper's pants to check and understand, and just reached out to untie the shopkeeper's belt, but saw his stomach suddenly bulge a few times. Wu Zhiyuan was taken aback and hurriedly got up and stood aside.

"The little second person in this shop has Gu poison in his body, could it be that he also has Gu worms in his abdomen?" Wu Zhiyuan's first thought was the corpse Gu centipede in the belly of the Moon Shadow Fuxian Master and the corpse Gu poisonous snake in the belly of the drought fish, if it was really unfortunate, it would be troublesome.

Wu Zhiyuan tightly held the peachwood sword in his hand, his mind spun rapidly, rummaging for any records in Maoshan notes to restrain Gu worms, at this moment, Dian Xiaoer's stomach rose and fell, and piles of maggots came out of his abdomen, and they continued to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye, and those maggots kept wriggling on his corpse, and soon covered his whole body.

The air was filled with a disgusting fishy smell.

Wu Zhiyuan covered his nose and hurriedly opened the door and walked out of the room, not even having time to take the burden of dry food wrapped next to the bed.

At this time, it was the middle of the night, and he saw that the door of the Moon Shadow Fuxian next door was closed, and he thought that he had already fallen asleep, so he took the peachwood sword and quietly walked out of the inn.

In order to avoid being discovered by the people in the inn to find the dead body in the room, Wu Zhiyuan planned to go back to the inn to find the Moon Shadow Fuxian as soon as the day dawned, and then take her away quietly, after all, it was a human life, and he didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble because of this.

But before that, he still has one more thing to do, that is, to go to the grove again, since the man in black has made an appointment to meet in the grove at dawn, he plans to go to the grove alone to meet the man in black.

At this time, there was only three watches, it was still early before dawn, Wu Zhiyuan had nowhere to go, so he had to wander on the empty street, walked for a long time, and suddenly felt sleepy, at this time all the inns were closed, there was no place to stay, he walked to a sheltered corner, and sat cross-legged against the wall with his back.

In the first half of the night, he was nervous, and after some tossing, he was already sleepy, and as soon as he leaned his head against the wall, Wu Zhiyuan quickly fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, Wu Zhiyuan woke up hazy again, he opened his eyes in a trance, and suddenly found that there was a person standing in front of him!

In fact, Wu Zhiyuan's first sight was only this person's feet, wearing a pair of pink embroidered shoes on those feet, the long skirt hung down to the ground, and he looked down the long skirt, only to find that the person in front of him was actually a woman with a very standard appearance.

"You...... Who are you? Wu Zhiyuan looked left and right, it was very cold on this long street, how could a woman suddenly appear in the middle of the night.

"Brother Wu, don't you remember me?" The woman asked rhetorically, with a hint of sorrow between her eyebrows.

"I ...... We know each other? Wu Zhiyuan glanced at the woman carefully, and felt that he must not have seen her before.

The woman nodded slowly, was silent for a moment, and asked, "When are you going to Shanghai to see Yuesheng?" ”

Wu Zhiyuan was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't think much about it, and replied casually: "I can't go in a short time." ”

The woman let out a soft "oh", her lips opened slightly, and she stopped talking, she stood for a moment, and said with a lost face: "See you again." So saying, the man was already walking west down the street.

Wu Zhiyuan looked at her beautiful back, and when he was confused, he saw that the woman suddenly stopped, turned around and said to Wu Zhiyuan from a distance: "Brother Wu, don't trust anyone easily, remember." ”

With that, the woman turned around and left, and disappeared into the long gray street in a blink of an eye.

"What do you mean by that?" Wu Zhiyuan was a little confused by the second monk, he hurriedly asked in a loud voice, this shout, only felt that his body suddenly tilted, and he almost fell, he opened his eyes suddenly, and found that there was nothing in front of him, it turned out to be a dream.

When he woke up from the dream, the situation in the dream was still vivid, Wu Zhiyuan felt that this dream was not simple, why did the woman ask Du Yuesheng, and what did she mean by what she said at the end? Wu Zhiyuan thought about it for a long time and didn't have an eyebrow, and when he looked at the sky, the night light receded, and the dawn came, and it was about the fifth watch. Thinking of meeting the man in black in the woods, Wu Zhiyuan hurriedly got up and walked in the direction of the grove.

At this time, although it was already five watches, but the sky was not yet bright, it was estimated that the man in black had not arrived at this time, so he took this opportunity to hide in the bushes first, so that the enemy was dark and I was clear, so that it was convenient to observe the other party's approach.

Thinking like this, Wu Zhiyuan quickly came to the edge of the woods, and just walked to the agreed place, but saw a black figure there with his back to him.

"It's so early, it looks like it's already in hand." The man in black said in a deep voice.

Wu Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect him to come earlier than himself.