Chapter 17: The Caged Demon (I)

In the afternoon, a few people bought a bunch of cooked food, side dishes, beer, and liquor and returned to West Street.

"I'll make you some appetizers today." Su Qiqi shouted.

"Oops, I haven't fired in a long time, so I'm going to have to show my skills tonight."

In the evening, Su Qiqi was busy in the kitchen, and Lu Yao and Li Zhi sat in the courtyard chatting.

"Can't you stay in this body all the time and think about where you're going to go?" Li Zhen looked up at the sky.

"I know, but even if I can't get revenge, I'll find Fang Nuo." Lu Yao said firmly: "As for what happened after that, I didn't think about it. ”

"I heard Su Qiqi say that this friend of yours was seriously injured and lost his soul in a coma."

"Yes, she was injured on West Street, she came to help me find clues, I don't think her accident was definitely not an accident." Lu Yao said.

"Have you ever searched for her soul since?"

"Yes, I begged the ghost woman to use the soul chasing technique to help me sense Fang Nuo, but there is no trace, do you think it was someone from the Soul Sect who did it?"

"The Soul Gate kills people with soul locks, and as long as the soul is locked, the body will die immediately. Therefore, there will never be a phenomenon that the body has not yet died out and the soul has been extinguished, there is only one possibility. Li Zhe said: "Her soul has been detained. ”

"Could it be the one who killed me?" Lu Yao said: "After I was killed, I was trapped in the school with an enchantment, and I couldn't get out. ”

"If the person who killed you has the ability, why not take your soul away? Instead, be trapped in the land of the dead? Li Zhe also felt very puzzled.

"I don't know, if it weren't for Fang Nuo's body for me to borrow, I wouldn't have escaped the shackles of the enchantment." Lu Yao sighed.

"There must be some reason why he can't move you, can't take away or destroy your soul, so he uses a strategy to trap you." Li Zhe looked Lu Yao up and down.

"Hey, don't you know it's rude to look at a girl like that?" Lu Yao pretended to complain.

"I just wanted to sense if you had any special breath." Li Zhe smiled apologetically.

"Of the three of us, you know the most and are the most powerful." Lu Yao said: "I really envy that you can still practice. ”

"If you live, you're a very spiritual person." Li Zhen said.

"Well, don't mention my sadness, actually." Lu Yao stood up and moved her arm.

"I feel comfortable being a ghost."

"People are paying more and more attention to the material world, and people's hearts are getting darker and darker, and many ghosts are more pure than people." Li Zhen said.

"When I find Fang Nuo and find out my life experience, I will go to the underworld to report it, so as to avoid becoming their number one rogue in a few years." Lu Yao joked.

"Actually, if you want, I can take you to a place to cultivate, and after a hundred years of cultivation, you can also transform into a human form and get out of the ghost body."

"Really? Is there really such a place? Lu Yao happily wanted to ask, but she heard a sudden knock on the door of the shop in front of her.

"Open the door! Boss! Are you absent? "Bell, bell! Bang Bang Bang!

Lu Yao turned around and called Su Qiqi, "Hey, you seem to be doing business again." ”

"Huh? What's up? Su Qiqi jumped out and heard the sound of slamming the door, "Here, wait a while!" ”

"Who, this is, I didn't see it, and the door was closed!" Su Qiqi took off his funny-looking apron and walked to the front room.

"You go watch the fire for me." He turned back to explain to Lu Yao as he walked.

Lu Yao raised her hands, "Spare me, I won't!" ”

"I'll go." Li Zhe stood up and walked into the kitchen.

"Wow, so you can still stir-fry?" Lu Yao showed adoring eyes, she is good-looking, well-informed and can cook, she is the best among cats.

"Cut." Su Qiqi couldn't stand Lu Yao's flattery, and rolled his eyes.

He walked into the shop through the back door and opened the front door, and saw that it was still the uncle in the morning, "Yo, it's you again?" Su Qiqi asked.

"Boss, get me a Ferrari, hurry up." The uncle was out of breath.

"Didn't you buy it in the morning? How did you figure it out again? Su Qiqi smiled and took down the papier-mΓ’chΓ© Ferrari on the top of the shelf.

"It's nothing, I just think that people can't die again, buy a car and want him to continue racing." Uncle walked in and looked around.

"Oh, that's good, that's good, there's going to be a car race over there recently! Your brother might even win the championship! "Su Qiqi has never made drafts.

At this time, the uncle's cell phone rang, and he turned around and took it out of his butt pocket.

Hey? Why is this guy's back covered with paper money? Su Qiqi thought that the uncle had accidentally rubbed the paper money in his store, and wanted to tear off a sheet to take a look, but found that he couldn't touch the paper at all.

"What's wrong?" The uncle took out his mobile phone and turned around and asked.

"It's okay, flies, flies." Su Qiqi smiled awkwardly.

After settling the bill, the uncle turned around and left with the car, Su Qiqi looked at his back covered with paper money thoughtfully, "Hey, wait." He exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" The uncle looked back suspiciously.

This man has bought a lot of things from me, and he can't die without help, although I don't know what the paper money on his back represents, but it certainly doesn't bode well.

"I have a talisman here, it is used to ward off disasters, you have recently died in the house, the mildew is very heavy, you wear it on your body for seven days and then find a place to burn it, he handed the uncle a talisman."

"Okay, thank you." Although the uncle's expression was disapproving, he still took the talisman.

"Hey, Li Zhe, I have something to ask you!" Su Qiqi shouted as soon as he walked out of the house.

"Huh? What does this smell like? He stopped suddenly.

"It's mush." Lu Yao, who was sitting in the courtyard, lowered her head weakly, "I've been hearing it for a long time." ”

"Then why don't you turn off the fire?" Su Qiqi hurriedly rushed into the kitchen, Li Zhe stood there with a shovel and a wooden man, and most of the dishes in the pot were already half mush.

"I'm late." Li Zhe explained calmly, as if it was none of his business.

As the sun set, it was getting dark.

The three of them sat in the courtyard around a small wooden table, which was full of food and wine.

"Lu Yao, are you going home late at night?" Su Qiqi asked.

"I called my mom in the afternoon and told her I was going to my classmate's birthday party in the evening and would be back later."

"You're really bad at learning." Su Qiqi said with a smile.

"Isn't it to accompany someone who is depressed to drink to kill their sorrows? No conscience. Lu Yao said.

"Good, thank you." Su Qiqi poured a glass of wine first.

"Do you drink beer or liquor?"

"Everything!" The remaining two said in unison.

"Hey, hey, they're all practitioners?" Su Qiqi said.

"No, I can't drink enough, I can only drink a little." Lu Yao hurriedly changed her words and said, if Su Qiqi knew that he was not drunk at all, he would not have rolled his eyes and fainted.

"Come on, come on, then pour it first, pour it up." Su Qiqi took care of himself.

"Wait a minute, let's discuss how to catch that big guy first, otherwise I'll forget everything about my drunk surname for a while." Lu Yao hurriedly proposed.

"I thought about it, three days later, it will be the night of the full moon, and the yin qi will be the heaviest, and he will definitely come out to forage for food, and then we will lay bait near the entrance of the alley."

"Wouldn't it be too dangerous to send the black shadow to him like this?" Lu Yao asked.

"It's not the dark shadow, it's you!" Li Zhen corrected her.

"What?" Lu Yao asked.

"I don't agree, it's!" Su Qiqi said: "That guy targeted her that day. ”

"Don't worry, since I choose her, I will definitely ensure her safety, if I throw the black shadow there, my junior brother will not be fooled."

"When he finds you, he will definitely follow you and not eat you first, because you are a dispensable meal for him, but the dark shadow is different."

"Why? Just because I've been dead longer than the dark shadow, the taste is not fresh? Lu Yao asked.

"No, because you weren't killed by him, but the Black Shadow was killed by him with a soul lock, and it's already imprinted." Li Zhe explained.

"It takes some effort for him to eat it, not to mention, he can't increase his mana, it's different if he eats the black shadow, it's his human sacrifice, it's his exclusive food."

"Oh, I see." Lu Yao nodded, "I'm going to be disgusted if I'm a ghost!" ”

"You wish he had eaten you, what a freak!" Su Qiqi scolded, "I can't see that you still have masochistic tendencies. ”

"Dare to scold me, you wait for me." Lu Yao said.

"What? What can you do with me? Su Qiqi shouted, "Master, I'm going to talk about it today, no one wants to stand and go out today!" If you want to leave, you have to climb! ”

She almost laughed out loud as she sat on the sidelines, this guy didn't know that Lu Yao had made up his mind to make him drunk like a dog.

"By the way, the person who came just now was plastered with paper money all over his back, but it's not an entity, do you know what's going on?" Su Qiqi asked.

"Paper money? I remember that there was a saying that the dead do not take the money of the dead, and he should have burned the paper money to someone but was returned. Li Zhen said.

"So you mean the man is dying?" Su Qiqi held a wine glass.

"It should be that Yangshou is almost at the end of his life." Li Zhen said.

"Then I gave him a talisman, and it doesn't seem to be of much help! There's no way, it's destined to be fate! Su Qiqi raised his glass, "Come on, let's take a sip first." ”

"Well, why do people die every day?" Lu Yao was depressed for a while, picked up the wine glass and poured it in, what kind of smell is this? It's spicy to me!

"Hey, Grandma, are you trying to get yourself drunk?" Su Qiqi hurriedly stopped, "Don't drink too much and go crazy." ”

"No, I know when I'm going to get drunk." Lu Yao waved her hand, "Don't worry about me!" ”

"Li Zhe, just now you said that there is a place where you can keep a lonely soul and wild ghost like me to cultivate, what kind of place is it?"

"It's a place called Zuiqingshan." Li Zhen said.

"Drunk Qingshan? Such a nice name, tell me in detail. ”

Looking at Lu Yao and Li Zheqi's happy chat, Su Qiqi suddenly felt a little depressed, poured himself another glass of wine, and drank it himself.

"Zuiqing Mountain is not far from the Royal Cat Mountain, where the scenery is absolutely beautiful and not as majestic as the Royal Cat Mountain, there are many precious birds and spirit animals in the mountain, there is a drunken fairy Weng who lives here for a long time,

He is broad-minded and informal, and has taken in a lot of wandering spirits from all over the world, but there is only one requirement, the guests must be kind-hearted people before their deaths, and they must not do evil and have strange whereabouts.

There is a drunken spring at the foot of the mountain, which is also known as the spring of sin. As long as the spirit can flow through the spring, it can stay in Zuiqing Mountain. ”

"Is there such a place?" Su Qiqi took over, "But it's really a good place for you, I don't think you have much desire to be a new person." ”

"Yes, I have always felt that being a man is not easier than being a ghost, we just hide from the sun every day, hide from ghosts, and be a man, but also have so many thoughts and responsibilities."

"Have you forgotten that you've been a person for eighteen years?" Su Qiqi took a sip of wine, "I was a ghost before I was reincarnated in my previous life, so I am still your ancestor." ”

"You have to ask for any bargain! If you want to be my ancestor, you are not afraid of losing your life! Lu Yao picked up the chopsticks and knocked Su Qiqi hard.

"Tap my aunt, it's so spicy! Just kidding! Su Qiqi raised his arm to block it.

"I said, you've wrapped all the mushy dishes, it's a good thing you've done." Su Qiqi pointed to the plate of black dishes in front of Li Zhe.

"It's okay if I don't eat, I don't know hunger." Li Zhe looked at the not very beautiful dish in front of him and felt that it was difficult to swallow.

"Me too." Lu Yao nodded.

"Are you going to get drunk when you drink?" Su Qiqi seemed to suddenly think of something.

"Yes!" The two men replied in unison again.

"Really?" Su Qiqi was a little skeptical.

"Of course, the ghost woman also specially told me to drink less, in case I drank too much and was happy to show my true body, it would be troublesome, hehehe." Lu Yao said weakly.

"I'm also a big drinker." Li picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the black dish in front of him.

"I'll rest assured, let me tell you, in terms of the amount of alcohol, none of you can win against me." Su Qiqi, who didn't notice anything wrong at all, suddenly became energetic.

"Yes, yes, little panic." Lu Yao pretended to be frightened and cooperated with him, or said that it would be easier to be friends with fools.

"Come on, drink, hurry up, Li Zhe will raise your glass." Su Qiqi stood up and stepped on the chair, "How can a big man drink and pinch it!" ”

Lu Yao picked up the cup and blocked the corners of her mouth, and her intuition told her that Li Zhe was definitely not drunk, and the feelings were that both of them were in this frame Su Qiqi poured himself wine.

Sure enough, more than half an hour later, Su Qiqi was already lying on the table and babbling nonsense, "Master, when are you going to take me away?" ”

"You big liar! Old liar! have lived for more than a hundred years and are full of lies and deception... Trick my feelings! ”

"I... I'm telling you! He suddenly got up and pointed to Li Zhe, who was sitting beside him, "What if... If you don't take me back to Shimen, I'll go to Qisu to expose you! ”

"Revealed.... Expose you! After saying that, he fell back on the table with a grunt, and kept burping.

"I thought he was so good at drinking!" Lu Yao on the opposite side looked at Su Qiqi with a disgusted expression, "Still thinking about how to pretend to be drunk and bluff him!" It's so bad that I've been brewing for a long time. ”

"It's not good to deceive people like that."

Li Zhe taught Lu Yao a serious lesson.

"Who just said that you don't drink well?" Lu Yao raised her eyebrows and asked, "I see that you not only drink very well, but also you are not half drunk, are you embarrassed to talk about me?" ”

"Well, I, I'm a bit better than the average person." Li Zhe explained.

"Li Zhe, you are not suitable for lying, there is a big word clearly written on your face." Lu Yao said.

"What word?" Li Zhe asked suspiciously.

"Liar." Lu Yao replied.

Li Zhe did not defend himself anymore, "Walking outside, sometimes it is inevitable to learn to socialize like ordinary people, and you can't get drunk for fear of revealing your identity." ”

"I remember when I was having dinner at a company, I was drunk, and when I ran into the bathroom, my tail was exposed, but luckily the cleaning aunt thought we were having a drag party.

Since then, I have gone back to Yumao Mountain to refine the sobering pill, eat one before drinking, and I will not get drunk until dawn. ”

"So you just ate the decanting pill?" Lu Yao asked.

"Nope." Li Zhi shook his head, "Probably because I often eat sobering pills, my current alcohol consumption is really much better than ordinary people." ”

"Oh, I see, actually, it's okay to get him drunk, today he really got a big hit." Lu Yao drew a circle on the back of Su Qiqi's head with her hand.

"Don't look at this guy's usual grinning appearance, as if he can fit a gourd in his stomach, he is actually very persistent in cultivating this path."

"The world is impermanent, and there is no certainty whether cultivation can be achieved or not, so there is no need to rush for a while." Li Zhe picked up the wine in the cup and drank it down.

"But you must know that he has been in this nest for decades without achieving anything, and now he has no hope of returning to his master's door, if it were me, I am afraid I would be extremely depressed." Lu Yao withdrew her hand and held her chin.

"He's still young and there's a lot of opportunities." Li Zhen said.

"Don't rely on the old to sell the old, I see that you have lived for more than a hundred years and still don't have the cleverness of Su Qiqi!" Lu Yao laughed and teased him.

"This is the second time I've gone down the mountain, and the last time was twelve years ago, and many people are still not good at it."

"Twelve years ago? Is it for the sake of the Soul Gate? Lu Yao asked.

"Yes, there was a lot of movement in the soul gate last time, and we all thought that we could take this opportunity to encircle and suppress them, but we didn't expect to be escaped by them." Li Zhen sighed.

"That war also killed several of our fellow disciples and brothers, and the Soul Sect and our enmity are not the same."

"It turns out that you also care so much about the Soul Gate, it seems that we are also standing on the same front." Lu Yao said, "Come, have a drink." ”

Li Zhe shook his head with a smile, poured another glass of wine, and drank it all after clinking glasses with Lu Yao.

"Heh, you said that we are both not drunk with a thousand glasses, what are we drinking here?" Lu Yao suddenly felt a little funny at the moment.

"It's even more sad to drink away your sorrows, and it's not good to get drunk." Li Zhe said: "No matter how much you drink, it won't change anything." ”

"What you said makes sense, but it doesn't fit the situation." Lu Yao stood up.

"You help him back into the house, and I'll clean up the table."

"That's hard!" Li Zhi stood up and helped Su Qiqi, who was already asleep.

After cleaning up, the two of them left together, Lu Yao went out from the front door store first, and Li Zhe closed the store door and turned into a cat and left over the wall.

"It's so cute." Lu Yao looked at Li Zhe who was standing on the wall, "Your illusion cat is so beautiful." ”

Li Zhe did not immediately change back into human form, but jumped off the wall and stood beside Lu Yao.

"I'll send you home, you're in human form now, and it's not safe to walk alone." The little black cat raised its head, its eyes shining.

"Okay." Lu Yao reached out and hugged him.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Li Zhen fluttered in her arms.

"Quiet, what's wrong with holding for a while, I haven't touched something furry in a long time."

"But ....."

"Shhhh Lu Yao didn't let go of him at all, "Let's go." ”

"Who made you turn into a cat just now, and now you can't escape my Five Finger Mountain."

"Do you know that there is a difference between men and women?" Li Zhe was still struggling in her arms.

"I know, I also know that there is a difference between humans and cats, what's wrong?" Lu Yao disagreed.

"Hey, you, meow." Li Zhe suddenly stopped talking and turned into a meow.

Lu Yao looked up and saw a woman walking across the street, her hat was very low and she couldn't see her face clearly, no wonder Li Zhe closed her mouth just now.

"Be nice, or I'll spank you." Lu Yao deliberately teased Li Zhe.

"Meow!" The cat in his arms replied dissatisfiedly.

When the woman passed by her, she stopped, Lu Yao didn't care, and continued to tease the cat in her arms and walked forward.

Looking at Lu Yao's back, the woman frowned and turned to leave.

"You're enough, let me down." Li Zhe fluttered desperately.

"No, aren't you going to take me home?" Lu Yao said.

"That's not how it was delivered!"

"I think it's nice to give it away." Lu Yao was still grinning.

Seeing Lu Yao's smiling face and dancing eyebrows, Li Zhen couldn't get out of his anger.

Getting into the taxi, Lu Yao continued to tease Li Zhe.

Li Zhen had secretly sworn in his heart that he would never send her home again, at least not to become a cat!

"This cat is so good." Seeing Lu Yao's teasing of the cat, the driver also came to mix it.

"yes, my cat is the best." Lu Yao pinched the cat's ears.

"Meow!" Li Zhe shouted in protest.

got out of the car, Lu Yao hugged Li Zhe into the community.

"I don't want to go home with you, let me go." Li Zhi was lying in her arms, and had given up resistance.

"Okay." Lu Yao reluctantly put him on the ground, and Li Zhen saw that there was no one around, and changed back to his human form.

Lu Yao watched Li Zhe stride towards her, thinking that he was going to retaliate, so he hurriedly took a few steps back in fright, and almost tripped over the flower pond behind him.

Li Zhen stretched out his long hand and pulled her back, "What are you doing?" Want to fight? Lu Yao pushed him.

"Next time you dare to tease me, I'll bury you in the ground." Li Zhe's eyes glared and threatened viciously.

"Hahaha, haha, you became a cat yourself, why blame me." Lu Yao laughed and haha, "Why are you so close to me, doesn't it mean that there is a difference between men and women?" ”

Li Zhe let go of Lu Yao, turned around and left.

"Don't... Don't go yet. Lu Yao hurriedly chased after him, trying to pull his arm, but found that he was too strong, so he simply hugged one of his arms and didn't let go.

"What do you do?" Li Zhe stopped and looked back and asked.

"Don't be angry, I have no malicious intent, I don't mean to trick you!" Lu Yao cautiously apologized.

"I don't know why." Seeing the moment Li Zhi turned around and left home, she was very afraid that he would ignore her again.

"No anger, you're home, it's time for me to go." Li Zhi said helplessly.

"Really? You swear? Lu Yao still didn't let go of her hand.

"I swear, okay?"

"Then we'll see you in three days." Lu Yao happily let go of his hand and said that he could go.

Li Zhe glanced at her again, didn't speak, and left with his long legs.

"Bye-bye, don't forget, three days later." Lu Yao danced behind him.

Li Zhe didn't look back, but he must have heard it.

When Lu Yao returned home, Fang's mother was still waiting for her in the living room.

"Nono, are you having fun with your classmates? Why did you come back so early? ”

Lu Yao glanced at the watch hanging on the wall, it was just after eight o'clock.

"The teacher said don't let us make trouble too late, it's not safe." Lu Yao walked into the living room.

"Mom, I'll watch TV with you." Lu Yao sat down on the sofa.

A costume TV series is being broadcast on TV, and the men, women and heroines are entwined on the cliff with a life-and-death parting.

"The current TV series is too substandard, you look at the cutout, this special effect is too fake." Lu Yao picked up the orange and turned on the spit mode.

"The hero here is a maid.,The male owner is a traitor.,The two of them are dying in the world.。 Fang's mother saw that her daughter looked uninterested, so she hurriedly explained to her.

"Dog blood." Lu Yao picked up the remote control while eating oranges, it was better to watch the news.

swished and changed the channel, and finally broadcast the news of the local station.

"Nono, didn't you like to watch these lingering TV series the most?" Fang's mother asked suspiciously: "Why are you not interested now?" ”

"Huh? Is it? I don't like it now, so I've changed my taste. ”

"Just watch the news?" Fang's mother pouted, "How did you become the same as your father." ”

"It's not good to care about hot current events." Lu Yao gently bumped Fang's mother with her shoulder, "Come, Mom, eat an orange." ”

At this time, the afternoon news is being replayed on the TV, and it is reported that the murder that occurred last week on XX East Road in my city has now been solved, and the deceased's girlfriend Xi has been released this morning after being cleared of disgust.

The man suspected of committing a major crime in the surveillance video is currently found dead at home, preliminarily determined to be a suicide, and the case is under further investigation.

"This is the news in the afternoon, the last murder in the alley, the murderer turned out to be someone else, wronged the girl." Fang's mother put the orange in her mouth and chewed it.

"That person must have known that the matter was exposed, and committed suicide in fear of sin."

"You're so smart that you should go to the police station to help solve the case." Lu Yao praised.

"If I'm a teenager younger, I'm going to be a police officer." Fang's mother said proudly.

"Now it's also a flower, and none of them are more beautiful than their mother!" Lu Yao threw another orange into her mouth.

"Yo Yo Yo, did you wipe honey on your mouth when you came back from a dinner? So complimenting me? Fang's mother stood up with a smile, "Okay, I'll wash some more fruit." ”

"That traitor gave up his body so quickly, presumably Li Zhen injured that body that day and couldn't recover, right?" Lu Yao sat on the sofa staring at the TV.

"Will he look for another body? How many more people will this monster kill? No way! You have to catch him in three days! ”