The quiet room was dimly lit, and a little red flickered in the darkness.

Sweat slid down his cheeks, but Ye Cheng didn't care at all, staring at the yellow rune paper in front of him with all his body.

The silver rune pen slowly slid on the paper, as if it was greatly hindered, and the right hand holding the pen trembled slightly.

On the rune paper, blood-colored lines are outlined, which looks like the meridians of the human body.

Suddenly, the red light on the rune paper shook, and a distorted strange force struck, and the silver rune pen shook and tilted outward.

Whew

The lines on the rune paper suddenly burst into red light, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a red fire.

boom

After a soft thud, only a pile of black ash powder remained on the table.

"Sixty-eighth, failed"

Ye Cheng exhaled, his voice was a little low, the continuous drawing of the rune seal consumes great internal force, but more importantly, the loss of the mind, the process of drawing the rune seal is extremely delicate, even if it is just a stroke error, the entire rune seal will be directly reimbursed.

"The invisibility talisman is just a rune seal that does not enter the stream, and there are only twelve secret spells in the entire rune seal, but I can't even draw half of it......"

Drawing the talisman seal must be done in one go, and the three secret spells must be drawn with one stroke, and there can be no pause in them, Ye Cheng's best time is to draw two secret spells, but the third secret spell can't be controlled as soon as the pen is opened, and the talisman seal is directly blown up.

Sixty-eight times, without exception, failed.

"The way of the talisman is really not that easy"

Ye Cheng sighed, and began to understand why talisman masters were so rare, the price of an unpopular talisman seal in the worship hall was about three hundred to four hundred, and the rune paper consumed by Ye Cheng was already close to two hundred offering points.

This success rate, coupled with the arduous and cumbersome drawing process, is really not as good as directly exchanging it for a talisman seal.

Ye Cheng looked at the pile of thick rune paper next to him, a look of pain flashed on his face, and he took a piece of rune paper again

"It cost me 500 to worship, so you have to give me a successful one"

The pale red light in the room lit up again, and in the quiet room, the sound of thumping explosions rang out from time to time.

............

Yefu West Garden

Wang Shun opened the door, and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes blew in, and he couldn't help but shiver.

The courtyard was already covered with a thick layer of snow, and when the cold wind blew, the snow fell from the branches

"What's going on this year, this weather"

He muttered a few words, went back to the room and put on a padded jacket, and then rushed to the account room.

It's just that in October, it snowed heavily in Beining City, and overnight, the whole world was covered in snow, and Yefu was full of small maids who cleaned up the snow.

Wang Shun Shi Ran walked on the road, feeling the envious gaze on the side, and couldn't help but feel a little fluttering in his heart.

Relying on the relationship between his cousin and uncle in the family, Wang Shun became a small steward in the Ye Mansion, so naturally he didn't have to do these chores, but it suddenly snowed heavily last night, and the coal in the house was suddenly insufficient.

"I have to buy the coal back quickly" Thinking of what Uncle Tang ordered, Wang Shun quickened his pace, but he was a little excited in his heart, the matter of buying has always been the fat shortage in the house, if it wasn't for Uncle Tang taking care of him, this errand would not have fallen on his head.

"Which shop to go to, the shopkeeper of the Zhang family invited me to drink some time ago, but the rebate given by the Sun family's shop seems to be higher" Wang Shun thought in his heart.

The streets were also covered with a thick layer of snow, and some early risers pushed the snow on both sides of the road

Wang Shun turned into an alley, which led directly to the Sun family's coal shop, which was a shortcut.

"It's really evil, why did it snow so hard overnight"

He laboriously pulled his foot out of the side, and suddenly his eyes froze, and a purple-faced figure fell in the alley, ragged, obviously a homeless person who had frozen to death.

"Alas, this damned world"

His face remained unchanged, he just sighed lightly and walked directly to the side.

Some people in this Beining City will freeze to death every year, and in previous years, the city lord's mansion would also distribute some winter clothes and cotton clothes to these beggars and refugees during the winter, but this year's heavy snow came suddenly, and there are many people in the city who freeze to death.

Wang Shun didn't feel too much, the world is difficult, he is just an ordinary person struggling to survive, and doing his own errand is the most important thing.

Whew

The sky was overcast, and heavy snow began to fall again, and white snowflakes fell on the frozen refugee

Snort

A slight sound sounded, and the moment the originally white snowflakes touched the corpse, they turned into a pale black liquid and continued to drill into the corpse.

In the blink of an eye, the corpse quickly collapsed, and finally melted into a puddle of black liquid, and in a flash, the puddle of black liquid seeped into the snow little by little as if it was alive, and disappeared without a trace.

Soon, the alley was covered with snow again, and there was no trace of it.

At the same time, in various parts of Bac Ninh City, the dark alleys, the ditches of the slums, and the corpses that had frozen to death, after being covered with snow, all turned into a strange black solution, and finally slowly penetrated into the snow and disappeared......

In the City Lord's Mansion, Mu Shi sat at the table, next to which were mountains of official documents.

The indoor stove is extremely hot, and if you stay for a long time, you will sweat faintly.

"How's the situation in the city?" he looked at a middle-aged man in gray next to him

"Hong Fu of the city lord, report below, only a few dozen people died in the heavy snow last night"

"Dozens, how can there be so few" Mu Shi wondered in his heart, that is, in previous years, there were preparations, and there were hundreds of people in the city who were frozen to death, and this year's heavy snow was extremely sudden, how could there only be this casualty.

"Isn't it nonsense from the people below?"

A cold light flashed in Mu Shi's eyes, he could accept the seriousness of the disaster, but he would never allow the people below to lie about the military situation.

The gray-clothed middle-aged man tightened his heart and hurriedly replied

"My subordinates have already inspected the city, the streets are clean and orderly, the disaster is indeed not as serious as in previous years, and the refugees who froze to death have also been admitted to Yizhuang."

Mu Shi glanced at the gray-robed man, his expression softened, this person is cautious in nature, and he does things well, since he dares to vouch for him, then the actual situation should not be as serious as he thought, but the doubts in his heart have not been dispelled.

Seeing that Mu Shi's complexion softened, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and replied

"My lord has worked hard all these years, and the people of Bac Ninh City are living and working in peace and contentment, if it is placed in other big cities, I am afraid that hundreds of people will freeze to death in this heavy snow alone......"

However, before the man in gray could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a frightened voice

"My lord, it's not good."

The door was opened with a bang, and a middle-aged man in black rushed in, with snowflakes on his shoulders and a panicked look on his face

"What's the matter, panicked, what kind of body is it" Mu Shi's eyes were cold, and a momentum rose up in his body

The middle-aged man in black was startled, came back to his senses, and quickly knelt down on one knee

"Meet the Castle Lord"

Seeing that the middle-aged man in black came back to his senses, Mu Shi spoke slowly

"What's going on, let's talk about it"

"On Yizhuang, all the bodies of those refugees who froze to death last night were gone, and even the hundreds of corpses that were stored before disappeared, and all the soldiers on Yizhuang were also missing."

Bang, Mu Shi suddenly got up, and his expression suddenly became gloomy.

When he heard that the body was missing, he suddenly chuckled in his heart

In this city of Beining, in addition to those ghosts, who would be interested in these corpses, and it was these corpse monsters that caused chaos in the city not long ago.

Just a hundred corpse monsters turned Beining City upside down, and now hundreds of corpses are missing at once?

Thinking of this strange snowfall again, a bad premonition hit Mu Shi's heart

"Go to Yizhuang"

Mu Shi's voice was low, his wide-sleeved robe was rolled up, and he strode out of the door.