"I haven't been here for the past few years, and I only noticed something strange when I arrived yesterday," Hall Master Zhan took a sip of tea and said, "Why don't you find a guy and ask." ”

Hall Master Zhan called the guy who ran the hall, threw a low-grade spirit stone to him, and asked him about the reason.

The guy said: "The two masters don't know, this matter starts from about seven or eight years ago. It turned out that there were a lot of cats in the city, but since then somehow the cats have begun to decrease, first the ownerless cats in the city are gone, at first the big guys are quite happy, at least there is no cat called spring every night. But then the cat in the house was also lost, and this situation began to radiate outward from the center of the city. When the cat was lost, it was silent, as if it had just flown away. ”

"In the past seven or eight years, not only have the cats in the city been extinct, but even the cats in the surrounding areas have disappeared. Presumably the two masters also saw it, the mice here are all fat and strong, and the ones they eat are no longer sneaky, but openly robbed. The common people had no choice, so they bought it at a high price from other places at first, and when they returned home, they either tied it with a rope or made a cage to put it up, but no matter what the way, it would be gone in more than three nights. ”

"Later, there was a rumor that a few years ago, a good mortal waited at the door of the house of the man with the cat every night in order to find out what was going on, and wanted to see what was going on. A few days later, one morning, he was spotted on the side of the road, but he was already mad and kept muttering, 'Big mouse, big mouse the size of a calf, ......'. So people said that there must be rat spirits in the city, specializing in eating cats, and this kid was unfortunate enough to see it, so he was scared stupid. ”

After that, the mortals of the city were half frightened to death, and the rat infestation was overwhelming, so they fled from the place. The loss of a large number of mortals has caused the cultivation resources of the monks to be cut off, and they have all left one after another, which has caused the current depression in Kaiyuan City. The man told him what he knew.

"If such a big thing happens, the city lord doesn't care?" asked the shopkeeper at the interface.

"Hey, don't mention it, the city lord has rarely shown up in recent years, maybe his cultivation has reached a bottleneck, and he is in retreat in the mansion? Some people also say that it is the city lord's newly married wife who is too beautiful, so he lingers among the flowers every day, who knows......" Speaking of this, the guy's face suddenly became solemn, as if he thought of something.

Zhan and Yu also saw that something was wrong, and asked, "Man, is there anything special?"

The man had a look of embarrassment on his face, but did not answer.

Hall Master Zhan took out five lower grade spirit stones and handed them to him, "Man, you just have to say it." ”

The guy looked down at the heavy spirit stones in his hand, thought about it slightly, and finally gritted his teeth to put away the spirit stones, leaned down and whispered to the two: "Second master, it's not that the kid is greedy for money, there is a guess that is really important, and the kid didn't dare to say it." However, the two masters rewarded him so much, the kid dared to talk about it. ”

"The lord of the castle disappeared shortly after he married eight years ago, and now a lot of government affairs are handled by the lord's wife. And ......" the man hesitated for a moment and then said, "And then everyone pondered that the disappearance of the cat also started at that time, so ......" He didn't say any more.

"So, you think there's something wrong with the City Lord's wife, right?" Hall Master Zhan also said in a very low voice.

The man no longer answered, but nodded slightly, and then said in a loud voice: "Second master, the new tea you want will come soon." After saying that, he went downstairs without looking back.

Shi An heard these words clearly, and remembered what Wan Feng mentioned back then, when he peeped and saw a small piece of smooth tail behind the bride's dress, he was also suspicious in his heart.

Could it be that this city lord's wife is a demon cultivator? But after thinking about it, I felt that there were many inconsistencies.

According to An An's description of the realm of demon cultivation, among the first five realms of demon cultivation, the two realms of forging the body and refining bones are the stages of demon cultivation tempering the body; after forming the demon pill, their own innate spells are more powerful; the wisdom period is equivalent to the monk's infancy period, and the significant change is that he has mastered human speech, and he also has the same rationality and wisdom as a person, and no longer acts completely on instinct; and only when he reaches the transformation period can he change into a human form, and some demon cultivators who are naturally good at changing can also transform into other creatures or objects at this time. An An can speak because she used to cultivate to be a transformation, and although it is impossible to change after taking it, her existing sanity still exists.

From this point of view, if the city lord's wife has a human form, it must be a demon beast in the transformation stage, but why does it still show its tail? If it has not reached the transformation stage, how can it transform into a woman?

While he was pondering, an extremely strong smell of fat powder appeared from downstairs.

Shi An looked down, the dim and long alley was empty, only a small sedan chair was slowly moving here more than fifty zhang away from the teahouse. The small sedan chair is very gorgeous, the big red sedan body, the big red sedan curtain, are embroidered with various peony flowers of different sizes, very eye-catching, against the backdrop of the sunset, it looks particularly weird.

The small sedan chair is carried by two people, and the two sedan chair drivers are five short figures, although the appearance is ugly, but the fat, thin, tall and short are strikingly similar. The upper body was wearing a small red sweatshirt with bare shoulders, but despite this, the sweat soaked the clothes, and many beads of sweat rolled down to the ground.

Their lower bodies were not as crisp as their tops, they were all very fat red trousers, covering the top of their feet, but the pants looked to be stuffed full, as if they had thicker lower limbs than ordinary people.

Next to the sedan chair was a short and fat old woman, who was also similar in height to the sedan chair man, and the loose and fat red dress made her look even fatter. She walked unhurriedly, but her eyes kept searching the road up and down, left and right.

What made Shi An feel strange was that the strong fragrance of fat powder not only came from the sedan chair, but also from the old mother and even the two sedan chair men.

When he was puzzled, the sedan chair was already approaching the teahouse, and the guy who pretended to make tea again also came upstairs. While pouring tea for Zhan Yu and the others, he said in a low voice: "Second master, the city lord's wife should have just passed downstairs, and with the smell on her sedan chair, she can't be wrong." ”

The two of them remained silent, although they only nodded slightly, but their divine senses had already gone out of their bodies to the sedan chair.

In less than a breath, the two of them snorted in unison, and their faces suddenly turned pale.

"I don't know that my predecessors are passing by here, and we take the liberty of being disturbed, and I hope to forgive my sins. Hall Master Zhan glanced at the stunned shopkeeper Yu and shouted loudly, and then without waiting for the other party to speak, he pulled his sleeve and said softly: "This is at least the predecessor of the late stage of the Jiedan, not you and I can provoke, let's go quickly!" After throwing a medium-grade spirit stone to the guy, the two hurriedly went downstairs and left.

Shi Anke was much more cautious than the two of them, and he decided that the origin of the person in the sedan chair was by no means simple, so he only used his divine sense to investigate the three people outside the sedan chair clearly. Despite this, he also guessed that the city lord's wife in the sedan chair was definitely not something he dared to investigate easily.

Through his divine sense, he found that the two palanquin men were both cultivated in the later stage of foundation building, and the old mother's cultivation was not visible to herself at all. The servant still has such a high level of cultivation, and the master is even more unfathomable. In addition, the more important discovery is that under the strong fragrance of the three people, there is a faint hint of his familiarity.

What smell is so familiar and yet so unusual? In an instant, it was like a thunderbolt, demonic, yes, demonic!

If it weren't for Shi An's sense of smell being much higher than that of ordinary people, if it weren't for the fact that he had been with the demon beast An An all year round, he wouldn't have been able to distinguish that trace of demonic energy at all.

Can't be provoked, can afford to hide. Shi An collected his divine sense, and also threw the two low-grade spirit stones on the table, intending to slip away like those two.

At this time, the sedan chair suddenly stopped, the sedan curtain was picked up a little by a slender jade hand, the short and fat old mother hurriedly came closer, the person in the sedan chair seemed to whisper a few words to her, she squinted her eyes to the position of Shi An on the second floor of the teahouse, looking at Shi An's departing back, there seemed to be a flash of fierce light in her eyes.