When he returned to the prefect's yamen, Tie Xuan had not yet returned. Listening to the sound, there was no movement on the city walls, and the battle should have ended. There is always aftermath work to be done, and it may be more tiring to clean up the battlefield and comfort the wounded than during the war.

There were six soldiers standing guard at the gate of the prefect's yamen, two more than usual. The soldiers who were looking for Xia Rumei during the day should have returned. I don't know if they have seen Xia Rumei, but for the sake of insurance, they still dressed her up a little.

Fortunately, there were no soldiers to stop us, and when we entered the gate, six people hurried to the courtyard specially for us. arranged a separate room for Xia Rumei, we were tired after a day of tossing, and she should have worked hard all day and night.

"Rest well, no one will find out here. Before leaving, I said to Xia Rumei, "What's the matter, I'm in the room at the other end of the courtyard." ”

I held back my curiosity and didn't ask Xia Rumei why she didn't want to go home. Sure enough, when I pushed open the door and stepped one foot, she stopped me.

"Wait......"

I took my leg back and looked back at Xia Rumei.

"What's the matter?"

"Don't you want to know why I don't want to go home?"

"You don't want to say it, naturally you have your reasons. I said, "What's the use of me asking with a dead face?" You just need to know that I risked my life to return to Jinan City this time to keep you safe. ”

I used a little bit of sensationalism in this sentence in order to make her let go of her wariness of me. Of course, what I said is right, I did come to this fucking place to save Zhang Lele's past life.

She is really too much like Zhang Lele, and when I look at her, I am thinking that I should put Zhang Lele's soul on her, so that it will not be awkward.

But what about Lu Jia? There are some things that can't stand up to association.

Besides, didn't Zhang Lele say that she felt cold when she saw Xia Rumei. There must be something greasy about this.

"Twilight gave me poison. ”

"Poison? he wants to kill you?"

It's a bit of a stretch of ground for me to accept. It seems that two people are raising their eyebrows together, how can there be such a trick in secret? It is easy to think of words and even scenes like domestic violence and abuse. But what did Xia Rumei do when she was poisoned?

Xia Rumei shook her head: "All he gave me to drink was some rune water." ”

Runic water is made by soaking paper ash in water after the paper rune is burned out. Before the liberation and in the early days of liberation, there were many backward places, and they relied on Fu Shui to cure diseases. In the eyes of modern people like us, who are "knowledgeable, idealistic, and educated", they are all witch doctors and harmful things. However, after seeing the "miraculous thing" that people who really know Taoism and understand Taoism can make people lose their mobility with a few strokes of a piece of paper, I don't think drinking Fu Shui is a witch doctor.

The talismans drawn by those witches and gods and the talismans drawn by people like Wuchen are completely two different concepts. The rune water made by the former may be a diarrhea at most, while the rune water of the latter, I don't know what will happen when I drink it.

"Do you know what he's asking you to drink the rune water for?"

"How do I know," Xia Rumei said, "it's just that every time I drink it, I get chills all over my body within an hour, as if I'm going to lose consciousness." ”

I don't know much about this kind of doorway.

"You wait, I'll find someone to show you. ”

I have to go to Wuchen and let him see what happened to Xia Rumei. He understands the Tao and should know the "principle" and "function" of drinking Fu water.

When I went out, I saw Wuchen sneaking at the door of my room, and his ears were close to the crack in the door, probably listening to what was going on inside.

I didn't have the heart to scare him, so I called out to him from afar: "What are you eavesdropping on there?"

"Oh, Brother Mu, I'll just say, why is there no movement in your house at all. Wuchen straightened up, not embarrassed at all, "I have something to do with you." ”

"What's the matter?"

"It's just food. Wuchen grinned and said, "I've figured out a way to get food." ”

"Let's slow down the food matter first, I still have urgent matters here, you come with me. ”

I dragged Wuchen into Xia Rumei's house.

"Brother Mu, what are you taking me to her house for?"

"Look at her, is there something wrong?"

"What's wrong? It's not just sitting there. ”

It seems that Wuchen is now preoccupied with the secret of finding food that he has just figured out, and he has no intention of doing anything else.

"She's a man...... That is, his husband gave him a drink of talisman water. I tugged at the dustless collar and asked him to focus his thoughts.

"How many times have you drunk runic water?" I just remembered, and I hadn't asked Xia Rumei yet.

"For ten days, I was given two bowls a day to drink. ”

"Won't you stop drinking?" Wuchen still didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, and he still didn't speak through his brain.

"She's a weak woman, if she can resist, why won't she go home even if she dies?" I originally wanted to slap Wuchen a big mouth, but he blocked it.

"I guess you don't know what kind of runic water he gave you to drink. Only then did Wuchen gather his mind, take out the compass from his bag, and get close to Xia Rumei's body.

This kid's shoulder bag never seems to be with him. It seems that he also changed his clothes and carried his backpack behind him in the Happy Building.

I leaned over and saw that the compass wasn't moving. Wuchen walked around Xia Rumei, but he didn't see the pointer of the compass move.

"Can you see that?" After ten minutes, I started to get anxious.

Wuchen shook his head, and said for a long time: "The principle of rune water is the same as that of ordinary Dao runes, and the function of the Dao runes that are burned to ashes and drunk into the stomach is also different depending on the Dao runes. The difference is that the runic water passes through the medium of the body and acts directly on the soul, so that the soul will not be expelled from the body. That one...... That's right, Twilight, yes, I guess I did something to his wife's soul. From the outside, you can't see anything at all. ”

Isn't this all nonsense, and the Dao Talisman doesn't all work on the soul. It's always "popular science, popular science", and when it's time to solve the problem, it's blind.

"According to what you say, letting her drink talisman water actually has the same effect as sticking a Dao talisman on her, so why doesn't he stick a Dao talisman? Isn't it troublesome to drink talisman water, and it will be troublesome if you encounter resistance. "I didn't have the heart to say.

"That's not what I said. Twilight Wen gave her more than ten days of talisman water, which showed that one or two Dao talismans could not achieve the effect at all. You can't put two paper charms on her in one day, right? ”

"Then you say, what kind of Dao technique needs to be activated slowly?"

It's really damn, and I have to be a layman to guide his thinking. He was already a tendon, and when he thought about how to get food, his brain couldn't turn around.

"There are a lot of them, but most of them were invented by the 'Yin Yang Dao' to collect money and harm others. ”

"Twilight Wen is definitely not collecting money from Xia Rumei, and there is no need to be so troublesome if you want to harm her. ”

Wuchen thought for a while and said, "Then there is only one possibility, he wants to change his shape." ”

"Shapeshifting?" Why does the name sound so familiar?

"Well, it's to swap the souls of two people. ”

"Isn't that the same as the situation of Zhang Lele and Lu Yuxiu?" I said, "You did it casually?"

"Far from it. "As soon as Wuchen talks about the technical level, he comes to the spirit, "Fu Shui can restrain the soul and make the soul seem to be tangible and qualitative." And it can make two souls have the same 'shape'. In this way, the pre-forged souls can be easily fused into the body by swapping bodies. ”

I know what Dustless means. That is, this runic water is a bit like a mold, which can make the souls of two people exactly the same, and then swap them to fit the new body very well.

"This is different from me putting your friend Zhang Lele's soul in Miss Lu's body, first of all, their souls are formless, and secondly, Zhang Lele's soul has not merged into Miss Lu's body at all, it is like wearing an ill-fitting dress for her soul. It's always going to be uncomfortable. ”

For a moment now, I thought about the way to come back intact after the soul left the body, and it seemed that this "shapeshifting" could not be done.

"Then who does he want to swap Xia Rumei's soul with?"

"How do I know that. Wuchen looked helpless, "And I can't sense anything unusual about her soul with the compass at all." ”

"Maybe your compass is broken. I asked him, "How can I treat a situation like hers?"

"There's no cure. It's like drinking a poison, you don't know what it's made of and how much it's going to do, there's no way to know how to prepare the antidote, unless it's the recipe for the poison. ”

"That's easy, go find Twilight. ”

"Is it useful for you to find him? What if he doesn't admit it? Could it be that Brother Mu wants to torture him to extract a confession?"

"Then we'll have to wait for him to get things done?"

"Not really. If you want to 'change shape', you have to detain the soul out of the body, I just need to let Xia Rumei's soul leave my body. ”