When night fell, the palace was brightly lit, and the palace maid and inner supervisor held a tray in her hand and walked through the hall in a hurry.

The hall was bustling, and people who knew each other or didn't know each other were all smiling and smiling warmly, and exchanging a few words.

Marquis An Chang and his sons stood neatly in the main hall.

came out of the hot spring Zhuangzi, but Aunt Liu did not appear.

Of course, even if there is no such thing as a hot spring Zhuangzi, Aunt Liu's identity is not suitable to appear at the saint's banquet.

She could only honestly stay in the courtyard of the Marquis of Anchang's mansion.

Yao Qi also squatted on the roof honestly, uncovered the two gray tiles, held the supper specially prepared for her by Leng Linjiang in her hand, and stared at the people in the house along the warm yellow light.

Some doubts gradually arose in my heart.

Aunt Liu has been lying down since she used the twilight food, and she didn't even turn her body over, as if she was dead.

Yao Ji wiped the oil off his hands, quietly put the two gray tiles back in their places, and then jumped into the hospital lightly.

She pushed the door open and dodged into the house, making no noise.

Aunt Liu lay quietly on the bed, motionless, breathing steadily.

Everything looks business as usual.

But the strange feeling became more and more serious.

Yao Qi walked over gently, and saw that Aunt Liu did not show any signs of waking up, she stretched out two fingers and gently put them on Aunt Liu's wrist and cut a pulse.

Aunt Liu's pulse was thicker and more stable than when she had just returned from the hot spring village.

It's weird!

Yao Qi sat down slowly, staring intently at Aunt Liu's pale face.

She was secretly amazed in her heart.

The complexion is evident in the color of excessive blood loss, which can be seen from the pulse

Look, Aunt Liu's qi and blood are abundant enough.

Her medical skills are not outstanding, she can only detect some abnormalities, as for what is wrong and what the reason is, she does not have the ability to delve into it.

She subconsciously sharpened her toes, and suddenly felt a strange feeling of stickiness on the soles of her shoes.

She looked down and saw that the blood on the soles of her shoes in the hot spring village should have dried, but now it was still sticky, and after standing in one place for a long time, there were dots of blood left on the green bricks.

A few black ants crawled along the cracks in the green bricks onto the mottled blood stains, spinning around on them, as if they were licking something.

Yao Ji's eyes widened suddenly, he had never heard of ants like to lick blood.

Could it be that this ant has mutated?

Vampire ants!

She endured the nausea, dipped some slimy blood with her fingertips, put it in her mouth and tasted it, and her face suddenly changed greatly.

Not disgusted, but frightened.

She never knew that blood would taste sweet and greasy.

Her heart jumped, and she stood up suddenly, flew across the courtyard, and ran wildly out.

In the middle of the night, Yuhua Mountain, the silhouettes of the mountains are black and undulating, like ghosts.

The insects in the grass nest chirped low, high and low, far and near, and the people who listened were terrified.

"It's just a puddle of water, do you need so many people to watch?" Voices came from the treetops high up.

"Isn't it, in the middle of the night, people are still freezing to death by the water." The weeds under the tree moved, and a sneer came out.

"Ahh Ahh A dark shadow lying near the water sneezed several earth-shattering times in succession

, did not hide his complaints: "If Lao Tzu has frostbite, he must go to the commander to ask for medicine." ”

A gust of wind swept across the water, and there was a rustling sound on the other side of the waterhole.

"I've been on guard for most of the night, not to mention the figure, I haven't even seen a ghost." The sound on the other side of the waterhole was fluttering, like a faint gust of wind.

"If you see a ghost, you can't be frightened and fall into the water and drown!" The voices in the trees implied mockery.

As the night deepened, the four people who were hiding in the shadows gradually relaxed.

The originally calm surface of the deep pool of clear water suddenly slightened, and the ripples rippled and expanded silently.

The depths of the pool of water gurgled with blood-red bubbles, tumbling to the surface of the water in waves.

The blood-red color was mixed in the turquoise water, silently dyeing the entire pool.

At the same time, the same vision occurred in many pools of water in Yuhua Mountain.

The people watching around did not notice that the pool was silently dyed red.

During the day, there was a shocking event in the hot spring village of the Marquis of Anning's mansion, which attracted many inquiring eyes.

After watching the lively crowd disperse, the people in this hot spring Zhuangzi were all brought into the Internal Guard Division, and the Zhuangzi suddenly became empty and fell silent.

There are no people and things worth paying attention to in Zhuangzi, and the Internal Health Department has not deliberately arranged for people to keep an eye on it.

Yao Qi flew across the night sky and landed in the empty Zhuangzi.

She had a clear goal and went straight to the hot spring pool in the backyard.

She was like the wind, silently blowing from the front yard to the backyard.

Before she could get close to the hot spring pool, she saw a vast red light leaking through the crack in the door.

These red rays are like deep clouds,

It rolled behind the door, spilling through the crack in the door.

In the silence of the whole Zhuangzi, in the starless and moonless night, the wisps of red light looked weird and dazzling.

It's chilling to look at.

Yao Qi raised his vigilance, leaned against the door, and listened to the movement in the soup pool with bated breath.

There was a very regular sound of "cooing" behind the door, like a pot of boiling water behind the door.

Yao Qi frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and finally made up his mind to push the door open.

The situation behind the door is still the same as when the Department of Internal Security came to search.

But behind the empty door, the ground was covered with slimy bright red blood, and the blood was soaked in dense corpses of black ants.

Seeing this scene, Yao Ji shuddered and got goosebumps all over his body.

She walked around the screen and was surprised to find that the water in the pool had disappeared, and she didn't know where it had gone, except for a few scattered water stains hanging on the walls of the pool.

This is a hot spring pool, and as long as the underground spring does not dry up, the water in this pool is inexhaustible.

But now, Yao Qi looked up at the spring of water, as if it was blocked by something, and there was no water at all.

"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells......"

Suddenly there was a crisp bell outside the dead window, and Yao Qi was startled and followed the voice.

I saw that the window was wide open, and a copper bell hung down from the window lattice, swaying with the breeze, making a crisp sound.

The bronze bell is engraved with four lifelike beasts.

In the dark night, the copper bell emitted a faint purple-gold light.

Yao Ji looked fixedly, and those few purple-gold glimmers were the four strange beasts

Eyes radiate.

With the sound of brass bells, the atmosphere in the room became eerie, and there was a sweet and greasy smell in the air.

Yao Qi narrowed her eyes, her face became extremely ugly, things had developed to this point, it was obvious that it was no longer for her to handle.

She slowly withdrew from the door with a solemn expression, carefully removing the traces of her visit, and restoring the door to its original appearance.

Then he ran quickly in the direction of the palace.

Not long after Yao Qi left, there was a sudden "squeak" sound in the soup pool.

The two pieces of white marble at the bottom of the pool fell down heavily, revealing an abyss of a black hole.

Two men jumped out of the hole.

One of the women walked to the window, fiddled with the tinkling brass bell, looked at the direction Yao Qi left, and sneered roughly: "Go and report to the son, the fish has bitten the hook, and you can close the net." ”

The man next to him should claim that he patted a piece of white marble on the wall of the pool, and the two pieces of white marble at the bottom of the pool were lifted up, and they were tightly put together, so that nothing abnormal could be seen from the outside.

After the man left, the woman took out a bright red long-necked porcelain bottle from her sleeve and poured countless scarlet pills into the dry pool.

There was a crisp crackling sound, and the bottom of the dry pool was covered with a layer of scarlet.

The woman seemed to slap the wall of the pool at random, and a stream of hot spring water gushed out from the spring above the hot spring pool, and flowed into the pool without stopping.

The clear hot spring water melted into the scarlet pills, and in an instant it became the same color as blood, and the spring water became viscous

The pool is almost stationary.

The woman nodded with satisfaction, and the upper half of the old and the second half of the young weird face showed a smug expression.

The hall of the banquet was full of people, and Han Changdui did not sit down, but stood solemnly and vigilantly, and the situation in the hall was unobstructed.

"My lord, Yao has come back from joining the army, saying that he has urgent matters to report." He Zhenfu hurriedly walked to Han Changdu's side, his low voice mixed with anxiety.

Han Changdui raised his eyebrows suddenly: "Where is she?" What did you say? ”

"It's right outside." He Zhenfu glanced at the messy hall, the saint was coming over soon, at this time, Han Changdui couldn't leave anyway, but just now Yao Qi's panicked appearance seemed to be a ghost chasing her, he had never seen her look like this, and he couldn't help but urge anxiously: "Yao joined the army and didn't say anything, only said that it was 100,000 urgent." ”

Han Changdu's heart moved, Yao Qi had never had such a time when he couldn't hold his breath, it seemed that the situation was indeed urgent.

He hurried out.

"My lord," He Zhenfu hesitated, "My lord, the sage ......"

"It's okay," Han Changdui interrupted He Zhenfu's words: "There is Leng Shaoyin here, I'll go back as soon as I go." ”

As soon as he got out of the hall, Han Changdui saw Yao Qi standing in the dark, his face was anxious and frightened, he hurriedly walked over and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" Aunt Liu is moving? ”

Yao Qi saluted: "If you go back to your lordship, it's not that Aunt Liu is moving, it's that you find that there is something wrong with the hot spring Zhuangzi in the Hou Anning Mansion." ”

Han Changdui let out a light "oh" and raised his eyebrows slightly: "What."

What's up? ”

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