The crisp voice of the whisper came from the sword, and it sounded in the sea of knowledge, Lin Shouxi's eyebrows tightened, and he confirmed again: "Is there really no Zhong Wushi?" ”

"Nope." The whisper is categorical.

Because this was the first task assigned by the master, Xiao Yu was especially careful, she went through the list many times, and her mother was suspicious before returning it.

Lin Shouxi's fingers holding the sword turned white from the force, he closed his lips tightly, and his thoughts raced.

Just now, he threw the silver coin into the wishing lamp, and after the three-flowered cat asked questions, the seemingly omnipotent evil lamp only gave a vague answer: 'time'.

Sanhua Cat concluded that it must be Zhong Wushi's little white face who killed the evil si, and pulled Lin Shouxi to sanction him, Lin Shouxi was not busy making a conclusion, but was waiting for Xiaoyu's investigation, and Xiaoyu's answer further locked the target.

Lin Shouxi couldn't understand why Zhong Wushi wanted to pretend to be the person who guarded the mountain and killed the evil division, so why did he use a fake name that couldn't be found? Although the emperor is far away here, no one will investigate this matter at all, but such a mistake is a hidden danger after all.

So who is Zhong Wushi? Is he a shadow? Why did he kill people in the Three Realms Village?

I'm afraid these questions are only known to Zhong Wushi himself.

"It's hard to whisper." Lin Shouxi expressed his gratitude.

Xiao Yu also showed a lovely smile, "This is what an apprentice should do, and the apprentice will have to help the master do more things in the future!" ”

"Then thank you in advance for the teacher."

"Master, don't thank you."

Xiao Yu shook his head, and his smile was like the sunshine of early spring, clear and clean, from which he could reflect the scene of all things. Lin Shouxi felt warm.

"Master, what are you doing now? Racing with a little earth cat? Xiao Yu looked at the swaying shadow and asked.

"Well, I'm training with it."

"Master is so powerful, do you still need training?"

"Of course, sword training and body refining are not something that happens overnight, and you can't slack off."

Xiao Yu showed a look of admiration, she thought of the days when she skipped class and slept lazily every day, she became more and more ashamed, her pink little mouth moved, and she said sincerely: "If only I had known Master earlier." ”

Lin Shouxi heard the little girl's soft words, and his heart couldn't help but soften, "It's not too late now, I will supervise Xiaoyu." ”

Xiao Yu nodded vigorously, pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "That's right!" I'm going to compete with them in three days, and I won't insult my master when the time comes. ”

"Well, I believe in whispers."

"What about Master? When will Master fight with that bad woman again, she was so arrogant when she lost that night, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, Master must teach her a good lesson next time, don't let it go. Xiao Yu was still thinking about it.

"Don't worry, you will win for the teacher." Lin Shouxi said.

"Well, if Master can't beat her, then help Master beat her when Xiaoyu grows up." Xiao Yu looked like he was hating the same enemy.

"Okay."

Lin Shouxi responded with a smile, the little girl's words were innocent, he wouldn't take it seriously, if he really wanted to wait for her to help him, then how embarrassing should he be?

Lin Shouxi crossed out of the black bamboo forest and returned to Xiancun, the three-flowered cat showed a rare light posture, it jumped on the roof, vigilantly looked around, and observed whether there was any enemy movement.

In the middle of the sword, Xiao Yu happened to say goodbye to her master, she grabbed the bucket and shovel, and prepared to dig the turnips.

Lin Shouxi gathered his expression, concealed his breath, and sneaked into Zhong Wushi's mansion with the three-flower cat, Zhong Wushi's mansion was planted with flowers and plants, and there were maids, and the rouge was very heavy.

The three-flowered cat walked over the courtyard wall, cleverly avoiding the maid's gaze, and jumped into the lush foliage, and then used it as a pedal to leap to the second floor.

None of them acted rashly, but wanted to eavesdrop and see if they could catch Zhong Wushi.

Half an hour passed, and neither Lin Shouxi nor Sanhua Mao noticed anything unusual about him.

Zhong Wushi was dressed in white, with a red mole on his eyebrows, and he was reading the file at the desk, occasionally locking his eyebrows and talking to himself, talking about the tragic incident that happened in the Three Realms Village last night, and it seemed that he was also worried about it and had no idea.

"Hmph, I'm really good at acting...... " Sanhua cat sneered.

It has a lot of feelings for most of the people in Xiancun, but it has been dissatisfied with the little white face from this sacred mountain for a long time, for no other reason, it is nothing more than that this little white face looks yin and uncomfortable.

Time passed slowly, Zhong Wushi never showed a flaw for half a day, waiting like this is not a way, Lin Shouxi grabbed the cat and quietly withdrew from the house, and chose to knock on the door to visit.

"Lin Gongzi has a clue? Well...... Why is Your Excellency here? ”

Zhong Wushi saw Lin Shouxi and the cat coming in together, he was taken aback, and hurriedly went to greet him.

"There are indeed clues." Lin Shouxi said.

"What?" Zhong Wushi asked.

Lin Shouxi didn't say it directly, he casually picked a chair and sat down, chatted like a homely conversation, and asked Zhong Wushi some things about Shenshou Mountain, Zhong Wushi answered fluently, as if he had really lived there for many years.

Zhong Wushi's answer is extremely real and detailed, if the other party is also a person who has lived in Shenshou Mountain for many years, I am afraid that it will be familiar at first sight.

Lin Shouxi had never been to Shenshou Mountain, and it was even more difficult for him to find the fault.

So Lin Shouxi stopped being polite to him, he took out the mantra stone from his arms and put it in front of Zhong Wushi, hoping that he would answer the questions one by one.

Zhong Wushi was taken aback, "Are you doubting me?" ”

"This is the Dali Temple appointed by the deity, and he will handle this case, no matter who it is, he needs full cooperation." Sanhua Cat helped on the side: "The deity is not suspicious of you, but of everyone, before coming here, we have already asked thirteen and a half families." ”

"Yes, the people who slay the evil division are all gentlemen under the dangerous wall, of course we believe that Zhong Gongzi is innocent, this is just a routine." Lin Shouxi smiled.

Zhong Wushi hesitated slightly, but also took the mantra stone and held it in the palm of his hand.

Lin Shouxi raised several questions one after another, and Zhong answered them one by one.

The mantra stone is silent.

If he didn't have the means to shield the mantra stone like Xiao He, then Zhong Wushi would probably really be innocent.

The three-flowered cat was originally still aggressive, but now it has no confidence...... Could it be that the wishing lamp is not talking about Zhong Wushi, but someone else?

So why does this broken lamp only give one word...... It shouldn't be a silver coin and a word, that's too tricky.

The three-flowered cat thought about the tragic state of the emptiness of the house recently, and felt even more desperate.

Zhong Wushi didn't get any useful information here, and Lin Shouxi had no choice but to leave with the cat.

"What now? Why don't you go and give two more silver coins on credit, and ask from a different angle. Sanhua Cat suggested.

"Where are you going to get credit?" Lin Shouxi asked.

"You can go to Duche or Granny Doll Clothes, both of them are good." Sanhua replied.

"Hmm."

Lin Shouxi nodded.

Before leaving, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the tree in front of Zhong Wushi's door, there were many ants crawling on the tree, and the top ant bit a leaf with a pincer-like mouth, motionless, its kind approaching it.

Lin Shouxi was thoughtful.

They went to find the puppet first.

The old woman was dressed in a shroud, with a needle and thread in her hand, carefully sewing a skin on the shelf in front of her, and a coffin behind her, where she slept.

"Mother-in-law."

The three-flowered cat raised its paws and beckoned to the old woman.

The old woman stopped the needle and thread in her hand, turned her head, looked at the three-flowered cat standing in the light, and showed a dull smile, "Your Excellency is here." ”

"Yes, yes, I'm here to see my mother-in-law." The three-flowered cat ran to the old woman's side.

"I think you're here looking for new clothes, aren't you?" The old woman pierced its mind.

"The same, the same." The three-flowered cat wagged its tail, but it didn't shy away from it, "Where did my mother-in-law sew it?" ”

"It's a little worse." The old woman said with a smile, her eyes fell on Lin Shouxi's body: "This is ......"

"Oh, this is the royal guard of the deity, responsible for investigating the strange things that have happened in the Three Realms Village in the past two days." Sanhua cat said.

The old woman nodded, and invited him in.

Lin Shouxi walked into this lifeless room, everything in the room was very old, the corners of the tables and chairs were even pulped, and the exquisite puppet clothes were hung in the room at will, like peeling human skins, but there was not a drop of blood in sight.

"You're actually here to interrogate me, an old woman, right?" The old woman asked with a smile.

"Hmm...... Not really. Sanhua Cat said hesitantly: "Actually, the deity is here to borrow money." ”

"What? The lord didn't even want to leave the coffin for the old woman? The old woman said with a smile.

"No, no, it's all about catching bad guys, and it's definitely not the deity that loots the people's fat and people's ointment without authorization." Sanhua Cat hurriedly explained.

The old woman shook her head, "You can't catch him." ”

"Why?" Lin Shouxi immediately became alert.

"Because this is not man-made, but the revenge of the dragon god......" The old woman stared at the puppet clothes in front of her, and her words were stunned: "This land is the land of the dragon god, and we are all reckless intruders...... The curse of the dragon god is beginning to be fulfilled, and we will all die one by one. ”

"Dragon God? Curse? ”

What's going on here?

The old woman's answer far exceeded Lin Shouxi's expectations.

"Outlander, do you know the origin of the Festival of Scales?" The old woman asked.

"I want to hear about it." Lin Shouxi will not let go of any clues.

The puppet lady sat in a Taishi's chair and began to tell the story of hundreds of years ago.

"This land was originally the sleeping place of the true dragon, the realm of the dragon is sacred, and outsiders are not allowed to set foot on it wantonly......

The old woman talked leisurely about the past, when she was a little girl, and she saw with her own eyes the scene of the earth cracking and the white bones rising into the air, which was a nightmare that had haunted her mind for more than three hundred years, and occasionally recalled it was still overwhelmed by the coercion of memory.

"It was still snowing heavily, and the ground was hard and frozen ground, but this hard-to-pry dirt was easily torn apart under the dragon's claws, and we were ants kneeling in the snow, and if it turned its head to look here, we would all be corpses buried in the snow and ice."

"But it didn't ......"

"It flapped its wings, and the wind gathered under its wing bones and carried it south...... The festival of scales is the day of the dragon......"

Among the people who have survived to the present, the old woman is a rare witness to that scene, and more and more people have died recently, and the old woman is eager to tell this scene buried deep in her heart, which is her belief and fear of the dragon corpse.

Mo said that it was Lin Shouxi, even the three-flowered cat was shocked, she had heard Du Che say that this land was a blessed land, it was the birthplace of the real dragon in the past, and it will be in the future, at that time it was puzzled, and now it suddenly learned that there is such a history here.

"It was a long, long time ago, when we watched the dragon fly away, flee the land in fear, and only come back many years later, but by then, the dragon was long gone, and the original rotten and filthy land had inexplicably grown a sacred tree - that is, today's sacred mulberry tree, at that time the sacred mulberry tree was still very young, far from growing like it is today."

Most of the old woman's memories are blurred, but the events of the dragon and the sacred tree three hundred years ago are as clear as yesterday.

"It turns out that the sacred mulberry tree grew at that time......" Sanhua Cat said suddenly.

This tree is much younger than I thought.

"Yes, the Divine Mulberry Tree purified the earth of Fangyuan, so that we can live here."

The puppet lady sighed and said, "But at the beginning, my teacher did not agree to live here, she said, this is the former residence of the dragon, the dragon's residence is the domain of the gods, and mortals will never be allowed to violate it, we have stepped into its territory without permission, its curse will linger outside, and we will never be able to escape from ......it."

"It turns out that the curse has been fulfilled...... "Sanhua Cat has a chill on her back.

"Of course." The words of the puppet mother-in-law became more and more intense: "You don't see them when they die, there are no signs, no wounds, and they are as calm as if they are sleeping...... Isn't this a curse of the gods? What can be done but the gods? Teacher...... That's right. ”

Lin Shouxi listened quietly, he believed in the legend of the puppet mother-in-law, but did not believe in the so-called curse.

How can there be a curse that only erupted in three hundred years, let alone at this point in time? He still held the murderer in the Three Realms Village.

"Mother-in-law, do you remember what color the pupils of that dragon corpse were?" Lin Shouxi's heart flickered, and the ghost asked in a strange way.

The old woman recalled for a moment and gave an affirmative answer: "The pupils of the blue." ”

……

Listening to the legend of the dragon corpse, the three-flowered cat suddenly remembered that the bad people of the Devil's Nest also seemed to want to turn it into a dragon.

Will you become a monster covered in bones, with a heart like a tumor, and your pupils on fire...... This is also too scary, how can there be a cat cute...... Sanhua Cat thought tremblingly.

It raised its head, but saw that Lin Shouxi's face also seemed to be covered with dark clouds.

"Eh, what's wrong with you?" The cat scratched at the corner of his coat.

Lin Shouxi shook his head and did not answer. At the beginning in the Divine Domain, Chu Yingchan once said that the Dragon King of the Blue Pupil was a terrifying monster between the hidden level and the primeval level, and back then, it once broke through the divine wall and attracted the ancestor law body.

This is an old thing three hundred years ago, and this blue dragon should have also been subdued, and its bones were soaked in divine turbidity to prevent resurrection.

This was obviously something that had nothing to do with him, but for some reason, his heart seemed to be grabbed by panic and uneasiness, and he beat hard, as if something bad was about to happen to him.

Lin Shouxi took a deep breath, and his action of wanting to take out the mantra stone also stopped.

He can indeed gather everyone in the Immortal Village and ask them one by one with the Mantra Stone, but that is too inefficient, and it is estimated that it will be dark after asking, and there may not be a result.

Is there any other way to lure that person out......

On the other side, the puppet mother-in-law seemed to see through life and death, she didn't care about the coming night, and was still smiling kindly.

She touched the cat's head and asked, "Your Excellency, do you want to see what your doll looks like?" ”

"Eh, isn't the doll still ready?" Sanhua Cat said curiously.

"To make a doll garment, you need to draw it first, and then sew it according to the drawing, and your mother-in-law can show you the drawing." The puppet said with a smile.

Sanhua Cat immediately agreed, and she was indeed curious about this matter for a long time.

The mother-in-law led the cat to the inner hall and came to a painting, the mother-in-law lifted the cloth covering the painting, and a fresh and bright painting was placed in front of the three-flowered cat.

The girl in the painting is kneeling under the sacred mulberry tree, with fluffy pointed ears, she holds a silver-gray fish in her mouth, looking back, her pale green eyes reflect the light, clear and transparent, the locks of slender hair are also like cloth ribbons, the places where the sun shines are bud yellow, and the shadows are blue-gray, her face is pure, but her shoulders are bare, the button-like translucent skirt goes around her hips, and a plush tail breaks out of it, bending gracefully, and tying a bow near the end.

Her snow-white slender arms are covered with white gloves of gold lace, and she leans forward with one hand on the ground, while the other hand does the cat's signature movements.

"It's so pretty......"

The three-flowered cat looked at herself in the painting, and was a little crazy for a while.

The old woman smiled and said, "If you like it, it's fine." ”

"Yes...... Isn't it a dragon? Why are cats drawn? Sanhua asked curiously.

"Don't you prefer cats?" The old woman rubbed its head and said, "What's more...... Your Excellency, you will surely reign on a more distant earth in the future, and if you have such a loving heart, what difference does it make if you are a dragon or a cat? ”

The three-flowered cat nodded in a daze, and suddenly felt unconfident about the title of Venerable Lord.

After visiting the puppet mother-in-law, Lin Shouxi went to Du Che's house again, Du Che was not at home, according to the domestic servant, he secretly sneaked to Dragon Scale Town to inquire about the situation.

Just when Lin Shouxi was at a loss to find the murderer, a letter broke the deadlock.

This letter is from the Devil's Lair.

It was delivered by messengers in the evening.

The content of the letter is very simple, the Demon Nest invites the Three Realms Village to reconfirm the ownership of Dragon Scale Town in a duel tomorrow, and the payment is made by Mu Shijing, the Holy Son of the Demon Nest.

This is a war letter.

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