Chapter 124: Catching Demons
"Are there many youkai like this in the city?" Wu Yang helped Su Yuanbai up again, looked at Cui with a calm face, and asked lightly.
"There are not many monsters who dare to eat people like this, but there are many demons who take advantage of the chaos to eat people in human skin." Cui faintly glanced at the people on both sides of the street who were hiding in the houses and watching them secretly and said, "If you encounter a man-eating monster, you can come to the Xie Mansion in the Floating Dream Workshop to find us." ”
Not everyone is willing to leave behind the houses in Dream Floating City to flee for their lives, which they have earned day and night in exchange for their hard-earned money.
"Don't you let them come to Cui's Mansion?" Wu Yang looked at Cui faintly and asked strangely.
Cui said lightly and calmly: "The city guards of the four city gates of Mengfu City are all funded and hired by the Cui Mansion and the Xu Mansion, since we did not see the city guards at the West City Gate, it means that they have called the city guards back to their mansions."
Wu Yang looked at Cui Dandan, who was talking while walking into the city, and did not rush to interrupt Cui Dandan's words.
"And the Cui Mansion and the Xu Mansion must not let these civilians approach their mansion, who is not sure if there are monsters in human skins under these civilians." Cui said lightly and calmly.
"Then are we going back to Cui Mansion or Xie Mansion?" Wu Yang looked at Cui and asked lightly.
Cui faintly raised his eyes and looked at the monsters that appeared one after another at the corners of the streets, and said in a calm tone: "Naturally, it is the Xie Mansion, and someone must hold up a place for these innocent civilians to accommodate them." ”
"Looks like I don't have time to rest." Wu Yang said calmly with a laugh.
Cui faintly looked back at Su Yuanbai, who was supported by Wu Yang, and said slowly: "As long as he wakes up, everything will be solved." ”
Shout.
The white ape mother stick swept Cui Dan's cheeks, and the whistling stick wind brought up a few strands of Cui Dan's sideburns, hitting the head of a man with stiff feet at the entrance of the alley like a watermelon bursting.
But the fluid that burst out was not a brain, but a fat cyan flesh worm.
This fat cyan flesh worm has a mouth and eyes, and there are an inch of short wings under its eyes, and when it sees this, it directly waves its short wings, looking around for someone who can let it continue to parasitize.
"Wine worms, who like to parasitize the heads of people with hangovers and suck their brains, are also addicted to alcohol." Cui faintly walked to a wine shop on the side of the street, looked down at the wine shop owner who was hiding in the empty wine vat in the wine shop, and said calmly.
The owner of the liquor shop turned pale.
Cui lightly picked up a pot of old wine on the wine shop cabinet, glanced at the wine shop owner who poked out his head in the wine tank and said with a pale face: "There are not many wine insects in Mengfu City, and one host is enough for them to parasitize for a month, if this host has the money to buy more wine, maybe they can live for another month." ”
Cui lightly smashed the old wine on the ground, and the aroma of the wine overflowed.
The fat cyan flesh worm instantly flapped its wings and flew in the direction of Cui Dan.
"These monsters are stupid." Wu Yang's palm opened, and the white ape's mother stick vibrated and flew back to Wu Yang's palm.
Cui faintly looked at the fat cyan flesh worm that fluttered its wings and said calmly: "It can't find a host for a long time, and it will melt if the air outside is exposed for too long." And if it doesn't drink for too long, it will die of thirst. ”
"Death of thirst? Isn't it okay to drink water? Wu Yang easily beat the fat cyan meat worm to death, looked back at Cui and asked curiously.
Cui lightly lowered his eyes and looked at the cyan meat worm that splashed the juice all over the place, its juice carried an extremely strong aroma of wine, "Naturally, no, they are monsters that were originally born in people's desires, fears and rumors, and without wine, there would be no green wine worms." ”
Wu Yang chuckled lightly with a stick, "If only the city was full of such monsters." ”
"The city is full of such monsters, and the powerful monsters have long set themselves up as kings of the mountain, how can they steal food in the human city." Cui lightly helped Xie Xiushi to move forward slowly, "But this kind of little demon can't be eliminated, and if he is a little bit in the limelight, he will take advantage of the chaos to devour humans like this." ”
"What if you can't do it?" The smile on Wu Yang's face dissipated, and he said helplessly.
"Just because we can't get rid of it doesn't mean that others can't." Cui faintly stopped, looked back at Su Yuanbai, who was supported by Wu Yang with one hand, and said softly.
Lifu City is one of the twelve cities of Nanxi County, Nanhuang Prefecture, and Fufeng Temple is on Wufeng Mountain, which is ten miles away from Lifu City.
After Cui Ya got the necklace that Miss gave her, she didn't stop for a moment.
In fact, Lifu City is not close to Mengfu City, but Cui Ya doesn't have time to go to Mengfu City to find a carriage or find a good horse first.
So she relied on the memory in her mind not to take the relatively safe wide avenue, but to take some dangerous mountain trails.
These mountain trails are dangerous, but they can shorten the distance by many.
But it also made Cui Ya's physical consumption more intense, but fortunately she did not meet the beasts and fierce birds of the mountains and forests, and there was no unnecessary battle.
But Cui Ya doesn't have the ability to Bigu, and she can't absorb the wind and reveal it, she is just an ordinary maid who knows a little about martial arts, and she is actually very tired from last night to this morning, and she is all relying on one breath.
Coupled with the rush along the way, Cui Ya is already very tired.
Cui Ya naturally knows her state, I'm afraid that before she reached Fufeng Temple, she was already so hungry that she fainted directly on the road to Fufeng Temple, and it was getting late.
So Cui Ya found an inn to settle in.
If Cui Ya remembers correctly, there is a small town not far from this inn, and the name of the town should be called Yangjing Town. When you arrive in Yangjing Town, it means one thing.
It's only half the way to Lifu City.
Even if Cui Ya traveled lightly all the way, she could walk a distance of nearly fifty miles in one breath without stopping, which also showed that Cui Ya's foot strength and endurance were extremely amazing.
Breathless, Cui Ya, whose calves were sore, was sitting quietly in the corner of an inn, slightly lowering the hat she had brought from Xie Xiu's stone, and deliberately placed the double-edged short knife on the back of her waist on the table, and her fingers touched the double-edged short knife on the table intentionally or unintentionally.
This can allow Cui Ya to avoid some unnecessary troubles and make some uninteresting people become a little more interesting.
Cui Ya looked at the inn on the outskirts of Yangjing Town, this inn had been open for a while in her memory, but she vaguely felt a little wrong in her heart.
The wooden tables and benches in the lobby of the inn are neatly placed, and there are a few people sitting in the center of the lobby, all of whom are dressed in gray and hats, with swords at their waists, which seem to be the dress of Jianghu warriors.
Looks like they're waiting for the food too.
But Cui Ya found that there was something wrong with this, these people had already set up their meals on the table, but they didn't see them holding chopsticks.
Cui Ya looked in the direction of the inn counter again, and there was no longer a shopkeeper in front of the counter, and even Xiao Er, who had just greeted her, didn't know where he had gone.
Cui Ya drank all the water from the teapot in one go, she didn't want to stay here any longer, but as soon as she got up, those gray-clothed warriors also got up suddenly.
Time was passing bit by bit, and the temperature of the inn was getting lower and lower for some reason, and Cui Ya's body felt a hint of chill.
It's as if it's winter.
Those gray-clothed warriors maintained a standing posture and did not sit down.
At this time, the whirring wind and sand rolled against the doors and windows of the inn with a strange atmosphere, and the sand outside the door began to spread over the threshold and flow in the inn.
Cui Ya's pupils shrank when she saw this scene, when she entered this inn before, she had never seen sand on the ground outside the inn.
Such a treacherous atmosphere made Cui Ya's heart more and more stressful, and her fingers touched the handle of the double-edged short knife more and more often, and the action of lowering the hat became more and more frequent.
Cui Ya couldn't bear such a treacherous atmosphere any longer, she took the initiative to stand up and hold the double-edged short knife on the table, and at the same time, a sharp dart slipped out of the cuff of her right hand and hid it in the palm of her hand.
She didn't leave the inn first, because leaving the inn like this would definitely expose her back, so she chose to walk to the gray-clothed warrior who was closest to her.
"Who are you?"
No one answered Cui Ya's question.
The food on the table of these Jianghu warriors was completely cold, and the flowing sand and gravel were also stained on the food with the wind.
But judging from the time when the meal was cold, Cui Ya actually didn't have a long time from when Cui Ya came to this inn, about half an hour ago.
After all, when Cui Ya first came to this inn, she could still vaguely smell the aroma of food.
"I don't eat this dish, but I'll feed it to the wind and sand." Cui Ya lowered her voice and deliberately said in a dull tone.
Zheng.
Cui Ya's words seemed to be a wooden stick that alarmed the hornet's nest, and the saber on the waist of the warrior in the rivers and lakes closest to Cui Ya suddenly came out of its sheath and slashed straight at Cui Ya.
Cui Ya looked at the stiff movements of the Jianghu warrior and was suspicious, she easily avoided this knife and went around in front of the Jianghu warrior, her heart almost stopped.
The eyes of this gray-clothed warrior were a pair of lifeless eyes, and a strange black mist escaped from his pupils, and the aura emitted by the black mist made Cui Ya extremely uncomfortable.
Cui Ya didn't hesitate, she understood that now was not the time to worry about whether she could fight or not, but that she had to fight, and there was no life or death.
Cui Ya's eyes showed a wisp of murderous intent, and the double-edged short knife in her hand had already cut the throat of the gray-clothed Jianghu warrior before he could close the knife.
Ugh.
The crisp sound of cutting his throat came, but there was no blood splashing as Cui Ya expected, only the sound of this Jianghu warrior falling to the ground heavily.
"What the hell are you?" After Cui Ya said this sentence with a solemn face, she exhaled a breath of turbidity, and looked intently at the warriors of the rivers and lakes who were gradually approaching her and surrounding her.
The afterimage of her footsteps flowed, and the short knife in her hand followed like a shadow.
The battle ended quickly.
With Cui Ya's heavy panting, she knelt on the ground weakly, wiped the blood flowing from her nostrils with her sleeve, and looked back at the group of Jianghu warriors who surrounded her but moved slowly.
A knife mark appeared in their throats, and as the knife marks appeared, they fell to the ground one after another, but the strange black mist that escaped from their pupils floated over the inn lobby.
Cui Ya clutched her chest, her heart suddenly beating fast, and panic poured into her mind. This panic gradually rose, and suddenly turned into an uncontrollable fear for Cui Ya.
A wisp of black mist began to appear in the whites of her eyes, like a water snake, drilling towards Cui Ya's frightened pupils.
The wind and sand were miserable, and the flag outside the inn was crumbling in the wind and sand, and the sound of the flag was like a whip dancing wildly in the air.
Cui Ya stared blankly at the cracked veins on the wooden table, the expression on her face became sad, suddenly became ashamed, and then turned into a sad expression, and finally revealed a trace of despair.
Her frightened pupils were gradually condensed by the black mist, and the expression on her face slowly became numb. Suddenly, a crisp bell sounded in Cui Ya's ears, making Cui Ya's dull eyes appear a hint of brilliance.
A girlish chuckle was heard.
"You Soul Eater can really run, I'll chase you all the way from Zhonghe Prefecture to Southern Wilderness Prefecture to see where else you can run!" If I still can't catch you this time, I won't do it, the demon slaying guard of the Demon Slaying Division! ”
Cui Ya regained a little sense, her blurred eyes slowly raised, and she saw a pretty girl walking in outside the door of the inn, and the voice she spoke just now was what this pretty girl said.
The pretty girl wore a crescent-colored dress embroidered with green silk and ink silk patterns. The skirt is embroidered with green silk to create a magnificent galaxy, while the ink silk is embroidered on the placket, and the embroidery is a misty and charming.
This pretty girl has a peculiar-looking black gourd hanging around her waist, and the black gourd is surrounded by green vines and tied in the pretty girl's hand.
In addition to this strange-looking small black gourd, the pretty girl also held a string of copper bells in her hand, each of which was engraved with Taoist runes.
The crisp bell sound that Cui Ya heard just now came from this string of copper bells.
The wind and sand outside the inn were howling, and the yin wind inside the inn was also turbulent, and Cui Ya's breath became more and more sluggish, and there was a strong sense of death lingering between her eyebrows.
But the black fog above the inn lobby suddenly sank, and the rich death intent between Cui Ya's eyebrows rose, and the two converged into a humanoid black mist similar to Cui Ya's, and he wanted to fly outside the inn.
The pretty girl's eyebrows like a crescent moon were raised, and the magnificent bright galaxy embroidered with green silk patterns on the dress suddenly emerged.
"Want to run when you see me? I'm not going to give you another chance! I've let you run so many times, and I don't even have a little face. And it's useless for you to threaten me with her life. ”
The green vine on the pretty girl's gourd suddenly prolonged, and the tip of the green vine tapped Cui Ya's eyebrows. With the sound of 'clicking' like a chain breaking, Cui Ya's head tilted weakly.
The humanoid black mist flying in mid-air suddenly dispersed, and there was a screaming and terrible sound from the black mist, and countless black mist suddenly appeared from the cracks on the ground of the inn, and the black mist was filled with all kinds of negative emotions.
The voices full of all kinds of temptations and threats kept sounding in the ears of the pretty girl, and the black and treacherous mist that filled the eyes of the pretty girl suddenly dissipated, revealing faces haunted by the black gas.
These black faces were all green and toothy ghosts, surging towards the pretty girl.
"Do you want to resist this time?"
The pretty girl made a grimace at this group of evil ghosts, and the hem of her ink silk embroidered dress floated up, protecting the pretty girl.
Even though there are many evil ghosts attacking the pretty girl, there are also this ghostly and ghostly monsters to help.
Seeing this, the pretty girl snorted, and shook the copper bell engraved with Taoist runes in her hand unhurriedly, and the copper bell rang.
The heads of these demons were torn apart, and a heart-rending roar came from the black mist of the inn's wounds. Then there were screams of terror and shrill screams, and the demons with cracked heads began to turn into powder, disperse into wisps of black mist, and surged towards Cui Ya's body.
"I said that it was useless for you to threaten me with her life, this time I have to arrest you and become a member of my Ten Thousand Ghost Star Dress."
The pretty girl made another grimace, and the galaxy that shrouded the inn suddenly drooped, and the ground was also flooded with bursts of starlight, turning into a bright net of the galaxy to contain the black mist above the inn and the ground, along with the wisps of black mist that wanted to burrow into Cui Ya's body.
Even though there are holes in the galaxy's net, these black fogs have to continue to surge in the galaxy's net, and there is no way to escape.
"Close!"
The pretty girl Joan shrugged her nose, opened the lid of her small black gourd, and put the black mist inside into her small black gourd.