"Who!" The watchman turned his head and shouted at the gate, and at this moment an idea came to his mind that someone was playing tricks on him.

When he shouted, the knock on the door stopped abruptly again.

The dimly lit room was immersed in a dead silence, and the watchman could even hear his own heartbeat.

He stepped forward, ready to open the door at the sound of a knock and catch the man who was teasing him.

The watchman stood lightly in front of the door, rolled up his cuffs, and put his hands on the latch.

After a few moments of waiting, the knock sounded again.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Before the knock was over, the watchman pulled the latch open and slammed the door open.

As soon as the door opened, a gust of wind swept in front of me, and the door was empty, and there was nothing.

The beating man felt more and more weird in his heart, he obviously heard three knocks on the door, and opened the door, how could it be...!

Three people and four ghosts! He suddenly remembered this proverb in his heart, which made his back even colder, and when he looked at the dim sky outside, he was so frightened that he hurriedly closed the door.

At this time, his heart became more and more frightened, when the two demon hunters, before coming to him, he shrank under the covers, frightened, and kept thinking about when the daily knock on the door sounded.

But when the two of them talked about their identities, he was much bolder, and the Demon Slayer Division specialized in dealing with this aspect of things.

Just when he thought that these ghosts, afraid of the Demon Slayer Division, would not come again, but now the knock on the door sounded again.

The watchman dared to hurriedly plug in the latch and stare at the door fiercely.

After a while, the knock on the door rang again, which frightened him even more, "Who! Who the hell are you, you need to know that the people of the Demon Slayer Division will be here soon! ”

The knocking has stopped!

In the panicked heart of the watchman, he was a little overwhelmed, so he could only keep muttering in his mouth, "The people from the Demon Slayer Division will come soon, don't leave if you have the ability." ”

The knocking soon stopped again!

But after a while, the voice began to sound again.

The watchman was silent, not daring to open the door before he stepped forward, and stood there staring at the door, and then, he exhaled heavily, and then came to the window, he wanted to push the window a little open, to see if it was a person or a ghost standing outside the door.

He cautiously came to the window, and lightly opened the window a little, so that he could look back towards the door, but there was nothing behind the door!

The watchman breathed a sigh of relief, and just as he was about to put down the window, he suddenly found that there was a pair of embroidered shoes in front of his house!

By the faint glow of the sky outside, he saw that the shoe was covered with mud, very similar to his situation on the street.

The beating man's heart beat even more violently, and his whole body was cold, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

The ghost bride is here, and she's been knocking on the door all these days?

The watchman swallowed deeply, quickly lowered the window, and then ran to the gate to see if the latch was locked.

But the knock on the door rang again, and he stood by the door, his whole body shaking.

"Official!" That gloomy and shrill voice rang in my ears, making my hairs stand on end.

The watchman took a few steps back, his whole body trembling, and pointed to the door, "I'm not here!" I'm not here! ”

He just wanted to turn around and hide in the quilt at the moment, but the moment he turned around, he was frightened and sat on the ground.

The bride sat at the head of his bed, wearing a red phoenix robe, a red hijab as red as blood, and a long and permeating laughter echoed in the room, "Official, the hour has come, hurry up and worship heaven and earth." ”

"Ahh The beater cried out in horror, and he turned to pull the latch out of the house and fled the house, only to find that he couldn't pull it at all.

Fear made him lose his composure, and he kept pulling the latch, even if his hand was bloodied by the wood, he didn't care, at the moment, he just wanted to run out of the house.

"Official! What are you doing? ”

The bride got up and walked slowly to the watchman by the door, and let out that sharp and cold laugh.

The watchman pounded the door harder and harder, the expression on his face became more and more distorted, his hands had already been peeled open, and blood was slowly flowing down the door.

"Official! Come and worship heaven and earth! ”

The watchman cried, "Don't come here!" ”

The bride, dressed in red and wearing a red hijab, stood next to the watchman, reached out and grabbed his shoulders, and pulled the watchman to the house, "Today is our big day, don't miss the hour." ”

The skin of the shoulders of the elongated black and sharp nails suddenly gushed blood.

"Ahh The watchman let out a scream.

Li Huaiyun and Liu Pingzhong rushed to the street where the accident occurred, and halfway through, they also went to the vendor by the way, drank some hot ginger tea casually, warmed their bodies, and have been dealing with things in the underworld.

When the two of them came to that street, the sky gradually became clearer, and all kinds of small vendors pushed wooden carts, or carried burdens, which contained a lot of vegetables and medicinal herbs, and the steaming heat, burning white smoke swirled and mixed above, and busy figures could be seen everywhere.

It didn't take long for the whole street to be full of people coming and going, and the bustling shouting continued to sound, revealing a strong smell of fireworks.

This street is a large trading market

Li Huaiyun walked down the street, looking at the thriving markets around him, thinking that if there was turmoil, these people would be displaced again.

Liu Pingzhong glanced around, "Maybe it will be different until it gets dark." ”

Li Huaiyun found that there were many alleys connected to this street, and every 100 meters, there was an alley.

He asked curiously, "Where does this street lead, and how many horizontal and vertical are there?" ”

Because of this special design, it seems to go a long way, and it is also like standing still.

Liu Pingzhong said some of the specific conditions of the entire street, "Is it helpful? ”

Li Huaiyun nodded slightly, "The general situation is understood, but I still need to go there in person to understand more." ”

"Why do you want to know about this road?"

"I want to determine whether there is a possibility of hiding corpses in this street, several disappeared brides live in the vicinity, and the ghost bride is also doing evil in this street, so the place where this resentment arises must be in the area of the street cycle.

He looked out into the alleys, which were basically surrounded by high walls, some of which reached the end of the alley, others that twisted and wound to other streets.

Li Huaiyun and Liu Pingzhong walked slowly through the crowd, carefully observing their surroundings.

He deliberately chose a deep alley and walked into it for a distance, with old and quaint walls, potholes, and moss on the walls near the ground.

Liu Pingzhong saw that he was going deeper and deeper, "Where are you going?" ”

"Just now, I saw that there was a gray aura in the alley through the Qi Lookout technique, and I wanted to walk inside! See what it is? ”

Liu Pingzhong looked puzzled, "This... Could it be that the ghost thing will come out during the day, when the yang energy is at its worst? ”

"That's not impossible."

"Absolutely impossible! Too much yang energy can make ghosts and souls fly away, and only come out at night, when the yin energy is heavy. ”

"Then what if the layout of this street is arranged in a way that gathers yin!"

This...! Liu Pingzhong was speechless for a while, he hadn't thought about it at all, but he didn't expect this guy to think of this level.

He looked into the depths of the alley, "Even so, we all have the token of the Demon Slayer Division, and we don't react,"

Li Huaiyun explained, "That means that this ghost thing not only shields its own breath!" ”

"It's like some kind of animal that hides its residual smell! There are similarities in my previous case. ”

Liu Pingzhong asked, "In what way?" ”

"A jade carving of a special material! Able to shield oneself from one's own breath,"

"No wonder, our people have been looking for this ghost for a long time, but they can't find anything, and they let her continue to kill several people."

"There is a jade carving, even if it is a demon slaying commander card, there is no response, so you can leave under the siege, and you can't find it at all."

"This is a means of the black-robed man!"

Liu Pingzhong frowned in contemplation.

Li Huaiyun stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at the crowds coming and going on the street, shouting, quarrelling, all the sounds were mixed together, which was particularly noisy!

The jade carving with a shielding aura on this ghost thing has escaped the layers of control of the demon hunters, which means that all the actions have been informed!

It's about changing the direction of the investigation!

Li Huaiyun activated the Qi Lookout technique again, and the entire scene in his line of sight was covered with a gray outline, and the gray aura in the depths of the alley was even thicker, and there was a trace of blood.

The breath is constantly circling and changing, the shape is inexplicable, there is definitely something wrong in the depths of this alley!

Li Huaiyun asked, "Then this street is like this on weekdays?" Is there anything else special. ”

"This street is lined with street vendors, and basically people from the northern part of Kyoto sell food and vegetables here, and if you want to say it's special, it's something special!"

"At most, there has been a homicide here, a butcher who sold meat, the family was wiped out, and the murderer's whereabouts are still unknown! That scene was really bloody, and people wondered if it was an ordinary person! ”

"How?"

"The butcher's family was dragged to the slaughterhouse, and the murderer brutally divided them into pieces and hung them on hooks.

Hearing this, Li Huaiyun's scalp tingled, "This murderer is too cruel!" ”

At this time, Liu Pingzhong let out a strange laugh, which made Li Huaiyun feel quite inexplicable.

"Master Liu, why are you laughing!"

"Do you know what business that place is doing right now?"

Li Huaiyun pondered in his heart for a while, "According to what the helmsman said, that place is used as a slaughterhouse again!" ”

"I found you...!" Liu Pingzhong's eyes were full of appreciation, it was a great pity that this person didn't win the Iron Painting Pavilion!

"Clever can't do it! I can't hide anything from you! ”

"It's not that Lord Liu Helm made things very clear!"

Li Huaiyun asked again, "What about the case of the missing bride that is rumored on the street?" ”

"It's strange to say!" Liu Pingzhong stroked his chin, and the wrinkles on his face were deep.

"A few years ago, there were a lot of brides who disappeared, and they were residents of the neighborhood here, and they all disappeared on their wedding night!"

Because the bridegroom was also drunk and dazed, he did not find that the bride had disappeared until dawn. That's when I reported to the official."

"At first, I thought it was a flower thief, or a bandit pretending to be a civilian, but the palace also specifically pointed out that it was to clear the grass in the mountains near Kyoto."

"But the disappearance is still happening! None of the other people living on this street dare to get married, and no one dares to marry their daughter here! ”

Li Huaiyun asked, "Then nothing happened after that?" ”

"Somehow? After that, it never happened again! Liu Pingzhong also shook his head in confusion, "Until recently, the so-called ghost bride appeared on this street!" ”

"Everything wanders on this street in the middle of the night, or it is a watchman who has a chance to encounter it, but we can't find it!"

Li Huaiyun paced back and forth at the entrance of the alley, and he felt that there must be some connection between the things.

"Master Liu, have you ever thought about this speculation, that is, since the death of the butcher's family, no more brides have disappeared!"

Liu Pingzhong suddenly came to his senses, and he slapped his brain hard, "What you said is very right!" Depending on the time of the incident, there is indeed a connection between the two cases. ”