After passing through the chaotic swamp-like market outside the castle walls, which was flooded with snow and water, and handing over his registration book, Tsurumi Hatsukumo entered Ju'a Castle without any problems.

Different from Yunqiu, Hengzhou, Wuchuan and other cities, Ju'a City seems to have experienced a baptism of war, once you pass through the city gate, you can see a large number of collapsed or burned houses, tattered clothes, homeless people can be seen everywhere, most of them gathered on both sides of the street, looking numb.

The atmosphere in the city was as oppressive as the gloomy December sky.

Walking down the street with a horse, smelling the turbid air, and being stared at by countless pairs of eyes, she only felt a pang of disgust.

Although her body was stained with frost and snow, her clothes were too clean, which was in stark contrast to the people whose clothes were so dirty that they couldn't be dirty anymore that she was full of a sense of disobedience.

Looking down, she also understood, turned over and rode up to speed up.

I don't know what happened to this giant city, as if it had been bombed by bombers in turn, all the way down, the intact buildings were almost invisible.

Standing high and looking into the distance, the collapsed buildings are like rotten straw, chaotic and desolate.

From time to time, you can see dried and blackened blood on the ground.

Before coming to a vegetable market, the horses on his body stopped for a moment, and Tsurumi Hatsuyun turned his head to look at the execution table not far from him, only to see dozens of people tied hand and foot, kneeling on the platform with a sign with the words "Kill and Decide" on their backs, and staring at the front with dull eyes.

The audience was full of chatter, and it was impossible to hear what they were saying.

After a while, the two executioners each took a sip of the liquor, sprayed another sip on the cold and bright broadsword, and then stepped forward with the knife, and began to cut off the head without saying a word.

The knife flashed one by one, and the heads rolled down from the stage, and the blood gushed like a pillar, pouring on the bodies of the onlookers below, and the strange thing is that these viewers did not have the slightest intention of hiding, bathing in the blood, without half a bit of fear, on the contrary, they were a little impatient, and the light in their eyes flashed, as if they were expecting something.

Five minutes later, the heads of the dozen or so kneeling people on the stage all fell to the ground, and the two executioners wiped the bloody knives with red cloths and turned to leave.

They had no expression on their faces from beginning to end, and they had cut off so many heads as if they had just done a trivial job.

After the two executioners left, the onlookers rushed up like hungry wolves for food, surrounding the dozen or so corpses.

The howls of excitement kept coming, and it was terrifying to hear.

Tsuru saw Chuyun frowning, and Shen Yi also grinned when he saw it.

After a while, the crowd dispersed, and the bodies on the execution table were gone, leaving only pools of blood and scattered heads to prove that they had been saved.

She also rode away, unwilling to stay longer.

……

In Ju'a City, the first thing she did was to find an inn in the east of the city and hand over forty copper plates to live in, as soon as she entered the room, she let Shen Yi out, and after throwing down a dozen or so beast pills, she went to the corner and pulled up the screen.

"Who are you guarding against?"

"What am I guarding against?"

"What are you pulling the screen for?"

"I ...... I want to change my clothes! ”

"You can change it, I didn't say I wanted to come up."

"...... you" Tsurumi Hatsumo was speechless, too lazy to care about anything, moved the screen, and snorted: "Hooligan!" Then he stumbled and changed his clothes.

Shen Yi's throat squirmed and made a "grunt", but he didn't make a sound, threw the Yun Beast Pill into his mouth one by one, and slowly showed off like eating jelly beans, and then came to the windowsill and opened the window to poke his head out and look out.

The boundary of Changzhou is indeed not peaceful, and the south side of Ju'a City has indeed experienced a big war, the reason is that a demon cultivator has infiltrated here, intending to silently sacrifice all the blood of the people living in the slums in the south of the city, but it was discovered at a critical time.

Although in the end, the powerhouses of the major families attacked one after another, and in the end, they successfully killed those demon cultivators who infiltrated the city, but at that time, they seriously underestimated the strength and number of the other party, resulting in the death of two families' spirit-level powerhouses in battle.

As for the latter things, it's a long story, the death of a spirit level powerhouse is undoubtedly huge for the family, in order to make up for the loss or to vent anger, it is impossible for the two families to do nothing, in short, the small family that survives in the slits suffers.

At this time, Tsurumi Hatsumo changed into a green coat.

"Okay, let's go."

Shen Yi also retracted his head, closed the window, and nodded to her, and then turned into a ray of light and squeezed into her consciousness space.

When she left the inn, she put on a hat in a deserted place, and the black veil covered her face before she wandered around the city.

Looking for the face of the ghost market, he is also familiar with the environment in Ju'a City.

However, the old witch's luck was really not bad, and she really found a fabric shop with a black cat in front of her house before it was almost dark.

After hesitating for a moment, she tightened the hat on her head and stepped inside.

This shop is not big, and it is about the same size as the pill shop in Fenghe Town, full of clothes and materials of different colors.

The shopkeeper is a woman, sitting on a chair eating grapes with an elegant posture, and when she saw someone coming, she didn't raise it and said: "Boy, there are guests coming, why don't you hurry up and entertain them?" ”

Branch~

As soon as the words fell, the small door on the right was opened, and a young man walked out, looking at Tsurumi Hatsumo with a smile on his face.

"Guest officer, what do you want to pick, we have golden spring silk here, light smoke silk, and here, from Qi country, the best moon flying flowers, we have some outside, we have what we don't have outside, we also have ...... here"

The young man introduced enthusiastically, but unfortunately it was a hot face and a cold ass, and Tsurumi Hatsuun ignored him completely, walked around him, and came to the female shopkeeper.

The other party paused for a moment to eat grapes, sniffed and smelled the very clean virgin body fragrance on her body, and couldn't help laughing: "Girl, just ask my shop buddy to buy silk and satin, although I am the shopkeeper, I am not good at entertaining guests." ”

"And what are you good at?" Tsurumi Hatsukumo asked, his voice cold.

The woman smiled again and said, "It depends on what the girl is looking for me." ”

Hearing this, Tsurumi Hatsumo turned his head to look at the black cat outside the door, and pondered for a while.

"I want Tianxiang Caiyun Forging, do you have any?"

The woman's brows furrowed, her face showed a look of doubt, she looked at the young man and asked, "Tianxiang colorful cloud satin?" Do we have one here? ”

The young man fell into thought, and quickly shook his head: "No, Tianxiang colorful cloud satin, I have never heard of it. Hearing him say this, the woman looked at Tsurumi Hatsuun.

"Girl, didn't you hear about the fragrant clouds and satin from the storyteller in the teahouse, and made a special trip to tease me?"

"Definitely." She shook her head.

"What does that girl mean?" At this point, there was a faint hint of unkindness in the words of the female shopkeeper, but Tsurumi Hatsuyun said unhurriedly: "I came from another country, and I met an old immortal in the mountains, and with a wave of my hand, I summoned a gust of wind to send me here, saying that you have heavenly fragrance and colorful cloud satin." ”

"Oh, huh?" The other party asked rhetorically, and then he didn't speak.

Tsurumi Chuyun was also silent for a while, and quickly remembered something, and said, "Don't worry, shopkeeper, I have money on me." ”

As she spoke, she took out five taels of silver and put it on, revealing the crow mark of the traveler hanging around her waist, intentionally or unintentionally.

Sure enough, the female shopkeeper's eyes were instantly attracted by the crow mark of the traveler, and when the crow mark was covered by her clothes, she withdrew her gaze, and the smile on her face disappeared and became serious.

She looked left and right, and saw that there was no one in the store, so she said very generously: "The girl is in the right place, tonight, you can enter the fourth door on the left hand of Youjie Lane, and the market will be dispersed on the fifth watch." ”

"Hmm."

"If the girl has nothing else to do, then please go back, this business can't be left undone." The female shopkeeper put away the five taels of silver in front of her as she spoke, but Tsurumi Hatsuun did not move.

"What? Anything else? ”

"Hmm."

"That's it."

"When I came, I saw a tree by the river, and the bark of the tree had been stripped of its clothes, and when I saw that it was actually pitiful, I wanted to ask for the bark from the shopkeeper."

"I see, there's ready-made bark in the store, do you want it?"

"Yes."

Then the shopkeeper got up, went to the innermost right side of the shop, opened the small door, and motioned for her to come in.

Inside was a room, not much bigger, except for some furniture that was a loom machine.

She asked Tsurumi Hatsuun to find a random place to sit down, and she opened a cabinet and picked up a large wooden box from inside, and after placing it on the table and opening it, there were three masks neatly arranged inside, which were black, white, and red.

There is no decoration on the mask, it looks unremarkable, but it feels extraordinary.

And these masks are the magic weapons that people use to perfectly conceal their identities when they enter the ghost market.

Speaking of the person in charge of the ghost market, he is also very good, and the mask used to hide his identity is given a total of three styles for people who want to enter the ghost market to choose according to their preferences, and there are more people who buy it, and more people use it, and the people who enter the ghost market later have to buy it from the people on the ghost market.

If you want to find a refiner to customize a mask that matches your own aesthetics, you have to consider whether you will be targeted when you enter the ghost market to buy and sell things.

After all, everyone else wears black, white, and red masks, and you have a mask with gold and exaggerated carvings, so the goal is too big.

And selling this kind of magic weapon, the person in charge of the ghost market can also make a lot of money.

After a period of picking, Tsurumi Hatsuyun finally chose a white mask at Shen Yi's suggestion, she stretched out her finger and pointed to the middle of the box, and said with some hesitation: "I want this." ”

The female shopkeeper nodded, picked up the white mask in the middle, and handed it to her, but Tsurumi Hatsuun didn't reach out to take it, but asked, "How much does this cost?" ”

"Sixty taels of gold."

"Golden ......" she was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "I don't have gold." ”

"If there is no gold, then eight hundred taels of silver."

Eight hundred taels of silver, hearing this number, Crane saw Chu Yun sighing in her heart, where does she have eight hundred taels of silver on her body now?

Before, his whole body added up to one hundred and fifty-seven taels of silver, and now he has paid five taels of silver to enter the market, and he can't afford it at all.

"Can I borrow it for one night?" When I sell my things, I will send me eight hundred taels of silver early tomorrow morning. She said sincerely, but the female shopkeeper put the mask into the box, put her slender legs together, and her face seemed to be smiling.

"Little girl, I don't need to say much about what kind of place this is, this bark has never had a precedent for empty-handed credit."

Tsurumi Hatsuun bowed his head slightly, keenly catching a key word from the other party's words.

"Empty-handed...... That is, you can take credit? ”

"Pretty smart." The female shopkeeper nodded, and then said, "You can borrow it, but you have to bet your life here." ”

"Destiny ......"

Seeing the light in Hatsuun's eyes, Tsuru fell silent.

In the consciousness space, Shen Yi almost exploded when he heard the words of the female shopkeeper, and shouted: "Old witch, I still want to see what that ghost mayor looks like, if you dare to detain me here, you will be finished." ”

His voice echoed in his head, and Tsurumi Hatsukumo was a little helpless.

"I didn't want to bet you here."

"Hmph, anyway, you can figure it out for yourself, and if I expose you, it's over." Shen Yi snorted, and Tsuru saw that Chuyun was naturally not stupid, not to mention how many people's attention Shen Yi, an unseen contract beast, would attract people's attention when he appeared, and what kind of danger he would face after being suspected.

Even if he doesn't, with his temperament, he really detains him here, and he won't be able to live in peace in the future.

Taking a deep breath, she looked at the female shopkeeper and said solemnly: "I won't bet my life here, can I suppress the others?" ”

The female shopkeeper smiled and quickly replied: "Of course, a magic weapon worth several times more than the bark of a tree is sufficient, but does the girl have it?" ”

Tsurumi Hatsukumo thought for a moment and took the Aoba dart out of the storage space.

"How's this?"

A different color flashed in the female shopkeeper's eyes, and she took it and looked at it carefully.

"It's a bit interesting, it's actually made of Gangyun Iron Mother, but girl, what I just said was a magic weapon worth several times more than the bark of a tree, although your little thing is good, but it's far from enough."

"You ......"

"We're not interested in your things, just for you to keep them, hand over the silver, and the things will naturally be returned to you, although the bark is not priceless, but those who run the rivers and lakes are worried about it, especially the girl who is on the list of arrests, don't you say?"

"If you don't have anything else to bet on, just bet your life here."

Seeing that Chuyun stopped talking, under the black veil, a trace of killing intent flashed in her eyes when she looked at the female shopkeeper, but such a killing intent came and went quickly.

In an instant, she figured out that she was just a god of life, but it was nothing if she was raised here, but she refused to bet on God, but instead explained in disguise that she had some secrets that she couldn't let outsiders know.

A person who doesn't want others to know what his life god looks like is most likely a wanted criminal, and besides, she is still wearing a hat.

After struggling for a while, she finally put away the Aoba dart, took out the flower hairpin and put it on the table.

"How about this bet on you?"

Her eyes stayed on the flower hairpin for a while, and the female shopkeeper seemed to be startled, so she hurriedly picked it up and checked it.

"It turned out to be a spiritual weapon, the girl's identity is not simple, this thing is going to be sold here by us, not to mention a few thousand taels of gold, are you sure you want to bet here?"

"I'm not selling, I'm just betting on you."

"Yes, then I will keep this spiritual weapon for the girl...... By the way, you can't return the bark you bought from us, you have seven days to send eight hundred taels of silver, and if you don't see the silver after seven days, this spiritual artifact is our owner's. (End of chapter)