When he approached, there was no one on the street, and he was a little dazed when he stepped on the snow on the ground.

"People...... What about people? ”

"You ask me?"

“……”

She walked along the side of the street in the dark to see if she could find some pedestrians, but after walking several streets in a row and still not seeing a single person, she couldn't help but feel a trace of despair in her heart.

She has only been in Ju'a City for less than a day, although the people in the ghost city have already told her the address, but how can she, a foreigner, know where the oil street is and lane?

Originally, she planned to finish refining Dan and then find someone on the street to ask for directions, but at night, Ju'a City, which became like a ghost town, was something she never expected.

Standing in place for a while, suddenly she heard the sound of people talking in the distance, and at first thought it was a pedestrian on the street, so she walked quickly towards the far street, and when she turned her head, she saw five or six people walking in the snow, but before Shen Yi could see it clearly, her face suddenly changed, and she quickly turned around and went into the alleyway.

"What are you doing? Isn't that human? ”

"That's a pawn patrolling the city."

"Pawn ......" Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted, Ju'a City had experienced a great war not long ago, and many houses were destroyed, resulting in a large number of people being homeless, especially in the cold winter season, if there is no safe shelter from the wind and rain, people will freeze to death.

At this time, there will be people who will survive and do something harmful, and in order to maintain law and order in the city, there is a high probability that a curfew will be implemented.

"Curfew?"

"Hmm."

"So what now? You can't just look around like a headless fly, can you? ”

“……”

Seeing that Hatsukumo didn't speak, Tsuru thought for a while, and seemed to think of something, raised his hand to untie the headband, and scattered the hair, and then squatted down and grabbed the snow mixed with mud on the ground and wiped it on her body.

And the city patrol guards happened to come here, and as soon as they saw them, Tsuru saw Hatsukumo and shouted with a face of "joy".

"Big brothers, help me!"

When her voice came, it immediately attracted the attention of several city patrol guards, and when they saw that it was a woman, they all surrounded them without any suspicion.

"It's curfew at this hour, why is the girl still on the street?"

"So embarrassed, isn't something wrong?"

"A few big brothers, it wasn't my intention to commit the night, but I was accidentally kidnapped here by a few flower thieves during the day, I ...... I...... Woo ......" As he spoke, Tsurumi Hatsuyun couldn't help but cry quietly, and Shen Yi looked straight at it.

"Good fellow...... Look, this is called acting emperor. ”

The appearance of pear blossoms with rain made people feel pity when they saw it, and it also made several city patrol guards indignant, eager to catch those flower thieves and die here now.

Someone comforted him: "It's okay girl, we're all here, you're safe." ”

"Where is the flower thief? Don't worry, when a few of us catch them, they will have to be dealt with severely! ”

"They...... When they saw me escape, they ran away and went that way......" Tsurumi Hatsukumo stretched out her hand to the alley where she had just run out, shrunk back, and trembled appropriately.

After speaking, she glanced at a few people, and the six city patrol guards also glanced at each other, and the one who took the lead said: "You, you, you, and you, you four, go in!" Be sure to catch those daring ones! It's the opposite in broad daylight! ”

"Yes!"

The four city patrol guards who received the order immediately drew their sabers from their waists and plunged into the dark alleyway without the slightest hesitation.

"Girl, where do you live? My brother and I will send you back first. ”

"Well, my family lives in Oil Street Lane, thank you big brothers."

"Thank you, no thanks, let's go, it's too cold outside, don't freeze your body."

The city patrol guard who took the lead took the lead and walked forward, while the deceitful old witch followed quietly behind, raising her hand from time to time to wipe the extremely false tears from the corners of her eyes.

"How?" She asked Shen Yi, seemingly satisfied with her performance just now.

Shen Yi forcibly rolled his eyes.

“6。”

……

"What's the girl's name?"

"Jiang Yiyi."

"Jiang Yiyi...... This name is really good, Ling Zun is a cultural person? ”

"Sort of."

"The flower thief who kidnapped you didn't do anything to you, did he?"

"No, there are so many people during the day that they don't dare to do anything to me."

"That's good."

"Thank you so much today, if you didn't show up, I might ......"

"It's okay, it's okay, there won't be any more flower thieves here...... By the way, my name is Wang Yue, you can just call me Brother Wang, if you have something to do in the future, you can come to Duhou Mansion to find me. ”

"Thank you." Tsurumi Hatsukumo nodded slightly.

“……”

Later, Wang Yue chatted without a word, trying to find some topics, but she repeatedly responded with uh and oh, and gradually, she simply stopped talking.

Wang Yue glanced back, just thinking that she was stimulated, she didn't pay much attention to it, and didn't say anything more.

After a while, the three of them stopped, pointed to a small street on the right, and said, "We have arrived, this is Oil Street Alley." ”

"Thank you, Brother Wang, I don't need to send it, I'll just walk in by myself."

"Be careful on the road."

"Uh-huh."

Tsuru saw that Hatsukumo didn't stay long, ran in quickly, turned into the alley and disappeared.

Wang Yue and the others looked at the dead vines crawling all over the walls in the streets and alleys, shook their heads, and left.

And they didn't know that Jiang Yiyi didn't go far, but hid in the alley, and after confirming that they couldn't see themselves, his face returned to his original expression.

"Are you gone?"

"Gone."

After getting Shen Yi's confirmation, she poked her head out to take a look, and walked out generously, while looking at the surrounding environment.

"Fourth Gate......" She looked at the street with her back, and from the first door she saw the fourth small door, wearing a mask and a hat, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

Tuk-tuk.

The door was quickly opened, and a faint candle flame peeked through the crack in the door, revealing a face that was also masked.

The other party looked up and down, and through the faint light, he vaguely saw the white mask under the black veil, and without saying anything, he opened the door completely.

"Come in."

Tsurumi Hatsukumo nodded and entered the room, then looked at the setting.

This is supposed to be some restaurant warehouse, there are many cabinets around, but most of them are rotten, the cabinet door is ajar, revealing the tableware that has already been dusty inside, there is a round table on the left-hand side, but the legs of the table sink into the ground, obviously fixed to death, and there are two other masked people sitting next to the table.

In addition, there is an offering table against the wall in the innermost part, on which is placed a clay statue, surrounded by incense candles, which is the only source of light in the whole room.

"Buddha statue?" Shen Yi took a closer look through the old witch's gaze and found that it was not.

At present, it seems that there is no Buddhism in this world, and naturally there can be no Buddha statues.

The appearance of the clay statue was also very strange, with a long whip tied to the cover of the heavenly spirit in the middle of its head, and it was only wearing a long robe that was spacious and light like a robe, with its chest and belly exposed.

As for why it's weird?

The main reason is his limbs, the two arms are unusually thick, and the muscles on them are tied together, which is very hideous, but the legs are thin to skinny bones.

How weird it looks.

When Tsuru saw Hatsukumo come in, the masked man who opened the door quickly closed the door and gestured to one of the people sitting at the round table with his eyes, and the other party also bent down when he saw it.

Click!

It seemed that some kind of mechanism had been activated, and in the next second, Tsurumi Hatsumo saw a large cabinet not far away spinning, revealing the deep tunnel behind it.

"That's it for now." The masked man pointed to the tunnel and said this, then ignored her, sat back in his chair and continued to play cards.

Tsuru saw that Hatsukumo didn't stop, turned around and entered the tunnel.

"Old witch, what was the offering on the table just now?"

"Huh? You don't know? ”

"What I don't know?"

"That's the Black Goddess."

"Black goddess, oh~" Shen Yi suddenly realized, he had heard people talk about this thing, a woman and a man, with four faces, just now because of the angle he didn't see the other three faces of the statue.

There are a lot of folk legends about the black goddess, and I can't finish talking about it for a while, in short, it is a secret and changeable incarnation, which is very in line with the existence of the ghost market.

The tunnel behind the cabinet is not long, only more than ten meters, and it was quickly reached, and the moment Tsurumi Hatsuun opened the curtain and walked in, Shen Yi saw that her perspective was blurred, but it quickly returned to normal.

"What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, I just got dizzy."

"Oh."

She glanced back at the curtain, with some doubt in her eyes, this curtain seemed to be a kind of magic weapon, with a very strong soundproofing effect, through the curtain, the silent winter night seemed to disappear half in front of her eyes, and the noisy sound around her was like a rushing river pouring into her ears.

When I turned my head, I felt as if I had entered another world.

Behind the curtain is a palatial space, and a light can be seen every few steps, illuminating the whole space as bright as day.

Countless figures shuttled between the neatly arranged seats, replaced by shouting, swearing, and the sound of chips thrown on the table.

If I didn't know how I got in, I wouldn't have felt like it was late at night.

Tsurumi Hatsumo glanced around, and the crazy looks of the gamblers were all in her view.

Gambling houses are one of the characteristics of ghost markets, although the gambling industry in many dynasties is not illegal, but the ghost market itself is not on the bright side, and the profits created by the gambling industry are naturally not taxed, and it is also impossible for the forces that manage the ghost market to ignore these interests.

In addition to the gambling house, there are three gates in front of the left and right, two of which are open, first talk about the one on the right, there is a plaque hanging on the door, on which are written the words "Niangzi Cave", guests with masks come in and out, and at a glance they know that it is a Fengyue place.

The door on the right is closed, and the plaque on the door reads "One hundred borrows and one return", and the number of people entering and exiting is less than one-tenth of the "Niangzi Cave".

The door in front of her was also open, and it was clear that it was a crowded trading market.

In addition to this, there are two swirling mahogany staircases on either side of the casino that lead to the second floor.

It was supposed to be an auction held in the ghost market, that is, the inside of the inside that Zhuo Mingjin said in his mouth, and it was not what Tsurumi Hatsuun should go to at all, so she just took a general look, and went straight into the market along the aisle on the side.

There are a lot of people here, but it's much quieter than the gambling house, and the vendors in the stalls and the buyers who walk and watch are very quiet.

From the perspective of the old witch, Shen Yi saw a lot of strange things, as if they were some magic weapons or something, and some stalls could see some calligraphy and painting treasures, listening to Zhuo Mingjin say that it was more prudent to buy these things in the ghost market.

After all, the source is not clean, and if it is found outside, it will inevitably cause some trouble.

Then there are some stalls with six character signs, which are read together as "Boiling Blood Pill" and "Immortal San".

Needless to say, eating too much is easy for people to become mentally dependent on it, but its main function is to make people temporarily improve their strength at a critical time to break the predicament.

Causing a strong feeling of euphoria is just a side effect.

And the immortal powder, only the side effect of the boiling blood pill, is a drug that makes people feel fluttering and excited!

"Good guy, pornography, gambling and drugs are all accounted for." Seeing that there were quite a lot of customers selling fairy powder, Shen Yi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

After walking down the aisle for a long time, he suddenly heard a noisy sound in front of him, and Tsurumi Hatsuun couldn't help but look up, and after seeing what it was, his expression couldn't help but sink.

I saw a group of people not far away, and on the floor in front of the crowd, there were cages, and there were probably more than a dozen of them, stacked on top of each other in two layers.

Each cage was covered with a snow-white fluffy carpet, on which fair-skinned girls were naked, curled up in a corner of the cage.

"Come and see! Come and see! This is the daughter of the blacksmith shop in the west of the city, right here, look at this face, this figure, a hundred taels of silver is really not much! ”

"And this, Xu Sanye's fourth daughter......"

"Yo, isn't this the granddaughter of the old guy Zhang Reading, and you kidnapped someone before you were ten years old?"

"Eh, the rules of the ghost market, don't stretch, don't stretch, you have to take it away for eighty taels of silver, it's definitely a chick."

“……”

Faintly hearing the sound of communication from the crowd, Shen Yi fell silent.

Seeing that Hatsukumo noticed something, Tsuru frowned, turned around and walked back.

"Don't mess around."

“…… What are you anxious about? I'm not stupid. Shen Yi said this angrily, and then fell silent.

Looking at the girls in the cage, he felt an inexplicable feeling of discomfort, which came from physiological aspects.

Since the ghost market dares to exist, there must be people in the town, so what's the use of being indignant? He, like most people, lives in the rules, and without absolute strength to break the rules, he can only be an insensitive or powerless spectator.

Now in Shen Yi's opinion, this ghost city is no less than the rumored Black Snake Town on the gray swamp.

Possible...... Not to mention that, right?

A place full of sin and filth.

"Old witch, you don't feel the slightest feeling?"

"Yes."

"What does it feel?"

"I'm afraid I'm one of the cages too." This sentence was very serious when Tsurumi Hatsuun said it, and he shuddered just thinking about it.

"......" Shen Yi turned over and didn't speak, she hesitated for a moment outside, and then asked, "Otherwise, we ......"

"What do you mean?"

She looked back at the trafficker and seemed to make a gesture to wipe her neck.

"Oh~ Are you trying to slaughter that dog day secretly?"

"Well, but not now."

"......" (end of chapter)