Chapter 41: The Trapped Demon
In this low, dilapidated street and alley house, you can still see pedestrians passing by in twos and threes, most of them talking about the mighty military might of the Northern Expedition at noon.
Da Sima set out with the whole army, which caused a sensation in the entire Jiankang City, and many people also gathered at Zhangde Gate to participate in the grand event.
In their eyes, it is just the army of the Son of Heaven, killing the mighty sky, the armor is bright, and the magnificent scene of the flag covering the sun, or even which adult of a certain family is outstanding in his majesty, which adult describes Junwei, this is the conversation between the streets and alleys and others, and at this twilight, it is still the home that should go home, the meal that should eat, every day but to have a house to live in, three meals to eat, not to be like the Central Plains war situation, the people are displaced, the day is not safe, this is enoughγ
So when it finally got dark, at least there was no one walking in the well, and the smoke of cooking rose on many rooftops, and the sound of women calling for children, scooping water from the tank, and occasionally someone sticking his head out of the window and spitting out a mouthful of thick phlegm.
In any case, the people living in the capital of the Southern Dynasties were more prosperous and comfortable than people in other places. Gan Fei sat leisurely on the eaves near the entrance of the alley, smelling the fragrance of rice cooking in the alley very comfortably.
"Mother's skin, do you have to wait here stupidly? There must be dinner at home, and there must be stew today!" Wushi lay beside Gan Fei and muttered.
"It's not our home, we're just staying temporarily. If I can solve the demon plague here today, I should get out of there. After all, Lord Huan and Yu Mei are not here, so it's not appropriate for me to keep it anymore. Gan Fei's voice was also not loud, in fact, the sound of this man and dog talking could only be heard by the two of them.
"Dead fatty, why do you have to wait with you? You are looking for Yan Haozi, he doesn't eat meat anyway, the cook of Da Sima Mansion has made so many dishes in vain, I want to accompany the young master of my family. "At the end of the day, no food is still a reminder of the sumptuous food of the Great Sima Mansion.
"Why did you want you to come? That's to lift you up! What's wrong with you, you were also a famous tracer fairy dog, aren't you a nose spirit? If that monster comes here, won't you notice it?"
Wushi nodded with satisfaction: "That's what I said, I'm too capable, alas, a capable person is a hard worker." He boasted to himself, and suddenly hesitated again: "What if that monster doesn't come here today?"
If you don't come today, you will wait until tomorrow, and if you don't come tomorrow, you will wait until the day after tomorrow.
"Damn, I remember that this idiom is not embarrassing, have you ever studied dead fat?"
Two people, no, is a man and a dog chattering for a while, for the discharge of the loneliness of waiting is really very helpful, the sky is unconsciously already as dark as ink, when the sky is hazy, can not see the starry sky, even the crescent moon that should hang the sky is gone, far away, can see several wealthy mansions by the Qinhuai River are also brilliantly lit, but the houses here are rarely lit up, ordinary people, at night there is nothing to use to light the lamp, lamp oil is also expensive, I think there are some other things to have a bed for funγ
Gan Fei couldn't help but laugh and made a boo gesture to Wushi, Wushi subconsciously stood up, and glanced around the street vigilantly: "Isn't that dog day coming?"
Gan Fei listened quietly, and Wufeng followed the sound around him. I don't know which room came out, a woman suppressed her throat and let out a whining moan, and a man gasped rhythmically, just in response to the woman's moan, and there was a vague crackling sound, and after a while, the woman let out a long exhale, followed by a child's cry. ...,
Gan Fei laughed on the roof, and said breathlessly: "Do you hear it? A man and a woman are doing that, and the man can't do it, and he came out in a few moments, but the baby in the family was woken up by their voices and was crying!
Wufeng scolded: "You crazy dead fat man, I have been waiting for a long time, I thought I was doing something, I listened to the movements of other husbands and wives for a long time, you have been with the beautiful swordsman these days, Lao Tzu is still hungry!"
Gan Fei was still laughing, and scratched his hungry stomach a few times with his hand: "Dog, let me ask you, have you ever done this?"
These words touched the sore spot of the food, and he replied hatefully: "Why don't you want to do it? I almost went in a few times, but as soon as people turned their heads, they bit at Lao Tzu's words." !"
Gan Fei pondered the words of Wushi for a while, and suddenly laughed again, and said in a low voice: "Hahaha...... Yes, yes, you're looking for, and people don't like to talk about them directly...... Haha......"
Wufeng was embarrassed and annoyed, but he couldn't say anything to refute it, so in order to show his dissatisfaction, he deliberately raised his leg and peed fiercely in the direction behind Gan Fei.
"Damn, where are you going to pee?" Gan Fei realized that the lack of food was broken, "The roof is sloping, and your urine is flowing here!
Wushi suddenly straightened up and looked into the distance: "Mother's skin, it's really here." β
Gan Fei stopped laughing, and looked in the direction of Wushi's distant view, a vague figure was slowly walking from the depths of the alley, and the thick-soled bamboo shoes made a clicking sound on the road, which was very clear in the silent alley.
As the figure got closer and closer, Gan Fei gradually saw his figure clearly, this was an extremely thin and withered man's physique, walking in a strange posture, the steps between his feet were very large, and he was moving fast, but his upper body was stiff and motionless, as if his legs were dragging his body forward.
Gan Fei sneaked into the Xuangong, and the demon-detecting qi dispersed, but when he swept past the person, it was empty and unusual, but this does not mean that the person is not a demon, as long as the demon does not use demonic power, then the breath on his body will indeed not be detected by the demon-detecting technique.
But there is obviously a reason for the tightness of the foodless, which is why Gan Fei wants to stay here without food, and the things that cannot be detected by the magic can be detected by the instinctive nature of the beast with the power of the mystical spirit, and the nose of the foodless is such a sharp weapon.
Wushi glanced at Gan Fei, and when the man approached, he suddenly jumped down.
The thin man was obviously taken aback by the sudden appearance of no food, and his whole body was shaken, and he stopped, and his eyes began to look around. No food went around him, leaning over with his nose, and kept sniffing.
Gamphiton jumped from the roof and stood right in front of the man.
The thin man couldn't help but be horrified, then took a step back and asked in a frightened tone, "What...... Who?"
This is the description of a man about forty years old, with a scarce beard, an ugly face, but very tall, and when facing Gan Fei, he is slightly higher than Gan Fei's forehead, but the expression on his face is obviously a kind of fear and surprise.
"Who do you say I am?" said Gan Fei with a smile, his body in a brown shirt and short shirt looking thicker.
The man pointed at Gan Fei, and said in a trembling voice: "The night suddenly appeared here, blocking my pedestrians, if it is not a path cutting thief, it is a strong beam to intercept the road!"
Gan Fei Ha smiled, and then felt that there was something wrong with what he said: "Cut the path thief, cut off the road and strengthen the beam, doesn't that mean it? If you don't have it, you can speak?"
The man's tone was stunned, and he didn't know how to phrase it.
"On this big night, this alley is empty, but why are you alone here?" asked Gan Fei with his hands crossed and in a tone of inquiry. ...,
"I ...... I came to visit my old friend, can you manage it?"
"As far as I know, the path here is supposed to be from the mouth of the alley, but at the end of the alley is by the river, and there is no other way. When you came to look for a friend, you should have come from the mouth of the alley, but how did you come from the opposite depth? You swam from the river?"
"I ...... I live by the river......" The man's tone was terrified, and he stammered.
"People who live by the river? That's the residents of the capital, how come the accent is not all the official dialect of the southern country? "In the land of Jingxiang, there are many dialects, and there are ten miles of different sounds, Gan Fei has been in Jingxiang for a long time, but he has heard many prescriptions, so he is very keen to hear that this man's accent is by no means a person from Beijing.
"Avoiding chaos in Kyoto, the local pronunciation has not changed...... What's so strange about that?" the man seemed to suddenly remember something, and he spoke more fluently.
Wushi circled around the man several times before wagging his tail over: "It's a fishy smell." β
"What's the fishy smell? I'm fishy. Yes, I've been by the river for a long time, and I've fished for a living, so it's not surprising that I smell fishy!" the man seemed to have thought of the words, and his expression and demeanor had become calmer at this moment.
Gan Fei showed a smile of understanding: "When people talk about fishy smells, they generally refer to two kinds, and you are so anxious to say that you have a fishy smell on your body, as if you are afraid that we will mention another fishy smell, so may I ask, what is the other fishy smell?"
The man's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, of course, not the mistake of the two fishy self-justifications.
Gan Fei slowly pulled out the broad-bladed long knife from his back, and rubbed the blade on the back of his neck, and the dark red light and shadow of the knife appeared.
"It's really not that easy to do, especially when it's in a hurry and your mind is spinning fast. The long dark red knife rested on the man's shoulder, but the man looked at Gan Fei's murderous floating eyes, and his legs trembled.
Gan Fei looked at the man coldly, "When did you meet us?"
The man's face was as pale as earth, and he wanted to speak several times, but when the words came to his mouth, he always swallowed them back into his stomach, and he regretted it in his heart.
"Yes, I think you've also discovered where the mistakes you made are. Ordinary people are speechless in horror when they find a talking dog. But you, full of thoughts, are how to pretend to be an ordinary person, avoid my interrogation, and when this dog sniffs around you, you hide your own breath very well. That's why you're sure that this dog doesn't smell anything unusual about you. And because you've seen us, you know exactly who I am and what this dog does. When he opened his mouth to speak, you didn't react at all, you should have pretended to be an ordinary person who was shocked when he saw the dog talking, but now, unfortunately, it's useless to disguise again. Say, tell me the reason why you haunt this capital, and I may be able to spare you from dying. β
The man's eyes flashed with yellow light, and he didn't see how to move, his body was slippery like a loach eel, and he turned along the blade of the long knife, and he was about to retreat, and he screamed without food, and jumped behind him.
A few red rays of light and shadow swept through the surrounding airflow, instantly enveloping the man's figure, and the man realized that it was powerful, and the air flow around his body had been unconsciously pulled by spiritual power to form a forbidden air net, and he had no way to escape.
Gan Fei's posture with the knife on the horizontal frame did not change at all, and he watched the man's obedient figure return very leisurely, and was honestly forced by his blade: "The second mistake you made was actually made before the first mistake. Since you know what we do, you should cast a spell to escape as soon as this dog appears, so that you may have the slightest chance to get out of the way, instead of thinking about prevaricating and passing through in vain. In fact, if we didn't already know who you were, how could we suddenly appear and stop you? It's too late now, and during the time I've been talking to you, my strength has cast a net around you, and you have no chance to escape. β
The man was stunned for a long time, and suddenly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Immortal spare your life!
Oh, by the way, it's useless for you to shout so loudly, our conversation has been blocked by my demon net from the beginning, that is, even if you tear your throat and yell, your voice will never be heard in this demon net. If you want to shout loudly and alarm the inhabitants of this alley, and then try to take advantage of the chaos to escape, it is better to put it away. β
The terrible demon slayer, thinking so carefully every step of the way, the man was depressed, worthy of being the one who fought fiercely with the merman princess, facing him, I had no chance of winning at all, no, not to say victory, but not even a chance to escape.
"From now on, I ask, and you say, if you hesitate for a moment, my knife can cut a piece of flesh from you. Gan Fei turned his head, "No food, do you like to eat fish?"
Wushi was very interested in Gan Fei's threat, and wagged his tail very cooperatively: "I don't like fish very much, but now that I am so hungry, I can do it." As he spoke, he deliberately stuck out his tongue and licked his mouth.