In the middle of the night, the famous Hualiu Street and Alley in Luping City are still brightly lit, and the sound of warblers and swallows in the buildings along the street is noisy and pleasant.

"Guest officer, you are amazing!"

"Brother Niu, you are bold and pleasing to people, the more you look at it, the more heroic you become~"

"Master Niu, why don't you stay here tonight~~" "Yes, Master Niu, you really can't bear to leave us!"

Four or five flowery girls surrounded Niu Batian, who hugged her left and right and walked to the outside of the building with a red face on her face.

"Hey, no, no, no, old cow, cough, I still have something to visit the famous guards outside the city tomorrow, and if I spend the night here, I will be anxious if the entourage can't find me early tomorrow morning!"

Lao Niu smiled and answered these girls' questions, and refused to keep them again and again.

"Wow, Master Niu is so busy!" "Brother Niu, don't forget us!"

"Guest, you're leaving~~~" "Brother Niu will come again next time~~~"

"Hahahaha...... By all means, by all means next time!"

The old cow smiled, reluctantly took off his arms and walked out of the building, and when he looked back outside, the name of the green building that had just come out was hung high, and the red flowers on it were so pleasing to the eye.

"Nephrite Building, it's so good, I really want to spend the night, but it's a pity ......"

Niu Batian reached into his arms and took out a shriveled money bag and shook it, and the few copper plates left in it made sporadic clanging sounds.

"Hey, next time I won't call it so popular...... The ordinary girl's house in it is also very good, tsk tsk......"

Niu Batian smacked his lips while leaving this gentle alley happily, turning back in three steps, and walking on the street bathed in the night.

For ordinary people, the visibility ahead gradually decreases, but for Niu Batian, it is as clear as during the day.

"Wenxiang nephrite, Wenxiang Pavilion, nephrite building, the names are all appropriate. ”

This Zhongzheng and peaceful voice suddenly sounded at the entrance of the alley passing by, and the coldness startled Niu Batian.

"Hey, Mr. Ji, why are you here, you're scared to death!"

Niu Batian patted his chest and looked at the side alley, Ji Yuan, who was dressed in a white shirt, was standing there looking at him, with a pair of pale eyes as if he would never see Poland.

Seeing that Mr. Ji just looked at himself and didn't speak, Niu Batian smiled embarrassedly.

"My old cow likes to walk at night, just, just come out for a walk, that, you won't come to catch me, right?"

Ji Yuan looked at the money bag that Lao Niu had hidden, and then looked at the lip prints on his face, shook his head and said.

"I'm not here to arrest you, you like to look for flowers and ask willows, and it doesn't matter if you want to do something, follow me to a place. ”

"What's the matter?"

The old cow was a little confused.

Ji Yuan looked in the direction of the south of the city when he spoke.

"Don't you think it's strange that it's rare to find a big city, and there's no wandering spirit in the middle of the night?"

"Huh?"

Niu Batian was stunned for a moment, how could he pay attention to this kind of thing, besides, it was a good thing for him not to have ghosts and gods, so he didn't have trouble sometimes, and he had been in the Qinglou just now, so he couldn't notice the situation outside at all.

But hearing Mr. Ji say this, Niu Batian naturally understood something.

"Yes, Luping City is not small......"

"Let's go, now that I've met you, maybe I can be a thug when I encounter something tricky. ”

Ji Yuan said very seriously, and listened to the old cow.

"Hey, hey, what did Mr. Ji say, you let me go east, Lao Niu, I will never go west! By the way, what about Brother Yan?"

"Let him sleep. ”

"Oh. ”

Lao Niu answered, and saw that Ji Yuan had already walked out of the alley and stepped forward, so he hurriedly followed.

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A prosperous area in the south of the city, in the daytime here is full of traffic and people, at night it is very quiet, the center is a city god temple, the everlasting lights in the temple are still on, but the temple has already rested.

Ji Yuan and Niu Batian walked all the way from Hualiu Street and Alley to here, standing on the square in front of the temple to look inside, the Shinto breath was indifferent, and the power was dispersed but not condensed.

Ji Yuan Zhang Dafa looked at it, and in his sight, a faint white smoke rose from the sky above the temple in front of him.

"Go in and have a look. ”

The two took a few steps forward, jumped lightly across the temple, and then entered the temple like a gust of wind, skipping the various side halls to the main hall.

"Squeak......

Pushing open the gate, the main hall is illuminated by the ever-bright lamp in the temple, and in this dim light, the statue of the city god is still majestic, but in the eyes of Ji Yuan, there is no charm.

"Hehe, interesting, my old cow is a monster, and I have entered the main hall of the City God Temple, interesting!"

Niu Batian was smiling on the side, but Ji Yuan's expression was a little gloomy.

"The fire of the temple has been extinguished, the ghost gate of the Yin Si is hidden, this temple has been empty for at least several months, naturally there are no ghosts and gods such as Chenghuang to come out to ask you for the crime, I didn't expect that even Luping City has no ghosts and gods to protect it......"

This is indeed something that is unexpected, with the scale of Luping City, if the city god is still there, the Tao should not be weak.

Niu Batian also saw the problem of the temple, but he was just waiting for the final judgment if he was lucky.

"So, the city god here has really fallen a long time ago?"

"Whether it is a god fall, or if you break the Shinto relationship, you lose the city god, and the rest of the ghosts and gods have a great loss of foundation, you should hide in the Yin Si and seal the ghost gate, waiting for the city god to return. ”

"Return?"

Ji Yuan nodded.

"The things of Shinto are extremely mysterious, and all living beings worship the ghosts and gods who are immortal, even if the god of Luping City falls, as long as the people in the city have been worshipping him, for more than ten years, decades, this god will return from the soul between heaven and earth, and regain control of the god. ”

Although Niu Batian is a monster who is not shallow, it is really the first time he has heard of this kind of thing, and this is a kind of secret thing for him.

"Isn't it true that ghosts and gods don't die?"

"Hehe, a rebirth is a beginning, I only remember the so-called 'life events' in the hearts of the believers and in the temple records, and I don't remember the last time I did the ghosts and gods, the Tao, the mana, and the golden body all started from the beginning, is it really immortal? ”

Ji Yuan looked at Niu Batian with a thoughtful look, and said with emotion.

"Placing it on humanity, damaging humanity, otherwise why is Chenghuang still so afraid of human turmoil, as a great virtue is one thing, and caring about one's own survival is the other. ”

But obviously Niu Batian was not sighing, but thinking about another thing.

"Mr. Ji, if you lose the city god and the yin is hidden, won't all mortals be lonely ghosts when they die?"

Niu Batian imagined this scene, there are so many people in the city, all of them have become ghosts, isn't it equivalent to the Endless Ghost City?

Ji Yuan had already turned around and left, and Niu Batian hurriedly followed, not forgetting to close the door of the City God Palace.

"There is no god and no godless way to die, there is a family to worship is not a lonely ghost, when the funeral will be carried by relatives to the soul flag, go to the grave of the house, there will still be land to take care of one or two, there is also a spiritual position in the family, but it is difficult to relate to the yin. ”

While speaking, the two had already left the City God Temple, but Ji Yuan obviously did not have the idea of going back to the inn directly, but walked directly in the city with Niu Batian.

From the streets and alleys in the south of the city to the north of the city, it looks aimless.

In this silent night, accompanied by the sound of bangs and gongs, the roosters and dogs barking in the streets and alleys, and some gentlemen on the beams were also seen.

After half an hour, Niu Batian couldn't help it.

"Mr. Ji, what are we doing here?"

Ji Yuan's feet do not stop, facing forward without squinting.

"Ji can not do much, it can be regarded as patrolling the streets and alleys on behalf of the night tour god, and look at this Luping City......"

Niu Batian scratched his head, feeling that Mr. Ji was a little troublesome.

When the two of them walked to a street with several gambling houses, Ji Yuan and Niu Batian's footsteps stopped, and a faint demonic aura permeated them.

"Is there really one? Mr. Ji, I'll solve it. ”

"There's no hurry. ”

Ji Yuan raised his hand to stop the competent thug who wanted to rush over immediately, and the two waited on the street for a while, and saw a carriage driving out, and the demonic spirit was also entrenched in the carriage.

In Ji Yuan's ears, bursts of crying could still be heard.

In the carriage, two vicious servants guarded the three or four children and two women in the carriage, all of them with tears on their faces in panic.

"What's the noise, your men have already exported you all!"

"Cry and cry, cry again, beware of chopping you up and feeding them to the dogs!"

One of the wicked servants raised the whip in his hand, and after scolding, looked at the corner of the car flatteringly.

"Uh, hehe, sixth master, forgive me, are you satisfied with these few?"

"Hey, hey, hey...... Satisfied, of course satisfied!"

As he spoke, the six old men licked their lips, and the look in their eyes frightened several children to stop crying.

......

On the street outside the gambling house, Ji Yuan opened his eyes slightly, and he also heard the sound of the carriage in his ears.

"Hmph, it's not that the enemies don't get together! Do you remember the monster in the Boundless City who wanted to invite Gao Tianming to eat boys and girls, he was in the car, and we chased him!"

Niu Batian's nostrils spewed out a wisp of white gas, and he also showed a cruel smile.

"Moo......"