On the west side of the Shen Mansion, extending inward from the small gate guarded by Scar, a large number of houses stretch out, and in the center of it is a small courtyard. There is a path paved with unknown stones, the appearance of the stone is no different from the pebble, the inside is like red gold, and it emits a little light in the night, reflecting the whole path in a bright but not dazzling way.

On both sides of the path, on one side is a small pond, the pond is planted with lotus flowers that are undefeated in all seasons, under the lotus leaves, occasionally dragon-shaped shadows suddenly run away, raising a burst of silt in the water, I don't know what kind of creatures. On the other side, there is an ancient tree with leaves like sunset, and a dexterous bird jumps around in it, but it can't get out of the range of leaves.

At the end of the path is a house painted with flying beams, an ancient vine extends from the wall to the house, and its torso over the wall is cut off in the air, only a few young leaves grow on the broken branches that still stubbornly lie on the wall, swaying in the wind in the night.

Next to this main house, there is a small side house built against the high wall on one side of the main house, like a patchwork of several boards, which is extremely simple and incompatible with the whole courtyard.

At this moment, the room in the main house was brightly lit, and the sound of squeaking and squeezing wood came from the room, accompanied by the heavy panting of men, and the bursts of coquettishness of women.

Suddenly, the sound stopped, and there was a rush in the room, and then a woman's impatient voice sounded: "Xianggong, go and get rid of that damn bird in the yard, it's noisy to kill people in the middle of the night." ”

After a while, there was no response, the woman was obviously a little irritable, and shouted in a louder voice: "Shen Zhuchen, you are deaf, but didn't you hear what the old lady said?"

At this time, the sound of the door opening sounded, the door of the side room was pushed open, and a figure walked out, reflecting the faint moonlight, only to see this person of medium stature, neither fat nor thin, dressed in coarse cloth clothes. When they approached the main house and were illuminated by the light, they saw that this man was about thirty years old, with yellowish skin and eyebrows like a deep serpentine groove across his head.

At this moment, when he heard the voice of the woman in the house, he hurriedly bent down and said with a smile: "I didn't hear it just now, don't blame the lady, I'll go and quiet the bird." With that, he walked towards the tree in the courtyard.

"Hmph, hurry up, look at your grinding" A woman's cold snort came from inside the room, obviously not very satisfied.

Shen Zhuchen hurriedly walked to the tree, the light in his hand flashed, and he grabbed it from the leaves, and the whole tree didn't even move, the little bird was held in the palm of his hand, and then stuffed a pill into his mouth, and put it on the tree again.

Then Shen Zhuchen walked quickly to the front of the main house and said, "Lady, you have settled down, and the birds will not disturb the lady anymore." ”

There was no reply in the room, only the sound of men and women playing, and after a while the voices disappeared, and the sound of the wooden bed squeaking again.

Shen Zhuchen's face was as usual, he bent down and slowly retreated, retreating into his own small room in the side room.

In the side room, an oil lamp that could be seen in ordinary homes was placed in the corner of a table full of books, and as the door opened and closed, the light flickered, and the whole room seemed to move.

Shen Zhuchen walked to the table, dragged the chair, and did not pay attention to the obscene sound coming from the main room, but took a book, dipped it in saliva and read it with relish, the book either teaches people to do things, or introspection and self-cultivation, full of sage teachings. Occasionally, the oil lamp snapped, and the shadows that occupied more than half of the room shook violently.

After a while, in an inconspicuous place in the side room, a large mass of ink slowly emerged from it, and then quickly merged with the shadows in the room, and then I saw the book that Shen Zhuchen was looking at, the words that were originally written in the language of the sages slowly dissipated at this moment, and another line of words slowly emerged.

Shen Zhuchen was about to wait to see, but he saw the original ink tumbling, like boiling water, and slowly stood up. Seeing this, Shen Zhuchen first waved his hand to stop his movements, and then picked the lamp with a needle, wanting to make it brighter, just when the light was shaking, a cloud of black light expanded rapidly from the bottom of the oil lamp, gathered on the roof in the blink of an eye, and wrapped the whole room like lightning.

And from the window, what I saw was still Shen Zhuchen reading all night.

At this time, the ink slowly raised, like a spring rising water, and after a while, it turned into a figure in a black robe, the figure stood behind Shen Zhuchen, motionless, and the black robe on his body seemed to be uncontrollable, with the occasional beating of the lamp, it also swayed.

Shen Zhuchen didn't reply, and said, "What's the matter?"

The figure spoke, his voice hoarse, like a dying old man, "It's about Miss Tiying"

"Ti Ying?"

Shen Zhuchen put down the book, turned his face, looked at the black-robed figure expressionlessly, and asked, "Didn't you ask you to protect Ti Ying, is something wrong?"

The figure felt the dissatisfaction in Shen Zhuchen's tone, snorted coldly, and said in his heart You are really a big face now, but you are just a herman, you dare to talk to yourself like this, but although you are slandered in your heart, you don't show it on your face, and continue: "Miss Ti Ying is fine, there is nothing at all, it is this matter, you see." ”

After speaking, the figure pinched his hands, then divided his palms, and three thin lines flashed away, and a clear picture appeared between his palms.

In the painting, a man with a bow and arrows is hiding behind a large rock, while in the distance, a giant bear of two people is standing up, with a huge bear paw stretched out against a film of light. It is the picture of Xu Shan 'rescue' Senior Sister Zhang, Senior Brother Zhou and others.

Shen Zhuchen looked at the picture and was silent,

Seeing this, the figure explained the reason for Shen Zhuchen and said: "The person holding the bow and arrow in the painting, called Xu Shan, is a second-class wrestler, since I and Miss Ti Ying entered the Lingyun Mountain Range to hunt, they have been sneakily following behind us, on the one hand, I am possessed by Wang Yuan, I need to protect Miss Ti Ying, and I can't leave the body at will, plus I see that Xu Shan has not had any bad actions, so I ignored it." ”

Looking at Shen Zhuchen's face, he found that he was still expressionless, only feeling that his current mind was really becoming more and more difficult to figure out, and continued: "The actions of this snake-tailed bear are indeed very strange, this is not at all like the behavior of bears who like to stay in their nests and are reluctant to move, so I suspect that this snake-tailed bear's unconventional behavior is this Xu Shan's troublemaker." As for what Xu Shan said was just for the tail of the snake tail bear, it should be just an excuse, and its real purpose may be the young lady or other people in the team, so I don't dare to judge its purpose privately, so I will draw down Xu Shan's action line and let you decide. ”

"The tail of the snake-tailed bear?" Shen Zhuchen touched his mouth, thoughtful.

Seeing this, the figure said, "The tail of the plesiotail can be used..."

"Needless to say, I understand the role of the snake tail better than you. Shen Zhuchen opened his mouth and interrupted the figure's words.

When the figure heard this, he looked at him with a strange face, thought about it, and swallowed back the words that were full of stomachs.

Shen Zhuchen didn't care what the figure was thinking, but continued to look at the picture.

When he saw the snake tail bear biting down on Senior Sister Zhang, that is, Ti Ying's head, his face couldn't help but change, and he looked at the figure and said slowly: "I asked you to protect Ti Ying well, this is how you protect it?"

When the figure heard this, he said nonchalantly: "When the plesiotail attacked Miss, I had already discovered Xu Shan's actions and knew that he would inevitably save people, so in order not to alarm others, I didn't help Miss Ti Ying." ”

Shen Zhuchen looked at the figure and did not speak. The lights flickered, and his face was bright or dark, gloomy and uncertain.

Seeing this, the figure was a little frightened for no reason, and explained: "It's true, I already expected Xu Shan's actions at that time, and if I expose my traces, others will definitely find out, and things will be more troublesome at that time." ”

Hearing this, Shen Zhuchen said indifferently: "I have grown a lot, if you could be so 'knowledgeable' last time when you possessed this king's aid, then you would have saved a lot of trouble at that time." However, the reason is very good, but I don't know the priority, and the lives of all the people present are not as important as Ti Ying's hair. ”

After speaking, with a pinch of his thumb, a white flame stood on his finger out of thin air, and it flicked at the figure.

"Danhuo, when are you..."When the figure saw the flames, he was immediately frightened, turned into a cloud of ink and tried to escape from the room, but the room was like an iron bucket at the moment, allowing him to rush left and right, but he couldn't hit it, so he could only escape in all directions in the room.

Before he could finish speaking, the flame fell on the figure as if it had collided with it on its own.

The sound of hot pancakes came, the figure screamed, and at the same time, an inexplicable breath volatilized from the figure's body, Shen Zhuchen just sniffed it slightly, and felt that various emotions such as guilt, or love, or anger were replaced back and forth in his heart, and he wanted to drive people crazy.

"Sure enough, there are some doorways, worthy of being the monsters of Moyitian. ”

Shen Zhuchen sneered, his aura turned, his body was cool for a while, and all kinds of mixed emotions disappeared, and then he didn't care about the screams of the black-robed figure, and continued to watch Xu Shan's picture.

When he saw Ti Ying and handed the necklace hanging on his body to Xu Shan, he couldn't help but squint his eyes and rub his thumb habitually, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, after watching the picture, Shen Zhuchen still maintained the movement of rubbing his thumb, his eyes flickering, thoughtful.