Seeing that the soldiers guarding the city were only mortals with good martial arts, Ye Ruo threw them a few spirit beads, then turned around and walked towards the city with the others.

The two soldiers were not illiterate, and they thanked them with a little flattery.

When he turned the corner and walked into the corner alley, his divine sense detected that the expressions of the two soldiers had changed for a moment, and then one of the guards quietly left.

Immediately, Ye Ruo withdrew his divine sense, and he had some scheming in his heart.

Then I remembered what the soldier had just said.

Wu River?

Their mission is to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of the old man in He'an Village, which is not far from Xiangcheng. Moreover, the interval between them is just right, the Wu River.

I wonder if there is any connection between this?

It was only a moment of thinking, and then the preliminary plan was decided.

Ye Ruo stopped and looked at everyone,

"Hao Qing, you and Sha Zhuo will go to Wuhe to investigate first, and Zhou Zhuo and I will take a look in the city. ”

"Good. The sand responded.

Hao Qing also nodded silently.

Then Hao Qing and Sha Wei both left Xiangcheng, of course, with their strength, they would naturally not be discovered.

After they left, Ye Ruo and Zhou Zhuo glanced at each other, and Ye Ruo said, "Do you have any suggestions for investigating in Xiangcheng?"

Zhou Zhuo was silent for a moment, he didn't expect Ye Ruo to ask him, after all, he has always been the one who "only needs to do things", and he has been asked occasionally, but that is also a subconscious question from the master, senior brother, and little junior sister, which is equivalent to talking to himself, and he doesn't really want to ask his opinion, after all, his opinion is not important in their opinion.

So Zhou Zhuo didn't answer anything, let go of the hand he was holding slightly, lowered his eyes, and only said that he didn't know.

Ye Ruo was stunned, she didn't expect Zhou Zhuo to answer like this, but she didn't think too much, she just thought that he really didn't know.

Then he said, "Then let's walk around the city and observe it first." ”

Zhou Zhuo lowered his eyes, and sure enough......

Then Ye Ruo chose a direction, that is, the direction to the City Lord's Mansion.

Before in the Sword Sect, they looked at the map depicting the interior of Xiangcheng, although the map was not detailed, only a general description, but the direction was still accurate.

Then she also passed on to Zhou Zhuo on the road, telling her views and discussing them, but Zhou Zhuo didn't express his opinions very much.

Also, Ye Ruo felt that the new city lord of Xiangcheng seemed to know something, as well as the breath inside and outside the city.

Compared to the outside of the city, the inside of the city is noticeably cleaner.

Then Ye Ruo and Zhou Zhuo gathered their breath and walked on the streets of Xiangcheng.

"Sugar gourd ~ Sell sugar gourd ~"

The loud voices of the hawkers resounded through the streets.

"Mother, I want a sugar gourd!" a childish boy who was held in the arms of a plain-clothed woman tugged at the woman's placket and looked at the sugar gourd in the vendor's hand with longing eyes.

The woman's hand holding the child tightened, and she said softly, "The sugar gourd eats bad teeth, it's not good." ”

The clothes worn by the doll were fine, but the woman's clothes were a little whitish and had many patches, but if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see it.

But it also shows that the woman loved to be neat, and her needlework was very good.

But from this point of view, the woman's family should not be very good.

"Here you go. ”

The child swallowed, "Sister, I don't want to eat." ”

Ye Ruo bent his eyes, "If I buy too much, I'll give it to you." ”

The child cautiously glanced at the woman, and the woman's nose was sour, "Eat." ”

Then he glanced at Ye Ruo gratefully and whispered thank you.

Ye Ruo shook his head, turned around and entered the flow of people with Zhou Zhuo.

"Naw. Ye Ruo handed the other sugar gourd in his hand to Zhou Zhuo.

Zhou Zhuo was stunned, his hands and feet were uncontrollable, and he didn't know what to do, did he eat?

"Mother, Tutu misses grandpa~"

The woman immediately covered the doll's mouth, "Feifei, go home, my mother will make you something to eat." ”

Then he sped up.

Ye Ruo, who was walking in the distance, paused slightly.

There was a lively clamor all around, children on the road blowing paper windmills, and the laughter of young girls like silver bells rippling in the air, as if the affairs at the city gate had no effect on the city at all.

Ye Ruo walked to the stall of a middle-aged man selling folding fans, picked up a wooden sandalwood fan, and looked carefully at the hollow pattern carved on it.

Then he pretended to ask casually about the city gate, and then the middle-aged man in the long robe changed his expression.

After hesitating for a while, he asked Ye Ruo in a low voice, "The girl is from out of town?"

Ye Ruo smiled lightly, "Well, I came to Xiangcheng this time to visit a distant relative. ”

The middle-aged man sighed and said, "Some time ago, the Wuhe River was haunted by ghosts, and this happened to this matter, but we have a city lord in Xiangcheng, and it is more peaceful." How is it like the outskirts, alas...... Corpses are everywhere. ”

Ye Ruo's eyes froze, and then he looked up at the stall owner, "Distant relatives wrote to me before, and it seems that there is no such thing. How can this be the case now?"

The middle-aged man waved his hand, "This is a recent appearance, and I have also heard about it, but I have not seen it with my own eyes." But ......"

"How?"

The stall owner leaned closer to Ye Ruo with a mysterious expression, "Little girl, let me tell you, it is said that this matter is related to the previous city lord." ”

Ever the lord of the city?

Zhou Zhuo saw a dark figure, glanced at them, and ran into the alley.

Then before he could tell Ye Ruo, he immediately chased after him.

Ye Ruo noticed Zhou Zhuo's movements, and immediately took out a silver ingot and threw it down, took the folding fan and followed.

The middle-aged man picked up the silver ingot on the stall in a daze, "That, girl, you gave more ......"

But Ye Ruo's figure was already far away.

Ye Ruo quickly walked through several alleys before finding Zhou Zhuo in a dim alley.

After a pause, he walked to Zhou Zhuo's side, and his gaze moved down to the black figure that was pressed to the ground by Zhou Zhuo with a spell, and glanced at it.

Then his gaze returned to Zhou Zhuo, "This is?"

Zhou Zhuo turned over the black shadow lying on the ground, and Ye Ruo's pupils shrank.

Then he put his hand on top of the black figure, running the wooden shadow scroll, and the water and wood aura slowly submerged into the black figure's body.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhuo also withdrew his suppression.

After a long time, the black qi slowly receded, revealing the dirty and black-streaked child inside. Ye Ruo withdrew his hand, "Zhou Zhuo, let's go find an inn to stay in first." ”

He took out a cloak from the storage bag, performed a cleansing technique, and then picked up the child on the ground and headed for the inn.

On the other side, the Wu River.

Hao Qing and Sha Diao are standing by the Wu River at this moment, Hao Qing's face is as cold as ever, and he can't see anything, while Sha Diao, who used to giggle, has a serious face at this time.

On their way to the Wu River, the closer they got to the Wu River, the more corpses there were on the road, and there were many corpses floating on the Wu River at this time.

Hao Qing probed his divine sense into the Wuhe River, and there were corpses underneath, these corpses were the same as those killed at the gate of Xiangcheng, but they were more serious, and their pupils were already black.

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