When Li Changan arrived.

It was the next morning.

The town has not yet woken up, but a large group of onlookers have gathered outside the courtyard, among which there are few women and children, most of them are some elite men, and they are faintly divided into many small groups, guarding each other, and they all probe their brains to look into the courtyard.

Seeing Li Changan screaming for a while, he rushed to surround him.

is enthusiastic, like fans chasing stars.

It's a pity that these guys are not fans of Taoist priests, but so-called "demon hunters", so enthusiastic, all for the sake of pulling out some monster news from the Taoist priest's mouth.

This situation is not once or twice, Li Changan has long been experienced, and he held down the long sword at the moment, and put on a face that no one can approach, his cold eyes are pressing, and he stabbed people to get out of the way.

In the courtyard, Bo Ziyu waited for a long time.

Skip the extra polite greetings.

Immediately, the Taoist priest looked around and introduced the whole story of the case.

From Wang Liuzhi making an oolong, to asking strange questions from the mouth of an ugly baby, and then to rounding up and leaving the demons.

Let's go through each of them in detail.

It's not complicated, the Taoist priest quickly knew it, but ......

"What's his condition?"

The Taoist priest asked Wang Liuzhi.

The unlucky bastard who lived the rest of his life under the claws of the cat demon was still curled up in the corner of the house, still unwispsed, covered with dirt mixed with mud, sweat, and blood, and under the dirt were bruises and scratches all over his body.

The wound was not deep, and it had already scabbed.

It's just that the slender scars are densely packed and crisscrossed vertically (harmoniously), which makes people's hearts chill.

A few days ago, I saw him boasting about his achievements and being high-spirited, so in a blink of an eye, he became this virtue?

But Bo Ziyu also scratched his head.

"When I found him, he looked like he was demented, and when I asked him if he didn't say anything, and there was no response to touching him, but if I wanted to take him out of the house, he would struggle desperately. I was worried that he had been planted with some kind of magic, and I didn't dare to deal with it easily. ”

Li Changan stepped forward to check, and sure enough, as he said, he was free to fiddle with it, without the slightest reaction, like a curled corpse.

And he carried him out of the house.

Really.

When he arrived at the door, Wang Liuzhi's face suddenly distorted, although he still gritted his teeth and did not squeak, he was crazy, and he struggled desperately, as if there was some abyss and hell outside the door.

But Daoist Li is not as "gentle" as his colleagues, carrying this 100-pound big man, like carrying a little chicken, forced him out of the door.

Didn't think about it.

Arrived at the yard.

His struggle stopped, and he looked straight at Qingtian, the distortion on his face calmed down little by little, his eyes gradually moistened, and the corners of his mouth gradually trembled.

Finally, with a "wow", he pounced on the Taoist priest beside him.

The Taoist priest was very shrewd, and he dodged and let him pounce.

He didn't pick anyone, as soon as he turned his head, he hugged Bo Ziyu's thigh, "Woo wow" and cried loudly, and wiped his nose on people's pants.

"Let go!

Bo Ziyu's face was blue, but this guy was like a little baby who went to kindergarten for the first time, hugging his trouser legs tightly and not letting go.

was so angry that Bo Ziyu lifted the scabbard, hit the head, and hit it several times in a row, until he slapped the guy to the ground and pouted, before he finally became honest.

......

A moment later.

Bo Ziyu wiped the snot on his trouser leg with a rag, and asked with a dark face:

"Why don't you say anything in the house?"

Wang Liuzhi wept at the corners of his eyes.

"It wouldn't let me speak, it would scratch me with one mouth, and it would be so painful that I couldn't even speak. ”

"Why don't you leave the house?"

Wang Liuzhi howled and cried.

"It won't let me go out, and as soon as I go out, I ......"

He was already swinging and couldn't cry.

Okay, that's it.

"It turned out that the female cat was used as a mouse, and she played with it. Fang Cai was muffled in the room, it couldn't be a mouse pretending to be dead, right?"

After speaking, seeing that the Taoist priest was puzzled, Bo Ziyu patted his head and explained:

"This woman has transformed into a monster with a cat's face. ”

Cat demon?

Li Changan was stunned for a moment, and said with a casual smile.

"It doesn't have a rat son. ”

Bo Ziyu was surprised, wondering how the Taoist priest knew.

"There is a son who does look like a mouse. He kicked the smirking Wang Liuzhi on the ground, "I was also arrested by this guy as a rat." ”

When these words came out, it was Li Changan's turn to be confused, and he asked tentatively:

"Orphans and widows?"

Catch a quick nod.

"Opened a noodle stall?"

Catcher nodded again.

In a short question and answer, one by one, Li Changan's eyes gradually widened.

A thought in my mind slammed left and right, as if I was about to lift the fog in one fell swoop.

Yes!

This street, this small courtyard, and this family, aren't they the pair of cats and mice that I met in Amei's dream?!

No wonder as soon as I entered this courtyard, I felt a faint familiarity.

It turns out that what happened here is in a dream!

"Dao Chief, but have you found something?" Bo Ziyu noticed the change in Li Changan's expression.

The Taoist priest was about to open his mouth, but the words froze in his throat.

Wrong.

Xiao Amei's dream was originally based on Xiaoshui City, and it is normal for this family to appear in the dream. The son looks like a mouse, so he is imagined as a rat demon by Amei, and his mother is imagined as a cat demon by the way.

Logically speaking, this matter is likely to be just a coincidence, otherwise, why is the son not a monster?

The thoughts in my thoughts fell silent.

Li Changan shook his head:

"It's okay, it's just a cranky thought. ”

Bo Ziyu didn't ask, he had always respected Li Changan, he didn't think much about it, he just sighed.

"This time, in the middle of the night, the revival of the people did not come to fruition, and the monster was left with great effort. ”

However.

"Nope. ”

Li Changan shook his head with a smile on his face.

He just followed Bo Ziyu around the circle, although his face was silent, in fact, he had found a strange thing, and now after thinking about it for a while, he has solved an important doubt.

"Quite the opposite. Brother Bo, you have made a great contribution this time!"

Bo Ziyu was inexplicable.

"But the cat demon ran away?"

If the Taoist priest has something to say, he will not sell it, and explain it at the moment.

"Even if you catch it, it's just one more demon in the Water Moon Temple. You also know that when you don't catch them, they are cunning and fickle, and when they are caught, they are like unintelligent beasts, and they can't ask anything. ”

"We're not sending it one or two monsters now, but we're trying to figure out how the monsters lurk in the city. ”

Li Changan took Bo Ziyu to the kitchen, and there were many sacks of grain piled up in the corner.

"The victims of the demon plague, whether before or after the demon change, need a lot of food, so we have been monitoring the food movement before, but we have not gained much. If the youkai have been scattered and lurking, we have reason to believe that there must be a large amount of food hidden somewhere in that Langzhong, and it will be delivered to the various monsters through some covert way. ”

As he spoke, Li Changan picked up a sack and handed it to Bo Ziyu.

"Sniff. ”

Bo Ziyu took a sniff, in addition to the smell of food, there was also a faint trace of other strange smells. So he buried his face in it, inhaled hard, and finally recognized that it was a foul smell, quite familiar, it should be smelled often in life, as if it was......

Here, Li Changan continued:

"Who can go in and out of the city every day, and what device can be used to carry food without making people suspicious?"

Seeing that Bo Ziyu's expression was gradually becoming more and more exciting, Li Changan kindly gave an answer.

"Collect the night incense, dung bucket. ”

......

An hour later.

Bo Ziyu jumped like thunder.

The demon is like fire, now that the clues have been obtained, where will there be a delay?

Bo Ziyu led the team to the house of a family surnamed Luo, who is a huge rich man in the city and controls the whole Xiaoshui manure collection industry.

But when they arrived at the ground, they found that the family had gone to the empty building, and only found a large amount of hoarded grain in the warehouse.

This undoubtedly confirms Li Changan's speculation.

It's a pity, but it's a step too slow and let the main owner run away!

"Hateful!"

Bo Ziyu drew a knife and slashed at the grain bag, and the grains were splashed everywhere.

Li Changan looked relaxed on the contrary, thinking that things had taken a turn for the better.

"Judging from the current situation, in addition to the one locked up on the mountain, there may be a head of a monster hidden in Xiaoshui City, otherwise, the reaction would not be so fast. But ......"

The Taoist priest laughed loudly.

"The flaws have already appeared, how can it be so easy to make up for them again? Brother Bo, in one fell swoop, pull out the demons, maybe from this time. ”

Bo Ziyu's expression was slightly pale and he nodded fiercely.

"Check!"

Recruit your subordinates.

"Find out every dung man and every night lady in the city and check it hard!"

At this time.

The wisteria flowers move, sending a cold wind with dampness and fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed.

The Taoist priest looked at the sky from afar.

The sun is dark, and the clouds are low.

............

It's going to rain.

Wang Liuzhi closed the door, isolating the cold wind outside the house from the bustle inside.

In the room, a large table of good wine and meat was set up, and a dozen or so men shouted loudly, bragging cowhides, talking about women and making money.

He sat down in silence and, uncharacteristically, did not join the boasting of the men.

Last night, the torture given by the cat demon shattered his greed and ambition, and at the same time, it also made him realize that he did not have the courage and ability to face the demon directly.

Escaping from the spider and the cat demon one after another is already a blessing, but this kind of luck can be repeated, how can it be repeated?

He was saved in the morning, and in the afternoon he threw money on a banquet and gathered his brothers who were with him because he had already made a decision.

So, when the brothers toasted him, thanking him for his generosity today, congratulating him on his immortality, and wishing him a victory tonight.

He cowardly said:

"I'm quitting. ”

There was a sudden silence in the banquet, and everyone looked at him in surprise, and he poured a bowl of cold wine into his belly.

"It's a loose drink today. ”

Wang Liuzhi put down the wine bowl and waited for the storm that his companion was about to deliver.

didn't wait to question, maybe because of that bowl of cold wine, my fragile stomach couldn't bear it first.

I couldn't help it, so I confessed my guilt, and hurriedly left the table and went straight to the toilet.

He left with his front foot, and the people on his back foot reacted, and there was an uproar.

"Is he crazy?"

"I think I'm scared by the monster!"

"Why don't you say you won't do it?"

Every word you say, every word I say, is full of anger and dissatisfaction.

These people, these people, have come to worship Wang Liuzhi as the leader in the past few days, listen to his orders, and run for him, aren't they just to kill monsters with Wang Liuzhi and become rich together? But these days, day and night have been reversed, and they have worked hard, but they have not even caught a single demon hair, but they have eaten a board with this guy.

Who can be willing? Who is willing!

At the table, a man with his chest bare and a tattoo was the most violent.

He slammed the bowl and got to his feet in anger.

"His surname Wang has made a fortune, and he can retreat if he wants to. But we haven't even fished up a copper, and now we will break up the gang, these days, we have been called by this guy in vain?"

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he kicked over the pottery urn next to him.

"Bang".

Broken pottery was all over the ground, and many small pills rolled out.

The man twisted one and his gaze suddenly froze.

He frowned at first, then nodded abruptly, and finally his face changed.

Followed by.

Suddenly he strode to the door, looked carefully, closed the door tightly, and then returned to the banquet and showed the pill in his hand to everyone.

"Look, what is this?"

Sharp-eyed: "Isn't this the Demon Pill?"

The man nodded, and pointed to the broken pottery urn again.

"Wang Liuzhi is hidden in the urn, I happen to find it, and I will say less about a dozen. ”

Someone picks up.

"This guy is still selling this thing?"

No one in the field thought it was strange, this was a common thing, and most of the talismans on the market flowed from the officials.

The man shook his head.

"This pill is not worth much, and it is not very profitable to resell it. I've heard that every once in a while, the yamen will distribute demon pills to prevent demon plagues. He's got a dozen or so grains here, and I suspect he's ......."

The man paused, his eyes flickering and he looked around at the audience, word by word.

"I've never eaten a single one. ”

After a long silence.

"You mean......" Someone finally understood his intentions, "Wang Liuzhi is a monster!"

These words can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, causing an uproar in the audience, but it is also too abrupt and absurd.

Someone immediately retorted:

"No way, he's killed youkai!"

The man smiled.

"Phew, we don't know what he is capable of. I've inquired about it, Zheng Tuzi killed him, and he was taken credit by this guy. ”

Someone asked again, but this time the voice was a little hesitant.

"If he's a monster, why did he take us around to kill demons?"

The man had already figured out the "truth", so he broke it down and told it eloquently:

"Let me ask you, with the skills of our brothers, which one is worse than Zheng Tuzi? That butcher can kill monsters, we can't kill them? But in the past few days, have we fished monsters?"

The man slammed the table, but his voice was very low, lest someone hear him.

"I think this guy is a spy! he said he was leading us to kill demons, but in fact, he was letting the monsters avoid us. If that spider demon really killed him, it's a bitter trick!"

Of course, these words are far-fetched, it is okay to say that there are many loopholes, and it is okay to say that they are contradictory, but they cannot stand people's ignorance and viciousness.

Everyone looked at each other for a long time, and finally someone said:

"After all, it's my own brother......"

What if I get it wrong, and this guy retaliates?

The man smiled proudly when he heard this, he knew that everyone had been moved by him.

"It's because it's our own brother that we should be more careful, if we don't worry......" he patted his tattooed chest, "let's try him." ”

......

When Wang Liuzhi was fighting with his stomach in the latrine, he could still vaguely hear the noise coming from the house.

But when he went back to the house, he never thought that the scene was unexpectedly calm, and even, there was a little strange calm.

He sat down suspiciously, but the man with the tattoo on his chest opposite suddenly got up and said:

"We admired the sixth master, so we got together. The sixth master is willing to kill the demon, let's get rich, the sixth master is not willing to kill the demon, and the brothers have no other words!"

"In the past few days, the brothers have been bothered by the sixth master. ”

As he spoke, he poured a full bowl of wine for Wang Liuzhi, and then the people around him got up and raised their glasses at the same time.

"Respect the sixth master!"

Wang Liuzhi was taken aback, he knew that his decision was not kind, and he thought that everyone was going to turn their faces with him, but he didn't think it was so reasonable.

He was embarrassed and happy, for fear that someone on the other side would change his attitude, so he hurriedly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all with his head high, not caring about the dregs and peculiar smell in the wine.

He drank happily here, but he didn't realize that from beginning to end, the dozen or so pairs of eyes had been staring at him.

When the wine bowl was put down, the banquet had already resumed the appearance of pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and he was happy.

Wang Liuzhi did not doubt him, relaxed his mood, talked and laughed and drank.

It's just that.

Suddenly.

There was a convulsion in the stomach and sea.

Damn! What kind of stuff should not be eaten? It caused a stubborn disease in the stomach, and it was so bad!

The sudden abdominal pain made him grin his teeth, and blood rushed to his head, turning the scars on his face bright red, like centipedes crawling all over his face.

He couldn't help but feel the pain, and was about to call someone to find a doctor, but there was a sudden darkness in front of him, and he looked up in surprise to find that his brothers had left the table at some point, and had surrounded him tightly.

All eyes were on him, and their gaze was dark, greedy, ecstatic.

Bang!

Thunder erupted outside the house.

The storm is coming.