Chapter 21: The Dog (2)
After the goatee's subordinates heard the order of the tanuki Daxian, their faces froze, and they only felt a flush on their cheeks, and a feeling of humiliation welled up in their hearts, and a look of resentment appeared in their eyes.
"Huh?" Seeing that his subordinates did not carry out the order in time, the tanuki Daxian couldn't help but snort coldly.
Goatee hurriedly lowered his head, immediately adjusted his mood, flashed the iron lock in his hand, and was the first to pounce on the leopard spirit, and the other three subordinates also pounced.
The tanuki Daxian did not shoot with his subordinates, but walked quickly towards the demon cultivators who were watching, and when he got closer, he swung his stick continuously, and the stick was like lightning, knocking over four or five demon cultivators in a row, it was the most ferocious demon cultivators who had just coaxed, and each demon cultivator was hit in the knee of his right leg.
The injured demon cultivator covered his knees and rolled on the ground, wailing, although this time did not directly break their knees, but it would also make them unable to walk for several days, and the demon cultivator next to them saw the gloomy face of the tanuki Daxian, and no one dared to step forward to help them up.
The tanuki immortal dragged the stick back to the field, and at this time, the leopard spirit had been taken down, and the dignified Jindan stage junior demon cultivator did not withstand a few rounds, and was quickly taken down.
The surrounding demon cultivators secretly speculated, this patrol camp is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are many masters, the strength of the Qingzhou Workshop is really not to be underestimated, and some of the small leaders are all monks in the Jindan period, no wonder they can stand for thousands of years.
At this time, the leopard spirit had been tied with a four-hoofed face to the sky with a heavy flail and a thick rope, and the soldiers of the two patrol battalions had already found a large wooden pole and walked out through the leopard spirit's hands and feet, but the leopard spirit still refused to confess his guilt, and kept struggling and scolding on the wooden pole.
"Slow~~" A slow voice came, and a turtle spirit with back armor, bald head and long eyebrows, and a long cane walked out of the shop where the accident occurred, stopped the tanuki Daxian, and said: "Tanuki, I think it's inappropriate for you to catch the leopard spirit like this?"
"Oh, who are you, what's wrong?" said the tanuki Daisen, frowning.
The turtle spirit smiled and said: "Xiao Lao'er is the shopkeeper of this shop, and this guy who had an accident is the runner in my store, and I can see the whole story clearly, so I am naturally qualified to speak."
The guys in my shop are all death row prisoners bought from the Terrans, and they all signed life and death documents before entering the store, just to live at that time, and then live or die.
Because they are not monks and are not protected by the five precepts of the demon clan, they are not only the buddies in my shop, but also the signature dish of the shop, what is it called? Oh, yes, it is called 'two-legged sheep'.
Since the leopard spirit came to my restaurant to dine, he was my guest, this guy was not attentive, the guest was anxious, and he ordered a signature dish to eat, why should he be punished?"
After hearing the turtle spirit's words, the leopard spirit was overjoyed and said: "That's it! stinky civet cat, the leopard master orders food and eats, can you manage it? Quickly release the leopard master, otherwise there will be times when you will be embarrassed!"
Because the tanuki Daxian had just punished a few demon cultivators who were making a fuss, no one dared to make a loud noise in this wave, but there was a buzzing sound, and there was a sound of dissatisfaction.
The goatee approached the tanuki fairy again and asked, "My lord, what do you think? With this old turtle as a witness, we can't convict the leopard spirit." It's better to take the leopard spirit to a secluded place and release it, which will not only save the face of our inspection camp, but will not arouse public anger. ”
The tanuki Daxian glanced at the goatee, and raised his hand impatiently to point at the turtle spirit: "Take this too." Immediately, two patrol battalion officials stepped forward, set up the turtle spirit, and went out.
Goatee stayed on the spot and asked, "My lord, on what charges are they arrested?"
The tanuki fairy didn't look back, and strode out: "Sue this turtle, the tavern used ingredients that have not been reported for quarantine, and sue the leopard spirit for misbehaving in public." The others dared to make noise and took them away. ”
Soon the onlookers dispersed, and a few Terran men with dead faces came out of the tavern where the accident occurred, quickly collected the remains of the dead compatriots, wrapped them in a white cloth, and quickly sent them to the mass grave outside Fang City for burial.
The other Terran men brought buckets of water and splashed them on the stone slabs on the ground, and quickly cleaned the blood stains from the ground with bamboo brooms and mops, and after only two quarters of an hour, the whole street was back to its former prosperity, as if nothing had happened.
It's just that there are a lot of horseflies on this section of the street, buzzing and lingering, and they can't be driven away for a long time.
Although the shopkeeper was arrested, the tavern could not be closed, and the Terran men in the tavern were all like walking corpses and trembling.
Some passing carnivorous demon cultivators couldn't help but glance at the store twice, and the particularly arrogant demon cultivators would look up and down at the guys in the store with a wicked smile on their faces to see which guy was the most robust, and a tiger spirit even drooled.
"Ah Li, is there a way we can save these people?" asked Tianhuo in a low voice.
"Tianhuo, we are too weak to really do anything. ”
Although Ah Li couldn't bear it, he still answered Tianhuo in a firm tone, and he didn't even comfort Tianhuo, because the cultivation realm is a world where the weak eat the strong, and mercy that is not self-sufficient will only cost him his life.
Tianhuo and Ah Li were already interested at this time, and they just wanted to leave the market as soon as possible and leave Qingzhoufang.
When the night was close to dusk, Ah Li returned to the Qingzhou Inn, and the store had already prepared a table of exquisite dinner for Ah Li, the dishes were different from noon, and the dishes were still rich.
Ah Li looked at this table of delicacies and felt tasteless, so he just silently put them in the bag, and then went to the bed in the bedroom to lie down.
Tianhuo hadn't said a word for half an hour since the start of the market, and no matter how Ah Li called him, he didn't respond. Ah Li couldn't return to that mysterious space by himself under the condition of being sober.
Ah Li knew that Tianhuo must be very sad and angry in his heart, but he didn't know how to comfort Tianhuo.
Ah Li just lay on his stomach, eager to return to the stone platform so that he could see with his own eyes whether Tianhuo was okay.
Soon after, Ah Li fell into a deep sleep.
"Ah Li, wake up. How did you get in?"
Ah Li suddenly found himself back on the red stone platform at some point.
Ah Li replied uncertainly: "I especially wanted to return to this stone platform, but I fell asleep and came in." ”
Tianhuo didn't delve into this matter, just looked at Ah Li calmly and said, "Ah Li, can you help me do something?"
"Skyfire, you say. ”
"I'd like to go to the same tavern during the day again and see the Terran guys. ”
"Okay, when are you going?"
"When the market is completely closed, wait for the market to close completely. Don't worry, I'm not here to save people, there is no way for us to escape from the demon race's chassis with a dozen mortals. I just want to go and see their final fate. ”
Ah Li saw a nameless throbbing from the bottom of Tianhuo's eyes, not like anger, not like sadness, not hatred, but with an emotion, rich as if it couldn't be dissolved.
Ah Li only felt a sour nose and shed tears. Ah Li hurriedly ran to press down the stone pillar and quickly returned to her body, she didn't want to see Tianhuo's sad appearance.
At that time, Ah Li did not go out from the main gate of the Qingzhou Inn, but jumped onto the back wall of the inn from the small courtyard, jumped off the back wall, and ran towards the street where the incident occurred during the day.
At this moment, Ah Li fully exerted the fox clan's talent of stealth at night, and the meat pads on the four paws gently touched the ground without making any sound.
The petite figure quickly walked through the dark shadows of the shops on both sides, not letting a trace of moonlight spill on his body.
Ah Li soon arrived at the door of the tavern, the door panel that had been knocked through and kicked during the day had been replaced with a new one, and the tavern door was closed without a sound.
Ah Li found a low wall and jumped on it, then stepped on the roof of the tavern hall and entered the backyard of the tavern, which was the back kitchen and the worker's dormitory.
Although the lights were on in the kitchen, there was a faint human voice, and Ah Li ran softly to the door, curled up in the shadows below the threshold, and eavesdropped on the conversation inside.
"Second brother, I'm afraid. Today, the old turtle was arrested, and he was released in less than an hour, and he also took away our five brothers, saying that he would make amends to the leopard spirit. A slightly immature voice rang out.
A slightly rough voice said: "Fifth brother, don't be afraid, we are already people who have died once, and every extra day we live now is earned."
This is a place to eat people, and if you don't get eaten by goblins, you will be tortured to death by the old turtle sooner or later.
I only hate that Terran cell leader for coaxing us at that time, saying that Qingzhoufang has a good reputation, and if we are willing to come here to serve ten years of hard labor, there is still a chance of survival.
As a result, when we get here, we are just food for demon cultivators, I hate it!"
"Second brother, where will those five people be taken, will they be killed and eaten?"
"I don't know, I heard the old turtle say that he took them to Lufu to help, but I'm afraid that there will be more luck and less luck!"
"Ah, Lufu, I heard that it is not restricted by the rules of the town, and you can do whatever you want. Second brother, will we not be able to escape the fate of going there in the future?"
"Alas, who can say what will happen in the future, even if you don't go there, where can you be safe in the store?
Fifth brother, don't be afraid, we can survive for a few days for the time being, there are only six of us left in the store, and the tavern will not be able to open any less, and the old turtle will not let this tavern close down. ”
"Ah Li, let's go out and take a look and see if we can find Lufu?"
Ah Li got up and jumped on the courtyard wall again, searched aimlessly in the market, and searched for almost half an hour, although there were still some shops that were open all night and were not closed, but none of them were Lufu.
Ah Li went around and returned to the vicinity of the Qingzhou Inn, and Tianhuo suddenly called: "Ah Li to the east, there is a place there that is very noisy, let's take a look." ”
Ah Li quickly sneaked into the night, and after running through two streets, there was indeed a very large mansion there, and now it was approaching, and the main entrance of the mansion was still brightly lit, and it was extremely lively.
Ah Li borrowed the light and saw that the plaque on the door of the courtyard was written with two big characters - "Lufu"!
Four beautiful banshee cultivators who scratched their heads and made gestures turned into human forms were being sent at the door, and there was still an endless stream of demon cultivators coming behind them, basically all of them were demon cultivators above the transformation period.
The vast majority of demon cultivators have turned into complete human forms, no matter what their real bodies are, they all pretend to be polite, and the demon cultivators who are familiar with each other will also greet each other and ask for warmth.
It was as if at this moment all the demon cultivators had come to a big city of the human race to participate in a high-level hall meeting, but the talented and beautiful women and young ladies were replaced by demon cultivators in the Yuan Infant Stage and the Jindan Period.
Ah Li glanced at the main entrance from a distance and knew that there was no way to get in, but as a fox cultivator, these talents for sneaking, probing, and stealing were all brought by Yousheng.
Ah Li quickly searched along the outer wall of the mansion, and the Lufu occupied an extremely large area, occupying one-twentieth of the entire Qingzhoufang City.
Soon, Ah Li found a small hole in the root of the back wall of Lufu, which allowed Ah Li to drill through.
After Ah Li infiltrated the mansion, he did not approach the mansion quickly, but spent nearly a quarter of an hour observing the terrain and calculating the frequency of the mansion patrols.
A large number of guests were concentrated in the main hall, and Ah Li did not manage to sneak into the main hall through the main entrance, but jumped onto the wing room on the north side of the Lufu and followed the courtyard wall of the house to the roof of the main hall.
Then carefully follow the glazed tiles, all the way to the roof of the main hall near the south side of the temple door, gently lift the two glazed tiles, Ah Li slid his body through the narrow slit, and reset the glazed tiles.
Ah Li lightly landed on the beams and pillars on the east side of the main hall, and then found a suitable space between the short beams and pillars and shrank into it.
The view here is good enough to see most of the hall, but it is not easy to spot, and even though the hall is brightly lit, there is still a shadow on the dead corner of the beams.
Ah Li slowly adjusted her breathing, constricted her pores, and when the frequency of her body's activities dropped to a minimum, Ah Li asked Tianhuo to recall her back to the stone platform, so that the rhythm of her body could be reduced to the point of coma again, greatly reducing the probability of being discovered.
At three o'clock, the people in the hall had basically arrived, and a total of seventeen Yuan Infant Stage and more than two hundred demon cultivators from the Transformation Period went to the banquet, sitting in the north, east, and west areas of the main hall.
The south side of the main hall leaves a relatively large space, and a huge peony flower blooms on the ground, which is made of thirty-six pieces of cashmere carpet that is one zhang square, which is particularly atmospheric and luxurious.
The location chosen by Ah Li is very good, that is, it is close to the temple gate to facilitate escape, and it can enjoy the activities of the carpet area, and at the same time avoid the sight of demon cultivators in the north, east, and south directions.
In fact, Ah Li's method of returning to the stone platform and making herself truly unconscious did not guarantee that she would be 100% immune to the detection of the Yuan Infant Master.
However, because there were too many masters in the hall, everyone did not dare to release the qi, for fear of causing dissatisfaction and misunderstanding among others, and there was a distance of ten zhang between the beams and pillars of the Lufu Hall and the ground, so no one specifically went to explore there, and Ah Li escaped by luck.
"Papapa" three applause sounded, the applause was very clear, and it was infused with spiritual power, echoing in every corner of the hall, and for a time suppressed the noisy sound in the hall.
At this time, a handsome white-robed Confucian student walked on the carpet, looking very young, only in his twenties, and he had reached the high-level cultivation of the Jindan stage.
The white-robed Confucian made a gesture in the north, east, and south directions, and then said in a slightly sharp voice:
"Fellow Daoists, you are polite, and the late life is the palm wine deer ring of this free feast.
First of all, thank you for your deignation to participate in the 10-year Lufu Getaway Banquet, and I hope that today's feast can make you return satisfied. ”
"I think most of the Taoist friends who came today are familiar faces, but there are also many Taoist friends who have been invited by friends to participate in the free banquet together, so I am allowed to introduce the origin of this banquet to everyone.
This is the ninety-ninth time that the Feast has been held. The first free banquet was held nine hundred and eighty years ago, in order to celebrate the promotion of Lu Mingweng, the first master of my deer clan, to the master of the Yuan Infant Realm.
Since then, the Getaway Banquet has been held at the same time as the 10-year auction of Qingzhoufang, but the Lufu Getaway Banquet is held on the evening before the auction of Qingzhoufang, the main purpose is to entertain old friends and meet new friends. ”
Tianhuo and Ah Li stared nervously at the canopy on the stone platform, because the angle of view had become much larger, they could even see the details of the deer ring's face very clearly.
Luhuan continued: "Lufu has prepared a lot of wonderful programs for you tonight, thrilling, fragrant and charming, and you will not repeat it in your later life. Deer Ring bowed and retreated.
The lights in the hall gradually dimmed, and a very fine pink powder blew in from outside the hall, and the fragrant wind overflowed for a while, making people smell intoxicated, and there was a feeling of fluttering fairy after smelling a few more mouthfuls, and there were a few demon cultivators who participated in the banquet for the first time, and they couldn't help but stand up and sniff the red powder in the air.