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Nan Hua originally planned to reveal their identities, but Yue Zhao stopped him. After receiving Yue Zhao's eyes, Nan Hua closed his mouth and quietly thanked the guards before entering the city.
The city was very depressed. It was morning at this time, but there were not many people on the street. Even the shops on both sides were closed. The leaves on the street were blown by the wind, giving people a feeling of depression.
"Isn't it? Does this matter have such a big impact on Canghui City? There are even no people on the street." Nanhua quickly closed the window after watching the people in the nearby shop looking at him. I think the reaction of these people is a bit too exaggerated.
"Canghui City has become like this, it can only show that the situation is more serious than the City Lord Canghui City said, otherwise Canghui City will not become like this." Yue Zhao thoughtfully observed the surrounding situation, said.
"This doesn't even have a personal image. Those people saw us and hid them, how can we investigate?" Mu Chen also saw the people peeking at them through the window, and said with some distress.
"Let's go inside first, find an inn to live in first, and then learn about the situation in Canghui City." Yue Zhao meditated for a while and said.
"It can only be so." Nan Hua nodded and sighed.
A group of people walked along the street for a long time. After walking through a street, they did not see a shop that opened. Instead, the street was blown over by a lot of paper money. They changed the street and heard a looming cry. , Looked at each other, and walked in the direction where the cry came from.
They came to the entrance of a house and looked at the size of the house. People living here should have better conditions. They should also belong to that kind of more powerful role in Canghui City. After all, the land area of this house is really not small.
The cry came from inside the house, and there were white flags and white lanterns hanging at the gate of the house, indicating that this house was indeed dead.
They glanced at each other, and Nan Hua and Mu Chen stepped forward and knocked on the door.
This street was very quiet like the previous street, and it seemed that they knocked on the door loudly. While waiting, they all heard a few messy footsteps, but no one opened the door for them.
"Knock again." The smile on Yue Zhao's face deepened slightly, and said.
Nan Hua and Mu Chen turned their heads and knocked on the door again, this time they also increased their strength, and the knocking sound became louder.
After waiting for a while, a voice came from the door.
"Who is outside?" The speaker was obviously very nervous, his voice trembling.
"When I passed by here, I heard that Canghui City was not peaceful recently, and heard crying on the street again, so I wanted to come and have a look. I wonder if we can go in and have a look?" Nan Hua raised his voice and said to the people inside.
"My masters are inconvenient to receive foreign guests, so please leave." A voice came from the door again, which sounded a little thicker than before, but he could still be heard a little nervous.
Nan Hua turned his head and looked at Yue Zhao.
Yue Zhao thought for a while and shook his head to Nanhua.
"In that case, we are bothering you, we will leave now." After shouting inside, Nan Hua and Mu Chen walked back to Yue Zhao's side.
Looking at the black door, Yue Zhao took Gu Qing and the others away.
After searching several streets, they did not find an inn that opened. In the end, they lost their patience and found a good looking inn on the last street they walked through and knocked on the door.
Like the previous house, there are obviously people in the inn, but no one opens the door.
"Second brother, what should I do?" Gu asked gently, turning his head to look at Yue Zhao.
Yue Zhao thought for a while and cleared his throat, "I know there are people inside. If we don't open the door, we will rush in. If something happens then, we won't be responsible!"
As soon as Yue Zhao's words were uttered, the sound of a chair falling to the ground and panic footsteps sounded inside.
Nan Hua raised his eyebrows and gave Yue Zhao a thumbs up. It was the first time he saw Yue Zhao threatening people!
Yue Zhao glanced at Nanhua, did not take Nanhua's ridicule seriously, and waited for the inn to open the door.
After a while, the door was carefully opened from the inside, and a person's head came out from the inside.
It was an old man, who should look like fifty or sixty years old. His hair was half white and half gray, but it was neatly arranged. The old man's cultivation should be around the third order, and the wrinkles on his face were more obvious. He looked at Gu Qing's eyes were terrified.
"Several guest officials, our shop is closed and we are not accepting guests." The old man said tremblingly, with a very careful tone, and he was ready to retract inside the door at any time, as if he was afraid that Gu Qing and the others would attack him.
Nanhua raised an eyebrow and looked at the old man, "We have walked several streets. This is the last inn we found. Today, whether you pick up guests or not, you have to receive us. I have a bad temper. If you make me unhappy. If you do, I might do something."
He turned the fan in his hand, his attitude was indifferent, and the corners of his lips were slightly bent. He looked like a noble son, but in the eyes of the old man, he was a demon at this time.
The old man shrank, and said Ai Ai Ai: "Here, the guest officer waits a moment, I'll go and ask our boss."
After he finished speaking, he directly retracted his head and closed the door.
"Senior Brother, you looked so handsome just now, you have the potential to be a bully." Gu gently moved to Nan Hua's side and gave Nan Hua a thumbs up.
"Thank you, I was not praised at all." Nan Hua drew three black lines on his forehead, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said reluctantly.
Gu gently covered his mouth and smiled before being pulled by Jun Wu to his side.
With Nanhua's threat, there was a rush of footsteps in the inn. Then, the door of the inn was opened, and a middle-aged man first looked at both sides of the street, and found that apart from Gu Qing and the others. There was no one else outside, he was a little relieved, and then he looked at Gu Qing and them.
He was taken aback by Gu Qing and their looks. Just after hearing the description from the guy, he thought it was a group of bullies. He didn't expect it to be a group of noble sons and noble ladies. Although he was still very vigilant, his attitude had obviously eased a little.
"Guest officials, I'm sorry. Recently, some things have happened in Canghui City. Everyone is shocked. For safety, we have closed the store. I hope that some of you will not be offended!" He raised a flattering smile on his face. Waiting for someone to say gently.
"It's okay, can we go in now?" Yue Zhao started and walked to the boss and asked.
"Yes, of course." The boss nodded and bowed to invite Yue Zhao to come in.
From the outside, the decoration of the inn is OK. After entering, they found that the inside was relatively new and did not look messy because of the closing of the shop. Yue Zhao and the others were also relieved. After all, they didn't want to live in such a messy place.
"Prepare seven rooms. In addition, we drove the road all night. We prepared some hot water and food for us. We will use it after we wash it." Yue Zhao threw a high-grade spirit stone to the boss and ordered as he walked.
The boss caught Yue Zhao and threw it over to the spirit stone. After discovering that it was a high-grade spirit stone, a flash of joy flashed in his eyes, and he nodded quickly, while instructing his buddies to wait for them to go to the guest room gently, and instructed others to prepare what Yue Zhao and the others wanted. .
After Gu Qing and the others washed up, the food was ready. They did not dine in the lobby, but in Yuezhao's room.
Mu Chen checked all the meals first, and then everyone ate things about Canghui City.
"The current situation in Canghui City is far from what the City Lord said. If only 20 people died, Canghui City would not die like this. It is already noon and no one is active on the street. It means that everyone was frightened by this incident. The funeral home we passed by may be one of the victims. Let's go to inquire about it in the evening." Yue Zhao thought, and said to others.
"I just asked the guy at the inn. He said that forty or fifty people have died in Canghui City. The one with the highest cultivation base has a Tier 8 cultivation base. That person is a resident of Canghui City and his home is in Canghui City. Huicheng, according to his family, he was killed at home. He died very unexpectedly. They didn't hear any movement. When they found out, he was already dead and his heart was taken away." When it comes to dealing with people, Nanhua is best at it. In just a few moments of effort, he has already gotten a lot of things out of the guy's mouth.
"If you say this, our previous judgment is problematic. If you can quietly kill an eighth-level master, the opponent is either good at poisoning or has a cultivation base above the ninth level, so it seems a bit tricky." Gu Qingqing With a frown, he took the cup that Jun Wu handed over and analyzed.
"Is it only the eighth-tier cultivator whose heart was dug out?" Jun Wu looked at Gu gently drinking the Linglu from his cup, then turned his head and asked Nan Hua.
"Every person who was killed was dug out of an internal organ of the body, some were the heart, some were the liver, and some were the lungs." Nan Hua obviously inquired more comprehensively, although some depressed Jun Wu even spoke this time, he still answered. His problem.
"What does the murderer want the internal organs of these people?" Yun Ran asked inexplicably, biting a piece of meat.
"It's not clear. Some evil cultivation methods require human internal organs, and some sacrifices require internal organs, but they are generally animal internal organs. In short, it is not a good thing to do." Yue Zhao put down the teacup and said.
"The City Lord of Canghui City must know more about the situation here than we do. So many people have already died here. Why did she write 20 people to the Baihu Holy Land letter?" Mu Chen swallowed the food in his mouth and proposed. Own problem.
Hearing this, Yue Zhao and the others frowned.
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"This situation will happen, either because the information we got was written by City Lord Canghui in the early days, or City Lord Canghui deliberately concealed it." Yue Zhao's eyes flashed, and the smile on the corner of his lips looked very gentle. Said lightly.
"Did you think about it before, so when I was at the gate of the city, I didn't let me tell the guards about our identity?" Nan Hua asked with a flash of inspiration looking at Yue Zhao.
Hearing that, other people also looked at Yue Zhao, wanting to know if Yue Zhao really thought of it in advance.
"Not really, I just want to be cautious and don't want to expose our things in the city prematurely. We need to investigate the situation. It's best to search in secret first, and then go to the City Lord of Canghui to ask, so that we can find it better. The truth of the matter." Yue Zhao wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief and said gracefully.
Even though he said so, Gu Qing and the others once again saw Yue Zhao's power.
"Before, we saw black gas above Canghui City outside the city, which proves that this place is likely to be evil repair or demon repair, and recently, the demon way has been restless, maybe this time things will still be there. As for the relationship, everyone should be careful." Yue Zhao's gaze slipped from everyone, and he said earnestly.
"I know, I'll be careful." Nan Hua fanned the fan and said with a smile.
Gu Qing and they both nodded, remembering Yue Zhao's instructions in their hearts.
"When everyone has finished eating, we will spread out and walk through Canghui City. First figure out the topography of Canghui City, so that no matter what happens later, we can find a way out." Yue Zhao stood up and ordered. .
Gu Qing and the others naturally had no objection, and acted separately according to Yue Zhao's instructions.
Yue Zhao, Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu together, Nan Hua and Mu Chen together, Gu Qing Qing and Jun Wu together, divided into three groups of actions.
When the owner of the inn saw them going out, he advised them not to go out, but they were ignored by Gu Qing, so he could only shook his head, feeling that they were newborn calves and were not afraid of tigers, so he went back to the inn. The door of the inn was closed.
Gu Qing and Jun had no choice in the Xicheng District of Canghui City. Most of the people living here were civilians. The houses here were crowded and the environment was not particularly good. They walked while observing the surroundings.
There are no people on the street except them. They can only hear their own footsteps. Other than that, some people will peek at them through the windows. After they look over, they hide themselves again. Don't let them find out.
"Do you feel something is wrong?" Gu gently looked around, frowned and asked Jun Wu beside him.
"You mean the feeling that someone is watching us?" Jun Wu instantly understood what Gu Qing meant, and asked.
"Yes, I felt it just now, that kind of sight is very uncomfortable." Gu Qing didn't notice anything wrong around her, her brows tightened, and she said to Jun Wu.
Jun Wu's face was also not very good-looking. Like Gu Qing, he also felt the feeling of peeking. For them, it could be said that it was unbearable, but they couldn't find any traces.
The two explored along the street, and the line of sight followed them, full of malice and evil, which made people very uncomfortable.
They couldn't help speeding up their pace. When passing by a house with white lanterns, they hesitated and stopped.
This family is not like others. The door is closed. Although the door is also closed, it is only lightly covered and can be pushed open with a light push, and there is a faint crying inside.
Gu Qing and Jun Wu looked at each other, Jun Wu walked in front, gently opened the door, and walked in.
After entering, there is a small courtyard. From the door, you can see the situation inside. The hall in the middle is obviously a mourning hall.
They walked inside and saw a tablet and a coffin. The two looked at each other and walked inside.
A woman in linen was kneeling in front of the spirit, and the cry just came from her mouth.
Neither Gu Qing nor Jun Wu concealed their tracks. The woman quickly spotted them and turned her head to look at them.
The woman's age is about seventeen or eighteen. She was pale because of sadness and crying, and her eyes were a little swollen. However, the woman's appearance was unexpectedly pretty, especially when she was crying with pear blossoms and rain. Very distressing.
But to Gu Qing and Jun Wu, they didn't feel that way.
Gu Qing was only a little surprised at the woman's face, but Jun Wu just glanced at it and then looked away. In his eyes, apart from Gu Qing and his mother, other women are not worthy of him to look at. .
"Who are you? Why did you come to our house?" The woman was a little surprised when she saw the two of Gu Qing. She was surprised by the appearance of the two, and then thought that they were strangers, so she shrank into one. Tuan looked at the two men alertly.
However, her gaze was more on Jun Wu's body, constantly looking at Jun Wu's.
Gu Qing noticed the woman's gaze, and didn't know why, she was a little bored, she kept Jun Wu behind her without a trace, and spoke softly.
"Sorry, the two of us didn't break in intentionally. It's just that we just passed by the door and heard someone crying, and the door was not closed, so we came in and took a look." She looked very polite and acted just right. Did not approach the woman, kept a safe distance, "I wonder who is yours in the coffin?"
"It's my father who died," the woman mentioned her father, and the tears that had just stopped fell again. "Sorry, there is a funeral at home, and there is no way to entertain both of you. Please leave them."
"I heard that many people died in Canghui City recently. Is your father's death related to this incident?" Since Gu Qing came in, she wouldn't leave because of the woman's words, she took the opportunity to ask.
The woman's face changed, "Who are you? My father has passed away. I don't want to entertain you now, please leave!"
Gu Qing didn't expect the woman's reaction to be so big, she didn't seem to want others to know the cause of her father's death, which surprised both Gu Qing and Jun Wu.
"Since we broke here by mistake, it is considered a kind of fate, can we give your dad a stick of incense?" Gu Qing thought for a while, and didn't mention the matter again.
The woman hesitated for a while, glanced at Jun Wu, and finally made a difficult decision, "You hurry up and leave, don't stay here anymore."
Gu Qing and Jun Wu looked at each other. They walked to the spiritual position together. One took three incense sticks and put them in the incense burner after being lit. The coffin was behind the incense burner. Gu Qing took the opportunity to look inside the coffin and let her compare To my surprise, the inside of the coffin turned out to be empty!
She was about to turn her head to talk to Jun Wu when she saw the woman behind her suddenly drew out a sword and pierced Jun Wu's back.
"Be careful!" She shouted immediately, and ran towards Jun Wu at the same time.
Jun Wu felt something wrong before Gu gently shouted, and the silver machete instantly appeared in his hand. He turned around and directly blocked the sword in the woman's hand.
The appearance of the woman at this time is different from what she was just now, her face is still pale, she does not even look like a living person's face, her eyes are very sluggish, she has no figure at all. If you look closely, her movements will also have points. Stiff, but the moves are very vicious, like having a deep hatred with Jun Wu.
"This is a puppet, you should be careful." Gu gently reminded Jun Wu to say a word, and also pulled out the immortal silk and attacked the woman.
Jun Wu was also quite accomplished in refining equipment, and he could see the identity of the woman at a glance. Although he was surprised, he did not panic, and he handled it very well.
The woman's cultivation base is not high, probably only around the eighth level, and even Jun Wu can't beat him alone. What's more, Jun Wu and Gu Qing both joined forces, but after ten rounds, Gu Qing was confused by the immortal. Pierced the heart.
Her body instantly turned into a paper man. After Gu gently pulled out the mixed immortal silk, it suddenly caught fire, and then was instantly burned to ashes. When the wind blew, her face disappeared from the sword.
Gu Qing and Jun Wu had cold faces, did not retract each other's weapons, but looked around.
"We were deceived, and the formation was set up here!" Following Nanhua all the year round, Gu Qing was also quite proficient in the formation, and soon discovered something was wrong.
The moment she spoke, the illusion they were in had changed, from the yard just now to a white space.
The two were back to back, looking around vigilantly.
There was a sound of breaking through the air, and then, countless arrows flew out from the white fog in all directions and shot at the two people. The two hurriedly waved their weapons to block the arrows.
But there were too many arrows. They kept blocking them, and they kept flying out. There was a feeling that they could not be controlled at all. Gu gently waved the mixed fairy, while taking out a stack of charms from the storage bracelet Li. Paper, took the time to look for it, took out one of them, input spiritual power, Fu Zhuan was immediately activated, and then, a golden mask appeared in front of the two of them, covering the two of them.
Those arrows hit the mask, the mask shook, and the arrows fell to the ground.
"How long can this mask last?" Jun Wu didn't particularly understand the effect of Rong Ye's talisman seal, turned his head and asked Gu Qingqing.
"Under normal circumstances, there is no problem persisting for one hour." Gu Qing thought for a while and replied.
Hearing that, Jun Wu nodded and sat down directly on the ground, watching those arrows keep shooting over, looking around, trying to figure out how to break the formation, Gu Qing, just like him, also sat down. When he came down, he was still back to back, using his eyes to search for the weakness of the formation.
After about a quarter of an hour, it may have been discovered that the arrows had caused infinite harm to Gu Qing and Jun Wu. Those arrows suddenly disappeared. Even the arrows that fell on the ground before disappeared. Only Gu Qing was left. He Jun is not in the mask.
Jun Wu raised his eyebrows and looked at the outside of the mask for a long time. He didn't believe that the opponent would stop attacking them so easily.
"Crack! Click!"
There was a rubbing sound. Then, a group of soldiers in armor walked out of the white mist. When they first emerged from the white mist, their movements were quite stiff. When they came out of the white mist, their movements were already complete. As flexible as normal people.
Like Arrow, they surrounded Gu Qing and Jun Wu from all directions.
Gu Qing and Jun Wu from the ground stood up, the two clenched the weapons in their hands and looked at the armored soldiers outside the light shield.
Some of the soldiers held spears in their hands, some with large swords, and others with swords. When they came to the light shield, they directly took the weapons in their hands and slashed on the light shield.
Their attack was much stronger than the previous arrows, but after a while, cracks appeared on the mask, the cracks grew bigger and bigger, and finally the mask shattered, and Gu Qing and Jun Wu faced the armored soldiers.
Gu gently held the Immortal Aya in one hand and danced flexibly. With the other hand, he continuously pulled out the talisman seal from the talisman seal and threw it at the armored soldier.
After throwing out a dozen talisman seals, she found that the lightning talisman had the most damage to these armored soldiers.
"Jun Wu, you help me block it." She yelled at Jun Wu, then lowered her head directly, and started looking for the Explosive Lightning Talisman in the storage space.
Rong Ye would give Gu Qing a lot of symbols every time, and most of the best symbols he drew were in Gu Qing's place. There were a lot of symbols in Gu Qing's storage space. She looked for it for a while before she found it. A bunch of thunder symbols exploded.
"You get out of the way." She held the Thunder Talisman and shouted at Jun Wu.
Jun Wu didn't even ask, so he stepped away from Gu Qing.
Gu gently looked at the soldiers who turned on them, the talisman in her hand floated in the air under her control, and then flew to an armored soldier.
"Slap! Slap! Slap!"
One after another, the sound of falling to the ground sounded, and the armored soldiers fell to the ground one after another under the effect of Gu Qing's thunder-explosive talisman, convulsing, and then gradually calmed down.
But for a moment, all the armored soldiers disappeared. Gu Qing and Jun Wu did not relax, but continued to wait for the next attack, while looking for the position of the enemy.
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Nanhua and Mu Chen searched for the Nancheng District of Canghui City. There are many chambers of commerce stationed here. Although Canghui City is not large, due to its special geographical location, there are many chambers of commerce stationed here. Those big chambers of commerce with names mentioned above all have a place here.
At this time, it was as quiet as the streets they had passed through before, as if there was no one here.
However, both Nanhua and Mu Chen knew that there were actually people living here. When they first came in, they found a lot of people peeking at them.
When they reached the middle of the street, Nan Hua suddenly stopped, a sneer appeared on his face, looked around, and said loudly.
"Who is nearby, what's the point of hiding? If you have the ability to come out and let's fight, this kind of peeping is so disgusting!" Nan Hua actually felt that he was being watched by something when he entered here from the beginning. The look made him very uncomfortable, but he didn't notice anything wrong, and finally couldn't bear it at this time, and shouted out.
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The street was quiet, but the sense of peeping that followed him did not disappear. Nan Hua's eyebrows were clamped tightly, and he became more and more impatient.
Just when he was about to speak again, a black shadow covered the tops of his and Mu Chen's heads, and when they raised their heads, they saw hundreds of black feather crows of the seventh-order monster beasts with flapping wings and black all-over body.
Black feather crows are not big, twice the size of ordinary crows, but their mouths, claws and feathers are very sharp, and their mouths and claws are also very poisonous. If they are bitten, they are easily poisoned and have a toxic attack. soon.
It is a monster that most monks don't like very much!
"Why is there a black feather crow here?" Mu Chen recognized the black feather crow in the sky at a glance, frowning and asked.
"Shouldn't the Black Feather Crow be in the Dark Swamp? How could it appear here?" Nan Hua was also surprised when he saw the Black Feather Crow, and his brows became tighter.
The two looked at each other and were a little surprised, but the most important thing at this time was to solve these black feather crows first, because they flew towards them both in surprise.
"Their paws and mouths are very poisonous, so it's best not to let them get close." Mu Chen took out the Red Flame Spear and reminded Nan Hua at the same time.
Nan Hua nodded, the Liuli Shuanghua fan became bigger in his hand, and he slammed it against the black crows that rushed over. A hurricane appeared in front of him, and the black crows that rushed forward were swept away by the hurricane. Go in and take away.
The Chiyan Spear turned around in Mu Chen's hand, and he swept across, and a wall of fire appeared in front of him. The black feather crow flying towards him was directly covered with flames, and suddenly wailed. , It is a pity that Mu Chen was as cold as iron, unmoved at all, and even moved the red flame spear again, turning the wall of fire into a sea of fire, causing more black feather crows to be burned by the flames.
With only one face, the black feather crow was solved by Nanhua and Mu Chen by about one-sixth. This behavior seemed to irritate the remaining black feather crows. One of the many black feather crows was flying with red feathers on its forehead. , The Black Feather Crow, who was also larger than the ordinary Black Feather Crow, suddenly made a scream, and the remaining Black Feather Crow attacked the two again.
That black feather crow is the leader of this group of black feather crows, or their king, responsible for the management of these black feather crows.
Nan Hua and Mu Chen obviously also found it, they exchanged a glance, and their actions changed.
Mu Chen attracted the attention of the black feather crows on the ground, making those black feather crows attack him, while Nan Hua flew up and came into the air, the Liuli Frost Flower fan turned into the shape of a sword, and he swung fiercely. With a sword, the wings of a dozen black feather crows were injured immediately, and they fell to the ground from the air, and the flames made by Mu Chen were burning on the ground. The feathers of those black feather crows were directly ignited and were instantly swallowed by the flames.
Nanhua didn't stop, but approached the black feather crows and swept once again. A dozen black feather crows were stabbed with sword qi on their wings, fell from the air, and then were wrapped in flames and turned into a fireball.
In a few moments, the black feather crow group was reduced by one-fifth, and the black feather crow king apparently discovered this. Its gaze fell on Nan Hua's body, and it flew out of the black feather crow group through other Under the cover of the Black Feather Crow, it flew towards Nanhua as fast as lightning.
Nanhua's initial goal was the Black Feather Crow King. Yu Guang has been paying attention to the Black Feather Crow King's dynamics. After discovering the Black Feather Crow King flying out of the team, he was on guard. A talisman appeared in his In his hand, at the moment Black Feather Crow King approached him, he activated Fu Zhuan, and then a transparent wall appeared in front of him. Black Feather Crow King wanted to bite Nan Hua's neck directly, but hit the transparent wall. .
Because it was too fast, it was slammed into Venus. Although it was only a moment, it was enough for Nanhua to attack.
Nanhua quickly wielded more than a dozen sword auras, and directly locked the Black Feather Crow King in it. The cyan sword aura cut on the Black Feather Crow King's body. A lot of its feathers fell off and many wounds appeared on the body. His claw was chopped off by sword energy, and part of the tip of his mouth was also chopped off. Its black eyes instantly turned red, looking very evil, flapping its injured wings and attacking Nanhua.
Nanhua easily dodges its attack, and then pierced its body with a sword. The red blood slid from the tip of the sword drop by drop, and the red eyes of the Black Feather Crow King turned back to black. Lost his breath.
With a light shake, the black feather crow king's body was thrown out by Nanhua. At this time, there were already many black feather crow corpses on the ground that had been burned to mummy, and the remaining number was less than a quarter of the previous amount. one.
The black feather crows saw that the black feather crow king was killed and immediately screamed. Several black feather crows took the lead to stop attacking and flew to the sky. Then, the remaining black feather crows followed and flew to the sky. After a while, those black feather crows became a black spot in the sky.
Nanhua fell on the ground, and looked at each other with Mu Chen, and glanced at the black feather crows that had been burned to death on the ground. The two felt it, and the feeling of being peeped really disappeared, indicating that it was exactly what was peeping at them just now. These black crows.
"The water in Canghui City is getting more and more muddy. Even Black Feather Crow, a monster beast that shouldn't appear in the city, has appeared. The people behind it are really big-handed." The sword in Nanhua's hand has changed back. Liuli Shuanghua fan, he shook the fan, reverting to the image of a handsome young man, shook his head, his mouth was complicated, but his eyes had a hint of interest.
"Isn't this more interesting?" Mu Chen put away the Chi Yan gun and looked at Nan Hua, with the corners of his lips slightly curled up. With his pale face, there was a smell of sickness that made people shiver.
The two followed the street and then went inside.
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Yue Zhao took Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu to Dongcheng District. Those who can live here are big families in Canghui City. Most of them are courtyards. The streets here are better than those where they passed by. The road must be good.
Affected by these recent events, the doors of every house here are closed tightly, and even the people guarding the door have withdrawn. The whole street is very quiet, unlike other places where people will secretly look out through the windows. .
Walking on the street, it feels like walking in an empty place.
Yue Zhao noticed that there were white lanterns hung at the door of several of the houses. Apparently, almost all of them had died recently, but they weren't like before, crying could be heard, and everything was very quiet.
"How can I say here is also the place where the more powerful family in Canghui City lives, why is it so quiet?" Yun Ran looked around and couldn't help asking.
"They know more than ordinary people. It is not easy for a ninth-order cultivator to appear in these families in this city. Now that even the eighth-order cultivators have been killed, how could they be possible? Aren't you afraid?" Zhuo Tingqiu obviously thought a little bit more than Yun Ran, and directly analyzed.
Yun Ran thought for a while, and felt that Canghui City was not a big city. There were definitely not many cultivators of Tier Nine, and now the murderer was obviously an existence beyond Tier Eight, so they naturally had to be careful.
"But in this case, how do we inquire about the news? No one is even personally." Yun Ran felt a little annoyed, how would they inquire about the news without anyone?
Zhuo Tingqiu also thought of this, thought about it, and looked at Yue Zhao.
"Let's see if we can find anything first. We just came here, and we can't move too much." Seeing Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu both look at him, Yue Zhao thought about it and said.
Originally, he was planning to find someone to knock on the door and ask questions, but he didn't think it was very good. They only came on the first day. If they exposed themselves directly, it might be more troublesome later, so they should look for them first, and then discuss them later. .
Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu also felt reasonable. The three of them walked through the streets of this area and found that there were a total of ten households with white lanterns hanging in the doorways, indicating that these people have died recently. I have all the locations in my mind, and I plan to wait until the evening to check the situation.
Nothing else was found, the three of them could only return to the inn.
When they went back, the other two teams had not come back. They waited at the inn for two quarters of an hour before Mu Chen and Nanhua came back from outside, and then after another quarter of an hour, Gu Qing and Jun Wu also returned. , At this time the sky has darkened, and it will be dark soon.
Asked the boss to prepare a table of dishes. They shared the news they discovered while dining in Yuezhao's room just like at noon.
"Jun Wu and I entered a formation. The person who set up the formation is obviously good at the formation. It took us a while to break the formation. In addition, in Xicheng District, we found that the doors of more than 20 households were hanging. With the white lanterns, the doors of these people's houses are closed tightly. It is not easy for us to break in directly. We just remember the location, and there is nothing else." Gu Qing said about her and Jun Wu's investigation. Taking the Linglu that Jun Wu handed over, took a sip, and then looked at Nanhua.
"After we went to the Nancheng District, we felt a malicious peeping. Then we encountered a group of black feather crows and killed the black feather crow king and most of the black feather crows. The remaining black feather crows flew away, I don't know. Wherever I flew, I also encountered the formation, but it was useless to me. It broke the formation soon. There were also a dozen chambers of commerce in Nancheng who hung up white lanterns. Obviously, people were also dead. The location has been noted. "Nan Hua followed Gu Qing's words, and talked about the results of their investigation.
"Dongcheng District is the residences of the major families in Canghui City. We didn't encounter anything over there. We only found that ten families had white lanterns hanging. I also noted the location." Yue Zhao also took them here. Said the results a bit.
"If I remember correctly, shouldn't the black feather crow appear in the dark swamp? How can the black feather crow appear here?"
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Gu Qingming was already very curious when she was speaking in Nanhua, and when Yue Zhao finished speaking, she asked hurriedly.
"We were very surprised when we met, but those black feather crows do exist, and the corpses are still being thrown in that street." Nan Hua swallowed the vegetables in his mouth and said.
"Things are getting more and more complicated. This is the first day we came to Canghui City, and we discovered so many things that are wrong. This task is far from as simple as the city lord of Canghui described." Yue Zhao The corners of the lips curled up slightly, and his eyes flickered.
"I am becoming more and more curious about what kind of person the City Lord of Canghui City is. What is the purpose of the letter he sent to Baihu Holy Land for help?" Gu Qing said with interest.
The reaction of other people was similar to that of Gu Qing. They were all aroused by this incident, and they became more and more curious about the identity of the person behind the scenes. Now they are not completing the task to deal with the competition, but their inner thought To know the truth behind this.
After dinner, the sky was completely dark, and the entire Canghui City was quieter. If Gu Qing and the others could overlook the entire city, they would find that except for the rooms of a few of them, the entire Canghui City was dark, even the city. The same is true of the main palace.
The night is dark and the wind is high, which is a good time to do bad things.
Gu Qing and the others did not go out after nightfall, but waited until midnight, when most of them were already asleep.
As in the daytime, they still act separately.
Gu Qing and Jun Wu went to Xicheng District to investigate the situation of the families of those who died.
The two quickly shuttled through the city of Canghui. In order to cooperate with the action, they both changed into black night clothes and covered their faces.
I don't know that it's because of the weather or other reasons. Even the moon doesn't exist at night. If they hadn't had their eyesight at night, and their memory was good, the two might not be able to find the homes of those who died.
Soon, they arrived at the door of the first house they found.
The two looked at each other, and at the same time they crossed the wall and entered. The dead man's coffin was placed in the yard. After they entered, they saw it at a glance. Beside the coffin, there was a half-sized child guarding him, and he was dizzy. Sleeping, Jun Wu came behind the person, knocked him out with a hand knife, carefully put it away, and then came to the coffin with Gu Qing.
Gu gently stretched out his hand and pushed it, and found that the coffin board was just covered on it, and it was not nailed down. She and Jun Wu lifted the board together and put it aside gently, then looked inside the coffin.
Because it was too dark, even if they could see the corpse at night, they couldn't see clearly when the corpse was in the coffin. The two of them thought about it, and Gu lightly sealed their hands and quickly placed an enchantment around them and the coffin. Others can't see their situation in the enchantment.
Jun Wu took out a Ye Mingzhu, just to see the situation inside the coffin clearly.
"Depending on the situation, this person should be an earlier victim. He has been dead for about seven days, and his body has been slightly decomposed. He had his heart removed, and his cultivation base should be at Tier 6 before he died." Although the enchantment was there again, Jun Wu's voice was not loud, and he roughly said his own judgment.
Gu nodded lightly, agreeing to Jun Wu's judgment, "As the guy at the inn said before, apart from the heart being removed, there were no other wounds and no poisoning, as if he died in an instant."
The two looked at each other, their expressions a bit solemn.
After the investigation of the corpse was completed, the two of them did not delay. After withdrawing from the shop, they covered the coffin board and went to the next house.
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Nanhua and Mu Chen went to the Nancheng District that they had explored during the day. When they got there, they first went to the place where Black Feather Crow was killed before to take a look. The body of Black Feather Crow was still there, and the two went to what they found. A chamber of commerce of dead people.
At this time, there was still silence in the Chamber of Commerce, but some breathing sounds could still be heard, and it was obvious that everyone in the Chamber of Commerce was sleeping.
The people in the Chamber of Commerce are not like those civilians. Their cultivation level is not bad, and they have a lot of money. Since the accident in the city, they have opened the formations in their yards. Of course, the formations they set up are not too powerful. , But at least it can have a warning effect.
Nanhua discovered the existence of the formation during the day. This formation was very rough in his eyes. He could just think of a dozen ways to break the formation at will, but they are not here to crack the formation. Instead, he wanted to go in to investigate the situation, so he took Mu Chen into the yard along with the footwork required by the formation, and found the room where the coffin was placed.
After cautiously entering, the two found that the coffin turned out to be open. Looking at each other, Nanhua set up a barrier to isolate it from the outside world, took out an illuminated lamp, and looked inside the coffin.
"This person should have only been dead for a day or two. Except for the wound on his stomach, there were no wounds at all, and he was not poisoned. He didn't seem to have struggled before he died, and his cultivation level should be around the seventh rank." Mu Chen glanced around and said.
"It was his liver that was taken away, and it should be taken after death," Nan Hua added, "The question is, how did he die? No wounds, no poisoning? Can't even be a half-step immortal. Come on?"
Mu Chen looked at Nan Hua, then at the corpse, and shrugged, indicating that he didn't know.
The two checked again and found nothing else, so they could only retract the enchantment, leave quietly, and go to the next house.
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Yue Zhao, Yun Ran, and Zhuo Tingqiu went to investigate separately. Each one had one family. The first one they found was the one that Yue Zhao entered. The yard of this house is very large, just like those of the merchants. This There are also formations in the yard, and there is more than one. After all, there are many people in these families, and it is not surprising that there are those who are proficient in formations.
Fortunately, Yue Zhao and the others are learning everything. Even if they are not as proficient in the formation method as Nanhua, they know a lot. The people who set up the formation method are obviously not particularly clever. At least they can find the way to enter the formation method at the level of Yue Zhao. Ways not to disturb others.
It took him a quarter of an hour to find the room where the coffin was parked.
After entering the room cautiously, he immediately placed an enchantment to isolate the room from the outside, so that the outsiders would not know what happened in the room.
When he turned around, he was surprised to find that there were two coffins in this room, and the temperature in the room was very low. It seemed that the family had placed a lot of ice basins to protect the corpse from decay. Keep a relatively low temperature inside.
He first walked to the coffin on the left and saw a young woman lying inside, who looked like seventeen or eighteen years old. Because the body was wearing clothes and the wound on it was not visible, he thought about it and turned to the side. Of the coffin.
In the other coffin lies the body of a middle-aged man. The man is about forty years old. It looks a bit similar to the woman just now. The two should be related by blood. He looked at the man. After finding the wound, he found that the man had his kidney taken away. His eyes flickered, and he looked at it carefully, and found no traces of poisoning. There were no other wounds and he had to give up.
He did not remove the enchantment, and left the yard to find the side that Yun Ran was investigating, and then asked Yun Ran to help him look at the woman's body.
The woman's heart was taken away, and like the man, there were no other wounds and no poisoning.
After investigating all the houses here, Yue Zhao thought for a while, and took Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu into the city lord's mansion in Canghui City.
As the most powerful organization in Canghui City, the City Lord's Mansion is also very tightly guarded. It not only opened the defense and early warning formation, but also the guards took turns patrolling. This was Yue Zhao's first team to operate at night.
Avoiding formations and patrols, they sneaked into the largest and most luxurious courtyard in the City Lord's Mansion. According to the usual practice, this should be the courtyard where the City Lord lived.
When they first entered the yard, Yue Zhao's footsteps suddenly stopped and stopped Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu. In their puzzled eyes, they put their index finger on their mouth and made a silence. Gesture.
He twisted his eyebrows and looked to the side. He found nothing. He lowered his head and thought about it, but he still didn't move.
He felt a malicious gaze looking at them all the time, and intuitively told him that if he moved again, something unexpected might happen.
But they can't really stop here, so they can be easily spotted.
After thinking for a while, he suddenly thought of what Nanhua said in the afternoon. He looked around again, and finally his eyes fell on a tree by the wall where a black feather crow was living there.
The black feather crow is black and hard to find in the dark, but Nanhua mentioned it in the afternoon, so Yue Zhao paid special attention to the second search. He still saw the little white white eyes of the black feather crow. , It is not easy.
Seeing Black Feather Crow, he knew that the malicious gaze just came from Black Feather Crow, and his brows were frowned.
He thought for a while, stepped back, and the malicious gaze immediately disappeared. He knew that the Black Feather Crow should be staring at it to prevent people from breaking into this yard.
However, this is the courtyard where the city lord lives, but Black Feather Crow is guarding this courtyard. No matter how you look at it, the relationship between the two is abnormal.
This also made Yue Zhao firmer in his determination to explore this yard!
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He thought for a while, took out two concealment charms from Qiankun Ring, handed them to Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu each, motioned them to use the concealment charms on themselves, and then took one for himself and input spiritual power. After patted on himself, the three figures gradually disappeared.
The black feather crow on the branch tilted his head, and a trace of doubt flashed through his eyes, as if he didn't quite understand why the person who was still there just disappeared suddenly.
Because the person was gone, Kuroba no longer stared at that place, but closed his eyes and prepared to rest.
Feeling that the malicious snooping disappeared, Yue Zhao made a gesture to Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu, and the three of them walked gently into the yard.
There was darkness in the city lord's courtyard, and suddenly there was light in a room. Although it was not obvious, it still attracted Yue Zhao and the others' attention, and the three of them immediately walked towards that room.
Through the window, Yuezhao saw a person wrapped in a black cloak holding a lamp. A place behind him, like a bookshelf, was slowly closing. Obviously, this was a secret room!
Moreover, Yue Zhao's nose moved, and he smelled a faint **** smell in the air, which gradually disappeared as the bookshelves closed.
His expression was a bit solemn, and he vaguely felt that this secret room might be related to these strange events in Canghui City this time.
The man in the cloak seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly blew out the candle, and the room plunged into darkness again.
Yue Zhao gestured to Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu to stop moving.
The three of them stayed quietly, the effect of the hidden charms on them had not disappeared. Even if the cloaked people came out of it at this time, as long as they did not touch them, they would not find their existence.
"squeak!"
There was a slight opening of the door, and the Yue Zhao trio immediately became nervous and looked at the doorway.
Sure enough, the man in the cloak walked out carefully from the inside. He looked around and found that there was nothing. As if not quite convinced, he walked aside again. Almost, he was about to get to Zhuo Tingqiu.
Fortunately, there was some slight movement in the room at this time, which attracted the attention of the cloaked man. He hesitated for a moment and returned to the room unwillingly.
The three of Yue Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. Although they wanted to explore more, they were found out. They didn't stay there, but left carefully.
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Senior Brother Yue, the man in the cloak just now?" Yun Ran looked at Yue Zhao and asked with some uncertainty.
"Go back and talk about it." Yue Zhao looked around and shook his head towards Yun Ran.
Yun Ran and Zhuo Tingqiu understood in seconds, nodded immediately, and the three quickly left.
After a while, a black feather crow appeared in the place where the three of them were staying. It curiously sniffed on the spot, but did not smell anything, flapping its wings and flew back to the city lord's mansion.
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Gu Qing and Jun Wu were the first to return to the inn, followed by Nan Hua and Mu Chen, and Yue Zhao and the three were the last to return.
Several people gathered in Yue Zhao's room as before. Nan Hua took out a formation and enveloped the entire room, ensuring that no matter what happened inside, it would not be noticeable outside, and then he looked at Yue Zhao and the others.
"The harvest we went to Xicheng District was not very good. The general situation is the same as what we heard before. Except for the wounds that were cut to remove internal organs, there were no other wounds on the dead, and there was no sign of poisoning. There was nothing wrong with anything else. Yes." Gu gently took out a piece of pastry from the storage bracelet, and after speaking, put the pastry into his mouth and started eating.
"Our side is the same as them. There are no other wounds, less internal organs, no poisoning, and the death of the deceased is instantaneous, and there is no trace of struggle." Mu Chen is better at this, let him Talk about their findings.
Yue Zhao nodded and began to talk about their group's discoveries.
"The condition of the deceased is the same as you found, but we went to the city lord's mansion at night. I found the black feather crow in the lord's mansion, and I also found a man in a cloak in the city lord's study. There is obviously a secret room, and I also smelled a hint of blood. I guess there may be any clues there, and from what I found, the city lord may have been controlled." Yue Zhao briefly described what they found. .
Hearing this, Gu Qing and the others were a little surprised.
"It's no wonder that the distress letter from the city lord to the White Tiger Holy Land is not right with the information here. If the city lord is controlled, it will be easy to explain." Gu Qing murmured thinking of the task profile in the jade slip.
Nan Hua nodded, and said thoughtfully, "If the city lord is controlled, then our mission this time will be a little troublesome."
"It's not that there are elders following us, do you want to tell the elders?" Yun Ran looked at Yue Zhao, then looked at Gu Qing and the others, and asked.
"No, the elders will stare at us. When we can't solve them, he will naturally appear." Mu Chen licked his mouth with a wicked expression, "And, isn't it more interesting?"
This is the first time Yun Ran has seen Mu Chen like this. I don't know why, but he feels that Mu Chen is very dangerous at this time.
Yuezhao and Nanhua looked at each other, and at the same time showed a smile that only they could understand.
"Okay, the exploration time is over, everyone should have a good rest, and protect yourself at night." Yue Zhao stood up, neatly organized her clothes, and said to the others.
Gu Qing and the others nodded, and after Nanhua lifted the formation, they returned to their respective rooms to rest.
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The first night in Canghui City passed quickly. When the sun rose, Gu Qing and the others also got up one after another, came out of the room, and came to the lobby of the inn.
The recent events have made people in Canghui city panic. Everyone is afraid that they will be the next victim. Even at night, they are afraid of fear. Few people have a good rest, so they are really resting. The most At least the owner and the guys of the inn were trembling all night, afraid of accidents.
When everyone came to the lobby, the innkeeper yawned and got up from the counter. He was very envious when he saw Gu Qing and their bright looks.
He also noticed that although these young people living in their inn looked young, they seemed to have good cultivation skills.
I don't know why, feeling that these people are there, he has some sense of security inexplicably, and because of this, the innkeeper has a lot of enthusiasm for Gu Qing and their attitude.
After the innkeeper delivered breakfast to Yuezhao's room, they laid a barrier in the room as usual, and then they discussed today's actions while having breakfast.
"After breakfast, I will take Nanhua and Mu Chen to the City Lord's Mansion, and you will go to Dongcheng District to take a look." Yue Zhao swallowed the porridge and said to Gu Qing and the others.
"Go directly to the City Lord's Mansion? Will this be a horror?" Gu Qing asked curiously and somewhat worriedly.
"What we have to do now is to fight the grass and startle the snakes. At present, we still have too few clues. Only when they move can we find more flaws. And we are still in the competition. The time to complete the task should also be included in the results , So I don't have much time." Yue Zhao patiently explained to Gu Qing gently, of course, it was also explained to others.
"The person behind the scenes has not stopped killing people, which means that what he wants to do has not been successful, and he will send a letter of help to the White Tiger Holy Land, which means that the other party wants us to come here. We have to before they succeed. Just end this matter, or it's not good for us!" Jun Wu said slowly when he watched Gu Qing eat the food he had picked up.
"Yes, we just want to hit him off guard." Yue Zhao looked at Jun Wu's eyes with a glimmer of appreciation.
Both of them said so, and the others were not stupid. They naturally understood what they meant and nodded immediately.
After eating, they split into two operations.
Yue Zhao, Nan Hua, and Mu Chen went to the City Lord's Mansion together. It was still a long way from the inn where they lived, but the speed of the three was not slow, and they soon reached the gate of the City Lord's Mansion.
There were guards at the gate of the city lord's mansion during the day. When he saw the three of them, he immediately stepped forward and blocked the way of the three of them.
"Who is coming? This is the city lord's mansion, don't rush!" the guard on the left shouted sharply.
Yue Zhao and the others did not speak immediately, but frowned and looked at the two guards in front of them. They found that both of them had a black mark on their eyebrows, which gave people a not-so-good feeling.
"Who are you? Come here by name." Seeing Yuezhao, the guard on the right asked impatiently, and even had the urge to do it.
"Two of us, we are disciples from the White Tiger Holy Land. The Holy Lord received the distress letter from the city lord, let us investigate this matter." Nan Hua stepped forward, with a faint smile on his face, said quickly.
The two obviously knew the White Tiger Holy Land, and a hint of surprise flashed through their eyes at the same time. They looked at each other and looked at Yue Zhao and their eyes were a little surprised.
"What can you do to prove your identity?" The guard on the left was obviously more experienced. He didn't believe Yue Zhao and the others because of what they said, but asked questioningly.
"This is the distress letter we received and the reply given by the Holy Land. You can show it to the city lord." Yue Zhao's eyes flashed, took out the jade slip and a letter, and handed it to the guard on the left.
"You are waiting here, I'll go in and ask the city lord." The guard on the left gestured to the guard on the right, and then took what Yuezhao had handed over. He and Yuezhao urged them to walk quickly into the city lord's mansion. go.
The remaining guards retracted their weapons and looked at Yue Zhao and the others. It was obvious that they wanted them to wait in place.
Yue Zhao and the others stood in place with a good temper, waiting for the guards who had left to return.