“Hahaha—” Yun Yao burst into laughter, her laughter was like a hibiscus flower suddenly blooming. She looked at him charmingly and patted his chest, “Wait here obediently.” Yun Yao narrowed her fox eyes and emitted a warning light, “Don’t run around!”
Yuchi Jingbei stiffened his body and nodded: "Yes!"
"Puchi." Yun Yao couldn't help laughing again. She stuffed the reins of her horse into Yuchi Jingbei's hand and walked towards a fried skewers stall not far ahead.
Yuchi Jingbei was obediently leading the two horses and standing there, looking at Yun Yao. He felt a happiness in his heart that he couldn't explain. It was as if he was just looking at Yun Yao and being with Yun Yao. Even if he was just leading her horses and serving as a horse post here, he would be willing to do so.
He was only focused on looking at Yun Yao with a silly smile, but he didn't notice that the people who looked like beggars in the corners on both sides of the wall all raised their heads, and in the darkness, they stared at Yuchi Jingbei and Yun Yao with their needle-like eyes.
Yun Yao glanced to both sides, raised her face without any concern, and strode proudly to the stall.
The stall was not big, with a flag hanging on it with the word "Xiao" on it.
Inside the stall was a fat man with only a small braid on his bald head.
When he saw Yun Yao coming over, his face tensed and the smile on his face became a little stiff. His two small eyes revealed a complex expression of nervousness and joy, as if he was happy that Yun Yao came, but also afraid that she would come.
"Hey! What wind brings the beautiful Yun Yao here?" The fat man quickly put down everything in his hands, rubbed his hands with a smile, then picked up the fried skewers and threw them into the pot quickly, looking at Yun Yao attentively, "Give me two skewers."
"Pa!" Yun Yao slapped the table and raised her eyebrows: "Stop talking nonsense! Let me ask you, during the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival last year, did you guys from below come up to hunt?" Yun Yao's eyes widened, staring at the fat man in front of her.
The fat man's face tensed up, and he quickly added a few more skewers to Yun Yao: "Miss Yun Yao, since..." The fat man looked around and lowered his voice, "Three hundred years ago, the people below signed an agreement with the Nine Gates and no longer came up to hunt. You Nine Gates also know where the goods came from these years. Aren't they all death row prisoners picked up from all over the place?"
"Bullshit!" Yun Yao reached out and grabbed the fat man's ears. "Do you really think we don't know? Let me ask you, did you catch a little girl named Yanhui on the Mid-Autumn Festival last year?!"
"No! Really not!" The fat man waved his hands repeatedly.
"You're not going to tell the truth, are you?" Yun Yao grabbed the fat man's ear and dragged him into the frying pan that was squeaking.
Yuchi Jingbei, who was standing far away, saw this and suddenly felt his heart tighten. He was shocked by Yun Yao's fierce appearance. He didn't expect that Yun Yao's seemingly cute body actually hid such a rough and strong woman. However, this roughness convinced Yuchi Jingbei and made Yuchi Jingbei admire her. It was precisely because of this roughness that Yun Yao was so different!
Suddenly, the people squatting on the roadside stood up one by one. Yuchi Jingbei noticed it and immediately grasped the hilt of the sword inserted in the saddle, looking around cautiously. When he saw those people, he was stunned.
I saw those people standing up one by one from the darkness, getting taller and taller. Their long figures were much taller than Yuchi Jingbei, and were not at all as tall as ordinary people!
"Really not—" The fat man screamed and waved his hands to let those who stood up go back, "Ms. Yunyao, we are not fools. Who would go to such a lively place like the Lantern Festival to arrest people? Isn't this just to lure you here?! But you should know that the most sinister thing in this world is definitely people! It's people—"
Yun Yao was stunned and let go of the fat man's ear.
Yuchi Jingbei also felt a little confused as he listened. This fat man spoke strangely. Why did he say that the most sinister people in the world are humans? Isn't he a human
The fat man quickly moved away from his own frying pan, and was so scared that oil came out of his face.
Yun Yao raised her finger and pointed it at the fat man's face: "What do you mean?!"
"We really didn't catch any girls at the Lantern Festival, but we did hear that someone would kill a girl on the 15th of every month!" The fat man covered his mouth all of a sudden. He actually said this out loud. It was like someone patted him hard on the back, making him say what he didn't want to say.
Only when there are rules between the upper and lower levels can there be peace. The rule is that if the lower level does not do anything out of line, the upper level will not care. The lower level should not meddle in the trivial matters of the upper level.
Therefore, the fat man didn't want to say it.
But now, the fat man said it out, and he felt a little regretful after he finished speaking, because this matter was also spread by everyone, and it was difficult to tell whether it was true or not. No one knew who saw it and who knew about it. This matter was like gossip, spreading among the people.
And they won't care about the above things, so no one will check the truth of this rumor to confirm whether someone really kills people on the 15th of every month.
"What?!" Yun Yao's eyes widened in surprise. "Killing one on the 15th of every month, wouldn't that mean there are eleven this year? How come the government doesn't know?" Eleven girls have died, the Eight Gates must know about it. But for a whole year, there was no movement at all. A serial murder case like this would definitely make a sensation in the whole capital.
If the Eight Gates didn't know, it meant the case hadn't been solved. It was even more likely that Fu Mingrui had no idea that someone was slaughtering girls in the capital.
Usually when the Eight Gates investigate a case, they will first find out where the body was found, and then they will start to investigate. Or the case will be handed over to the Eight Gates by the prefect of the capital.
Fu Mingrui didn't check, which meant that no one had found the bodies of the girls yet. And since no bodies were found, the girls were considered missing.
The missing persons were not reported by the Eight Gates, but by the Beijing government first. It must be the Beijing government's negligence that failed to discover the connection and strangeness in the disappearance of these girls!
"Is the news reliable?" Yun Yao asked.
The fat man also had a look of regret on his face, but since he had already said it, he could only pour out everything he knew: "I really don't know. It's just rumors that there seems to be a group of idiots above..."
"Fool?" Why did Yun Yao sound less and less reliable the more he listened
The fat man waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no, it's not that real fool, it's because they believed in some evil god, so we laughed at them for being fools. They said they killed those girls as sacrifices, every fifteenth day, they would kill one, it's like they were addicted. Hiss..." As the fat man spoke, he felt a chill down his spine, thinking of the countless brothers and sisters who had died tragically at the hands of humans and were served on the table as dishes.
In their eyes, humans are the real devil. As long as they are told that there are a lot of benefits, humans will eat anything. Even if they are from the same race, they will not hesitate! (To be continued)