"What is this," Chu Mingyun squinted slightly, looking at the candle flames in the guest room, "is it haunted, ... or is someone pretending to be a ghost?"
Su Shiyu shook his head, "I haven't heard anyone walking around tonight. These rooms have probably always been empty like this. If it wasn't for the quiet moment just now, I wouldn't have noticed it."
"So, none of the guests who sat downstairs before were in the hotel?"
Su Shiyu frowned slightly and looked at him, "Judging from the words of the shopkeeper of this inn today, he doesn't want us to stay longer."
"It's not up to him." Chu Mingyun sneered, then turned his head slightly, held Su Shiyu's hand, and raised his eyebrows, "Shiyu, are you afraid?"
"If you're afraid, you can say it directly." Su Shiyu chuckled softly.
Chu Mingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with the corners of his lips hooked, "How about calling me husband when you're afraid?"
Su Shiyu glanced at him with a smile, and dragged him to the innermost guest room, "Brother Chu, you should be more careful."
There was an inexplicable smell of rot in this room. Su Shiyu stroked the table with his fingers, and saw that the fingertips were stained with a thin layer of ash, he couldn't help frowning slightly, "Even if people don't live often, they should be called frequently in the inn. Li, how could there be such a thick layer of dust?"
"That's why it's really strange." Chu Mingyun said casually, "I said that I was reluctant to leave Shouchun, but I didn't see any signs of doing business well."
There was a light noise from the lights, and it suddenly dimmed, and the sound of the night wind blowing through the hall downstairs was clearly heard.
Chu Mingyun was still leaning against the wall and looked around, seeing Su Shiyu staring at one place in the dim light and shadows, he looked at him and smiled, "Are you afraid?"
"Over there." Su Shiyu walked to the wardrobe in the corner, the candle light gradually stabilized, the room was lit again, and there were some dark traces in the narrow wall gap behind the carved wooden cabinet.
Chu Mingyun frowned slightly, pulled Su Shiyu to the side with one hand, and moved the large cabinet a few feet away with the other. The bottom of the cabinet and the ground made a dull sound, and the whole picture of the wall was revealed without any cover. Large dark traces spread all over the wall like splashing ink, and the smell of rot was mixed with the smell of dust. People gag.
When the smell dissipated a little, Su Shiyu rubbed his fingertips on it, and after smelling it carefully, his face changed slightly, and he looked up at Chu Mingyun, "It's human blood."
"You can really bear it." Chu Mingyun pulled his hand to wipe it, and then turned to look at it, "It can splash to this height and spurt so much blood, it is only possible that it was cut in half by someone with one knife. body."
Su Shiyu frowned, pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go to another room and see."
There was no blood stains in the next room. They looked around. At the end, Chu Mingyun suddenly stopped by the door, leaned in and looked carefully for a moment, then reached out and touched it, "This door has been newly painted."
As soon as Su Shiyu took out the sword in his sleeve, Chu Mingyun took it. He scratched a few times on the door, the vermilion paint peeled off, and it really showed a dark color underneath, and the smell was strong and pungent. After scraping a few layers of wood chips, it was still the same. In this way, a door was almost soaked with blood.
From then on, it was more or less the same. The mottled blood color was covered under the embroidered blanket and splashed on the head of the bed. The stale bloody smell gradually became heavier, like a pale green mist that enveloped the inn.
When they finally returned to the room where they were staying, they noticed that the paint on the walls was obviously newer than the surrounding area.
Chu Mingyun took Su Shiyu into his arms from behind, "Okay, no need to confirm." The voice smiled, "Do you still want to sleep in the face of the blood on the wall?"
Su Shiyu slowly retracted the sword into his sleeve, "Can you still sleep?"
"As long as I hold you, I can fall asleep." Chu Mingyun hugged him tightly, and lowered his head to smell the warm soothing aroma.
Su Shiyu sighed lightly, "This is not something that the black shop can explain..."
"It's a massacre." Chu Mingyun said.
The night wind blew the window lattices creaking from nowhere, and the faint reverberations echoed in the emptiness, low and thin like a lonely soul weeping. It was as if he could see the situation at that time, how the corpses were all over the floor, the blood was overflowing, and it was so deadly silent, which was more than shocking.
"But the streets and lanes outside are still intact, and it doesn't look like it was caused by the war." Su Shiyu paused, "I'm afraid the problem is the entire Shouchun City."
Chu Mingyun pondered for a while and said, "Shiyu, go somewhere with me."
The stars are sparse, and Shouchun City in the rich night is extremely quiet. There is not a single pedestrian on the road, only the sound of beating more people coming from afar.
A mansion is located next to the burnt and collapsed house. The red door is rusted and the plaque is dusty. It is also a deserted look.
"This is the residence of the Prime Minister of Shouchun County?" Su Shiyu easily entered with Chu Mingyun, and with the faint moonlight, he saw the little moss growing on the stone steps under his feet, "I saw him come to see him off when I left Huainan last time, and he died in a blink of an eye. Party turmoil, but within a few months, even the residence has become like this."
"Unfortunately." Chu Mingyun laughed and looked back at him, "What I know is that an official fled with his family and rushed to Chang'an to report something, but was chased and killed all the way, and finally the youngest daughter fled to Chang'an desperately. In the suburbs, I bumped into Qin Zhao and Du Yue, but they still didn't survive."
Su Shiyu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at him, "Then according to what you said, is the news that Han Zhongwen reported to the court inaccurate, or is it a lie?"
"I don't know about that," Chu Mingyun said with a half-smile, "I only know that no matter what, this Shouchun County Chancellor must have died cleanly."
"Didn't you find out who was chasing them?" Su Shiyu asked.
Chu Mingyun shook his head, "I didn't expect this to be involved at the time, and Du Yue only cared about saving people, but Qin Zhao didn't catch up and let the other party run away." He pushed open a door, and fine dust rustled After falling, he lit the candle on the table, and then he could see the bronze mirror makeup, the hairpin full of hairpins, and a woman's clothes hanging on the inner wall.
"..." Chu Mingyun turned to look at Su Shiyu, and smiled without changing his face, "I haven't been here before, so I don't know the way."
"...Then you should have said it earlier." Su Shiyu looked back slightly embarrassedly, helpless, "I roughly remember the location of the study." He turned around and walked out.
Chu Mingyun was about to step up to keep up, but Yu Guang suddenly saw a few pieces of tissue paper pressed under the makeup, and walked over in a single step.
I can recognize that this was originally a document, but for some reason it was torn to shreds, and the owner of the boudoir picked it up again, and it was patched together, only vaguely can see the words 'accumulation of abuses' and 'enjoyment and great wealth'. word.
Chu Mingyun lifted the other pieces that had not been put together, and when his eyes touched the vermilion seal that was torn apart, his eyes suddenly froze, and his expression was gloomy.
The seal is a beast, with a four-legged python head and a single horn on the forehead.
Even if it is not complete, Chu Mingyun can recognize it at a glance, this is the appearance of the copper rune beast he snatched from Boss Mu in the Bliss Building.
From Chang'an to Huainan, after traveling for thousands of miles, the ghost has not yet dispersed, still disturbing the situation, and refuses to give up.
The candlelight flickered, and Chu Mingyun, who was thinking, suddenly heard Su Shiyu's voice in the courtyard:
"Watch out!"
He raised his eyes and saw the black shadows flashing outside the window reflected in the bronze mirror.
The next moment, countless men in black broke through the window, seemed to pour out endlessly from all around, and waved their knives to surround them.
Between the electric light and flint, Chu Mingyun's sword has been unsheathed, and before the clear and sharp whistling sound falls, he turns around and slashes horizontally, and the cold blade pulls a long and narrow blood-colored arc around his body.
The person in front fell to his knees in pain, clutching his chest and abdomen, and the rear immediately followed. The knives of the two men in black crossed each other and slashed at the head. Chu Mingyun rose into the air, tapped the tip of the knives with his toes, and turned around to retreat, kicking them straight to the opposite edge of the knife. Before he could land, another person slashed head-on from bottom to top, swiftly and powerfully. Chu Mingyun's sword was inserted into the shoulder blade of the sneak attacker behind him, and before he had time to pull it out, he turned to the side lightly in an instant, and the opponent's sword almost rubbed against his sleeve and fell into the air.
But at the moment of passing by, he suddenly heard the sound of a ring on his sleeve.
Chu Mingyun's expression changed suddenly, and he took a few steps away, and took advantage of the short gap of distance to look at the things in his sleeves. Add a few more.
Chu Mingyun breathed a sigh of relief.
The jade pendant that Su Shiyu gave him has been broken at the touch since the fall, so even though he always carried it close to him, he never let Su Shiyu see it. In fact, even if he is seen, the person who has always been gentle will naturally not blame him at all, but he is just reluctant to make him feel sad.
Inexplicably, he suddenly ignored the people in black who came up and turned his head to look outside.
Only then did he see that the court was also occupied by countless men in black. Su Shiyu stood in the encirclement and looked around, Chu Mingyun couldn't see his expression in the dark, only to see that his arms were still hanging by his side. action means.
Chu Mingyun's heart trembled.
As if seeing that he had no power to fight back, the man in black picked up his sword and dashed forward. In an instant, Su Shiyu's figure was completely covered by the intertwined black shadows and white blades.
The cumulus clouds covered the sky, and it was dark and unclear. A strong wind suddenly blew up, causing the door to close with a slam, isolating the last splash of blood in the room, and a pool of scarlet pierced straight into Chu Mingyun's eyes.
"Su Shiyu!"