The entire Chenji Palace suddenly fell into chaos. It was difficult for the demon servants to continue the work at hand. Instead, they turned their attention to Ghost Slave No. 4 who returned to Chenji Palace with Ouyang Xiaoleng and Xia Qiu. The guards were completely on alert, ready to subdue the monster on the spot. Ghost Slave No. 4 himself didn't mind their reaction. He looked back at the pair of eyes that were staring at it with a smug look on his face, making a face or shaking his fist from time to time.
When they were about to enter the Assistant Star Palace, they met Ouyang Hongye who rushed over after hearing the news. Although a demon servant had just rushed to inform him of such an uninvited guest in the palace, they were still disappointed when they actually saw Ghost Slave No. 4. He was so surprised that he frowned and asked, "Why did you bring it in?"
"It's called No. 4. It used to be the ghost slave of Rakshasa Mother. It just led us to find the entrance to the secret passage hidden in the back mountain outside Chenji Palace. Now it's following us to collect the reward." Ouyang Xiaoleng He took a step in the direction of Ouyang Hongye, and then whispered to him, "Find a place to place it first!"
"Why is it different from what you said at the beginning?! Don't think that I can't hear you whispering!" Although Ghost Slave No. 4 had long expected that Ouyang Xiaoleng would not fulfill his promise so easily, he still behaved quite Angry.
"Come with me!" Ouyang Hongye narrowed his eyes and smiled, and said to Ghost Slave No. 4. His smile seemed to have the ability to easily resolve the anger of others.
Ghost Slave No. 4 followed Ouyang Hongye to the other courtyard where the demon servants lived behind the Fuxing Palace, and ordered a demon servant to lead it to bathe and change clothes. Ghost Slave No. 4 can no longer remember the last time he took a bath. If he had to go back, it must have been more than ten years ago.
After entering the bathroom, it couldn't help but sigh that this was indeed the Chenji Palace, and even the slaves could bathe in such a good place. The demon servant who was responsible for guiding him pointed to the pool that was already filled with hot water, and then backed out. It didn't take much to think that he was unwilling to let this dirty guy use their bathroom.
After taking a shower, Ghost Slave No. 4 not only felt refreshed, but his mood was not as bad as before. It decided to settle down as soon as it came, and live in Chenji Palace first. After all, it was safer here than outside. Although it lacked some freedom, it could only blame itself for not thinking of a way to escape at the beginning. If it wavered a little, He fell into the trap of the demon king fox boy.
The demon servant gave it some clothes while it was bathing. Although it was old, it was clean and tidy. After it changed its clothes, the demon servant brought it to Ouyang Hongye. Ouyang Hongye looked it up and down, nodded and said, "It feels much better now!"
"You must be keeping me here in the hope that I can provide more information, right?" Ghost Slave No. 4 asked directly.
"You are indeed different from other ghost slaves. Yes, as long as you are willing to help us, not only your safety can be guaranteed, but also the matter of the gold mentioned earlier can be discussed." Ouyang Hongye also kept beating around the bush.
"If that's the case, I guess I can't refuse. Are you considered a steward in this palace?" Ghost Slave No. 4 became concerned again.
"I am Ouyang Hongye, the red-haired Demon Fox Marquis who is in charge of all matters in the palace."
"This will be easy. Bring me roasted chicken and good wine every day, and then I can think of what I can do to help you!"
"Okay, it's a deal!"
"Don't say anything is finalized. The little one just now..." Ghost Slave No. 4 wanted to call Ouyang Xiaoleng a little boy, but he swallowed it back and changed his words, "The demon king fox boy just now also promised that as long as he finds the secret... He just gave me the gold, but in the end he went back on his word?!"
"Then what do you want?" Ouyang Hongye was not angry at the ghost slave's offense and still asked calmly.
"Give me the gold first and let me see some real benefits. I promise not to leave. Anyway, I know in my heart that I can't escape your hands."
"Okay!" After Ouyang Hongye promised it, he called a demon servant to go to the palace treasury to get a small bag of gold and gave it to it.
After Ghost Slave No. 4 got the heavy bag of gold, he immediately burst into laughter and danced for a while before calming down. It was arranged to live in another courtyard because no demon servant wanted to live with it. , so I had to give it a separate room, which was just what it wanted.
Ouyang Xiaoleng has been thinking about the signature pen he picked up in the secret passage. Was it accidentally left there by Ran Tianyou? Or maybe he did it on purpose. After he returned to Ouyang's ancient house with Xia Qiu, he took the pen out of his pocket and held it in his hand for a closer look.
Although on the surface it looked like an ordinary pen, he still subconsciously turned it open. In addition to the refill, a white paper roll was exposed in the middle of the pen barrel. He took out the paper and unfolded it carefully. What appeared on the paper seemed to be a map of somewhere. However, the map covered a small area and had no reference objects or text labels, so it was difficult to see what it was. place.
"You can show it to Dong Muya and the others!" Xia Qiu suggested from the side.
"Yeah!" Ouyang Xiaoleng said and walked towards the underground database with Xia Qiu.
On this day, Min Endong had to stay at home because his uncle had returned from other places, so only Dong Muya was in the underground database. She continued to study the diary left by Ran Tianyou and the information given by Dong Fan, but after a day of research, there was no substantial gain. In addition to making her feel tired, she was even more discouraged.
At this time, the appearance of Ouyang Xiaoleng and Xia Qiu made her eyes light up. She put the folder in her hand on the table and said with a lazy smile: "What did you gain?"
"We successfully caught the ghost slave named No. 4 and found a secret passage with its help." Ouyang Xiaoleng responded to her.
"Oh, it's great! I can only use four words to describe it. I got nothing!" Dong Muya sighed deeply, and it was not difficult to see how depressed she felt.
"Come and take a look at this!" Ouyang Xiaoleng said and handed the piece of paper taken out of the pen holder to Dong Muya.
Dong Muya took it, held the glasses frame and looked at it for a while, got up and took it to the scanner next to him, quickly scanned it into his computer, and said, "I can use the software designed by Min Endong to Compare this map with the maps of various places in the demon world, let’s start from the royal city first!”
After she finished speaking, she typed wildly on the keyboard a few times, and finally hit the Enter key. A detailed map of Yongchuan, the capital city of the demon world, appeared on the computer screen. The program began to quickly scan the picture just scanned in and each item in the map. place for comparison.
"How long will it take?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked, he was very curious about this new procedure.
"It's hard to say, it will probably take a few hours!" Dong Muya's entire attention has been transferred to the picture in his hand. She blinked suddenly, as if she had a new plan. After clearing away the messy information on the table, she found a small flashlight that could illuminate words written with invisible potion, and used it to shine on the piece of paper. . The word "ran" suddenly appeared in the lower right corner of the paper, and she exclaimed, "Sure enough!"
"It seems that it was really left by Ran Tianyou!" Ouyang Xiaoleng looked at the word "ran" and said.
"Should we contact Ran Mingzhu? Tell her about the information we have here." Xia Qiu thought that Ran Mingzhu must be waiting anxiously, so she said.
"Okay, do you have a way to contact her?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked.
"Well, we left each other's numbers. I'll give her a call now." Xia Qiu took out her mobile phone and looked up Ran Mingzhu's number in the address book and said.
"When did you get to the point of being so intimate as exchanging numbers?" Ouyang Xiaoleng couldn't imagine that they would have similar opportunities in their previous brief contact.
"Yeah, when..." Xia Qiu couldn't give an answer.
However, Mingzhu is also using her own methods to find information about her father. Her first thought is to find information dealers on the Internet and conduct transactions. After browsing countless websites, she entered a forum by accident. There were some weird posts in the forum. Just after she registered a username, someone started sending her private messages.
The other party's name was Lan Zhou, and he asked her straight to the point if she needed to find an intelligence dealer, which solved her urgent need. After she responded in the affirmative, Lan Zhou quickly asked what information she wanted to investigate.
She explained her needs clearly, and Lan Zhou asked her to wait for a while. When he found clues, he would contact her and pay her the money and deliver the goods. Before she could ask Lan Zhou how to actively contact her, the page was suddenly closed. After entering the same address again, no matter how many times she tried, she could never enter the same page again.
Because the other party did not charge the fee directly, but waited until clues were found before paying, she felt that it was unlikely that the other party was a liar, but how should she explain this ghost-like forum? Just as she was thinking about it, her cell phone suddenly rang. The ringtone was the theme song of one of her favorite cartoons. It had a strong rhythm and the lead singer's voice was very high-pitched, which shocked her.
She glanced at the phone screen and saw that the name displayed was Xia Qiu, which made her excited. She thought that it was possible that she and Ouyang Xiaoleng had new clues about her father Ran Tianyou, so she quickly picked up the phone. After Xia Qiu told her some of the information she already had, her first reaction was to ask: "Do you think it is more and more likely that my father will enter the demon world after leaving Yujin Apartment? And I always I think he is still alive, what do you think?"
Xia Qiu could not give her a definite answer, but could only comfort her and said: "In any case, the investigation is proceeding in an orderly manner, and we have gained something in such a short period of time, so we will definitely be able to reveal all the answers in the near future. "
"Yeah, I'm glad to hear that..." Ran Mingzhu's eyes were filled with tears. She originally wanted to tell them about that strange forum, but in the end she said, "See you at school on Monday!"
Xia Qiu hung up the phone and said to Ouyang Xiaoleng, "I'm going to apply for a day off tomorrow."
"What?" Ouyang Xiaoleng turned his gaze from Dong Muya's computer screen to her and asked.
"I thought I was going to the station to take my dad back to Beijing in the evening, so I wanted to talk to him more during the day." Xia Qiu answered with a smile.
"What time is the train? Let me see him off too!" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked with a hint of shyness on his face.