This is the gathering of the three parties, but it just so happens that the three of them are tired of each other. Yining and Dongjun also hated each other and greeted each other directly at the foot of Xitu City.
"Who am I supposed to be, it was the famous Yining sage in the east. Why did he ask his father to be transferred here in the blink of an eye?" How's it going? If I know it's you next time, I won't come."
"Although my strength is weak, I am willing to do my best to help the great cause come to fruition early. I am no better than someone who is idle and makes trouble for nothing." Yining didn't look at him, and said, "Sorrows are everywhere in all directions, and Dongjun's enjoyment in wine is very special. Walk alone, very chic."
"That's natural." Dongjun said coolly, "It's not my race, its heart will be different. I was originally a demon, and seeing people die, I naturally want to be happy and drink."
The two of them didn't have an intersection at first, but Dongjun was always criticized for his original appearance. He was also a provocateur, often drinking and having fun, and ignoring personnel affairs, so he was regarded by Yining as the number one candidate who likes leisure and dislikes labor, and has repeatedly attacked each other.
Yining didn't want to fight with him, but turned around and found that Jing Lin, who was still there just now, was gone.
"There's no need to look for it." Dong Jun said, "It is his responsibility to count the bodies."
Jinglin and Cang Ji walked side by side. At this time, the sun was rising, and the city that was dark last night was exposed to sunlight.
Jing Lin said: "Fortunately, I got my brother's suggestion last night to save the whole city."
"I'm just pushing the boat with the current, the key lies in you." Cang Ji stepped over the corpse and said, "How to deal with the corpse in this city?"
When Jinglin looked around, they were all dead. Some accumulate in piles, and when soaked in water, they rot and stink. He said: "Burn it. The evil spirit of the devil remains, and it will cause disease if it accumulates for a long time."
"Most of the maggots have already grown discolored, and it is not easy to count them." Cang Ji's face was pale, and he seemed not used to such scenes.
Jing Lin handed the handkerchief over, and Cang Ji covered his mouth and nose. He wasn't actually afraid, but because his sense of smell was too acute, he couldn't use it as usual here. The texture of this cotton pad is ordinary, but because it has been with Jinglin for too long, it has a cool and refreshing taste, which is also the taste of Jinglin. Cang Ji's little finger was slightly bent, he pressed the handkerchief and coughed in a low voice.
Jing Lin didn't notice the difference, only said: "It's really not easy, it's time-consuming and labor-intensive."
Cang Ji touched something in the pad between his fingers, he didn't move, and said, "Then let's start from here, there are many children."
The two of them squatted down, and Jing Lin turned the child who was lying on the ground over. The child has been soaked in the water for a long time, and his face has changed beyond recognition, but the exposed hands and feet are thin, as if made of dead wood. Jing Lin thought he was bitten to death by a demon, but who knew that there were no signs of bite on his body.
"Why can't there be any blood?" Cang Ji said, pushing away Zhi'er's head, exposing his neck, "It turned out to be cleaned by someone."
A round mouth was opened between the neck of the corpse, and the wound was red and wrinkled, as if it had been scalded by fire.
"It wasn't bitten to death." Jing Lin and Cang Ji looked at each other, his heart suddenly sank, and he was inexplicably uneasy. He pulled up all the clothes on Zhi'er's hands and feet, and saw that the inside of the body's wrists and ankles were all cut out, and there was no blood left.
"There are no blood-eating monsters in the south." Cang Ji looked at the wound and said, "Seeing this wound, it looks like a mouth pulled out by a very thin blade. You have traveled all over Zhongdu, who do you know who would use such a knife? "
"Unheard of." Jing Lin said, "A thin blade is no match for a sharp edge, and it is difficult to win if you meet on a narrow road, unless the person holding a thin blade has an extraordinary cultivation base, can combine hardness and softness, and operate freely."
"I do know one." Cang Ji said, "There is a bird in the north called the multicolored bird. When it feathers its blade, it can be as thin as a cicada's wing, and it is sharp and unobstructed. It's just that the bird's feathers are overwhelming. Never."
Jing Lin took a step back and found a few more bodies along the way. Strangely, all adult corpses have bite marks, but no bite marks are found on children.
"Even the demons don't eat." Jing Lin was blown by the unprovoked wind, and he said, "Could it be that people did it."
"Even if ordinary people have such good skills, they don't have such a deterrent power." Cang Ji let go of his handkerchief and said, "Besides, there is one thing I haven't quite understood since last night."
"What's the matter?"
"I heard that the disciples dispatched from Jiutianmen are all masters with stable cultivation bases and small achievements." Cang Ji squatted in front of Jinglin, his eyes were dark and deep, "Five hundred people guard the three cities in seven towns, no matter how critical it is The situation can be maintained for a few days, how can the entire army be wiped out.”
Jing Lin looked at him for a moment and said, "You seem to know Jiutianmen very well."
"It's natural." Cang Ji said with a little regret, "I once wanted to report to Jiutianmen, but unfortunately I wasn't talented enough and was rejected. Besides, now Jiutianmen acts as the leader of all parties, and every move attracts attention. , Are those who want to know about it afraid of nowhere to ask?"
Jing Lin heard this, but had other ideas. He felt that Cang Ji's words seemed to imply a reminder, telling him to calm down, and it seemed that this was just Cang Ji's unintentional remarks, because his expression was too magnanimous, making Jing Lin ashamed of temptation.
Jing Lin looked away: "There are many doubts about this matter, and you have to ask Hui An."
Hui Ann's eyes were covered with gauze, and she sat on the edge of the bed cautiously. He didn't hear Jinglin's voice for a long time, he couldn't help but secretly hesitated, and called "Your Majesty".
Jinglin sat leaning against the window, Cang Ji did not follow, because he was an "ordinary businessman", it was inconvenient to participate too much in the affairs of Jiutianmen, so he found an excuse to escape early.
Jing Lin had a lot of thoughts in his heart, but his mouth was still cold, and he only asked him: "You can tell me everything you have seen and heard in the past few days."
"That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high. In order to avoid the evil spirits, no lights were allowed in the city after nightfall, so it was pitch black everywhere, and the five fingers could not be seen. The scouts probed the waves of the sea of blood during the day, and they did not return until the night, and the guards expected the sea of blood to come. , so I was sent to wait for a group of people to put on a spell at night to strengthen their guard. But until late at night, I once guarded the wall and watched, clearly seeing the sea of blood flowing to the left, just avoiding the town and escaping the disaster. Not daring to relax, I waited and squatted on the city wall all night, and no demons ever approached. After three consecutive days, I suddenly heard that the north gate had been broken, and I saw a sea of blood pouring in, and demons swarmed through the mist. Entering, the charm of defending the city does not work, and in a blink of an eye, countless casualties."
"Jiutianmen holds the word 'grass and gall' in front of the gate, and all the disciples below the guard have no one who escaped, and all of them are against the wall to stop the blood." Hui'an's voice became hoarse, "most of the dead, seeing that the city has been closed. Flooded, the guards lit the beacon tower, but saw that all the front lines to the north were flooded, and even the fog could not break through. He knew that Qixing Town and Shuangcheng, a hundred miles away, would also suffer from this, so he sent me to rush to report. No. Dare to deceive Your Majesty, before I was blind, Baili Chuanyang was only a trivial matter to raise his hand, and only a pair of eagle eyes could tell the autumn hair. In the fog, I was the only one who could try to discern the path."
"So I galloped on my horse and rushed through the fog to Qixing Town. But Your Majesty, although demons are cunning and hard to get rid of for a long time, they are accustomed to coming and going alone. Even if there are companions, there are only three or four. On the way, I saw the mist in the sea of blood, and they actually gathered into strands and mixed into groups. I was chased by greed, my arrows were broken, and my eyes were injured by the fog. Fortunately, the garrison of Qixing Town saved me. He was also hit by the sea of blood, and is preparing to ride his horse to the south to pass the news to us!"
The two ends were attacked at the same time, no wonder the support was insufficient, because there was no rescue at all, and they were double-teamed by the sea of blood.
"When you arrived in Qixing Town." Jinglin asked, "Is it dead?"
"I have lost both eyes and can't see. But I heard from the Seven Stars Guard that this hasty attack was probably not accidental." Hui An lowered her head and said quietly for a while, "Your Majesty is not like the other young masters, it is often People who run away to get rid of demons, so Your Majesty should understand better than others that this attack is very strange. In the past, demons invaded, and the sea of blood overwhelmed. When did the sea of blood go first. I suspect there must be a reason, If there are corpses accumulating in the city, it is not unusual for the sea of blood to rush in. But in a good town, and we are guarding it, how can dead people accumulate corpses for no reason?"
After a long time, Jing Lin said: "You rest, I will investigate this matter."
Jinglin walked out of Hui'an's room and saw Cang Ji and Yining standing and chatting from a distance. He had something in his heart, and he had always been at odds with Yining, so he just nodded to him.
Cang Ji said goodbye to Yining, walked with Jing Lin, and said, "Is there anything you want to know?"
Jing Lin said: "It's still confusing."
"I just strolled around in that city, and when I came out, I met a sage and got some new things."
Jing Lin turned his head: "What's the matter?"
Cang Ji asked back, "Do you have a younger sister?"
"There is one." Jinglin said, "Young and sickly, living in the mountains all the year round, never in the world."
"So Jiu Tianjun is very dear to him."
"Naturally." Jing Lin thought about it and said, "Even among brothers, there is no one who does not love her."
"No wonder." Cang Ji said.
"No wonder?" Jing Lin looked at him.
"I heard that Jiutianjun is recruiting school-age children from all over the world, and wants to set up a private school for Jiutian. In this way, you can not only accompany your sister, but also recruit good seedlings for Jiutianmen." Cang Ji said, not surprised, "There is no father. Motherless and homeless are preferred."
Jing Lin seemed to hear something and connected with a "snap".
At night, Cang Ji and Jing Lin lived next door. He spread out Jinglin's veil between the lights and saw a Buddha bead hidden inside. It's nothing else, it's the Buddha beads when Nan Chan discussed Taoism that day. I didn't want Jing Lin to stay behind, and kept it in Parry to carry it.
Cang Ji turned the Buddha beads, and the fragrance of the Brahma had already disappeared, and all that remained was the smell of Jinglin. This smell has been lingering on the tip of Cang Ji's nose since half a month ago, making him unable to avoid it for a long time.
The window sill suddenly opened, and a fox head appeared. Huashang only squeezed his head in and whispered, "Master, give me a hand!"
Cang Ji didn't move, and said, "You can leave after you have finished speaking, you don't have to come in."
Huashang had to claw at the window with her front paws, and her tail swayed outside. She said, "Sister asked, when are you going back!"
"It depends on the will of heaven." Cang Ji buckled the Buddha beads and said, "Did Jiutianmen send someone there recently?"
"Here's a stinky boy." Hua Chang said, "Doing evil, arrogant and domineering! He wants us to give up Baili and make him a city!"
"You ask him first." Cang Ji's eyes were sharp, "Is the debt finished?"
Huashang added: "Also, my sister recently accepted an apprentice. He is very talented and has unparalleled aptitude. Unfortunately, he is a mortal person, and he is still a dumb boy. Can you raise him? If yes, then stay."
"Looks like you like it too." Cang Ji said.
"I don't like mortals!" Hua Chang shook her ears against the window, squeezing in desperately, but suddenly screamed.
"Someone caught my tail!" Hua Chang turned pale in shock, looked back in a panic, and then shouted, "It's a stone spirit!"
Cang Ji immediately overturned the candle and rolled to the ground, motionless, as if fainting.