Castlevania.
Mo Wen walked back to the stone table and sat down again: "Since you are willing to advance and retreat with me, then please prepare yourself. This is a battle of life and death."
"Before entering Demon Castle, we were already prepared to die." Gu Ye clasped his fists towards Mo Wen and left first.
"Please rest assured, my brother and I will guard the city gate firmly."
"As long as my two brothers are not defeated, no one can set foot in the Demon Castle."
After saying these two sentences, the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demon picked up their weapons and rushed back to the city gate.
"I'm sleepy." Zhang Adou yawned and took out three dice. "City Lord, why don't we make a bet to see if we can win this battle?"
"No, no, no, no." Mo Wen, who was always calm, panicked at this moment. "You always keep your word. You will lose every time you gamble. You just said don't gamble. I am afraid of you."
"Okay, okay. My Demon City will always win, never lose. Why bother with a gamble?" Zhang Adou waved his hand and turned to leave.
Ling Ran smiled and said, "City Lord, I want to meet the guest named Su Baiyi."
Mo Wen shook his head: "The distinguished guest is tired today, let's wait until next time."
"Judging from the name, this guest seems to be a handsome scholar." Ling Ran touched the scabbard at her waist.
"Are you talking about me?" Xiao Sheng said with a smile as he carried his bookcase on his back.
"Boss, you can only be considered a handsome teacher now." Ling Ran teased.
"She said I was old." Xiao Sheng shrugged, smiled and left. Ling Ran followed him.
Ye Huo, as Mo Wen's guard, did not leave, but sat down cross-legged, put his sword aside, and began to close his eyes to cultivate his energy. Only Zhao Xiaqiu lowered his head, as if thinking about something, and did not leave immediately.
"Xia Qiu." Mo Wen called softly.
"Xia Qiu is here." Zhao Xia Qiu replied.
Then there was silence again. Mo Wen looked at Zhao Xia Qiu. Zhao Xia Qiu still lowered his head and said nothing. Another stick of incense passed.
"Xia Qiu." Mo Wen walked in front of Zhao Xia Qiu, bent down, and looked up at Zhao Xia Qiu from below.
Zhao Xiaqiu and Mo Wen looked at each other and replied awkwardly, "Xiaqiu is here."
"What exactly do you want to say?" Mo Wen asked.
"Xia Qiu is stupid and afraid of saying the wrong thing." Zhao Xia Qiu said in a deep voice.
"No, you are not stupid at all." Mo Wen raised his head and smiled, "You just think directly, but the world is too complicated to accept this directness. Just say it."
"I have told Master Su that Demon City treats them with sincerity and summons them here to truly invite them to be guests. But what the city lord is doing now is not the way to treat guests," Zhao Xia Qiu replied.
Mo Wen smiled and said, "I'm betting the life and death of Demon City on him and inviting him into the city. Isn't that treating him with sincerity?"
"Why didn't Lao Qi come?" Zhao Xia Qiu suddenly asked.
Mo Wen was stunned: "Xia Qiu, Xia Qiu, you are really not stupid at all."
Zhao Xiaqiu lowered his head and said nothing.
"Then let's go and see them." Mo Wen patted Zhao Xiaqiu on the shoulder, "Let's go."
City Lord’s Mansion, Zhu Gui Hall.
Su Baiyi held a chicken leg in one hand and a duck wing in the other. His mouth was full of oil. He had completely disregarded his scholarly image. "Senior sister, it is said that everyone in this Devil City is a sinner, but I think there must be a misunderstanding. At least the chef of this Devil City must be a good person. If he is not a very good person, he can't make such delicious dishes."
Nangong Xier ate slowly. Although the food was extremely delicious, she knew the secret and ate carefully: "You said that Huang Chunsheng, the butcher, is a very good person?"
"The butcher Huang Chunsheng?" Su Baiyi put down the chicken leg bone in his hand.
"Huang Chunsheng, the butcher, once killed the prefect of Jitian Prefecture and nine of his subordinates overnight, and made them into human meat buns, which were shared by local disaster victims. It is said that Huang Chunsheng's cooking skills are excellent, and the human meat buns he made are extremely delicious, better than any other food in the world. Later, he was wanted by the government and his whereabouts were unknown. I heard from several senior brothers that he actually entered the Demon City and became the chef of the Demon City." Nangong Xier picked up a piece of braised pork, looked at the crystal clear meat color, and exclaimed, "He is known as the best meat cook in the world."
Su Baiyi felt a little nauseous after hearing this and put down the chopsticks in his hand: "Senior Sister..."
"Don't worry, I've just looked at these dishes, and they all contain normal ingredients." Nangong Xier said with a smile.
Su Baiyi took a sip of wine and picked up the chopsticks again, but he felt a little dizzy. He blinked hard: "Senior Sister, is everything really normal?"
Nangong Xier was slightly surprised when she saw Su Baiyi's expression. She reached out and gently touched Su Baiyi's forehead: "Are you - drunk?"
"The wine, the wine is poisoned." Su Baiyi picked up the wine jug and was about to say something else, but in the end his eyes went dark and he fell directly on the table.
Nangong Xier quickly opened the wine flask, sniffed it hard, and frowned: "It's non-toxic."
"The poison I used is not so easy to be discovered." A voice suddenly sounded outside the house.
Nangong Xier was startled and immediately drew out her sword, pointing it outside the house.
The door opened instantly, and a thin man in a wheelchair appeared outside the door. He was turning two iron balls in his hands and looked up at Nangong Xier.
Nangong Xier looked at the man in front of her, thought for a moment and then said, "Is your last name Tang?"
"Devil's Castle, seventh seat, Yan Xiaotang." The man sitting in the wheelchair said slowly.
"Why did you poison us?" Nangong Xier asked.
"There are two mistakes in this sentence. The first one is that I didn't do it to you, only to him. My medicine is only effective for men, not women. The second one is that I didn't give him poison. It just made him sleep." Yan Xiaotang said faintly.
"Take a nap?" Nangong Xier was stunned at first, then she was horrified, "Do you know what Su Baiyi will look like after he falls asleep? Are you crazy? Wake him up!"
"No, I just want to see what he will look like after he falls asleep." Yan Xiaotang said slowly.
"Mad man." Nangong Xier said angrily. She turned around and tried to pull Su Baiyi up, but was knocked away by an iron ball in Yan Xiaotang's hand. Su Baiyi opened his eyes at this moment.
His pupils were like fire and full of murderous intent.
"Su Baiyi." Nangong Xier said in a low voice.
"Hah!" Su Baiyi shouted.
"Fall." Yan Xiaotang threw another iron ball at Su Baiyi's head. The iron ball hit the mechanism above his head. After a strange noise, an iron cage suddenly fell from the sky and covered Su Baiyi.
Su Baiyi punched the iron bars, but the iron cage just made a loud noise without any damage.
Nangong Xier leaped up and put a sword to Yan Xiaotang's throat: "What do you want to do?"