Pick up the Dragon

Peng Yu sat on the edge of the bed with his legs crossed, and the shopkeeper came up to him again, crying and wiping away his tears, wishing he could wipe all the tears and snot on his trouser legs.Peng Yu dodged to the side without sympathy, thinking about how to deal with these two guys, then called Qian Yue, and whispered something in her ear.

Jiu Yuan chased his Dragon King out of the inn, and stood calmly under the night sky washed by heavy rain—the Dragon King was calming down his anger, and Jiu Yuan was digesting what he had just seen.

The last drizzle ended quietly, and the "Purple Rhyme" flower field was in a mess. All the flowers had their purple cores gnawed off, and the white petals covered the ground miserably.Under the petals, countless hair-thin worms took advantage of the undried water to roll deeper into the soil, revealing an ominous black purple under the bleak night.

Li Yi took a deep breath of the earth-scented air, and slightly frowned: "Can you see clearly?"

"It's true, it can't be wrong."

"Insects... can eat flowers? This is really strange." The corner of the mouth curled up with an inexplicable arc, "Anyway, the direction we inferred so far is roughly correct. As for the river god sacrifice... I'm afraid it has something to do with this matter .Did you find out when the next River God Festival will be?"

Jiu Yuan nodded: "The fifth day of next month, Chenshi."

Li Yi rubbed his chin: "The fifth day of next month... Gengchen, Gengzi Day, Bingshen month, this is a sunny time, and this year seems to be a sunny year, which is interesting."

Jiu Yuan took out something from his sleeve again: "Look at this."

In his hand was a black fragment the size of a baby's fist, the fracture was extremely uneven, and one side was curved, as if it had been broken off from something large.The material of this piece is very special, it is heavy and cool in the hand, and some subtle textures can be felt by rubbing it carefully.

Li Yi's eyes were fixed, and he thought: "Kirin horn."

Peng Yu's eyes sting again inexplicably.

He rubbed his eyes as calmly as possible, and continued to "interrogate" the shopkeeper: "So how many children have you harmed?"

The shopkeeper stammered and faltered: "Uh...the past two years have been intermittent, and sometimes it's really impossible to pay, and they allow us to delay..."

Peng Yu suddenly raised his voice: "I'm asking how many you have in total!"

"Big, about sixty..."

"sixty?"

"Six, sixty, seventy!" The shopkeeper was sweating coldly. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the girl disguised as a man playing with a shining knife expressionlessly, and quickly retracted her eyes as if she was burned to the point of view, "Peng, Peng Young master, please spare us. I really don’t know how many people there are. Our family is not the only one who did this in the city... And, and they haven’t come to us for a long time. We just throw them into the river , who remembers how many throws in total..."

Peng Yu narrowed his eyes - he hasn't come to look for him for a long time, which means that he has not received the news of "stopping action". Even if the current number is enough, they are still wearing the glamorous coat of "Songzi Temple", doing these shameless things deeds.Maybe at this moment, there are still many pregnant women who are pregnant with those "three-knowledgeable" fetuses.

He was about to ask Qian Yue to show him some color, when he suddenly saw the two dragons coming back one after the other, he had to cough lightly and withdraw from the conversation.

Li Yi skipped over the two people kneeling on the ground without looking sideways, pulled out the stool and sat at the table, poured himself a cup of cold tea, but didn't drink it, and tapped the rim of the teacup with his fingers.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, but it didn't last too long, and was soon broken by a new round of noise.Li Yi raised his eyes and looked towards the door, only to see two figures, one fat and one thin walking in, they were another pair of "treasurer" and "shop waiter"!

He raised his eyebrows in surprise, the two "imitations" were almost exactly the same as the real ones regardless of their height, body shape, and movements, enough to confuse the real ones. The "treasurer" walked in front of Peng Yu, and bowed to him kindly: "Master."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "boom" next to him - the real shopkeeper fainted from fright when he saw this man.

Peng Yu couldn't help but sneered, "What a fuss."

Li Yi waited for him to explain, and it took him a while to hear him say unhurriedly: "My people. Don't worry, with the lessons learned last time, I can't be unprepared." He gave Qianyue a wink, " Drag these two guys out to find a place to lock them up, and you can deal with them yourself."

Li Yi heard that "you" and looked at the door again, and there were a few more well-dressed guards.Several people rushed to carry the two scourges away, Qian Yue pointed at the woman who was lying on the ground: "What about her?"

Peng Yu grinned like a toothache, and said to the girl in a jerk: "Although everyone has a love for beauty, but young master, I hate buying and selling by force—girl, you are troubled, let's move together."

The guards of the Peng family cleared the place very efficiently, and before leaving, the fake shopkeeper asked with a smile: "Young master, I think the business of this inn is good, or should we just sell it?"

Peng Yu waved his hand disinterestedly: "As you like."

Li Yi glanced at him, thinking that this young master probably only hates others for buying and selling by force, and he is quite happy to do it himself, so he couldn't help but sarcasm: "Your preparations are indeed quite sufficient-you almost lost your virginity, they Why didn't you come to save you?"

Peng Yu instantly turned into a frost-beaten eggplant, and defended himself sternly: "How do you say it? It's so ugly, what is 'lost body'? This is an innocent girl who fell for my beauty, understand?"

Hearing these outrageous remarks, the Dragon King felt that Young Master Peng was so thick-skinned that the dragon's claws could not be scratched, so he couldn't bear to give him a supercilious look.

After Peng Yu finished speaking, Li Yi briefly discussed with Jiu Yuan about those children, and expressed his own guess: "I can't cry, I can't laugh, I can't talk... It's not like that. It looks like Chisha'er, but it's more like 'lost soul disease', after all Chisha'er can still cry and laugh."

Peng Yu leaned against the head of the bed and almost fell asleep, when he heard him speak, he asked again in a daze: "What is soul-lost disease?"

Li Yi was concentrating on thinking, but he didn't realize that it was a half-dream raving: "Simply speaking, they have incomplete souls, but looking at the conditions of those children, it seems that they don't have souls at all."

It is not that there are very, very few people who are born without a soul, and because of the lack of a soul, the body is just a shell, doomed to die young, and it is almost impossible to grow into an adult.

It was very suspicious that such children appeared in such a concentrated manner in Anping. He was almost certain that Chen Zhou had lost too many souls. The Hades had no time to find enough reincarnated souls, so they could only use empty shells to make up for them.

But how can this kind of thing be left alone? Could it be that the underworld itself is involved in it?

He frowned, temporarily put aside the question, took out the sheepskin map, laid it on the table, and looked at it carefully.He very much suspected that the unicorn horn was divided into eight pieces, which were buried in eight locations around Anping, forming a gossip array, and the pieces in the array were connected to each other, which disturbed his Sinan to fail.

If this is the case, it would be easy to say, the piece they dug out from under the flower field is located in the southeast, as long as they dig three feet along the direction, they can always find the rest.Now that one of the eight unicorn horns has been poached away by them, I am afraid that the formation has been broken, and they have to act as soon as possible to avoid any side effects.

It’s just that there’s another point that he doesn’t quite understand—if the people who set up the gossip formation and the Chenzhou spirit-binding formation are the same group, then they have already got the unicorn horn, why don’t they just take it away, but spend a lot of time to make it out? What sent Zimiao here?Is this group of people related to the Xian family? Are they instigated by them, or are they independent third-party forces?

Also, when he patted Teng Snake's head before, he felt that there were traces of "deed" on its body, and it was obviously instigated by someone to leave Chenzhou in the end.

So who is the person who signed the contract with Teng Snake?Teng Snake had hinted that he kept the snake slough away, so obviously he did not form a bond voluntarily. What kind of person has such a powerful force to force Teng Snake to form a bond with him?Is this person from the Xian family? If so, the purpose of the Xian family is the universe mirror. Since they can sign a contract with Teng She, why don't they just take Teng She away?

He raised his hand and tapped his temple, only to feel that his brain is not strong enough, it must be because he lost too much blood before and has not recovered.Slowly heaving a sigh of relief, he finally made up his mind to repeat the old trick—forget it.

Facts have proved that the Dragon King's thinking is still too simple. Digging the ground three feet may be feasible, but Sinan is really not good at it. With such a small piece of unicorn horn, they can't turn over the entire land of Anping.

Peng Yu slept in the inn for a whole day, and when he got up refreshed, he saw the two dragons returning home dejectedly, and laughed at them unkindly, which caused the Dragon King to glare.

Finally, the young master Peng, who had recharged his energy, began to accompany the Dragon King to look for the unicorn horn, allowing the Dragon King to fully appreciate the extraordinaryness of him as a "mortal"—the closer he was to the unicorn horn, the more obvious the pain in his eyes would be. After searching for several days like this, five fragments were found from various corners. As Li Yi said, they were arranged according to the eight trigrams, true north, true west, true south, northeast, southwest, and southeast. The fragments have all fallen into the hands.

Then Peng Yu plunged into the inn and fell into a coma for three days and three nights, because his eyes were so painful, the more complete the unicorn horns were put together, the more unbearable the needle-like pain, and in the end almost relying on willpower to support, I almost poked it out several times.

In the blink of an eye, there were only three days left until the next River God Festival, and the group of "mysterious people in cloaks" still had no intention of appearing.Peng Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to continue using his eyes as a compass to pull out the unicorn horn in the northwest, when Li Yi suddenly told him: No need.

Because there are fewer and fewer fragments left, and the influence of the formation is getting weaker and weaker, Sinan in the Dragon King's hand can already play a normal role, and there is no need for someone to sacrifice his eyes.

Peng Yu was skeptical, staring at the backs of the two dragons leaving, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

Does Moulong feel sorry for him?

Young Master Peng thought about it, and felt that this idea was extremely accurate, and he immediately felt better, his waist was no longer sore, his back was no longer painful, and he was full of energy.While it was still dark, he took Qianyue to a nearby market and bought a bunch of trinkets that were useless for balls. Just as he was about to return, the girl suddenly said, "Master, we seem to have been tracked."

Peng Yu was holding a meat bun in his mouth, and he murmured vaguely, turned his head and saw a thin figure flashing behind a certain stall, and couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth: "Let's discuss it, can we describe it better in the future?" To be more precise, this is called 'following', not 'stalking'."

He raised his feet and walked towards the food stall, relying on his height advantage to block the person who "followed" them in the corner - a disheveled little beggar, about seven or eight years old, his face was so thin that only a pair of big black eyes remained. The eyes stared at them timidly and vigilantly.

The little beggar looked at him timidly for a while, then his eyes shifted to the bun in his hand, and he couldn't move it away no matter what.He gulped down a mouthful of saliva and took a step back.

Young Master Peng is "happy with all hearts" today, and the disheveled little beggar is inexplicably cute in his eyes.He weighed the oiled paper bag containing the buns, opened a small corner and handed it in front of the little beggar: "Do you want to eat?"

The scent of the steamed stuffed bun wafted out all of a sudden, the little beggar nodded sharply, stretched out a pair of dirty little claws, and tremblingly took the oiled paper bag away.

"You're quite greedy, kid," Peng Yu couldn't help teasing him, "It's not enough to take one, you took them all."

The little beggar seemed to think that the words were reasonable, and after thinking about it, he fumbled through the dirty clothes full of holes and patches, and finally found a greasy copper plate, which he placed on Peng Yu as if reluctant to part. palm.

"One copper coin can't buy three steamed buns." Peng Yu said again.

This time the little beggar lowered his head, tears rolled in his eyes, he was so wronged that he wanted to cry.

"Okay, okay," Peng Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he was afraid that this kid would really cry for him, so he quickly expressed that he was very generous and careless, "Take it and eat it, I will accept this copper coin."

As he said, he put the copper plate on the thumbnail, flicked it lightly, and the copper plate flew into the air with a "ding".

It's a pity that this handsome man couldn't finish playing, because he suddenly felt a "buzz" in his ear, and his head was spinning dizzily——