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At four o'clock in the morning, there was a faint ray of light behind the distant mountains, and before it had time to tear the dark night, the shrill sound from outside the door was the first to cut through the darkness.

Human beings' fear of dissonance is almost innate. It is different from the aesthetic difference in music, and it is more similar to a kind of psychological disgust.

For example, the sound of fingernails scratching the blackboard, the tip of the knife scraping the glass water bottle, foam boards rubbing against each other, and the sharp and sharp sound of sharp claws tearing at the iron door that are continuing to sound at this moment, all make Si Yu feel dangerous. The warning instinct was activated immediately, and subconsciously raised his hand to put Qi Lu's arm, as if he could draw a sense of security from him.

"It's okay, don't be afraid."

Qi Lu turned his head to look at him with calm eyes.Si Yu settled down, nodded to reassure Qi Lu, and listened carefully to the sounds outside the door.

The second hand was ticking, and the sound not only did not weaken, but became more and more intense. The things outside the door seemed to tear apart the iron disciples and rushed in.

"Is it a beast?" Si Yu shook his head and asked Qi Lu in a low voice.

The claws of the thing outside the door seemed to scratch his eardrums, causing his temples to throb.

Qi Lu took off his cloak and covered Si Yu's head, and said, "Cover your ears."

Si Yu was covered by a cloak, and the tip of his nose caught the extremely cold and faint sandalwood fragrance from Qi Lu's body. He sniffed, feeling that the uneasiness and fear that followed him from hearing the voice were also drowned by Qi Lu's smell.

He lifted up the cloak, revealing half of his face, covered his ears obediently with both hands, raised his head and winked at Qi Lu, and said softly, "Cover it tightly, I can't hear you anymore."

"Well, good boy." Qi Lu patted his head, then picked up a book on the coffee table, flipped through a page, and tore off a page.

"Hey!" Si Yu stared and shouted anxiously, "That's..."

"What?" Without raising his head, Qi Lu nimbly folded his ten fingers on the paper a few times, and in the blink of an eye, he folded a lifelike little paper figurine. .

"...My favorite cartoon." Si Yu didn't have time to stop him, so he stomped his feet in vain.

Qi Lu chuckled, and cut the tip of his right index finger. Blood slowly oozed from the wound. He smeared the blood on the forehead of the paper figurine with his backhand, and silently recited a spell.

After a while, the little piece of paper seemed to come alive. After shaking twice, it jumped off the ground lightly, turned around twice, twisted its waist again, and looked up at Qi Lu.

Qi Lu nodded slightly to him, and the little paper figurine turned and ran out of the yard after receiving the order.

Si Yu sighed silently, thinking of the blood spots on Qi Lu's shirt chest, and thinking of the indifferent expression on his face when he cut his fingertips just now, a burst of anger instantly surged up.

You've obviously been hurt, so can't you love yourself a little more?Fingers are cut as soon as they are cut, blood is released as soon as they are said, and flood discharge is not such a method, is it?

"Mr. Qi, you are the only pure blood in the Eastern Continent, and you can't be more noble. Let me ask you, can you save some of your blood?" Si Yu stared at the thin bloodstain on Qi Lu's fingertips, with a very firm tone, "You, you really... Forget it, I don't bother to talk about you!"

He raised his foot and kicked hard on the coffee table, then turned his back to Qi Lu.

Qi Lu was stunned, and subconsciously put his injured right hand behind his back, rubbed his thumb pad lightly on the cut, and the wound instantly recovered as before.

He stretched out his hand in front of Si Yu, spread his five fingers, and said, "Okay."

Si Yu turned his head away from him.

Qi Lu pursed his lips. He didn't know how to coax the awkward Teacher Si, so he stubbornly continued to stretch out his hand in front of his face to show him: "It's really good."

Si Yu still maintained the posture of covering his ears with his hands, his heart softened, he looked up at Qi Lu, and said helplessly: "I'm not angry, I mean you can't take yourself so seriously, I will dedicate it to you for a year A 400ml blood would make you dizzy for a few days, how much blood do you have for you to bleed after school every day like this?”

Qi Lu looked at half of Si Yu's face exposed under the cloak, under the dim light, the fine fluff on the tip of his nose appeared clearly.Qi Lu felt that maybe his heart was also covered with Si Yuzhong's fluff, otherwise why would he feel his throat itchy.

"Understood," Qi Lu said, and after a while he felt that Teacher Si was so worried about him, so he asked whether these three words were too thin, so he added with difficulty, "I will eat pork liver tomorrow."

Mr. Qi hates animal offal the most, and he thinks that his willingness to make a promise to eat pork liver for Mr. Si has fully demonstrated his emotion.

"..." Si Yu was speechless, and after a while he twitched the corners of his mouth stiffly, "Okay, I'm the one who worked hard to make the pork liver in the end."

While the two were talking a few words, the scratching sound outside the door intensified, and the little paper figurine ran in with kicks, ran up Qi Lu's legs, stood on his shoulders, and gestured with both hands.

Qi Lu's expression changed suddenly, and Si Yu asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's Li Mao." Qi Lu said.

At this moment, there was a muffled "dong" sound from the iron gate outside the courtyard, Si Yu's hands trembled, and the cloak slipped off his head. He stood up abruptly and was about to run out. Said: "Sit down, I'll go."

"Okay," Si Yu didn't say anything more, "Be careful."

Qi Lu quickly carried Li Mao back into the house. The black cat was visibly weak, nestled in Qi Lu's arms, its eyelids drooping and motionless, the nails of its front paws curled up, and there were fresh wounds dripping with blood all over its body. .

Si Yu was very familiar with these wounds, and while rummaging through the medicine cabinet in the TV cabinet, he asked, "Did Li Mao hit the barrier again?"

Qi Lu carefully put the black cat on the sofa and said, "Yes."

"Then you are going out tonight," Si Yu raised his head and asked, "Is it because of Li Mao..."

"No," Qi Lu replied, "There was indeed a change in the enchantment, I went to check the situation, but it was not because of him."

"Strange," Si Yu took out the anti-inflammatory medicine and bandages, and said, "Li Mao hasn't been to the barrier for a long time, why did he go when Ruan Ruan had an accident? Did he also know about Ruan Ruan? ?”

Si Yu gently patted the black cat's head, the black cat raised its eyelids with difficulty, and when it saw Si Yu, its green eyes instantly filled with water vapor.

"It's okay," Si Yu saw his dying state, his throat tightened, his voice was dry, "it will be fine."

The black cat struggled to stand up, but he was so badly injured that his front legs gave way and he fell back onto the sofa.

"He wants to talk." Si Yu frowned, raised his head and asked Qi Lu, "Can you change him back into human form?"

Qi Lu shook his head: "It's too bad."

Si Yu sighed, carefully inspecting the wound on Li Mao's body, he raised the black cat's right paw, and the movement stopped suddenly - the nail of the right paw was rolled up because of the violent scraping against the iron door, and the front part even peeled off flesh, but what surprised Si Yu even more was that Li Mao's right front paw only had three nails!

Where one nail was missing, there was only a freshly healed flesh-pink wound. No wonder he saw that Li Mao's right finger was always wrapped in a bandage a while ago. Where did his nail go?Who hurt him?Why didn't he say it?

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Si Yu was lost in thought, Qi Lu put his palm on the back of his head and rubbed his five fingers reassuringly.

"His claw," Si Yu's lips trembled slightly, "one is missing."

Qi Lu's pupils tightened, and he took the black cat's right paw to examine it carefully. After a while, he raised his hand and pinched the center of his brow, closed his eyes and said, "It's really missing."

"Who did it?"

Si Yu couldn't imagine how painful it would be to pull out a nail abruptly. He couldn't bear to look at the black cat's front paws, and his fingertips trembled slightly.

"In the village, no one can hurt him except me." Qi Lu's tone was unusually calm.

By the way, Si Yu heard from Lin Mubai that monsters also have high and low powers. Li Mao is a civet cat who has cultivated into a monster, and his combat power is very high. Although he has a withdrawn personality and has unclear entanglements with "outsiders" , but other monsters are still quite afraid of him.

Since no one else pulled out his nails, then...

Si Yu raised his head suddenly - then there is only one possibility, that he himself pulled out one of his nails alive!

A string in Si Yu's mind was gently plucked, and some details that had been neglected in the past clearly surfaced at this time: the last time we met, Ruan Ruan wore a very strange chain around her neck, hanging a small white The object, he didn't have time to see what it was, Ruan Ruan seemed to be very nervous about the object, and immediately stuffed it back into the collar.

"Li Mao pulled out one of his nails and gave it to Ruan Ruan," Si Yu said slowly, breathing heavily, "Why? Why did he do this?"

"He is a cat demon, and his claws are the most important weapon and the place where the energy gathers," Qi Lu said with a condensed expression. "He can establish a connection with the person who has his nails. Once the other party is in danger, he will be able to detect it."

"Ah..." Si Yu let out a short exclamation. He looked at the scarred black cat, and a sense of powerlessness invaded his whole body, "We...how can we help them?"

Qi Lu walked to the window with his hands behind his back.

Outside the window, the rising sun finally broke through the darkness, but the earth has not recovered from the coldness of the night.

"What I care more about is," Qi Lu said in a deep voice, looking at the dark green hills in the distance, "Why did he ask for help instead of me, but you? Who suggested to him, maybe you will have a solution, Si teacher."

Si Yu was startled suddenly, and the roll of bandage in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap".

The string in his mind was twitched immediately, and the handwriting on a certain yellowed page appeared in front of his eyes little by little, and Si Yu's breathing involuntarily increased.

Qi Lu stood by the window with his back to him, curled his lips into a slight smile, his eyes were frosty, and his tone was cold and cruel: "Who is it again, who dares to play your tricks under my nose."

Si Yu picked up the roll of bandages that fell on the ground, his face pale.

"Mr. Qi, I think," Si Yu closed his eyes forcefully, "I really have a way."