One day, the parallel world collapsed

Not long after Xia Qingfeng's report was typed, the relevant high-level department officials initiated a video conference.His brother Xu Qingquan asked: "Qingfeng, what's going on?"

Xia Qingfeng explained the situation concisely.

"It means that this keel was circulated to the market through the hands of my demon world?" A beautiful woman with flaming red long curly hair said on the other end of the video, "This is so unfair, I don't know the situation at all! "

"Elder Chi Lian doesn't have to rush to shirk responsibility." Xia Qingfeng said with a smile while turning his pen, "It's not like the Shede Teahouse has been open for a year or two in the world. How many clean and unclean things have been handled in private, who can tell?" Do you know?"

The beauty known as "Elder Chi Lian" winked at Xia Qingfeng and did not refute.

Another middle-aged man in a suit had been listening with a cold expression, and now said: "In that case, we know what to do."

Several people looked at him.He nodded to them: "This item will be retrieved by us, please rest assured." Then he hung up the video unambiguously.

The people in charge of other circles also went offline one after another. Xu Qingquan called Xia Qingfeng privately: "Have you been busy looking for this keel lately? The process is dangerous? Why haven't you heard about it?"

While searching for clothes in the closet, Xia Qingfeng replied to Xu Qingquan: "I didn't know it for a long time, and besides, I have always had Mo Bai's help."

"Qingfeng." Xu Qingquan said, "You tell the truth with senior brother, is this keel related to the dragon spirit in the Sword of Slaughtering God?"

Xia Qingfeng looked helplessly at his senior brother's serious expression in the sky: "Brother, I really don't know. I was also afraid of what might happen, so I reported this matter to the department."

"En." Xu Qingquan nodded, as if he believed Xia Qingfeng's words, his expression relaxed. "If there is any situation, don't be brave and tell me in time."

"I know." Xia Qingfeng's eyes revealed a bit of softness, and he smiled, "Don't worry, brother, I will act carefully."

"By the way, is Tu Shenjian okay?"

"It's nothing." Xu Qingquan said, "I'll let Fire Phoenix watch."

"That's good." Xia Qingfeng packed up and was ready to go out, "Then hang up first."

Xu Qingquan nodded, couldn't help but instructed again: "Go to the teahouse to find that old fox, remember to be careful, the fox family is born cunning, don't follow his way."

"I know. Hang up."

After hanging up the phone, the smile on Xia Qingfeng's face turned cold.Then he took a long breath, walked out of the gate and prepared to go to heaven.

Outside the Shede Teahouse at that time——

Mo Bai and Ming Xi looked at the half-closed wooden door and the wooden plaque above it - "Willing".The storefront is small, built with gray clay bricks and covered with the simplest gray tiles.A wooden stake was erected at the door, and a wine flag was tied to it, with the word "tea" written crookedly, which seemed nondescript.Looking at the house from the outside, all I could see was a pitch-black one. It was said to be a teahouse, and it clearly looked like a good place to do bad things.

The two opened the door and walked in.

The old wooden door let out a "squeak", which startled the raccoon cat demon who jumped into the house after him, grabbed Ming Xi's trousers and climbed onto his shoulders, looking at the dark furnishings in the house in horror And the incense burner that was burning on the table.

"Is anyone there?" Ming Xi asked.

"Cough cough cough... who is it?" Accompanied by a coughing sound, a hunched figure opened the curtain and came out from behind.Seeing two people and a cat standing at the door, he narrowed his eyes, and said with a smile, "You two face each other."

"Passing by Guidi, I feel dry mouthed, so come in and ask for a cup of tea." Ming Xi replied.

"Hehehe..." the old man laughed, "The two of you may have made a mistake. There is no tea here."

Ming Xi glanced at Mo Bai, and said, "Besides drinking tea, there is something I want the old man to appreciate." As he spoke, he took out a pink pearl the size of an egg from his sleeve.

When the old man saw the pearl, a gleam of light flashed in his half-closed eyes.Then he laughed and made a gesture of invitation to the seat beside him: "What tea do you two want to drink?"

Mo Bai and Ming Xi sat down one by one, and the black cat also curled up and nestled in the corner of the table. "Green tea, thank you."

"Okay." The old man walked into the back room with his hands behind his back, "Then let's have two glasses of Biluochun."

Watching the old man walk in, the mermaid in the vial around the civet cat demon's neck whispered, "It's him, that person sold the stuff to him."

Ming Xi looked at Mo Bai, and asked in a low voice, "My lord, will he be against us?"

Mo Bai rubbed his fingertips together, and said calmly: "You and I have not concealed our identities, he is a businessman, he would not do such a stupid thing."

"But—" I don't know what came to mind, Mo Bai paused, and added: "It's better to be careful."

After a while, the old man came out from the back room.He was followed by a young man, who put two cups of tea on a tray in front of Mo Bai and Ming Xi, and then stood beside the old man in an orderly manner.

The two glanced at the teacup in front of them, but didn't move.

"What's the old man's name?"

The old man took a puff of his dry cigarette and waved his hand: "Just call me Lao Qiu."

He looked at the two people in front of him with shrewd eyes, and said: "Since you two have come here, you must know where this old man is and what kind of business he is doing." He puffed out the smoke ring, slowly Said: "The old man doesn't like to beat around the bush. I don't think you two are mortals. I don't want to use this pearl in exchange for money. So, what is it in exchange for?"

Now that the other party got straight to the point, Ming Xi glanced at Mo Bai, got his consent and said, "I want to ask you something."

"what's up?"

"A bone flute that you handled here before, the keel flute."

"Oh... so it's for this matter." Lao Qiu took a puff of his cigarette, pointed at the black cat and the small bottle around its neck with his pipe. "I thought these two children looked familiar, so they came here at that time."

One old and one young stared at the raccoon demon with unkind eyes, frightened it, and jumped into Ming Xi's arms.

Lao Qiu didn't hold on to this matter, and said: "It's strange to say that some of you have come to ask about this keel before. If I knew it was like this, I should have doubled the price when I sold it. "

"Who else came to ask Keel?"

"Well..." Lao Qiu narrowed his eyes but smiled silently.He pointed at the teacup in front of the two with his pipe, "Didn't you just say that your mouth is dry, why don't you drink tea?"

"We came here sincerely, why should the store be so wary." Mo Bai had been sitting silently on the side, and now he said.He raised his hand and flicked the teacup with a "ding", and a burst of green mist diffused from the teacup.

"Meow!" Seeing this, the raccoon demon yelled in horror, "Poisonous!"

Ming Xi's face turned cold all of a sudden, and he stood up abruptly to block Mo Bai behind him, clenched his fists and looked at Lao Qiu who was sitting on top and the young man behind him who had already shown his true form on guard.

"What are you going to do?"

At this time, the wooden door was closed with a "bang", and the atmosphere became tense for a while.

Lao Qiu had put down his pipe, and the wrinkles on his face were wrinkled, revealing a bit of ferocity.He stared at Ming Xi and Mo Bai who was protected by him: "What exactly are you here for?"

He has long recognized the raccoon demon and the mermaid in the bottle.One wandered back and forth outside his house several times, and the other slipped into the house to eavesdrop on his business.The business he does is not clean, but he has always abided by the rules, never doing anything out of line, and never getting into trouble that he can't afford.Everyone on the road understands the rules here, including the [Unnatural Investigation and Research Department] where Xia Qingfeng works, which also gave him some face.But now Mo Bai and Ming Xi's behavior obviously violated his taboo.

The smoke from the incense burner gradually filled the whole room, and the faces of foxes appeared on the walls of the room one after another.They all bared their teeth and stared at Mo Bai and Ming Xi, with green lights in their eyes, and threatening growls from their mouths.

Ming Xi stretched his palms by his side, and the wings on his back gradually showed a transparent outline.He whispered to Mo Bai: "Your Majesty, be careful."

Mo Bai shook Ming Xi's arm slightly, signaling him to be calm.Then he tapped the tabletop with his fingertips, and looked up at Lao Qiu: "Deal." As his words fell, a burst of white fluorescent light spread from his fingertips on the tabletop.The oppressive majesty spread from the center of Mo Bai to the surroundings, and the hundreds of fox faces on the wall were stunned for a moment, and then screamed in fear and dispersed in the next moment.

Lao Qiu's expression was also startled.He clenched the armrest of the chair under him, and looked at Mo Bai nervously: "Who are you?"

Mo Bai did not answer Lao Qiu's question directly.He withdrew the coercion around him, and said lightly: "We just need to understand something."

He raised the teacup, took a sip, and half closed his eyelashes: "No other intention."

Ming Xi lowered his defense, sat back beside Mo Bai, and pushed Pearl forward.

Lao Qiu glanced back and forth across the faces of Mo Bai and Ming Xi, then gestured to the young man beside him, asking him to take the pearl over, and then lit his pipe again.

After just a short period of confrontation, he understood that the strength of the light-faced person opposite him was far superior to his own.Since the other party said that they are only here for the transaction, then they only talk about the transaction.

Old Qiu rolled the pearl in his hand, squinted his eyes and said, "Blood pearls of this size are really rare. I have lived to this age, and I haven't seen many of them." He glanced at the two people opposite, "You want to ask the keel, what are you asking?"

"Where did Mr. Qiu's keel come from?"

"Where did you come from?" Lao Qiu repeated these four words, "Well, you can ask the little friend in the bottle and you will understand." He looked at the nervous little mermaid in the bottle. , "Didn't you come here with me that day?"

Facing the old fox's direct gaze, the little mermaid felt a little scared.But when he thought that there were two big Buddhas covering him, he became more courageous. "That person dug it secretly. In the human world, it's against the law!"

"Oh hehehehe..." Old Qiu laughed when he heard the words, shook his head and said, "This old man only cares about buying and selling, but he can't care about the origin of things. Buying and selling, there is something you give and you get something, and there is no deception."

"But didn't you still resell the bone flute to humans afterwards?" Ming Xi said, "Since you are doing business in the human world, you must follow the rules of the human world. The human world prohibits reselling cultural relics on the black market. If so , your business is breaking the rules."

"It's just a bone cut, and you're talking about breaking the rules."

"That's the keel!" Ming Xi said coldly.He looked at Lao Qiu and said, "You have been in the human world for many years, so you don't know that a dragon-slaying sword was unearthed recently, and how could you not know that there is a dragon spirit in that sword? That sword is now being watched by various forces. , and because of the dragon spirit in that sword, it has caused a lot of chaos in the world. But you said, it’s just a bone cut?”

Lao Qiu looked a little strange.He took a puff of cigarette, and said slowly: "The keel is no longer in the hands of the old man. You have its aura on your body, and you probably already know where it is. Then what do you want to know when you come to me today?"

"The person who stole the keel flute is only human?"

"He, it's just a little feng shui swindler. If he is not a professional, he can also deceive people who don't know how to do it. Humans have a unified name for this kind of person, called...'God stick', yes, it is a magic stick .”

"Since it's a small character, how can you have friendship with the old man?" Ming Xi said, "If it weren't for the friendship, how could the old man still accept the keel knowing that it would be a hot potato?"

Lao Qiu didn't show much when he was exposed by Ming Xi. "Although he is a minor character, he is well-informed."

Mo Bai raised his eyelashes, and met the gaze of Shang Laoqiu looking towards him.Only then did Lao Qiu continue: "The matter of the Tu Shen Sword was mentioned by that kid. Although he is a low-level liar, he still knows a little about Feng Shui. Although the Tu Shen Sword has been taken away, the entire village But the fate has not changed, especially on the mountain, the atmosphere is still the same. In addition, there have been inhuman forces going there one after another, which further confirmed his guess."

"That kid thought that the things left on the mountain should be suppressed by spells, so he came to the old man to borrow a few talismans." Lao Qiu shook his head with a smile, "I didn't expect to be blinded by him." Met a dead mouse."

"Many forces have not found any abnormalities, why did this person find the bone flute?" Ming Xi couldn't believe it.

"He, he has ghost eyes." Lao Qiu pointed to his two eyes, "I don't know whether to say he is lucky or not, but he can directly see the outlines of some formations. So, he was deceived After so many years, he has not been beaten to death."

"Who else is asking about keel?"

Hearing Mo Bai's question, Lao Qiu took several puffs of cigarettes without saying a word.It took a long time before he said, "Sorry, I can't say."

"Why?"

"In life, there are always some unavoidable things. Gods, demons, immortals and monsters always have responsibilities that they have to bear. This is the rule."

"Can--"

"That's all." Mo Bai said.He stopped Ming Xi's words, stood up, and slowly glanced at Lao Qiu and the fox boy beside him, and said, "Farewell."

"Your honor!"

Mo Bai had strode out of the teahouse, Ming Xi called him, but got no response.He could only give up, said "Excuse me" and walked out.It's just that when he walked to the door, Lao Qiu said to him: "Remember, be careful of the people around you."

Ming Xi turned around, only seeing the back of Lao Qiu being helped into the back room by the young man.