You only like my face

Mu Tianqi and Gu Qingyuan rushed to Mrs. Hu's house, but they saw that there was no one in the house, but clothes were still drying on the hangers outside the house, and all the things in the house were not bad at all. They even found an empty one beside the bed. The medicine bowl with the leftover medicine dregs in it.

"Why are they missing?" Mu Tian Qizhang Er was puzzled, looked around, and asked doubtfully, "Even if they absconded in fear of crime, it's not like they don't take anything with them?"

While Mu Tianqi was talking, Gu Qingyuan bent down and picked up Bai Ze, then threw him on the bed, and said, "Xixi."

White Pond:"……"

He is a beast, not a dog!

"Xiaobai, try it, maybe you can find out whether Mrs. Hu is a human or a demon." Mu Tianqi didn't feel that his senior brother did anything wrong just now, so he stood by the bed and rubbed Bai Ze head for encouragement.

Bai Ze was angry: "I am a divine beast."

Seeing the "and then" expressions of the two, Bai Ze gave up struggling in desperation, raised his head, sniffed in the air, then sniffed on the medicine bowl, pondered for a moment, and said, "Painted skin."

"Painted skin?" Gu Qingyuan raised his eyebrows, and finally understood why Mrs. Hu didn't have any evil spirit.

Painted Skin Demon, as the name suggests, is a monster covered with human skin, and the skin on the monster's body is painted.Thinking about it this way, it makes sense.

Hu Sheng used to be a well-known Miaobi Danqing in the neighborhood, and he was best at drawing pictures of ladies. It is very likely that he got a roll of human skin paper by a coincidence, and then drew a lifelike lady on it.

We must know that painting also needs to inject energy into it. Every painter treats every work with a lot of effort, only wishing that dead things can become living things, even if it is just something on paper, he also hopes that it can Draw out the soul within.

This may be the case, the lady got the vitality and soul injected by the painter, she had a spirit and a shape, and then put on human skin paper, she turned into Mrs. Hu.

Because of the human skin on her body, one of the characteristics of the painted skin demon is that she has no evil spirit; but there is no perfect thing in this world, and the price for the painted skin demon to have no evil spirit is that her skin is very fragile:

In order to keep the human skin paper on her body intact, the Painted Skin Demon must eat a human or animal heart with cultivation level every month for repair, otherwise the human skin on her body will collapse.

"I understand." Mu Tianqi suddenly realized, "No wonder Mrs. Hu had to go up the mountain once a month before."

Going up the mountain once a month is to hunt and win the hearts of monsters, so after being persuaded by the neighbors, Hu Sheng felt that it was nothing, because he knew what Mrs. Hu was doing up the mountain.

And after Hu Sheng was injured, in order to save Hu Sheng, the painted skin demon must have used his own inner alchemy, and sacrificed his cultivation level in exchange for Hu Sheng's life, but it could only help Hu Sheng heal his wounds, and could not make him get well.In order to make up for her lost spiritual power, and to keep the human skin on her body from breaking, Madam Hu's appetite grew, and a monster's heart a month couldn't satisfy her.

Over time, Mrs. Hu took a fancy to the human heart.

For monsters, the human heart is a great tonic.

Because Luofeng Mountain was in turmoil, and Mrs. Hu had to go to the market once a month, it happened that she could use the monster as a cover to get people's hearts directly, and the people's hearts were much better than those of monsters. "

And because Mrs. Hu has a weak appearance and often haunts the market to buy medicine for her husband, not many people are wary of her. This can also explain why Mrs. Hu can succeed every time, and no one sees it.

It's not that no one saw it, but those who saw it were either killed by Mrs. Hu, or they didn't believe that it was done by the weak Mrs. Hu, so they ignored her.

"Look here more." Gu Qingyuan walked to the bookcase on the side, took down a scroll and opened it, looked at it, and said, "Maybe there will be some clues inside."

"No need," Mu Tianqi scratched his head, picked up Bai Ze, and said, "If Bai Ze can know the monsters in the world, Xiao Bai should know where the painted skin monster is, am I right?"

Bai Ze expressed his disdain, and snorted at Mu Tianqi.

Hearing the movement here, Gu Qingyuan looked over.

Seeing that the person who was not looking at him before focused his attention on him, Bai Ze immediately changed his attitude, raised his head, and said proudly: "That's right, I know everything."

Mu Tianqi was speechless: "Xiaobai."

Obviously he is the master, but why does Bai Ze never put him in his eyes, but is so afraid of senior brother?

"Hmph!" Bai Ze snorted angrily and ignored Mu Tianqi.

In order to prove his words, after Bai Ze said this, he closed his eyes, his consciousness suddenly spread out, and spread thousands of miles. Said meaningfully: "That painted skin monster is very smart."

Gu Qingyuan frowned.

At this moment, a talisman bird flew in unsteadily from the window and landed on the ground; as soon as it landed, Lu Yi's voice came from the talisman bird:

"Hu...huayu...inn, come quickly!"

Lu Yi's words could not be heard intermittently, and it was mixed with the noise of "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping", but the panic contained in it was beyond words, especially the abrupt end at the end, which made Gu Qingyuan's heart almost hit his throat.

Moreover, it is obvious that this talisman bird has problems even flying, which means that the person who made this talisman bird didn't have much time to make it, and he didn't spend much time to make this talisman bird, which further shows that the situation was urgent .

And this incomplete talisman bird did its best to find Gu Qingyuan and his party. After conveying the news, it turned into a ball of flames on the spot and turned into a pile of black ash.

Gu Qingyuan stared at the pile of black ash with dim eyes.

Qingshuangjian groaned softly.

"Eldest brother, calm down...Eldest brother!"

In the end, Mu Tianqi looked helplessly at the pile of rubbish at his feet, and then looked up at a big hole on his head.

The ash was still falling "rustly" and landed on the top of his head, and a blue streamer in the air disappeared from sight in an instant.

After a few breaths, Gu Qingyuan looked at the dilapidated inn in front of him with a deep expression, as sinking as water.

All that was left of the good inn was the broken walls, and the side facing the street was almost completely split, exposing the rooms and furniture inside, and it just so happened that Huayu's room was the one facing the street.

On the other side of the street sat the escaped people, each with a disheveled face, looking at the almost collapsed inn in front of them with expressions of disbelief.

Judging from the style of clothes he was wearing, Gu Qingyuan could barely discern that there were shopkeepers, waiters, and a few guests inside, but there was no Lu Yi.

Did something happen?

Before he had time to think about it, Gu Qingyuan, regardless of the danger of the house collapsing, went directly into the inn, and in the ruins, he groped towards Lu Yi's room in his memory, while carefully avoiding all kinds of debris, he shouted: "Lu Yi? "

His voice echoed inside, and at the same time, there was a "crackling" sound of things breaking in the room.

This is not a good thing, Gu Qingyuan thought.

"I'm here."

After everything was quiet, a weak voice came from the corner.

Weak, but enough for Gu Qingyuan to hear.

Hearing Lu Yi's voice, Gu Qingyuan's heart that had been hanging on his stomach finally fell back into his stomach. He walked quickly to the place where the sound came from, and saw Lu Yi was pressed under a table, and the place where his shoulders touched the ground was flowing. There was a big pool of blood.

Gu Qingyuan was stunned for a while.

Seeing someone coming, Lu Yi opened his eyes reluctantly. Seeing that it was Gu Qingyuan, he stretched out a hand, hooked the corner of Gu Qingyuan's clothes, and whispered, "I'm sorry, I didn't protect Huayu well."

When Lu Yi said this, because of his injuries and excessive blood loss, his face became paler, almost transparent in the dim light; The red is also much lighter.

And after he finished saying this, Lu Yi immediately took a painful breath, lowered his eyes, his hand suddenly seemed to lose strength, he let go of the fingers that were pinching the corner of Gu Qingyuan's clothes, and slid down.

From Gu Qingyuan's point of view, the moment Lu Yi's hand slipped down, he was already in a state of confusion, but seeing Lu Yi's long eyelashes quivering, he knew that he was still alive, and he felt a little relaxed in his heart, but he didn't dare to be careless, because this At that time, Lu Yi was too fragile, as if in the next second, Lu Yi would close his eyes, turn into dust, and disappear into the air without a trace.

"It's okay." Seeing this, Gu Qingyuan couldn't care about anything else, and immediately knelt down on one knee, grabbed Lu Yi's slipped hand, and comforted, "I'm here."

After a while, another voice sounded: "...um."

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