Jun You Ji Fou

"What's the matter?" Chu Mingyun narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the faintly flickering candle flames in the guest room, "Is it haunted,...or is someone pretending to be a ghost?"

Su Shiyu shook his head, "I haven't heard the sound of anyone walking tonight. These rooms have probably been empty all the time. If it wasn't for the fact that it was too quiet at that moment, I wouldn't have noticed."

"So, none of the guests who were sitting downstairs were staying at the hotel?"

Su Shiyu frowned slightly, and looked at him, "Judging from the words of the shopkeeper of this inn today, he doesn't want us to stay longer."

"It's up to him." Chu Mingyun sneered, then turned his head slightly, held Su Shiyu's hand, and frowned, "Shiyu, are you afraid?"

"If you are afraid, you can speak up." Su Shiyu chuckled.

Chu Mingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, curled his lips and said, "How about calling me your husband when you get scared later?"

Su Shiyu glanced at him with a smile, and led him to the innermost guest room, "Brother Chu, you should be more careful."

There was an inexplicably rotten smell in this room. Su Shiyu stroked the table with his fingers, and saw that his fingertips were stained with a thin layer of dust. He couldn't help frowning slightly, "Even if you don't live there often, you should always sleep in the inn." Why is there such a thick layer of dust?"

"That's why it's really strange." Chu Mingyun said casually, "She said she was reluctant to leave Shouchun, but she didn't seem to want to do business well at all."

There was a soft sound from the lantern flower, and it suddenly became dark, and the sound of the night wind blowing through the hall downstairs could be heard clearly. It was empty, and there was no one there.

Chu Mingyun was still leaning against the wall and looking around, seeing Su Shiyu staring at a place lost in thought in the flickering darkness, he looked at him and smiled, "Are you scared?"

"Over there." Su Shiyu walked to the wardrobe in the corner, the candle light gradually stabilized, and the room was lit up again, and a dark trace appeared in the narrow wall behind the carved wooden cabinet.

Chu Mingyun frowned slightly, pulled Su Shiyu to the side with one hand, and moved the large cabinet a few feet away with heavy force with the other hand.There was a muffled sound when the bottom of the cabinet rubbed against the ground, and the entire wall was revealed without any concealment. Large dark marks spread all over the wall like splashed ink. People gag.

When the smell dissipated a bit, Su Shiyu rubbed his fingertips on it, and after smelling it carefully, his face changed slightly, and he looked up at Chu Mingyun, "It's human blood."

"You can really bear it." Chu Mingyun took his hand to wipe it off, and then turned his head to look at it, "It can only be splashed to this height and sprayed out so much blood, it can only be cut in half by someone with a knife." body."

Su Shiyu frowned, pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go to another room to have a look."

There was no covered blood in the next room. They looked around, and finally Chu Mingyun suddenly stopped by the door, looked closely for a moment, then reached out to touch, "This door is newly painted."

As soon as Su Shiyu took out the sword in his sleeve, Chu Mingyun took it over. He casually scraped a few lines on the door, and the vermilion paint peeled off, revealing the dark color underneath, and the smell was strong and pungent. In this way, one door was almost soaked in blood.

After that, it was roughly the same, with mottled blood, covered under the embroidered blanket, splashed on the head of the bed, and the stale smell of blood gradually intensified, covering the inn like a green mist.

When they finally returned to the room where they stayed, they noticed that the paint on the wall was obviously newer than the surrounding area.

Chu Mingyun pulled Su Shiyu into his arms from behind, "Okay, no need to confirm any more." He said with a smile, "Do you still want to sleep with the blood on the wall?"

Su Shiyu slowly retracted the sword into his sleeve, "Can you still sleep?"

"As long as I hold you, I can fall asleep." Chu Mingyun hugged him tightly, and lowered his head to smell the soothing aroma.

Su Shiyu sighed softly, "This is no longer something a black shop can explain..."

"It's a massacre." Chu Mingyun said.

The night wind blew so that the window lattices creaked somewhere, faintly tossed and echoed in the emptiness, low and thin, like a lonely soul weeping.It was as if he could see the situation at that time, how dead bodies were lying on the ground, blood was overflowing, and the dead silence at this moment was more than shocking.

"But the streets and alleys outside are still intact, and it doesn't seem to be caused by war." Su Shiyu paused, "I'm afraid the whole Shouchun City is the problem."

Chu Mingyun pondered for a while, and said, "Shiyu, follow me to a place."

The stars are sparse, and Shouchun City in the dense night is extremely quiet. There is not a single pedestrian on the road, only the sound of a watchman coming from a distance.

A mansion is located next to the burnt and collapsed houses. The door locks are rusted and the plaques are dusty. It also looks dilapidated.

"This is the residence of the Prime Minister of Shouchun County?" Su Shiyu entered easily with Chu Mingyun, and saw moss growing on the stone steps under his feet with the faint moonlight. The party is in turmoil, but within a few months, even the residence has become like this."

"Unfortunately." Chu Mingyun laughed and looked back at him, "What I know is that an official ran away with his family and rushed to Chang'an to report something, but was chased and killed all the way, and finally the youngest daughter fled to Chang'an desperately In the suburbs, I ran into Qin Zhao and Du Yue, but they still couldn't survive."

Su Shiyu narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at him, "According to what you said, is there a deviation in the news that Han Zhongwen reported to the court, or was it a lie?"

"I don't know that," Chu Mingyun said with a half-smile, "I just know that no matter what, the Shouchun County Prime Minister must have died cleanly."

"Didn't you find out who was chasing them?" Su Shiyu asked.

Chu Mingyun shook his head, "I didn't expect this to be involved at the time, and Du Yue was only focused on saving people, so Qin Zhao didn't catch up and let the other party run away." He casually pushed open a door, and the fine dust came rustling After falling, I lit the residual candle on the table and case, and then I saw clearly the dowry in the bronze mirror, the box full of hairpins, and a woman's dress hanging on the wall in the inner room.

"..." Chu Mingyun turned his head to look at Su Shiyu, and smiled without changing his expression, "I've never been here before, so I don't know the way."

"...Then you just said it earlier." Su Shiyu withdrew his gaze in embarrassment, extremely helpless, "I roughly remember the location of the study." Turning around, he walked out.

Chu Mingyun was about to step up to follow, but suddenly he saw a few pieces of thin paper under the dowry from the corner of his eye, and walked over with a single turn.

It can be recognized that this document was originally a document, but it was torn to pieces for some reason, and the owner of the boudoir picked it up again. It was pieced together in a mess, and only the characters of "many accumulated disadvantages" and "enzehoulu" can be vaguely seen word.

Chu Mingyun lifted the other pieces that were not put together, and when his eyes touched the scarlet seal that was torn off at a corner, his eyes froze suddenly, his expression was gloomy and difficult to understand.

The seal is a beast, with a python head and four legs, a single horn on the forehead, mighty and fierce.

Even if it wasn't complete, Chu Mingyun could recognize it at a glance. This was exactly the appearance of the bronze rune beast he had snatched from Boss Mu in the Bliss Tower back then.

From Chang'an to Huainan, traveling thousands of miles, the ghosts are still lingering, still disturbing the situation, refusing to give up.

The candlelight flickered, and Chu Mingyun, who was in deep thought, suddenly heard Su Shiyu's voice from the court:

"Beware!"

He raised his eyes and saw the black shadow outside the window flickering in the bronze mirror.

The next moment, countless men in black broke through the window, seemingly pouring out endlessly from all around, and swung their knives to surround them.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Mingyun's sword was out of its sheath, and before the clear and sharp whistle sounded, he turned around and slashed horizontally, the cold blade tore a long and narrow bloody arc around his body.

The person in front fell to his knees clutching his chest and abdomen in pain, and the rear followed immediately. It seemed that the scene was chaotic, but after contact, it was obvious that the opponent's sword formation had been rigorously trained.The knives of the two men in black intertwined and slashed at their heads. Chu Mingyun rose into the air, tapped the tip of the knife with his toes to borrow strength, and kicked them straight to the opposite knife while turning back and retreating.Before he landed, another person slashed at him from bottom to top, swiftly and powerfully.Chu Mingyun's sword just inserted into the shoulder blade of the attacker behind him, and before he could pull it out, he turned sideways lightly for a moment, and the opponent's knife almost rubbed against his sleeve and fell into the air.

But at the moment when they passed by, he suddenly heard a calm ring between his sleeves and the sound of wearing a ring.

Chu Mingyun's complexion suddenly changed, and he took a few steps away abruptly, taking advantage of the short distance to look at the things in his sleeves, the high-quality suet white jade was radiant, with a few cracks in it, but luckily no more Add a few more.

Chu Mingyun breathed a sigh of relief.

The jade pendant that Su Shiyu gave him has been broken since the fall, so even though he always wears it close to his body, Su Shiyu has never seen it.In fact, even if he was seen, the always gentle person would naturally not blame him at all, but he just couldn't bear to make him feel sad at all.

Inexplicably, he suddenly didn't care about killing the men in black who came up, and turned his head to look outside the house.

Only then did I see that the court was also occupied by countless men in black at some point. Su Shiyu stood in the encirclement and looked around. In the dim light and shadow, Chu Mingyun couldn't see his expression clearly. He could only see that his arms were still hanging by his side, and there was nothing wrong with him. Action means.

Chu Mingyun's heart trembled.

As if seeing that he was powerless to fight back, the men in black rushed forward with their knives in hand. In an instant, Su Shiyu's figure was completely covered by the intertwined black shadow and white blades.

The sky was covered by cumulus clouds, it was dark and unclear, a gust of wind suddenly rose, and the door was slammed shut with a slamming sound, isolating the last splash of blood in the room, and a pool of scarlet dripped straight into Chu Mingyun's eyes.

"Su Shiyu—!"