Flame red

The second after Hu Li asked this sentence, the wooden sword in Jian Xiangli's sleeve flew out, pointing directly at her forehead.

But the man just slapped the wooden sword casually.The blocked wooden sword drew a circle in the air and returned to Jian Xiangli's hand.Hu Li glanced at him lazily and smiled. "Do you think this is enough to kill me?"

Jian Xiangli was not angry either, and looked at Hu Li with a cold face. "For a guy like you who has carried hundreds of innocent lives on his back, someone will come and take you one day."

"Aren't you also carrying hundreds of innocent lives?" Hu Li said, and then pointed to Yanhong. "And you, live to die."

Mu Yu frowned.But Jian Xiangli shouted in a low voice: "Monster, don't classify me with you."

"Isn't it the same? How many of the people I killed were damned, and how many of the monsters you killed were the source of disaster?" Hu Li laughed. "You keep saying that our existence is a danger to the world, but for us, why don't you endanger our world?"

Jian Xiangli didn't answer, the wooden sword in his hand shot out again with a ding, and he immediately held the sword with his backhand while Hu Li reached out and slapped the wooden sword away, and stabbed quickly between her eyebrows.

Hu Li leaned back and sideways avoided the sword's edge.At the same time, he pushed Mu Yu beside him, pushing her away, and the cold wind brought out by the sword's edge actually split a large crack in the ground of the bluestone slab.

As for Yan Hong who happened to be on the side and couldn't dodge, a small hole was formed in the corner of her eye by the gust of wind, and the oozing blood fell into her collar like tears.

She heard Hu Li sigh in a low voice: "You are young after all."

Jian Xiangli retracted the wooden sword, and he and Hu Li dodged into the alley where the black cat was escaping.Mu Yu didn't follow, but turned his head and didn't know why Yan Hong was stunned and said in a low voice not to move.

Yan Hong blinked, and suddenly felt the blood from the corner of her eyes being gently wiped away.

There is a thin layer of calluses on Mu Yu's fingertips, but the touch is not rough.She looked at the face that was dazzling under the spotlight, and now that the morning sun was shining, it was tinged with a bit of softness.

Yan Hong suddenly told her: "For me, the harm caused by people is deeper than ghosts."

Mu Yu was startled, then hummed slowly, the coldness and alienation of the past disappeared from his brows.She said: "Because the human heart is weaker than bones and tendons after all."

Yan Hong lowered her eyes, turned her head slightly to avoid her hand.

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of bricks breaking in the alley, and then Jian Xiangli was pushed out. After staggering a few steps and standing still, he looked at Hu Li who was lazily following him out.

He seemed a little powerless, as A Yao said, the guy in front of him was so powerful that no one could force him.

The exorcist looked at Mu Yu, and suddenly said: "You should know that evildoers can't get along with people for a long time. Why do you follow Mu Yu?"

Hu Li raised her eyebrows, seemed a little surprised by his words, and muttered: "...Do all the Jian family have such a bad memory?"

"Ok?"

"How do I remember that the 900-year-old snake demon inner alchemy was brought by the Lu family from you?"

When Hu Li said it as a matter of course, he obviously said it deliberately for Yan Hong and Mu Yu to listen to.

And when she said that, Jian Xiangli's face darkened obviously.

The Lu family and the Jian family?Wait, in this case...

Yan Hong thought carefully about the exorcists she had seen before, and suddenly felt a chill in her heart. Could it be that what she has experienced and the clues she has been looking for during this period of time is a deliberately arranged script?Is this possible?

And Mu Yu's originally frowned eyebrows frowned even tighter. "Wait, Hu Li, what did you say?"

"It is said that the snake demon inner alchemy in your body, Mu Yu, was put in by the Lu family." Hu Li smiled nonchalantly, and then looked at Jian Xiangli coldly. "What was left by the lord of the side for nearly a thousand years, and the cultivation attained by those who obeyed it, but others can't ask for it in a few lifetimes. It is not a problem to have great blessings in the sky, to heal diseases and eliminate disasters-naturally, the future is bright, No one will be upset."

Mu Yu touched his throat subconsciously.

Jian Xiangli frowned and said: "Our family has exorcised demons for generations, and we have obtained countless things. The 900-year-old snake demon is not something that young people like me can casually know."

Yan Hong asked slowly: "This, isn't it a good thing?"

Hu Li didn't answer, but turned around and asked, "Does Mu Yu think it's a good thing?"

"...No."

"Precisely because it is so attractive to either party, it is even more distressing to the person who holds it." Hu Li explained. "The inner alchemy of nearly a thousand years is a rare cultivation level for monsters, and it is a good cure for all diseases for people. But among them, its real value lies in the fact that it is about to be reborn as a snake demon. That moment."

Yan Hong obviously heard her heart beat wrongly, remembering that night Mu Yu's pair of snake pupils were twinkling, she tensed her shoulders.

"You said the moment when you were reborn as a snake demon?" Mu Yu was startled.

"That's right." Hu Li nodded. "At that time, the inner alchemy was the most vigorous, but also the most fragile. If the exorcist could crush the inner alchemy at that moment and bathe in the scattered powerful souls, he would still be able to get along with this monster. high power."

—she was talking about the exorcist.

Yan Hong sensitively grasped the meaning of Hu Li's words, and immediately looked at Jian Xiangli over there.She didn't rule out the divisiveness in the man's words, but it was inevitable that people would be suspicious when he said it.

Because she didn't know much about exorcists, any hearsay could easily become the basis for judging right from wrong.At this moment, Yanhong still hopes to hear Jian Xiangli's rebuttal.

And the exorcist just snorted coldly. "Do you think this kind of second-year speech can really be believed?"

"Oh? Really?" Hu Li was not in a hurry, and suddenly grabbed Yan Hong's left hand holding the jade knife with her backhand, twisted it, and stabbed the knife into her right hand.

Yan Hong didn't have time to react, she let out a low cry immediately, her palm was blood red.

Then Hu Li pointed to Jian Xiangli's wooden sword, and Yan Hong looked at it painfully, and found that a rune with the same color as the jade knife flashed on the ordinary wooden sword.

"Little guy, don't you think the color of this knife is getting lighter and lighter?" Hu Li smiled and asked Yan Hong, whose face was pale as she covered her palm. "If I remember correctly, this should also be the means used by the Jian family to monitor the evildoers dormant in the market. When the jade knife turns white, the snake demon will be reborn."

Yan Hong frowned and said in a low voice: "You talk to yourself, how can I trust you..."

"The Jian family is here. If I say something wrong, he will naturally refute. Anyway, there is a rule in the precepts of exorcists, you can't tell lies in front of evildoers who have practiced for thousands of years."

Yanhong looked at Jian Xiangli in a blink of an eye.

Jian Xiangli waited for a long time, finally sighed and nodded. "That's right, the jade knife is used to monitor Mu Yu and the snake demon." He admitted. "But I don't want to harm anyone, it's just a responsibility. As a human being, Yan Hong can use her own ability to cure the disasters caused by the inner alchemy, so she is more suitable to stay by Mu Yu's side than you, who is a monster."

"Blood?" Hu Li shook his head, but after thinking about it for a while, he looked at Yanhong and said, "Do you want to try?"

"Try?"

"Didn't a black lion run away just now?" Hu Li pointed to the alley. "I will retire with her, and see who succeeds and who fails in the end. Isn't it clear which side is more suitable for Mu Yu?"

Jian Xiangli clicked his tongue impatiently. "So you are a monster..."

"That's right, I'm a monster, but there is an inner alchemy in Mu Yu's body that is nearly a thousand years old, and I won't cause any harm to her. Instead, the things produced by the inner alchemy for self-protection for rebirth will be dangerous to Mu Yu." Hu Li Shrugged, then suddenly remembered something, looked at him funny. "Could it be that you want to say that because I'm a monster, I have to be uneasy and kind to her?"

"This possibility is not ruled out," Jian Xiangli said.

"Then don't you, as human beings, have any extraneous thoughts?"

"..."

"Hu Li." Seeing that the exorcist had nothing to say, Mu Yu rubbed his eyebrows and interrupted: "Even if you can cure the things around me, I won't..."

She paused.

What will happen?It seemed that Mu Yu didn't think of words, so he stopped there and sighed again.

Hu Li smiled at her and nodded. "I understand, but the most important thing now is how to protect you, isn't it?" Then, he turned his head to look at Yanhong. "How? Do you want to try it while there are still two hours left for the play?"

Yanhong's first reaction was to refuse.But the words came to his lips: "Yeah."

Hu Li told her that what they saw just now was a black lion, and because she stayed by Mu Yu's side all the time, the things that were supposed to surround him became more and more impatient, and in the end they gradually gathered together, forming a lion from countless cats. Huge lion.

Yan Hong could guess the whereabouts of the black lion based on the direction of the black mist, so naturally, Hu Li also had her own method.There was a castle-like cumulonimbus cloud in the sky to the west of town as they split up and began to move.Jian Xiangli watched in silence for a long time, sighing and reminiscing about the cloud as a prelude to the coming of night.

Mu Yu was puzzled: "It's morning now."

"Yes." The exorcist smiled softly, glanced at Yan Hong who turned to another street, and said nothing.

The snake lady told Yan Hong before she was alive, do you believe that there are things in this world that you must do?

She shook her head without hesitation and said she didn't believe it.

Even up to now, Yanhong doesn't believe that there is anything she can't do.Even for those things that even the exorcist can't do anything about, isn't there a Hu Li who can easily solve them?

She walked slowly on the street, even very deliberately.Yan Hong thought that she was dragging the time like this until Hu Li solved that thing, and then she would no longer need to worry about Mu Yu all the time.It can be regarded as fulfilling the wish of the snake lady.

Hu Li is sincere to Mu Yu, so sincere that Yan Hong feels inferior.She is a monster, but she is different from other monsters. She is so strong that she doesn't care about Mu Yu's inner alchemy. What she really cares about is the person herself.Knowing the origin of the inner alchemy, and also understanding the interests of the exorcists, as long as she stands there, both humans and demons will retreat knowingly.

Yan Hong is different from Hu Li, not only in strength and race.She was protecting Mu Yu because of someone else, while Hu Li voluntarily stayed by that person's side.

She remembered that Gu He said that Hu Li and Mu Yu had been together for a long time a long time ago.

Yan Hong took a leisurely walk along the river, not expecting to see the black lion.She even picked a few streets without black fog and turned in. It was clean, the future was bright, and she was in a good mood.She comforted herself by staring at her toes, forgetting how yesterday she heard the rumor of Mu Yu's illness and skipped class, how she rushed here, and how she tried her best to get close to him.

Protecting Mu Yu, such a thing is not necessary for Yanhong.She thought to herself, as she thought about it, she remembered the scars that Gu He showed after rolling up her sleeves yesterday.Suddenly, I felt a little strange, why did the child go to such great lengths to come here to have a look at Hu Li before the unified examination?

If the eyes can't see anything——suddenly, Yan Hong discovered a problem that she had ignored.

If Gu He couldn't see anything, how did she pass the unified examination?

She stopped, feeling a sense of ominousness gradually rising in her heart, but she couldn't tell what caused the ominousness.Looking into the river inadvertently, Yan Hong froze in place.

——She found two lights shining brightly like lanterns in her reflection.

"Fuck!"

Yan Hong screamed in fright, and then heard a bang, the water surface exploded, and she was hit to the ground by a black shadow.In a trance, she felt that the black lion showed its bright teeth, and she quickly stretched out the hand that was stabbed by Hu Li just now and patted it.

I don't know if it's because the lion's hair is thick and wet, the blood on Yanhong's hand can't work.Fortunately, she turned her head and flicked for a moment when she took the shot, and the black lion's teeth snapped together in her ears, and the crisp and powerful sound made her spine go numb.

But when she slapped the first slap, she found that it didn't work, and Yan Hong had already reacted. She raised her foot and kicked the lion's abdomen, kicking the black lion away a little bit, and finally, while the other party let out a roar Immediately turned around and turned into the alley to escape.

Yan Hong didn't think too much about why her blood didn't work, because she didn't care so much about whether to get rid of the black lion or not.Now she's more interested in running away than dealing with that thing.

Showing off the momentum of the No.2 sprint in the school sports meeting, Yan Hong gritted her teeth and ran two streets away, until her lungs began to throb, and then she slowly stopped, leaning on the wall to take a few breaths, and was about to turn around I looked around where I was, but I remembered giggling laughter again.

...Can it stop?

She frowned and clicked her tongue, feeling more irritable in her heart, but the more irritable she was, the harsher the giggle was.

There was a lion's roar behind him, and it seemed that he had already caught up.Yan Hong knew that she couldn't stay in this place for long, so she turned around and was about to continue running, but the moment she turned around, she bumped into a tall and thin figure.

As if bumping into a wall, Yanhong suddenly felt staring, and staggered two steps in a daze.She vaguely realized that it is impossible for human beings to be so tall.At least within Yanhong's cognition range, ordinary people should not be so tall that they can only reach the opponent's thigh.

She looked up, and what appeared in front of Yan Hong with giggling laughter was a face covered with hair.

monkey?

Before Yan Hong could react, there was another gust of wind from behind, as if the black lion had already rushed over.But at the same time, the weirdly tall monkey in front of him suddenly swung its strangely long arm and slammed the black lion open.

The black lion that was thrown away took a few steps back, arched its body, roared in a low voice, and wandered around.

But at this moment, Yan Hong, who was caught in the middle, was even more in a dilemma. The monkey in front of her blocked her way forward, while the back way was blocked by a black lion.

Just when she was thinking about what to do, she suddenly felt a pain from being squeezed in her ribs, and the scene in front of her was spinning.Yan Hong reacted, and found that she had been caught by the monkey, and she really flew up to the eaves, being dragged forward all the way.

That thing's palm was huge, and it held Yanhong's waist directly, with great strength, which made it difficult for her to breathe, and her ribs hurt endlessly when she gasped.Yan Hong tried to open the opponent's fingers, but found that the fingers were thin and rough like long-dead tree roots, and the nails grew like knives, extremely sharp.

She watched herself being dragged along the eaves of the small town at high speed, and only prayed that no one would see her, otherwise she would lose all face.

The black lion behind him kept chasing closely, but it seemed that his speed was far behind, and he was quickly thrown away by a large distance.

Yan Hong still half hoped that the lion would catch up, after all, if they caught up, maybe the two things would fight, and she could find a chance to escape.

But obviously, the hope in her heart was completely shattered soon.

Because a slender black shadow rushed out from the side out of thin air, directly knocking the black lion onto the roof.Then I saw Hu Li holding a ball of faint blue fire in his palm, looking obedient and weak, but after touching the black lion, he suddenly devoured the giant beast violently, fell off the eaves and disappeared .

- It's over.

Yan Hong was dumbfounded listening to the screams, and the monkey dragging her seemed to have sensed the change in the rear and stopped.They stared at Hu Li who was standing upright on the eaves together, her slender female figure was now tinged with a frightening sense of oppression.

Hu Li turned to look at them.The monkey paused, then suddenly galloped in the original direction again.It seemed that he was as extremely afraid of Hu Li as the black lion.

Yan Hong thought that the man would not care too much about her situation, but Hu Li didn't hesitate, and chased after him like an arrow leaving the string in the next second.