The Indifferent Prince's Substitute

"Huh?" Gu Zhiming also saw it, and asked suspiciously: "My lord, this jade pendant..."

Rong Yuan frowned, he took two steps forward tentatively, the light of the red jade pendant became brighter, he took a few steps in the opposite direction tentatively, the light of the red jade pendant became weaker.

Rong Yuan concentrated for a moment, then strode towards the brighter direction of the ruby ​​pendant.Gu Zhiming didn't know why, so he hurriedly led others to follow.

In the alley at the back door of Gu's mansion, Gu Shuangshuang and Xia He fell to the ground, watching the ashen-faced monster approaching them, and cried out in despair.

"Little beauty with thin skin and tender flesh, hee hee, I want to eat thighs..."

"Suck, I want to eat their crispy and tender paws..."

The monsters with blood on their mouths laughed and laughed in the bleak moonlight, and caroused with each other to carve up the parts of the master and servant. The pale fingers that couldn't wait to stretch out, like ghostly claws protruding from hell, grabbed Gu Shuangshuang's body. arm.

A chilly air penetrated into Gu Shuangshuang's body along her arms. Gu Shuangshuang was so frightened that she was too stiff to move. She could even feel the sound of stinky saliva dripping onto her clothes.

Just when she was desperate, a vine flew over in the air, entangled Yaoxie, grabbed her wrist, and pulled it away forcefully.

Gu Shuangshuang turned her head in horror, and saw Lin Yan standing at the entrance of the alley.

"Hiss..." Several demons tilted their heads in doubt, their bodies suddenly bent, and in an abnormal posture, they hunched over and jumped towards Lin Yan like a beast.

Lin Yan moved her fingers slightly.There is a courtyard wall next to the alley, which are the gardens of several families.Sensing the call of Lin Yan's spiritual energy, countless vegetation and vines grew wildly, climbing out from the back wall, overwhelmingly entangled and wrapped several evil spirits.

"Putong" Yaoxie was bundled into rice dumplings and fell to the ground. He tore off the vines on his body with all his strength, and immediately new vines wrapped around him.It's endless, it's annoying.

The demons let out an impatient roar, their bodies turned into a few balls of black air and rushed out, gathered into a big ball, and attacked Lin Yan.

Lin Yan's heart trembled, and he hastily ordered several vines to grow from his fingertips, which quickly grew and wove into a vine net, covering the incoming large cloud of black air and wrapping it into a ball.The black air collided in the takraw ball, and soon the takraw ball was broken by the impact, the vines were broken one after another, and the vine juice splashed all over the black air.

"Ah..." There was a scream in the air, and the black air was violently rolling in the air, and it was fading faintly.A large group of black air panicked and hurriedly separated again, not daring to stay any longer, and fled in embarrassment to the distance.

When the alleyway became quiet, Lin Yan hurried to Gu Shuangshuang and Xia He's side, seeing that they were safe, she finally let go of her hanging heart.

Rong Yuan and Gu Zhiming arrived with their people, just in time to see the scene of Hei Qi running away in a hurry.

The alley was in a mess, weeds, trees and vines were entangled and piled up on the ground, only three people sat on the opposite ground.The moonlight was dim, and the faces of the three of them could not be seen clearly.Rong Yuan and Gu Zhiming walked in front of the three carrying lanterns and torches. Gu Zhiming's sharp eyes recognized Gu Shuangshuang first, and his expression changed drastically.

"Shuangshuang!" Gu Zhiming turned pale with shock, "Why are you here?!"

"...Brother!" At this moment, Gu Shuangshuang finally felt that he had narrowly escaped from death, and looked up to see Gu Zhiming, with tears in his eyes, got up on his weak legs, and threw himself into Gu Zhiming's arms.

"Young master!" Xia He sat on the ground for a while and couldn't get up, and wiped her tears tearfully.

"What's going on?" The thick bloody smell came from the wide open back door. Gu Zhiming couldn't imagine what happened here just now. He held his sister's shoulders and saw a subordinate in official uniform squatting next to Xia He, and said solemnly Ask, "Which patrol are you from? Why are you the only one, where are the others?!"

Lin Yan squatted on the ground with his head down, stretched out his hand to press the brim of the official's hat on his head, wondering how to prevaricate, a big palm suddenly stretched out in front of him, lifted his chin, and Rong Yuan's face wearing a mask was cold into the eyes.

"... Wang... Princess..." Under the bright torch, Lin Yan's handsome face was clearly seen, and Gu Zhiming was shocked.

In the front hall of Gu's mansion, a maid served hot tea, and Gu Shuangshuang took two sips of hot tea from the teacup before recovering.She took a peek at the opposite side, Lin Yan and Rong Yuan were sitting together, one was too guilty to look up, and the other had a cold face.

"What's going on tonight?" Sitting next to his sister, Gu Zhiming asked calmly, "Why are you and the princess together?"

Only then did Gu Shuangshuang belatedly realize that he was about to be scolded, shrank his head guiltily, and said falteringly: "We...we want to help you catch the murderer..."

Gu Zhiming almost fainted when he heard it, he slapped the table hard, and said angrily: "Nonsense! It's the government's business to catch the murderer, why are you all making fun?!"

After he was angry, he remembered that he also scolded Lin Yan. He put on a straight face and handed over to Rong Yuan, apologizing: "My sister must be the concubine who instigated me. I will apologize to the prince and concubine on behalf of my sister."

"But what happened to the wildly growing vegetation in the alley?" Gu Zhiming asked suspiciously. When they arrived, they only saw the fleeing black air and the mess all over the alley.

"...It's the princess!" Gu Shuangshuang remembered the scene he saw in the alley before, and was elated, "The princess knows magic, it's amazing, he beat those monsters away!"

"Spell?" Gu Zhiming looked at Lin Yan in surprise, "Is the princess a mage?"

Fortunately, he lied to Gu Shuangshuang that he knew spells before, and now he has an excuse to make things right this time.Lin Yan coughed lightly, and said, "I lived in Zhuangzi before, and accidentally met a mage, and learned magic from him for several years."

"What kind of magic did you use?" Gu Zhiming asked curiously, "The vegetation in the surrounding gardens suddenly grow so crazy?"

"...The art of nature, with the help of the natural vegetation of the world." Lin Yan made up a name.

Gu Zhiming sighed sincerely, "It's amazing."

Lin Yan chuckled twice, raised his head and looked quietly at Rong Yuan, who was still sitting beside him with a sullen face, without saying a word.

A guard came in to report the tragedy in the next door. Gu Shuangshuang bumped into him early. Only two people died in the next door, and the others were still asleep and didn't know what happened.The two people who died were the same as the previous ones, only fragmentary limbs remained, and the corpses had been brutally bitten and torn.

Telling the guards to retreat, Rong Yuan said to Gu Shuangshuang: "Tell me what you saw."

Gu Shuangshuang was quite afraid of him, so she straightened her sitting posture quickly, and described all the strange and frightening scenes she and Xia He saw in the alley.

"This kind of thing has never happened before. Why do these monsters suddenly come to the capital to make trouble?" Gu Zhiming frowned after hearing this, and said seriously.

"...Not all monsters eat people, these bad things are monsters." Lin Yan couldn't help but interrupted to justify the names of his monster friends.

"These monsters." Gu Zhiming changed his name from Shanruliu, looked at Rong Yuan and said, "It's difficult if it's not done by humans. No matter how many people we send to patrol, it won't help."

Rong Yuan said decisively: "Tell people to go to the various temples near the capital and invite the mage to come over."

Gu Zhiming nodded, and immediately went out and ordered his subordinates to rush to the various temples near the capital overnight.The night was dark, Rong Yuan got up to send Lin Yan back to the palace.

In the carriage, Lin Yan was sitting opposite Rong Yuan, holding the hem of her clothes with her fingers, not daring to look up at him with guilt.

"When did you discuss it with Miss Gu's family?" Rong Yuan looked down at the back of his head and asked.

"...Yesterday." Lin Yan answered in a low voice, grabbing the hem of his clothes.

Rong Yuan frowned sullenly, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Lin Yan blurted out, "I told you, you will definitely not let me go out."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head and looked at Rong Yuan embarrassingly, let go of the fingers that were holding his clothes, turned to grab Rong Yuan's clothes, and said fawningly: "I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just think the cases these few times are weird , I am worried that you will be in danger, so I want to help you."

Rong Yuan looked down at his fingers grabbing the hem of his clothes, was silent for a moment, and asked coldly, "Did you get hurt in the alley just now?"

"No." Lin Yan knew that he was not angry with him anymore, and a smile appeared on his face.

Rong Yuan was not at ease, looked at Lin Yan's body, and then grabbed his hands to look carefully.

"I'll come out with you to patrol the streets tomorrow night." Lin Yan obediently opened her hands to show him, and said happily, "I'll catch them for you."

"No." Rong Yuan clenched his hand tightly, and refused without hesitation, "You stay in the mansion honestly, there are other sorcerers about the evil things."

Lin Yan lowered his head resentfully, and Rong Yuan's fingers hanging by his side moved, lifted up and stroked his hair lightly, and said in a slow voice: "Don't worry, I can protect myself well, nothing will happen."

Rong Yuan sent Lin Yan back to the palace, and went back to patrol the streets again.As soon as the door was closed, the little squirrel and a few little monsters that had been hiding appeared out.

"Why did the lord send you back?" Ah Zhu hung the spider silk from the beam, and asked in human form.

"That's right, didn't you go look for those evil spirits? Did you find them?" Tu Yi and Tu Er jumped in from the window, shaking their ears and uttering words.

Huang Da and Huang Xiaozhen followed behind and got in through the window.

"Don't mention it, I was caught by the prince." Lin Yan sighed and told what happened outside.

"It seems that those demons are afraid of your vine juice." Huang Da said after listening.

Ah Zhu said thoughtfully: "Those evil spirits are shadowy things, but the body of the little tree vine is full of vitality, which is just right to restrain them, so it can cure those evil spirits."

Vegetation and plants are more difficult than animals to open their minds, so vegetation spirits are much less than animal spirits.Because of birth, the monsters of plants and trees generally contain anger in their evil aura.And among all the monsters she had seen, Lin Yan had the strongest anger in her body.

Lin Yan's vine juice can heal the wound so quickly because of its strong vitality.

"Senior is right." Huang Da flattered the spider, and then said to Lin Yan, "Then you don't have to worry about the little prince, he is your fruit, and if you can defeat evil spirits, he can definitely do it too. Hey, speaking of it Why do those demons want to eat but not you? You are the same species of demons."

"That's right, and ghosts generally don't eat monsters, they only like to eat people. Why do they swarm towards the little prince?" Tu Er also asked suspiciously.

Lin Yan didn't understand either, and everyone didn't understand, so they could only wait for a demon to be caught and ask.

Although he found that vine juice could subdue evil spirits, Lin Yan decided to ask some monster friends to continue to protect the little prince secretly because he did not know why the evil spirits came to the little prince.Gu Zhiming has sent people to invite mages from the temples around the capital quickly. When the mages come, they should be able to subdue those evil spirits soon.

When Lin Yan comes back, the other little monsters can go back to the guest room to sleep.Huang Da and the others left first, Ah Zhu took a step behind, and asked Lin Yan, "Little tree vine, where did the ruby ​​pendant on the prince's waist come from?"

"He won the game." Lin Yan asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Ah Zhu shook his head slightly, "This kind of red jade is rare."

"Of course." Lin Yan said, "Master Wang is the princess of a tribe in the northwest, and their tribe is rich in this kind of ruby. But the prince said that ruby ​​is now extinct."

"Oh, where is Mrs. Wang now? Can she be in the palace?" Ah Spider's eyes moved slightly and asked.

Lin Yan shook her head, "It's gone, Mrs. Wang passed away very early."

"Where is that tribe? Where is it in the northwest?" Ah Zhu asked again.

"The family has been exterminated." Lin Yan said, and asked suspiciously, "Sister Ah Zhu, why are you asking these questions?"

"It's nothing, it's just that piece of ruby, which reminded me of something I heard from my elders a long time ago." Ah Zhu stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch his face again, but Lin Yan took a step back to avoid it.

Lin Yan pursed her lips, and said a little embarrassedly: "The prince said that you will not let you pinch my face again."

Ah Zhu was taken aback for a moment, then realized and laughed loudly, "Is your prince jealous?"

Lin Yan changed the topic embarrassingly, "What did your elder say? Is it related to Hongyu?"

"It's been too long, I can't remember much. I'll tell you when I figure it out." Ah Zhu reached out and rubbed his head, then turned and left with a smile.

There are several temples near the capital, and the mages would have arrived at noon the next day, but the people sent by Gu Zhiming only brought back bad news. All the mages disappeared in the past two days.

In their own room or meditation room, no one saw them come out after entering, and the living people disappeared like this.

Because most of the masters are monks with high morals and high status in the temple, and some are even abbots, so now the major temples are also in chaos.

As for the farther state capitals, before he sent people out again, he received news from various state capitals that the mages in the temple had disappeared one after another in the past two days.

Overnight, all the mages on this land suddenly disappeared.

Gu Zhiming hastily came to Rong Yuan to discuss countermeasures, without the mage, let alone the people in the capital, even they are in danger.

"Now only the concubine can help." Gu Zhiming coughed lightly and opened his mouth tentatively, "The concubine seems to be quite powerful, please help us catch those evil spirits?"

Rong Yuan pondered for a moment with a sullen face, then turned and walked towards Lin Yan's yard.

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