zero o'clock

【Mr. Demon Subduing Master is very unhappy】

The pajamas were drenched in cold sweat, Li Huan was breathing heavily, and his chest heaved violently. In the dark, he stared at the ceiling for more than a minute and waited for the remaining pain to subside before turning over and taking the phone.

The screen lit up, and he narrowed his eyes uncomfortably.

It was less than three o'clock now, not long after he fell asleep, Li Huan took a deep breath, and then fell back on the bed extremely exhausted—everything went very badly since he took on the task of hunting brain-eating monsters , Troublesome things came one after another, and now it is rare to come to an end, and in the end, I can be awakened by dreams...

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He suddenly realized something, and immediately his drowsiness disappeared, and he woke up.

Qi Jingyu said that if it wasn't for the nightmare, the dream would be a true portrayal of the experience of the three souls in the spiritual world, so the creatures who fell into the dream would be terrified, and after waking up, the body would remember the exhaustion experienced personally.

Li Huan pressed his heart with lingering fear, and slowly tightened his five fingers. He tried to recall the scene in the dream, but his mind was still blank. He was silent for a few seconds, then turned over and got out of bed, put on a coat and left the bedroom.

Just as the door of the side room was pushed open through a gap, the cold wind and snow foam blew in. Li Huan stopped suddenly, his nose fluttered, and then his eyes darkened, and he felt the extremely familiar and alluring plasma spreading in the air odor.

Is it... Nine Tails?

The teacher hasn't returned yet, how could there be the bloody smell of Nine Tails at home?Li Huan was stunned for a moment, and then realized - Ari!Thinking of this, he hurriedly wrapped his coat tightly and opened the door to go out.

Due to excessive force, the door panel slammed against the wall, Du Qiu who was sleeping in the next room rubbed his eyes and poked his head out, asking in a daze, "It's so late at night, what happened?"

"It's none of your business," Li Huan said, "Go back to sleep."

Du Qiu snorted, turned around and closed the door.

Li Huan quickly came to the front yard, waded into the flower garden, and slipped in between two peach trees shortly.

Behind the peach blossom tree is an enlarged version of the luxury dog ​​kennel that Ari bought from Taobao. It covers an area of ​​two meters square and is nearly as tall as a person. I gave myself a little place to sleep.

When Li Huan entered, he was choked by the bloody smell inside, while Hu Ling was curled up in a corner into a big ball of hair, with a puddle of blood pouring out from under his body, and he didn't make any movement when he heard anyone coming.

Li Huan was taken aback by the posture in front of him, and hurried over to check his breath, after confirming that the guy was still alive, he carefully unfolded the curled up body of the fox spirit to check the location of the wound.

Ari's consciousness has not been completely lost, and he seems to be on high alert out of fear. When he senses someone approaching, he grabs his front legs to drive him away. Li Huan presses down on the fox's paw, reaches out to touch its big head, and whispers Comforting: "Don't be afraid, it's me."

Hearing this, Ahri's eyelids twitched, he opened the slit to look at Li Huan, and said weakly, "Quick..."

Li Huan brushed aside the bloody hair on its back, only to see an inch-long knife wound, and then groped in front of its body, and immediately found that the wound was still penetrating.

"Don't talk yet," Li Huan said.

After finishing speaking, he turned around and found a sharp weapon from the pile of sundries, cut open his palm, clenched it tightly, and dripped his demon blood on it.Ari twitched from the pain, panting with his tongue out, Li Huan hugged him and fed him some blood.

Seeing Hu Ling slowing down a little, Li Huan asked, "What's going on?"

"Master has an accident," Ari said, "Quickly contact your senior brothers and sisters and let them find someone!"

This is the expected answer. Ari is not likely to be attacked if he stays in the tea house. It is a spirit beast with nine tails and split souls, which will share the damage of the body. But now that Ari is seriously injured, the teacher will only be more serious. serious……

Li Huan felt his heart tighten uncomfortably, and said, "Can I know the approximate location?"

Ari closed his eyes, remained silent for a few seconds, and said: "I can sense that it is in the direction north of the capital, and the master can see... a forest?" "No, he is too weak, I can't determine the location of the main body."

"Don't worry," Li Huan said, "I'll figure out a way, you have a good rest."

He took off his coat to wrap the fox around, and took it back to the side room.

Du Qiu, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by another loud noise from the door, and sat up in shock, seeing Li Huan entering the door hurriedly carrying a lump of white things.

"What's the situation?" Du Qiu felt that he was going to be mentally weak, and trembled.

Li Huan put the sleeping Ari on the bed, pulled the quilt over it, and said to Du Qiu: "Something happened, please help take care of Ari. I have to go out and be back soon."

Du Qiu subconsciously groaned, stretched out his hand to touch it, and was shocked to find that the fox spirit in the bed was covered in blood, and suddenly he felt bad! "How do I take care of it?" He looked at Li Huan, "It's hurt!"

"The bleeding has stopped, just rest now." Li Huan hung up his earphones and prepared to go out. After thinking for a while, he added, "If you wake up, feed it some blood. The blood bag is in the refrigerator, so you can't find it to feed yourself." It’s okay, Ari has a sense of proportion, and won’t suck you dry.”

Du Qiu: "..."

After explaining, Li Huan went back to the room and changed his clothes. While calling the senior brother to explain the situation and asking him to go north to find the whereabouts of the teacher, he put the items he might need into the backpack, and then he suddenly thought of something, opened the drawer, Take out the scroll of the puppet that is sealed with the beast riding yellow and install it.

Five minutes later, Li Huan stood hesitantly in front of the darkroom door. After sighing in his heart that this idea was too unreliable, he opened the door and walked in.

The demon subduing master who was chained up did not sleep, but sat there quietly cross-legged. Hearing the movement, he looked up at Li Huan, and his eyes met. For no reason, Li Huan had a feeling that the other party had been waiting for him. The illusion of his return.

Because of some unpleasant memories caused by carelessness last time, Li Huan has a long memory this time, and after walking a few steps, he no longer approaches. I'm looking for someone."

Xing Yi didn't seem to hear what he said, neither agreed nor refused, but just stared at Li Huan very innocently.Li Huan couldn't figure out what this guy was thinking, and was thinking about whether to repeat what he said just now, but saw Xing Yi's fingers move, and the light blue spiritual power overflowed and condensed into a line, slowly floating towards this side.

Li Huan: "..."

It was considered a sneak attack before, but this time he used this tactic blatantly, and didn't run away when he saw it. Did this bastard think he was a badass? !Li Huan was so angry that a vein on his forehead twitched. He turned around and was about to leave, but he heard the other party say, "You want me to find someone for you?"

Li Huan stopped in his tracks, and turned his head suspiciously.

The lead wire was wrapped around his wrist, which was different from the last rough pull. Mr. Demon Subduing Master pulled his fingers, and Li Huan could feel a faint force coming from his wrist, which was gentle and bewitching, and wanted to pull him. He goes over.

A certain person had experienced a tragic battle between heaven and man in his heart, and finally sighed resignedly. He walked up to the man and knelt down on one knee. Looking at the clean and serious black eyes of the man without any evil meaning, he was instantly defeated. Flat out.

Maybe he was worrying too much, Li Huan thought to himself, and said with a blank expression: "I want you to help me find someone, is that okay?"

Xing Yi didn't speak, leaned over and licked the corner of his mouth very naturally, frowned slightly because he didn't taste the blood, he switched to the side of his neck and licked it, still nothing—Mr. With a disappointed expression, he looked at Li Huan in confusion.

Li Huan: "..."

What the hell? !Li Huan's recently restored Sanguan was shattered into scum again, and he handed over the hand that had cut his palm just now to save Ari, and then watched the other party speechlessly licking away the dried blood with satisfaction.

"it's OK now?"

Xing Yi nodded, Li Huan heaved a sigh of relief, unchained him, and said, "Follow me."

The two left the courtyard through the back door. Li Huan unlocked the Land Rover, opened the co-pilot's door to signal to get in the car, and went around to the other side and sat in the driver's cab, started the engine, and handed over the scroll and a blood-stained pajamas to the criminal. Yi.

"Tell me where he is."

Xing Yi unfolded the scroll, summoned the monster Chenghuang with spiritual power, spread out the lead wires to fix the puppet, and let it smell the blood on the pajamas.Cheng Huang remembered the smell and looked up at the master, Xing Yi lowered the car window, and moved the puppet with five fingers to track it out.

"Follow it." Xing Yi said.

As soon as Li Huan stepped on the accelerator, he drove the Land Rover out of the alley. While driving, from the corner of his eye, he secretly looked around at the skilled man who didn't look like he had lost his memory. He was puzzled.

Noticing the other's gaze, Xing Yi turned his face sideways and stared at Li Huan for two seconds, then lowered his head to lick again.

The Land Rover, which was racing all the way, turned the steering wheel and nearly rushed into the green belt. Li Huan's head was full of black lines, and he quickly pushed the person away, dumbfounding: "Don't, it's important..."

Mr. Demon Subduing Master was unmoved.

Li Huan said frantically, "We'll talk about it when we go back!"

Mr. Demon Subduing Master grabbed the back of someone's head and pushed him down.

"Don't make trouble, I'm driving," Li Huan was crazy, "Come here after the work is over?!"

"Hmm..." The stubborn Mr. Demon Subduing Master weighed it for a while, and seemed to be satisfied with the proposal, so he sat back obediently.

Li Huan: "..."

Li Huan felt a headache and didn't dare to provoke this guy anymore. He put on his earphones and called the elder brother. The two agreed to meet in a certain tunnel passing by the Jingcheng Expressway, and then set out on the road together.

Half an hour later, the Land Rover turned on its high beams, without any intention of slowing down, and drove straight into the tunnel. The off-road jeep parked in the temporary parking zone responded with double flashes, started immediately, and accelerated to catch up.

The whole journey was nearly 450 kilometers from Beijing City to Chengde Mulan Paddock. The dashboards of the two cars were red all the way, and they finally separated into the paddock county in the early morning, and then drove more than ten kilometers deep before stopping at the periphery of the forest area. .

The jeep stalled, and a young man with an expressionless face opened the door and got out.

He wore a very slim long black windbreaker, which lined his tall and strong figure. He could be seen as a person with good fitness habits. The man's facial features were three-dimensional and handsome, his eyes were deep, and there was an old-fashioned gold rim on the bridge of his nose. Frameless glasses, when not smiling, will give people a sense of contradiction between gentleness and sternness.

Shen Chixiu missed his junior brother, and was even more worried about the teacher's safety, so he walked quickly towards the Land Rover as soon as he got out of the car.

Over there, Li Huan and Xing Yi got off the car separately, and the three of them met each other. Shen Chixiu immediately noticed the lead wire of Xing Yi's fingers, and his face sank instantly. Brother, who is this?"

Xing Yi: "?"

Li Huan said, "I'll explain this when I go back. I'll ask the teacher first."

Shen Chixiu nodded, stopped talking, and motioned for the two to leave first, and he himself cut off.

Chenghuang, who was lying under the larch, moved his ears, and his body controlled by the lead wire stood up, and quickly jumped into the woods to lead the way.

"There's a spot of blood under that tree," Xing Yi said to Li Huan, "but it's not the person you're looking for."

Li Huan hummed, thinking that it should be left behind by the demon being chased by the teacher, and when he looked up again, he found that the other party was still staring at him, and immediately felt bad.

Sure enough, like a child waiting for a reward, Xing Yi asked very seriously: "Is it possible?"

Li Huan: "..."

Shen Chixiu: "?"

The elder brother was baffled by the conversation between the two, "What do you want?"

"It's nothing." Li Huan supported his forehead, dragged Xing Yi's arm to speed up his pace, and said in a low voice: "Let's go back together, don't mention this matter again, my senior brother has conservative ideas, and he is too lenient, if he knows it, he will easily kill me."

Senior brother who is a monster with good hearing: "???"

In the early morning of deep winter, because the snowfall did not stop, the sky could not be bright, and the light in the woods was even darker. The puppet Chenghuang who was walking in the front suddenly stopped and sniffed at the tip of his nose. shrub.

"Go!" After finishing speaking, Xing Yi directly pulled Li Huan to follow him.

How did Shen Chixiu feel that the two holding hands together were not harmonious, and then contacted each other's identities, thinking that the junior brother might have something to do with something like the demon subduing master, Shen, who has always been calm on weekdays, said that this matter could not be straightforward at all. Look!

He went through the bushes and stopped before a tree.

Li Huan stared at the snow-covered bulge next to the tree trunk, and was stunned for half a second. He subconsciously broke free from the clasped hands on his wrists, walked over and plopped down on his knees in the snow.Li Huan's hands were shaking non-stop, his breathing seemed to be stagnant, he hurriedly brushed off the snow that fell on the man, his lips parted, but he couldn't utter a single syllable for a long time.

Qi Jingyu's face lost all color, her body was completely frozen, and the front of her shirt was stained with dark brown clotted blood.

Without saying a word, Li Huan took off his coat, wrapped him tightly in his arms, rolled up his cuffs, turned his head, and tremblingly said: "Brother, knife!"

Shen Chixiu bypassed Xing Yi, drew out his dagger, and directly cut a deep bone wound on the inside of Li Huan's wrist.Li Huan moved Qi Jingyu into his brother's arms and motioned for him to help him up. He pinched the teacher's chin and sent his wrist over.

The dark red blood overflowed, poured into the mouth along the crack of the lips, and more dripped into the snow.For a moment, the air was filled with the sweet smell of blood.

Not far away, Xing Yi's eyes watching Li Huan's back changed.

A few minutes later, Qi Jingyu moved his hand hanging aside.

A look of surprise flashed in Li Huan's eyes. Seeing that the wound had healed and the amount of bleeding had decreased, he took the dagger and cut it open again. He repeated this five or six times. Start to gather slowly.

The first thing Qi Jingyu did when he regained consciousness was to grab Li Huan's wrist and press it down without hesitation.

"teacher……"

"How many times have I said that you must never let yourself get hurt, Xiao Huan, when will you remember what the teacher said?" Qi Jingyu's voice was weak, but he bit every word very clearly.

"Teacher, let's rest for a while, I know I'm wrong." Li Huan stretched out his hand to brush away a strand of hair that blocked his eyebrows, and his eyes curled up with a smile. With this smile, the tears that he had held back before couldn't be held back, so he hurriedly turned his head away. , Said to Chi Xiu: "Brother, it's cold here, take the teacher first."

Shen Chixiu nodded, picked up Qi Jingyu and returned along the original road.

After they walked away, the symptoms of excessive blood loss began to appear. Li Huan's eyes turned dark, and his legs couldn't use any strength at all. He could only barely support the tree trunk to stabilize his body.

At this moment, the man who had been waiting behind him for a long time took a step forward, and the sound of the snow being crushed by the soles of his shoes woke Li Huan up instantly.

How could he have forgotten that there was a bloodthirsty guy by his side!

Li Huan turned around on guard, and when his eyes met, he was suddenly stunned.

The man's dark eyes were as cold as ice, like a ferocious beast being violated. Under that aggressive gaze, Li Huan suddenly had a strange thought that he would be eaten alive by the other party.

Then, he watched Xing Yi walk over, grabbed the wrist that was not bleeding much, and licked off the remaining blood with great reluctance.

- To Be Continued