zero o'clock

[challenge from unknown]

The blade hidden in the umbrella body was extremely narrow and thin, and there was no sound when it was pulled out, and it shone a brilliant reflection under the pale incandescent light.

Ji Qingci opened a pair of dull black eyes, and her slightly stiff eyes fell on Xing Yi's body without turning around. Her upper and lower eyelids were painted with thick smoky makeup, which enlarged the entire eye contour a lot, and also It was precisely because of this that the eyes appeared abnormally deep and hollow, making the skin pale as if bleeding from blood.

Like a corpse, not a living thing.

Xing Yi stared at the woman in the mirror, and such a ridiculous thought flashed through his mind for no reason. He and Ji Qingci had only met once, but this woman had a very special temperament. An elegant and graceful feeling, like wearing a beautifully decorated mask, so that you can't see which one is the real her - this kind of guy who is good at disguising is very suitable for long-term missions that require confidentiality, no wonder He is the apprentice who comes back the least frequently around Kyuubi.

All in all, the side in front of the Bi'an Tea House was so impressive that after a brief surprise, Xing Yi quickly judged that this person was definitely not Li Huan's senior sister, but it was difficult to say what it was. .

After all, she doesn't have the slightest bit of evil spirit, even the anger of a living creature.

Of course, this is very likely to be intentional——

The location of this office building is very sensitive to them. The target tea house is next door, and the hot pot restaurant is at the height of the evening meal gathering a lot of diners. Seeing this posture, the other party obviously intends to use the handle and the thin blade instead of the The meaning of using demon power spells may mean that she also doesn't want to startle the snake.

If so, it would be even more strange...

Thoughts in Xing Yi's mind were scattered, he turned around slowly, and his right hand hanging by his side silently moved to his pocket——No matter how you think about the timing of this guy's appearance, he has ulterior motives, and it is completely conjecturable from different angles. Different results, the most frightening thing is that the targets these results imply can only show that everyone around Kyuubi is suspicious, even including himself.

Thinking of this, he suddenly hesitated, and immediately gave up the idea of ​​calling Li Huan to warn him.

There was no movement downstairs, and it seemed that nothing major would happen. At least let him figure out what he was facing.

The next moment, the slender figure of the woman disappeared in an instant.

Xing Yi only felt that there was a gust of wind sweeping towards him. After all, his tempered sense of crisis was extremely sensitive at this time. He dodged reflexively, and in a glimpse, he saw the sharp blade as thin as a cicada's wing slashing down in the air. A sound sliced ​​through the shiny marble surface of the sink without hindrance.

Xing Yi's usually quiet eyes were rarely filled with surprise!

Also in order not to scare the snake, he couldn't use a puppet, and he couldn't even mobilize even a sliver of spiritual power. The bathroom space is small, which is very difficult to escape and avoid, let alone face the knife in the umbrella that cuts iron like mud!Thinking of this, he didn't dare to hesitate at all, and took advantage of the space where the opponent's sharp blade was stuck, he twisted his body and kicked sideways, and his tense right leg, which was charged and tense, hit the woman's slightly forward-leaning back hard, as if with thunderous force.

In an instant, a scalp-numbing cracking sound erupted from her chest, and then she lowered her head to retch, and a hoarse cough sounded, as dry and unpleasant as sandpaper polishing a metal surface. She crouched in front of the sink, her body Trembling, but finally unable to spit out anything.

Xing Yi's expression changed, he was stunned for half a second, then turned around and opened the bathroom door and rushed out.In the bathroom at this moment, Ji Qingci's bent back suddenly heard the sound of bones twitching again. She seemed to not feel any pain, and she stiffly straightened her body against the broken spine and ribs.

The corridor on the second floor of the office building was pitch black, with only a handful of white lights leaking from the men's and women's bathrooms. Xing Yi quickly walked through the entire corridor and ran towards the end. That thing circles around, and old buildings like this usually have a staircase leading to the top floor outside the wall.

Sure enough, when Xing Yi ran there, he found a closed door at the end, the door handle was passed through by a chain, and a rusty lock hung on it.

In the darkness behind him, the sound of high heels hitting the ground sounded again.

He controlled a small amount of spiritual power to overflow, condensed a light blue lead wire, and then cut the iron chain with a click and pushed the door out.

Humid water vapor hits the face, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the staircase fixed against the wall has been eroded into a bad shape, and it is shaking tremblingly under the weight of an adult man, as if it will collapse at any time .

Xing Yi casually picked up a steel bar standing by the wall and held it in his hand, then climbed up to the top floor without stopping for a moment, and hid his figure behind a pile of tables and chairs.

At this moment, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated, and Xing Yi knew in his heart that it was a long time since he was out this time. Li Huan was worried at first, and when he couldn't wait, he naturally wanted to call to ask—he hesitated After a while whether to answer or not, I finally plugged in the earphones and connected the other party's call.

In the hotpot restaurant, Li Huan was standing at a secluded corner not far from the booth. Seeing that the phone was connected, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Why don't you come back? Do you know who is here?"

Xing Yi over there was stunned for a moment, swallowed back the words he hadn't said yet, and asked suspiciously, "Is someone here?"

Li Huan noticed the sound of rain in the background sound, and his voice was obviously lowered a lot, the smile froze on his face, and he said, "It's Senior Sister, what's the problem with you?"

"Ji Qingci?" Xing Yi paused, "Are you sure she is Ji Qingci?"

After his question, Li Huan subconsciously leaned against the wall, looked through a thin layer of gauze curtain at the senior sister who was serving mutton slices in the booth, and replied cautiously: "Sure, what's wrong?"

Xing Yi said: "I also met a 'Ji Qingci', but I know she is neither a demon nor a human being, I have fought her before, her back muscles are stiff, she has lost the vitality of a living thing, and she looks soulless Soulless, it should be a walking corpse."

When Li Huan heard this, his heart turned cold, and he asked, "Where are you?"

"The roof of the office building," said Xing Yi, "here she is..."

After he finished speaking, a beep sounded from the receiver. Li Huan held his phone in silence for a few seconds, then decisively turned back to the booth, and picked up the Nike bag on the seat: "Senior Sister, I—"

"What happened?" Ji Qingci didn't raise his head, and grabbed the gauze curtain to block the little junior brother's way. While talking, he calmly picked up a chopstick of mutton from the pot, dipped it in a little sesame sauce, and blew it on a small white porcelain dish. Then he put it in his mouth very gracefully, "Brother Huan, you are not calm enough, I can't let you just pass by like this."

Li Huan was really about to explode, he stretched out his hand to hold his senior sister's wrist, his voice was calm, and he said simply: "Brother Yi said that he met a walking corpse who looks exactly like you, and he is on the roof right now, he must take care of the overall situation. He can use the puppet to scare the grass, I have to help him!"

Ji Qingci took out a tissue to wipe the corners of his mouth, then raised his eyes to look at him: "Actually, I already know."

"You know?" Li Huan instantly remembered the inner ghost mentioned by the teacher, and looked at her with a lot of guard.

Ji Qingci laughed quite hurt, and said helplessly: "Brother Huan suspects Senior Sister?"

Li Huan avoided answering, and asked bluntly: "How did senior sister know that the walking corpse is here?"

"The raven is outside, it is the eyeliner of senior sister, what it can see, senior sister can see everything~" Ji Qingci calmly took the ipad for ordering, pressed the pay button, and reminded, "Don't forget that you are here Where, even if your man is in danger, you have to act more naturally, and don't let those mortals see the clues."

After finishing speaking, she put her hand on Li Huan's shoulder, pushed him back and sat down intact, took out a credit card from her wallet, and reminded again: "Remember to take the flowers."

Li Huan let out a long breath, forced himself to calm down, and said weakly, "Yes..."

Ji Qingci saw that it was rare for his junior brother who grew up as a kid to be so restless, and couldn't help laughing immediately: "Brother Huan is really different after he has someone he likes."

"Senior sister," Li Huan said repeatedly, "don't be joking."

Ji Qingci played with the credit card in his hand, turning it back and forth between his slender fingers, after a while, he calmed down and said, "It's just a walking corpse, and the demon subduing master can handle it even without spiritual power. ——" The woman's slender eyelashes lifted slightly, and the light in her eyes flowed, and fell lightly on Li Huan's face, "Senior Sister knows that you care about him, and has already arranged for Raven to wait nearby, so don't worry."

Li Huan nodded superficially, "Yeah", but he was still very restless.

After a while, the fat waiter came over to pay the bill for the two with a receipt from the machine. Seeing that the food on the table was not eaten, the male customer's expression was obviously not good. Not sure what will happen, can't help but feel more sympathy for this same-sex couple.

Ji Qingci tried her best to play the role of a preoccupied little woman, read the receipt several times, checked the dishes with the waiter one by one, then handed him the credit card, and asked several times if there was any discount or refund. roll.Li Huan sat across from him wanting to cry, he almost wanted to kneel down for his senior sister who was possessed by the actress.

When he finally swiped his card to pay, Ji Qingci went to the front desk of the hotpot restaurant with the uninvoiced receipt. After some well-founded verbal battles, he got a bottle of Coke back from there, and then stepped on his high heels from the second floor contentedly. The back door leaves the hot pot restaurant.Li Huan followed behind her heartbroken, and found that he had no temper at all after being tortured by senior sister Jing, and he was really not as nervous as before.

only--

A customer who carries Chanel, wears Burberry, and even uses LV for facial tissues, but argues with the front desk for a long time over a big bottle of Coke. This may be dragged into the blacklist by the merchant, right?

It's... so embarrassing!

The door was closed behind her, and under the obscure light, the demonic light in Ji Qingci's eyes flowed, and the blurry scene in the darkness fell into her eyes, and suddenly became clear.

"There's wind here, it's blowing from that side." She turned to face the left side of the corridor, her demon pupils narrowed slightly, "The door is open, that's where your family went up." After finishing speaking, she walked to At the door of the men's bathroom, he squatted down on one knee, and with the help of the light overflowing from there, reached out and gently stroked a very inconspicuous scratch on the tile, "The walking corpse also followed."

Li Huan also noticed all this, and he didn't answer the words hastily, because the senior sister always felt that there were other meanings faintly revealed in the words.

"Why me?" Ji Qingci stood up and whispered as if talking to herself, "Why did you provoke the relationship between me and the teacher?" She thought for a while, then changed her words, "No! That person wants to provoke us The relationship between everyone!"

Li Huan stood behind her and reminded in a low voice: "Anyway, let's go up and have a look first."

Ji Qingci nodded, reached into his satchel and took out a rune paper with runes drawn on it, and ignited it with demon power.

In an instant, several barriers that cut off the audio-visual atmosphere were fully stretched out, covering the parts other than the business at the bottom of the office building layer by layer.

When the talisman was burned out, Ji Qingci transformed into a snow-white auspicious beast Bai Ze in the corridor.

That Bai Zesheng had four hooves and wings, and each side of his head had a horn bent backwards. He looked back at Li Huan, and said in Ji Qingci's voice, "Junior brother, come up."

Li Huan turned over with one hand and stepped onto Bai Ze's back.

Bai Ze kicked his hind legs, his wings vibrated, carried him up, rushed out from the open door at the end, twisted in mid-air, and then rushed up to the roof.

Li Huan unzipped the zipper of his Nike bag and took out Tang Dao, clenched it tightly with one hand, and supported Bai Ze's horn with the other hand, and got up carefully with his center of gravity.

At the same time, the top of the office building.

Only half of the steel bar was left in Xing Yi's hand, and the other half was inserted straight into the right eye socket of the corpse. Black and sticky blood overflowed from the eye socket, soaking the front of the windbreaker in a dragging manner.

Because there were no three souls, the walking corpse didn't feel any pain at all. Her broken upper body was twisted in a strange posture. She turned around slowly and flipped the thin blade in her hand.In the next second, she took a step forward and attacked Xing Yi with a terrifying force that was diametrically opposed to the previous one.

Xing Yi stood still on the spot, and the attack of the walking corpse had arrived. He ignored the thin knife that cut iron like mud, but strangled the woman's slender neck with his bare hands.

The throat was oppressed, the walking corpse's eyeballs protruded, and a series of strange sounds came out from the opening of the mouth and throat, but the blade in his hand was completely unaffected and turned again, sweeping towards Xing Yi's neck.

Between lightning and flint, a wave of air filled with demonic power disperses, and the huge beast figure of Bai Ze rushes out from the edge of the roof. Li Huan jumps down, rolls on the ground to dissipate the momentum, and then clenches the Tang Dao to slash through the air. fall.

The walking corpse's arm stopped suddenly, and the thin blade barely stopped less than an inch away from Xing Yi, and then fell to the ground together with the entire arm holding the knife.

Li Huan stood up straight, swiped the knife to wipe off the dirty blood on the blade, turned his head to look at Xing Yi coolly, and half blamed him: "Even if you know we're here, you can't be so willful, in case I'm a step late , your head is separated from your body."

"You won't. You know I'm in danger and you'll come here with all your might. There's no way you'll be late." After speaking, Xing Yi threw away the frantically writhing corpse and nailed it to the concrete floor with steel bars.

On the other side, Ji Qingci turned back into a human form, held up an umbrella, and blew a whistle towards the sky.

The sound of birds flapping their wings sounded, and the raven passed through the rain curtain, got under the umbrella, and landed obediently on the woman's shoulder.

"Is there anyone suspicious nearby?" Ji Qingci asked.

"No," Raven replied truthfully, "This thing came up by itself."

Ji Qingci nodded when she heard the words, walked up to the walking corpse, stepped on its neck, and then crushed the cervical spine with a click. She looked down at the face that was exactly the same as herself for a moment, curled the corner of her mouth, and said with a sneer: "Do that?" The person who made it really has a heart."

"Yes," Xing Yi echoed, "If you tell Jiuwei about this matter, you will be suspected, and I, the demon-subduing master who threatened to be attacked by 'you', will also be suspected—"

"More than that." Ji Qingci interrupted him, "Eldest brother also knows about this, although he didn't come, but if you think about it from the perspective of framing, he is more suspicious than you and me."

Li Huan's brows tightened, and now he finally understood the meaning of what the senior sister said to herself earlier, but he still couldn't understand: "What is the purpose of that person?"

"He wants to divide us." Ji Qingci said softly, "Or, he wants to shake all the people trusted by the teacher, making them all suspicious."

——inued