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【Penalty】

Li Huan bent his knees and plopped on the ground, "Teacher..."

Qi Jingyu said: "Teacher knows that you don't dislike drinking blood, so for you, hunting for food is a really difficult thing?"

Li Huan didn't think about the reason for this.

It was a very contradictory feeling. When the blood addiction broke out, he had to admit that he was indeed a monster even if he didn't know the original monster, but once he left the teacher's side and mingled with ordinary people, he felt that he was clearly a human.

Li Huan was noncommittal, and simply stopped talking. He quickly unbuttoned the windbreaker and shirt, exposing his back, and then turned his back to Xiang Jingyu, waiting for the cane.

The entire tea room was lit with only one candle on the candlestick on the coffee table, and the orange-red fire light smudged the skin and flesh with a layer of warm color.Qi Jingyu stared at Li Huan's back, his eyes narrowed slightly, the skin on the young man's back was smooth and clean - because of the special self-healing ability, even though this little apprentice had to be beaten every now and then, he didn't even have a scar. won't stay.

For a moment, Qi Jingyu was a little dazed. He recalled that ten years ago, after being beaten every time, little Li Huan would cry and swell his eyes and ignore him, but he would obediently rub him over with yogurt.

He was still more likable when he was a child, Master Nine Tails smiled inwardly, this kid is really soft and hard when he grows up, even if he stands behind with a cane, he doesn't know what it means to be afraid.

Thinking of this, Qi Jingyu walked around in front of Li Huan, looked down at him, and said, "Look for a suitable target with a certain amount of spiritual power, as long as you control the amount of blood you drink within the range that a human body can bear, you can definitely reduce the damage to a minimum." lowest."

"A demon is a demon, Xiao Huan. You cannot escape your innate nature. Not killing is the biggest concession a demon can make. ourselves."

Li Huan was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Teacher, I have a question and I don't know whether I should ask it or not."

Qi Jingyu smiled, "If you have said everything, just ask. If you can hide things from me, you won't have to suffer so many beatings."

Li Huan: "..."

A row of ellipsis popped up on Li Huan's head, and he said to himself that you think I'm stupid. After saying that, if I still dare to ask, isn't it clear that I'm looking for a fight?At the same time, Fox Spirit, who had already delivered the demon corpse, poked his head out from the crack of the door, and nodded in agreement.

"Ah Li." Qi Jingyu said.

Hu Ling rushed out, and before he had time to hug his thigh, Qi Jingyu said again: "Kneel down."

Fox Spirit: "..."

Hu Ling closed his ears, and retreated to Li Huan's side in a desperate manner.

After all, it is in the shape of a beast, and its hind limbs do not have such things as knee joints. Generally, the body is erected, and the front paws are folded in front of the chest, making a bow instead of kneeling.This Hu Ling is a skilled worker, after all, he has carried the blame with someone for so many years...

"Young master," Hu Ling silently lit a piece of wax for himself in his heart, raised the tip of his tail to poke Li Huan from behind, lowered his voice, and said through his teeth: "What do you think of me?"

Li Huan glanced at it, and almost couldn't help laughing, "It's really like a mongoose spirit."

Fox Spirit: "..."

"Fart!" Hu Ling said angrily, "I'm asking if your labor is enough!"

"Oh," Li Huan said, "Did you see that cat meow?"

Hu Ling turned his head with murderous intent, his eyes glowed green, "I see, this stinky shameless!"

Li Huan said: "Tomorrow, I will help you throw it out the window."

Civet cat: "..."

Hu Ling happily wagged his tail, "Okay! It's a deal!"

A blue tendon on Qi Jingyu's forehead twitched, and the whip went down twice, and the world was quiet. "You two!" Nine-Tails-sama couldn't bear it anymore and said: "At this time, you still have the mind to bicker? Do you think I'm dead?!"

Some of the two turned their heads and stopped talking wisely.

Fifteen minutes later, Li Huan wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead and stood up on his knees.

Qi Jingyu didn't want to punish him too harshly, and he was very skillful in his execution. Li Huan's back was red, and there were more than a dozen swollen welts propped up by blood, but there was no bleeding.Hu Ling's skin is rough and fur, so it hurts after eating this meal, but for the monster with strong recovery ability, the patience is over.

Li Huan put on his jacket nimbly, turned around and picked up the Biluochun lamp on the coffee table. He blew on the tea that had been warmed up long ago, leaned to Qi Jingyu's side, and said with a smile: "Teacher, this time it's so fast! Just finish the fight, are you really relieved?"

Hu Ling had an expression of "fuck you learned it" on his face, and his eyes were straight when he bumped his head against the coffee table while muttering "Sycophant, sycophant, sycophant...", Li Huan pretended not to hear, and pointed at a repeater ass Hu Ling was caught off guard, and immediately rolled smoothly under the sofa.

Qi Jingyu laughed angrily at this little bastard, and gave Li Huan a look of "you're a good boy if you get it cheap". He took a sip of the tea cup, gasped slightly, and said, "The train from Shanghai is still 10 minutes away. Into the station, the target has to continue without solving the handover commission, I have to go to the scene to see the situation."

Li Huan said, "Then I will accompany you."

"Well," Qi Jingyu nodded, handed him the car keys, and said, "Wait for me at Yinding Bridge."

Li Huan said hello and raised his chin at Hu Ling.

The fox spirit who was kicked away just now had a long face, and the boss reluctantly shrunk down to the size of a puppy, and lightly jumped onto Li Huan's shoulder, and after squatting firmly, he still hummed provocatively at the civet cat.

Li Huan walked through the tea room to pick up the car by the back door, and it started to snow again in the sky, and there were no lights in the alley, Li Huan used the flashlight that came with his mobile phone to light up, Hu Ling felt the chill behind him, took advantage of the light to try to turn his head to look at his back, and said distressedly : "Help me quickly, is the hair loss serious?"

Li Huan couldn't bear to tell it that it was beaten bald, so he responded casually: "I can't see it. Eat light food in the next few days, and it will be fine when it grows its fur."

"Well, that's good," Hu Ling felt relieved, raised his hind legs and scratched his ears, and asked, "By the way, what did you want to ask Master just now?"

Li Huan pressed the remote control key, and the lights of a black Land Rover parked not far away flickered. He walked over and sat in the cab, turned on the wipers, and swept away the snow on the front windshield.

"Hey!" Hu Ling bared his teeth dissatisfied, "I just got beaten up with you!"

Li Huan started the engine to warm up, scrolled through WeChat Moments boredly with his hand, and said without raising his head: "I want to ask him, am I a demon, or am I just raised as a demon by him."

Fox Spirit: "!!!!"

"Ahhhhhhh!" Hu Ling ran his paws along his chest, heaved a breath with lingering fear, "It's a good thing you didn't owe anything, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy for us to escape today." He licked his nose in confusion, "Why do you say that every time you make a mistake, I have to be beaten?"

Li Huan doggedly praised the status posted by the teacher the day before, and said casually: "Probably because you were present every time but didn't prevent me from making mistakes?"

"How can you blame me for this?!" Hu Ling said sadly and angrily, "You have to listen to what I said!"

Putting the phone back in his pocket, Li Huan started off, holding the steering wheel with one hand, while the other hand perfunctorily smoothed the dog's hair, saying, "Calm down, Ahri, since you can't resist..."

Hu Ling's eyes widened, "Hit you!"

Li Huan made a gesture of surrender, and changed his words: "Don't be angry, no matter what pet the teacher picks up in the future, I will be responsible for throwing it out for you?"

Hu Ling shrank into a ball like a doormat, and muttered sullenly: "It's not too bad."

Li Huan smiled unkindly, drove the Land Rover out of the alley, and stopped beside the Yinding Bridge across the artificial lake.

At the same time, the tea house.

Qi Jingyu put on his coat and was about to go out, when the civet cat suddenly jumped out from the corner and stood in front of the door like a ghost, neither barking nor making noise, just watching him fixedly.

In the dim candlelight, the cat's face looked like it was wearing some kind of malicious smile.

"Get out of the way." Qi Jingyu said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a low laughter suddenly sounded in the silent tea house, Tanuki opened his mouth, and played with a very frivolous male voice: "Oh, Nine Tails, you are the most ruthless, play through It won people's hearts—even though your little apprentice who was kept in the dark was beaten by you, he is still willing to follow you wholeheartedly."

Hearing this, Qi Jingyu's cold eyes dimmed suddenly, "What do you mean?"

"What do I mean?" Tanuki asked with a smile, "Everyone has lived for such a long time, so it's not good if some words are too clear?"

Qi Jingyu said coldly, "This has nothing to do with you."

The civet cat said: "Jiuwei, from what you said, life and death in the world, whether it is a human or a demon, as long as the three souls leave the body, how can it have nothing to do with me?"

"Oh?" Qi Jingyu raised his eyebrows slightly, and the contempt in his eyes was obvious, "I thought Mr. Mo Luo had forgotten his duty long ago?"

The civet cat's eyes narrowed, and a frivolous and cunning light shone at the bottom of its clear yellow pupils, "Then if I don't forget, I'm here to recover the lost ghost soul of that spirit beast 3000 years ago, and let him die Be thorough, Nine Tails, what do you think?"

As if it was a response to that provocation, at that moment, the strong demonic aura dissipated, the candlelight was extinguished, the teahouse was swallowed by darkness, the beast tail danced behind Qi Jingyu, and the huge nine-tailed demon opened its fox eyes and lowered its head. He stared at the vulnerable civet cat.

"you dare!"

"Hehe, you did not hesitate to draw two strands of your own soul for him, one strand of transformed fox spirit guards the outside, and one strand deeply rooted in the body to stabilize your mind, and now you want to use the remaining one soul to fight with me—" the civet cat Looking up at the nine-tailed demon fox without fear, Jie Jie laughed lowly, "It's obviously a ruthless fox, but you are really partial to that dead demon fox!"

Qi Jingyu's face was pale, and his two lips that had lost their color were slightly pursed. Under the drooping eyelashes, an extremely complicated and contradictory emotion welled up in the bottom of his eyes, but disappeared without a trace in an instant, and finally returned to his unchanged state for a thousand years. Indifferently, "What do you want?"

"It's not too bad," the civet cat wagged its tail casually, walked to the side to let the door open, and said in a tone of interest, "I just feel sorry for that 'container' who thought the teacher loved me so much. , how does that child know—you punished him with Nine Tails, not because you cared about his life and death, but what you cared about was the phoenix soul in the depths of his soul."

- To Be Continued