treacherous world

They decided to split up and send people to Chengdu Mansion to find out the real situation. Zhao Pu Gongsun including Bao Zheng stayed in the cottage, waiting for the opportunity.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang decided to go deep into Chengdu Mansion first, but encountered a more serious problem here...the two of them had to change costumes!

There are also many people from the Jianghu in Chengdu. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang have obvious characteristics on weekdays, especially Bai Yutang, who is dressed in white all day long and is so handsome, so he is easy to be recognized by others.

Zhan Zhao is better, as long as he doesn't wear official uniform, almost no one can recognize him.

First, the weapons of the two were wrapped up and turned into two strips of cloth, and secondly... to change clothes for Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao borrowed a scholar's robe from Gongsun, it's white, it looks very refined and elegant, after wearing it, it looks like a scholar.

The fourth son clapped his hands, "Meow is like a master!"

Bai Yutang had no choice but to borrow a black dress from Zhao Pu to wear.After putting it on, Bai Wuye had a very handsome face, feeling uncomfortable and cold all over.

The fourth son took a look and hid behind Xiao Liang, "Little Liang, Baibai is so scary!"

It was natural for the two of them to go, and Pang Yu and Bao Yan were casual. In addition, Zhao Pu sent Ziying Zheying, two of the most clever shadow guards, to accompany them, mainly to protect the safety of Pang Yu and Bao Yan.

The six people went down the mountain overnight and rushed to Chengdu Mansion.

After driving all night, they sneaked into the Chengdu mansion before dawn the next morning. The four of them were all good at lightness kung fu. Pang Yubaoyan was taken by them casually, and he jumped over many barriers silently and entered without arousing any suspicion. to Chengdu.A few people first settled in an ordinary inn, and took a nap while it was still early.

Around noon the next day, everyone got up.

Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang tearing his clothes aside, and wanted to laugh, so he leaned over and reached out to hug him from behind.

Bai Yutang startled him, looked back at him, Zhan Zhao smiled, "Not feeling well?"

"I feel uncomfortable all over." Bai Yutang was a little depressed, "I hate black the most."

"No, it's pretty pretty." Zhan Zhao said.

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that he really didn't feel so uncomfortable, so he looked back at Zhan Zhao, "Really?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao rested his chin on his shoulders, "It's pretty good-looking, and each has its own characteristics in white or black."

Bai Yutang felt much better, nodded, and felt comfortable wearing black for the first time.

"Is it not uncomfortable?" Zhan Zhao asked him with a smile.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, "Very effective."

Zhan Zhao proudly changed his clothes, patted the hem of the clothes, opened a folding fan in a vague way, fanned the wind, and asked Bai Yutang, "How is it?"

Bai Yutang thought it was really good, Zhan Zhao really looked like a scholar in his outfit.

The two packed up and went out. Pang Yu and Bao Yan were also ready. Ziying Zheying walked around the city early in the morning and came back to talk about the basic situation. Everything in Chengdu Mansion is normal. That is, there is a strange place - no one goes to the streets in Chengdu Mansion at night.

"Why?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't understand.

"That's right, it's fun at night." Pang Yu's playboy nature was undoubtedly revealed.

Ziying Zheying shrugged, "When I go downstairs, the man will tell me not to go out at night, or you will lose your life."

"Hey..." Pang Yu laughed dryly, "Are there still ghosts at night?"

Everyone didn't bother to pay attention to this, and hurried out, there was still important work to do, which was to investigate where the arrested officials and kidnapped innocent children were being held.

After leaving the inn, the six of them walked towards the busiest neighborhood in Chengdu.

After walking a few steps, I noticed a strange thing—almost everyone on the street ran away after seeing them, and some even ran away.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were already wearing clothes they were not used to, which was very awkward, especially Bai Yutang, who felt that his body and clothes were not his own, and it was even more awkward to run away when he saw everyone staring at him.

Zhan Zhao also didn't understand. Looking behind him, Wu Ming didn't follow!He asked Ziying and Zheying, "You two just went out like this? Or do people in Chengdu recognize foreigners?"

Both Ziying and Zheying shook their heads, wondering - no, it was normal for them to come out just now.

Pang Yu ran to a side stall to ask the price, the boss greeted him warmly, Bao Yan went there, no problem, Zhan Zhao went to a calligraphy and painting stall to look at calligraphy and painting, the boss greeted him with a smile, but as soon as Bai Yutang approached, everyone turned around. Showing a look of horror, some even fled in despair.

Bai Yutang's color became darker again. He randomly picked out a calligraphy and painting and asked how much it was. The boss said tremblingly, "Go ahead and take it, no money will be charged."

Bai Yutang was baffled, could it be that he was similar to that Asura Hades?How can you scare people like this?

Zhan Zhao also felt puzzled——what's the situation?

After walking all the way, everyone looked at Bai Yutang as if they saw a five-life cat in Jinguan Town. They all hid away. If he fancy something, the seller would never dare to take money. He must give it to the seller. He knelt down and kowtowed to ask him to spare his life.

Bai Yutang thought to himself, could it be that there is a dog official who looks like himself in Chengdu Mansion, bullying the people everywhere?

Zhan Zhao firmly refused to believe this, and Bai Yutang asked him, "Then what do you think is going on?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head and said he didn't know, but pinched Bai Yutang's chin and shook his face, "Mice, you have to be confident, there is no way anyone in this world can grow such a face again!"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with resentment.

I chose the largest restaurant in downtown Chengdu, went to the private room on the second floor, and "coaxed" it for a while. Within a moment, the entire second floor was empty.

Pang Yu looked around with his teacup in his hand, and said seriously, "I know, people in Jinguan Town are afraid of cats, and people in Chengdu Mansion are afraid of mice!"

Bao Yan kicked him.

After everyone waited for a long time and no one came to serve the food, Pang Yu yelled, "His grandma's, no one?!"

After a while, a waiter ran up tremblingly, stumbled to the edge of the table, and asked with shaking hands, "What do you want, my lord?"

Pang Yu glanced at him, "You stand still, why are you shaking?"

The clerk glanced at Bai Yutang quietly, and Bai Yutang raised his eyes to look at him, so scared that he instinctively put his hands on his neck, "My lord...you come out during the day, too?"

Bai Yutang thought that Lao Tzu was nicknamed Chinchilla but he wasn't a real mouse. Who stipulated that he couldn't come out during the day and could only stroll around at night, so he frowned and gave him a look.

The guy covered his neck in shock and shook his head, "My lord, I'm talking nonsense, my lord forgive me."

Zhan Zhao felt that his behavior was weird, why was he covering his neck?

Bai Yutang frowned and asked him, "Are you afraid of me?"

"I'm afraid... I'm afraid." The waiter nodded and asked in a low voice what dishes they wanted to order.

Pang Yu ordered a few casually, and now everyone was not in the mood to eat. They just wondered why Bai Yutang, the most popular guest in restaurants and inns in Kaifeng Mansion, became the God of Plague that everyone feared here.

Before the food was served, I heard footsteps and crying in the corridor.

After a while, the shopkeeper took several young girls up to the second floor, lined up.The women were trembling with fright, and bowed their heads in a row.

Bai Yutang and the others didn't understand what they were doing.

Zhan Zhao asked the shopkeeper, "Who are these people?"

The shopkeeper swallowed, pointed to those girls to Bai Yutang, "My lord...you choose."

Bai Yutang felt even more strange, and asked in puzzlement, "What did you say?"

"Don't worry, my lord, these girls are all clean and fresh..."

"Fart you!" Pang Yuxin said in his heart that it has been many years since the uncle turned his back on evil, and this inn in Chengdu Mansion is too unreliable. You said that it would be fine to bring a group of kiln sisters to help the wine, but even sent a group of women from good families. Wang Fa is gone? !

"My lord, these girls all have families, not prostitutes." The man said, and brought an empty wine glass over, "Why don't we let each of us bleed a little so as not to kill them?" The man said this When he spoke, his voice trembled, as if he was discussing with Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang stared at him for a long time, "Bleeding?"

"Yeah..." The man nodded, stared at Bai Yutang for a long time, and suddenly noticed that Bai Yutang didn't seem to understand what he was saying at all.The clerk looked at the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper took a closer look at Bai Yutang, and finally took the courage to look at his hands.

Seeing that he was very frightened, Bai Yutang simply stretched out his hand to show him, "What's the problem?"

"Your nails aren't black..." The shopkeeper looked at the waiter, and everyone gathered around. The shopkeeper dared to ask Bai Yutang, "Well, isn't your lord a Nightcrawler?"

Bai Yutang was confused, "What kind of night walker?"

"Huh..." The shopkeeper finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the guys, "He is not a night crawler, everyone, don't worry, I have admitted the wrong person, this is it."

Everyone in the inn breathed a sigh of relief, and went to their own business one after another, word spread, and the guests continued to eat before finishing their meal, talking and laughing and forgetting about what happened just now.

Others can sit, but Bai Yutang can't - what's wrong? !

Zhan Zhao asked the shopkeeper curiously, "What night crawlers are you talking about?"

The shopkeeper looked around and asked in a low voice, "Aren't the guest officials local?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "We went to visit relatives in Sichuan, we heard that Chengdu Mansion is very interesting, so we came to visit."

"Tsk, it's a mess, what are you shopping for, you guys should go back quickly." The shopkeeper shook his head, looked at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang carefully, and then looked at the people beside him, "Really, everyone, hurry up, It's almost over, what are you playing for?"

Bai Yutang was still obsessed with the matter of the night crawler, and asked the shopkeeper, "What exactly is the night crawler? Why did you mistake me for him?"

"Night crawlers are a recent rise, and they seem to be a kind of monster that came from far away from the west." The boss found a stool and sat down, "They only move at night, so everyone calls them night crawlers, it seems Lord He Zheng’s friends, the government doesn’t dare to control them anyway, they are doing their own thing. These people are fine, but they like to drink human blood, I don’t know what’s wrong with it.” He opened his mouth and nodded. Grinding his teeth, he gestured to Zhan Zhao and the others, "That tooth... is several inches long, like a tiger. It has sharp claws on its hands, and its black nails are several inches long, as hard as iron armor. These nightcrawlers bite. There are still roars from time to time, oh my god, it's so scary!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, Bai Yutang subconsciously licked his own teeth, and felt that they were not sharp, his teeth were flat, but the cat had two pointed canine teeth, which he found when he kissed.

Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang, as if he had thought of the same thing, the two turned their faces away tacitly.

Pang Yu pointed to Bai Yutang, and asked the shopkeeper, "Is there any similarity between Nightcrawler and my friend?"

"Yes, those nightcrawlers, it is said that they always wear black and their bodies are very thin, but they are tall and look very strong. They look beautiful, both men and women, and their skin is very fair. Very white, black hair. The key point is that she is as cold as ice on weekdays, and she is serious and doesn't speak."

Everyone silently glanced at Bai Yutang, no wonder they got it wrong... It was exactly the same.

Bai Yutang looked at the sky speechlessly, what a disaster.

"Did those night walkers hurt you?" Zhan Zhao asked the shopkeeper curiously, "Otherwise, why are you so afraid of them?"

The shopkeeper bowed his head, "When they first arrived, many people who went out at night were bitten to death and sucked out their blood. It was very scary."

"Why didn't you report to the government?" Bao Yan frowned, "Isn't this a matter of reckless disregard for human life?!"

"The government won't accept it. The magistrate's yamen only told us not to come out after the sun goes down. Otherwise, the government will not be responsible if something happens." The waiter sighed, "Recently, many people run errands for those night walkers during the day, and come out to find something to pay for them." If an unmarried girl buys blood and resells it as a Nightcrawler, it can be sold for a good price."

"Nonsense!" Bao Yan frowned, "Girl's blood is not strong, how can you sell blood casually?! And you don't know how much to sell. If you sell too much, you will feel dizzy and lose your body." If it is serious, it will kill Huang Quan, this is not a joke!"

The clerk said helplessly, "We know, but if we release less, at least the girl can still live and provide them with enough blood, so that the tragedy of the girl being stolen and a mummified corpse will not be left when she is picked up. .

"It's unreasonable!" Zhan Zhao found it inconceivable.

After the guy left, everyone was left speechless.

Pang Yu asked Bao Yan in a low voice, "Hey, little mantou, haven't you read a lot of books? Have you ever heard of Night Walker?"

Bao Yan rested his chin and thought, "Isn't this a zombie that feeds on blood?"

Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang over and showed everyone his face, "A zombie like this?"

Everyone also felt unbelievable.

Bao Yan suddenly seemed to think of something, "By the way, I read a book about the tribes in the north, which mentioned a tribe called the Avars, which seemed to be related to the Nightcrawlers.

Everyone listened to Bao Yan's detailed explanation.

"The tribes of the Avars are basically distributed near the valley where the Huns lived. There is a book that records that a major event happened to the Avars, so that even now, they are still one of the most mysterious tribes in the Northwest."

Everyone listened to Bao Yan quietly.

"It is said that there was a patriarch of the Alva tribe who died after being bitten by a vampire bat. His relatives buried him, but unexpectedly he woke up not long after and crawled out. After climbing out, the elder rejuvenated and became young and handsome. The only shortcoming is that he is afraid of sunlight. Since then, the elders have only been active at night and do not come out during the day. Soon after, people in the village began to disappear, and when they were found, their bodies were all sucked up. In the end, everyone suspected that the elder was possessed by a demon, so they burned him to death, but he had already reproduced. Since then, there have been two kinds of people in the Alva tribe, one is the daytime walker, and the other is the daywalker. It appears at night, called Nightcrawler." After Bao Yan finished speaking, he shrugged slightly, "I've heard of this before."

"The Alva tribe..." Zhe Ying scratched his head, "That's really far away!"

"Why does He Zhenghui have contact with the Avar tribe thousands of miles away?" Pang Yu held his chin, "It's fine for this old man to contact Tubo and Xixia, but he still has to go so far?"

"By the way." Bao Yan reminded, "Nightcrawlers have one of their greatest characteristics!"

"What?" Everyone looked at him.

"Youth stays forever, and you live forever."

Everyone thought it was a little funny, isn't this nonsense.Since the first emperor, the monarchs of all dynasties have wanted to have the heart of immortality, but they have never achieved it, let alone such absurd things as rejuvenation.

Zhan Zhao thought for a long time, then asked softly, "Do you think He Zheng is sick?"

Everyone was taken aback and frowned.

"Indeed." Bai Yutang seemed to have noticed something, "Didn't you find out, starting from Jinyu Town, all the way to Chengdu Mansion, what is the most? It's not an inn or restaurant, but a medicinal herb shop!"

"He Zheng has been too high-profile and hasty recently, so that he showed his flaws. I thought it was a little weird before." Pang Yu held his chin, "After working hard for so long, just be patient and wait until you are more prepared, and you will be safe. Then why did he show his flaws so early? Didn't he give us a chance?!"

"Everyone thought he was ambitious." Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "Maybe it's because he's near the end of his life, so he's making the last struggle."

"Cat, what's the plan?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Tonight we all change into black clothes, pretend to be night walkers, sneak into He Zheng's house, and see the truth!"