treacherous world

Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and others boarded the ship and went to Songjiang Mansion, and together they went to find the expert that Gongsun had mentioned, and asked about spiritualism.

Zhan Zhao was very curious and asked Gongsun, "What kind of tall man?"

"When I was buying medicine nearby, I met a fake fortune-teller who wanted to cheat money." Gongsun replied with a smile, "But after chatting for a while, this is a real living god with profound knowledge."

"Then God still cheats money?" Zhao Pu didn't quite believe it.

"Blind man cheating money..." Bai Yutang suddenly seemed to remember something. After all, he is a local and knows more about the situation.Seeing his expression, Zhan Zhao asked, "Who is it? Do you have an impression?"

The expression on Bai Yutang's face seemed a little embarrassed and perplexed, and he said after a while, "I'm not going, you go find it yourself." After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.

"Oh." Zhan Zhao quickly grabbed him, "What's wrong?"

"No..." Bai Yutang shook his head, his expression was not that he was fine, but that he would kill him without saying anything.

Zhan Zhao and the others were suspicious—what's the matter?

"I'll go ahead and find a restaurant, you guys go." Bai Yutang waved his hands, "Hurry up and come back." After finishing speaking, he had to leave.

Zhan Zhao grabbed him tightly, "You know him?"

"Cat..." Bai Yutang wanted to withdraw his hand, "On the street, don't mess around."

"Then tell me, who is that old man?" Zhan Zhao's curiosity was aroused, and he clung to him.

"That old man is my nemesis." Bai Yutang couldn't stand Zhan Zhao's pressing questions, so he had to answer honestly, "I hate seeing him the most."

"Oh?" Everyone was amazed when they heard the word "Ke Xing". Who is so capable to "Keep" Bai Yutang.

"Could it be... that old man is Brother Bai?" Gongsun asked.

"It was Mr. Wen when I was young." Bai Yutang asked, "Is his surname Li, Li Yuanqing?"

"Well, everyone calls him Li Laolun." Gongsun thought about it for a while, "Li Yuanqing, such a refined name, why is he so crazy?"

"When he was young, he was said to have won the number one prize. He was quite a normal person, and he was not so unreliable." Bai Yutang shook his head, "It is said that later he became obsessed with studying witchcraft, and came to this place to live in seclusion all day long. I My elder brother didn't know what to think when I was young, so I invited him to be my wife, which made me a little scared, anyway, I get a headache when I see him...you go."

"No." Zhan Zhao grabbed his wrist and walked forward, "Master Wen when you were young, isn't that your mentor? It's so close, why don't you ask him?"

"Don't." Bai Yutang quickly waved his hands, "I can't go... Sigh!"

Bai Yutang wanted to resist, but Zhan Zhao grabbed his arm to prevent him from escaping.On the way, I also bought a jar of good wine and some appetizers. I was going to flatter that senior. Anyone who can be Bai Yutang's enlightenment teacher must be a great person.

Gongsun asked Bai Yutang again, "Since he is your mentor, hasn't he told you about witchcraft?"

Bai Yutang shook his head again and again, "When I was young, I missed all my classes, and the five-element formations he taught, as well as traps for ambushes, were pretty effective.

Zhan Zhao finally understood where Bai Yutang's strange abilities came from. It turned out that there was such an expert guiding him.

The crowd went around and went into a long and narrow alley.

There are houses on both sides of the long alley. The gates are closed, and some are even locked. There are fallen leaves and dust at the gates. It is obvious that no one has walked around for a long time.

In the innermost house, the dark gate is facing the entrance of the alley, and there is a bronze mirror hanging directly above the gate.

At this time, the sun was in the west, and the sun shone like that... The mirror dazzled the eyes, making everyone unable to open their eyes due to the noise.

"Oh my god..." Gongsun couldn't help shouting, "Who is hanging the demon mirror facing the street? The house in the well is a big murderer. He still hangs the mirror there because he is afraid that the white hairs won't knock on it at night." Is it his house?"

"Daddy, why did the white cat knock on the door?" The fourth son didn't understand, he didn't know that Bai Mao was talking about ghosts.

Gongsun asked him and Xiao Liang to walk behind him hand in hand... Seriously, this old crazy pear is indeed a great talent, he is really well educated, not worse than Mr. Bao.It's a pity that this person is too crazy, I don't know whether to say that he is out of the ordinary world in spying on the secrets of heaven, or whether he should say that he just has something wrong.

After finally reaching the gate, Gongsun knocked on the door.

Before his second hand could touch the door, the door swung open.

Everyone was startled, dare to wait at the door?

Behind the door, a chubby old man poked his head out.This old man is at least eight or ninety years old, with silver hair, a round face, and a ruddy spirit.Zhao Pu glanced at it, and inexplicably thought... the fourth son must be like this when he is old, and his thoughts broke out in a sweat.

"Yo, brother Gongsun, even if you will come to see me today!" The old man raised his head and groped, "Today, my good apprentice will bring his sweetheart to see me, where is it?"

Bai Yutang heard it clearly, stood behind and held his forehead, and Zhan Zhao never expected the old man to say such a sentence... You know, the only person here who can have anything to do with Bai Yutang's sweetheart is himself, so he immediately made a fuss A big red face.

After sizing up everyone, the old man landed on Zhan Zhao, squinted his eyes, "Oh..."

Zhan Zhao didn't understand what he said "Ouch", did he know himself? Or did he have a backache?

The old man stared at Zhan Zhao for a long time, then clicked his tongue twice, "Yintang is black, it's terrible!"

Before he finished speaking, Bai Yutang threw the food box in his hand at his face.

"Be careful!" The old man stretched out his hand to pick up the food box, Bai Yutang didn't use much force at first, and he really smashed him to death, but he just got mad at him for talking nonsense!

"I'm serious, you're no better than him!" The old man gave Bai Yutang a dissatisfied look, and then handed the food box to the little four who looked up and looked stupidly, "Help the old man, I'll take it for you!" Some." After finishing speaking, he opened the door, "Come in, I'm treating guests."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, could the old man have guests at home?

But when he arrived in the yard, he gasped immediately—the old man was treating guests!

I saw a round table and sixteen stools in the yard.There are probably hundreds of cats squatting on the table and stool.There are all kinds of cats, black and white, and three-flowered tiger-striped ones, and they are gnawing dead mice... The scene is so weird.

Everyone subconsciously glanced at Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao's hairs stood on end... cats, one or two of them can resist, but if there are more of them, it's unlucky.

"Hush... don't disturb them, be careful of biting people, let's go inside and talk!" The old man waved and led everyone into a side room.

There are no cats in the house, but there are many strange things.Feathers of phoenix birds, dry black bats, woodcut gossip, dolls made of cloth... In the corner of the wall, there is also a pair of dead bones standing.

Bai Yutang looked up at the sky, the old man became more and more ill in recent years.

"Come on, good apprentice, drink this." The old man took a cup, poured out a cup of red plasma-like substance from the copper pot on the side, and handed it to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang shook his head resolutely, he wouldn't drink it even if he was killed!

"It's still as rigid as when I was a child." The old man didn't force him, took the bowl back and drank it himself.

Zhao Pu looked around and felt that the old man's posture was a bit like a monster monk from the Western Regions.

"Old man, I have something to ask you." Zhan Zhao said.

The old man chuckled twice, then turned to look at him, "Ask the cat?"

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and opened his eyes wide to look at the old man, "The cat..."

"Yeah!" The old man nodded, "I have a cat problem!"

Bai Yutang suddenly smiled and nodded, "I have a cat problem, that cat is big..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao quietly pinched him by his side.

The old man glanced at Bai Yutang again, "Well...he's grown up a bit." Then, he rummaged through the box and took out a parchment, handed it to Bai Yutang, "Take it here."

"What is this?" Bai Yutang felt puzzled, opened it, and saw a map drawn on the sheepskin with extremely fine brushstrokes.It's just that the words and patterns on it are extremely weird, and he has never seen them before.There is also a red seal in the middle of the picture, which seems to be printed on it, and the dense lines inside are similar to the palm lines of a person.

"A meeting gift, for your sweetheart." The old man chuckled, Bai Yutang sighed, and wanted to return the scroll to him, but the old man was puzzled and murmured, "Put it away, it's a good thing, a good thing!"

Zhao Pu patted Gongsun lightly, indicating to him—quickly ask, and the old man is really crazy, if you leave us to eat with the group of cats at the door, it will be troublesome.

Gongsun also thought this was the case, so he asked the old man, "Old man, I want to ask you something."

"Huh?" The old man started busy chatting about finding stools for everyone to sit on, and asked Gongsun, "What are you asking?"

"Spiritualism, how much do you know?" Gongsun asked.

The old man looked up at him, "Calling the soul... Hehe, I thought you were here to ask about the demon city on the sea."

"Demon City?" Everyone frowned.

Bai Yutang asked, "Is that extra island out of thin air really a demon city?"

"What is extra out of thin air..." The old man tutted twice and shook his head, "You child, when you were young, you were taught to study hard, but you didn't learn, so my legacy was not passed on. See? It's sad for a young man who doesn't work hard! "

Bai Yutang was so angry that the old man started talking nonsense again.

"Old man, let's continue talking about the demon city." Gongsun saw that he was going to go far away again, so he quickly brought it back to the topic, "Does the ghost ship have anything to do with the demon city? The legend of the demon city, in detail... old man Know?"

"Well..." The old man beckoned to everyone, sat down at the table, covered his mouth lightly with his hand, and said in a very low voice, "That demon city... didn't appear by chance. matter!"

Everyone frowned when they heard this, and asked the old man, "What happened?"

"Those people, they are looking for something!" The old man twisted his body inexplicably twice, and smiled, Zhan Zhao subconsciously glanced at Bai Yutang—it was really abnormal.

"Do you know what the demon city is?" the old man asked mysteriously.

Everyone shook their heads, thinking that you should speak quickly, you are in a hurry!

"That demon city is very old!" said the old man, "On the sea and in the desert, thousands of years ago, there was a large army lurking!"

"Huh?" Zhao Pu sounded strange, "The sea and the desert are no places for people to stay. Where can I hide the army?"

"Short-sightedness means short-sightedness!" The old man's eyes suddenly opened wide, "Because you were born in this affluent place since you were young, do you think that barren land is uninhabitable! But if you were born on water or in the desert since you were young , can't grow up? There will be some special abilities!"

Everyone listened and nodded, which is true.

"At that time, for a while, the sea was full of bandits!" The old man stood up, found some ancient books from a side cabinet, went to the crowd, and showed some pictures, "This , is the legendary demon city!"

Bai Yutang and the others looked at the so-called demon city, its layout and architectural style, just like a village on an ordinary island.

"There's nothing wrong with it." Bai Yutang said, "Shouldn't it be enough to just call it the abandoned islands in the sea? Why call it a demon city?"

"Hey... Do you think there are many demon cities? Just one!" The old man said mysteriously, "At the earliest time, there was a big island far away in the sea. There was a country on the island, the capital of the country, It's called Demon City!"

Everyone looked at each other.

Zhao Pu smiled, "Old man, are you fooling us? There is such a big island country in the sea, and there is a capital city, why haven't we heard of it at all?"

"Can't say it!" The old man put his index finger in front of his mouth, panicking, "That's a secret, can't say it, the emperor at that time ordered to block the news!"

"Why?" Zhan Zhao and others were puzzled.

"Demons are rampant, you're scared! You're scared!" The old man wrinkled his nose and shook his head again and again.

"Isn't it a trap for the monster clan to eat people?" Everyone thought of what Lu Fang said before, the legend of the monster city.

"Oh, that was later, the place where those scattered demon city residents drifted on the water and made it up by themselves." The old man said, pointing to the sky, "Originally there was going to be a war, and if the demon city was captured After the land of Han, there will be no descendants like us! Fortunately, God has eyes, the wind and the sea rise, and the rain beats the demon city to pieces! Otherwise, we will die! We are the ones!"

The more Zhan Zhao and the others listened, the more puzzled they became. It was just that the sentence "The wind and the sea raised its head, and the rain smashed the demon city!" Could it be that the originally powerful demon city was destroyed because of the tsunami and heavy rain?Is it a natural disaster?

Gongsun began to flip through the ancient scrolls, Zhao Pu looked at them together, and Zhan Zhao asked the old man curiously, "Old man, you just said, cat trouble? Have you ever seen a cat with red eyes?" The old man narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly. , "Oh... that! Red eyeballs..."

Bai Yutang felt tired listening to him, so he urged, "Master, I'm asking you seriously, can I answer seriously?"

The old man stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhan Zhao's eyes, "Golden eyes, silver eyes, purple eyes, black eyes, red eyes, gray eyes, amber eyes, blue eyes... eight eyes in troubled times, hahaha."

Zhan Zhao frowned, not knowing what he said.

Zhao Pu turned his eyes, and when he heard the gray eyes, he remembered what the royal family used to say when he was a child, the eyes with different eyes are the most taboo, because they will destroy the country.

"Speak more carefully!" Bai Yutang grabbed the old man's arm and asked him to speak a complete and understandable sentence to explain Zhan Zhao's eye problem.

"Oh, oh, irritable boy!" The old man glared at Bai Yutang, stretched out his finger to Zhan Zhao's forehead, and said to Bai Yutang, "Look at it, look at it, Yintang is really black, look at him, and be careful that someone snatches him .”

Bai Yutang was confused when he heard it, could it be that Zhan Zhao has a bad omen?Although he doesn't like the old man's nagging.But I have taught him some things since he was a child. His fortune-telling is accurate in Feng Shui, and the prediction of good and bad fortune is also accurate!Unavoidably, he was a little worried about Zhan Zhao.

After the old man finished speaking, he yawned, ran to pick up the copper pot, went to the door, and poured it into the sink in front of the door... the bloody sauce in the copper pot was poured out, and those wild cats came to lick it.

Everyone frowned. The place where the wild cat left was full of dead fish and rats, making people sick to their stomachs.The fourth son hugged Xiao Liang and whispered, "Little Liang, this old man is so weird!"

Zhao Pu lightly touched Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, who were still in a daze, and signaled them—look at that sink!

The two looked over in a blink of an eye, and they both frowned, only to see that the water tank was a strange brown-black color, exactly the same as what they saw on the ghost ship that day.

"Old man, what is that?"

Zhan Zhao suddenly saw a dilapidated New Year picture pasted on the back of the courtyard gate.I saw a multi-handed black god and demon painted on that year's painting - the appearance was exactly the same as the statue enshrined in the shrine on the ghost ship that day.

"Ask what?" The old man turned back slowly, followed Zhan Zhao's line of sight, and looked at the courtyard gate.

"What kind of idol is that?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

The old man stared at it for a long time, he laughed, "That's not a god!"

Everyone looked at him, waiting for him to say what it was.

The old man said excitedly, "That is the legend, the ancestor of the demon city!"

After that, the old man was still full of nonsense, asking him what, the answers he gave were all specious, it seemed that he was hiding a mystery and seemed to be nonsense, and he didn't know if he was pretending to be crazy or really crazy.

In the end, the old man pulled Bai Yutang and insisted that he treat him to a wedding wine.

Bai Yutang couldn't take it anymore, and told everyone to leave quickly.

Gongsun took several volumes of information about the demon city and took them back to read, and it was quite rewarding.

Zhao Pu found that he had been fascinated by the book and couldn't hear what was going on around him at all, so he carefully pulled him in front to prevent him from tripping or bumping into the wall when he was walking.

Zhan Zhao walked at the back, and when he was about to leave, he intentionally slowed down and asked the old man softly, "Old man...do you know Zhan Hao?"

As soon as the old man heard the word "Zhan Hao", his face immediately turned pale, and he stepped back while waving his hands, shouting, "Amazing, amazing!" After finishing speaking, he closed the door and ran away!

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, originally thought that he could see the sun through the clouds when he came here, but he didn't expect it to be even more foggy.

After going out to the alley, Bai Yutang was walking beside Zhan Zhao, staring at his forehead.

Zhan Zhao knew that he cared about the saying "Yintang is black, big murderer", so he stretched out his hand to cover his forehead and shook his head, "Don't listen to his nonsense, I..."

"Danger!"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Liang suddenly yelled.

Bai Yutang has sharp eyesight and quickly pulls Zhan Zhao to his side...

Immediately, there was a "clang".

I saw a large flower pot placed on the wall on the second floor falling from the window on the second floor. It just hit the place where Zhan Zhao was standing just now.The yellow porcelain flower pot fell to pieces, and the mud bar inside was firmly packed to the brim. A hard-core crabapple was planted in the pot.

Everyone was stunned.

Looking up again, the windows on the second floor were closed tightly, and no one was there... The flower pot obviously fell by itself.

"Ah!" The fourth son called out, "It's dangerous!"

Zhan Zhao also opened his mouth, stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, and said to himself——it can't be that evil, can it? !