Strange Records of Xijing

It's never a good idea to stand on the side of the road and talk to a black frog.Under Pei Jingxing's suggestion, the two simply brought Tian Qi back to the private room on the second floor of Dukang Building.

Tian Qi came here in a hurry. He had been hungry for a whole day in order to find Su Yan. Now his stomach was growling and he was packed in Su Yan's cloth bag, attracting the eyes of several individual visitors on the first floor.

Su Yan took Tian Qi to the private room first, while Pei Jingxing stopped a passing Xiaoer, he ordered a pot of good Maojian, and then ordered two dishes for Tian Qi - of course, it was all recorded in Niu Chunhui's On account.

When Pei Jingxing pushed the door open, Tian Qi was already talking to Su Yan.

It turned out that Tian Qi and the others lived near the river embankment ten miles west of the outskirts of Beijing. It was not a place of geomantic omen. There were no big monsters occupying the hills to practice. Instead, it attracted a lot of little monsters like him who didn't have much ability.

Because everyone is just an ordinary little demon, without the idea of ​​competing with each other for territory, they get along very well.Although Tian Qi has become a monster, he still retains the habit of hibernation. He was sleeping comfortably in his cave, but was suddenly awakened by a friend—a field mouse demon.

The field mouse demon told Tian Qi that the embankment was not flat recently, and many little monsters disappeared inexplicably. He was going to move with his wife and children, and asked Tian Qi if he wanted to go with him.

Tian Qi has no family members, so he originally wanted to agree, but he thought about it, if he didn't care about anything and just left like this, what would happen to those friends who were taken away?So, he declined the vole demon's invitation, hastily prepared some dry food, took advantage of the dark to arrive at the city gate of Xijing, and spent a lot of time to get Shen Tu and Yu Lei, who were guarding the city, to let him in.

He asked a few familiar monsters in the city, and later learned from a sparrow monster that Su Yan had gone to the Dukang Tower today, so he rushed over in a hurry. The black ash was entangled.

Now Xiao Er came to serve the food, Tian Qi quickly jumped off the table and got under the table.After Xiaoer went out, he jumped onto the table again, fixed his eyes on the two dishes, and said, "Daozhang Su, you must help us."

As soon as he finished speaking, he threw himself on the side of a dish, stuck out his long tongue, and ate up the dish bit by bit.

Su Yan searched in his mind and asked, "When did they disappear?"

Tian Qi puffed up his cheeks and replied: "I don't know the exact time. I asked several other monsters, and they all said they didn't know when they disappeared. But suddenly one day, some monsters felt that they hadn't seen them for a long time. I was worried about whether they were injured or sick, so I went to their caves and found that there were no ghosts inside, and there were still some bloodstains in two caves."

"Blood?" Su Yan asked again, "Is it their own?"

Tian Qi nodded and said: "Su Daochang, XX and XX's friends are all low-level little monsters, they have no ability to harm others, and they will not harm others."

"Then are there any strange phenomena near your embankment these days?" Su Yan asked again.

Tian Qi shook his head: "I have been sleeping these days, I asked a few monsters who are not hibernating, and they said that there is nothing unusual. Oh, a few days ago, a few children ran to the embankment to play, and one of them fell into the embankment. It was in the river, and they worked together to save the person."

Su Yan suddenly lost his mind, and unconsciously asked Pei Jingxing for help: "What do you think?"

Pei Jingxing did not express his analysis immediately, but continued to ask Tian Qi: "Let me ask you, how many are those missing monsters? Where are their caves located on the river bank? How far are they from each other?"

Tian Qi nimbly stuffed a few shrimps into his mouth, and then replied: "I know there are seven of them, two are fish, one water bird, three water snakes, and one turtle. Except for water birds, the others live In the water next to the embankment. The water bird has just become a demon for two days, and has not yet found its own cave, so it perches on a tree next to the embankment. The distance is only a few dozen steps."

"Then you and the other monsters are also around here?"

Tian Qi cooed twice: "Yes."

Pei Jingxing asked again: "Is there a family near the embankment?"

"There are two households, but not many." Tian Qi replied, "The feng shui over there is not very good. There are two or three water ghosts in the river. If they have nothing to do, they like to lie by the water and drag the unlucky ghosts into the water. No monster likes to have sex with them." Friends. After several people died in a row in the first two years, most of them moved away."

Pei Jingxing recalled the experience of catching loaches in the river when he was a child, and asked again: "Then does anyone usually go to the river to catch loaches and snails?"

"No." Tian Qi is very sure, "With those water ghosts around, no one dares to approach."

In a place where no one dares to approach, several monsters have disappeared in a row these days.

"There are two kinds of people who can catch monsters," Su Yan said to Pei Jingxing, "One is a Taoist like me, but a monster like Tian Qi has no ability to harm people, so we won't take the initiative To catch them. The second type is other monsters, maybe for their own practice, or for other purposes, to catch those monsters whose mana is weaker than their own."

Hearing Su Yan's words, Pei Jingxing couldn't help but think of Huapi. Ever since he and Su Yan escaped from Huapi's illusion that day, they had never heard of Huapi again.Thinking of Huapi's injuries at that time, Pei Jingxing couldn't help but sneak a few more glances at Su Yan - the Su Yan at that time was too abnormal, not at all like the Su Yan he knew.

Su Yan didn't notice Pei Jingxing's small movements, and continued to ask Tian Qi: "Which big monster did you offend? Think about it, maybe you did it unintentionally."

Tian Qi shook his head firmly: "No, the big monster in that place doesn't like it at all, so how can we take the initiative to provoke the big monster?"

Pei Jingxing interrupted suddenly at this time: "Every man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade. Two years ago, a family of pig butchers in Xijing was wiped out. The wife's ten fingers were chopped off, and the children's corpses were separated. Jing Zhaoyin sent people to investigate It took three months before the murderer was arrested and brought to justice. The murderer had no enmity with the family, just because the wife won some money in the gambling shop and wore some gold rings on her hands. The murderer took advantage of the dark to kill their family. The murderer cut off the child’s head in order to get the longevity lock that the child was carrying. As a result, he found out that it was not a gold ring at all, but was actually made of copper. Yes, it’s just a layer of gold plating on the outside.”

Speaking of this, Pei Jingxing looked at Tian Qi and asked: "Think about it carefully, is it because some of your monsters have acquired some treasures in recent months, which has attracted the covetousness of other monsters."

Tian Qi hesitated: "I don't know this, but I went to the tree and the river to ask, and I didn't find the evil spirit left by the big monster."

"After too long, the monster energy will disappear." Su Yan didn't rule out this possibility because of Tian Qi's words, "If the other party's cultivation base is high enough, you won't be able to detect it."

Tian Qi lowered his head and asked wearily: "Su Daochang, is there really no other way?"

Pei Jingxing and Su Yan were helpless for a while, they are not gods, they know everything.No matter whether it was Pei Jingxing investigating the case or Su Yan catching the demon, they had to investigate thoroughly before prescribing the right medicine.

"How about it," Su Yan had a pretty good impression of Tian Qi, and said, "I'll go to the river embankment to have a look, maybe I'll find something."

Tian Qi raised his head suddenly, his big eyes flickered: "It's so good, it's so good, thank you, Daoist Su, for the monsters on the other side of the embankment!"

Pei Jingxing took a rest today, of course he would not let Su Yan go alone.It's already afternoon, if you go on foot to the embankment ten miles west of Xijing, you must not be able to return to Xijing before the curfew.Pei Jingxing simply went downstairs and asked Xiao Er to call a carriage for him, while Su Yan hid Tian Qi in his cloth bag, and the two got into the carriage and headed west.

About two miles away from the river embankment, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan got out of the car, and the former gave the driver [-]% more money to wait here.

After leaving the coachman's sight, Tian Qi couldn't wait to jump out of the cloth bag, muttering to Su Yan and complaining: "Su Daochang, how long has it been since you washed your cloth bag, it smells bad."

Su Yan didn't have the nerve to tell Tian Qi the truth, so he just kept silent.

Tian Qi just complained a few words habitually, and didn't take this matter to heart.He skipped and skipped ahead to lead the way, and soon, the two of them arrived on the embankment.

Due to the mysterious disappearance of many little monsters these days, the number of monsters near the embankment has decreased a lot.Tian Qi jumped into the river, and after a while, he brought three fish spirits over.

"Su Daochang, you can ask them about the situation in the river." Tian Qi turned around and introduced to the three fish spirits, "This is Su Daochang, I invited them to help."

One of the fish spirits took the form of a woman, protruding from the river with a swan-like neck, her long black hair hanging on her chest, floating on the river surface, like water plants.

Yu Jing looked at Su Yan with a blushing face, and said, "Daozhang Su, what do you want me to do?"

Su Yan raised his head uncomfortably. After thinking about it, he felt that it was too contrived. He simply turned his head to look at Pei Jingxing, took out a bronze mirror from his pocket, and threw it to Yu Jing: "Take this bronze mirror, the square in the water Take photos of every inch of Sanli, and if the bronze mirror shines, tell me where it is.”

The fish spirit was a little disappointed, she held the bronze mirror in both hands, turned around, the fish tail made high waves, and disappeared into the river, followed by the other two fish spirits.

After handing over the matters in the water to Yu Jing, Su Yan asked Tian Qi to lead the way: "Go to the tree where the waterfowls live."

As expected, the tree was far from the embankment. It was estimated to be more than a hundred years old, and the trunk was so huge that at least three people could hug it.

Su Yan simply untied the cloth bag, took off the cloak he was wearing outside, rolled the sleeves up to his elbows, kicked his feet on the tree, and went up in a hurry.

"Su Yan, what are you doing?" Pei Jingxing didn't expect Su Yan to come here, and asked while standing under the tree.

"I'll go up and have a look, maybe there will be some clues. Don't follow me, if I fall, you can still catch me." Su Yan's words were actually polite. He used to climb many trees in the mountains when he was young. It is as flexible in the trees as it is on the flat ground, and it will get into the dense foliage after a while.

Pei Jingxing stood under the tree, his sight was blocked by layers of leaves, he could only see Su Yan's figure appearing and disappearing on the tree.He wanted to follow, but he was worried that if Su Yan really fell, he had no choice but to continue standing under the tree, raising his head to try to find Su Yan's figure.

Su Yan searched for a while, then climbed down quickly.He shook his head at Pei Jingxing: "I didn't find anything."

Pei Jingxing put on the cloak for Su Yan, picked up the cloth bag and handed it to him, and comforted him, "These monsters have been missing for so long before they were discovered. It can be seen that the other party is very cautious. It's normal that you didn't find it."

Su Yan smiled at Pei Jingxing, and quickly regained his energy: "Come on, let's look around here again, maybe we can find something."

However, until the coachman couldn't resist driving the carriage over to remind them that the curfew in Xijing was approaching, Su Yan and the others still found nothing.

The fish spirits photographed the river in a three mile radius, but the bronze mirror showed no response at all.

The coachman behind him had already planned to return Pei Jingxing's overpaid money, so he drove back first, but Su Yan had no choice but to hand over the bronze mirror to Tian Qi first: "I'll come back tomorrow, you take this for self-defense first. If the copper mirror The mirror suddenly lights up, indicating that there is danger approaching around you, and you have to jump into the bronze mirror immediately, and the bronze mirror will temporarily protect you."

Tian Qi put it away cautiously: "Thank you, Daoist Su."

Su Yan was a little embarrassed: "If the bronze mirror senses danger approaching, I will also sense it. Don't worry, I will definitely rescue you when the time comes."

He couldn't delay any longer, after explaining to Tian Qi, Su Yan turned back to join Pei Jingxing.

That night, Tian Qi was too nervous to sleep, so he simply took a bronze mirror and chatted with fish spirits in the river to relieve boredom.

The fish spirit who was holding the bronze mirror during the day was quite interested in Su Yan, and kept grabbing Tian Qi and asking this and that, wishing to dig out Su Yan's likes and dislikes.

"How old is Daoist Su? Where is he from? Is there a girl to be married to?"

Tian Qi was annoyed by the question, so he swam a little farther in the river with the bronze mirror, and hid in the aquatic plants: "I don't know, even if Daoist Su doesn't have a girl to betroth, would he fall in love with you?"

The fish spirit put one side of her long hair behind her ear, and said with a smile, "Aren't a gifted man and a beautiful woman a perfect match?"

"Bah, you are the only one who is still beautiful." Tian Qi was disgusted when he heard it, "Be careful that Daoist Su accepts you!"

"Accept me? Well, I wish he would accept me!"

"Sister, sister, if you follow Daoist Su, can I be with the man next to Daoist Su?" Another fish spirit also joined in the fun, "I think he looks better than Daoist Su."

"Go, go, how can such a man be as good-looking as Daoist Su?"

Seeing that the two fish spirits were about to quarrel over who was more beautiful, Su Yan or Pei Jingxing, Tian Qi suddenly felt a bright light coming from the right.He followed the light, and it was the bronze mirror that was shining!

"No, hide in!" Tian Qi yelled at the fish spirits, and jumped into the bronze mirror first!

However, by the time the fish spirits reacted, it was already too late.

Two people dressed as fishermen appeared on the river, pointed the harpoon in their hands in the direction of the fish, and thrust it hard!

The fish flicked its tail and was about to slip away, but suddenly found that there was an invisible barrier in six directions—front, back, left, right, up, down—she was trapped by some kind of magic at some point!

"Help!" the fish spirit yelled towards the aquatic plants, but she could only shake her body in vain, allowing the fisherman to take her into the house.

Tian Qi hid in the bronze mirror, listening to the cries of help from the fish spirits outside, he huddled his body tightly, and couldn't stop the tears from flowing down.

Late at night, Taixuanguan.

Su Yan in the dream suddenly woke up, stood up and looked towards the west.

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