The mountain ghost blows out the lights

The city of Tunan was quiet, there was no sound, and there was no sign of any activity from here.

Although the door is open and incense is lit in front of the shrine, it doesn't look like no one is taking care of it, but there is no emotion invested in these things, they are just piled there coldly, quietly. It's weird.

Shen Lianxing studied it for a while, and asked strangely, "Why is there no one?"

The scale of Tunan City is small, but it is not so deserted.

It's broad daylight, not to mention going out to do business, and there isn't even a single person hanging around outside.What are the people in the city doing?

"I don't know." Yan Jinping walked to the crack where the city gate was opened, looked inside, but didn't see anything, only felt that the atmosphere inside was a bit subtle, "I haven't been here for a long time. Go in and have a look? "

It's true that they came here to find Tunan, but the situation is still unclear, and they don't know where Tunan is now, so it's best to inquire about the situation in the city first.

"Okay." Shen Lianxing nodded and said, "There doesn't seem to be much to see outside, why don't we go to the city first."

It is a good thing for them to have no one, at least there is no obstacle to entering the city.

Yan Jinping had just put his hands on the city gate when he suddenly remembered something and stopped his hands: "Wait a minute."

Shen Lianxing: "What?"

"I don't know if anyone still remembers my face." Yan Jinping said, "I'll cover it up so as not to cause unnecessary commotion and waste time."

No matter what, he was Tunan's mountain god for a period of time, and now less than 20 years have passed. It is impossible for those who saw him back then to die in these 20 years.If you run into them suddenly, you don't know how much turmoil it will cause, so it's better to block them now to save trouble later.

Shen Lianxing also agreed with him: "Then you wear a mask?"

"What? No need." Yan Jinping shook his head, took out a green leaf from his sleeve, held it between his fingers, and flicked it lightly.

The leaf spontaneously ignited, and was quickly burned in his palm, leaving only a little charred wreckage.

Yan Jinping clapped his hands and swept away the ashes.

Seeing that he didn't make any further moves, Shen Lianxing asked curiously, "Is this the end?"

"Yes." Yan Jinping nodded, "It's over."

Shen Lianxing looked at his face carefully for a while, then murmured: "But I don't think you have changed much."

His appearance was not concealed, and he was still so beautiful and conspicuous that even people who had never seen him before could not help but be attracted to him.

"A leaf is blinding." Yan Jinping explained, "It's a little trick. Find the leaf that the praying mantis uses to hide its figure, and then cast a spell to make it hide its appearance for itself. It is also a kind of blinding. Except for you, no matter who If you look at me, you will automatically ignore my appearance."

In Linlang Pavilion before, he had no intention of attracting attention, and he would cast this spell on himself when he went out.Therefore, people in Yanjing City still don't know what the boss of Linlang Pavilion looks like.

He has done this many times, and he is very proficient, and he is not worried about making mistakes.

Of course, Shen Lianxing has heard of the idiom "a leaf that blocks one's eyes," but in the legends of the mortal world, it is another matter: "I thought that leaves can only be used to block one's own eyes."

"Essentially speaking, it's the same." Yan Jinping said, "After all, it's a spell. As long as you change the method of casting it a little, the effect will be completely different."

And he happened to be very good at spells, so it was no problem to do such a small cover up.

"So." After listening to Yan Jinping's explanation, Shen Lianxing suddenly said thoughtfully, "At that time we went to find Jianmu, in fact, a leaf on my head was enough, so I don't need to wear a... rabbit mask?"

At that time they asked the Yin Bing for an excuse, and Yan Jinping said that he would cover his identity for him, and put a rabbit mask on his face, saying that he was a domesticated rabbit-Shen Lianxing hadn't forgotten this.

Yan Jinping: "..."

He really didn't like Shen Lianxing at that time, and he always felt that this person's attitude was too leisurely, as if everything was under his control, and he felt that he was very familiar with him, so he couldn't help it, Xiao Xiaodi played a trick on him.

No, what is this person's memory made of, how long has passed, how can he still remember this?

"Well, what..." He was vague, "The situation was urgent, and I happened to have such a mask on hand, so..."

"Oh." Shen Lianxing heard that he was guilty, so he didn't ask any more questions, but just gave him a meaningful look and nodded.

Yan Jinping: "..."

Come on, this guy definitely has bad intentions.

After all, he was ignorant, and he didn't like to argue with others, so Boss Yan could only shut up quietly, pretending nothing happened, and silently opened the city gate.

Tunan City itself is built on the mountain, with half of the city wall and half of the mountain. No one runs to this side on weekdays. The city wall is also short and thin, and the city gate is very light. It is basically a decoration, and it can be opened with a push. , without much effort.

The inside of the city is the same as outside the city, it is also quiet, there is no movement, no one can be seen.

Tunan City is not well developed. If you look around, you can basically see the simplest residential buildings, the highest of which is no more than three floors, and the materials are ordinary. From the inside to the outside, it reveals a sense of depression and poverty.

The doors and windows of every house are closed, and occasionally there is a little light in a few houses, like a lamp is lit, but the colors of the lights are all strange, some are blue, and some emit a strange green. There is no serious color, I don’t know the point are all things.

Shen Lianxing looked around and whispered to Yan Jinping, "Did you smell it?"

Yan Jinping nodded: "Sandalwood."

And it is a very high-end, very pure kind, with a strong flavor that permeates the entire empty street.

When I was outside the city, I thought it was because too much incense was lit in the incense burner of the shrine to have such a strong smell, but now it seems that this is not the case.

It must not be only the shrine that is burning incense, in order to gather such a long-lasting smell.

Fortunately, the quality is good, even if it is a bit rich, it will not be very pungent.

Connecting to the city gate is the main street, which is straight.The two took another two steps forward, but they still didn't see anyone.

This is really unusual. No matter how unsatisfactory Tunan City is, no matter how few people there are, it is still a city in the final analysis. There are so many houses, it is impossible for there to be no one.

Yan Jinping frowned and said, "Could it be that... something happened to them?"

He said it tactfully, but no one knew Tunan better than him. With such a bad 'god' in this city, it seemed that what happened was not weird.

Had Tunan done something to his followers?

"Probably not." Shen Lianxing knew better than him, "There are people coming and going in this city all the time, and they have to live. Occasionally, people will come to Yanjing City to buy things. It is impossible for them to disappear overnight. If they are not here now, maybe There was something urgent, so we all gathered together."

Yanjing City is the territory of the Shen family, and the Shen family has some control over the trade and flow of people everywhere. Knowing that this time they are coming to Tunan City, Shen Lianxing of course also conducted some investigations.

But Tunan City is too closed, even the goblins are not willing to come, he only found out so much, he can be sure that there must be people living in this city.

Yan Jinping still felt that something was wrong: "Even if there are really important things to discuss, what about the elderly and children? It is impossible that there will be no one who is inconvenient to move around. The whole city must be gathered together. What are you going to do?"

Both of them are people with keen senses, walking on the road, they can't even hear the breathing of others, if the two of them didn't notice anyone, then there must be no one.

It looks like a dead city.

Shen Lianxing didn't know why.He thought for a while, wanted to talk about his guess, then stopped suddenly, and looked at a dark alley next to him together with Yan Jinping.

Not long after, hurried footsteps came from the alley, a young man with disheveled hair lowered his head and turned the corner, just about to come out, when he looked up and saw two people standing in front of him, he was taken aback for a moment, then Without further ado, he turned around and ran away.

He didn't run very far, but after turning back around the corner, the sound of footsteps stopped.The boy took a low breath, as if he was judging whether the two strangers were coming for him.

After a while, he poked his head out again slowly, and found that the two of them were still standing there looking at this side. He was shocked again, his back straightened, his hair was dangling in front of his eyes, and he turned his head again, this time Is really planning to escape.

It didn't work out.

Yan Jinping had built a small-scale barrier as early as the moment he turned his head, blocking the young man in the alley, no matter how hard he ran, he couldn't get out of this boundary.

Barrier spell - commonly known as ghost hitting the wall in the world.

Although it was not very authentic, this was the first living person the two of them met in Tunan City. No matter what method they used, they had to keep him.

The young man was quite handsome, he looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, and found that he couldn't escape no matter what, he didn't get more panicked, instead he calmed down a little, stood silently on the spot, and slumped his shoulders.

He stood in the shadow of the alley, observed for a while, and saw that the two of them didn't seem to want to arrest him for a while, so he boldly said: "You—who are you?"

The young man seemed to be trying to raise his voice to prove that he was not nervous, but unfortunately he used too much force, and the last few words almost broke his voice, so he suddenly closed his mouth, but his eyes widened sternly, his sleeves were clutched, and he stared at Shen Lianxing and Yan Jinping.

Silently watched the two people he was tangled in the whole process: "..."

Because of their good looks and outstanding temperament, these two have always been very popular no matter where they go. This is the first time that they have received such precautions before they even said a word.

Kind of fresh.

"Little brother, don't be nervous." Shen Lianxing said loudly, "We are just passing by, we are not bad people, and we don't know what to do."

Of course the word 'bad guy' wouldn't be written on his face, but the boy did relax a little when he said that.

The young man leaned against the wall and cast a nervous look: "Passing by?"

"It's passing by." Shen Lianxing nodded and said, "Look, we didn't take anything. Although I don't know what you are worried about, we didn't take any weapons. At least in terms of safety, you can rest assured."

This is nonsense. Under his gloves, there are more than a dozen dangerous objects that can attack the child from the air, but they are covered by Shen Lianxing's gloves. After a cursory look, he really can't tell that they are prosthetics.

The two around him really wouldn't do bad things. In order to stabilize the boy's mood, it's not a big problem to hide such insignificant aspects a little.

"I..." The young man hesitated for a moment, his eyes swept over Shen Lianxing and Yan Jinping, as if he was judging whether these two people were credible or not.

The two waited patiently.

The young man didn't know if he saw anything. He turned his head and looked at the way he came from. Anyway, knowing that he couldn't escape, he finally gave up his heart and walked out of the alley.

"I haven't seen you." He raked his hair twice, and asked preemptively, "You two... come from outside?"

outside?

Shen Lianxing and Yan Jinping looked at each other, a little unsure what he was referring to as "outsider".

Of course, Yan Jinping could say as little as he could, Shen Lianxing thought about it, and said, "We are indeed not from Tunan City."

"Of course he's not a bad guy." Afraid of frightening the vigilant young man, he put on his most kind attitude and explained, "Little brother, the two of us have no malicious intentions. We just want to ask you something, and the question is over. Just go. Do you think this will work?"

The young man frowned and pondered for a long time, and finally agreed: "...that will be done."

He also said: "It's not easy to talk here, you... come with me."

The author says:

Shen Lianxing: Hold grudges.

Yan Jinping: ...Why do you remember this so clearly!

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Day off!Why is it a holiday!I thought today was Friday, woohoo...