[Comprehensive Martial Arts] The heroine is not human

Zhan Zhao's heart and mouth were in severe pain. Medicine had been applied to his head, and a clean white cloth was wrapped on it, but the pain was still so painful that his face was pale, and a fine layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He struggled to stand up, and saw His own sword, Juque, was placed beside him in good condition.

Zhan Zhao's expression suddenly paused.

He was a little dazed, and suddenly stretched out his hand and stroked his lips.

...The cold and soft touch seemed to still be on his lips.

Her breath is also cold, cold and with a little fragrance, her eyes are narrowed, and the sparkling eyes seem to be about to flow from the corners of her eyes, she lowers her eyes, and seriously kisses a man who has just had a relationship , and he...

At that time, Zhan Zhao's brain exploded with a bang, it was completely blank, and he could no longer think about anything. The muscles on his arms bulged one by one, his head was raised, his throat kept rolling, and his expression seemed to be in pain. insulted, yet...

But at this moment, he couldn't help but reminisce about that kiss, as if he knew the taste of it.

Zhan Zhao closed his eyes, reached out and rubbed his temples, he suddenly hated himself for being so obsessed with sex, but he kept thinking about Amber's eyes in his mind, the corners of her eyes seemed to be eyeliner painted with blood, Charming, but also with a cold sharpness.

Amber is not a human being, and Amber is a fox demon.

But why does a fox demon live in that gloomy haunted house?The people who died in Qingping County were caused by the red ghost clothes... It obviously has a reason for killing people. Could it be that these people have done some outrageous things to cause the ghosts to kill?

What is the relationship between Amber and the red ghost suit?

The door opened with a creak, and a small yamen servant came in with a tray in his hand. On the tray was a bowl of clear porridge and a few side dishes. Seeing that Zhan Zhao had woken up, he said, "My lord, are you awake? The wound on your heart It has been dealt with, but luckily the injury is not deep, it doesn't matter, you rest first and have a bowl of porridge, this villain is called Master Chen."

Master Chen, that is, the newly appointed magistrate of Anping County, named Chen Yushan.

Chen Yushan was a Jinshi last year. When he was rushing to take the exam in the capital, because he yearned for the stern and selfless Duke Bao, he recklessly handed him an invitation to Kaifeng Mansion. It happened that Mr. Bao was not busy with work that day, so he met him.

This person's ability to solve cases is average, but he has a good heart. After passing the exam, he went to Anping County to become the magistrate. Ask Mr. Bao to clarify, just this point, I don't know how many people are better than him.

Zhan Zhao nodded slightly, and asked again: "Little brother, how did you find me?"

The little yamen servant said: "Before dawn, someone rang the grievance drum at the gate of the county yamen. When I went out to take a look, I saw you."

Zhan Zhao frowned and said, "Only me?"

The little yamen servant said: "That's right...you are lying at the gate of the county yamen, your chest is covered with blood... I don't know which chivalrous man brought you here, but he didn't leave his name."

Zhan Zhao thought for a moment, then said, "I'm in a coma, and no one told me my identity, how do you know I'm an official?"

The little yamen servant scratched his head, and said: "Your waist card, you wrote to Kaifeng Mansion, and the chivalrous man put it on your chest specially, lest we can't see it."

Zhan Zhao's eyes suddenly moved.

He was silent for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, the little yamen servant saw that he seemed to be in a bad mood, he didn't dare to speak, he didn't dare to leave, so he just stuck there like a log.

After a long while, Zhan Zhao smiled gently, and said to the little yamen servant: "Please trouble me, little brother, please ask your Master Chen to come here for a talk."

The little yamen servant heaved a sigh of relief, saluted Zhan Zhao again, and then withdrew.

His waist card was placed on the small table next to the bed, but Zhan Zhao didn't notice because his heart was agitated just now.

At this moment, his eyes fell on the waist card of Kaifeng Mansion.

This badge...

He remembered very clearly that in the lake of the ghost house, he was fighting with the red ghost clothes, and the waist card fell into the lake at that time and sank to the bottom of the lake.

But now, the waist card has reappeared.

...It was Amber. She wanted to bring him to the county government office, but she was afraid that the people in the county government would not save him, so she went into the lake and fished out his waist card, and put it on his heart. People in the county government can see that he is an official from the capital.

……amber.

Amber, Amber, what on earth do you want to do?

Speaking vicious words, she grabbed him to Hui with one paw, but the wound was clearly on the heart, and a three-pointer deeper would be enough to kill him, but she didn't do that, instead, she sent him back to the county seat.

Just at this time, Chen Yushan had arrived.

Chen Yushan also had a relationship with Zhan Zhao once, he hurried in, seeing Zhan Zhao's face was pale, but his expression was very calm, as if there was nothing serious, he was relieved, and said: "Master Zhan, if you have nothing to do good."

Zhan Zhao nodded and said, "Let Mr. Chen worry about it."

Chen Yushan said: "I just don't know where Mr. Zhan went last night, how could he be attacked by wild beasts...?"

Now that this topic was brought up, Zhan Zhao said half-truthfully, "Zhan just arrived in Qingping last night, and the city gate was locked when he came, and there happened to be an abandoned house on the outskirts of the city, so he wanted to rest there for the night That's it, but who knows..."

Chen Yushan is also a county magistrate who has just taken office, so he is not very familiar with the affairs of this place. When he heard about the old house on the outskirts of the city, he only said: "It seems that the house has been abandoned for more than 20 years... Why is it abandoned? I don’t know... Hey, Master Li, you are a local, tell me what’s going on there.”

Master Li is in his fifties, dressed as an old scholar, he is the master of the Qingping County Government.

Master Li is a staff member. Master Li is eloquent and knows everything about Qingping County. He has been a master in this county government for more than 20 years.

What happened more than 20 years ago can't be clearer if you ask him.

Master Li cupped his hands slightly, bowed to Zhan Zhao, and sighed, "Master Zhan, that place is a well-known haunted house... 20 years ago..."

More than 20 years ago, a family named Du lived in that house.

The Du family is a big family, Mr. Du is a Juren, and there are countless fertile fields in his family, maybe in places like Jiangnan and the capital, he can't be regarded as a wealthy person, but in this barren Qingping, he is already counted. The grandest and wealthiest family in the world.

Master Du is a Juren who has read the books of sages and sages. It is said that he traveled when he was young, and even went to Qufu, where the Yanshenggong Mansion① is located.Therefore, the rules of the children in the family are also extremely strict. There are many poor families in the local area, and the girls from the poor families go out early to work with their parents. , Ten fingers do not touch the spring water, Mr. Du specially built an embroidery building for his daughter to live in. This daughter has been raised in a deep boudoir, so expensive, no one has ever seen her true face.

As for the structure, garden, and various decorations of Mr. Du's house, they are all very particular. Mr. Li once visited when he was young, and he only said that the open and beautiful garden really opened his eyes.

Such a good family was wiped out overnight more than 20 years ago, leaving no one alive.

The one who did the killing was a fox demon, a snow-white fox demon.

Zhan Zhao's heart skipped a beat, he immediately raised his eyes, stared at Master Li closely, and said in a broken voice, "...fox demon?"

Master Li said: "That's right, Mr. Zhan may think that the old man is talking nonsense. After all, the sage once said that the child's silence is strange and chaotic... If it wasn't for the massacre of killing the family more than 20 years ago, the old man would never have believed it. There are ghosts making trouble."

Zhan Zhao suppressed the shock in his heart, frowned, and asked intentionally: "I, Zhan, did not see much about the Miemen case, but I did it four or five times. At first, it was all blamed on ghosts, but in the end When the facts of the case came to light, the real culprits were all real people, I dare to ask Master Li, how did you determine that the fox murdered people?"

Master Li's expression changed a little.

His expression was a little dazed, as if he was recalling some terrible scene, he didn't speak for a while, and after a long silence, he said: "I will not hide what Mr. Zhan said, it's because the old man saw that fox demon with his own eyes..."

Zhan Zhao remained calm, but just said "Oh?"

Master Li said: "That fox demon... in front of the old man, personally... opened Master Du's belly..."

He couldn't go on anymore, because this incident was the scariest thing he had ever seen in this life.

Zhan Zhao's eyes were as black as ink, and he asked again, "What does a fox demon look like?"

Master Li said: "Yes...it's a woman. After so many years, I can't remember her face clearly, I only remember that she is very beautiful."

Zhan Zhao said again: "Women are women, why do you say they are fox demons?"

Master Li said: "...when the fox demon became fierce, she had already revealed her fox tail, that's why the old man knew about it."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes.

He half-truthfully asked: "The wound on my chest looks like a fox's scratch. Could it be that fox demon is here again?"

Master Li said, "That's impossible..."

Zhan Zhao said, "Oh?"

Master Li stroked his long beard and said with a smile: "The fox demon has offended Heaven by killing people indiscriminately. She killed 23 members of the Du family, and Heaven will not tolerate her. After she killed those people, she would have continued to come." There was a murder in the county yamen, but that day there was a sudden gust of wind, and a thunderbolt fell, killing the fox demon on the spot. The prototype appeared. The county magistrate then ordered the yamen servants to give the fox demon's skin to him. Peel it off, and throw the meat and bones to feed the dogs, so no matter how powerful she is, no matter how powerful she is, she would already be dead."

He breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Nowadays, people in the county dare not go to that Du's house because the massacre of more than 20 years of extermination is really terrible. There may be countless souls in that house. It doesn't matter, Mr. Zhan can rest assured that he doesn't have to worry about being entangled by the fox demon."

Zhan Zhao's fists hidden in his sleeves were clenched until his knuckles turned white.

The last gentle smile on his face has also disappeared, but there is no unnecessary expression on his face, his eyes are as black as ink, staring at Master Li's face, making people feel oppressed for no reason. Master Li was taken aback by the sense of oppression that people would feel, and couldn't help but take two steps back, and said with an apologetic smile, "Master Zhan, what do you have to ask, the villain knows everything."

Zhan Zhao withdrew his gaze.

He said: "No, since it was settled more than 20 years ago, it's meaningless to find out now. I was scratched by a wild beast in the mountains last night, or maybe I was brought back by some kind hunter... Master Chen, tell me about the recent cases, what are the recent cases like?"

Master Li let out a long sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead and retreated to the side.

Chen Yushan sighed for a long time, and told Zhan Zhao about the strange things that happened here after he took office.

Dead Things started three months ago.

The first deceased and the second deceased were a young couple surnamed Wang. This couple was also miserable. They had a five-year-old only son who was very precious, but this child had a strange disease and his abdomen was swollen like a pregnant woman. , I asked all the doctors in Qingping County, but they couldn't find any strange disease. The child actually looked like a pregnant woman. After ten months of pregnancy, the abdomen ruptured and died of blood.

That same night, the heartbroken couple died, drowned in the urinal with their heads clubbed.

The second incident happened two months ago. It was the son of a rich family in the city, surnamed Yan. Before giving birth to a grandson, he disappeared quietly.

After being missing for more than ten days, on the busiest street in the city, a farmer's donkey suddenly kicked and planed frantically on the ground for a while, digging out Young Master Yan.

The cause of death was suffocation and burial alive.

Anping County is not a big place, even the best streets in the county are dirt roads, the center of the street has no trace of being dug up at all, but Young Master Yan was dug out from here.

The third time, a month ago.

The dead, the hunter in the mountains.

The only son in the family had just turned one year old, went hunting in the mountains, disappeared in the mountains, and was starved to death when he was found.

——Attention, Orion, who has hands and feet, big arms and a round waist, is familiar with the terrain in the mountains, has no external injuries, and starved to death. If there is no weirdness in this, it is absolutely impossible.

In the fourth case, last night, Liu San, the deceased, drowned in the basin used for defecating in the same way as the first case.

For three consecutive months, five people died, causing panic in Qingping County.

In these cases, the methods of death were different, and the deceased did not know each other, but the only thing in common was that the methods of death of these people were so bizarre that it was almost impossible.

Babies can be drowned in the urinal, but how could an adult with arms, legs and resistance be drowned in such a way?

Zhan Zhao pondered.

He said: "Only in the first case, the couple died."

Chen Yushan said: "That's right, but we couldn't figure out why, Mr. Zhan, I'm not afraid of your jokes. After several months of investigation, I can only speculate that it was the youngest son who died of a strange disease. A ghost is at work!"

Zhan Zhao said: "According to what you said, this couple regards this only child as a treasure. Even if this child turns into a ghost, would he even kill the parents who gave birth to him?"

Chen Yushan sighed: "So this is just a random guess of the lower official, please don't make fun of Mr. Zhan, the lower official really has nothing to do... That's why I wrote a letter to Mr. Bao."

As he spoke, he made a gesture to kneel down, Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to support him, and Chen Yushan couldn't move.

He was injured, but he still had such steady strength, his kung fu is not bad.

Zhan Zhao said: "Master Chen is too serious."

Chen Yushan said: "I'm here, thank you Mr. Guo Zhan for your help."

Zhan Zhao said: "No, it's a matter of duty. This matter has to be investigated from the first case. Today I will go to the home of the couple surnamed Wang to investigate. Master Chen can order his subordinates to sort out all the case files. Come out, wait for Zhan to come back, and take a closer look."

Chen Yushan said in shock: "Master Zhan, this wound on your chest..."

Zhan Zhao smiled gently, and said, "It doesn't matter, it looks fierce, but it hurts me like a kitten scratching a beast. It seems that it just wants to play with me, and doesn't want to kill me."

Chen Yushan scratched his head, and said, "So, this beast still blames relatives...?"

Blame my relatives...?

Thinking of Hu Po hugging him like a big baby... it seems really interesting.

Zhan Zhao smiled lightly, and said, "Maybe, I have to thank her for not killing her."

After all, he has stood up, and when he moves, he only feels pain in his heart, but this injury is really just looking fierce, but it is not a hindrance, he can bear it very much, such an injury, want to stop His actions are still too light.

He changed his blood-stained clothes, put on Ju Que, and planned to go out. Chen Yushan wanted him to take a few yamen servants with him, but Zhan Zhao declined.

Zhan Zhao thought about last night again, and Hu Po warned him not to investigate cases that should not be investigated.

He just wanted to check.

He wants to check, will Amber appear and continue to stop him?

More than 20 years ago, what is the connection between the massacre of the Du family's old house, the murderous fox demon... and the current case?In the dark, Zhan Zhao already felt that these few things were inextricably linked.

Maybe it was because it rained last night, the sun is not very strong today, the dirt road is already muddy, Zhan Zhao went to the inn to get a horse, and rode out of the city.

The couple surnamed Wang don't live in the county seat, they live in a village on the outskirts of the city, not far from the foot of the mountain, and not far from the Du family's ghost house.

It's autumn now, and it's almost the harvest season. No matter how barren the place is, the ground still has to grow food to eat.When Zhan Zhao got near the farmland, he dismounted from his horse and led the horse along the road without letting the horse step on the grain.

He has a handsome appearance, a straight figure, and although his clothes are simple, they are clean and tidy. With the horse he is leading and the sword at his waist, he can be seen not from a pond. The idlers in the village are sitting in twos and threes, Seeing such a stranger visiting, they all started whispering.

Zhan Zhao ignored it, and went straight into the home of the couple surnamed Wang.

The home of the couple surnamed Wang is empty, and the house is completely empty.

In fact, although his family is poor, it is not a barren family. The current situation is only because there is no one in his family, so all the things in the house have been robbed by the neighbors. As for the land, they have naturally been taken by force. .

There was only an empty, dark room left, and Zhan Zhao slowly checked it, but there was nothing there.

It's been three months, and of course there's nothing here.

Zhan Zhao thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the neighbor's house to investigate, to see if he could find any clues.

At this moment, he glanced out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly saw some fragments of clothes lying in the corner of the room.

Zhan Zhao frowned, squatted down and inspected carefully, there were indeed fragments of clothes in the corner, they were faded clothes.

Such things are not surprising at all, who doesn't have a few rags?But after the incident of the red ghost clothes last night, the material of the clothes seems to be particularly important.

He grew a mind, he didn't use his hands to pick it up, but picked it up with the giant scorpion, and examined it carefully, but suddenly heard a sound behind him, Zhan Zhao reacted quickly, but he didn't draw out the sword, he just used the scabbard, and laid it across the sword. He grabbed the man's throat and restrained her movements.

Zhan Zhao stared at her steadfastly, and said in a deep voice, "Miss Hu Po."

The woman in front of her has a stunning face, charming eyes like silk, and a good figure. If it wasn't the fox girl Hu Po from last night, who could it be?

Hu Po didn't seem to have expected that Zhan Zhao would be so sharp, and for a moment he was holding her back with the scabbard, and her whole back was pressed against the wall, unable to move. She squinted her eyes and pursed her mouth, as if she was not very happy.

Amber said: "Let me ask you, I clearly told you not to investigate further, but you insisted on going against me, why?"

Zhan Zhao stared at her steadfastly, and said indifferently, "The responsibility lies."

Amber was startled, glanced at him sideways, and asked with a half-smile, "Where is the responsibility?"

Zhan Zhao said, "Exactly."

Hu Po said again: "Then your duty also includes attacking a fox girl? Lord Zhan, if you didn't get my thank you gift last night, would you still want it today?"

She looked at Zhan Zhao with crooked eyes, that mature and charming aura flowed out from her body, like vines, trying to wrap Zhan Zhao around.

Zhan Zhao unconsciously avoided her gaze.

When she said this, he suddenly recalled the extremely entangled kiss yesterday, his expression froze, and the roots of his ears turned red again.

Amber smiled smugly.

Zhan Zhao had no choice but to explain: "I don't mean to..."

Amber said: "Then why don't you let me go quickly? I'm leaving, please do what you want."

Zhan Zhao said, "You can't go."

His tone was gentle and not harsh at all, but what he said was that there was no room for change.

Amber was taken aback for a moment, and said, "...what did you say?"

Zhan Zhao said: "Zhan said, Miss Hu Po, you can't leave."

Amber said: "...Why? You, what are you going to do to me?"

Zhan Zhao suddenly sighed.

He said, "Because you were injured."

As he said that, his hand suddenly grabbed Huber's wrist. Huber's slender wrist was held by his strong and well-articulated hands. He slowly lifted it up and pressed it against the wall. Huber looked helplessly. Looking at him, she suddenly bit her lower lip, like an innocent woman being bullied by a man.

She was still only wearing a thin underwear with wide sleeves. When her wrist was lifted up and pressed against the wall like this, the wide sleeves had already slipped between her elbows, revealing a pale and soft forearm. Come.

On the forearm, there was a hideous wound, the flesh and blood turned out, and the blood flowed down her arm. It was injured by a sharp weapon... More likely, it was a sword.

Such a beautiful person has such a serious sword wound on her body, and if Zhan Zhao remembers correctly, her arm was still intact last night.

He stared at the hideous wound on Hu Po's arm, and there seemed to be pity in his eyes, and then he slowly raised his head to look at Hu Po, who seemed to be unable to bear his gaze, bit his lower lip, and pulled it unhappily. She lowered her face, avoiding Zhang Zhao's gaze, and turned her face sideways.

Zhan Zhao sighed.

He said softly: "Miss Hu Po, Zhan has no malicious intentions... You are seriously injured and you don't clean up yourself, so please ask Zhan to help you, okay?"