Please give me a chance to be a straight man

Upon hearing this, Shen Xu quickly dropped the Soul-eating Gu shell in his hand on the ground.

"Shen Xu, why are you so crazy!" Ye Chen quickly picked up the shell, and said angrily at Shen Xu

"You should keep such good things for yourself."

After finishing speaking, Shen Xu turned around and walked to Jiang Xun, seeing that he was still studying several corpses, he asked, "Why are there any suspicious things about these corpses?"

Jiang Xun didn't speak, he raised his hand and squeezed out a formula, and six black magic energy with different intensity floated out from several people.

Shen Xu looked at these different shades of demon energy, and suddenly understood, "Could it be that the time of death of these people is related to the intensity of these demon energy?"

Jiang Xun nodded, and then took out the jade slips handed to him by An Zongzhu that recorded the approximate time of death of several people, checked them one by one, and found that the father and son who died the earliest had the weakest devilish energy, while the four who died recently had all the devilish energy on them. Same richness.

Ye Chen looked at Jiang Xun and Shen Xu, and asked, "What does this mean?"

"It means that the father and son who died the earliest were probably injured when the Soul-eating Gu was at its weakest. When the next four deceased died, the Soul-eating Gu's strength increased sharply for some reason, so several corpses The intensity of the magic energy on the body is different."

After listening to Shen Xu's explanation, Ye Chen suddenly realized, so he gave him a rare look of appreciation.

Shen Xu accepted it without blushing.

Knowing the cause and time of death of several people, the next step is to investigate the place of their death.So Jiang Xun, Shen Xu and Ye Chen came to Yongle City.

Yongle City is one of the many cities under the jurisdiction of Luoyunzong. Although the city is small in size, it is very prosperous and peaceful.For those who are new to this place, it may be difficult to imagine that a large-scale plague broke out in this city more than ten years ago, and nearly [-]% of the residents died.

Shen Xu and the others did not stay at the place arranged by Sovereign An, but randomly chose an inn with an elegant environment.

The owner of the inn is a shrewd middle-aged man. Seeing that the three of Shen Xu were dressed in extraordinary clothes, he quickly greeted them with a smile, "Are the three elders going to be top-notch or staying in the inn?"

Shen Xu replied, "Stay in the hotel. Give us three upper rooms, and serve you all the good wine and food here. I've been on the road for several days, my lord, and I'm going to starve to death."

The boss got the order and quickly gave orders.

Shen Xu found a seat and drank tea leisurely.Ye Chen took off his saber and sat opposite him, asking, "Do you have any money to order so many things?"

"I don't have any money, so it's enough if you and fellow Taoist Jiang have one. Besides, I'm only here to accompany you to investigate the case, and I'll pay for everything. If it gets out, I don't know how many people will laugh at you, Tianxuanzong, for bullying others." Woolen cloth."

Ye Chen knew that no matter what he said, Shen Xu would always have some excuses to run him down, so this time he learned how to be good, and didn't argue with Shen Xu again.

Seeing that Ye Chen didn't reply back, Shen Xu felt a little uncomfortable, but fortunately, Xiao Er brought the food at this time, otherwise Shen Xu really didn't know what to do when facing two boring gourds.

Yongle City has a small area and a small population, so any disturbances will be known to everyone within a short period of time.This time, six people were killed, so basically wherever there are crowds, this matter is discussed.The people in front of Shen Xu happened to be like this.

"Hey, have you guys heard about it? Wang Er and his son, who sell sesame seed cakes, died suddenly and mysteriously a few days ago." A middle-aged man in the middle spoke first.

The two people next to him nodded quickly, "I heard, I heard, it is said that they died suddenly in broad daylight. I heard from the people present at the time that Wang Er and his son were fine at first, but for some reason they suddenly screamed. It didn't take a moment to turn into a bone."

Several people imagined the scene at that time, and they couldn't help sighing, "Wang Er is so kind, how could he end up with such a miserable result? Also, his son is only five years old this year, and he was seriously ill before and almost died. After finally getting better, why did he suddenly die?"

After finishing speaking, several people sighed again.

Shen Xu and the others fell silent after listening to the conversation of the three, and Ye Chen was so angry that he almost broke the chopsticks in his hand.

After the three of them left the inn, Ye Chen finally couldn't help but said angrily, "Brother, Moxiu is so insane, we must arrest him as soon as possible, otherwise more innocent people will die in time!"

After finishing speaking, Ye Chen found that there was an extra bun in his hand, so he raised his eyes to look at Shen Xu. Shen Xu stuffed his mouth full, and said vaguely, "Eat first, and we'll talk about it after we have something to do."

Seeing this, Jiang Xun moved his body unobtrusively, keeping himself a little further away from Shen Xu.

When the three of them finished their meal, it was getting late, so Shen Xu suggested to go to rest today, and it would not be too late to investigate the case tomorrow.Ye Chen couldn't understand Shen Xu's lazy appearance, so he decided to ignore him and search for clues by himself and Jiang Xun.

But who knew that Jiang Xun didn't pay attention to Ye Chen, instead he looked at Shen Xu's back for a while, and then said to Ye Chen, "Go and rest first." After speaking, he also went back to the room.

Ye Chen was left alone standing there in a daze.

After Shen Xu returned to the room, he first released his spiritual power to sense the surroundings. Seeing that there was no sign of other people, he rolled up his sleeves.As expected, the black mark on his wrist began to spread again, and now it was gradually approaching the elbow.And at the same time, the burning pain of the body flared up again.

Shen Xu tried to use his spiritual power to suppress the pain, but found that the spiritual power in his dantian began to become chaotic and out of control.In desperation, he could only choose to endure it.

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Xu was sweating profusely from the pain and his mind began to blur. Suddenly, he vaguely saw a white figure appearing in front of him.

The figure first glanced at his arm, then poked his forehead, and then Shen Xu felt a gentle spiritual power slowly enter his body to calm his chaotic and irritable spiritual energy.Shen Xu's spirit immediately relaxed, and he fell asleep at some point.

Shen Xu didn't wake up until close to noon the next day as usual, and what was amazing was that he clearly remembered that the corpse poison had flared up again yesterday, but he didn't feel any discomfort in his body at this time.He even began to suspect that he had developed antibodies to the corpse poison.

Just when he was about to tell Jiang Xun and Ye Chen about this discovery, he found that neither of them was in the room.

Shen Xu thought it was because they hadn't returned from investigating the case all night, but he didn't know that he had just walked out of the room, and saw a girl in a light yellow dress sitting not far away, booing Jiang Xun and asking for his warmth.Shen Xu sighed, Jiang Xun is worthy of being the protagonist, everywhere he goes, peach blossoms are offered to his door.

But following Jiang Xun's elder brother's voice, Shen Xu saw the girl's face clearly, it turned out to be An Luoer.

Jiang Xun's attitude towards An Luoer was basically the same as before, and his face was still full of indifference.But An Luoer didn't seem to notice, she still approached Jiang Xun enthusiastically.

In order to prevent the ruthless straight man Jiang Yuzhi from making rude behaviors that would make the beauty sad, Shen Xu decided that it was time to show his presence.

Unexpectedly, Ye Chen suddenly found him, and shouted at him in a disgusting tone, "Senior Brother Shen, you are here. Junior Sister An has brought us important clues, come and listen."

Shen Xu resisted his nausea and greeted An Luoer, then sat beside Jiang Xun.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, An Luoer recounted the news she had received, "I met an old man yesterday and heard from him that there is a sacred tree in Yongle City. In one breath, as long as you eat its fruit, you will be cured within a few days."

Shen Xu suddenly remembered that some guests in the inn said that Wang Er's son was seriously ill and then recovered suddenly, and felt that it might be related to this so-called sacred tree, so he asked, "Could it be that Wang Er's son was seriously ill before eating food?" Is it cured only after eating the fruit of this sacred tree?"

An Luoer replied, "Senior Brother Shen expected it right, it happened ten days ago."

"Then, does Junior Sister An know the exact location of that sacred tree?"

An Luoer nodded, "That place is just not far from our Luoyun Sect. I'll take a few senior brothers there."