top of the moon

When night fell, Minglin and Gu Yueliu came to the only inn in the town.There are two dim red lanterns swaying in the wind hanging on the door of the inn. The door of the inn looks very old, and some old tables and chairs in the inn have been wiped clean.

The waiter in the inn was drowsy behind the counter, and when he saw someone coming, he put on a smile all over his face to welcome them. "Are the two priests going to stay in the store?" Xiao Er had been working in the store for a long time, and was very good at reading people. He knew that they were practitioners at a glance.

"Are there any vacancies?" Minglin asked.

"Also, how many rooms does the Daoist want?"

"Two rooms." Minglin said again.

"Okay, the two priests, please follow me."

"It's time to work." Gu Yueliu said gently.

Xiao Er took the two of them upstairs, their room was only separated by a wall, and Xiao Er even told them not to go out at night.

When Minglin wanted to ask something more, Xiao Er refused to say anything, and Xiao Er hurried downstairs.

"Daoist, do you think there is something wrong in this town?" Ming Lin asked.

"When we entered the town just now, I didn't notice any evil spirit." Gu Yueliu recalled, "But it was dark just now, and there were no pedestrians in the town."

The two walked all the way into the town to this inn, but they didn't see a single person during such a long journey.If it weren't for the two lanterns hanging at the door of every house, I would almost feel that this is a dead city.

"Could it be that there are some evil spirits in this town?" Ming Lin felt that this was the only explanation.

"Wait until the evening to see, then you will know."

"Okay, then I'll go back to my room first." After Minglin finished speaking, he turned around and left, and Gu Yueliu gave a warning behind him.

"I'm right next door, don't act on your own if you have something to do."

Minglin turned around and smiled, "Got it."

The two returned to their respective rooms, Minglin called out the spirit butterfly, the silver-white butterfly flew around and lit the candlesticks in the room one by one.The candlelight illuminated the entire room. Although the furnishings in the room were a bit outdated, they were better than clean and tidy.

Minglin washed up, took off his coat and lay down on the bed.He rested his head with one hand, raised his other hand to tease the butterfly.After Tan Shuyan left, the two went all the way south, and he could feel that Gu Yueliu was treating him very well now, but he didn't know whether this kindness was due to liking or guilt.

As expected, people are greedy. In the past, he just hoped to be "good" from Gu Yueliu, but now he began to hope that Gu Yueliu would like him.

Minglin was awakened by an evil spirit, the moon was shining outside the window, it was already late at night.Ming Lin didn't want to care about it at first, but he heard Gu Yueliu's voice coming out of the window.He got up quickly, casually put on the coat that hung on the screen, and flew out of the window.

When he jumped out, there was no sign of Gu Yueliu, so he could only go in the direction where the evil spirit was.The moonlight illuminated everything around, and the whole town was silent. He ran on the deserted street and summoned the spirit butterfly, which flew forward like a ray of light.

The eyes of Lingdie are like his eyes, and what Lingdie sees is what he sees.

But he saw nothing.

Minglin ran all the way to the end of the street, and saw Gu Yueliu who was walking back.The half-rolled hair was tied with a silver crown, and the hanging hair hung softly on the back of his chest. At night, his eyes were not tied with white silk, and Minglin seemed to see the red eyes that reached the bottom of his eyes. smile.The moonlight shone on Gu Yueliu, who was dressed in white, and he was holding the Guanghan Sword that had been carried on his back at this moment.He came towards Minglin like a banished fairy, and Minglin's spirit butterfly was flying beside him. The spirit butterfly connected with him, and everything he did was what he thought in his heart.He wanted to get close to Gu Yueliu, so the spirit butterfly flew around Gu Yueliu tightly.

Gu Yueliu raised his fingertips, and sure enough, there were a few spirit butterflies that couldn't wait to stay on his fingertips, flapping their wings, very cute and beautiful.

"This spirit butterfly is cuter than the blood butterfly." Gu Yueliu said to Minglin, the blood butterfly represents the blood of killing, once it appears, there will be blood.And Lingdie is like the kindness and purity in Minglin's heart. Although it still has a strong attack power, it is no longer as brutal and bloody as a blood butterfly.

"I don't know what's going on, this spirit butterfly was summoned for the first time after returning to the world." Ming Linfang raised his fingertips, and a spirit butterfly rested on his fingertips.All Minglin can summon now are spirit butterflies, and can no longer summon blood butterflies.

"Lingdie is fine." Gu Yueliu smiled warmly.

"Are there any evil spirits just now?" Minglin asked.

"should be."

"Didn't you see it?" Gu Yueliu should have gone away with the sword, if he didn't see the evil spirit at such a fast speed, how fast was the evil spirit?

"No, as soon as I got here, the evil spirit disappeared, and there was not even a residual evil spirit left, so I couldn't track it down."

"Then let's go back first and ask Xiaoer tomorrow."

After Minglin finished speaking, Gu Yueliu didn't speak, but suddenly reached out to him, Minglin didn't know, so he stood there blankly, until Gu Yueliu pulled his coat back together.

"Let's go." Gu Yueliu said.

"Okay." Minglin followed behind him, with a heart that did not live up to expectations.

Early the next morning, when Minglin and Gu Yue stayed downstairs, there were already people eating breakfast downstairs.Xiao Er greeted them with a smile on his face and asked them what they would like to eat.Minglin ordered porridge and side dishes, found a small clean table and sat down.

The voice of the speaker at the next table remained undiminished, talking about what happened in the small town, the two listened without speaking, until Xiaoer put the porridge and side dishes on the table.

"Last night, the little treasure from Aunt Zhang's house at the east end of the village was lost."

"What? Just lost a child three days ago, and lost another last night?"

"Yeah, no matter how you guard against it, it won't work."

The people at the next table were still talking, Minglin and Gu Yueliu remembered the evil spirit that suddenly appeared and disappeared last night, and the place where the evil spirit appeared and disappeared happened to be the east end of the village!

"Xiao Er, have many children lost in the town recently?" Gu Yueliu asked.

"Yeah, it's lost every now and then, and it's only at night, without anyone noticing it." Xiao Er said with a heavy tone.

"Is it the evil spirit's work?" Ming Lin asked, most people would not steal children, only the evil spirits would like to use children to improve their demon power.

"Everyone in the town is right, because only ghosts and goblins can steal children so silently without adults knowing."

"Which sect of immortals does this town belong to? Do they not care?" Minglin asked again, generally there are immortals stationed in towns with genus. When they came in, they clearly saw the imprint of immortals, but they didn't see the guards.Even if no one is stationed here, the mayor should have notified the Xian family when this happened. Why did no one care about the loss of children one after another?

"This town was originally under the management of the Liyang Zhu family, but some time ago, the head of the Zhu family died suddenly. The head of the Zhu family had no children. For the sake of being the head of the family, the Zhu family was in civil turmoil. The Zhu family usually doesn't care about us. Now I don't have time to care about us." Xiaoer said helplessly.

"How could it be? Since you belong to the Zhu family's fairy sect, how can you let go of the evil spirits appearing in the town?" Gu Yueliu frowned with her beautiful brows.

"There are only two possibilities. First, the Zhu family doesn't want to take care of it. Second, the Zhu family has no ability to take care of it, but they want to keep this town, so they don't want to invite other immortal sects to take care of this matter and let others know that their Zhu family is connected. Even such a little demon can't deal with it." Ming Lin said while drinking porridge.

"What this little Daoist said is very true. The Zhu family has not had outstanding disciples in recent years, and it is useless to ask them to come."

When Xiaoer said this, Minglin and Gu Yueliu also understood.This town is remote, few monks will come, and there is an immortal family in charge of their town, and it is not easy to send disciples from other immortal sects without the owner of the immortal family.

Xiaoer saw that neither of them wanted to ask any more questions, so he went to greet the new guest.Seeing that Gu Yueliu didn't move, Minglin put another bowl of porridge in front of him.

"Daozhang, eat something first, and I'll accompany you to see it later." Minglin knew that Gu Yue would keep his temper, so he would not ignore this matter.

"Wan Xiao, do you feel something is wrong? Since more than ten years ago, there have been incidents of evil spirits catching children." Gu Yueliu frowned, looking worried.

Demons like to eat people and inhale breath.But since more than ten years, there have been incidents of evil spirits arresting children in almost every town under the jurisdiction of the fairy family sect, and often those children who were taken away are almost never found.Evil cannibalism requires a refining process, and if too much energy is accumulated, it will be unbearable and explode to death.Where are the children who are not eaten?

"Master Dao, when the evil spirit reappears, we can catch it and ask it." In the past, those who received such cases would only think that the evil spirit harmed people and did a lot of evil, and the way to deal with it was to disperse their souls on the spot.

"it is good."

The two came to the place where the evil spirit appeared last night, and a woman was crying from a house not far away.The two walked to the door of that family's house. The two small doors were tightly closed, and the crying came from inside, more clearly than before.

Minglin stepped forward and knocked on the door, and only after knocking for a while did someone answer the door.The person who came to open the door was a woman who was nearly forty years old, her eyes were red and swollen, and she was dressed neatly in white washed clothes. Most of the furniture in the room was old and worn out, and some flowers and plants were planted behind the door.It can be seen that this woman's family is poor, but the owner loves to be clean and hardworking.

"Are the two priests okay?" The woman's voice was hoarse, she had been crying for a long time.

"Excuse me, are you Aunt Zhang?" Minglin asked.

"Yes."

"Aunt Zhang, we are here to track down the evil spirits, and we want to go into the room where the child was lost last night, is that okay?" Gu Yueliu asked.

"Are you really here to catch the demon? Can you help me find my son? I only have him, can you help me?" The woman clasped Gu Yueliu's hand excitedly, incoherently speaking.

Minglin pulled Aunt Zhang's hand away, and walked in front of Gu Yueliu, he didn't like anyone touching Gu Yueliu, not even Auntie! "Well, we'll try our best, so can you show us inside?"

"plz follow me."

Aunt Zhang led them into the house, which was very simple, with only two adjacent bedrooms, one large and one small.The small bedroom is where Aunt Zhang's son lives. Aunt Zhang said that her husband passed away three years ago, leaving only her and her six-year-old son Xiaobao.Last night, after washing Xiaobao early, she coaxed her son to sleep. When she got up in the morning, she found that her son was gone and the windows were closed.

Gu Yueliu couldn't find any traces using the shadow chasing technique, but there was a trace of evil in the room, which was similar to the evil that appeared last night but slightly different.