Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

As he slowly went deeper, Cui Bianxu gradually got used to the dark environment in the cave. Although he still couldn't see clearly and could only see the general outline, he could feel by touching the mountain wall that there seemed to be traces of human excavation in the cave.

He took out a tinder to light the cave and found that it was small on the outside but large on the inside, shaped like a gourd. The entrance looked inconspicuous, but there was a different world inside.

The mountain walls on both sides had been roughly chiseled, and there was rubble on the ground that had not been cleared away. It was obvious that the person who did this just made this place look like this casually.

He was very focused and calculated that he had walked in this quiet environment for about an incense stick of time, but still did not see the stall owner. However, there were some water stains on the ground, which should have been left by the stall owner.

Suddenly, he stopped and listened carefully, and he heard the sound of flowing water!

At the same time, Cui Bianxu felt a little hot, and his eyebrows twitched violently - could it be that there is a hot spring here?

This discovery made him walk more carefully, controlling the strength of each step, for fear of making any noise and alarming the people inside. After walking for a while, he could clearly feel that the ground began to slope downwards. Although the angle of inclination was not large, it was indeed going downwards.

As the temperature got higher and higher, a dense layer of sweat appeared on his body. His clothes were sticky to his body, making him extremely uncomfortable. His hair, messed up by the wind, stuck to his cheeks and felt a little itchy. The humidity in the air was getting higher and higher. Suddenly, a ray of light appeared at the corner ahead.

He did not dare to be careless, so he put away the tinderbox and walked towards that place with the knife in hand.

The traces of excavation here were more obvious, but the ground was very clean and the footprints could no longer be seen. The sound of water in his ears became heavier, but he keenly heard a suppressed breathing sound, which was very close.

After Cui Bianxu determined the opponent's approximate location, he held his breath and rushed in.

'Shuh! '

'Dangdang!'

A silver light flashed, and a dark shadow flew down from above the cave. Cui Bianxu, who had been prepared, reacted very quickly, raising his knife horizontally above his head to block the blow.

It’s the stall owner!

"What a sharp dog nose you have! It actually followed me here." The stall owner had already taken off his black robe, but he was still dressed in black. His sallow face looked even more distorted and terrifying in the firelight.

Cui Bianxu raised his eyebrows, and instead of retreating, he advanced, pulling out another short knife from his waist with his left hand, and slashed it at the stall owner. The stall owner was caught off guard and had to take several steps back to avoid the attack. Cui Bianxu did not stop at all, and took the opportunity to rush forward again, dancing with both swords with great vigor, and almost hurting the opponent several times.

The stall owner's lightness skill level was average, but his martial arts skills were good. When Cui Bianxu wanted to capture him alive, the two of them fought fiercely for a while.

During the fight, Cui Bianxu also saw the whole picture of this place. It turned out that there was another world inside the cave. In the middle of the cave was a hot spring about one meter deep, which was emitting hot steam.

There were several large pots and a stone platform on one side of the cave. On the platform were some cold and shiny knives. There were sticky dark red bloodstains on the sides of the platform and on the ground. In another corner, there were more than a dozen heads without a trace of flesh and blood on the ground.

"It's really you!"

Cui Bianxu was so furious that he increased the strength in his hands and swung the long knife directly at the man's head. This time the momentum was so strong and the speed was so fast that the stall owner could only roll on the ground to avoid it in a hurry.

He was a little frightened, realizing that Cui Bianxu's martial arts skills were far superior to his own. He couldn't help but feel a little anxious, but his face remained stern: "They are just four prostitutes, cheap things. If they die, they die."

"How dare you! How can you decide the life and death of the people of my Tang Dynasty?!" Cui Bianxu flashed forward and kicked him five meters away before he could get up, and he slammed heavily against the stone wall.

The kick was so heavy that the stall owner vomited blood. Seeing that he was about to come forward again, he forced himself to raise his hand and whistled sharply. Cui Bianxu didn't know what he was going to do, and thought he was going to call for help. He was not afraid and was about to chop at the stall owner's arm.

Suddenly, a gust of fishy wind blew from behind and hit the back of his head!

Without time to look back, he twisted his body sideways with the force of his waist, and swung the long knife in his hand backwards. The black shadow quickly dodged the attack in mid-air, and then fell to the ground: "Meow~"

It was a cat, a fat black cat that was twice as big as a normal cat. One of the black cat's eyes was empty without an eyeball, and a scar ran across the left half of its face. Its eye must have been lost because of the scar.

Cui Bianxu couldn't help but think of the stall owner - his left eye was also blind.

"Call a cat to die with you?" Cui Bianxu ignored the black cat. The cat had such a strong smell and its body shape was so abnormal that it was obvious that it was raised on solid meat.

The human needs to be kept for trial, but the cat doesn't need to be kept. It will be killed soon and that's it.

Unexpectedly, a strange smile appeared on the stall owner's face. A harsh and unpleasant laugh came from his throat. He stood up, holding his chest: "Do you think that's all?"

Cui Bianxu's heart trembled, and suddenly several fishy winds flashed behind him. He turned around abruptly, and saw that more than a dozen fat black cats had appeared in the cave. Each of them had a scar on the left cheek, and their left eyeballs had been completely removed, leaving a hollow space.

Some of the cats were standing, sitting, or licking their front paws, but their remaining right eyes were all staring straight at him.

Even though Cui Bianxu was a skilled martial artist, he still felt a chill down his spine when he was stared at by so many strange black cats: "You blinded all these cats."

The stall owner scoffed, perhaps not expecting him to ask this question: "I don't have a left eye, so they naturally don't deserve it."

"They all eat human flesh?"

"Asking knowingly."

Cui Bianxu's face darkened. "If that's the case, why would they deliberately throw human flesh into the city?"

The stall owner did not answer, but blew the whistle again. After three consecutive rapid whistles, more than a dozen black cats moved at the same time. Although they were fat, they moved very quickly. In an instant, the black figures appeared in front of Cui Bianxu.

"It's New Year's Day, let's give the people in the city something good to eat, hahahahahahahahahaha..."

Cui Bianxu became furious upon seeing this, and swung the short knife in his left hand back into its sheath. He turned around and ran straight towards the stall owner who was about to slip away, kicked him to the ground from behind, picked him up with one hand, and threw him at the black cats that were flying towards him.

He is not a fool. These cats eat dead people. If he accidentally scratches his skin and dies, who will be responsible?

The movements were so fast that the stall owner didn't expect Cui Bianxu to use him as a human shield. He was kicked and thrown out repeatedly, and he felt pain all over his body.

Especially the kick Cui Bianxu gave him on the lower back just now. The kick was so strong that his lower back became numb and most of his body lost consciousness for a while.