My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

The madam continued to say the same things.

The same goes for those men.

Their only demand is to survive.

This is their refuge; only here can they survive.

Only when the black blood spread across her chest did Qiao Yi shake her head slightly and sigh.

"In a true city of the unjustly dead, no one sheds blood and tears."

After saying that, Qiao Yi raised her hand and stuck a talisman on the brothel madam's forehead.

Starting with the madam, fiery red light emanated, covering every man behind him, and then spreading throughout the entire room.

As the black blood receded, the men stood motionless before them.

Qiao Yi was about to step forward, but Hua Ran pulled her back.

"My wife..."

"It's alright, they won't move, and I can't be hurt by these vengeful spirits."

Joey said she used magic to temporarily seal off the madam and the men.

In this way, the madam and her accomplices would not lose contact with the city, thus avoiding alerting the enemy and making it easier for them to continue investigating the origins of the City of the Unjustly Dead.

After hearing this, Hua Ran looked at Qiao Yi with concern.

He even went up to touch Joey's face and tried to hug her.

Holding his precious baby in her arms and never letting go is when Hua Ran feels most at ease.

But he knew he couldn't.

“My lady, doing this will consume a lot of your yang energy. You will have to keep releasing small amounts of yang energy to maintain your magic... During this time, you cannot sleep deeply and you will have to be distracted at all times.”

Joey smiled and patted Hua Ran's head, causing both of her fox ears to droop.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. I don't feel tired even if I release yang energy in small amounts continuously. However... this is definitely not a long-term solution."

Joey said that, from what I can see, this city is only slightly different from a normal city of the dead, namely the incongruity in time and the blood and tears shed by the brothel owner.

But Joey has already made some progress.

The flowers dyed gray and red.

skull.

The root of the fake city of the dead.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's Dyran who's controlling this fake city of the dead."

The remains of Hanazono can spawn derivatives and illusions.

So it would be understandable if the more important child were to have a different personality.

Moreover, Hua Ran herself is Taiyin, the head of all Yin things in the world. Ghost Realm, Yellow Springs, and River of Oblivion are all part of Yin. It is reasonable that she has been given additional branches!

"Ranran, as long as we find your head, we can take over this city!"

Just then, the sky outside cleared up.

The outside world has returned to normal.

The peddler selling paper money called out: "Burn paper money, make paper figures, welcome ghosts and gods on the fifteenth of the seventh month. Receive paper money, entrust paper figures, send the souls of the unjustly dead in the city."

"Come and buy now, it's cheap!"

Qiao Yi and Hua Ran came out of the brothel and saw a vendor selling paper money. Qiao Yi went over and asked him.

"What day is today?"

"July 14th."

Joey thought for a moment and then asked, "What day was yesterday?"

"July 15th."

!!!

Joey asked again, "What day was the day before yesterday?"

"July 14th! Miss Qiao, what's wrong with you today? Why are you asking so many strange questions?"

Joey took a deep breath; she understood!

Time doesn't just stop at one point, but rather at two days, which is why it feels so jarring.

She then asked, "Who are we buying paper money for? This is a city of the unjustly dead."

The vendor's eyes immediately began to turn grayish-white.

Joey quickly replied, "Okay... I'll take two bundles!"

The vendor's expression returned to normal.

The two returned to the inn.

Joey gave a cold laugh.

"I know where your head is!"

Hua Ran patted Qiao Yi on the shoulder.

"Ugh! Don't talk so casually about it, that's still my head..."

"Ranran, are you scared to sleep in a coffin with me?"

Hua Ran chuckled after hearing this and bumped Qiao Yi's shoulder with her own.

"My lady, your questions are getting more and more ridiculous... From the very beginning, weren't we lying in coffins, and..."

At this point, Hua Ran smiled shyly.

"I've also accomplished the most important thing in my life—I've had a baby!"

"But this time, we'll go through the entire Ghost Festival process. We'll lie in the coffin, no trouble at all, and we'll definitely see your head in the end!"

Hua Ran smiled and brushed Joey's cheek with her fluffy tail.

"My lady... shall we accomplish something important this time?"

As she said this, Hua Ran blinked.

Joey looked up at the sky.

"Well... finding the head is the most important thing."

"Don't change the subject!"

Joey thought about the dog god's instructions again.

Before leaving, Inugami specifically said that the two of them should not do anything inappropriate on this trip, and if they really couldn't resist, they should bring contraceptives.

If you are moved by passion, avoid having children.

Because although foxes only mate once a year, they give birth to six to eight cubs each time.

But Hanazono is clearly not an ordinary fox; she got pregnant on the first try, so she might be prone to having cubs.

The situation is so complicated now, they absolutely cannot have any more children.

At the time, Joey patted his chest and said, "Who would do that kind of thing in a ghost town? We're there to find the truth and investigate cases!"

just now……

Joey felt a little guilty.

Especially when Hua Ran looked at her with a flirtatious wink.

"No means no, don't try to seduce me!"

"Who was it that just pinned someone down on the table and kissed them?"

"Wasn't that to provoke the male ghost!?"

After Joey finished speaking, she watched as Hua Ran kept wagging her big brown-red tail, a charming smile on her face.

Hua Ran's knees immediately buckled, and she knelt before Qiao Yi. Her fox tail continued to wag, and her fox ears stood up, the tips of her furry ears trembling from time to time.

It looks like... a lucky fox.

Yes, the other one is a lucky cat, and the other one is a lucky fox. What they have in common is that fluffy texture.

"What are you doing?!"

Joey immediately took a step back.

"I learned this here~ My wife, I'll serve you, I'll massage your legs and shoulders in the coffin, and then I'll kiss you... and you'll kiss me back, back and forth like this~"

Joey raised an eyebrow. Goodness, he hadn't learned anything else, but he had indeed learned the ways of a little slave.

At this moment, someone in the distance shouted: "Burn paper money, make paper figures, welcome ghosts and gods on the fifteenth of the seventh month!"

Many residents in the city ran towards the coffin.

Qiao Yi pulled Hua Ran along and they saw a large coffin on an open ground below the city wall.

It's black with red patterns on it!

It's...it's that Yin-gathering formation!

It's the formation that mixes deer blood and snake blood.

People in the City of the Unjustly Dead throw paper money at the coffins.

After people finished scattering the paper money, someone pushed open the heavy coffin lid and put all the paper money into the coffin.

At this moment, people shouted again: "Receive the paper money, entrust the paper figures, send the souls of the unjustly dead to the city!"

Then people dug out the paper money from the coffin, and all that money turned into banknotes.

Hua Ran and Qiao Yi exchanged a glance, knowing that they would be lying here soon.