little spicy jiao

After discovering that the ghost possessing Li Mu came from the Valley of the Hidden Gods, Dugu Jiu and his party left the Cooking Union, but they did not leave the old capital of Wusen immediately, but changed to live in an inn.

The inner city of the old capital of Wusen, the upper street of Dongshi.

Mo Jiaojiao was sitting on the edge of the table next to the window in the guest room on the third floor of the inn, resting his chin in one hand and holding a fat brush in the other, looking down at the rice paper and painting.

He looks serious and focused, and is very careful in his brushwork. However, it seems that he encountered difficulties during the painting process. The child frowned from time to time, staring at the rice paper in a daze for a long time.

Shen Siyuan also sat quietly reading a book, the only sound in the room was the slight sound of paper being turned.

"Xiaoyang." The childish address broke the silence in the room, "Why hasn't Jiujiu come back yet?"

"Chongrong went to find the ghost cultivator." Shen Siyuan closed the book and said with a smile: "Did he not tell Jiao Jiao? We found out yesterday that there were some loopholes in what the ghost cultivator said last time. He went to them for verification. If the question is not clear, I'm afraid I need to ask Ghost Cultivator to find out the correct information with the help of Bai Xiaojing."

"It's just..." Mo Jiaojiao subconsciously pressed the brush against her chin, trying to support it with the pen holder.

Unexpectedly, the tip of the pen was held upside down, and an ink mark immediately appeared on the child's delicate and fair chin.

He threw away the brush in a hurry, covered his neck with a handkerchief and wiped it, but half of his neck was blackened.

Shen Siyuan burst out laughing, hurriedly twisted a wet sweat towel back, bent down to wipe Mo Jiaojiao's neck, and said: "Dry handkerchiefs can't be wiped clean, silly Jiaojiao."

"Then is it clean now?" Mo Jiaojiao was not annoyed, and sat obediently with his head up, and continued: "What the ghost Xiu said is so complicated, Jiaojiao can't understand it, Jiaojiao knows it, the elder becomes a star The false elders, even liars, will live. Then the elders will live, and the false elders will die."

"That's right." Shen Siyuan wiped off the ink stains on the child, put the sweat towel back, washed it and dried it, then turned around and said, "But Chong Rong discovered yesterday that when Huai Mo was born, the Huai Mo tree demon had not fallen, that is to say , the news that Guixiu said is not accurate. We believe that the substitute of the Yaozu should not appear after death, but based on another opportunity."

"Why does Jiujiu know when the fake Huaimo was born?" Mo Jiaojiao opened his eyes in surprise, and asked suspiciously, "Can Jiujiu know mind reading skills?"

When Shen Siyuan heard this, a trace of astonishment flashed across his face.He quickly walked back to the table and sat down, trying to slow down his voice and tentatively asked:

"Jiao Jiao, don't you know when Huai Mo appeared? Or, before you came to the old capital of Wusen, you never saw him?"

"No." Mo Jiaojiao shook his head innocently, and said doubtfully: "Jiaojiao only knows the elder Huaishu, but the taste of Huaimo is the same as that of the elder Huaishu. Jiaojiao thinks they are the same person, I know they are elders It's different, now that Jiujiu says Huaimo is fake, Jiaojiao won't admit it."

"How come..." Shen Siyuan frowned, muttered, and was about to ask further, but saw the door was pushed open, and a tall and straight man walked in.

"Jiujiu!" Mo Jiaojiao jumped off the chair and ran over, jumped up and threw himself into the arms of the bent man, was hugged again, and said happily: "Jiujiu caught me."

"Yeah." Dugu Jiu pinched the child's pale and rosy face, sat back at the table, looked at Shen Siyuan and said, "Ghost Xiu admits that the timing of the birth of the demon race's substitutes is not all when the demon race falls. , A small number of great monsters with advanced cultivation bases have doubles in their lives, but the reason for the appearance of doubles is still unclear."

"Then it can explain why Huai Mo appeared in...in advance." Shen Siyuan coughed lightly, turned to look at Mo Jiaojiao, and said, "Is what Jiao Jiao just said true?"

"Yeah." Mo Jiaojiao nodded affirmatively, "Jiaojiao knows this is very important, we have to follow Huaimo to find Elder Huaishu, Jiaojiao will not joke about this."

"Then I'm relieved." Shen Siyuan replied with a smile, then he leaned back on the chair back, lowered his head and pretended to open the book to continue reading, and at the same time he said to Dugu Jiu:

"Jiao Jiao just said that he didn't know Huai Mo, and he had never seen Huai Mo before he came here. However, Huai Mo did hide in Jiao Jiao's dream. What's going on? You have to suspect that there is something wrong with Huai Mo's origin."

"There is no contradiction between these two things." Dugu Jiuben was flipping through Mo Jiaojiao's painting, when he heard the sound, the movement in his hand stopped for a moment, and then returned to normal, and said in the same voice transmission:

"Jiajiao lost a lot of memories when he was young. I have already discovered that even with the enlightenment and the protection of the Great Wilderness Circle, it is still difficult for him to remember the things that he is extremely unwilling to face, unless those things are meaningful to him. The existence that cannot be given up, just like the fall of the Hidden God Valley clan, he always remembers."

"Because the fallen person is a close relative, so even if you don't want to accept it, do you still remember it?" Shen Siyuan said slowly, "Then, what happened in the dream that Jiao Jiao told you before is just that he can still accept it. And what he can't remember... the dream including Huai Mo... I understand. It seems that what happened in Jiaojiao's dream is more troublesome than the sect master imagined."

"It's not necessarily true. In recent months, Jiaojiao has been able to recall some of the past, although not all, but it is getting better." Dugu Jiu paused, put away the rice paper, looked at the child sitting beside him, and said in a low voice : "Jiajiao, do you remember that Huaimo wanted to murder you?"

"Remember." Mo Jiaojiao wrinkled his nose and said in disgust, "He wants to trick Jiaojiao into taking poison."

"En." Dugu Jiu responded, took out Fairy Hongyan's Baixiao mirror, turned it over, held it in his palm, then slightly closed his eyes and concentrated, and released Yuan power from his fingertips into Baixiao mirror, awakening the simple and simple spiritual weapon , handed it to the child, and said, "Jiajiao, who is this?"

Mo Jiaojiao held the mirror and looked at the mirror curiously, but what caught his eyes was not his own reflection, but Huai Mo standing in the shaded alley.

The young man stood in the backlight and looked up at the Tianya Traveler Inn across the street.

After a while, an old woman staggered out of the inn, came straight to the young man, took the small bag handed over by the young man, and said: "Young man, the three people you asked me to inquire about have already left. I think they went to West Street, and the doll in red seems to say that she is going to the trade union to learn art."

As soon as the words fell, the mirror suddenly went black.

Mo Jiaojiao let out a "huh" and turned the mirror over and over again, wondering if it was broken, when the ancient Baixiao mirror was once again smeared with a faint white mist, and then Huai Mo's figure appeared again.

Standing in front of the chef union, the young man raised his eyes to see the huge plaque on the door, and smiled inexplicably. Suddenly, he heard a child's cheerful voice behind the door, and hurriedly turned around and hid in the shadow by the wall, quietly Looking at the people who came out of the trade union, it was Mo Jiaojiao and Li Mu.

"This mirror is so powerful, why does it know that Huaimo is here?" Mo Jiaojiao looked at the mirror that turned dark again, turned it over curiously, but didn't see why, and was about to continue talking, when the mirror surface suddenly spread again A white mist came out.

Without exception, Huai Mo appeared again. However, the young man at this moment was different from the glamorous appearance of the previous two times. On the contrary, he was in a state of embarrassment. Touching the ground, the long nails dug deep into the soil.

The young man bit his lip hard, his face was pale, his forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he was obviously enduring inhuman pain... Even so, he still raised his head gloomyly and looked straight at the mirror.

Mo Jiaojiao stared blankly at the young man in the mirror, and he held the mirror and tilted his head only after the mirror was completely dimmed.

Dugu Jiu has been observing the child's reaction calmly, seeing his confused and moist eyes, and a face full of ignorance and fearlessness with baby fat, finally frowned and put away the idea of ​​letting the child remember the dream memories, and said : "What did Pepper see?"

"This mirror..." Mo Jiaojiao came back to his senses, turned the Baixiao mirror over again, and then when the people around him were unprepared, he held the mirror and slammed it on the table twice.

Dugu Jiu was slightly taken aback, quickly grasped the child's wrist, took the mirror and put it away, and asked in a calm voice, "What's wrong?"

"The liar looks at Jiao Jiao in the mirror." Mo Jiaojiao pointed at the man's storage bag and said angrily, "Jiao Jiao smashed him, and he wouldn't dare to do bad things."

Shen Siyuan raised his hand to his forehead, he couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Silly Jiaojiao, that's fake."

"Bai Xiaojing can go back in time and reproduce what happened within a certain range." Dugu Jiu stroked the child's back and explained: "Huai Mo is not here."

"But he was watching me over there." Mo Jiaojiao frowned aggrievedly, stretched out his tender finger and poked out the window, said: "That place looks the same, he is there."

"Oh?" Shen Siyuan was a little surprised, flew to the window in the blink of an eye, saw a figure dodging quickly as expected, touched his chin and sighed: "Chongrong, you have already found that Huaimo is following Jiao Jiao? "

"That's right." Dugu Jiu's breath was heavy and his face was solemn, but he was pouring tea while patting the child's back in his hands, and said in a deep voice, "Huai Mo has always followed Jiaojiao, and today he tried to poison Jiaojiao, what do you think?"

"Isn't this normal?" Shen Siyuan took out his fan and shook it, leaning against the window and said as a matter of course: "Ghost Xiu said that when the big monster is resurrected, his substitute will inevitably fall. The only way for the substitute to kill the revived monster race Only by themselves can they continue to live, and at the same time, because of such hatred, they will use all means to attack people that the Yaozu cares about. For example, Huai Mo hates Jiao Jiao."

"Since they have to kill the demon clan to survive, then," Dugu Jiu looked up at the young man, and said, "Why didn't Huai Mo stay beside the locust tree demon and wait for an opportunity, but came here to murder Jiaojiao?"

"That's true... If Huai Mo has successfully killed the locust tree demon, then the warning bell must ring again. But since Jiao Jiao's birth and the fall of the last monster clan in Yinshen Valley, the warning bell has never appeared again." Shen Siyuan Holding the fan, he tapped his forehead, his face paled a bit, and said: "In theory, after the revival of the Yaozu, if another Yaozu falls, the warning bell will definitely remind us in order to maintain the stability of all tribes... So, Huai The dryad must be alive."

"Jiaojiao knows!" Mo Jiaojiao suddenly sat on Dugujiu's lap, shaking his feet, and shouted, "It must be that the liar couldn't beat Elder Huaishu, so he ran away in desperation. He was afraid of death."

"Jiaojiao makes sense." Dugu Jiu stretched his long eyebrows, looked down at Mo Jiaojiao, and said, "For Huaimo, the most urgent task is to get rid of the locust tree demon and save his own life. However, he chose to fight against Jiaojiao." Jiaojiao was killed, either because Jiaojiao was capable of saving his life, or to use Jiaojiao to coerce the locust tree demon into submission. Unless he is really not afraid of death."

"It can be understood in this way. As far as the head of this sect knows, there is no substitute who is not afraid of death." Shen Siyuan nodded in agreement, but hesitated: "But, Chong Rong, what if he really does not want to die? You know, Even if we immediately arrest him to search for his soul or force him to interrogate him, it is impossible for him to let us know where the locust tree demon is now due to the limitations of heaven."

"Huai Mo is the only clue so far." Dugu Jiu led the child to stand up, and said: "Just do the trick, even if the clue is broken, I can find a second or third demon race substitute. There is always a want to live."