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Several people had to stretch their arms to encircle the two pillars. Guard soldiers were lined up on both sides of the pillars. Those soldiers wore silver armor and stood there with spears expressionless. They had to walk through several steps. To get to the pillar.

Su Mu looked around, but he couldn't see anyone except the soldiers in the distance, and he couldn't hear any sound. The surrounding area was surrounded by clouds and mist, and it was unusually deserted.He didn't know where he was, so he walked up the steps.

He walked up the steps, walked to the pillars, and walked for a while before seeing the majestic palace. He opened the door and went in. The guarding soldiers seemed to be unable to see him, allowing him to rush from room to room.

Finally, he heard human voices in a room called "Lingxiao Palace".

"Master, wait for me to come back."

"it is good."

Su Mu wanted to see the shadowy two people clearly, so he took two steps forward and lifted the layers of gauze curtains. When the person who said "yes" raised his head, Su Mu was startled.

That man was exactly the same as Su Muchang, except that he was dressed in noble style, and the cuffs and neckline of the pure white fairy robe were embroidered with gold silk dragon patterns.He was sitting on the Taishi chair, and the man kneeling in front of him was wearing black armor. Since his back was facing Su Mu, Su Mu took a few steps forward to see who he was, but the man's face was still the same. It was a blur.

For some reason, Su Mu himself was a spectator of the theater, but he was like a person in the play. He always felt that this farewell would never be able to wait any longer, and his heart ached for a while.

Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was the car hood, and the anxious faces of Hua Xiangrong and others, "Big Brother, Big Brother, what's wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare? Has your heart disease relapsed?"

"It's nothing serious. After all, it's the heart of a monster. The two are incompatible." Wang Qingping put down Su Mu's wrist, "Brother Su, if there is any abnormality, you must tell me."

Wang Qingping felt that letting Su Mu go to Dayan City alone was a failure of Su Guyao's entrustment, so he wrote a letter to his family and went with Su Mu.

Now they were sitting in Li Rusi's big sedan chair, and dozed off for a while, only now that Su Mu woke up and realized that he had dreamed.

This dream made Su Mu feel dull in his heart, so he opened the car curtain and looked outside. It was also gloomy outside, and it was still raining lightly.

"Floods washed away houses and fields, and now even God doesn't see much, and it's still raining in October." Approaching Dayan City, Su Mu couldn't help arguing for the victims.

"There is God's will in the dark, so benefactor Su doesn't have to worry about it."

"People who cultivate the Tao should have compassion in their hearts. What Taoist Fuzhi said, it seems that those people deserve to suffer." Su Mu retorted dissatisfied with the words of Taoist Fuzhi.

"The Su benefactor said that they are monks, but we are Taoists. We slay demons and eliminate demons. Our hands are bloody. There is no mercy." Sin, let me suffer alone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Rusi yelled loudly, with a faint tendency to get angry, "Xu Fuzhi! Can you stop talking about what you have and what you don't have!"

Su Mu saw Li Rusi's eyes widen due to anger, quickly grabbed him, changed the topic loudly, and asked, "So, when shall we arrive in Dayan City?"

Li Rusi is not a stupid person either, he understood Su Mu's easing intention, and replied: "It will be there soon, at most it will take another hour."

"It's still another hour." Su Mu murmured in his heart.Although the sedan chair of Li Rusi's family is big, he feels dizzy and nauseated when he sits on it, as if he has never sat on such a thing before. He used to sit on cashmere cushions, and the road he walked was flat and wide, not to mention drifting in the wind. The smell of horses... He didn't know where his illusion came from, anyway, he couldn't get used to this kind of wobbly sedan chair.

The carriage walked for a while, and suddenly there was the sound of drums and music from outside the sedan chair. Su Mu opened the curtain of the sedan chair curiously to look, but the sound came from a distance, and he did not see the person playing the music, just The closer it was to Dayan City, the more cloudy and frightening the sky became.

"Who is in the mood to play music?"

"It's a sacrifice." Wang Qingping replied, seeing Su Mu's doubts, he went on to say: "Some villages or tribes will hold a grand sacrifice ceremony when they encounter drought or flood to ask God to listen. The customs of different places are different. The objects used are also different, some use melons and fruits, some use cattle and sheep, and some use..."

Seeing Wang Qingping's dignified expression, Su Mu couldn't help being even more curious, "What's the use of some?"

"A stranger, maybe a young woman, maybe a boy and a virgin, they are all different."

When Su Mu heard this cruel method, he faintly wanted to scold "Your uncle", but he didn't know who to scold.Just listen to Taoist Fu Zhi said: "No matter what kind of ghosts and gods, those who cannibalize human flesh and blood must be monsters."

Entering the city in a blink of an eye, a group of people got off the sedan chair, and the whole city was empty, some of them were only old people and children who starved to death. Above the city, waiting for a full meal, the rotten smell of corpses spread into the nasal cavity from time to time.

The broken beams and broken logs of the floodwaters lay in the middle of the road, and Su Mu and the others cleaned them up as they walked.Several people took their food out of the sedan chair and distributed it to the victims. Soon, more and more victims began to gather around and gobble it up. Hua Xiangrong couldn't help but get red eyes.Someone showed them the way to the yamen, and the man said: "There is no one in the yamen. Those sons of bitches ran away when they saw the flood. If they didn't run away, I think they would starve to death."

Several people came to the yamen again, unexpectedly there was someone in the yamen who didn't run away, this person was also very hungry, and he was in his early thirties, "Small eyesight, who is the high official sent by the emperor?"

"I'm Li Rusi, who are you?"

"The young one's surname is Gao Minghuan, it's all like this, and there is nothing to entertain. I hope you will forgive me."

"No problem. I just want to ask you, everyone has run away, why don't you run away?"

"If all the errands run away, wouldn't the rest of the Li people be completely hopeless?"

Su Mu praised him for his character, and asked him to show everyone around, "I heard that three officials were sent before, and they are all dead?"

"Yes."

"Where is the corpse?" Wang Qingping asked.

"In the morgue, are the adults going?"

Without waiting for others to reply, Li Rusi said first: "Just show us the results of the autopsy done earlier."

"I think it's better for Qingping to take a look in person." Su Mu suggested.

"There is no autopsy report, Mr. Liu, that is, the foreman of our yamen. He died after returning home after the autopsy. The autopsy results have not yet been written!" Several saviors were scared away again.

"Let's go! That's it." Su Mu said.

"This...isn't that good."

"Why?"

"How unlucky! I am also an orderly officer, maybe I will be the fourth." Li Rusi's voice became weaker and weaker.

"It turns out that my virtuous brother is afraid of this. It doesn't matter. Let's go." Su Mu always thought that Li Rusi was not afraid of anything for the sake of the common people. Qing Ping followed Gao Huan.

The morgue is behind the government office. There were few people there, and now there is no one there. Gao Huan said as he walked, "It was originally underground, but a flood filled the basement." , so I used the warehouse above as a temporary morgue, and all three corpses are here. Alas! The person who died for no apparent reason is not from our Dayan City, so we can’t just bury them casually!”

After such a long time, one could imagine how decomposed the three corpses were. Even Wang Qingping couldn't help frowning before approaching the corpse bed.

The doors and windows of the morgue were closed, and the nose slowly got used to the smell of decay.

"What's that sound?" Hua Xiangrong acted as Wang Qingping's assistant, she covered her mouth with a white cloth, and spoke in a dull voice.

"Mouse!" He said without delaying the movement of his hands.

"Boo————"

This time even Su Mu who was far away could hear it, it was the sound coming from the corpse bed in front of Wang Qingping and the others, Su Mu's scalp exploded, but he still had the courage to pretend that he didn't hear anything Walking over, "Qingping, what shall we have for dinner?"

Seeing that Wang Qingping and Hua Xiangrong were so frightened that they couldn't react, he knew that they, like him, had thought of the words of the waiter in the Jingcheng shop, that it was He Bo who was punishing the whole of Dayan City, so he swallowed and said, "After the autopsy, we Just go to the river, catch fish and eat fish, catch bastards and eat bastards, if you are lucky, if you catch water ghosts, you will chop off his hands, if you catch Hebo, you will cut out his heart."

There was a wind blowing outside, and there was lightning and thunder for a while.Su Mu said as he walked to the corpse bed, and abruptly lifted the white cloth that had fallen to the ground.

"Ah—" Eyes met, they yelled.

Although Su Mu had made enough mental preparations, he was still shocked when he saw a bloody man under the bed.

The woman hiding under the bed seemed to be even more afraid of Su Mu. She quickly crawled out and knocked Su Mu away and hid in the corner of the room. The original pink blouse was already stained with blood, and her hands and face were covered with blood. She looked at Su Mu in horror. Su Mu and the others yelled, "Don't! Don't! Don't kill me!"

Gao Huan, who was outside, heard the sound and rushed in, followed by Li Rusi and Taoist Fuzhi, "Brother Su, what's wrong with you?"

"Huh?" After Gao Huan saw the woman, he took a few steps forward, sized her up carefully and said, "This seems to be Miss Xiaofeng from our village."

"Don't...don't...don't kill me...don't..."

This Gao Huan's hometown was originally Gaojia Village under Dayan City. He said: "That's her! Gao Fengran! I went home yesterday and heard that she was chosen by the sorceress to sacrifice to He Bo. Why is she here? She is covered in blood Yes, is she okay?"

"With such strength, I think she's fine, at most she's overly frightened." Su Mu said, remembering the time she hit her.

She was still in the corner, wrapping her arms around herself, "Don't...don't..."

While pitying her, Gao Huan wanted to get her up, but suddenly remembered something and said: "No! There were so many people in the village during the sacrifice, and many people watched them being pushed into the water, and she couldn't swim. How could it be possible to escape?"

It's still raining outside, so it doesn't matter if you don't hold an umbrella, but your body is wet.

While washing his hands, Wang Qingping told Su Mu about the autopsy, "The corpse has been decomposing for too long, and the specific situation will be determined tomorrow."

"Didn't he just drown! There's nothing to prove, it's not important..." Li Rusi didn't think so.

"It's not important? This is three lives!" For some reason, Hua Xiangrong hated Li Rusi a little bit, and always felt that he seemed to be close to him when he talked, so he couldn't listen to him, especially when he said that, Hua Xiangrong Xiangrong felt as if he had finally caught his fox's tail.

"What is the purpose of our visit? It's water control and disaster relief. Things have to be prioritized! Solve this problem first and then investigate the murderer. Alas! The river in the north of the city can't be blocked anymore, so we have to think of other ways."

"Then can you do it?"

"..." Li Rusi fell silent now.

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Su Mu asked, "What can you do, brother? But this way is very difficult? You can speak up quickly, and everyone will come up with ideas."

"Fuzhi told me just now that the god in the river couldn't control the flood. There is a river called Yanshui near Dayan City, and it is from there that the flood floods into the city. It flows from south to north. The Black Sea, but no one has ever seen this Black Sea."

Su Mu couldn't help asking: "Then how do you know that Yanshui flows into the Black Sea?"

The sound of folding the fan was crisp, "Of course I don't know, this is what Fuzhi told me - the reason why the Black Sea is called the Black Sea is because it is a pitch-black piece of water, and even the waves that turn are black. Yes, some people call it the sea of ​​darkness, the sea of ​​death. It is said that after death, the soul of a person descends to the underworld through the black sea, so that place is extremely dark and dangerous, and the most vicious monsters in history are basically suppressed there. There used to be How many generations does a god of creation come from?" Li Rusi thought for a while and then said, "If he hadn't subdued the Black Sea, there might not be you and me."

"Brother, what do you mean, He Bo in the Black Sea can't control those monsters anymore?"

"No." Li Rusi looked solemn, "It's those monsters who can't control Hebo anymore."

The more Su Mu listened, the more confused he became, and asked, "Isn't He Bo a god? How could you use demons to suppress him?"

"It's not difficult to understand. The rotten eggplants at home are not thrown out of the door. Since ancient times, rulers have wanted to beautify their own history. This Hebo was originally a general in charge of the army, and he was the ninth younger brother of the Creator God. When the god of the world appeared, the God of Blood Sacrifice must also appear. I never thought that it was the ninth younger brother. Later, the two armies of the Creation Blood Sacrifice fought, and the God of Blood Sacrifice was defeated. The euphemistic name was to be called the God of the River, but in fact it was suppressed. there."

"Then why did the God of Creation die in a heart attack?" Su Mu was curious and continued to ask.

Before Li Rusi could say anything, Fuzhi raised his head and looked at Su Mu in astonishment, "Sure enough, Xiaodao is right. Su benefactor is indeed a person in my Taoism. Only Taoists who can reach Heaven can read the Records of the Immortal Family."

"Oh, that's right, the old witch of the mountain ghost told this story when she pretended to be me." Hua Xiangrong explained, "I think the mountain ghost once devoted himself to cultivating the gods, so he would know something."

"Is that really the case?" Fuzhi was still looking at Su Mu, with surprise and admiration in his eyes.

"Snapped!"

Li Rusi slapped the table, startling everyone. He looked at Fuzhi himself as if nothing had happened. He glanced at Fuzhi and said, "The most urgent thing is to control the water! I still have the mood to tell stories."

Fuzhi: "Didn't you say that?"

"..."

Li Rusi was speechless for a while, and then said: "In short, my solution is to find a capable person, approach He Bo, and kill him." His eyes looked at Su Mu, vaguely expecting that Su Mu would continue what he said , "It's just that I don't know who among us can use swords and knives."

Sure enough, Su Mu thought carefully, and it seemed that he was the only one who could use a sword. Even though he didn't have any weapons at hand, he still said, "Why don't I go, but I don't know how to get close to him?"

"It's not difficult, just pretend to be a sacrifice."

"Li Rusi! Big brother is just talking casually, but you really mean it!" Hua Xiangrong tried to stop Su Mu when he heard something bad.

"Brother Su is a man of righteousness, why are you just talking casually? You think everyone is like you, greedy for life and afraid of death, looking forward and backward!"

"I'm afraid of death? Heh! I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of you!" Hua Xiangrong sneered, pointing at his nose with wide eyes and scolding: "Li Rusi, I don't think you have any good intentions from the beginning! Hook up with big brother Come here, so I was waiting for him here!"

"My junior sister has been spoiled since she was a child, and she speaks out loud. Don't take offense, Mr. Li." Wang Qingping held Hua Xiangrong and turned off the fuse that was about to explode, but what he said was still Hua Xiangrong. It means, "Brother Su, he has a whole body of kung fu, and now he has forgotten it. I am afraid it is not suitable to kill He Bo. He just said casually, Mr. Li, don't take it too seriously..."

"I was serious."

Wang Qingping looked up at Su Mu, only to see that his indifferent expression these days showed waves, and his tone was extremely firm, "I'm not joking, I'm serious."

"Brother Su, why?" Wang Qingping couldn't understand, and a little impatient, he thought, your life is not yours alone!It was given to you by Xiaoyao, but now you treat it like this, it's really a waste of time.

Su Mu was taken aback by this question. In fact, he didn't know why, as if someone told him in his mind, "Ma Liu accepts the mission! Ma Liu accepts the mission!"

He said this change of words, and the reason was high-sounding, "The people of the Li people are in dire straits, and my generation of men should take orders..."

"Brother Su really understands righteousness." Li Rusi rolled his eyes triumphantly at Xianghua Xiangrong, and asked Gao Huan, "Is there any other village holding sacrificial activities these days?"

"Tomorrow, but..." Gao Huan was a little embarrassed, and said: "Brother Su is a young and middle-aged man, and girls or children are usually used in the village. There are too many people, and we can't discuss it with the village chief, the sorceress, but Swapping..." Gao Huan looked Su Mu up and down, the scholar's face was weak and elegant, but he was still much more generous than the cardamom girl, "This is not easy!"

"Then turn Brother Su into a girl!"

"...how did it change?" Looking at Gao Huan's ferocious expression, he could tell that he was imagining a man holding a handkerchief and wriggling, "Come on, officer." Goose bumps all over his body.

The next day, Gao also found a family selected by the sorceress, explained the matter, and then sat in the farmer's house with three people except Su Muzhehua Xiangrong. —Finally, Hua Xiangrong helped Su Mu, who had changed her makeup, come out of the cubicle.

I saw several people staring intently at the tall Sumerian, from the face to the pink skirt, from the embroidered shoes to the bun, their expressions showed: Who is Su Mu covering?I do not recognize.

"Not bad!" It was Li Rusi who spoke first: "If you mix in the kiln and show it to the madam, she may not be able to tell the difference between male and female."

"Really?" The farmhouse didn't have a mirror, so Su Mu took a look at himself in the water basin. Fortunately, the reflected face seemed to be the type he liked.

It's good that he doesn't speak, but when he speaks, his gentle voice seems bold and unrestrained, which makes a few people laugh.

"Brother Su, once you get close to He Bo, try to dig out his heart. As long as he dies, this flood will be resolved." Li Rusi instructed Su Mu.

"Brother, don't worry."

"Sigh! I really want to go for Brother Su, but I have the emperor's life, and I am in danger, so I can only trap Brother Su among tigers and wolves..."

Seeing Li Rusi's appearance, Su Mu was about to cry, so he quickly comforted him, "So, I will dig out He Bo's heart for you, brother, and wait for my good news!"

Wang Qingping patted Su Mu on the shoulder with a complicated expression. As soon as he thought of the three corpses on the corpse bed, he felt the whole thing was weird. The other was that he was sorry for Xiaoyao. In the end, he could only turn a thousand words into two words. "Take care of yourself."

On the bank of Yanshui River, the sound of drums and music continued, and the turbulent river seemed to lose its momentum.The sorceress sang the sacrificial song loudly.

"Swimming with a girl on the Nine Rivers, rushing into the wind and blowing the waves.

Take a waterwheel and ride a lotus cover, drive two dragons and ride a dragon.

Climbing Kunlun and looking around, my heart is soaring and mighty.

The day will be twilight and I will be disappointed and forget to return, but I will be very happy.

The Fish Scale House is the Dragon Hall, and the Purple Shell Que is the Pearl Palace.

Why is the spirit in the water?Riding on white turtles and chasing salmon,

Swimming with the girl on the Zhu of the Xihe River, the flow will flow in the future.

Let's fight each other and go eastward, and send off the beauties to Nanpu.

The waves come to welcome, and the fish scales come to greet me. "

The sorceress sang over and over again, and all the remaining villagers on both sides of the Yanshui River gathered here, kneeling down and singing waka over and over again.

A total of ten women, including the "Sumerians", were dressed in pink skirts, and were tied hands and feet and sat on small rafts. The river was rushing, and water seeped up from the gaps in the rafts.

The raft went northward along the water, and the girl's cry disappeared with the water.

The raft was filled with water and began to sink. The huge whirlpool made Su Mu terrified, let alone those women.

The water covered the head, Su Mu held his breath, and there were bubbles going up continuously. He struggled to pull out a hairpin from his head, carefully watching the small silver metal being cut open.He cut the ropes on his hands little by little, and then went to untie the ropes on his feet. After they were all untied, he kept silent, keeping his hands and feet in the original tied position.

Su Mu's water quality is not bad, and after a while, he felt a tightness in his chest, which caused severe pain in his heart, and he was looking forward to surfacing to take a breath.

The vortex became more and more intense, and just when Su Mu was about to bear it, he suddenly stabilized his footsteps, yes, his feet could land on the ground, and he no longer felt the powerlessness of stepping on the void in the water.

Su Mu took a deep breath and opened his eyes without hindrance. In front of him was a huge stone tablet with the word Minghai engraved on it, which was heavy and solemn.

To his surprise, even though he was in the water, he could breathe and walk freely, and even the clothes that had just been wet were dried instantly.The others were as surprised as he was, but not as calm as he was, and they were all trembling.

"I heard that He Bo is old and ugly, with barbs on his tongue, and poisonous all over his body..."

Su Mu silently listened to several women communicating in the dialect of Dayan City, without making a sound.

As he was walking, suddenly several soldiers appeared in front of him out of thin air. They were wearing black armor, and the leader shouted loudly, "Stop!" Then he asked, "Is this sacrificed to He Bo?"

"Ah! Help! Help!" When the nine women saw the menacing soldiers, they knew that He Bo had come to arrest them, and they ran around in fright.

"Quick! Catch them all!"

Fortunately, the moment Su Mu saw them, he hid behind the stele, exhaled and became nervous at the same time.

Su Mu mobilized his brain at high speed, thinking how to survive beside He Bo, whether to conquer him with the purity of the white lotus or the high integrity of the flower of Gaoling? (Love the cleanliness of chrysanthemums.)

Is his harem pampered and proud, or pious? Is he exposed to both rain and dew? (I will pet you as long as I love you.)

Do you want to slap him hard to get his attention? (Fine, man, you managed to get my attention.)

However, these thoughts only swirled for a moment, and he collapsed in the high tension, and all the calmness and imagination were ruined.

Jingle!

"Dear Su Muzhe player, congratulations on defeating the mountain ghost and obtaining the heart of the red leopard. No.20 level [-] has been opened. Due to regional differences, I will transfer you to the local customer service. I wish you a happy game."

He almost yelled, "Who are you?" But before he could say it, a torrent rushed over inexplicably, pushing him forward.

If someone stood in front of Su Mu at this moment, he would definitely be able to see a bead shining in his stomach, and that bead would cause a vortex and lead Su Mu forward.

It's not like walking, it's like a maelstrom, dragging him into an inexplicable place in a daze, and then throwing him heavily on a hard chest that keeps rising and falling.