The years I was in the human world

Earlier, they investigated the situation in the mass grave outside the city. After entering the city, they watched the excitement in front of the pork stall for a while. When they saw Baili Changqing dealing with the corpses in Rongcheng Inn, they watched for a while. It was already afternoon when the two of them changed their clothes and went to the city gate to look for the two guards. The people who were supposed to be guarding there were nowhere to be found, leaving only two wet marks on the ground.

"They're gone." Xiao Fengzhuo didn't feel strange when he didn't see anyone at the city gate, as if he had expected it. He covered his nose and squatted down to examine the two wet marks, while teasing Lu Zhouxue, "Mianmian, the two guards were wearing heavy armor and standing guard under the scorching sun. Their sweat has accumulated all over the ground. I'm afraid they've gone back to rest now."

Lu Zhouxue didn't realize that Xiao Fengzhuo was teasing him on purpose. He walked over and looked down at the two puddles of liquid on the ground that were gradually breeding flies and emitting a foul odor due to drying up. He frowned slightly and said, "Guessing again. How can they go back to rest? This is clearly--"

Lu Zhouxue wanted to tell the truth, but he caught a glimpse of people passing by the city gate looking at them curiously. He was afraid that his words would scare others, so he thought about it and held back the rest of the sentence.

Xiao Fengzhuo found it funny. He was now much taller than the young Lu Zhouxue. He smiled and came up to pinch the latter's cheek, and lowered his voice to complete Lu Zhouxue's unfinished words: "It's clearly corpse water, right?"

Although it was a question, it was also a statement. Lu Zhouxue realized that Xiao Fengzhuo was teasing him on purpose, and reluctantly took away his hand: "Since you know that, why are you still talking nonsense?"

"I was wrong." Xiao Fengzhuo said, pushing Lu Zhouxue's shoulders and leading her to the city gate. "Since he's not guarding the gate anymore, we have to look for him in the city."

"It's a bit strange." Lu Zhouxue was pushed by Xiao Fengzhuo to walk into the city. He looked back thoughtfully. Xiao Fengzhuo asked him what was wrong. He pointed to the monk who was eating at the noodle stall in front of him and said, "When we came here yesterday, they were strictly checking outsiders. Today, the guards just let them in without guarding the door."

When he and Xiao Fengzhuo came back in the morning, the guards did not question them. Lu Zhouxue felt strange, but he thought it was because they were familiar faces. He didn't expect that they didn't check anyone at all.

"Luring into a trap?" Xiao Fengzhuo whispered his guess. Considering the incident of a female ghost driving them away last night, he couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment.

"I'm not sure." Lu Zhouxue shook her head. "But since Baili Changqing arrived, the inspections into the city have been relaxed. This can't be a coincidence. Let's go find those two guards first."

Because there were monks from the Zhongting in the city and Baili Changqing was ordering people to look for the demon, Lu Zhouxue was cautious and did not use ghost magic to track the two guards for fear of exposing his disguise and causing unnecessary trouble. As a result, the two of them spent a lot of effort before they tracked down the scent of the two guards in the cellar of an inconspicuous house in the city.

The cellar was hidden in the corner of the room, with a rice jar next to it blocking the view. If Xiao Fengzhuo had not had sharp eyes, the two might not have been able to find it. As soon as they entered the room, Lu Zhouxue felt obviously cold. And it was not the cold that was only on the surface, but more like the cold that penetrated into the bone marrow and wanted to freeze the soul.

Lu Zhouxue subconsciously pulled his cloak closer, and goose bumps quickly appeared on his arms. Xiao Fengzhuo beside him keenly noticed his reaction, frowned slightly, and asked in a low voice: "Cold?"

The temperature in this room was indeed lower than outside, but it wasn't that cold. At least Xiao Fengzhuo didn't feel it much. But he didn't expect Lu Zhouxue to be so cold. It was really weird.

But Xiao Fengzhuo didn't say anything. He just took off his outer coat and put it on Lu Zhouxue from inside his cloak. His two snow-white arms were exposed, with smooth muscle lines and wrist guards wrapped around his wrists. He looked like a female swordsman on the run.

He made a fire command with his left hand, stopped Lu Zhouxue who was about to go down after opening the entrance to the cellar, and said, "The yin energy is heavy down there, I'll lead the way. If you can't stand it, wait for me outside, do you understand?"

"It's okay, it's not that cold." Lu Zhouxue grabbed the coat that Xiao Fengzhuo had taken off. The fabric still had body temperature, as hot as his name. It was directly against her skin. Lu Zhouxue felt her heart inexplicably burning. "Be careful."

Xiao Fengzhuo said "hmm" vaguely, patted Lu Zhouxue's head soothingly, and jumped down.

Then there was a crisp sound of something being knocked over, followed by a strange sound of fighting, and the fire order in Xiao Fengzhuo's hand seemed to be extinguished, and the cellar suddenly became dark.

Lu Zhouxue was worried about what might have happened to Xiao Fengzhuo. Just as she was about to follow him in, Xiao Fengzhuo's hoarse voice, accompanied by slight gasps, came over: "Don't come down yet. There's a little trouble that will be solved soon."

Lu Zhouxue felt relieved when she heard his voice, thinking that the cellar was small, she did not go down to cause trouble without permission, and waited patiently at the entrance of the cellar. After a while, Xiao Fengzhuo popped his head out of the cellar and smiled at Lu Zhouxue: "No big deal."

Then he climbed up by holding onto the entrance of the cellar, holding two sets of armor in his other hand. The armor was made of cast iron, so it couldn't be light no matter what. Xiao Fengzhuo lifted it up without taking a breath, threw it on the ground, and said, "Oh, yes, there is one more thing."

As he said this, he covered his nose and pulled a long green object out of the cellar.

As soon as the three things were brought up, a foul odor immediately filled the room. Lu Zhouxue frowned and covered her mouth and nose with a silk handkerchief. Xiao Fengzhuo adapted well and just fanned himself casually before bending down to continue fiddling with those things.

"What is this?" Lu Zhouxue walked to the green object and tried to check it out despite the stench. Xiao Fengzhuo raised his arm to stop her and said, "This thing is disgusting. Don't touch it. Just watch from the side."

As he spoke, Xiao Fengzhuo turned the object over, and it turned out to be a corpse covered with green hair. The face of the corpse was shriveled and black, and partially stiff. The eyes were staring like cow eyes, with blood-red eyeballs on them, which looked extremely terrifying.

"Green-haired zombie?" Lu Zhouxue asked. He saw a mahogany stake nailed into the throat of the corpse. It must have been nailed there by Xiao Fengzhuo. He remembered the fighting sounds he heard at the entrance of the cellar just now, so he asked, "Were you fighting with this thing just now?"

Xiao Fengzhuo nodded, which was considered as an admission. Lu Zhouxue stopped talking and his expression became serious. He went to look at the two sets of armor that Xiao Fengzhuo had brought up.

The armor that had originally fit tightly together had been severely damaged and was almost torn apart. The iron sheet inside was covered with scratches from fingernails and stained with corpse fluid. The stench they smelled came from these things.

"The ways in which these two suits of armor were damaged seem to be different..." Lu Zhouxue covered her mouth and nose, but still couldn't completely block out the stench that was everywhere.

He endured the discomfort and took a closer look, then found something wrong. Although both suits of armor looked like they had been torn apart by something, it was obvious that the way the force was applied was different.

"They are different." Xiao Fengzhuo said, "One is torn out from the inside, and the other is torn in from the outside."

"I guess a green-haired zombie broke out first, then tore open the armor and ate the other one that was not yet formed." Xiao Fengzhuo said as he kicked the green-haired zombie on the ground. There were obvious bite marks on its chest and abdomen, and its heart was missing.

Xiao Fengzhuo pointed at the green-haired zombie's half-rotten, half-stiffened face and said, "This is just a semi-finished product, or the product of a failed refining process."

"When I went down, this guy was already dying." Xiao Fengzhuo said, and pointed at the armor that was torn from the inside and had very little corpse fluid on it. "As for the other one, it should have formed. It's not down there. I think it ran away."

"If he runs away, it will be troublesome." Lu Zhouxue's brows have not been relaxed since then.

Generally speaking, green-haired zombies sleep in coffins during the day and come out at night. Although the sun is setting, it is still daytime, but the zombies ran out and ate their own kind.

"The one that ran away is probably not an ordinary green-haired zombie." Xiao Fengzhuo added what Lu Zhouxue had not said, and he nodded slightly at the latter.

"Take these three things to show Baili Changqing." Lu Zhouxue made a decision quickly. They couldn't hide the matter of the green-haired zombie. He and Xiao Fengzhuo were not afraid, but Baili Changqing had young disciples under his command. The green-haired zombie would definitely come out tonight. If not everyone was notified in time, there might be disciples who would die.

"Okay." Xiao Fengzhuo found a sack and put two sets of armor and a broken green-haired zombie into it. He tied the mouth with a hemp rope and dragged it on the street.

Seeing that his upper arm muscles were tense, Lu Zhouxue thought it was too heavy and offered to help. Xiao Fengzhuo waved his hand at him and said with a smile: "Do you think I can't lift it? This thing is too disgusting. I just don't want to carry it."

Lu Zhouxue still felt that it was not a good idea to let Xiao Fengzhuo take it alone. After all, it was he who suggested showing the things to Baili Changqing, and it was neither moral nor logical for Xiao Fengzhuo to suffer alone.

"Mianmian, be good and don't get involved." Xiao Fengzhuo was determined not to let Lu Zhouxue help. Seeing his stubborn look, he deliberately said, "Or does Mianmian actually want to eat candied haws from me and is deliberately making trouble with me?"

Because Rong City was strange in itself, and there was an incident where a disciple was skinned and sold at a pork stall, the atmosphere among the monks was very low for a while, and the days of traveling were exhausting.

So after the monks cleared the bodies out of the inn, they did not find another place to stay. After all, the monks were not afraid of death, so they simply stayed in the inn.

As soon as Lu Zhouxue and Xiao Fengzhuo, who was dragging a sack, pushed open the door of the inn, they made strange eye contact with the monks who were sitting in the lobby to recuperate.

Lu Zhouxue was still dressed like a young man from the Western Regions. Her slender waist was faintly visible under the thin gauze clothes, and her long legs also aroused people's imagination.

"Gulp" Someone swallowed his saliva and felt his mouth dry.

The black-clad female swordsman, dragging a sack with her arm muscles exposed, sneered at the crowd's reactions, threw the sack in her hand into the center of the lobby, and the green-haired zombie inside rolled out due to inertia.

"...Senior Brother?" Wei Ruge hesitated as he looked at Lu Zhouxue's attire. It was a familiar face, but it was the attire that made Wei Ruge look away embarrassedly. His ears turned red. Then, when he saw Xiao Fengzhuo's powerful arms beside him, he instantly gave up all desire.

Lu Zhouxue had no idea that she had shocked everyone, and responded indifferently, "Where's your master?"

"Master is resting. Do we want to invite him?" Wei Ruge said.

"Go and ask him to come down. I have something to tell your master." Lu Zhouxue pointed at the green-haired zombie that rolled out of the sack, "About this thing."

Baili Changqing quickly came down from upstairs. When he saw how the two were dressed, he was obviously confused for a moment.

However, Lu Zhouxue had something important to say, so he didn't waste time on such a trivial matter. He checked the things in Xiao Fengzhuo's sack and asked, "Green-haired zombie, where did you see this thing?"

"They were originally guards at the city gate. You should have seen them when you entered the city." Lu Zhouxue kicked the two armored bodies on the ground, concealing the real reason why they suspected the guards, and said half-truthfully, "Azhuo smelled something that shouldn't have been there when he passed by, and he became suspicious. When he went to look for them later, he found them in a cellar in the city."

After Lu Zhouxue finished speaking, she looked at Xiao Fengzhuo, who understood what he meant and told him what he saw and speculated in the cellar. At the end, he added: "There is no other meaning in bringing this thing back, but just to remind you to be careful at night."

Xiao Fengzhuo did not deliberately exaggerate the facts, but the fact that the green-haired zombies devoured their own kind and could run away in broad daylight was enough to make the monks fearful.

A mere green-haired zombie poses no threat to Lu Zhouxue or Baili Changqing. The ones who need to be paid attention to are naturally the young disciples who follow the elders of the sect to gain experience. It is not known whether it is a lesson learned from the previous incident where Jiang Ling's disciple was skinned, but no one took it lightly after Lu Zhouxue said so. They all ordered the disciples not to run around at night, and if they want to go out, they must report to their elders first.

Baili Changqing cast a barrier around the inn to ensure peace at night.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Lu Zhouxue naturally didn't bother to deal with the cultivators anymore, so he pulled Xiao Fengzhuo and hid in a corner.

Wei Ruge was very curious about this new senior brother. After completing the tasks assigned by his master, he approached Lu Zhouxue and asked curiously, "Senior brother, shouldn't this green-haired zombie be kept in a coffin in a very dark place? How did it get out of the armor?"

"Junior Brother Wei, how would your senior brother know this?" Xiao Fengzhuo sat down next to Lu Zhouxue with a bag of snacks in his hand. He replied to Wei Ruge with a smile, then turned to Lu Zhouxue and asked tenderly, "Mianmian, are you hungry?" while stuffing the snacks into Lu Zhouxue's arms.

"Who is your junior brother Wei?" It is said that cats don't play with dogs. Even though Xiao Fengzhuo now has the appearance of a cold and elegant woman, Wei Ruge still bares his teeth at him. Seeing Lu Zhouxue opening the snacks given by Xiao Fengzhuo and eating them, his stomach growled.

"Are you hungry?" Lu Zhouxue glanced at him, pushed the cake in front of the boy, and said calmly, "Eat something to fill your stomach. I'm afraid something big will happen tonight."

"Thank you, senior brother!" Wei Ruge looked at Lu Zhouxue gratefully, and quickly grabbed a snack and ate it, while eating he glared at Xiao Fengzhuo provocatively.

Xiao Fengzhuo didn't bother to pay attention to his childish behavior. He put his hand on his cheek and laughed softly, then said, "You are eating my cake and staring at me, Junior Brother Wei, be careful not to choke."

Before he could finish his words, Wei Ruge successfully choked because he ate too fast. His face turned red and he kept pounding his chest in pain. Xiao Fengzhuo shook his head and just smiled, not helping.

"Why do you have to tease him on purpose?" Lu Zhouxue looked at him helplessly, took out a pot of tea from her sleeve and asked Wei Ruge to drink from the spout while swallowing the pastries.

Xiao Fengzhuo spread his hands innocently: "He got carried away and choked. It's not my fault."

Having said that, Xiao Fengzhuo still took out a candied hawthorn to appease others. He handed the candied hawthorn wrapped in oil paper to Wei Ruge and said with a smile: "Brother Wei, don't glare at me after eating my food."