General, there is a demon [Rebirth]

It snowed heavily in Yong'an City the day before yesterday, and the sky cleared up this morning. After a day of sunshine, the snow gradually melted away at night.

However, this house in Changle Alley seems to have been deliberately forgotten in a corner by the sun, covered with snow that has not melted.

As he breathed, he let out bursts of white air.

Huo Changying rubbed his frozen fingers, the surrounding air was filled with bursts of cold air, piercing his joints ached, but the person behind him was as warm as a small stove, so he could not help leaning behind him without a trace Depend on.

"Ho ho ho-"

The empty puppet in black stood on the top of the wall, grinned, then jumped up, turned into the yard, and disappeared.

Zhuiden grinds his front hooves uneasily, blowing hot air from his nose.

The two people on the horseback looked at each other, and they both saw vigilance and doubts in each other's eyes.

This house has secrets.

Huo Changying raised his head and stared at the direction where the puppet disappeared, with deep eyes.

Recently, there have been many murders in Yong'an City, which even alarmed the emperor. Liu Yu, who was in charge of the case tonight, was suddenly killed. It is self-evident that the involvement is extensive. If this puppet escapes, Xiao Duo will come to monitor and help solve the case, and this clue will be broken. It's not easy to check again.

This time the monster skinned and drank blood, it was obviously more ruthless than the previous two, not to mention...

Huo Changying lowered his eyes and frowned, and touched the skirt of his clothes. There was a book of catching monsters given by his master. If there were any monsters committing crimes along the way, they would definitely appear on it. Now that murders are coming one after another, the book of catching monsters has not moved at all. No, Mo Xie never warned the police.

What is the reason?

At the end of the alley, the dilapidated courtyard is dark and treacherous, with a hint of evil, like a beast dormant in the dark, opening its bloody mouth to swallow its prey at any time.

Huo Changying pursed his lips, worry flashed across his eyes, he turned his head to Xiao Duo and said, "This house is very weird, I'll go in alone, you,"

"No!"

Before he could finish speaking, he was roughly interrupted by the man behind him. Huo Changying opened his mouth to speak, and felt Xiao Duo's palm around his waist tightened. The man's voice seemed to contain suppressed anger: "Do you want to let go?" Me, alone in danger?"

Huo Changying's face flashed a little uncomfortable, he pretended to be relaxed and jokingly said: "Where, I'm worried that the general will be deceived by the evil spirit in the yard, and then I will have to separate | I won't be able to take care of you."

"lie."

The man's light words were somewhat angry and somewhat smiling, but it was an irresistible coercion, and the warm breath floated into Huo Changying's ears, making his ears red involuntarily.

His heart felt inexplicably hot, Huo Changying was stunned for a moment, when he came back to his senses, Xiao Duo quickly picked him up, borrowed his strength from the horse's back, jumped over the wall, and landed firmly on the ground.

Huo Changying: "..."

Under Huo Changying's gaze, Xiao Duo frowned uncomfortably and glanced sideways at him, "What?" There was a bit of embarrassment in his tone.

Huo Changying raised his eyebrows, and took off the veil that was in the way, "I lament that the general is worthy of the title of 'Changfeng'." Seeing Xiao Duo seemed a little puzzled, he suddenly smiled and said, "It's so fast!"

Xiao Duo's forehead twitched violently, but he didn't feel that he was being praised...

The courtyard didn't look much different from that day when the rat disaster occurred, only the seal of Jingzhao Yin's government office was pasted on the door, which was wet by the heavy snow and the handwriting was somewhat blurred.

Huo Changying took out the compass, the demonic aura in the courtyard was thick and mixed, and he was still a young man, so he could only use utensils.

When the day before yesterday came, there was a flood of rats, but the two of them walked all the way tonight but there was no sign of a rat.

The courtyard was quiet, only the sound of the wind and the breathing of the two of them remained.

Xiao Duo lowered his head and saw the corners of the young man's tightly pursed lips, feeling distressed in his heart, his big palm silently supported the young man's back, his eyes scanned the surroundings coldly, and he could immediately protect him if there was any danger.

Guided by the compass, the two turned all the way to the backyard, but the compass in their hands was frozen.

Huo Changying's eyes froze, he pulled out the folding fan at his waist, and looked around vigilantly.

The moonlight is cold, the material is steep and the eaves are flying, and the light and shadow are bright and dark.

Suddenly, the pointer of the compass in his hand spun rapidly, Huo Changying was startled, and saw dozens of black shadows jumping out from nowhere around them, surrounding the two of them.

hum-

General Xiao Duo pulled out of the sheath, took the baby in his arms, and scanned the surroundings coldly.

The black shadows surrounding them were similar to the puppets in Liu Yu's house. They were all puppets in black clothes, and their movements were weird, like marionettes in a puppet show.

The only difference is that these puppets have no facial features.

Suddenly, a clear and melodious sound of silk and bamboo came from all directions, and the puppets around them suddenly changed their formations in accordance with the beat of the music point, and their hands and feet danced, as if they were dancing the most ordinary puppet show.

Huo Changying narrowed his eyes slightly, and then shrunk his pupils. He said in a low voice, "It's a maze!"

As soon as the voice fell, the puppet suddenly shot at the two of them, every move seemed to be stepping on the point of joy.

The music point speeds up, the puppet's movements suddenly speed up, and the encircling circle gets smaller and smaller.

People get tired, puppets don't.

The two stood back to each other, blocking the attack behind each other.

"It's not a way to go on like this," Huo Changying's folding fan suddenly cut off the left arm of a puppet. The puppet paused, as if it had stepped on the wrong point of music. The hand rolled on the ground and then went back again. Step on Le Point and attack him again.

The folding fan cut through the palm of the hand, and the blood splashed away. The faces of the nearby puppets were splashed with blood, but there was still no pause, and the splashed blood beads repeatedly condensed in the air, hanging and not falling.

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he said quickly to Xiao Duo: "Cut off his head and go up to the sky."

Hearing the words, Xiao Duo glanced at Huo Changying's bloody palm, his heartache flashed across his eyes, and he swept his gaze towards the blood beads floating in the air, and suddenly understood something, the general let out a long howl, and leaped neatly, the general The sword edge swept across.

There seemed to be a small sound of a thin thread breaking in the ear, and the array of faceless puppets fell down in response.

Huo Changying's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up into a smile. Sure enough, even if he was too strange, he was still a marionette?

There will be an invisible thread pulling and listening to human manipulation.

The puppets fell in pieces, and the sound of silk and bamboo came to an abrupt end.

"Ho ho ho-"

After a moment of silence, a sneer came from the darkness above their heads.

Huo Changying's ears moved, and the blood-stained yellow talisman flew towards the sound in an instant.

Standing on the roof was the puppet from Liu Yu's house, holding bloody human skin and a roll of silk thread in his hand.

The puppet turned over and fell down. The mouth carved by the knife opened and closed. The fallen puppet instantly stood up and surrounded Xiao Duo layer by layer, separating him from Huo Changying.

And its wood-shaving hands instantly turned into two sharp claws, and before the two of them could react, it struck Huo Changying like lightning.

Huo Changying's pupils shrank, the attack was imminent, he responded abruptly, glimpsed the besieged Xiao Duo out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't help feeling anxious, and his moves rushed away like thunder.

In the blink of an eye, one person and one wood have passed several tricks.

"Aduo—"

Seeing that Xiao Duo was about to be engulfed by layers of puppets, Huo Changying cried out, and the puppet's big palm hit his vest.

Huo Changying staggered two steps due to the huge force. His hand holding the folding fan trembled slightly, and the back of his hand wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, with fear in his eyes.

This puppet is so powerful.

In between breaths, the sharp claws suddenly attacked Huo Changying's neck like a poisonous snake!

"Eldest baby—"

Between the gaps between the puppets, Xiao Duo's face tightened, and he gave a loud shout, full of luck and internal strength, he swept across and instantly cut off the puppets who were fighting up to the waist. go.

Freeing himself from restraint, Xiao Duo rushed forward in an instant!

The sharp claws approached in front of him, with a cold and evil spirit, Huo Changying's pupils shrunk slightly, and the luck spell on the unfolded folding fan brazenly met the cold sharp claws that rushed towards him. He folded the fan in a hurry to block the sharp claws, but fell down Empty door.

The puppet suddenly grinned at him, its black eyes were full of cold malice, it changed its direction abruptly, its waist suddenly bent down almost parallel to the ground, its waist suddenly turned, its upper body turned abruptly, its claws Coming across the sky, he suddenly stabbed Xiao Duo's neck behind him.

Clang——

The general swung to block, and the wooden claws collided with the sword edge with great force and made a loud noise!

The puppet was slammed into the wall behind it by the huge internal force, and its limbs fell to the ground scattered.

Xiao Duo took a few steps back abruptly, thrust the general into the ground with a sharp backhand, and stabilized his figure.

Huo Changying rushed over, and the two of them looked at the puppet in the corner, their expressions changed.

In the shadow of the corner of the wall, the broken puppet stood up tremblingly, its broken limbs were being put back into the torso little by little.

I'm not afraid of spells, and I can't kill them, what should I do?

While Huo Changying was hesitating, a familiar but unfamiliar buzzing sound suddenly sounded in his ears.

Go-getters? !

Huo Changying was slightly stunned, and then the folding fan in his hand trembled slightly, as if awakened from a deep sleep, he responded excitedly.

His eyes suddenly lit up, and when the puppet was assembling his scattered body, there was a slight clicking sound at the joints, and his figure suddenly elongated a few inches, regaining his youthful appearance, and standing firmly beside Xiao Duo.

He moved his hands and feet, glanced at Xiao Duo from the corner of his eyes and stared at him from just now, with a slightly gloomy side face, and a playful smile on the corner of his lips: "Why, it's been so long, and I still don't know Isn't she really a woman?"

Xiao Duo's complexion hadn't eased from the fright that the young man was in danger just now, when he heard the words, his complexion became darker again.

"I always knew."

Xiao Duo suddenly grabbed Huo Changying's waist and brought him into his arms, his eyes were burning and deep.

He said, "I haven't forgotten."

The author has something to say:

small theater

Puppet (jumping feet): Shocked, the general, his husband, and his wife would actually do such a thing in front of the single wooden puppet!

The two people who act like no monsters...

Changying (serious face): I am a man, really!

Xiao Duo (smiling): The one I like is (the man) you!

Puppet: excuse me? ?Are we fighting? ?