zero o'clock

【is a devil】

Night 07:30, Beijing, Zhongguancun.

During the Spring Festival holiday, the high-rise Zhongguancun is bustling with lights, but there are few pedestrians and vehicles.But even on such a day, there are still many brightly lit office buildings in this area. As one of the high-tech industrial areas with the most serious overtime in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, there will never be a shortage of people who died from overwork, and those who have been in a sub-health state for a long time have reduced their working hours. Cultivated monsters.

After exiting the subway entrance, Li Huan opened Baidu Maps and entered Lagrange's company building and the incident site respectively to check the route, only to find that it was just across the road, and it could be reached by walking a few hundred meters.He called the mouse demon again, Lagrange was probably busy, and he was banging on the keyboard, and in the background, a group of people who couldn't tell if they were humans or demons were discussing bugs, and they were talking a lot. A bit of a posture to do it.

Li Huan was so noisy that his eardrums hurt, so he simply told Lager that they were here and asked him to come out after get off work.

Lagrange faltered on the phone for a long time, and finally, after Li Huan's patience was worn out and he said "what's the matter with you", he weakly expressed that he might have to leave work later.

Li Huan himself couldn't understand why this rich French mouse insisted on traveling all the way to Beijing to suck up the smog and become a code farmer. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said, "Then it's ten o'clock, where will I see you?"

"There's a Starbucks over there in the mall, it's open until ten," Lagrange said, "Wait there?"

Li Huan was not familiar with this place, so he didn't know exactly where the coffee shop the other party mentioned was. He turned around and took out his mobile phone from Xing Yi's jacket pocket, and used the Baidu map on his mobile phone to locate it.

Xing Yi saw that this guy was skillful in his movements, and he didn't look out of place at all, so he raised his eyebrows calmly.

A few seconds later, Baidu Maps refreshed the navigation route. Li Huan turned around according to the coordinates, looked in the direction completely opposite to the incident, and said, "It's farther away?"

"It's safe." Rag smiled embarrassedly, and then obviously lowered his voice, fearing that his colleagues would hear him, "It's not easy for everyone to cultivate into a monster. The work pressure is already high. I heard that it is easy to reduce your cultivation base if you are too frightened." Please forgive us for being mice~”

"Well, I've seen your guts before. If you fall into a fish pond, you can be scared back to your original shape." Li Huan said into the phone, "Go ahead, see you later."

After finishing speaking, he hung up the call, returned the other mobile phone to Xing Yi, and said to him: "The mouse works overtime, come back later, let's go to the pedestrian street where his friend disappeared first?"

Xing Yi simply stared at Li Huan without saying a word. Li Huanquan took this guy's acquiescence, and after confirming the navigation direction for the last time, he put his hands in his coat pockets and walked towards the scene of the incident.

There is a road between the two commercial districts, and a car will occasionally pass by on holiday nights. The late-night square lights are brilliant, and the unique color of Chinese red dyes this land where money is paramount. However, it is still hard to hide. The fact that popularity at low temperatures is bleak.

An old man pushing a bicycle is buying the last few bunches of candied haws. Next to him is a peddler in the cell phone film business packing up his things. Not far away are a few small stalls buying low-quality plush toys and notebooks. Everyone hides dumbly. In the thick and heavy old coat, numbly watching the bustling night scene of this big city.

Beijing is very cold this winter, and even demons can feel the coolness to the bone.

The part below Li Huan's nose was covered tightly by the plaid scarf, only the frozen red nose tip and a pair of black and beautiful eyes were exposed. He walked to the side of the road and stopped, waiting for the signal light on the opposite side to switch to a passable state.

The footsteps followed behind him all the time, and he was not worried that Xing Yi would not follow.Maybe the teacher is right, the person who has been alienated by the demon soul needs his blood, and the person who is enslaved by desire will become a docile puppet even if there is no lead...

He is a demon subduing master, the inherent mortal enemy of demons.

Li Huan warned himself in his heart—to be on guard at all times, and never get too close.

At this moment, a sweet and greasy smell of caramel wafted over, and someone came back to his senses, and was immediately taken aback when he saw the red thing standing in front of him clearly.

The hawthorn-flavored candied haws looked very rough, the fruit was not fresh at all, and the pit hadn't been removed... The young master thought critically, it was far from the ones the teacher bought before, but the caramel wrapping was not bad. It's beautiful, especially with a large piece intact on top.

The most satisfying part of eating candied haws is the first bite, because that bite is full of sugar.

The salivary glands were overwhelmed by the sweet smell, and the Adam's apple rolled under the scarf unconsciously. Li Huan pretended to be calm and looked away from the bunch of hawthorns, and looked up at the guy holding the candied haws.

"What do you mean?"

"Give you."

"What do you want to change?"

Xing Yi looked at him, but didn't answer.

……

Li Huan rolled his eyes, thinking that this guy was really simple and rude, so straightforward that he wanted someone to beat him up, then he took the candied haws with peace of mind, peeled off the scarf, took the piece of candy in his mouth and gently sipped it off. , and bit off half a hawthorn.

The candied haws are frozen at a low temperature, and they are cold and delicious. The unique aroma of caramel melts and is neutralized by the sourness of hawthorn, turning it into a very sweet taste that stimulates the taste buds.Li Huan's whole body was healed, but because of some kind of weird pride, he had to pretend to be serious and eat very politely.

After a while, he spat out the fruit core into his palm, raised his head again, and the two looked at each other, a certain person's mouth was full of hawthorns, with a small piece of sugar sticking to his lips, he puffed out his cheeks and mumbled, "Thank you. "

Xing Yi stared at the piece of candy very intently, and after a few seconds, he leaned over it skillfully and licked it off gently.Li Huan didn't think there was anything wrong, and continued to bite the hawthorn as usual, chewing and chewing, he was stunned suddenly, and then looked at the well-dressed, cold-tempered guy in front of him with embarrassment, but... licking the candy at the corner of his mouth!

Why would Mao get used to this?

The young master swallowed the hawthorn sadly, thinking that it really shouldn't be done!

Mr. Demon Subduing Master, who ate sugar instead of blood, seemed a little unhappy. He wanted to try again, and was about to bow his head—suddenly, there was some kind of strange feeling from the depths of his originally silent soul. Trembling, a bone-piercing strange feeling seeped out, occupying the entire spiritual world in an incomparably domineering manner.

This feeling is not unfamiliar, it will appear every once in a while, and it has become more frequent in the past few days. If you persist in not relaxing your energy, this phenomenon will gradually disappear, otherwise... He can't remember being caught by that thing after the fall.

Xing Yi's brows were deeply furrowed, trying to forcefully suppress the irritating sense of intrusion.

Li Huan sensed something was wrong, stepped forward two steps and asked: "What, uncomfortable?"

His voice fell, the electric current exploded, and a street lamp next to the two of them flickered like a malfunction.

Standing in the backlight of the dim light, Xing Yi looked like a gloomy beast crouching in the shadows, with a silent and cold breath. He reached out and pressed his temples tightly, and slowly shook his head.

"A little tired." The man's voice was hoarse.

"You've been inactive for too long." Li Huan said while looking to the side to make sure no one was paying attention to them, then he rolled up his cuffs and gave a hard bite on the inside of his wrist with his canine teeth.

Smelling the smell of blood, Xing Yi's icy and stern face finally showed a little looseness, and he looked at the young man in front of him with slight surprise—biting his own flesh is a very ruthless move, and it needs to be cut with a sharp weapon. The determination, because the biological instinct is to avoid pain, and the jerk of the teeth is destined to prolong the pain of biting infinitely, not to mention that this bite must go deep into the blood vessels.

Li Huan was so painful that a thin layer of sweat broke out from the corner of his forehead. Before the wound healed, he brought the bleeding wrist to the opponent's lips, and said lightly: "This is to pay back the deal you just made."

Xing Yi hesitated for a second, his brows stretched, and his deep eyes suddenly filled with an inexplicable hidden emotion.He held Li Huan's palm, lowered his head to hold the bite mark, and sucked greedily and infinitely tenderly.

The soft touch of the lips is close to the skin, and the tip of the tongue keeps licking the rolled flesh.Under the subtle pain like electric shock, Li Huan suddenly felt a little excited.

Not far away, a pair of young men and women were approaching. In order to prevent being discovered, Li Huan snuggled into Xingyi's arms, sideways to block the sight of the strangers. Without any communication, Xingyi hugged Li Huanyi with one arm. waist, wrapping the person in his arms.

Li Huan: "..."

This guy is really too conscious...

The two of them were like an ordinary same-sex couple on the streets of the city. When they passed each other, the human girl had a sneer in her eyes, and meaningfully poked her boyfriend with her elbow, motioning him to look.The boy obviously disliked homosexuality, frowned and shook his head, pulled the girl to walk a few steps away.

"It seems to be hated." Li Huan jokingly said, staring at the backs of the two.

The wrist wound healed, and the last drop of blood was licked. Xing Yi let go of the opponent's arm expressionlessly, without looking back, but directly threw a bunch of leads, and went straight to the boy's vest.

Li Huan was taken aback by this straightforward approach, and quickly blocked it with his hands. The lead wire cut like mud barely stopped in mid-air, only a few centimeters away from the young human couple.

"What are you doing?" Li Huan was puzzled.

The two still maintained the previous overly intimate standing posture, and could even feel the breath clearly. Xing Yi was silent for a few seconds, then retracted the lead obediently, and said: "If they dare to hate you, you must Pay for that emotion."

"If 'being hated' can also be a reason to take someone's life, then the monster who is just trying to survive will probably only be able to slaughter the world." After finishing speaking, Li Huan raised the corners of his mouth indifferently, and his tone was quite irrelevant. His own attitude, "It's important, let's go."

……

Zhongguancun Pedestrian Plaza is located opposite a large shopping mall, and the entrance is sandwiched between a row of restaurants.Li Huan managed to find the wrong location by following the navigation, and when he went in, he had to believe the theory of "poor geomantic omen" that the cowardly mouse demon had pulled out.

The area at the entrance of the square is not bad, there are three or five fast food chain stores with names and a few small shops that girls like.It's getting late now, and it's the first day of the Lunar New Year. The doors of these shops are hung with notices of closing for the Spring Festival. Only one 24-hour convenience store is still open.

Li Huan reckoned that Lagrange bought the supper from here yesterday, so he turned his head and gave Xing Yi a wink, meaning we're here.

There are only two female clerks working overtime in the convenience store. When no customers come to the door, one of them is sorting the shelves, and the other is heating up all kinds of cooked food for supper in the back kitchen, chatting casually.

"What do you think of them?" Xing Yi asked.

"They're all human," Li Huan said, "it should be fine."

The store cash register is right next to the door, and the floor-to-ceiling windows are covered by magazine racks, which means that Lagrange has limited vision when paying.After a rough calculation, Li Huan walked to the corresponding position and stood still, and said to Xing Yi: "The disappearing human should be standing in a similar position to wait for the mouse monster to come out. During these few minutes, he was attacked by a certain monster." Or bewitch, and then follow the other party's inducement—”

While speaking, Li Huan turned around slowly and walked in.

At this moment, the pedestrian plaza is palely lit, empty and devoid of popularity, and the more you walk in, the more empty storefronts that cannot be rented out.In the almost dead environment, the sound of the soles of the two people hitting the ground could be clearly heard.

Under the sign marked with the word B, Li Huan stopped, stood at the entrance and looked in.

There are a dozen or so stores in this channel, and less than 12% of the merchants are settled.He turned on his mobile phone and read the detailed description information that Lagrange sent to the mailbox later, and then compared and observed, and found that there was indeed a load-bearing white wall between the two empty shops in B11 and B[-].

After all, this pedestrian plaza is a public place, and there will be electronic monitoring equipment at intervals. Illusion can deceive people's hearts and deceive the five senses, but it cannot deceive those technological products.Li Huan took off his backpack and carried it in his hand so that he could use the Tang knife in it for self-defense at any time. His heart was beating a little fast, and he wasn't sure if he should rush to check it out.

At this moment, the other hand hanging by his side was suddenly clenched, and the man's warm and dry palm covered his skin. As the strength increased slightly, Li Huan's hesitant heart gradually settled down.

Xing Yi looked at him: "Are you afraid?"

Li Huan didn't hide anything, and gave a faint "hmm", and said: "No matter how much Lagrange thinks, he is still a monster with more than a hundred years of cultivation, so how did the guy who lured his colleagues here deceive his fellows and do it?" To show up without anyone noticing, and take away a living person out of thin air?"

After all, he took a deep breath and remained silent for more than a minute before he spoke again: "What I am afraid of are those things I don't understand. Everything in this world can turn into a demon, and the same kind can mutually restrain each other." , and I don't even know why my own spirit beast is, how can I judge whether the next opponent who appears in front of me has the ability to kill me?"

"Li Huan, don't be afraid."

The man's deep voice was transmitted through the empty pedestrian square, arousing a subtle echo.Xing Yi raised his hand, moving slowly and hesitantly. He reached out and stroked the hair covering Li Huan's forehead, lowered his eyes, and stared at the other's eyes with a very serious gaze.

Li Huan looked very uncomfortable and tilted his head slightly.Aware of this intention, the man twisted his palms back and inserted them into his hair, clasping his fingers tightly, forcing him to look up and meet her.

"Hey, can you not just—!"

The voice stopped abruptly, and Xing Yi lowered his head, sealing all his future and spoken words in a kiss. He bit his lips lightly as if teasing, and whispered softly with the extremely ambiguous posture in front of his eyes: "Except for me, nothing else in this world is qualified to touch you, whether it's a human or a demon, or even...a demon."

Under such close gazing, Li Huan's body froze, his eyes met for a moment, and he vaguely felt a pale golden light flickering and then disappearing in the other's eyes.

The next moment, with his breath gone, Xing Yi let go of Li Huan, and walked towards passage B, standing still in front of that section of white wall: "You said just now, I'm not sure how the guys in here can deceive the same kind, so that they can quietly Make a living person disappear without a sound?"

Li Huan came back to his senses in an instant, and subconsciously followed him: "That's right, I still can't figure this out, it's also a monster, so could it be a high-level monster that surpasses Lager?"

"It's possible." Xing Yi bent his knuckles and tapped on the wall to judge whether it was real or not. After a long silence, he said, "Actually, there is another possibility."

"What is it?" Li Huan said.

Xing Yi: "Perhaps that guy is not deceiving the same kind, but a mouse demon that is not to be feared."

Li Huan reacted for only a second, and then quickly understood the meaning of this sentence. When he looked at the wall again, his eyes trembled slightly, showing a little more fear.

"You mean, that thing... is neither human nor demon?!"

Xing Yi gave a faint "hmm", agreeing with this statement.

"Could it be..." Li Huan already had the answer in his mind, but he still felt that this matter was too unbelievable.

Xing Yi didn't speak in a hurry, but moved his fingers to condense spiritual power, the light blue lead quickly overflowed, then tightened, broke through the air, and shot at the two cameras that entered and exited the passage.

With a bang, the electronic equipment was shot through by the lead wire, green smoke rose, and the damaged fragments scattered on the floor.

Without monitoring, the remote passage of this section of the pedestrian plaza sank to the bottom and became a vacuum area.

And the man in front of him said at this time: "The only one who is better at deceiving people than the demon is the demon."

- To Be Continued