zero o'clock

【Dream Eater Pawnshop】

Unable to resist, Xing Yi grabbed someone's increasingly dishonest paw, breath tremblingly whispered: "Stop making trouble, what good will it do you to tease me?"

"So, Mr. Xing is willing to let go now?" Li Huan smiled so much that his eyes rolled up. Even though his wrist was being strangled by the other party, he still curled up his fingers maliciously, and scraped back and forth on the protruding part desperately.

Xing Yi was completely eaten to death by this blatant hooligan, and he had no choice but to let go after a few seconds of stalemate.A certain person held his sore wrist and moved it slowly, his brows were slightly tightened, his bright black eyes were misted by the pain, and he stared at Xing Yi without turning around, without speaking.

Not far away, Ari peeked wantonly through the gap between his claws, and poked the rat demon beside him with his fur tail: "Hey!"

Lagrange covered his face very tightly, and when he heard this, he turned towards Ahri's direction with a blank face, and continued to close his eyes and said, "Is it over?"

"Oh no!" Ari pulled out the pair of mouse paws, and nuzzled his nose in the direction of Li Huan Xingyi, "Here, learn a little bit, the young master is not very capable, the ability to act coquettishly and pretend to be pitiful is absolutely superb , as long as his eyes were red when he was a child, we Nine-Tails-sama would have to buy yogurt for this little evildoer."

Lagrange let out a stupid "Aww" and said in puzzlement, "It's amazing, but what do I learn to do?"

"Picking up girls and picking up guys!" Ari had "contempt" written all over his face, and he shook his head, "As stupid as you are, there is really no way out."

Lagrange's roguish eyes rolled, and he twisted his fat body and leaned over: "Is it also useful for Nine Tails?"

"Of course, otherwise, why is the young master the most favored... Hey!" Halfway through the sentence, the fat fox reacted belatedly, and immediately his eyes glowed green, and he jumped up to beat the gangster Hugging his thigh, he said angrily, "Nimma, you are so courageous, you've already set your mind on my master?!"

Although Lager's original form was fat, he was nimble. He rolled and split the fox-like blade-like claws, and sneaked under Xing Yi's feet.How could Hu Ling spare him so easily, and flew towards him with a kick of his hind legs.

The next moment, the light blue wire cut through the darkness and entangled from all directions. The fox spirit and mouse demon did not expect such a moment at all, and was caught off guard and bundled into a ball, and then thrown back by the owner of the wire like trash. At the corners, by the way, each mouth is tied with a very beautiful knot that is guaranteed to be unbreakable.

The world became quiet again. Mr. Demon Subduing Master gathered the lead wires into a bunch and controlled them with one hand, while he held Li Huan's wrist with the other hand and rubbed it expressionlessly.

"How long have you been here?" Li Huan asked.

"I was the first to arrive, about half an hour ago." Xing Yi opened his cuffs to check as he spoke, and found that the redness was really serious. If it weren't for the strong self-healing ability of Phoenix blood, another ordinary person might still leave bruises. Qing—I'm used to being cruel, it seems that I have to restrain myself, for the first time in my life, Mr. Jiang Yaoshi felt a little bit of distress, and I couldn't help feeling that it was really my own person, who bit me casually some time ago Sometimes I really don't feel anything.

Li Huan gasped in pain, but a candy sweetened in his heart following the rubbing motion of the other party.

Ah ah ah no no no, why are you thinking about this at this time?Someone calmed down, and said in his heart that it was really a mistake to be emotional, why did he have so many messy thoughts when he was acting alone, even being pierced by Ao Yin was nothing.

Thinking about this, Li Huan quickly cleared his mind, and said seriously: "Have you investigated the structure of the second dream?"

"Not all, but I can probably tell that it is a place similar to Nanluoguxiang." Xing Yi paused, probably feeling that he didn't explain clearly, and then added, "I'm not talking about Nanluoguxiang in reality, but after zero o'clock. The endless street that Yan Mo broke through the gap between Yin and Yang."

Li Huan said "Yes" very cautiously: "I understand."

Xing Yi said: "The street structure of this dreamland shrinks towards the center in the shape of 'back'. During this period, there were many empty houses similar to the ones we are hiding in now, and the structure is exactly the same. I suspect that the Nightmare recreated it according to the same original shape. That is to say, one of these houses must be her residence, and there should also be her collection of killing people for thousands of years."

"What about that monster?" Li Huan said, "Have you fought against it?"

Xing Yi shook his head and said: "Because you haven't come yet, we can't approach the center of the dreamland without authorization, so we don't want to expose our traces too early. That kind of monsters don't appear in every corner of the street regularly, patrolling whether there are outsiders intruding nearby, they Very sensitive to sound, can detect even the slightest breath, but other senses are very dull."

"Well, it's no wonder that Ari said it was eyeliner." Li Huan sneered, "There are no lights in this alley, and hearing is indeed more useful than other senses." After speaking, he walked to the corner of the room and picked up the mouse that had been tied up into rice dumplings. The demon raised it.

Xing Yi knew that Li Huan had something to ask, so he untied the wire that wrapped Rag's sharp mouth without him asking.

"Where is she?" Li Huan narrowed his eyes, "I'm curious, what can you, a monster who has been in direct contact with Nightmare, sense more than us?"

A dark red oozes from the bottom of those beautiful pupils, exuding a coquettish bloody light in the darkness.

Lagrange felt a chill down his spine, and said weakly, "It's the smell."

Li Huan frowned: "What smell?"

"On the day my colleague disappeared, I smelled a scent when I walked to passage B with him." Lagrange recalled, "The scent was very strong, like a white person with heavy body odor would deliberately spray a lot of perfume, I'm a demon, my nose is better than a human's, so I can smell what that demon is trying to cover up."

Hearing this, Li Huan quickly exchanged glances with Xing Yi, and then said calmly, "It's the smell of a rotting corpse."

Lagrange was about to open his mouth, but he was stunned when he heard this, and asked in puzzlement, "How do you know? Ari said you are a half-demon..."

"Someone told me that demons are the collectors in this world," Li Huan remembered what Chong Ye said that day in the subway car in the fantasy world, possessed by Xing Yi, and continued: "He said that people Blood, human heart, human bones, or the three souls and seven souls, each of which may become the Nightmare's collection, and the person who becomes the collection cannot be still alive, she needs such a large amount, and the death energy on her body must be very heavy."

Lagrange said: "Yes, she used a lot of incense, but it couldn't cover the rancid smell."

Li Huan stared down at the mouse in his hand, and raised the corner of his mouth coldly: "Speaking of which, you have smelled the smell, why didn't you say it earlier?"

"Afraid of getting into trouble," Lagrange moved his body, trying to make himself look smaller, and said very shyly, "We rodent monsters are timid by nature, and mice are still good. If you run into Totoro, hamster, the kind that can lose control when nervous, I'm much cuter~"

Li Huan: "..."

God!A humanoid muscular man nearly two meters tall said in a cute tone that he was much cuter... Someone twitched the corner of his mouth, and silently made up the picture, feeling that the aesthetics established since childhood were mercilessly It was blasted to pieces.

"So—where is she?"

Lagrange moved his nose and sniffed, and said: "Generally speaking, the center of the dream with a zigzag structure will be very stable. Coupled with the smell, her residence should be there."

Li Huan nodded, indeed, in his dreams before, the closer to the edge of the dream, the lighter the color of the dream, and finally classified it as pure white, presumably because of this reason.

"Let's go, time is running out." Li Huan put the mouse monster on the ground and signaled Xing Yi to untie the two.

Afterwards, Li Huan called Xing Yi over to discuss it alone. After the two of them made up their minds, they thought that such monsters would spawn in the alley from time to time. Safer.

After finalizing his attention, Li Huan put the Rag Mouse on his shoulders and told it to lie down so that it would not fall off.Ari, who was squatting on the ground, felt that he had fallen out of favor, and his sense of crisis suddenly burst. After shrinking in size, he consciously jumped onto Li Huan's shoulder, and obediently rubbed his face.

According to Li Huan's intention, Ahri was supposed to follow Xing Yi, but he didn't expect this guy to have such a strong sense of territory. Right now, there is a little overweight monster on both shoulders. Li Huan couldn't help but feel that his shoulders were heavy. It will affect the room for a while.

Xing Yi shook the puppet scroll and released the monster Cheng Huang to go out to check the situation first, while he leaned close to the door to listen to the movement outside.

Hinayana Huang jumped up to the eaves under the influence of the lead wire, and kicked off all the broken tiles with his hind legs. The silence of the double dream is like a dead city, and even the slightest noise will be infinitely magnified by this silence .The monster wandering in the alley next door moved its ears, and its animal eyes covered with white membranes looked dully at the source of the sound, and then dragged the blood-stained giant ax closely behind it, wheezing.

Xing Yi stretched out his hand and pushed open the door, turned around and gave Li Huan a look to signal to follow, and then dodged into the alley.

The man stretched out his hand nimbly, like a swift and fierce leopard in the night, he crossed the street in an instant and stepped on an old object across the street. Then bend over and get down.The whole process took only a few seconds, and there was no sound.

Li Huan, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he followed closely behind to climb up the same wall.Xing Yi saw the right moment and stretched out his right hand. The palms of the two men pressed each other's wrists with five fingers. At the same time, several lead wires shot out and wrapped around Li Huan's waist protectively.The muscles in Xing Yi's arm tensed instantly, and with a pull, he directly pulled him into his arms.

Climbing a wall was effortless, Li Huan's heart beat slightly faster, and his whole body was filled with happiness.

"How does it feel to partner with me?" Xing Yi said.

The man's pure black eyes were as calm as water, his gaze was cold and gentle, that cold and powerful aura infected Li Huan's heart, from the beginning to the end, he could clearly feel the sense of security of being cared for by the other party, he couldn't help but Living in Xing Yi kissed him on the face and said, "I really... love you to death!"

Ari rolled his eyes when he heard this, and bared his teeth at Xing Yi angrily.

The two stood up and looked towards the center of the back-shaped street. After getting out of the closed view of the alley, Li Huan realized that in contrast to the dark color of the whole building, the building in the middle showed a white matte color, because The distance was too far, and he couldn't see the material clearly. He could only vaguely discern that it seemed to be stacked layer by layer.

"Follow me."

After Xing Yi finished speaking, he stepped on the slanted roof of the house with his upper body bent down. Under the night, he was like a blurry phantom, walking quickly on the extremely wet tiles washed by rain. And stable.Li Huan didn't dare to be negligent, and followed closely behind with the two monsters. The lead wire was firmly guarding his waist, and it was tightened at every moment when his body swayed, helping him quickly find the center of gravity.

Half an hour later, the two returned to the ground one after the other, hiding behind a courtyard wall that was mostly collapsed.

At this time, they were only a few meters away from the white building. Li Huan's pupils were slightly distracted by the falling rain, and a heart in his chest tightened uncomfortably. He finally saw clearly what the material was.

It was a two-story building with an outer wall made of human skulls. Under the snow-white eaves hung a plaque that was also spliced ​​and polished by bones. On it were written four large characters in black ink seal script—Dream Eater Pawn Shop.

Sure enough...it is a demon, but it is more high-profile and cruel than Yan Mo.

It built this pawn shop in the dream with its collections, and lived here all day long, how could it not be infected with the rotten smell that incense can't cover up?

Just when Li Huan lost his mind, a gentle palm stretched out to cover the back of his hand, and shook it soothingly.

Li Huan turned his head suddenly, and saw that Xing Yi's handsome brows and eyes showed no trace of emotion, and his cold eyes fell in the distance, as if he had long been accustomed to corpses, the indifference deep in the man's eyes made him He was startled, as if he had returned to the situation when he met those cruel and heartless eyes when they first met.

"It's just some dead people. I'm here, so don't be afraid."

Li Huanhui held that hand, and said in a low voice, "You were human before you became a half-demon. Seeing this, you don't feel..."

"No," Xing Yi interrupted him directly, but his voice was very gentle, "I have seen too many, unlike you, who are too well protected by Nine Tails."

Li Huan nodded, and Xing Yi seemed to have read his mind, and gently brushed away a lock of rain-wet hair on the side of someone's face: "Someone once told me that demon subduing masters don't need feelings, because demons are ruthless. And the Demon Subduing Master is the one who kills demons and demons, so he must be colder and more ruthless than demons."

"I understand," Li Huan said, "Actually, those monsters who work for the teacher are the same. The hunters who maintain order are also ghosts who can kill their own kind."

Xing Yi let out a flat "Yeah", and after a long silence, he said again: "It's like I am the knife of the association, and you are the knife of Nine Tails, too many emotions and desires that need to be taken into account will make this knife dull and dull. I have to hesitate, but fortunately—" He raised his head to meet Li Huan's eyes, "The person who makes me feel compassion is you."

Li Huan was startled: "What's the difference?"

"The difference is that we are originally of the same kind, and the same kind can take the place of each other and guard each other's weaknesses. You were afraid of me just now, but you are the only person in this world who should not be afraid of me."

"I won't hurt you again, you will always remember this in my heart."

- To Be Continued