zero o'clock

【The night is dark】

The voice fell, and the sound of high-heeled shoes hitting the wooden floor came from the end of the corridor. Xing Yi and Li Huan quickly exchanged glances and consciously fell silent.

The next moment, Xiao Cui turned the corner and saw the two standing outside the private room, she was stunned, she quickly walked a few steps to the front, smiled very apologetically, and said: "I'm sorry, I was delayed by something just now, may I ask?" Is there anything you need to find me?"

"No," Xing Yi was indifferent, took out the cigarette case from his trousers pocket, knocked out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lit it, took a puff and said calmly, "I'm addicted to cigarettes, the one above can't smell it , I can only come out and smoke."

Xiao Cui nodded knowingly, and said, "That's right, but smoking in the corridor is too neglectful, there are still a few vacant rooms on this floor, why don't you two go there?"

"Is it convenient?" Li Huan smiled apologetically, "Would it be too much trouble for you?"

"No trouble, no trouble, it's just for our service staff to take a rest, and it's next to the tea room for preparing meals. In response, he rolled his eyes and said, "But since the two masters are here to participate in the auction, it's not suitable to see the view of the hall, or I will arrange for someone to temporarily add a table to the first floor. Go sit there for a while?"

In this way, they were farther away from the VIP Room No. [-], so how can they be sure whether Feng Chi is in it or not?

Li Huan couldn't decide to pay attention, so he raised his head and gave Xing Yi a questioning look.Xing Yi took off the cigarette and held it between his fingers, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Go to the first floor, thank you for your hard work."

"Those two wait for a while, I'll find someone to arrange a seat." After Xiao Cui finished speaking, she hurried downstairs to find someone.

Li Huan couldn't figure out Xing Yi's plan, so he simply didn't open his mouth, and waited for the woman to go far away, and after making sure that he would not hear their voices again, he said, "What are we going to do on the first floor?"

"She walked very quickly, and even her speech was faster than before." Xing Yi still stared at the stairs at the end of the corridor, and said in a deep voice, "This can only mean that there is news from the ghost car, and it seems that it will not be used. How long will it take for them to send someone to visit the buyer introduced by the Nightmare, maybe even a ghost car coming in person, we are still not sure who is in that door, and it is too risky to test at this time."

Li Huan was suddenly stunned, and couldn't help sighing in his heart that Xing Yi was indeed a demon-subduing master who was good at tracking, and could observe the opponent's every move in detail.

After a while, Xiaocui trotted up the stairs again, with a thin layer of sweat on her snow-white forehead, panting: "Come with me, you two, the bottom is ready, it is a temporary table, the location A bit off."

"It's okay." Li Huan couldn't help laughing seeing her panting and trembling chest, "Miss Xiaocui is in a hurry?"

Noticing the other party's gaze, Xiao Cui's cheeks flushed slightly, and she said, "To tell you the truth, Master Ghost is coming soon, so let me inform your master first, otherwise it would be too offensive to visit suddenly gone."

"I can't see that this ghost car is quite good at being a man." Li Huan smiled but did not smile, and deliberately made a gesture of contempt for the other party to show Xiaocui. He paused for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Speaking of which , you said earlier that you would wait at the door, why did we come out and see that there are no maids waiting at the door of other rooms?"

The smile on Xiao Cui's face froze indistinctly, and before she had time to answer, Xing Yi said for her, "I think it's because that ghost who knows how to be a man is not at ease if he doesn't do it, and wants to put someone to watch us?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Cui breathed a sigh of relief, and calmly sized up the two young-looking demons in front of her, not knowing how to proceed.

Li Huan raised the corners of his mouth, lifted his narrow eyes slightly, and smiled like a fox with malicious intentions. He walked to Xiaocui's side, patted her shoulder with his hand, and joked in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Stop pretending, you're not afraid of us at all. If my guess is correct, you shouldn't be from the Mei family compound, right?"

Xiaocui's body trembled slightly, and the surprise in her eyes was obvious.

"Let me think about it," Li Huan touched the tip of his nose carelessly, and said with a smile, "Monsters rarely use humans, so you should belong to Boss Lian?"

The smile disappeared, and Xiaocui met Li Huan's eyes coldly: "You guessed right, I am indeed from Liangu, but there is no other purpose in coming to the Mei family compound, just to listen to the two bosses. I'm here to treat you well." Speaking of which, she looked around very warily, turned her head towards the two, and then walked up the stairs.

The second round of auction downstairs was extremely hot, and the copper bells rang one after another. A group of people walked into the stairwell and did not rush downstairs, but stopped in the dark.

Xiaocui's face was serious, and she said softly: "To be honest, after Master Mengpo left that day, Gu Lian and Third Master Hou were injured."

Hearing this, Li Huan and Xing Yi were stunned at the same time. The four of them actually thought about everything in the room before, but no one thought about it.

Li Huan was even more shocked. This statement just confirmed the spiritual power fluctuations that came from Zisha Yayuan after he left that day, but he came to the door as a guest. He never expected that Feng Chi's people would do something to the owner of the tea house , Could it be that the private room belongs to someone else?

"Tell me in detail," Xing Yi said.

"I wasn't there at the time, so I don't know the specific situation." Xiaocui said, "I just heard what Boss Lian said. It seems that the person who hurt her knew Lady Mengpo."

It was expected that Feng Chi knew Nightmare, Li Huan's thoughts turned, and he quickly conceived how to get the words out of this woman's mouth without a sound, and after a long silence, he said: "Nightmare told us that she I saw a few people coming out of the last private room, but I didn't see their faces clearly, and then I felt that there was a fleeting spiritual power in the tea house, could it be that those people are demon subduing masters?"

"—Also, since they can sit in the private room of the tea house, aren't they the guests of Boss Lian? Since they are guests, why would they attack your boss?"

Xiaocui pursed her lips, as if she didn't know whether to say it or not.

Xing Yi glanced at Li Huan calmly, his originally cold tone slowed down, and said: "Since the other party attacked Nightmare's partner, it means that it is most likely an enemy rather than a friend. As a mortal, the ghost car is a beast with a slightly higher demon rank, no matter how you think about it, it is weak, if you have concerns, you might as well consider cooperating with us."

Xiaocui hesitated for a while, and finally nodded slowly.

"Then tell the truth, so that we can know the truth." Li Huan said.

Xiao Cui thought for a while, and said: "Those people have been here several times, they seem to be friends of the owner of the private room, their identities are too specific to be clear, but business pays attention to welcoming guests with a smile, and the boss of a friend's friend will naturally not neglect— —" She paused, then continued, "On the eve of the auction, we informed the regular customers of the tea house as usual. Like you, those people had never participated in this kind of activity, and they said they were interested. The owner has not shown up for more than half a year, and the boss is convinced that Yao’s friends must be good, so he also has a little intention of wooing them, so he asked them to come over that night to pick up the invitation letter.”

"What I didn't expect was... those people and the boss had met a few times before, and they were so ruthless."

Li Huan widened his eyes when he heard this, and said anxiously: "So they are here now."

"Not yet, I don't know if it's not coming, or it hasn't arrived yet." Speaking of this, Xiao Cui's eyes suddenly became flustered, which made her look a little nervous, "To be honest, if it wasn't for the rush to sell that thing , Mr. Ghost may not even come to this auction. He came to see your master at the very beginning, in fact, it was to settle the matter as soon as possible, and then leave the place of right and wrong. Our boss guessed that he was a little afraid of those people .”

Xing Yi said: "Where are those people arranged? Next door to us?"

"Hmm..." Xiaocui swallowed her saliva, looked at the two people one by one, and said hesitantly, "Could it be that the two of you came out to check their location?"

The matter has come to this point, although the woman misunderstood the relationship between the two parties for the sake of cliche, but it happened to be able to smoothly complete the scene.Being open and honest is at least easier than having one more object to guard against.

The two people who were silent realized this at the same time, Li Huan did not speak very tacitly, but handed over the initiative to Xing Yi.

Xing Yi gave a flat "hmm" and said: "Because the Nightmare reminded us that the tea house might have encountered a demon-subduing master, so we have been paying attention to the people around us after we came here today, including you and those who have not met yet. Ghost car. The master asked us to come out just to make sure the house is safe, and hope that nothing will happen before we get the goods."

Xiao Cui nodded in understanding, and said, "Then should I continue to use it now?"

Li Huan said: "Go, since the other party hasn't shown up yet, let's guard the entrance for the master, so as not to be blocked by surprise."

"Then come with me." After Xiaocui finished speaking, she turned and walked down the stairs.

Li Huan and Xing Yi followed her to the first floor, and they didn't see it clearly when they left in a hurry, but now they came down and found that the general conditions here are not bad.Each table is placed in the card seat area surrounded by wooden hollow partitions, and the degree of privacy is not much worse than that of the private room upstairs when the tulle is pulled.

A group of people walked around the booth and walked to the booth area at the farthest corner. The angle here was so bad that they couldn't even see the faces of the auctioneer and the two etiquettes. But because of this, as long as they raised their heads, they could Facing the balcony of VIP Room No. [-], one can vaguely see the people sitting inside through the wobbly beaded chain.

Xiaocui opened the gauze curtain and looked back at the two of them one by one: "The location is a bit off, you may not be able to see the auction items clearly, but your thoughts are probably not up there, the view here is not good and it is not easy to be found by others, it is quite Good for watching other guests."

Li Huan and Xingyi walked past her, each sat down on a cushioned armchair, Xiaocui also committed herself to go in and put down the gauze curtain, and poured tea for the two of them respectfully.

This Xiao Cui looked to be in her twenties, and although she was pale with fear when she came alone, she was still very calm overall.Li Huan felt strange, and said casually: "I don't see that you are a brave little girl, and you are also loyal to your boss Lian. In such a dangerous place, she asked you to come and you really came."

"I'm not a little girl anymore." Putting the teapot down, Xiao Cui placed the teacups on the table in front of the two of them, and said frankly, "This matter is important after all, and it's not good for Boss Lian to entrust someone who doesn't trust me. Counting it, I am also a distant cousin of hers, and I am fully expecting my [-]th birthday this year."

Xing Yi raised his eyes, his cold eyes swept across her young and clean face, and said expressionlessly: "It is the ghost car that taught you how to prolong your life?"

"Yes." Xiao Cui said.

Li Huan sneered: "The nine-headed bird is greedy for human souls, and now it's even targeting the same kind. I think the method that can be given to you is probably related to this?"

There was no expression on Xiaocui's face, only her slightly trembling lips leaked a little emotion, but her tone was flat: "We also benefit from each other, without the help of humans, the demon is destined to not be able to truly integrate into this world. It is unavoidable to be timid." She bowed to the two of them, stood up straight and then said again, "It's almost time for the ghost to pass, I have to go up and serve, once the deal is finalized, everyone will be gone forever."

After speaking, she opened the gauze curtain and left the booth without looking back.

The night was getting dark, and it seemed that the wind was blowing outside, making a rattling sound from a door that was not closed tightly.

Xiaocui quickly passed through the back of the Puke area, turned into the aisle separated by a wall, and was about to go upstairs.

On the other side, the waiter who was about to serve the guests with a tray looked back and said, "Sister, please close the door, this noise is too loud, don't affect Mr. Agui's ears, then there will be no sound at all." You must have miscalculated the money, and none of us can afford to blame the superiors."

Xiao Cui bit her lower lip calmly, and retracted her foot that had already stepped on the steps. She adjusted her mood and turned around with a smile, and said to the guy with a smile: "Okay, you hurry up!" Bar."

"Hard!"

"fine."

After the words were lost, the waiter turned into the hall with a tea tray in his hand.

Xiao Cui walked to the half-covered door, stretched out her hand to pull it, and found that the door panel, which had been rattled by the wind before, was motionless, as if it was stuck by something.

She bent down suspiciously to check, her two delicate eyebrows tightened bit by bit.

I saw a light blue line slanting across the inch-long gap between the two door panels. The thread was thin and thin, emitting light fluorescence in the dim night.

Xiaocui had never seen this thing before, so she wondered if it was a thread that stuck the door?While thinking, she started to untie the thin blue wire wrapped around the door frame——

The moment the woman's light-white fingers touched the wire body, the two door panels were cut apart soundlessly, and hundreds of light blue lead wires seemed to quietly emerge from the darkness. Like a bone maggot, Xiao Cui's body was instantly tightened, and she was dragged into the dark courtyard that was eerily illuminated by the red lanterns.

The black shadow of the giant bird circling by is projected on the thin window paper, like dark clouds suddenly covering the bright moonlight.Those leads followed the giant bird and rose from the ground, throwing the woman head-on high.

The blood on Xiao Cui's face was gone, and her slender neck was pierced into a sieve by the wire. She opened her mouth in despair, and before she could scream, her waist was cut off by a pair of hard beak pliers, and she was swallowed whole.

At the same time, the corridor on the second floor of the auction venue.

A group of six people came to the No. [-] VIP room. The leading man looked wretched, his whole face was unusually thin, and his cheeks were sunken pathologically. He was wearing a well-made pinstriped British suit, but his body was thin Shaped like a skeleton, it can't support that outfit at all.

Hou Wansan stood hunched next to the man, and when he nodded slightly, he quickly stepped forward to the door, knocked on it with his hands, but didn't touch anything.

Or in other words, at the same time as he was knocking, the door in front of him opened wide, and there was no one to greet him behind the door. Hou Wansan was stunned, his eyes passed through the living room, and fell straight to the grand master's chair on the balcony. Two men sat quietly with their backs to the door.

"Ghost car," a gentle voice asked, "welcome."

——inued