zero o'clock

【Return to tea house】

It was already bright when we left Xishan, Shen Chixiu was not with the others, but went back to the residence alone and waited for the police notification from above.Ji Qingci was in charge of driving Qi Jingyu, Yan Mo, and the exorcising master who had left him alive back to Wanqing's pawnshop. Qi Jingyu didn't say anything about how the interrogation would be carried out, and it was naturally inconvenient for others, as juniors, to ask more questions.

Li Huan was holding the merman hiding in the cloak and sitting in the rear co-pilot, his mind was blank, the little guy in his arms was shaking violently, he seemed to be very scared, he didn't dare to move casually, all he could think about was the future What to do with this child—the monster is weak, unable to protect himself, and even unable to leave the water for a long time... In the world of monsters, his natural enemies are almost everywhere!

Thinking of this, Li Huan couldn't help heaving a long sigh, feeling more or less sorry for what happened to Du Qiu.

Ari squatted in the middle of the back row, turning his fox eyes to stare at a certain bulge occupying his position. Even though he knew that guy was Du Qiu, it didn't affect the jealousy of the narrow-minded fox, but it just got in the way. Young master Yu is in a bad mood, a certain fox spirit doesn't dare to show his jealousy too obviously.

Xing Yi stabilized the steering wheel with one hand, and took a cigarette into his mouth with the other free hand.

Li Huanruo came back to his senses, and consciously took out his lighter to light him up.

The white smoke blew away and floated slowly in the closed carriage. Xing Yi turned his head to glance at someone, knowing that he had something on his mind but didn't reveal it. He just said, "Do you understand what Jiuwei means?" A topic was brought up, in order to distract this guy's attention a little bit, so as not to get more and more entangled in thinking about it, and finally squeezed into the horns and couldn't get out.

Li Huan nodded, with a somewhat uncertain voice, and said: "The teacher seems to want to attack the association, but this is also expected. The people under Feng Yu are all demon-subduing masters. It’s too obvious, but I really don’t understand why the Demon Subduing Masters Association cooperates with Chong Ye?” He looked up at Xing Yi, “Is it because of the artificial puppet technology?”

"I don't know," Xing Yi said frankly, "When I was in the association, I rarely asked about the management, and I didn't understand many of their decisions, and I really didn't believe that the president would agree to the association's cooperation with the demon. So your question is also my question."

Li Huan sensed something in the other party's words, and said bluntly: "What are your plans?"

Xing Yi pondered for a while, and said, "I want to interrogate that woman myself."

"Okay," Li Huan said, "but the teacher and the others are also tired, so we probably won't start today. It's not too late for us to go back and wait until we have a rest."

Xing Yi let out a "hmm", stretched out his hand holding a cigarette and gently brushed away the broken hair on the side of Li Huan's face, after a few seconds of silence, he comforted him: "You don't have to think too much, Du Qiu's matter has nothing to do with you, If I insist on it, I'm afraid I'm provoking one of Qi Jingyu and me, but it's not your fault anyway."

The man's fingertips are warm and dry, and because they need to precisely control the leads, they are well maintained, without any dead skin or hard calluses that affect the touch.Li Huan liked the feeling of being touched by Xing Yi very much. At this time, the indifference on the other party's body would be weakened incomparably wonderfully, leaving only a kind of delicacy and tenderness that makes people sink.

He took advantage of the situation and leaned into Xing Yi's arms, closed his eyes and stopped talking, Xing Yi hugged his shoulders, lowered his head and pressed a kiss on his forehead.

Ahri, who was ignored the whole time, was almost critically injured by the sweet scene in front of him, silently holding the shattered glass heart and rolling into the corner to eat dog food.

Half an hour later, the car left, and Xing Yi turned into Shichahai Hutong ahead of time, and stopped at the back door of the Bi'an Tea House.

Li Huan quickly opened the door and got off the car, quickly walked across the courtyard, walked into the side room adjacent to the bedroom, filled a bathtub with warm water, then carefully opened the cloak and put the little shark inside.After Du Qiu lost his personal memory, he became very timid. As soon as he entered the water, he clung to the side of the wall in fear and refused to come over.

Ari leaned on the edge of the bathtub and looked in, pulled his ears together, and sighed: "When we left last time, we made an appointment to play games together when we had time."

Li Huan was splashed with water, and without thinking about changing clothes, he knelt on one knee on the floor of the bathroom, tentatively stretched out his hand to Du Qiu, but before he touched him, Du Qiu flicked his tail in fright , hid on the other side of the bathtub, sank into the water and changed.

Li Huan: "..."

Ari was afraid that he would be too shocked, so he pawed Li Huan's arm with his hairy paws, and said, "Young master, don't worry too much, he still needs to get used to it."

"I understand," Li Huan breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered, "Go and bring the Yaoyao here, after all, it is Du Qiu's puppet, and we have spent more time together than us, and he loves the Yaoyao again, even the three souls I can't bear to leave, maybe I can still have a little impression."

Ari nodded, and ran out to catch the ghost as promised.

After a while, the door rang, and Xing Yi and Ari came in together. Ari took the nape of the rabbit-like demon in his mouth, handed it to Li Huan, and retreated out of his own accord.

Because the little merman habitually flicked his tail when he was afraid, he splashed the water in the bathtub all over the floor. Li Huan was already tired after a whole night of tossing. Sit down on the table, hugging Yaoyao to attract Du Qiu's attention.

Du Qiu was afraid of people and didn't dare to raise his head at first, but he seemed to have an impression of his puppet. After discovering the Yaoyao, he secretly glanced at him a few times, and his dark eyes suddenly lit up.When Li Huan noticed this detail, he felt something was going on, and he took the front paw of the Yaoyao and shook it at Du Qiu.Du Qiu couldn't hold back his curiosity, and cautiously swam towards this side, with both palms lying on the edge of the bathtub, and his head next to the Yaoyao, he gave a friendly and somewhat excited "ah".

But the Yaoyao was not interested at all, and even shrank into Li Huan's arms very defensively because the stranger approached.

"Strange," Li Huan frowned slightly, took out the ghost that was about to get into his shirt, and sent it to Du Qiu, "This little guy seems to have forgotten his master."

Xing Yi said: "It is possible that the original owner who synthesized this half-demon is a rabbit. The IQ is indeed not high. It is reasonable to forget the owner."

Li Huan pressed it to keep it from moving, so that Du Qiu could take the opportunity to touch it.

"Brother Yi, to be honest, I'm a little hesitant. Du Qiu has been transformed into a mermaid, and he can't do without water. Will he be kept in the bathtub all the time?"

"Merren are demons that live in groups, and they have specific living waters in the South China Sea," Xing Yi said. "I think that after his personality recovers, we can ask his own wishes to see if he wants to stay or live with his kind. Together."

Hearing this, Li Huan turned around to look at him, and said in surprise, "Then how can they be of the same kind? Du Qiu is just one person!"

Xing Yi didn't speak in a hurry, and knelt down on one knee beside Li Huan. He stared at Li Huan's eyes very seriously, and then said calmly: "To this day, you can no longer distinguish artificial half-demons from demons. They are exactly the same, inheriting the characteristics of demon souls, just like the Ao Yin you hunted back then, they are no longer human."

Li Huan felt his heart tremble violently, he was silent for a while, and said, "I understand what you said, but his situation is different from ours. Brother Yi, I was born as a half-demon, and the teacher has always regarded me as a demon. Raised by demons, I have been in contact with far more demons than humans since I was a child. Because of this, I formed another three views, thinking that demons are of the same kind, demon subduing masters are enemies, and killing demons and eliminating demons is the heinous thing in the world. "

"As for you, you are an adult after all, and you have the ability to face the harm that this world may cause to the half-demon, and you still have me, so no matter what you become, you are not alone." Li Huan looked down. Du Qiu, who was teasing Yaoyao, glanced at him, raised the line of his lips, and smiled helplessly, "But he isn't—you can see it, he doesn't remember you, nor Ari and me, the only thing he remembers is being As a companion puppet, he is still very young, but he lives alone."

"Even if the mermaids live together, if he goes, he is destined to become a different kind. You know how cruel the monster is, and you know how terrible the fate of the different kind will be. How do you let a child who has come out of a civilized society adapt to the winner? The world of demons?"

Xing Yi was noncommittal and said, "You decide, I'll listen to you."

In fact, Li Huan couldn't make up his mind, forcibly keeping the sharks on land was equivalent to trapping the fish in the bathtub. He wasn't sure if this was right or wrong, but he had learned from the past, before everything was over, he Don't dare to let Du Qiu, who has no self-protection ability, leave the tea house on the other side.

Then the two stopped talking and went back to the next room to take a shower and rest together.

This time Li Huan slept very restlessly, and the five senses became more sensitive than before after being completely transformed into a demon. He would wake up when there was a slight sound of water next door, and then he couldn't help but go over to see if something happened to Du Qiu.After a few times, Mr. Demon Subduing Master, who obviously felt that he had been neglected, was not very happy, so he directly tied someone up with a lead wire, and carried him over to sleep in his arms.

Li Huan also didn't know whether he was too nervous or not adapted to his current body. In short, the whole monster was very nervous, and then he was very troubled to find that all the symptoms were relieved after being tied up, so he began to doubt again. I am really a shaker...

In the end, Li Huan didn't know exactly what state he fell asleep in.

At the same time, outside the other shore tea house.

The white-headed barefoot ape jumped down from the roof and landed firmly in front of the stone steps at the main entrance of the tea house. He looked up at the four big characters engraved on the plaque, and then leaned on the door to listen to the movement inside—noticing Someone came back, and the demon looked as usual. Taking advantage of no one passing by in the alley, it calmly pushed open the door panel, its huge body shrunk down, and sneaked in lightly.

None of the barriers wrapped around the tea house were triggered, and the demon just walked through the front yard majestically, stopped for a moment in front of the two side rooms, and then committed itself into one of them.

Hearing the movement, Du Qiu shrank back to the corner of the bathtub in fright, staring at the darkness beyond the crack of the door with horror on his face.

However nothing happened.

Du Qiu hesitated and waited for a while, then everything quieted down, only the slight movements of the little Yaoyao bouncing around in the room.

Little by little, he swam back to the edge of the bathtub, stretched out half of his body with his hands, the little demon jumped over and raised his head slightly, his furry nose moved, and he sniffed the boy's steamy chin very intimately.

Du Qiu was overjoyed and stared at the cute rabbit with wide eyes. He opened his lips and made a very vague sound.Yao Yao tilted his head, as if he understood, he jumped onto the edge of the bathtub with his hind legs, and lay down motionless.

That pronunciation is: "...white"

——It was the puppet's name that he forgot everything but kept in his mind alone.

——inued