zero o'clock

【collusion】

In the evening, the setting sun sets, reflecting the Shichahai's clear and gilded lake water.

The bars and nightclubs with the nostalgic atmosphere of the 80s around the lake began to serve people. The staff set up an open-air show at the door, and the smoke from the barbecue wafted up. Get more lively.

A ray of golden-red light passed through the gap in the curtains, tracing a fading band of light on the soft plush carpet.

Li Huan frowned as if disturbed, and the arms under the quilt on the man's waist tightened.The air conditioner was on in the room, and the temperature was a little low. He shrugged his shoulders uncomfortably, and leaned close to the warm body.The man was already sensitive when he just woke up, Li Huan reacted from below, this paste happened to rub against the other's muscular thigh, and he let out a low "uh" in a comfortable half-dream, half-awake, and couldn't help shaking his waist and crotch, rubbing intermittently stand up.

Mr. Jiang Yaoshi, who was leaning on the bed and swiping the screen of his mobile phone to browse the news, stopped, his eyelashes drooped, and he gave someone a meaningful look. Then he silently reached out and grabbed the edge of the quilt, revealing Li Huan Shoulders covered.

Li Huan didn't sleep soundly at first, but as soon as that subtle feeling came up, he suddenly woke up.He straddled Xing Yi's body with his long legs and propped himself up, sitting on the man's body in a straddle position, his legs clamped tightly, and the parts of the two people's erections touched together. Incompletely awakened peripheral nerves.

"what……"

Li Huan moaned tremblingly.Still unable to open his eyes due to sleepiness, he slowly slid past like a lazy sloth.Xing Yi raised the arm holding the phone to make room for someone, Li Huan put his arms around his neck, looked up, and the two naturally kissed good morning.

The kiss broke at the touch of a touch, and neither of them had any deep meaning to each other.

Li Huan's whole body was limp, and he rolled to the side after the kiss.Xing Yi wrapped his arms around him and hugged him, then continued to watch the news.

"When did you wake up?" Li Huan rubbed his hairy head in the man's arms, and opened one eye to look at the phone screen.

"Two hours ago." Xing Yi said, "If you feel tired, you can sleep a little longer."

Li Huan shook his head indiscriminately, his attention was completely attracted by the content of the news——

According to reports, a rare thunderstorm hit southern Beijing last night, causing landslides and a huge fire. A high-end guild hall was reduced to ruins in the fire, and dozens of people were killed or injured.The police are conducting an in-depth investigation into this incident, and the possibility of human persecution has been basically ruled out...

This set of rhetoric is official and old-fashioned, but it is very effective in appeasing public opinion. Pushing everything to natural disasters will undoubtedly save a lot of troublesome explanations and lies.

After seeing the routine clearly, Li Huan was no longer interested. He yawned and said, "Didn't you say you wanted to interrogate that woman yourself? The time is too late now, let's go."

"I'll go by myself, you stay here and have a good rest." After finishing speaking, Xing Yi put his mobile phone on the bedside table, got out of bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Li Huan looked at the open door of the bathroom in confusion, and said, "You don't want me to accompany you?"

Xing Yi said: "You are so worried about Du Qiu, just stay with him for two days."

Then the sound of "squeaking" water sounded, and the two consciously stopped talking.

Li Huan pondered for a moment, and it was true that the same thing happened—the teacher and Yan Mo were both at Wanqing’s pawn shop, and now Xing Yi was going to go there. Leave Du Qiu alone in the teahouse.

Thinking of this, he got up and took out the clothes that the two of them were going to wear later from the closet, and then walked into the bathroom to take a shower with Xing Yi.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, the sky is still not completely dark. The fiery clouds floating in the western sky are dazzling red, and the golden rays of light shine through the edge of the clouds, while the west is dark blue like after nightfall, and several high-brightness stars reveal their tracks. .

This is the moment when the sky has the richest sense of layering in a day, as breathtakingly beautiful as a delicate impasto oil painting.

After taking a bath, Xing Yi and Li Huan left the bedroom after fully dressed.

Midsummer is approaching, and the vegetation in the courtyard of the tea house on the other side is lush. Ari was bored and was playing with butterflies next to the koi pond. When he saw the two coming, he hurriedly wagged his tail and greeted them, sticking out his tongue and saying, "Want to go out, meow? Getting bored to death."

Li Huan stretched out his hand and patted its head, and said, "Brother Yi went to see the teacher and Mr. Yan, intending to see the results of the woman's interrogation, do you want to come together?"

"Aren't you going?" Ari said.

"I'm worried about Du Qiu being alone at home," Li Huan explained, "Besides, I don't understand torture, and I won't be able to help if I go there. Just wait for them to come back and tell me the story."

"That's it..." Ari muttered in a low voice, looking a little disappointed. He didn't know Xing Yi well, and he still cared about the other party's identity as a demon-subduing master. It always felt weird to go out together, so he said, "I It’s better to stay with you and take care of that little ghost~”

Li Huan nodded without saying anything, and turned to Xing Yi and said, "Then go and come back early, and call if you need anything."

Xing Yi gave a flat "Yes", and lowered his head to kiss Li Huan's forehead and heart.Li Huan's heart skipped a beat suddenly, and he really liked this kind of feelings expressed without words but purely with actions. From the first meeting to now, he was as cold and ruthless as ever, but it didn't affect the tacit understanding between them in the slightest. tenderness.

There are some people in this world who are very warm and kind to everyone who knows them well, but Xing Yi is just at the other extreme—because most of his feelings have been wiped out, so his tenderness is only one. It is unique, and there is no more to share with others.

After the kiss was over, Xing Yi stroked the broken hair in front of Li Huan's eyes, and said in a low voice, "Then I'm leaving."

At that moment, Li Huan inexplicably had an illusion of living an ordinary life. Perhaps in the two simple conversations of "Then I'm leaving" and "Welcome back" in the morning and evening, life belongs to mortals. A few decades of life is also a good choice.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are painful, but if you can grow old forever, it might not be a kind of happiness.

Xing Yi saw that someone was just giggling and didn't know what to say, so he moved his finger down and scratched the bridge of Li Huan's nose punitively.The man's eyes were deep, his eyes were focused and quiet, and his movements had a hint of pampering and ambiguity in them. Li Huan was so electrified by this little detail that he felt like a girl, and he almost melted.

The silently abused nine-tailed fox spirit lay unhappily by the fish pond, bullying the koi inside with its paws to pass the trash time of showing affection.

After a while, the two finally got bored, and Xing Yi walked through the front yard and opened the door to leave the Bi'an Tea House.Li Huan's cheeks were flushed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at a certain fox spirit again, and said with a smile: "This koi was specially sent by the Japanese monster to the teacher for fun. If you kill a few of them, the teacher will not be afraid Did you throw it in the pool?"

Hearing this, Hu Ling's furry and fat paws froze immediately, and after a few seconds of silence, he took them out to shake the water silently, then looked at Li Huan with a resentful look of "the dog abuser dies", and said, "Young master, Have you noticed that you have changed?"

Li Huan frowned, wondering: "Is there?"

"Yes~" Ari said, "Master has spoiled you since childhood, and no one but him will touch a single hair of your hair, which makes you arrogant since you were a child, and it seems very innocent to look innocent and harmless." He looks well-bred, but in fact, he has a bad stomach, and he is even more treacherous than monsters at a young age!"

"Why does that sound unattractive..." Li Huan laughed dumbfounded, his beautiful peach eyes curled up in a smile, and he continued following the words of the arrogant fox spirit, "Then what have I become now? ?”

Ari rolled his eyes towards the sky, ground his teeth word by word, and said: "A sour smell of love! Have you been together for several months? Is it over?!"

Li Huan smiled without saying a word, and lifted a certain thick nine tail to look at the fox's balls below.

Ari: "!!!!"

"Stinky rascal!" Ahri said angrily, with his tail between his legs.

Li Huan looked at it with a smile, and said playfully, "This spring is over, why are you still so jealous?"

"After spring, I don't even have a girlfriend!"

"Think about the Samoyed in the alley over there?"

Ah Li heard the three words "Samoyed" and rushed over to hug Li Huan's thigh. Before he could speak, he was dragged off by the nape of his neck.

Li Huan couldn't bear to see its tearful appearance, but he still said: "Give up on it, how could the teacher allow a strand of his soul to fall in love with a dog? It's fine if you just play with it, just in case Do something impulsively, although it is to obey the physiological instinct, but the three souls are one body after all, the teacher is a nine-tailed demon fox, so you can't leave the strange wind of a dog in that place, right?"

Ali: "..."

"Okay, don't be sad, what's the point of being together? Samoyed's lifespan has lasted for 20 years, how much you will feel sorry for you then!" Li Huan put the fox spirit on the ground, and glanced at the next bedroom with some concern , casually said, "How is Du Qiu?"

Ah Li followed behind with his head drooping, and said weakly: "It should be fine. I didn't hear any strange movements outside. Maybe it was because I was tired from playing with the ghost and fell asleep for a while. Do you want to go in and see, young master?" look?"

Li Huan took out his phone and looked at his watch, and said, "It's getting late, Du Qiu needs to eat something, so what do sharks eat?"

"Fish?" Ahri thought for a while, "Maybe it's okay to feed some plasma~"

Li Huan let out an "oh", and originally planned to go into the room to see Du Qiu, but now he simply went to the fresher in the kitchen to look for blood bags that could be fed to the little guy.

At the same time, Nanluoguxiang.

Before dawn, the main entrance of Wanqing Pawnshop still looks like it was sealed by green bricks. At this time, most tourists eat barbecue and crayfish in the bar street, and the small shops in the alley are preparing to close one after another. .

Xing Yi stood under a locust tree at the entrance of the alley and waited for a few minutes until the owner of the creative store opposite the pawnshop locked the door and left. Then he emerged from the shadows and walked towards the pawnshop without haste.

——At this moment, in the eyes of the demon, the door of Wanqing's pawn shop is closed, and the two lanterns on the left and right are dimmed, which means that the door will not be open to welcome customers tonight.

Seeing that there were no passers-by on both sides, Xing Yi quickened his pace and opened the door to enter Wanqing's pawn shop.

The yard is full of spring, with pale pink peach blossoms falling all over the ground. The lazy three-flower civet cat is lying on the stone table and taking a nap. There is a bird cage hanging on the branch above its head. When people come, the sparrows in the cage are curious. Jumping up and down, making a series of chirping calls.

Xing Yi stepped into the courtyard, and the door of the main room of the pawn shop was opened from the inside.

Yan Mo leaned lazily on the door frame, raised a pair of treacherous crimson demon pupils, looked at Xing Yi with a half-smile, and said, "When I came back this morning, Jing Yu guessed that you probably came back. It's really here."

Xing Yi couldn't see any expression on his face, and after approaching, he said, "What did Nine Tails say?"

Yan Mo raised his eyebrows, and said: "He said that a demon subduing master is a demon subduing master after all, and even if he becomes a half-demon, he will still remember the affairs of this association in his heart. This time, even if the Mei family compound does not interrogate that woman, they will It has already been confirmed that there are ghosts in the association, so how can Mr. Xing sit still?"

Xing Yi was noncommittal and did not speak.

Yan Moquan regarded him as acquiescing, and pretended to glance back casually, and said meaningfully: "Mr. Xing has other plans for not letting Li Huan come together?"

"Yes." Xing Yi didn't hide anything, and admitted frankly, "I need to see Nine Tails."

"Come with me." Yan Mo said while stepping away from the door frame, and made a "please" gesture to him.

Xing Yi was also the first to walk into the main room of the pawn shop full of precious shelves, followed by Yan Mo, and the two walked all the way to the depths of the seemingly endless hall.

The curtains hanging down from the roof were automatic without wind. This time, Xing Yi did not see the single room with the Eight Immortals table and the medicine cabinet. It seems that the layout of the pawn shop can be changed according to the needs of the users. In a short while, Yan Mo lifted up the last curtain, and Xing Yi could only feel the strong smell of blood rushing towards him.

Behind the curtain was a door made of fine iron, and a trembling panting sound leaked from the gap in the door.

Xing Yi stretched out his hand to push the door open, and saw Qi Jingyu, with his long legs folded, sitting gracefully on a chair with his back facing the entrance. There was a set of tea sets on the low table next to him. The man lowered his eyebrows and eyes, Holding up the teapot with slender and fair fingers, he carefully washed the tea leaves that had been soaked in water for the first time, and then poured boiling water in again with ease.

"Come in." Qi Jingyu concentrated on making tea without raising her head.

He was wearing a snow-white shirt and trousers, and his leather shoes were spotlessly clean, but the floor of the cell was dripping with fresh plasma. Right at the feet of the man who was making tea calmly, he seemed unaware that he was only concentrating on his hand. work.

On the wall at the other end of the prison cell, the limbs of the brought back female demon descendant were opened, and every joint was nailed to death by a snake-shaped rivet that suppressed spiritual power. Blood overflowed from the wound and flowed down the nail body, dripping Tick ​​tock hit the floor.

The woman's face was pale, she looked extremely weak, and her restricted limbs were trembling uncontrollably, but what attracted the most attention was her pair of eyes that seemed to have lost her mind.

Seeing this, Xing Yi hesitated for a second, then walked up to Qi Jingyu without looking sideways.

"Sit." After Qi Jingyu finished speaking, he poured a cup of tea and put it on the other side of the low table.

Xing Yi didn't move, but asked, "What did she explain?"

"She refuses to open her mouth. I have no other choice but to interpret this woman's memory myself." Qi Jingyu took a sip from her teacup and said calmly, "They are indeed demon subduing masters affiliated to the association, but at the same time Also under Zhong Ye's order, responsible for protecting the safety of the half-demon Feng Chi."

Xing Yi frowned upon hearing the words, and asked, "Have you found out who ordered you to cooperate with the demon?"

"You are very familiar with this person—" Qi Jingyu raised his head to meet Xing Yi's eyes, and smiled, before he could speak.

The unconscious woman laughed sinisterly, her blood-smeared eyes were gloomy, she quietly glanced at the other three people present, and finally fixed on Xing Yi.

She said: "If there is no instruction from the real superior, who would dare to openly use the name of the demon subduing master to work for the demon? Do you really not know about the colleagues over there?"

——inued