zero o'clock

【Yan of Yan Moluo】

In the evening, Shichahai’s turquoise lake water reflects the skyscape. Above the lake, smoky gray clouds reveal a ray of light, reflecting the western sky into a light warm red, as if being blurred by a painter’s pen full of clear water. Impressionist oil paintings were dyed, while the east was covered with heavy night early.

Another cloudy sky with no stars and no moon. If it was placed thousands of years ago, such a night would be so dark that you can't stretch your fingers. However, the development of human industry has far exceeded the expectations of the thousand-year monster. Accurate head.

only--

The sky has not cleared, and the night has come, so-called ominous.

Looking away, Qi Jingyu hummed as a reply to the other party, then hung up the call and put the phone back in his trouser pocket. He pushed aside the sparrow that was sitting on his shoulder wantonly peeking at the screen, and turned around silently to get dressed.

"Who is Ji Qingci?" The sparrow flapped its wings and buzzed behind Qi Jingyu, "Why does it sound like a woman? Human or demon?"

Qi Jingyu put on one sleeve, turned his head to look at the fake · sparrow · real · very gossip · Mr. Mo Luo, and said lightly: "Unexpectedly, at this age, Master Mo Luo is still smart, and he is good at listening to corners. ah?"

"Excellent, honorable," a certain bird tilted her head, brazenly circled the man, and asked, "So... who is she?"

Jing Yu said: "About 500 years ago, I came across a wounded auspicious beast on the Kunlun Mountains. After being cured, I accepted it as an apprentice. Second, what else does Master Mara want to gossip about?"

"Kunlun Mountain... the auspicious beast..." Sparrow rolled his eyes, "Is your second disciple Bai Ze who knows everything and can turn danger into good luck?"

"Exactly, it's just that 'knowing everything, turning evil into good' is a fallacious comment that mortals deify and pass on falsehoods. Qingci's body, Bai Ze, is an outstanding person in Kunlun Mountain. When the time comes, she will naturally become a demon. The demon power overflows and turns into a human form. I work, I'm a hunter."

Qi Jingyu tied her scarf, bypassed the sparrows blocking the way, and opened the door, "I'll go out for a while."

The black bell hanging from the door frame jingled incessantly.

The sparrow went crazy when he heard it, and hurried to catch up, "Jiuwei, stop!"

Qi Jingyu turned her head and looked at it calmly.

The sparrow said anxiously: "The evil apprentice Bai Ze told you to go out at this time, doesn't she know that the demon subduing masters in Beijing are waiting to capture the nine-tailed demon fox alive and give it to their immortal president as a puppet? I said Did you even listen to the words?!"

"It was I who asked Qingci to come back to assist in handling the mutant Aoyin's case," Qi Jingyu explained, "Now she has something to do and can't leave, so why not handle it myself?"

The sparrow opened its mouth, and before it could speak, the handsome man in front of him who always looked calm spoke first, and his tone seemed a bit sharp.

Qi Jingyu said: "For thousands of years, the Demon Subduing Masters have hunted me down no less than a hundred times. Until now, do you think I care about those puppets?"

"At the end of the day, they are just people with spiritual power. I, Nine-Tails, was one of the five most ferocious beasts in ancient times. How could I be intimidated by a group of mortals? Mo Luo, don't you despise me too much?"

The sparrow was speechless, hesitated for a moment, then changed his words: "Then I will accompany you."

"No need," Jing Yu's voice softened again, "Ari is not here, so you can guard my little apprentice for my soul and make sure he is safe."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and his wise and clear amber pupils suddenly emptied, as if he had lost his mind. After a long time, he added softly: "The phoenix soul is rooted in the depths of Xiaohuan's three souls and seven souls. His life is closely related. I think it is true to revive Phoenix, but I don't want to sacrifice Xiaohuan as the price..."

"—Mo Luo, believe it or not, no matter how cold the demon blood is, it still has feelings."

Sparrow was startled, and then said helplessly: "Jiuwei, you have only adopted him for 18 years."

"You're right," Qi Jingyu smiled, "but ever since I found out that his ancestors accidentally became the containers of the Phoenix Soul, I have guarded their inheritance for almost 3000 years. Now that the Phoenix Soul has matured, I can sense that it is getting stronger and stronger. It's getting restless, but I still don't know how to take it out without hurting the original owner..."

Sparrow said: "Li Huan only has one phoenix soul in his body, where are the other two remnants?"

Qi Jingyu slowly shook his head, Sparrow said again: "Who else is planning to revive the Phoenix besides you?"

Just at this moment, the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrated suddenly. Qi Jingyu took out the mobile phone to check the location information shared by Ari in the group, and finally raised his eyelashes tremblingly. At the end, he caught a fleeting look of fear.

"That dragon."

"really……"

Jing Yu hummed lightly, "I believe he won't get nothing in the past 3000 years, but the strange thing is that the hunter organizations I have painstakingly managed are distributed all over the country, but I haven't intercepted any news about dragons. He is too quiet——"

"The ferocious beast is dormant, and the heaven and the earth will suffer catastrophe. Mara, I'm a little uneasy."

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After eight o'clock in the evening, the doorbell at the main entrance of the courtyard rang again and again.

After a while, there was movement in the side room.

A person who was woken up had a splitting headache, braved the annoyance of getting up and left the warm bed, put on a coat and went to open the door.

Snowflakes began to fall in the sky again, and there was no light in the front yard. If it wasn't for his excellent night vision, Li Huan, who was dizzy from his sleep, almost stepped into the frozen koi pond.

Why is there no one at home?

Li Huan regained his composure and felt that his mind had cleared up a lot. While thinking about the teacher going out without telling himself, he absently unlocked the door and gently pushed one of the doors open.

Seeing someone coming, the little brother wearing a thick down jacket at the gate of the courtyard immediately showed a standard octave smile, and said familiarly: "Excuse me, is this the Bi'an Tea House? The place is really hard to find~"

Li Huan cautiously looked the people up and down a few times. From the corner of his eye, he glanced into the distance and saw a metal electric scooter parked under the steps, with the word 'SF' printed on it as Loge.

Li Huan: "..."

The little brother picked up the courier paper wrapped in his arms, frowned and struggled to identify the recipient printed on it, and read the words: "Are you—"Handsome and handsome Ari-sama who instantly kills all transvestites"?"

Li Huan: "..."

Damn that fox didn't know what transvestite meant, so he dared to write up? !And I happened to not be at home when I picked up the package!No, even if you are at home, it is impossible to come out to receive the courier!In any case, the only one who is ashamed is himself!And it's really embarrassing! ! !

"I'm not," Li Huan said honestly after complaining in his heart, "Everyone here is normal, I don't know that nerve..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Huan's phone rang, and a push message popped up on WeChat, it was voice——

Ari: [Little master, help me collect the courier ~ It's cat food, five bags, and a cat teasing stick. I want pink, but I will reject it if you send it in the wrong color ~ I love you! (づ￣3￣)づ] Li Huan forgot to switch the receiver, so the sharp voice of a certain fox was heard by the whole world.Brother SF Express wrote on his face, "Your friend is such a psychopath, why am I so shy?" Then he handed over the courier and pen together, and said with a smile: "Remember to praise, dear~"

After signing for the receipt, Li Huan carried the cat food into the main room with his head full of black threads. In the dark, the deserted teahouse had a slight and even breathing sound. When Li Huan turned on the light, he saw the stinky and shameless sparrow lying on the ground. The teacher's fox-fur cloak was sleepless.

There is also a plate of millet swelled by blisters next to it.

The teacher is really... picking up everything.

Considering that Ari's next jealous target might be a bird, Li Huan, who had imagined a fox flapping its front paws and chirping for favor, opened the window again, picked up the sparrow and threw it out along the window.

Master Mo Luo: "..."

He was obviously a demon, but he was thrown out of the window again and again. This feeling is really crazy!

In the tea house, Li Huan hung up the earphones and dialed Qi Jingyu's number, and then checked whether the items in the package were complete when the connection was made. Stop firmly on the booth coffee table.

No one heard.

Li Huan called again, and picked up the cat teasing stick in the box and shook it at the sparrow.

The boy sitting on the sofa had long legs crossed, and there was a meaningful and appropriate smile on the corners of his eyes and brows. It was an obvious hypocritical smile, but anyone who would show this kind of smile must have come prepared, or He is a guy who is extremely deep in the city and difficult to deal with.

He watched the bird quietly, like a feline, a pair of black eyes chasing the cat stick, flapping its wings to come and go.

Two seconds later, the sparrow reacted, folded its wings in embarrassment, and glared at the culprit resentfully.

Li Huan smiled and said, "It really is you."

The sparrow tilted its head and cried out innocently: "Chirp~"

"No need to pretend," Li Huan held the cat teasing stick and continued to tease the restrained sparrow, and said with a half-smile: "The civet cat in the morning is you, the Shiba Inu from two weeks ago, the crispy noodles that just came here in summer, maybe I should say that all the animals that can enter this tea house are you, right?"

Hearing this, the sparrow finally stopped acting stupid, and met Li Huan's eyes very seriously.Looking at the handsome young man in front of him, but there is no place where there is no bad water, Master Mo Luo suddenly felt that the little apprentice of Nine Tails seemed to be more interesting than he expected.

"Jing Yu has accepted four students in his life, and you are the only one who saw my disguise."

"The only one? Not necessarily?"

"Oh, what do you say?"

"Eldest brother is a prudent person, and rarely comes back, so naturally he will not interfere with the teacher's private affairs. The second senior sister respects and loves the teacher, and will never question anything he tacitly agrees to. Even if she sees that you are a ghost, she will definitely not click But it is necessary to investigate behind the scenes. The third senior brother is a dead man, and in the end, I, the invulnerable little apprentice, will be left."

Mo Luo smiled, "Since you know that I am not an ordinary little demon, you still dare to throw me out the window, aren't you afraid that I will eat you if I get angry?"

"I threw it a few times and didn't say anything. Do you think I'm afraid?" Putting down the cat stick, Li Huan leaned back on the sofa, crossed his fingers in front of his stomach, and said, "What's your name?"

He sat in the shadow of the backlight, and the light and shadow overlapped, making the young man's delicate features blurry. Hearing that fearless and gentle voice, Mo Luo felt a strange illusion for a moment.

Maybe the young man in front of him is not as simple as it seems, maybe even Qi Jingyu didn't realize that, even in front of his teacher, the little apprentice who couldn't fight back hid himself deeply in a mediocre look. After the innocuous appearance.

Docile but stubborn, curious and suspicious, he uses the human characteristics of this age group to perfectly cover up his essence.

He already had the answer in his heart, and all his crimes were just to find flaws in the teacher to confirm his guess.

He is a little guy who dares to play tricks on the nine-tailed demon fox.

But facing himself as a stranger whose identity is unknown, why did he accidentally not hide his true nature?

Mo Luo smiled and said frankly, "My surname is Yan."

"yan?" Repeating that pronunciation, Li Huan's mind turned quickly. He couldn't feel the demonic aura on the bird. He could only judge that the other party must be something extraordinary based on his familiarity with the teacher, but he didn't know what it was. Got a clue...

After a quick search of memory, Li Huan really couldn't remember whether Qi Jingyu had mentioned this surname, so he had to continue: "Mr. Yan is surnamed. Is it Yan who observes words and looks, or Yan who is kind and pleasant, or... the strictness of the teacher?"

"It's Yan Moluo's Yan," the man who spoke through the bird's beak said with a low smile, "Little ghost, have you ever heard Jing Yu mention me?"

- To Be Continued