Pheasant Essence Becoming a Big Monster - The Millennium Itch

Gu Tailai and Zhou Zhaoji looked upstairs, a bamboo pole was picked out from the window on the second floor, and a few clothes were hanging on it.A plastic signboard is embedded on the wall next to it, with the words "Tong" written in red letters on a white background. There is a faint smell in the alley, which is the smell of hogwash. The location of the fortune-telling office of this old man Tong is really unremarkable.

The stairs sounded "creaking". After a while, someone came down the stairs. It was a middle-aged woman, holding a small box tightly in her hand, holding it carefully in her arms. She saw two strange men standing at the door, eating Surprised, he quickly lowered his head and walked over quickly, as if he was afraid that others would see his face.

Zhou Zhaoji raised one corner of his lips: "Senior brother, I'll go up." Gu Tailai nodded and disappeared in a flash.

Zhou Zhaoji put on a foolish look again, went up to the second floor, and knocked on the open wooden door.Inside the narrow door is Master Tong's studio. There is no fancy decoration at all. It is just an ordinary two-entry room. There is a thick curtain on the door leading to the inner room, so you can't see the inside clearly. The table in the outer room There was an old man sitting there, seeing Zhou Zhaoji, his expression seemed to change slightly, and he calmed down quickly: "Sir, do you want to do a fortune telling?"

Zhou Zhaoji nodded and looked at him secretly. The old man looked like an ordinary person, except for a little bit of Taoism, there was nothing special about him and he didn't feel threatening.

Zhou Zhaoji smiled generously: "Yes, I'm here to ask for marriage, and I also ask Master for advice."

The old man stretched out his hand and pointed: "I don't dare to be the master, please sit down."

Zhou Zhaoji sat at the table and saw a handwritten and plastic-enclosed price list on the old man's table, and nothing else. I don't know how he works.

"May I ask if the customer wants to predict his career or seek to solve the marriage? The old man charges different fees for different items here."

Taking a hasty glance at the price list pushed towards him, Zhou Zhaoji pushed the price list back again: "Master Tong, Mingren don't speak secretly, you know what I want."

The old man froze for a moment, then smiled awkwardly: "My guest, I don't quite understand what you mean."

Zhou Zhaoji pointed to his own neck: "I'm here to ask for the concentric chain."

The old man gave a clear "oh", opened the drawer, and took out a pair of golden concentric chains: "Is this the case?"

Zhou Zhaoji glanced at it, tapped his fingers on the table, with a half-smile on his face: "Master Tong, stop joking. I don't want this kind of thing. Are you afraid that I won't be able to pay? Listen carefully, what I want is Like this, gold, one pair of two, one for each party, one for each other, representing eternal unity, no betrayal, invisible to others, only visible to both parties who signed the oath, once someone betrays, they will be cursed and die strangely!"

After Zhou Zhaoji finished speaking, he looked at the old man coldly, trying to see something from his face.But the old man frowned, pondered for a moment and said: "I'm sorry, guest, it's not Tong Naqiao, it's really that what you want is too weird, I'm sorry Tong Luoshan can't help."

Zhou Zhaoji laughed: "Master Tong, you are so stranger, my friend just came to see you a few days ago, and I got a baby from you, why did you refuse to recognize me?"

Tong Luoshan's face darkened: "Mr., the old man has never known you before. I don't know where I offended you. I want you to talk nonsense to trouble me! The old man has never heard of the things you said. If your friend really came from me Tongluoshan got something like this before, so the old man tore down the signboard outside and never used divination again!"

Zhou Zhaoji frowned slightly, as if he was a little puzzled by Luo Shan's seemingly confident reaction, but he still didn't believe it.He slapped the table coldly, and said angrily, "Looking for trouble? Okay, let me ask you, where did you get Zhu Yunyan!"

Tong Luoshan was so angry that his eyebrows were raised upright, he scolded: "What Zhu Yunyan! Who is Zhu Yunyan! I don't even know him!"

Suddenly Gu Tailai's voice came from inside: "Zhou Zhaoji, come here!"

When Tong Luoshan ascended, his face turned pale with shock, he didn't care about Zhou Zhaoji anymore, he got up and rushed into the inner room with big strides.But Zhou Zhaoji took a slow beat on purpose, as if he was leaving, he opened the drawer in front of him to look.I saw a candy box in the drawer of Tongluoshan, which contained banknotes, checks, talisman paper, cinnabar and other things, a compass, and a bag of cloth bags. Inside were some golden concentric knot pendants, some strings Some of the pendants were only half braided, and the shape was the same as the one that was taken out, but the strange thing was that none of the pendants had that strange smell, obviously the same species as the one Gu Tailai brought back.

Did they all get it wrong?This Tong Luoshan has no special abilities at all, and the matter of Wang Shijun has nothing to do with him?

Tong Luoshan roared in the room: "Who are you! I want to call the police!" Suddenly, there was no sound.

Zhou Zhaoji opened the curtain and went in.The inside was obviously Tong Luoshan's bedroom, with beds, tables and chairs. Gu Tailai was helping Tong Luoshan, who was unconscious by the spell, to lean against the wall.

"Senior brother, there seems to be no problem with the same falling mountain. The concentric chains outside are not that kind."

"Maybe he doesn't have one," Gu Tailai glanced at Zhou Zhaoji, and said calmly, "But this room definitely has one."

Gu Tai said, and walked a few steps back and forth in the room.Zhou Zhaoji saw his senior brother stepping on gang steps, three left and four right, doing one against two calculations, and he knew that he found that there was a formation in this room.Sure enough, soon, Gu Tailai took out a talisman paper from his pocket, held it between his fingers, and shook it lightly, the talisman paper jumped like a living thing.

"Go." Gu Tailai said the edict, the talisman spread its wings and flew high, like a bird, bumping into somewhere, with a slight "boo", like a plastic bubble being popped by a naughty child. The layout of the room around him changed immediately.

Zhou Zhaoji made a high-five gesture: "Brother, your original bird was a falcon, right? Now it's a pheasant?"

Gu Tailai glanced over, and the meaning was obvious: "Is the pheasant bad?"

Zhou Zhaoji nodded desperately: "Okay, that's great! Heroes see the same thing!"

The two of them were standing in a dim corridor, with a door with a curtain in front of them, and the real room was inside the door.The fragrance of the plants became more intense here, and there was also a strange aura mixed in it. Both of them recognized that aura. It was the kind of thing that can only be found on the strange necklace, and the faint aura of the soul of a stranger It is also mixed with it, it belongs to Zhu Yunyan!

Gu Tailai and Zhou Zhaoji exchanged glances, unexpectedly the culprit was hidden here!The two separated on both sides, Gu Tailai nodded to Zhou Zhaoji, kicked open the closed door, Zhou Zhaoji then pointed with his right hand, and the pile of charms between the middle finger and index finger ignited without fire, like sharp arrows, densely packed Cut through the door curtain and fly into the room.However, a woman screamed "Oops" in the room, followed by the sound of knocking things over, as if a metal vessel fell to the ground and made a "clang-clang" sound.

The two quickly rushed into the house, and saw a woman standing beside an old-fashioned carved bed, anxiously visiting, and there was a person lying on the bed, looking in the dim light, it was Zhu Yunyan.The woman turned her head when she heard the voice, and was having a face-to-face meeting with Gu Tailai, seeing both his seniors and brothers gasped.

The room was extremely dark, and the thick curtains blocked every possible light that could leak in, but because of a jinnian lamp burning in the northeast corner of the room, the woman's appearance could still be seen clearly.But seeing this woman's graceful figure is like a willow in March, she is wearing layers of elegant ancient clothes, and the woody fragrance that she smelled just now is coming from her body.If it ends here, it's just like meeting a peerless beauty, but who knows that face is so terrifying.The face under the withered and yellow temples was scorched black, and the muscles were collapsed and dry, knotted and twisted, just like a thousand-year-old mummy.

Zhou Zhaoji sighed: "Wow, Wang Shijun has a really strong taste!" Gu Tailai gave him a glare.

After looking at each other for a short while, the woman came to her senses, rushed to the window in panic, and broke through the window.Gu Tailai said: "Where are you running!" He seemed to escape, and followed through the window, and a voice came from below, "Zhou Zhaoji, re-arrange the formation, and guard Zhu Yunyan."

Zhou Zhaoji let out an "hey" and honestly closed the curtains again.

How strange!He thought, there is a formation on the ground in the middle of the room, although now in the chaos, the suppressing things have been disrupted, and the formation has also been broken.But judging from the position of the longevity lamp, as well as the gold and silver soul-suppressing banners and paper figurines treed next to it, it is actually a life-continuing formation.

"What's going on here?" Zhou Zhaoji quickly completed the destroyed formation, walked to the carved bed, and poked Zhu Yunyan's nose. His breath was so weak that it was hard to detect, but his soul was intact and he was still alive.He moved the brocade quilt down, and saw a red mark on Zhu Yunyan's neck, just like Wang Shijun. When he reached over, the strange aura was gone.

Zhou Zhaoji couldn't figure it out, so he looked inside the house.There is an Eight Immortals table in the house, on which there are a pair of concentric knot pendants and tools for making.He added another layer of Taoism's imperial realm around his body just in case, and just picked up one of the semi-finished products with scissors to look at it.The thing already has the appearance of a concentric knot, put it on the tip of the nose and smell it, a light fragrance, the familiar strange breath is entwined in it, maybe because it has not yet fully formed, the breath is not strong, but it basically fits my own. The style of the special concentric necklace I was looking for, except for one thing - the color of the material used to make the concentric knot is not the pure gold, but brown, which looks a bit withered, and I don't know if it is related to the color difference .

Zhou Zhaoji felt confused. He thought that Tong Luoshan, who was involved in the case, had no special ability and was the culprit, but he was treating Zhu Yunyan. It seemed that there was something inside the case!He scratched his head, moved a stool and sat down, and called the family leader Ji Lanye to report the work progress.

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Gu Tailai didn't have such a good life, she can roam freely, that woman looks very weak, but she runs away at the same speed as a gust of wind, especially in places with soil and trees!

Looking at a small river in front of her, with a stone bridge over it, she passed through an undeveloped wasteland with lush weeds and trees. Once she entered the forest, it would be difficult to find it again.Gu Tailai didn't hesitate any longer, and with a shake of one hand, he transformed the magic weapon into his hand.

Thousands of years ago, he could walk around the world with a whisk and a dagger, and later he got the bone blade of the ancient god Taiyi, but in today's modern society, holding these things on the street will be invited to the police station or He was drinking tea in a mental hospital. Out of consideration for the situation, he had no choice but to combine the fly whisk, dagger, and bone blade into one to make a magic weapon and hide it in his body, but when he was in danger, he would turn the virtual into reality .I saw a white light rising up, Gu Tailai already had a sword like a whip weapon in his hand, he raised his hand, and a white sword was thrown forward swiftly.

Of course, there were pedestrians on the surrounding roads, but because Gu Tailai and the others were so fast, human perception could not capture their whereabouts at all, so no one noticed that something special happened around them.But when fighting at this time, one must be extremely careful not to hurt mortals, and Gu Tailai himself has doubts about the woman, so even though he used a magic weapon, his subordinates were merciful.Although the whip sword has been released, it has not awakened the blade, and is currently only used as a whisk.Even so, if the woman deliberately dragged a mortal to stop it, Gu Tailai still couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't hurt her, but he had an intuition that the other party would not be so despicable, so he shot very quickly.

Sure enough, although the woman was forced to dodge left and right by Gu Tailai's soft whip, she did not disturb others.She doesn't seem to have any weapons, but she has a nimble figure, and her waist is like a willow branch. Gu Tailai didn't take it too seriously at first, but later she was forced to use [-]% strength. The soft whip is extremely flexible, like The spirit snake came out of the hole, or gathered to form a whip, blocking the way, or scattered to form a silk, weaving a net and waiting for hunting... The woman wanted to jump into the forest several times, but was blocked by Gu Tailai, and the battle was not long. A stagger made Gu Tailai catch him in one fell swoop.

"Let...let me go." The woman moaned weakly, as if she had exhausted her strength, her voice was also hoarse and unpleasant, which was exactly the same as her face, but Gu Tailai felt that he did not hate this person.

"Who are you? Why did you save Zhu Yunyan?"

"Zhu Yunyan..." The woman was stunned, and when she looked closely, her face was even more terrifying, "She is dying, so I will save her."

"Where's Wang Shijun?"

"Wang Shijun..." The woman's scorched face twitched, as if she wanted to shed tears, but she blinked for a long time, but nothing came out. It seemed that even the beautiful tears were unwilling to visit such an ugly face.Gu Tailai felt that he had some sympathy for this woman.

"Wang Shijun will die, I can't save him."

"who are you?"

"Who am I?" The woman asked dully, "I don't know who I am either, do you know who I am?"

Gu Tailai was extremely depressed, well, it took a long time to think that there was a breakthrough, but only caught a silly woman.

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After hastily eating dinner, Gu Tailai called Ji Xiaocai's cell phone.

Tong Luoshan escaped, and Zhou Zhaoyan was placed in Master Tong's original residence to guard Zhu Yunyan. Once she woke up, he had to rely on his sharp tongue to dig out some useful information from the "Mrs. Wang". Too little, maybe not as many as Zhu Yunyan.Tong Luoshan has been ruled out of the whole incident. Gu Tailai believes that the master has nothing to do with this whole incident. He doesn't even know that his room has been enchanted, and a space has been created forcibly. , placed Zhu Yunyan and a woman, a silly woman who had lost her memory.

Gu Tai saw that the woman was sitting peacefully in a corner of the room, motionless in a daze, as if she wanted to sigh like a statue.Didn't he meet the second Liansheng again?Speaking of which, next month I will go to Guangyuan and Liansheng's new residence to have a housewarming banquet. The little dragon king waited hard for 1000 years, and finally kept the clouds open to see the moonlight, which is gratifying!

When the phone was connected, a loud horn sounded. It seemed that Ji Xiaocai and the others were on the main road now.

"Master!You are back home! 』

Gu Tailai imagined Ji Xiaocai's beaming expression on the phone, and couldn't help showing a smile on his face: "Well, I've already eaten dinner. Are you all going well?"

"fine. ”Ji Xiaocai looked eagerly gearing up, “We are going to Han Jia’s company to stop her now. We will go to Li Yuping’s and Zhou Yue’s house in the evening, Zhao Hanya’s in the morning, and Lu Siyang’s in the afternoon. If all goes well, we will be back tomorrow night. 』

When Gu Tailai and the others went to the outskirts of the city to investigate Tong's shop, Ji Xiaocai and Ji Lanye had other tasks besides looking for Zhu Yunyan. Organize the case.Gu Tailai told Ji Xiaocai that maybe Zhong Yeqing might have missed some information.In order to investigate thoroughly, they needed to carefully verify the first five cases, but in essence, he had great doubts about Zhong Yeqing.He always felt that Zhong Yeqing's appearance was too sudden, and at the beginning Zhong Yeqing deliberately mentioned Zhu Yunyan's behavior in front of the two of them. If you want to investigate it carefully, it is very problematic. He seems to be deliberately trying to draw him and Ji Xiaocai into this situation. in the matter.Of course, this can also be seen as he was seeking the help of the monsters in N City, and Zhou Zhaoji was also involved. Zhong Yeqing may have speculated about the two of them, so he had the intention of probing, but in the end, Gu Tai He still felt that something was wrong but he was negligent.

"Where's Zhong Yeqing?"

"Oh, Yeqing said that he still has business to do, so he didn't even know that we went to City H. 』

This is a bit strange!Originally, when Gu Tailai asked Ji Lanye to take Ji Xiaocai to investigate in City H, he was worried about how to avoid Zhong Yeqing's problem, but now it seems that the heavens gave them a special help.Gu Tailai felt that there is no such coincidence in this world, Zhong Yeqing may have other intentions for not following Ji Xiaocai and the others.However, before that, he still had one thing to worry about.

"Ji Xiaocai."

"Um? 』

"Don't call that person Yeqing in the future!"

"ah?I just casually...know...know. 』

Hmph, Gu Tailai thought in his heart, only this stupid chicken in the whole world can openly and silently bark at a strange man he has just met for a few days in front of his lover, of course he also knows in his heart that Ji Xiaocai has no special meaning , but it is really harsh in the ears!

"By the way, Dao... Daoist..."

"Huh? What?"

Ji Xiaocai hesitated on the other end of the phone, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it.

"What's the matter, what do you want to say?"

There was a long "uh... um..." on the microphone, and then Ji Xiaocai's cautious voice came: "I... I heard from Daoist Zhou that you found a girl at Zhu Yunyan's place. 』

"Yes." Gu Tailai replied, the woman sitting with her back facing him didn't know if she felt that others were talking about her, she turned her head, glanced at Gu Tailai, then turned back in a daze, not knowing what she was playing with.Gu Tailai sighed, this man really made him worry.

"She should be the one who made that strange concentric knot, the so-called mysterious lover of Wang Shijun, but for some reason, she doesn't remember anything now. By the way, she also rescued Zhu Yunyan."

"Is that so, then she... is she at our house now?" 』

"Yeah, I brought her back." In order to monitor and get news nearby.

Ji Xiaocai stopped talking.

"Xiao Cai?"

"Daozhang, she...she is a beauty, huh?" 』A tone of reluctance.

If Gu Tailai was drinking water, he should have sprayed his tea on the opposite wall now.Don't guess, damn Zhou Zhaoji!

"Daoist, you, you must remember that you promised to marry me!" 』Ji Xiaocai was terribly anxious when she heard that Gu Tailai didn't speak, and said, "You can't go back on your word! 』

Gu Tailai's face turned red, and he really wanted to laugh, but he was too embarrassed to attack the long-lost "possessiveness" and "dominance" of the stupid chicken opposite him, so he coughed and said, "Of course, don't worry."

Ji Lanye probably got impatient listening to it, and asked, "Are you all right?" 』

Ji Xiaocai was reluctant to hang up the phone, still not at ease, and said, "Master Daoist, I will be back soon, you must wait for me!"Also, eat and sleep on time, don't... don't talk to that girl too much, bye. Then I hung up the phone.

Gu Tailai could even imagine Ji Xiaocai's worried and angry look on the other end of the phone, round eyes staring on her red face, her small and white teeth tightly biting her lower lip...

Oops!If you think about it like this, you can respond, but no one is by your side...

"You like him very much."

Gu Tailai was taken aback. At some point, that scorched face was so close to him, and he could see the dry lines, like the roots of an old tree.

root?Suddenly something flashed in Gu Tailai's mind.

"You like him very much," said the woman, pulling something out of her sleeve. "This is for you."

Under the bright light, one could see a pair of concentric knot pendants in her hands. They were brown, although they were delicate, but they looked withered, with a strange aura lingering on them, rich and fragrant.

Gu Tailai stood up carefully avoiding her hand, and took out the pair of gold concentric knot pendants brought back from Dumb Frog Town from the side drawer and showed the woman: "No, I already have it."

There seemed to be some expression on the woman's face, she took the thing from Gu Tailai's hand and looked at it again: "Golden."

"Yes, golden."

"Mine used to be golden too," she said, sounding a bit regretful in her voice, "but now it's gone. The gold is gone, and in the future even the brown will be gone, I can't help it!" She mumbled, "The marriage is gone , the gold is gone, you are fake and useless.”

Gu Tailai felt that the woman thought of something: "What did you think of? Speak slowly."

"This was originally done by us," she said, "but it's no longer possible. The same marriage is gone, the same fate is gone, and I am going to be gone."

Gu Tailai carefully guided her: "Who is the same marriage? Who is the same fate?"

"The same marriage is him, the same fate is me."

"Your name is Tongyuan?"

The woman nodded: "My name is Tongyuan."

"What is the same fate?"

She thought and thought, then shook her head: "I don't know."

Gu Tailai changed the question: "What is this chain for?"

Tongyuan laughed: "Bless you forever."

"What if someone betrays?"

Tongyuan bit his lip, disappointment and sadness could be seen on his scorched face: "That's not good."

Gu Tailai nodded: "I know it's not good, if someone betrays, you will punish them, right?"

"Punishment?" Tong Yuan seemed confused.

"Yes, let them lose their lives and take their souls."

Tongyuan's eyes widened, and her eyes were full of fear: "It's scary!" She said, "Tongyuan wouldn't do that!"

"But someone died like this."

"No...it's not me..." Tongyuan murmured, "Tongyuan won't, by the way, Tongxi, Tongyi will do that!"

Gu Tailai's eyes were sharp: "Same marriage will punish others?"

"……right."

"Who is the same marriage?"

"Same marriage is... no... I don't know... I can't remember."

Gu Tailai sighed, well, let’s stop here for now.