not bound

The bright moon hangs high, and there are still two hours before dawn.

All the restaurants and teahouses in Huajing were closed, and the closed sign quietly hung up at the door of the brothel, and the most profligate drinkers went back to the inn in twos and threes, and the glamorous atmosphere that lasted for a day gradually dissipated from the criss-crossing streets.

On the second floor of the Wanqi Building, where the lights are dark and the lights are dim, a woman in exotic clothes is sitting halfway by the window. The moonlight of the full moon is draped over her body, like a layer of tulle, like a dream, like a blind girl in a strange storybook. The fabricated ghost legends suddenly came true.

The so-called curiosity killed the cat, even normal people would have the courage to approach and explore such a scene, let alone a drunk with a bad brain.

A man, who spent a lot of money tonight but failed to please the new beautiful girl, was so angry that he went to the liquor store to drink wildly, and even walked backwards after getting so drunk.In this case, even if you tell him that this is a banshee fox seducing a man, he will push you away without hesitation and take the initiative to send a drunken life.

Drunkards are hard-to-describe creatures who don't think about anything when drunk.So he would force his way into the Wanqi Building, stumble up the stairs, raise his arms and run towards the imaginary Wenxiang nephrite, and yell "beauties come to hug" inarticulately.

When he was about to meet the beauty's body, the man was desperate. He never thought that his not-so-wonderful life would end so wonderfully here.

All the words that are closed to the moon, shameful, and graceful, will go to hell in an instant!In my next life, I would rather be a monk!

He thought as he closed his eyes.

Then Qiqiao bleeds and falls from upstairs, the dick on his mouth is still closed.

The drinking buddy who was watching the wind downstairs witnessed everything, sobered up instantly, his legs were like sifting chaff, the only thing he had in time was to shout "Oh my god, monster!" at the top of his lungs, and passed out.

On the already empty street, there were many shadows startled by this voice, beggars with nowhere to go, drunken drinkers on the ground, foreign prostitutes quietly soliciting customers, hiding half of their bodies like mice and looking around .

Well, let's go, don't look at it, it's just blood dripping all over the place.

At most, there was a half-human, half-animal monster dragging a coffin, flitting past the bloodstains, and disappearing by the river where mist suddenly rose.

In the lonely Huajing in the early morning, the howling sounded one after another, which seemed to be more heart-piercing than the previous one.

Doomed to sleepless night.

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In the new calendar year 1006, the Nine Kingdoms of the West Sea, Tijue, and Wuyun City.

Almost half of the territory of the Nine Kingdoms of the West Sea is covered by yellow sand. A desolate and scorching canyon crosses the desert country Tijue with scorched black soil. In the almost dead canyon, only animal skeletons and crawling reptiles can move. be preserved.

There is a small city in the southwest of Tijue, which is located in the triangular area bordered by Tijue, Hanhai and Jiuyao.

The mountains with half scorched earth and half green forest separate the city from the unchanging heat of the canyon for thousands of years. It has become an oasis full of hope in the hot desert, and it is also the only oasis on the long desert road from the vast sea to Jiuyao.

A green ribbon-like desert river runs through the city with nine twists and turns. The confluence of mountains and rivers makes the rainfall in the small town far higher than other places, and dark clouds float in the sky all the year round, so people call it Dark Cloud City.

From autumn to spring every year, the weather in the desert is unpredictable, and the strong wind brings dry and cold sand and gravel to invade from time to time, and sometimes there will be terrible rainstorm mixed with hail.

During this period of time, the desert was extremely dangerous, and merchants stopped rushing.Some returned to the Central Plains ahead of time, and some stayed in the capital of the Hanhai Kingdom. A small number of those who were too late to leave Wuyun City before late autumn had to stay behind because of business delays.

At the quietest time in the city, only local people come and go on the street.

Now it is the season of autumn, the sky is overcast as usual, large clusters of gray-blue clouds flow above Wuyun City, and the dry and sharp wind squeezes between the clouds, occasionally revealing the pale sky, oppressive and dull .

On the south bank of the Wuyun River, the street outside the Suzaku Building was empty, and there were two figures standing in a stalemate.

"Doctor Xue, I beg you to prescribe a Pixie powder, spells are also fine, the banshee in the city is too fierce, I must be being targeted, I feel a headache when I wake up in the morning, and I can't even leave If it moves, it must be cursed."

A tall and burly man blocked Dr. Xue's way, and the rough voice unique to desert men forcibly contorted a tone of grievance.

This man is nine feet tall, wearing only a gray cloth blouse in the cold weather, his brown skin is muscular and muscular, the sweat dripping from his forehead and his heaving chest show that he has exerted all his strength He came running wildly, and he didn't look like he had a headache and couldn't walk.

Dr. Xue, who had just chatted with the owner of Zhuquelou and was about to go home, was originally tall and thin, and he was considered tall and straight in the crowd, but under the obstruction of this man, he was completely covered, not even a corner of his clothes was exposed Come.

Dr. Xue paused, took a step to the side, and continued walking.

"I've said it all. I'm a doctor, not a Taoist priest. I haven't seen Bi'e San, let alone spells."

His voice is clean and soft, slightly deep, not as rough as ordinary men, but like a cup of tea, bitter but fresh at first taste, warm and bright in the throat, sweeter aftertaste.Not seeing him, but just hearing his voice made one feel a bit more at ease, and one could feel that this person is indeed a doctor.

"You're Xue, the King of Hades who is afraid of three-point poison... Pinellia ah! You even opened a post for the Fu catcher. Look, I snatched it." The big man chased after him relentlessly, rough With his fingers pinching Dr. Xue's wide cuff, with the other hand he quickly took out a stack of neat prescriptions from the middle of his belt.

It could be seen that he cherished that prescription, but that piece of paper was smashed so that it looked like it would be turned into flying ash in no time.

Is Hades also afraid of three points?

Xue Banxia rubbed his chin, it seemed that he didn't reject this title, instead he was quite happy as if he was wearing a high hat.

As a doctor, there must always be a way to eat.

Compared with Xue Suyi's exclusive prescription, Xue Banxia is better at acupuncture.This is a strange acupuncture method that is different from other doctors.The aura during the needle injection can instantly change from gentle and elegant to the fierceness of a downhill tiger, and finally the needle will cure the disease.

There is a nursery rhyme sung like this: Xue Da's subordinates walk around, like walking through the Temple of Hell, and they have to go halfway if they are alive.

Don't look at it as scary, in fact, many intractable diseases involving life and death can basically be solved by Dr. Xue Da's black needle prick once, which is comparable to snatching someone from Yan Luo.

So the people in the city called it privately: Gods and ghosts are not afraid, Pinellia hides poison, Xue poison doctor.

"This is the hangover sticker," Dr. Xue recognized his brother's correct handwriting from the oil stains with difficulty, turned his head away and said, "and it was prescribed by Suyi half a year ago."

He carefully pulled out the cuff that was being held by the man, took out something from his pocket, weighed it in his hand, and quickly threw it into the dark alley next to him.

"Boss F, if you go around telling people that I am poisonous, I will turn your drunken headache into a cracked brain, and you will never have to speak again, and by the way, I will draw your head into a picture and let them hang it on the door." To ward off evil spirits, what do you think?"

Compared with the speed of his hands, Dr. Xue's tone is unusually gentle, like the warm sun in spring, one can imagine how polite his smile is.

With a sound of "Ouch", the policeman, wearing a special blue coat for headhunters, quickly came out of the alley, covering his head.

Boss Fu, whose name is Fu Xiao, is currently the head arrester of Wuyun City Yamen.

Fu Boss is not old, he was only 26 at the beginning of the year, calling him Boss is just a beautiful misunderstanding.The father and mother of the Fu family loved each other back then, and planned to have several children, from the eldest to the seventh, but unfortunately later, Mrs. Fu died of illness, and Father Fu never continued, so the second and third children did not appear, only the nickname of the eldest stood out The love between the Fu family is deep and the relationship is shallow.

"Doctor Xue, come out for a walk. I'll say hello to you on behalf of my father." With a silly smile on his face, Boss Fu rubbed his head with his fingers. There was clearly a bulging bump on his head, which can be seen from Dr. Xue This hand is also quite ruthless.

He didn't seem to care about this little accident at all, he laughed again, raised his hands respectfully and handed him the thing that hit him.

An ebony ball used to soothe the nerves.

Dr. Xue didn't answer, and he didn't catch the wooden ball. His light brown eyes were half-closed because he was slightly drunk, and the occasional starlight under his eyelashes made it hard to see his expression clearly, as if this person was in the world and his heart was outside the sky. Kind of confusing.

Xue Banxia, ​​nicknamed Xue Banblin, is because this person is always sleepy and lazy during the day, and many people who see him for the first time think he is blind. Ten spread a hundred, and soon popularized the whole Wuyun City.

Glancing at Xue Banxia's bodhisattva face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, Boss Fu's mouth gradually froze, and finally succumbed to Xue Banxia's extremely oppressive momentum, and said in a low voice: "Recently people are panicking, and reporting your name can calm the situation. "

"So I changed from Xue Poison Doctor to Xue Daoist?" Xue Banxia stood with his arms folded, and his whole body was full of displeasure.

How many times have you been caught taking a drunken walk again?Ever since Boss Fu found out about his habit of drinking in the Suzaku Tower, the head catcher has been standing around every day to arrest him. This feeling is really unpleasant.

Boss Fu put on an honest look, but bent his fingers and quietly hid the sandalwood ball. Dr. Xue's soothing black sandalwood must be a fool.

Xue Banxia pretended not to see his movements, took a step forward and put his foot "lightly" on the instep of Boss Fu, still with his trademark gentle smile, and then squeezed out a word from between his teeth.

"We'll do the autopsy for a while, and we'll open up evil sans for a while. After that, do I need to set up altars to recruit ghosts, draw talismans to catch them? Big headhunters?"

The facial features on Boss Fu's face were so painful that they almost shifted, and he didn't dare to twitch his feet, so he had to let the opponent step on them.

Recently, rumors of demons and ghosts in Wuyun City are prevalent. During the day, people are panic-stricken. Everyone lives in fear and hates to go out. At dusk, there are almost no people on the street. At night, thousands of lights are all extinguished, and even the stars are hidden. Without seeing five fingers, a prosperous border town is like a barren land.

In the past half a month, tragedies happened one after another. As of this day, three people have died. One broke into the Wanqi Building, and then fell to his death from bleeding from the seven orifices, and the other two were scared to death.

In the first case, there were more than one witnesses, and the testimony was unified: the murderer was the banshee of Wanqilou.In the last two cases, the dead were heard screaming and referring to monsters.

It has been less than a year since Mr. Ford's new official took office, but he has become the main person in charge of this difficult case.The city lord ordered him to catch the banshee within half a month, otherwise he would not have to go to the yamen again, and go home to let his father happily release the camels.

House seemingly endless rain.

Wu Zuo, who had nothing to do in the yamen all year round, fell ill after inspecting the first corpse. Although Butou Fu hated that iron could not be made into steel, it is not easy to blame him.What's weird is that two highly respected old doctors were invited to do the post-mortem. As a result, it was not clear how the person died, and the old doctors also fell ill one after another.This time, none of the doctors in Wuyun City dared to step into the morgue.

At present, more than half of the investigation time assigned by the city lord has passed, the case has not made any progress, and the autopsy work is still unable to proceed normally.

The news that turned the status quo came from three days ago.

On the patrol road, Boss Fu suddenly heard some girls say that Xue Banxia often appeared near Mashi Xiaoqiao recently. After a flash of inspiration, he fixed his eyes on this one. After all, he is a poison doctor who can have a relationship with Hades. Wuyuncheng probably Only he has the guts and strength to conduct an autopsy.

That's why Boss Fu spent three days in ambush near Mashi Xiaoqiao at dusk to arrest people.

Xue Banxia is a typical "wandering soul" character in Wuyun City who sees the head and sees the tail.In name, he is a senior doctor at the Chenxiang Pharmacy, but he hardly knows how to do consultations in the Pharmacy. He spends his whole day searching for various storybook legends in the city, or wandering around inconspicuous taverns secretly drinking. It is really hard to find his whereabouts.

In fact, what Dr. Xue himself didn't know was that he was considered a famous person in Wuyun City. Before the city was haunted by ghosts, there was an incident of "sex and blindness" where all the girls in the city were vigorously looking for Xue Xing.

Yangge, the most popular girl in Liuyan Pavilion, described it like this:

"Mr. Banxia loves to wear fancy clothes. The clothes are all from the Central Plains and embroidered from the West Sea. Each piece is very finely crafted. From a distance, the whole person looks like a person in a painting who has come out of the painting, not like the real one. Existence makes people unconsciously fascinated."

Tsk tsk, listen, Mr. Banxia.

Anyone who is so fascinated by the number one card in Wuyun City will be curious.

It's a pity that almost no one can correctly catch Xue Banxia's whereabouts. Even if they meet by chance, they will be stunned by Xue's apologetic smile that is so gentle that he almost spoils him. Full Man quickly disappears.

Regarding this, Boss Fu flattered him, Dr. Xue's handsome face is really impressive from afar.

However, this doctor, who came out only after dark, was out of luck today, and was caught by Mr. Fu who was "guarding the bridge and waiting for Xue" by the moat.

Xue Banxia squinted at Boss Fu Xiao for a while, and looked away when the corners of Boss Fu's mouth were almost stiff.

The shifting corner of the eye glanced at Boss Fu's entangled fingers, and Xue Banxia clicked his tongue. Based on his observation of Fu Xiao in the past few months, this is an external manifestation of his inner entanglement.

Autopsy?Catch a demon?It's all trouble.

Xue Banxia's cuff moved slightly, and decisively put a piece of plaster on Fu Xiao's mouth.

Boss F didn't have any reaction time at all, he just felt a gust of wind coming, and his animal instinct made him subconsciously want to take a step back.

pity.

Doctor Xue's speed was much faster than his. Before his feet received the notification from his brain, the huge plaster had already been applied to his face.

The unique stinky smell of the plaster made Boss F's eyes widen, and his face instantly wrinkled into a pickle.

The long and slender index finger with the scar poked Boss Fu's heart once and for all. Fu Xiao raised his head. There was no sound in front of him, only a clear mouth shape.

He said: "You, want, get, true, beautiful."

Xue Banxia flipped off his frost-colored gown, and turned around leisurely. The purple-colored shark's outer shirt was fluttering in the wind, and he waved at the big man just now with a sense of immortality, without the slightest hint of "poison".

"Don't be afraid, you probably just have typhoid fever, follow me to the pharmacy, and ask Su Yi to make you two pastes of Qufeng San."

The big man nodded with joy on his face, and slowly walked away behind Dr. Xue, who was a head shorter than him, with his strong body and small steps.

After a while, Dr. Xue's extremely serious voice swayed with the wind clearly and clearly, as if in his ears.

"Oh, please keep your voice down. The head catcher is really possessed by an evil spirit, but I can't cure it. Huh? What should I do? It's simple, let's stay away from him. Hey, don't pull my sleeve!"

As if feeling the farce, there was a chuckle from the Suzaku Tower, and the small mahogany window on the second floor creaked and was slowly closed.

Fu Tantou, who was stunned in place, slowly tore off the plaster on his mouth, covering his heart and looking at the sky speechlessly.

God, are you trying to trick me on purpose?

The author has something to say:

Boss Fu: A true warrior who dares to face the bleak life and face the dripping blood!