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Fog rises at night.

Both of them could hear the tough tone in Zhang Zhi's tone, and they were ready to turn back knowingly without procrastinating.

Mu Yun got up lightly, and said goodbye: "In that case, let's say goodbye first. If Mr. can figure it out someday, you can find me downstairs in Nanchuan in the city."

"Yeah. The hospitality is not good, please invite the two Haihans." Zhang Zhi looked ashamed and saw the guests to the door.

"Sir, you're being polite, please stay." Mu Yun smiled and declined his farewell.

Seeing the two chattering for a long time, Qi Zhong suddenly came up with a plan, and stepped forward and said, "Hey, Mr. Zhang, I suddenly remembered that the medical sage gave me a pill before, which has great effects. I will give it to you." You, I hope that the condition of Mr. Shuyue can be alleviated."

Zhang Zhi took the brocade box, thanked him heartily, and said again and again: "Thank you, Mr. Qi!"

"You're welcome. I hope you can make good use of this medicine and exert its maximum effect."

Qi Zhong smiled deeply.Mu Yun was aware of something, but he didn't stop him.

On Lin Yue's alley, the surroundings were quiet.

Mu Yun turned his head to look at him and asked, "What did you give him?"

Pretending to be mysterious for a long time, just waiting for this question, Qi finally smiled triumphantly.

"Medicine. But it's a talisman medicine."

Mu Yun understood, and nodded lightly: "It seems that the talisman paper of Senior Lin Tang has changed a lot with you."

Qi Zhong laughed loudly: "You. Uncle Lin would be happy for me to create a tradition for him."

"However, the potency of the talisman cannot be concealed. Once transformed into a demon body, it will reappear in its original form within three days... That 'sick' person is already extremely emaciated. You...won't hurt his life?"

Mu Yun was faintly worried about Shuyue's situation.

"Huh? I do things properly, okay? Although this fox demon has no malice towards us, he must have malicious intentions when he entangles Zhang Zhi. If you didn't think so, you wouldn't have let me give him the medicine just now." , isn't it?"

Mu Yun was dumb, and didn't ask any more questions: "Yes."

In the Nanchuan building, everyone who was rushing outside all rushed back.

Feng Mei and Mu Yun explained the details of the plague outside the city, and told them that the matter had been resolved, eliminating the worries of leaving.

Two days later, Min Zhi came back from investigating the cause of the plague disaster, and told everyone the original truth: the source of the illness was caused by rat demons.

Qi Zhong thought about it for a while, and then asked, "How could such a large rat plague break out in Cangzhou City in such a short period of time?"

Min Zhi said again: "I heard that there were cat monsters here a long time ago. In order to prevent future troubles, people hunted and killed many wild cats and squeezed out their living space, but they didn't expect that they would cause the catastrophe of rats."

Feng Mei listened, and snorted coldly: "Stupid."

Qi Zhong seconded: "Hey, the people here are really brainless, they beat all the cats to death with one blow."

Although the rest of the people did not express their views, they were also shocked and lamented by such actions.

At this time, the little girl outside the door suddenly yelled loudly: "Hey, who are you looking for?"

From the corner of his eyes, Mu Yun saw him blocking a man in a plain shirt at the door, refusing to accommodate.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Mu Yun here?" The man asked anxiously, and hurriedly added the details of his identity to Xiaoer.

Qi Zhong moved his ears, just in time to hear Zhang Zhi's voice, and said with a smile: "It's that Mr. Zhulin, who went around and walked around, but he's here."

Mu Yun turned around and wanted to leave: "I'll invite him in."

"Hey, don't go. This guy must have seen the monster's original form and was terribly frightened. He wanted to ask us to catch it for him... I didn't believe it before, but now I'm panicked. Let him wait a little longer. "

"What if it wasn't the case?"

Mu Yun decided to invite him, but Qi Zhong didn't stop him, snorted, and swayed lazily.

When Zhang Zhi saw the person coming, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he knelt down in front of Mu Yun, choked up and said, "I, Zhang Zhi, have looked down on common things all my life, and I have never bowed to anyone easily. Today I kneel here to ask Mr. Mu for alms Mercy, save Shuyue."

Mu Yun was slightly surprised. He couldn't bear to hear him speak so seriously, so he helped Zhang Zhi, and said sympathetically, "What matters is so serious, sir, you can just say it clearly. Mu Yun can't bear such admiration, but he will do his best to help. "

Zhang Zhi got up sadly, looking at Mu Yun sadly with a desolate look, but then seeing Qi Zhong behind him, he immediately showed resentment, and said with hatred: "The two young masters came to the mountain as guests that day. I have always treated each other with courtesy, but I don't know why Mr. Qi wanted to cheat and leave a poison to persecute Shuyue. He has been bedridden and unconscious for a few days. If he doesn't detoxify, I'm afraid..."

"Please hold your hands high, both of you, and let him go."

Although Zhang Zhi had resentment in his heart, he had no choice but to beg for help.

Mu Yun looked serious, silently glanced at Qi Zhong, and was about to apologize to Zhang Zhi.

Qi Zhong was a little bit unwilling, and said, "He took the medicine, then you should have seen the truth, that Mr. Shuyue is not a human being! You should be less bewitched."

Zhang Zhi was furious, and said indignantly: "Who is not human? He is, he has always been, and in my heart, he will always be."

"you……"

Speaking of this, Qi Zhong has no way to refute.

During the stalemate, Feng Mei, who was watching a good show, stepped forward to lend a helping hand, and looked at Mu Yun: "It seems that I can be useful again?"

There is a rhetorical question on the mouth, but the expression in the eyes is affirmative.Mu Yun understood his intention, and turned to comfort Zhang Zhi: "Lead the way."

……

In the bamboo house, everyone waited patiently for Feng Mei's feedback, but Zhang Zhi was so anxious that he lost his composure and walked back and forth in front of the hall.

Finally, a figure came out from the back room, with a calm expression, and no life or death information could be seen.

"Shuyue, how is it?" Zhang Zhi asked cautiously.

Feng Mei stared at him a few more times, but didn't answer, but tilted her head and said: "Put the needle away, it won't be needed anymore."

Fang Yanxiao has been helping him for several days, and she is quite familiar with his treatment habits, and she has made an agreement with Feng Mei, so she doesn't want to say anything, so she obediently organizes the medicine box for him.

Seeing that the person refused to reply, Zhang Zhi became more certain in his inner guess, and said in a panic: "Master Medical Saint, please, don't delay any longer, Shuyue can't afford to wait."

Feng Mei doesn't care for others in a gentle voice like Mu Yun, taking care of his mood, but just said lightly: "First stretch out your hand."

Zhang Zhi didn't care about anything else, and followed his orders.

The skinny wrists and even the blood vessels are pale, Feng Mei can already see his cold soul and body, and his identity as a wild ghost in the world with just one glance.

"Okay. I'm sure."

Qi finally saw that Zhang Zhi was still looking at Mu Yun eagerly, with a pitiful expression on his face, and asked Feng Mei first: "Then the second patriarch of the Tang Dynasty, Mr. Shuyue..."

"In a word. There is no way to return to heaven. And the demon spirit has dispersed, leaving only the last breath to hang on. This breath is also his essence."

Feng Mei's words directly sent Zhang Zhi to the eighteenth floor of hell, his eyes full of despair.

He fell to the ground and shook his head in disbelief: "No, no. My lord, there must be another way to change my life, can I give it to him?"

Feng Mei's expression was cold, and she calmly said: "You are already dead, how can you have a life?"

"What? He's dead?" Qi Zhong's eyes widened. He thought that Zhang Zhi had been living in the demon room for a long time and had been robbed of his yang energy, but he didn't expect that even his life fire was gone.

Feng Mei faintly frowned, too lazy to refute the question.He added: "If there is no evil spirit, he would be rotten into scum now."

Zhang Zhi regained consciousness a little from the helpless trance: "What do you mean by that?"

"That Mr. Shuyue, a thousand-year-old fox demon, has a high level of cultivation. In the end, he transferred the spirit of the demon spirit to you, a dead man, in an attempt to save your life. But in fact, this method is not only useless, but also makes you feel worse. He died in pain, and he used his illness as a cover-up, probably because he didn't want you to blame yourself for the rest of your life."

Feng Mei pondered for a while, and had no choice but to tell Zhang Zhi the truth.

When everyone heard the words, they all showed sadness.

"Then why did you die?" Qi Zhong looked at the lost Zhang Zhi with a dejected expression.

"...I don't know. I, I don't know when I died..."

He shook his head in confusion, and stumbled into Shuyue's room.

Qi Zhong sighed helplessly: "It seems that neither of them can be saved now."

Feng Mei nodded, and added: "If it can make the two of them die more comfortably, maybe it's another kind of rescue."

Mu Yun lowered his eyes, remained silent, and at the same time sighed, secretly thinking about the way to achieve the best of both worlds.

At this time, Qi Zhong suggested: "The most comfortable thing in this world is a good dream. Just create an illusion for the two of them, and let them walk the last part of the journey together."

Feng Mei saw that when he cast a spell, a pattern unique to the heavenly realm appeared in the transfer of spiritual energy, and only he could see this picture, and the rest of the people were familiar with the spell he practiced, so there was nothing strange about it.

"He is..." The name that was about to be blurted out, was pressed into the throat by Feng Mei calmly.

Before there is no evidence, everything is speculation, even if he is eager to think about friends, he can't interrupt other people's spellcasting casually, so he can only stand quietly and watch carefully.

"Okay. The mirror surface has been formed, and we can take a good look at the story of the year."

After finishing it in one go, Qi Zhong restrained his breath a little, and slowly poured his spirit on an illusionary mirror surface, showing the curtain of light and shadow in the illusion of memories.

six years ago.

There was a change in the political power in Dijiang, and there was a large number of blood changes among the court officials. They were divided into two factions, which were in conflict with each other. Officer's resignation.

Zhang Zhi is one of the latter kind of people, depressed and frustrated, lost and returned to his hometown, returned to Cangzhou, and lived in seclusion outside the bamboo forest.

Because of a fate of writing lyrics, I got acquainted with Shuyue who is a fox demon.The two met each other very late, and they didn't care about the disparity in their identities, they only had a pure and deep affection.

In the following days, Zhang Zhi and Shuyue talked happily even more, they often wrote poems and appreciated each other, played the qin and drums, and they were extremely elegant.The heart of hermitage became stronger and the love for mountains and rivers became deeper. Zhang Zhi gradually forgot about the temple, and no longer lamented that his talents were not met.

Shuyue has a delicate mind and a worldly perspective, she has been careful to hide her identity, for fear of causing trouble to Zhang Zhi.

But the good times don't last long.

One day, Zhang Zhi went out to buy back paper and pens, but met a group of villains on the way. Seeing them capture a bag of wild cats alive, they kept saying that they wanted to get rid of the demons, and wanted to kill these weak creatures alive.Zhang Zhi was kind-hearted, recalling Shuyue's true identity again, he became more nervous and distressed, so he stepped forward to persuade the gangsters and let them release the wild cat in the bag.

Unexpectedly, the persuasion was fruitless, and he was viciously beaten.Zhang Zhi had no choice but to lure him with money.Who would have thought that he would be murdered because of this, the real identities of the villains were bandits in the mountain, they were dissatisfied with his meager money, and ordered him to hand over all his belongings before they would let him go.

Zhang Zhi was furious, and he was a retired civil servant in the court, and his words were stained with the law of the criminal law. The gangsters were afraid that he would report to the officials afterwards, so they had to rely on their large number of people to beat Zhang Zhi to death with sticks and throw them away. corpse wilderness, in order to cover up the truth.

Afterwards, Shuyue found Zhang Zhi's body, heartbroken, and took him back to the bamboo house, but there was no way to bring him back to life.

When everyone saw this, they were shocked, angry and sympathetic.

Qi Zhong sighed heavily: "It's really God's will that's not fair. Falling in love with a monster is a different journey after all."

"But why does Zhang Zhi have no memory, and where did the fox find such a vicious method of exchanging life?"

Feng Mei asked the key, and Qi Zhong slightly accelerated the speed of the illusion.

……

In the desolate bamboo house, a masked man in black slowly walked out, and said arrogantly to the heartbroken Shuyue: "Do you remember the method I told you just now? It is the only way to save him." way."

Shuyue nodded numbly, and then asked, "Why do you help us?"

The man in black stopped and said coldly: "We are also following orders, you don't have to do it, just wait for his body to be collected."

Shuyue remained silent helplessly, turned around and went into the room, and followed the method of the man in black to tear off her soul bit by bit and put it into Zhang Zhi's body, nourishing his soul with her spiritual knowledge.After half a year, Shuyue finally disappeared and was about to die.

……

Concluding the end of the illusion to the happy ending of the reunion of the two, Qi finally withdrew the power of illusion, and the mirror in front of him shook and dispersed like smoke.

On the road, everyone strolled and meditated, recalling the contents of the illusion.They all knew that if they failed to uncover the identity of the mysterious person, they would have died for nothing.

But after carefully reading Shuyue's method of saving people, Fengmei already had a clue in his heart, he already saw that this was a kind of insidious experiment.

And the insider related to the person who taught this method may be right in front of you.He looked suspiciously at Fang Yanxiao's back, feeling a little annoyed.

"The man in black has a token on his body, do you see it clearly?" Qi Zhong asked.

The crowd shook their heads.

But Mu Yun said, "It's the word Huayue."

"Hua Yue?" Qi Zhong pinched his chin, impressed, nodded, "Then let's start with these two words."