zero o'clock

Chapter 15 15

【I need to……】

The wooden door was closed tightly, and the copper door knocker swayed and hit the door panel with a click. In an instant, the surroundings became quiet, as if with the end of the closing action, the whole world was isolated by an invisible film.

Du Qiu looked back with lingering fear, and suddenly found that there was only a courtyard wall made of gray bricks where the door should have been!

Then without him asking, Li Huan, who was standing by the side, opened his mouth and explained lightly: "There are barriers laid by the teacher all over here, which can cover up the aura of demons, and for demon subduing masters like you who have spiritual power, This tea house itself is a cage, unless he himself wants to let you out, otherwise there is no way out."

Du Qiu knocked on the wall, "So this is actually a door?"

Li Huan hummed, "But for the Demon Subduing Master, the door is closed."

"Do you often catch demon masters back?" Du Qiu asked.

"That's not true," Li Huan said, "Generally speaking, demon subduing masters are very professional, and they think it is a great humiliation to fall into the hands of monsters, so those who come in are either sucked into mummies, or choose to kill themselves, like You obediently enter the door—"

Having said that, someone smiled meaningfully.

Du Qiu: "..."

"Hey!" The little guy protested dissatisfied, "I'm only 12 years old this year! Ten! Two! Years old! Ah! Normal human primary school students are still masturbating without thinking! Is it wrong for me to be afraid of death?!"

"No."

"Then what are you laughing at?"

"Laugh, you are not afraid of me."

"..."

Du Qiu was choked by these words, his face wrinkled into a steamed bun, he was silent for a long time, and said: "I can't explain how you make me feel, your character is a bit bad, but you are not bad."

Li Huan smiled and did not answer the conversation, and the topic naturally ended afterwards, and the two fell into a kind of relative silence with a slightly strange atmosphere.

The courtyard was dark, so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, the snow on the ground reached your ankles, and there was a thick layer of ice at the bottom.Li Huan turned on the flashlight that came with his phone to illuminate Du Qiu, and led him through the vestibule to the main room of the teahouse.

The silver bell hanging on the door frame jingled, and Du Qiu, who had just stepped in, looked up at the pair of bells with a very abrupt color contrast, and said, "It's strange, when Brother Fuyi entered the door just now, this thing Why is there no movement?"

Li Huan threw Xing Yi onto the sofa, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuff, panted and said, "I don't know, that bell is a monster, it's been hanging there since I can remember, it rings from time to time. Noise, I asked the teacher why, and he said that it might be that these old objects will become less useful after a long time.”

"Oh, what was that used for?"

"The teacher didn't say anything."

Li Huan opened the drawer under the coffee table and took out a pair of mithril bracelets in the shape of a snake biting its tail. He looked up at Du Qiu and said, "Come on."

Du Qiu went over according to his words, sat down on the sofa, and raised his hands according to Li Huan's gesture.

The silver ring is exquisitely carved, and each snake scale is engraved with runes. Du Qiu watched as Li Huan tapped the bracelet lightly on his palm, and the pair of tail-biting snakes immediately swam around as if they were alive. Clamp his wrists, and then bite the tail of the snake each, shrinking to a size that fits the skin, and transforming into a still life again.

At that moment, Du Qiu felt a warm breath recede rapidly from both arms, and finally disappeared completely deep in his body. He opened his eyes slightly in surprise, "This is..."

"The props used to seal the spiritual power of the Demon Subduing Master, you will be a mortal if you wear it." Li Huan explained: "The teacher has a gentle personality and doesn't like killing. If you are smarter, he will naturally not take your life. When it disappears in the future The memory of tonight will let you go."

Du Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought it was turned into your winter food reserve."

Li Huan said with a smile: "We only occasionally hunt living people when we go out on missions. After all, to regulate the behavior of monsters, it is very important to lead by example."

"What if you're thirsty?"

"The demons working in the hospital will provide fresh blood bags to the local registered similar species on time to reduce their hunting frequency."

The corners of Du Qiu's mouth twitched, with a painful expression on his face, "There are people from you in any hospital", and asked: "How many demons are there on record in Beijing?"

"Hundreds of thousands," Li Huan said, "big cities have a high employment rate, good living conditions, and the protection of high-level monsters. Monsters also need life security, especially little monsters who have not been mature for a few years."

"The teacher of the association said that the living conditions of monsters are very poor. Some species have been on the verge of extinction in recent years, and the number in the whole country has dropped sharply. Everything is under good control, but why do I feel that you are living a good life?"

Li Huan immediately laughed when he heard the words, "The XX broadcast also reports that foreign people are living in dire straits, do you believe it?"

Du Qiu: "..."

Li Huan said: "You avoid it first, my room is at the back, wait inside, don't be clever, and don't try to challenge the protective barrier here, or I won't be able to protect you."

Du Qiu nodded, and went into the back room with his backpack in his arms.

Li Huan pressed his forehead to gather his composure, thinking that he should call Qi Jingyu to ask what was going on there, and worried that if the problem was not resolved, the teacher would be distracted and something would happen.

After careful consideration, Li Huan decided to call to confirm if there was no news after zero o'clock, and he would first report his safety in the WeChat group.After doing this, he put away his mobile phone and knelt down on one knee beside the man who showed no signs of waking up.

The tattoo on this guy's chest was the same as the one in the photo, but his appearance showed no signs of demonization. Li Huan subconsciously touched the bitten place on the side of his neck, and he couldn't be sure whether the guy had been alienated or not.

Questions involving the three souls and seven souls are often mysterious and mysterious, and he only knows a little bit from Qi Jingyu's occasional mentions. In this world, if one thing has the characteristics of another thing, in addition to hybridization and transplantation in the scientific field, there is a secret method It is soul fusion.

Could it be that there is a ray of demon soul in the body of this demon subduing master?

Li Huan's eyes widened suddenly when he was shocked by the thought that suddenly broke into his brain, and then thinking about the soul wave similar to the resonance before, he felt that he had captured some important information, and his heartbeat inexplicably accelerated a lot!

In the world of demons, if the main body spirit beasts are from the same race, they will have similar souls, which is why they are better at perceiving the existence of the same kind.

They are of the same kind, no!It should be said that the ray of souls in his body and the demon subduing master's body came from spirit beasts with similar attributes!

Li Huan was so excited that his fingers trembled, he quickly tested the man's breathing and pulse again, and after making sure that there was no fatal injury other than coma, he sent him to the back room of the courtyard.

The stairs hidden behind the wall lead to two underground darkrooms respectively. This time Li Huan went down the right one to a place similar to a prison. Two chains made of fine steel hang from the top of the wall, and each end is connected with a snake biting its tail. handcuffs.

Li Huan put the man down against the wall, locked his wrists with shackles, and finally urged the talisman paper to ignite a cluster of red lotus fire and put it into the stone light box.

The flames flickered, the room temperature began to rise, and the dim light spread from the corner, illuminating the demon master's well-defined profile, and cast a fading shadow on the other side, making the originally handsome and three-dimensional facial features a little less indifferent, It seems to have a somewhat soft taste.

The man frowned slightly, as if he would wake up at any moment.

It was a physiological reflex that a person with highly sensitive nerves would have. His body fell into a lethargic sleep under force majeure, but the powerful senses that had been tempered for a long time were still not completely lost.

Li Huan stretched out his hand to open the front of the opponent's shirt, and then moved his eyes down——

The man's body is covered with a layer of evenly refined muscles. Although the shape is not exaggerated, the fiber density is extremely high. At first glance, it looks like a flexible and extremely explosive body that can only be formed after rigorous training.

Judging by human standards, this guy is like a fighting machine, but the most terrifying thing is that he can control high-level monster puppets with wires.This means that most of the monsters who fought against him would have already died under the minions of similar puppets before they could see themselves.

If we add another ray of demon soul on top of this...

At this moment, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated. Li Huan came back to his senses. Seeing that the caller displayed on the screen was Ari, he quickly got up and went to the stairs with better signal to answer the call.

Behind him, Xing Yi's closed eyelashes trembled slightly, and the protruding Adam's apple in his pharynx rolled with swallowing. He opened his eyes soundlessly. Like all people who wake up from a deep sleep, the man's dark eyes There was a trace of confusion in the eyes, and it took a few seconds for them to recover bit by bit.

He raised his right hand, which was bound by shackles, and flexed and stretched his knuckles, like a person who has been paralyzed for many years carefully savoring the feeling of regaining control of his body.

Light blue spiritual power overflowed from the fingers, affected by the snake biting the tail shackles, the spiritual power was very thin, and slowly condensed into hair-thin wires.

Dozens of lead wires floated into the air, and as the man's eyes slid towards the entrance, the lead wires seemed to have received some kind of instruction, and after a second of stillness, they swam past like spirit snakes.

Li Huan held the phone in one hand and turned his back to the dark room.

There was a whistling wind on the receiver, Ahri was panting like a dog, out of breath, and said, "Meow~"

"..." Li Huan raised his forehead, "You are enough, talk quickly! How is the teacher?"

Ari said: "The situation here is a bit complicated. The master saw that you were going to investigate the origin of the monster a little bit, so he left a living, and wanted to see if he could follow the clues to find the thing behind it."

Li Huan frowned, "He wants to go in person?"

"Yeah, I guess the master is not happy to know that those guys are targeting you." Ah Li said, "Have you locked up the demon-subduing masters you brought back?"

Li Huan: "Yes."

"Let me tell you, young master, you must not run around during this time. If the master comes back and finds that you are missing a hair, I seriously doubt that he will strip me raw to make gloves for you."

After finishing speaking, Ari sniffed pretending to be wronged.

There was a smile in Li Huan's eyes, and he was about to tease him back when he suddenly felt something flick his wrist.

The thing didn't give him time to react at all, it tightened quickly as soon as it touched the skin, and then pulled back vigorously.

The phone fell to the ground with a slap, and a strange feeling of fear instantly froze his heart. Li Huan took a few steps back unexpectedly, and looked down, only to suddenly realize that at some point, his body was covered with fine, dense the leads!

"You—!" He turned back in horror.

Yehuo swayed, and the eyes of the two suddenly met in the air, Li Huan was stunned.

It wasn't the expected cold and stern expression, the man looked at him, just staring at him, with a strange and slippery desire gently rippling from the bottom of his dark eyes.

Like an unworldly child, persistently chasing what he longs for.

"To..." The man opened his mouth, and let out a low hoarse single sound from his throat.

His right hand raised in the air gathered his fingers, and Li Huan felt that his body was becoming more and more tightly entangled by the lead wire, and he was unable to contend with that terrifying power at all.

The scene of being pierced and sucked blood rushed into the brain, and the instinctive fear permeated every corner of the texture like venom.

The chains jingled, and the demon-subduing master stroked his back with his snake-like icy hands. Li Huan was imprisoned in his arms by the other party in a shameful posture, but his whole body was trapped by the wire and couldn't move.The warm breath brushed over the skin, and his body trembled violently, Li Huan gasped in an extremely suppressed breath, and then bit his shoulder fiercely.

However, the expected bite did not happen to him.

The man just lowered his head, his lips touched the skin, and the tip of his tongue moved carefully, like a kiss without a trace. Like a docile but greedy cat, he licked up the remaining blood there.

Li Huan was stunned.

A few meters away, the screen of the mobile phone remained connected, and Hu Ling, who couldn't figure out the situation, went crazy, and roared in a very tragic way: "Ah, ah, young master! What the hell are you doing? Mahler Gobi Is your labor and capital really turning into gloves meow?!"

- To Be Continued