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Chapter Four

The tabby cat turned into Wu Zhen quietly stepped on the roof. After walking for a while, she stopped and looked down at her front paws. There were ink stains there. Although it was washed by Mei Langjun, the ink traces were difficult to completely clean, so there were still some ink marks left.

Putting down his claws, Wu Zhen continued to walk forward. Without taking two steps, she suddenly heard a few people talking under the eaves, and looked at them officials of the Ministry of Justice. They gathered together, their tone in a mysterious tone.

Wu Zhen had nothing else, and he was the most curious, so he stopped and raised his ears without hesitation.

Someone is asking: "So, you have all encountered it?"

Someone answered: "I met it once. I was drowsy at that time and had no idea what I had done. I stood there or Song Da happened to come over and woke me up. After asking, I found out that I had been there for more than an hour."

Another answered: "I am the same. Somehow I was fascinated by my mind and was confused and ignorant of the world. Zhao Yuanwailang even scolded me for neglecting official affairs, but I didn't know that I was suffering too."

Some people hesitated and asked: "Is it possible that I only saw that... woman?"

After quieting in the corridor for a while, the person who had spoken before had a strange tone, "It's to be honest, I actually saw a woman, but I didn't see her face clearly."

"I...so."

Wu Zhen lay there and listened for a while and understood. These minor officials of the Ministry of Justice were talking about a warehouse storing information behind the Ministry of Justice. The warehouse was remote and in poor location. There was no trace of sunshine since the afternoon. Recently, they didn't know what was going on, and they often encountered strange things in that warehouse. As they said, when people entered, somehow, they suddenly lost their minds and couldn't remember where they did what they were doing. Someone saw a vague woman there.

No one died because of this. Wu Zhen was usually too lazy to care about such a "haunted" small matter, and wanted to leave after lifting his claws. But after a moment of consideration, she suddenly changed her mind and turned to the warehouse they were talking about.

I have come here, so I just think that I can do a good thing easily. I have been too idle recently, Wu Zhen thought.

She quickly found the warehouse because there was indeed a strange smell in that warehouse. In her eyes, it was as eye-catching as the lights at night.

The warehouse was locked, and there was no one inside. Wu Zhen looked around, jumped to the window, pushed his claws forward, and the window that was supposed to be locked opened with a squeak, revealing a black gap. Wu Zhen jumped in, swayed along the bookshelf and easily found the source of the strange aura.

As she had guessed before, it was not a powerful thing, not even a monster, it was just a thing similar to "foul air". This thing is called "Nihuo". Where ten or more women died, it is easy to gather nearby and produce this thing.

Wu Zhen thought about it, there was a palace wall nearby, and the other end was a dark room where the palace maids were locked up after making mistakes. There were probably many palace maids who died. They were too close to each other, and the terrain was not good, so this kind of filth was most likely to occur in the shade.

"Female confusion" cannot harm people, at most it is just a charming mind. Moreover, usually men have sufficient yang energy and female confusion cannot play a role. Only those with weak bodies are prone to enlightenment. After being trapped by nightmare, they will see a blurred figure of a woman, which is the little resentment that remains in the world of the dead woman.

Wu Zhen opened his mouth to the blurry shadow, and heard the shadow making an inhuman scream, and then it was sucked into the cat's mouth. The tabby cat moved its ears and suddenly opened its mouth again. The shadow she sucked in disappeared, and only a piece of white smoke came out.

The white smoke dissipated in the air, disappeared completely without any trace left.

Just as silent as when I came, the tabby cat slipped out again after doing this trivial matter.

When we walked out of Tai Chi Palace, it was getting late, and the entire Chang'an City was shrouded in the halo of dusk. At this moment, there were already few pedestrians on the street, and Wu Zhen rode back to the Duke of Yu's mansion. Before he could get home, he heard the closed-door drums start to ring. The loud sounds of drums connected one by one, spreading to all directions, echoing in the 110 yards of Chang'an City.

There is a curfew in Chang'an City. Except for the third day of the Shangyuan period, the remaining days, when the night comes, the drums will be beaten in the closed doors. When the drums stop, the gates of the Fangmen are closed, and no one is allowed to walk on the street for no reason. So at this moment, the people who are still stranded on the main street have accelerated their pace and want to rush back to their own Lifang. After the Fangmen, each house is not so strict. The relatives and friends who live with the same house can still visit each other at night.

There were hurried pedestrians on the street, but Wu Zhen was still rushing his horse leisurely. When she walked to the gate of the Duke of Yu's mansion, the last drum sound stopped, and the world suddenly calmed down, and the last ray of light happened to be destroyed in the distant sky.

When Duke Yu was at home, Wu Zhen sighed in his heart as soon as he saw his black face. Alas, my father had been staying at home for a day, why haven’t he returned to the temple yet!

The Duke of Yu suddenly shouted: "Did you just think about waiting for me to return to the temple before you get out until so late?"

Wu Zhen went up to him, grabbed the old father who was blowing his beard and staring at him, and opened his eyes to tell lies: "How could it be? I haven't seen you for a long time and I've talked for a while before I'm delaying it until now."

Duke Yu was half-believing and half-doubted: "Take it serious?"

Wu Zhen's expression was open-minded, "Seriously, if I hadn't thought that my father was still waiting for me, and according to my previous habits, I was listening to the ladies singing in Pingkangfang, how could I return to this cold mansion?"

Duke Yu was speechless. He gave birth to a daughter, not a husband! How could he say that visiting a brothel is so righteous?

Seeing that he was about to preach again, Wu Zhen hurriedly walked inward and begged for mercy: "Okay, my father, I'll be running around for the afternoon, and my belly is already empty. Let me eat my fill first."

Duke Yu was temporarily coaxed by her. When he remembered to teach his daughter, Wu Zhen had already hid in his room and closed the doors and windows and claimed that he was going to sleep. Duke Yu was still ashamed to go to the door and scold her. He had no nerve to go to bed with his daughter's door and shouted her out, so he could only go to bed with his mouth puffed and sulked.

Wu Zhen was not so obedient and really went to bed. When Duke Yu returned to his room, she immediately opened the window and walked away. The time was just right.

Even as a human, Wu Zhen's movements of flying on the eaves of various walls and roofs were very skillful and light, and the guards patrolling the streets did not notice it at all.

Chang'an City is silent, and ordinary people should take off the lights at this time. The most lively one is Pingkangfang, which is mostly brothels. It is the lively time. When you pass by nearby, you can hear the sound of silk and bamboo from the houses, as well as the soft and gentle singing vaguely, like watching the lights from the other side of the river, which has a unique graceful style on earth and heaven.

The two most lively cities in the east and west during the day are the quietest at this moment, with no lights even a few points. Of course, this is in the eyes of ordinary people, in the eyes of non-human things, such as Wu Zhen, the two cities in the east and west at this moment seem to be another.

The two cities in the east and west under the night are worlds of inhuman things. Ordinary people cannot see them and cannot enter these two demon cities.

As soon as Wu Zhen entered the demon market, he was facing a loud noise that was completely different from the silence outside. A sharp little head suddenly stretched out from the shop next to the road and greeted her enthusiastically, "Mao Mah! Fresh fish balls, I just caught from Qujiangchi today, let's taste a bowl of it!"

This "Mao Gong" is the honorific title given to her by everyone in the demon city. Not only her, but all those who sit in her position in the past dynasties have been called "Mao Gong". At present, there are only two people in this demon city who can deserve this "Mao Gong".

The demon market at night is like the early morning on earth. There are shops selling breakfast on both sides of the streets. Most of the demons and monsters who come out swaying go into the shops and eat something hot first. Wu Zhen had just eaten it and was not too hungry, but he turned his feet and entered the shop.

The owner of the shop with white beards and green eyes came up attentively to wipe the table and stools for her, and quickly put on a big bowl of fish balls and gave her a plate of sauce.

After eating a bowl of meatballs, Wu Zhen wiped his mouth and walked into the middle of the two markets. With just one bowl of meatballs, the streets were full of pedestrians, with the most appearances like ordinary people, and fewer of them were different. After all, many monsters actually mingled among the crowd during the day, just like ordinary people.

There is a tall building in the demon market that is shaped like a flying geese spreading its wings, with red walls and black tiles, and there are many bronze bells hanging under the eaves. This geese building belongs to Wu Zhen, the "cat man".

To be more precise, only the half building on the left of Yanchi belongs to her, and the other half belongs to the "Snake Man". The two of them are both the maintainers of the order in the monster market in this world. The two have known each other for a long time and have worked together, but their personalities are different.

Speaking of which, although the two have similar statuses, they have different opportunities to take over the position of "Cat Man" and "Snake Man". On the side of the little white snake, it is because her mother was the previous "Snake Man" and she is a monster. On the side of Wu Zhen, she is not a monster. She was an ordinary child at least a few years old, but she had a strange encounter later, which made her come to this.

Thinking of "Snake Gong", Wu Zhen looked to the right side of Yanlou. There was no dark light there. It seemed that the little white snake did not come tonight, and her two deputy were not there either.

Wu Zhen went up to the building on his left, wandered around upstairs and downstairs, but didn't see a shadow. He hugged his chest and shook his head, "It's okay if Huzhu is not here, why is the charlatan not here."

As a "cat man" respected by monsters, Wu Zhen certainly did not work alone. Like "snake man", she each had two deputy officers to help. But obviously, the kind of masters there were any kind of servants. She often fished for three days and had two days to dry the net. Both of her deputy loved to be lazy. But it was not their fault. After all, there was no monster causing trouble for a long time. They didn't like to stay here.

Wu Zhen jumped onto the red railing of Yanlou, stepped on the guardrail, looked into the distance for a moment, and pulled the corner of his mouth, "Finally found it."
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