Chapter 18

Just thinking about it, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind: "You guys made a big deal!"

Lu Xingzhou turned his head and saw Sheng Yuanyao turning out from the corner of the street, her eyes shining: "The encounter of the Danxia Gang today is your calculation, isn't it? Are you still a human?"

Lu Xingzhou was a bit speechless. Your expression and your tone seem to be a bit inconsistent...

"Commander Sheng, you don't seem to be responsible for this kind of thing... Besides, I didn't break the law by calculating these, so why am I not a human?"

"You don't look like a human at all. You have the ability to let me protect your mistress in the middle of the night, and you put me aside and don't let me watch when there is fun?" Sheng Yuanyao grabbed his collar: "Tell me the whole story of this incident clearly! If you eat alone next time, I will arrest you for inciting trouble!"

Shen Tang is not his mistress...

The white-haired girl opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again.

It's hard to say.

"Speaking of which, I really have something I want to say to Commander Sheng." Lu Xingzhou looked at the street, pointing to a tea shop: "Go in and sit down?"

Sheng Yuanyao looked at him suspiciously and took half a step back: "What do you want to use me for again?"

Poor baby is already stressed...

Lu Xingzhou sighed: "This time it's true... a bit of demon matter."

Sheng Yuanyao's expression turned fierce, grabbed the handle of the wheelchair held by Dugu Qingli, and pushed it into the tea shop like flying.

Dugu Qingli: "..."

She felt she could leave... but demon matter... Dugu Qingli thought about it, and followed in.

Seeing Lu Xingzhou and Sheng Yuanyao sitting opposite each other in a small private room, she went in and stood beside Lu Xingzhou.

Sheng Yuanyao and Lu Xingzhou looked at her inexplicably, Lu Xingzhou wondered: "Why don't you sit?"

Dugu Qingli said seriously: "You didn't invite me to drink tea, I followed in to listen to the demon matter."

Lu Xingzhou stayed for a while, his expression strange.

It turned out to be a machine.

"Then I invite you now, please sit."

Dugu Qingli sat down, her waist straight, like a sword.

The atmosphere was actually silenced for a full few breaths, until the waiter came in to serve tea and broke the silence.

"Cough." Lu Xingzhou coughed dryly, took the teapot from the waiter's hand: "We'll do it ourselves, please close the door when you go out."

Watching the waiter go out, Lu Xingzhou threw a few spirit stones and set up an isolation array.

Seeing his posture, Sheng Yuanyao's expression became more serious, and finally asked: "What's the situation that makes it so mysterious? I haven't heard of demons in Xiazhou."

Lu Xingzhou poured tea for the two of them leisurely: "Demons are not always there. This one should be a newcomer, or one who has been seriously injured and hiding here to recuperate, and has only appeared recently..."

"Then how do you know?"

Lu Xingzhou didn't dare to say that it was searching for remnant souls in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner... If he really said this out, the official and the righteous machine opposite would probably pull out their swords and put them on his neck. The most fatal thing is that his Ten Thousand Soul Banner is still weak and insufficient to completely detain the soul. A-Nuo went to search specifically last night and almost couldn't find any memories, and the information he could get was very little.

He pondered for a moment and could only say: "The day the City Master sent death soldiers into the trading firm, they were killed by us. During the battle, it was found that they were contaminated with some demon energy. What I can be sure of is that the time they were contaminated absolutely did not exceed one day, and it was definitely not brought back from other places."

Sheng Yuanyao was horrified and couldn't believe it: "Related to the City Master? Do you know how serious this is? This can't be said nonsense!"

Lu Xingzhou sipped tea and said faintly: "Although I often lie... but I won't lie about this kind of thing."

"Then... could it be that the City Master sent them to eliminate demons and just came back..."

"The possibility is relatively small, because this group of people is very weak... and you know the official business. If the City Master finds demons, he will definitely inform your Demon Suppression Division. How could even you be confused? If it was an accidental beheading of a monster, even if it was just repelled, the City Master would definitely publicize this as a major political achievement, and would not be so silent."

Sheng Yuanyao was silent for a moment and said slowly: "Yes. It is only possible that these people have had contact with demons... What other information do you know?"

"I peeked at a little memory... it seems to be sending something to someone, very vague. The location is not in the mountains and fields, but more like the appearance of a room. That's all."

Sheng Yuanyao took a deep breath: "Sending something... If the demon is injured and sending medicine to treat the demon, it is slightly better. If it is sending food..."

As soon as this word came out, even Dugu Qingli's eyes, which had not changed for ten thousand years, moved slightly.

The food of demons has a very high probability of being blood food.

If the City Master helps demons with blood food, this is a major case.

Lu Xingzhou said: "I suggest that Commander Sheng use two-pronged approach. On the one hand, secretly send people to watch the City Master's Mansion to see if they have sent anyone anywhere, and investigate where those people have been in the past few days; on the other hand, investigate whether there are missing persons in the city, whether they are humans or livestock."

"Hmm." Sheng Yuanyao didn't even have the heart to drink tea, stood up suddenly and was about to leave.

"Wait." Dugu Qingli whispered: "There is another place you can go to see..."

"Where?"

"Death row prisoners." Dugu Qingli said seriously: "There have been similar cases."

Sheng Yuanyao sized her up for a while, nodded, and strode away.

Lu Xingzhou also glanced at Dugu Qingli and continued to add tea to her: "Such cases will not spread to the outside. For example, my self-proclaimed information is relatively rich, but I haven't heard of these. Where is Miss Qingli from?"

Dugu Qingli looked at him seriously: "I am not your subordinate, nor a friend."

Lu Xingzhou smiled: "Then start being friends now, what is the prerequisite?"

"I don't need friends, this is a meaningless concept."

"Shen Tang doesn't count?"

"She is just my protected object, that's all."

"I don't think so." Lu Xingzhou smiled leisurely: "You have already worked together, this is called a comrade-in-arms. Comrades-in-arms are also a kind of friend, and even more intimate than ordinary friends. For example, if you couldn't beat those people that night, Shen Tang would definitely help you, so you are already friends."

Dugu Qingli thought about it and replied: "Although there are some differences from the friends I understand, maybe it counts barely. But even so, I don't want to be friends with you."

"Why?"

"Because you always look at me." Dugu Qingli was expressionless: "No one will like to have more contact with someone who treats them as a monster."

Lu Xingzhou stayed for a while, pointing to his nose: "You think I always look at you because I treat you as a monster?"

"Otherwise? I won't be sentimental, you said so too."

Lu Xingzhou couldn't laugh or cry: "Although I look at you, it really has nothing to do with that kind of thing, but it is definitely not treating you as a monster... Hmm, let's put it this way, you walk in the mountains and see a particularly beautiful flower, will you look at it twice?"

"I won't, meaningless."

"..."

"But I can understand other people's performance."

Lu Xingzhou sighed: "That's it... In my eyes, you are that particularly beautiful flower."

Dugu Qingli was expressionless: "But A-Nuo said that the look you use to look at this is a dog."

Lu Xingzhou sprayed all the tea out, and didn't know how to answer for a long time.

The first exchange of getting close to the little white hair was declared a failure.

Failure is failure, the little white hair still quietly pushed the wheelchair to send him back to the Shen Clan Trading Firm. Just as he entered the gate, he saw A-Nuo leading twenty-something awkward teenagers in the courtyard, and Shen Tang sitting in a wheelchair looking at them silently.

"These are the disciples brought out by my Master, they are all my junior brothers!" A-Nuo patted her little chest: "They are very powerful in alchemy! Sister, didn't you want to find someone to refine elixirs before? Take them in, see if it's okay?"

In fact, apprentices are not formal disciples, and most of the time they are no different from mercenaries. Where is there such a direct disciple who rushes to recognize junior brothers, obviously just raising their value, for fear that Shen Tang will not accept them.

But the performance was too clumsy, Shen Tang found her appearance really funny: "You are young, shouldn't you call them senior brothers?"

"Those who enter the door first are big!" A-Nuo was anxious, and fiercely grabbed a teenager beside her: "Say, are you a senior brother or a junior brother!"

The teenager smiled: "Of course it's a junior brother, Great Senior Sister Nuo."

A-Nuo akimbo: "This kind of address must be formal! You have to call Great Senior Sister Lu, I am called Lu Nuomi Tuanzi!"

The teenagers also laughed and said in unison: "Great Senior Sister Lu."

A-Nuo was extremely happy.

But although the teenagers were laughing, they couldn't hide their worries in their eyes. It was easy to pit Liu Qingcang in a moment of impulse, but the subsequent retaliation was obviously going to be extremely tragic.

Everyone's apprentice contracts were held in Liu Qingcang's hands, which were extremely harsh slave contracts... Even if Shen Tang hid everyone and fought hard against the Danxia Gang, everyone had parents and family members. What if they were retaliated against? Pick them all up? Shen Tang herself was a rented residence, could she receive so many families? Or live their own lives, let Lu Xingzhou receive them himself?

Lu Xingzhou, who had just arrived at the door, also looked at Shen Tang's back silently, watching how she decided.

But heard Shen Tang smile and say: "I told your Master before that we lack alchemy talents, which is biased, and we need to establish this system. Even if we don't do this business, cultivating our own alchemists is a must. It would be great if your Master was also willing to join... If he doesn't join, forget it. How could I not want so many ready-made skilled hands? Uncle Zhong!"

Tang Yunzhong hurried over: "Sect Master."

"Take some people to help receive all the families of these brothers, so that everyone has no worries."

Tang Yunzhong whispered a reminder: "Sect Master, this will be endless with the Danxia Gang."

"They are already enemies, do you still expect to shake hands and make peace?" Shen Tang said faintly: "Have you lost your sword bones after being exterminated once?"

Tang Yunzhong straightened his back: "Of course not, it's just that the subordinate needs to clarify the pros and cons for the Sect Master, and wait for the Sect Master to decide."

"Remember, what we want is not to establish a foothold, but to revive. Even if they are only willing to follow Lu Xingzhou, I want to dig them over. Not to mention letting me choose myself, that doesn't need to be chosen at all." Shen Tang smiled slightly: "Go pick up people, I'm afraid of changes."