Chapter 3: Weird
At dusk, the golden wuxi falls.
The sun is shining, and Chang'an is bathed in the glow.
Knock knock knock!
The drums of the second street outside the Chengtian Gate sounded, and the Imperial City Palace Gate and the left and right Yanming Gates also began to close in turn.
Located in the south of Chang'an City, in Da'an Fang on the side of Yong'an Canal, it is a busy scene. Everyone knows that after the end of the 600 street drums, Chang'an will start the night curfew. Therefore, the merchants were preparing to close, and Fang Ding and Wu Hou also began to inspect the shop. The doors on both sides also began to clean up the people entering and exiting, and as soon as the drums were over, the doors would be closed.
Su Dawei squatted on a low wall at the corner of the street, motionless.
Not far away, is the Yong'an Canal.
In a wine shop by the canal, the shopkeeper was putting away the wine flags in a panic, and then hung two lanterns on the door.
After hanging up the lantern, the shopkeeper took off the handkerchief from his shoulder, shook it twice, and turned around and walked into the store.
More than a dozen black-clothed people walked out of the street corners and alleys and quickly approached the liquor store.
Bang!
There was a loud bang.
The window lattices of the liquor store were shattered.
A figure flew out of the liquor store and fell heavily to the ground, and it was the shopkeeper who had hung the lantern earlier.
When the man in black saw this, he was startled at first, and then he heard someone shouting loudly; "Rush in, Hugh is going to leave the thief."
Before he could finish speaking, a muscular man had already rushed out of the liquor store.
He was holding a seven-foot-long Mo knife, and there was blood dripping from the blade. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the knife, refracting a strange red light.
After the man rushed out of the liquor store, he turned around and ran towards the alley.
More than a dozen men in black shouted at the same time and rushed to stop him.
But the strong man was very fierce, in the face of the oncoming man in black, he was not in a hurry, stepped forward, and swept away thousands of troops with one move. The weight of the Mo knife is about twenty catties, but in the hands of a strong man, it is as light as a lamp grass. The blade of the Mo knife passed by, breaking through the air and making a sharp roar, as fast as lightning, leaving a faint afterimage.
The man in black who rushed up hurriedly raised his knife to meet him, only to hear the sound of the bell, and the horizontal knife in his hand actually shattered.
If he hadn't reacted quickly and hurriedly retreated, he was afraid that he would be disemboweled.
The strong man didn't speak, and after the knife missed, he stepped on the Jiugong step, and his backhand was slashed out again.
The two men in black hurriedly dodged, revealing a gap.
In the blink of an eye, the strong man rushed out of the encirclement of the man in black and rushed into a side alley.
"Chase!"
The man in black hurriedly shouted loudly, followed after him.
At this time, Su Dawei also jumped off the wall.
He walked quickly to the door of the liquor store and slowly drew his knife from its sheath.
The horizontal knife is about three feet long, and the knife body is densely covered with cloud-like lines.
Su Dawei walked into the wine shop, and a smell of blood rushed towards him.
His brow furrowed slightly, and his gaze swept over the restaurant.
Three corpses were lying in a pool of blood, two guests dressed as Hu people, and one person, who should be the shopkeeper of the wine shop.
Su Dawei cautiously walked up and turned over the corpse of a Hu man.
On the chest of the Hu people, there is a blood hole the size of a palm, which looks shocking.
There was a look of surprise on his face. Obviously, before he died, he was not prepared at all.
The other body was lying on its back, its chest soaked in blood.
He held the hilt of the knife in one hand, and the scimitar at his waist was half-drawn.
The killer shot so quickly that he was killed without reacting.
Su Dawei pursed his lips and walked to the corpse of the shopkeeper, and suddenly, he took a step back and slashed at the corpse with a swing of his knife.
It was too late, it was too soon, but the corpse suddenly rolled and rolled over from the pool of blood.
A cold light flew out and stabbed straight at Su Dawei.
Su Dawei's feet flashed, and the horizontal knife in his hand swiped the situation and slashed on the shoulder of the shopkeeper.
The horizontal knife sank into the shopkeeper's body, and a cloud of light swept over the knife body. I only heard a terrible scream from the shopkeeper, and the scream was not like a human voice, but more like a ghost crying wolf. Immediately after, the shopkeeper's body fell to the ground, and his body quickly dried up like a deflated ball, and in the blink of an eye, only a pair of skin bags remained.
A black gas flew out of the shopkeeper's body.
"Damn bad people, how dare you ruin my good deeds."
A hoarse voice came from the black air, and in an instant, the black gas skyrocketed, turning into a cloud of black smoke, tumbling non-stop.
Su Dawei's face showed a weird smile.
"I knew it was you weird."
He sneered: "Shopkeeper Lu's Yong'an Chun is known for its mellow taste, but since a month ago, his Yong'an Chun has changed its taste, and its taste is spicy and slightly bitter, no different from ordinary bad wine. Since then, I have suspected that something has happened to the shopkeeper Lu. However, I'm a little curious, how can you see that there is a problem with Thirteen Lang? ”
"That idiot, he is too lazy to die on weekdays, but today he is extremely diligent and takes the initiative to hang the lantern."
"So I knew he must have something weird," said a hoarse voice. ”
"That's a pity!"
Su Dawei showed a look of regret and said, "Say, what is your intention in buying those items that flow out of the palace?" ”
"Well, you should go to the Hades Palace and ask Hades."
The black smoke let out a roar, and immediately turned into a black wolf and pounced on Su Dawei.
Su Dawei put away the smile on his face, and slashed at the black wolf with the horizontal knife in his hand.
The blade looked at the black wolf's body, but it seemed to be cut into a ball of cotton. The black wolf turned into a cloud of black smoke and quickly spread along Su Dawei's arm, wrapping Su Dawei's body in the blink of an eye.
"Since you ruined my body, give me your body."
Su Dawei's body suddenly froze.
He tried to shake off the black smoke from his body, but his body couldn't move.
Black smoke sank through his pores. Suddenly, the hoarse voice let out a terrible scream.
"Tenggen Pupil? You are obviously a mortal, how can you have Tenggen pupils? ”
As the screams sounded, a red line suddenly appeared between Su Dawei's eyes.
The red thread slowly cracked open, forming a gap, and at first glance, it seemed that another eye had grown between Su Dawei's eyes.
"Spare me, please spare me once, I can give you all my collection."
Su Dawei opened his mouth, as if he wanted to speak, but he couldn't make a sound.
The gap between his eyes grew larger and wider, and the black smoke quickly dissipated, turning into a black gas that sank into the red line.
Su Dawei's eyes widened, his body seemed to be emptied, and he sat on the floor all of a sudden.
The eye between the eyes slowly closed, turned into a red thread, and then disappeared.
"Ami, what's wrong with you?"
Zhou Liang rushed in from the outside and saw Su Dawei sitting paralyzed in a pool of blood, and hurriedly stepped forward to help.
At this time, a man in his early thirties walked in from outside the liquor store.
When he entered the house, he glanced at the corpse on the floor and landed on the corpse that was only skinned down.
"Su Dawei, what's going on?"
Su Dawei coughed for a while, and finally recovered his spirits.
"Wei Tou, I just came in to inspect the corpse, and I saw that the corpse of the shopkeeper Lu had become like this.
I walked up to check it out, but I didn't want a black gas to fly out of his corpse......"
"Shut up!"
Wei Tou hurriedly stopped Su Dawei, and walked forward quickly to check the corpse of the shopkeeper Lu.
After a while, he stood up and said, "It is clear that the shopkeeper Lu colluded with the thief, and when he saw that the matter was revealed, he committed suicide." ”
He looked at Su Dawei and frowned slightly.
"This matter shall not be brought up to anyone. If you leak the slightest rumor, you are the only one who asks. ”
Without waiting for Su Dawei to speak, Zhou Liang hurriedly said: "I understand that it was the shopkeeper Lu who colluded with the thief, and committed suicide after the matter was revealed." ”
Wei Tou's face softened a little.
"Su Dawei was injured in catching the thief, so let's go back and rest first.
Tomorrow is your turn off, and you don't have to come to the yamen again. Zhou Liang, you send him back, understand? ”
"Understood."
At this time, there was the sound of footsteps outside the liquor store.
Zhou Liang glanced at Su Dawei, helped him up, and walked out slowly.
"Second brother, what's going on?"
"Lao Wei missed the arrest just now, and he also injured several brothers."
"The shopkeeper ...... Nalu"
"He's going to use Shopkeeper Lu to make a difference, let's stop worrying."
Zhou Liang said, lowered his voice and said in Su Dawei's ear: "It's weird, if it's not you, I can interfere." Let's not get involved in this kind of thing...... We can't control the affairs of the living, let alone the weirdness of those who are not human. ”
Su Dawei heard this, and closed his mouth.
"It's a pity that the shopkeeper Lu was taken away by the weird, not to mention, and he has to be charged with colluding with thieves and stealing items in the palace."
"yes, that's bad luck."
Zhou Liang nodded with a wry smile, and helped Su Dawei out of the door of Da'an Fangfang.
Knock knock knock, street drums sound again.
The gates of Chang'an also began to close one by one.
"That'...... Do you still have to trace those stolen items? ”
"It's weird, and it's going to be investigated."
"That'...... What a pity! ”
"It's a pity, if you encounter weirdness, it's good to be alive, let's not be strong. You forget, you almost lost your life in the accident last year. Cherish your life and stay away from weird ...... Next time, you won't have a good life. ”
The afterglow of the slanting sun shone brightly, slowly elongating the figures of the two people.