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A man flew out like a sack and slammed into the small tea table next to him with a bang, rolling into a ball together with the bat vase with peach branches on the tea table.
The little commotion in the corner of the lobby did not interrupt the lively banquet.
The surrounding demons didn’t care what happened between Ji Dong and the man but were eager to see the fun, laughing, and even applauding and whistling.
It was only then that Ji Dong saw that the man he had thrown out was wearing a set of grayish servant’s clothes and had a skinny figure, probably not even 1.70 meters in height at a glance.
After the man in gray clothes fell into a daze, his first reaction turned out to be to raise his sleeves to cover his head and face, stagger up from the ground, hold on to the messy bun, hide his face, and dive into the monster pile.
Ji Xiao’niao did not even see the man’s face.
Although Ji Dong didn’t know him, there was no doubt that he must be a participant from the [Peach Blossom Spring], and it was very likely that he was the [Ghost].
It’s just that Ji Xiao’niao was very puzzled—they had never met, how did the other party recognize his identity from a bunch of monsters at a glance?
Before he could figure out this question, in the next second, Ji Dong felt a chill on his back, and goosebumps appeared all over his body.
There was no need to look back, with a strong sense of crisis, Ji Xiao’niao already knew that there was a person who had approached him quietly, standing behind him at this moment, very close to him.
——Fuck!
Ji Dong simply had no time to think about anything.
He raised his hand and slammed his back elbow backward.
The person standing behind him, however, was obviously already prepared.
A palm steadily seized Ji Dong’s elbow, stunting that burst of momentum. Then, with a lightning-quick strike and scuffle, the person’s hands, like steel pincers, twisted one of Ji Dong’s arms behind his back.
That speed was too fast.
Even the trainer robot in the [Peach Blossom Spring] had never demonstrated such a fierce move.
——Not good!
Ji Dong was panicking in his heart as he bent his legs, twisted his shoulders, and tried to break his arm out of the opponent’s hands.
“Don’t move.”
At that moment, the person behind him leaned down, approached his ear, and whispered.
“It’s me.”
Hearing the familiar voice, Ji Dong was suddenly as soft as a deflated ball.
“Come with me.”
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It was not until they left the banquet that Ji Dong finally had time to look at the man in front of him carefully.
The man was half a head taller than him, dressed in white and wearing a veil that could only be seen in costume dramas. He couldn’t see his face clearly, but his outline and body shape were too familiar to Ji Dong. He knew who it was at a glance.
“Ren…”
Ji Dong said the word with a low voice.
The man in white turned back to him and raised his index finger, signaling him to keep quiet for now.
Ji Xiao’niao immediately pursed his lips obediently.
He was led by the hand through the corridor on the second floor to the door of the last room, and saw the man in white reach out his hand and knock three times on the door panel, and after a pause, knock three more times.
The door quickly opened from the inside with a small gap that only one person could pass through.
The man in white led Ji Dong into the room.
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Ji Dong saw a strange pair of a young man and woman in the room.
Both looked to be about twenty years old. Their appearances were similar: both had a beautiful melon face, light eyebrows, slightly upturned almond eyes, not quite beautiful, but full of youthful looks.
Ji Xiao’niao was sure that he did not know these two people.
So he looked back at the man in white who was still standing by the door.
This time, the other party sharply removed the veil hat, revealing his true face.
It was indeed none other than Ren Jianmo, whom Ji Dong had been thinking about for a long time.
His throat unconsciously rolled a little.
If it weren’t for the fact that there were two strangers here, Ji Dong would have really wanted to rush over and hug Ren Jianmo.
“Introduce yourselves first.”
At this time, the girl in the room spoke, she pointed to herself and gave her real name:
“My name is Fan Hemian.”
Then she gestured toward the boy beside her, “He is my twin brother, called Fan Luming.”
Ji Dong turned around, saw Ren Jianmo nod, and then gave his name to the siblings.
While the two were talking, Fan Luming got up from the couch and went to the door to make sure the bolt was properly inserted, then he took out a yellow talisman from his pocket and stuck it on the door panel.
Ji Dong: “?”
The boy turned around and met Ji Xiao’niao’s confused eyes and explained, “[Demon Repelling Talisman], a disposable prop exchanged from the [Peach Blossom Spring], although it is cheap, it is said to produce subconscious disgust in demons and ghosts…”
He paused and came up with what he thought was an appropriate analogy.
“Probably the same as mosquito repellent stickers, even if you know that it does not kill mosquitoes, at least it can be a psychological comfort.”
Ji Dong: “……”
He hesitated for a moment, swallowed a roast down, and asked a question, “Why do you want to stick a [Demon Repelling Talisman] there?”
Hearing his question, the boy looked up at him, and a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face.
Then he said nothing, opened the closet, dragged out a roll of quilts, shook them open, and then from inside… pulled out a large gray-haired rat with four feet upside down.
Ji Dong: “???”
“Putting a [Demon Repelling Talisman] is to prevent a demon from breaking in at this time.”
The boy dropped the rat, which was bigger than his fist, in his hand and smiled at the bewildered Ji Xiao’niao.
“Because we are going to extort a confession.”
So Ji Dong watched as the Fan siblings each took a chopstick and began to poke at the poor gray-haired rat.
A few minutes later, the mouse was woken up by them, squeaking and screaming, and became a middle-aged fat man with a protruding mouth and withered cheeks.
——Then… oh no.
Ji Dong thought, “Is this the legendary kidnapping? If it's fake, replace it!
“You’re all human, right? How in the world did you hide that human smell!”
The big rat, with his hands tied behind his back, cried and wailed, not waiting for the two siblings to ask questions, and then wailed in a shrill voice.
“And, and, what the hell are you trying to do here?!”
Of course, the kidnappers had no obligation to answer a hostage’s questions.
Fan Luming rolled up his sleeves and went up to the rat bastard and gave him an inhumane combination of punches. After smashing the fat man who could offer no resistance, he went straight to the point.
“Say, this mansion of yours, what is going on?!”
Pressured by tyrannical abuse, the gray-haired rat had no choice but to weep and tell all the things he knew to the four ferocious humans in the house.
According to the rat’s narration, Ji Dong learned that the house they were in now had a demonic ethereal name, “Zhilan Xianfu”.
However, he could not tell where this demonic mansion was.
The rat spirit only knew that he was attracted by the strong aura emanating from the mountains and forests. He thought he had found a blessed place, or found a treasure by chance, and rushed in excitedly. As a result, when he woke up and entered Zhilan Xianfu’s mansion, he was then taken in by the great demon who had been living here for a long time and became a small kitchen waiter.
Of course, every demon that first entered the demon house would not be willing to be trapped here and die, so naturally, they had tried every way to leave. This rat demon had not been an exception.
However, no matter how hard they tried, they could not leave the mansion.
The rat demon said, that no matter what it was, the main gate or several side doors, they were sealed by an extremely powerful force. Regardless of whether they were hacked with knives or axes, or pushed and bumped with demonic force, they could not leave even a scratch on the closed doors.
And they have tried countless times to climb out of the courtyard wall, but would invariably find themselves back in the mansion after landing, as if someone manipulated their five senses with magic, creating an infinite cycle of ghost hitting the wall
The demons who woke up were told by the “seniors” that the only way to get out of the Zhilan Xianfu’s mansion was to use the humans who came in by mistake to exchange.
Every time a human comes in, a demon can leave, one out, one in, one out, no more, no less …
……
Hearing this, Fan Luming interrupted the rat spirit’s narrative.
Then what happens to the humans who come in by mistake?”
The fat gray-haired rat hesitantly lifted his eyes and looked at the four humans in front of him with a very apprehensive expression.
“Once the humans consume the wine and food in the mansion, they can never get out again…”
He lowered his eyelids and replied sarcastically.
“You see… Some will become furniture such as tables and chairs, which we can put in the house at will; some will turn into livestock such as pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses, which will be slaughtered and eaten in the back kitchen when they get fat…”
Speaking of which, the rat demon with the corner of the eye quickly glanced at the cold handsome face of Ren Jianmo, nervously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stuttered, and added:
“If, if someone is quite beautiful, they will be taken into the backyard by the Emperor and serve him…”
Not only Ji Dong, even the Fan siblings could not help but turn their heads to look at the great beauty of Ren Jianmo.
Ren Jianmo, however, did not even bother to move an eyebrow.
“Ahem.”
Fan Hemian coughed, slightly deliberately twisted the topic back to the right track, “Your ‘Great Emperor’.”
“What kind of demon is your ‘Great Emperor’?”
“The Emperor is not a demon, he is a god.”
The rat spirit answered honestly.
“He is a Wutongshen, with great power! He’s very powerful!”
Ji Dong: “?”
He knew he was ignorant in this matter, He’d never heard of the name of this god, and naturally did not feel the slightest bit of awe.
Like Ji Xiao’niao, the Fan siblings just looked at each other when they heard the name “Wutongshen”, and then shook their heads gently together.
Only Ren Jianmo seemed to have thought of something. The corners of his lips lifted slightly and he snorted coldly.
