Yangcheng

Be careful with fire in the middle of the night.

The night watchman had finished patrolling the streets and alleys and was preparing to go home.

On the way back, I saw a woman in a red dress leaning against the wall, but I couldn't see her face.

"Girl, girl." The old night watchman was a kind man; in the dead of night, a young girl was sleeping here.

If you encounter someone with ill intentions, you'll be in trouble.

The old night watchman gently touched the woman's shoulder: "Young lady, wake up, go back to sleep."

"It's dangerous here." The old night watchman called out several times, but the girl in red didn't react at all.

However, the atmosphere around them was rather cold and eerie.

"Girl." The old night watchman used some force to knock the woman in red to the ground.

His eyeballs were gouged out, leaving only two bloody holes in his eye sockets, and his face was covered with maggots.

Maggots would occasionally crawl out from the sleeves and under the skirt.

"Aaaaaah!" The old night watchman was so frightened that he fell to the ground and ran away in a panic.

This is the fifth case of a woman in red being murdered in Yangcheng. The coroner, enduring disgust, performed an autopsy and discovered the truth.

The deceased's internal organs had been hollowed out by maggots.

Even more bizarrely, every woman in red who died was a virgin.

They died chaste, but they must have suffered unimaginable torment before their deaths.

The tendons in his body were being pulled out one by one; this method of murder is clearly not something a human could do.

The Wanfo Sect is close to Yangcheng, so naturally they wouldn't sit idly by when something like this happened. Mo Yan and Tan Shang were sent by the sect to investigate the murder case of the girl in red in Yangcheng.

Tan Shang, carrying his bag, asked, "Senior Brother, why do you think the murderer only targets women wearing red? Does he have some kind of peculiar fetish?"

Mo Yan, dressed in a python robe, glanced at Tan Shang indifferently: "Not necessarily. The murderer may just be trying to mislead people. According to the investigation, not all of these dead women were wearing red."

When the mention of red clothes came up with Mo Yan's mind, he thought of Li Muge, who did like to wear red clothes, and who was blind.

Could this case be related to the female demon?

"Achoo." Li Muge lay comfortably in her sleeping bag. A moment later, Shao Junhao arrived mysteriously, holding a foxtail grass in his hand, and swiping it around on Li Muge's nose.

Li Muge woke up abruptly, and lazily yawned: "Jack, are you ever going to stop?"

Shao Junhao said in surprise, "Li Muge, you're blind, yet you still recognized me so quickly. It seems I must be very important to you."

"Get lost." Li Muge lay in her sleeping bag. "Speak, Jack, you never come here unless you have a reason."

Shao Junhao thought for a moment: "Sect Master, do you have any ideas on expanding the territory of our Crimson Moon Sect?"

"We, Shao Junhao, are you one of our Crimson Moon Sect members? You are one of us."

Li Muge sipped the breeze contentedly: "Actually, I'd like to as well, but if we expand the management of the Crimson Moon Sect, it will clash with the righteous path again."

"At that time, both the righteous path and our Crimson Moon Sect will suffer heavy casualties. How good life is now."

"Peace has no casualties. Even if all the sects in the cultivation world were to unite, they would not be a match for me. Why should we fight?"

Shao Junhao sighed and said, "Fine."

He discussed with the system for a long time and agreed on the best ending for this parallel novel, which was also the ending that best fit the novel's theme.

The female protagonist defeats the righteous path and unifies the three realms.

However, after transmigrating, it was discovered that the female protagonist had already adopted a Buddhist-like mindset.

They had no ambition to unify the three realms at all.

Li Muge was nestled in her sleeping bag when Zuo Xia rushed in: "Sect Master, we have news about what you're looking for. We've found traces of Xiao Shaoyao in Yangcheng."

"Okay." Li Muge cast a spell and instantly left the sleeping bag. Since their parting in Anyang City that day, Xiao Shaoyao and Mu An seemed to have vanished into thin air.

No matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find where Little Peony had gone.

For Li Muge, all she wanted was for Xiao Shaoyao to be safe.

But this inexplicable disappearance really worried her.

Li Muge went to Yangcheng alone.

She was blind and dressed in a striking red outfit as they traveled to Yangcheng.

The people in the city were filled with panic.

A kind aunt was picking out vegetables nearby. She looked at Li Muge again and again, but couldn't help pulling Li Muge over.

“Young lady, wearing red clothes is forbidden in Yangcheng these days; it can be fatal.”

"It's a matter of life and death." Li Muge frowned. "Why?"

The woman buying groceries saw that Li Muge was beautiful, but because of the red veil over her eyes, she guessed that she was blind.

She sighed and said, "Young lady, you may not know this, but recently there have been several murder cases in our city, and all the women who were killed were wearing red when they died."

"Their deaths were so gruesome." The woman carried a vegetable basket in her hand. Even at her age, the thought of the girls' deaths and the maggots crawling all over their bodies made her pale.

He rushed to the side of the alley and vomited.

Upon hearing this news, Li Muge did not change her mind about changing her clothes.

Don't you like killing women dressed in red?

She wanted to see just who this person was.

She never expected that, instead of catching the murderer, she had just found a place to stay when Mo Yan began to target her as the murderer.

"Speak! Sect Master, what are you doing here? Did you kill those girls?"

Mo Yan's tone was completely calm.

He held the sword to Li Muge's neck.

"Heh." Li Muge flashed to Mo Yan's side, grabbed his wrist, and put his sword to his neck.

"Mo Yan, do you know what happened to the last person who drew his sword against me?" Li Muge told himself. This was the Regent's son, and he couldn't be killed.

Only then did he let go of his murderous intent.

Tan Shang stood aside, extremely anxious: "No, Sect Master, you've misunderstood. My senior brother just likes to say the opposite of what he means."

"He said you're the murderer, which means, well, it means you're not the murderer."

Li Muge turned her head slightly: "Do you even believe what you're saying?"

"I believe you, of course I believe you." Tan Shang was practically twitching his eyes as he gave Mo Yan meaningful glances.

As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn.

Why doesn't the eldest brother understand this principle?

Li Muge released his grip: "These women were naturally not killed by me. If I had killed them, would I need to hide it? I am a female demon."

“He is the most cruel person in the world.” Li Muge laughed self-deprecatingly and walked past Mo Yan.

"I..." Mo Yan hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.

Li Muge's figure looked extremely lonely in the night, and Mo Yan tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

just in case…

Li Muge is blind. What if she encounters danger? Maybe he should go find her and see if she is safe.

Mo Yan gave himself a way out, changed into a moon-white long robe, and opened the door.

Suddenly, a woman's screams for help rang out from outside.