The Flute Demon Storm (Part 4)

The sound of "crunch, crunch" of stepping on the hard snow continued, and the narrow and rugged path was covered with snow.

The three of them came to an extremely narrow dead end.

Chi Ce tightly grasped Chu Caiwu in fennel form and paused. This alley looked particularly familiar. When Chi Ce was a child in the slums of the demon world, he often saw such narrow alleys.

Feng Di stopped immediately.

The man noticed that there was a bit of a deserted area behind him, as if no one was following him. He turned back blankly and said, "This path is passable. Just go through it."

Seeing that the two men didn't react, the man twisted his body sideways and squeezed forward: "Isn't it coming over here?" The man's body was too twisted, and he suddenly covered his wounded neck and cried out.

Chi Ce clenched the fennel-shaped Chu Caiwu in his hand. He skillfully moved sideways and soon caught up with the man.

The man slowly lowered his hand from the one covering his neck, and asked in surprise, "Master, how could you be so fast?"

Chi Ce didn't want to say more. When he was a child, he lived in the slums of the Demon Realm, crawling through dog holes every day, not just narrow alleys like this one. But there was no need to talk about this, and there was no need to tell this man. So he said perfunctorily, "You're too slow."

The man wiped a few drops of sweat from his hand and glanced behind Chi Ce. Even Feng Di, who often took the narrow paths, couldn't catch up with the Taoist priest's speed. The man didn't dare to offend this Taoist priest. He blew a breath of hot air on his hands to warm them up, then hurried forward.

He also wanted to rely on this lousy Taoist priest and say a few good words for him in front of the mayor, so that he could maybe get a local official position.

Chu Caiwu had been held in Chi Ce's hand, especially when they walked to this path, he held her even tighter. The rough and hot skin wrapped around her whole body. She shook her roots, trying to get out of the gap in Chi Ce's hand and breathe in some cool fresh air.

Chu Caiwu complained in his heart, it was just a small path, why did he have to hold on so tightly, as if someone had offended him?

The "crunching" sound of stepping on the snow continued. Suddenly, the sky was filled with the sound of gongs and drums, and among them there were also startling wind, string instruments and singing, which were extremely unrhythmic. The suona sounded like the sound of stretching the neck to wail.

The man waved his hands high and shouted towards the distance: "The Taoist priest is coming! The Taoist priest is coming!"

There was no expected welcome, and those tone-deaf villagers continued to play and sing unrestrainedly as if trying to steal the limelight from each other.

Suddenly, a pretty little girl came out and said expressionlessly, "The mayor asked me to take you to the main guest seats." The little girl turned around and led the way.

Chu Caiwu felt upset and distracted listening to the noisy instruments. It was simply torture. Moreover, the mayor was so arrogant that he couldn't even come to greet them in person after helping them catch the flute monster.

The only consolation was the faint aroma of burnt meat.

A few people walked through the colorful banquet tables and arrived in front of the mayor.

"Are you talking about the Taoist priest who can catch the flute demon?" The mayor asked with suspicion. He had never seen such a young Taoist priest.

Chi Ce hasn't spoken yet.

The man who led the way explained earnestly, "He's really capable!" The man proudly displayed the wound on his neck: "Look, Mayor, if it weren't for this Taoist priest, I would have almost been killed by a mad fennel spirit!" The man's boastful tone was mixed with tears.

Chu Caiwu was silent. She was framed again. The wound was clearly caused by Chi Ce, the Taoist priest as the man called him.

Now, this man treats Chi Ce as his benefactor and scolds her, an innocent fennel essence, to the point of bloodshed.

The man's explanation was as eloquent as a peacock spreading its feathers, but the mayor ignored him and pointed at the seat with his cane: "Master, please sit down."

When the man heard "Master, please sit down", he couldn't stand anymore, so he sat down straight with a thick face, as if he was familiar with the place, and his whole body twisted and turned.

The seats were extremely simple, without even a backrest.

However, there were nearly ten dishes on the table. The center circle was mostly filled with roast chicken and roast goose, with some steaming broth. The outer circle was mostly filled with colorful cold vegetables, such as green cabbage, red persimmons, and purple cabbage...

Despite its simplicity, Chi Ce still sat upright and placed Chu Caiwu on the table - a green fennel. She matched the dishes very well and did not feel out of place at all.

Chu Caiwu stretched out her leaves horizontally, and she finally breathed a breath of fresh air.

Chi Ce asked, "Are there any missing villagers in your town?"

The mayor shook his head: "They said he was missing, but he wasn't missing."

Chi Ce frowned. He didn't know much about the flute demon. The only information he knew was that many demons had disappeared, and the source of the investigation pointed to the flute demon in Dingbei Town.

The mayor tapped the ground with his cane, his voice trembling. "Those people were missing for a long time. We couldn't find them. We were almost giving up the search, but soon, we found them all lying outside that woods. We quickly carried them back. They seemed to be breathing, but they were all... completely demented."

Chi Ce then asked: "Do the missing people have anything in common?"

The old man hunched his back and couldn't figure it out for a long time.

Feng Di stood by the dining table and added, "Most of them are well-known kindhearted people in the town. Many of them have been kind to me before. They would even squeeze out a little food to feed the cats and dogs."

The old man agreed, as if his Ren and Du meridians had been opened, "Yes! She's right!"

The man snorted, "Pah!" He disdained others who sought attention, especially women. He said to Feng Di, "You have no right to speak!"

The mayor swung his cane hard, hitting the man. He shouted, "It's okay to be so outrageous normally, but now you can't help me in this life-or-death situation. Do you want the whole town to die with you?"

The man's whole body shrank, like a dog with its tail between its legs.

Chu Caiwu was stifling laughter in her heart. It felt so good! It felt so good! The bastard was finally suppressed!

Suddenly, a little boy, chewing cabbage, ran to Chi Ce from another table, stood on tiptoe, and grabbed a green... fennel.

Chu Caiwu was lifted up again. Seeing that she was getting closer and closer to the child's mouth, she quickly raised her leaves, her scalp tingling: "Ahhhhhhhh, damn fennel!"

At the banquet, the eyes of the whole town were focused on them.

Chi Ce ignored the farce in front of him and continued to read the information. The missing people were all good people. This was indeed not a coincidence. The souls of pure and kind people were comparable to a wisp of spiritual power of immortals and demons. As for their stupidity, it must be that their souls were sucked away by the flute demon.

The missing demons basically never return, and most of them are innocent low-level people with low magic power.

The mayor exclaimed: "Master! Can you please catch the monster?"

Chi Ce fell into thought and glanced at Chu Caiwu. He subconsciously thought that she was not a fairy at all and had no killing power at all.

Chu Caiwu broke free from the child's hands and transformed into a human form, only to find that she was being stared at by many pairs of eyes, their gazes piercing...

The child cried loudly: "I want to eat fennel, wuwawawa!"

Chu Caiwu broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead. It was ok for this kid to eat his cabbage, but why did he eat fennel? She was intelligent fennel, not an unintelligent cabbage.

Chu Caiwu took advantage of the situation. For the sake of the coat and the sound transmission talisman, she agreed to play the role of the captured demon in Chi Ceyan's role. Now was the right time. She was just about to do it when she was attracted by the smell of meat.

The aroma of the meat is extremely rich. Taking a bite of the meat, tearing the texture of the meat, and then drinking a few sips of the mellow and nourishing broth is simply intoxicating.

Chu Caiwu was almost overwhelmed by the aroma of meat. She moved closer to the middle of the table, broke off a roast goose leg, and took big bites of it, including the oil, skin, and meat, eating it with relish.

Suddenly, I realized... I was here to play a fairy, not to feast on food.

Everyone around was shouting: "Ghost! The demon has become a spirit!!"

Chu Caiwu looked around and nodded with satisfaction, as pleased as a street performer who received applause.

Chu Caiwu ate a bite of goose leg with peace of mind. She just transformed from fennel into a human form in front of these people. She didn't do anything, but she scared them like this.

This time, she doesn't have to worry about not getting the jacket and the sound transmission talisman if she doesn't perform well. Yin Zhuo also has a jacket to wear!

The little boy hid behind the dog man and stared at Chu Caiwu in horror.

Chu Caiwu was tearing the goose leg meat and eating it with relish when he felt that someone was staring at him. When he looked up, he saw the little boy hiding behind the dog man.

Chu Caiwu suddenly had an idea. Since she was going to play the role of a fairy, she could take this opportunity to punish that bastard.

Chu Caiwu raised the goose leg in her hand and was about to throw it at the man, but hesitated. She slowly put her hand down and stared at the goose leg in her hand. There was still a long piece of goose meat that she had not finished eating.

Chu Caiwu didn't want to waste the delicious food, so he quickly bit off the goose meat and threw the goose leg bone at the dog man.

"Ah!" A crow-like scream.

Chu Caiwu frowned. She had just thrown a bone, so why should it hurt so much? She looked up in confusion, trying to find the answer.

Then I saw that the man had his hands crossed between his legs, his face grimacing in pain.

The little boy stopped crying this time and laughed out loud: "My life is gone! My life is gone!"

The man was angry and embarrassed, but he didn't dare to get close to Chu Caiwu.

Chu Caiwu was really proud this time. She decisively broke off another goose leg and ate it with relish, waiting to throw away another one after she finished it. Although she wanted to eat roast goose legs more, she felt that she was still very dedicated in this way.

No one reacted at this moment, perhaps because they did not see the lethality of fennel essence.

Chu Caiwu stood beside the table, eating a goose leg bite by bite, when he suddenly saw the cabbage on the table, which was glowing white. The cabbage uttered, "This is the first time I've seen fennel essence eat meat. It's an eye-opener."

Chu Caiwu replied naturally: "I don't eat meat, so do I eat cabbage? You don't eat meat, so do you eat fennel?"

The cabbage spirit trembled angrily, suddenly jumped off the table, and transformed into a human form: "Little Fennel, how dare you eat me?"

Everyone suddenly fled in all directions, shouting non-stop. They really couldn't sit still anymore. First, the fennel on the table turned into a human, and even the cabbage on the table turned into a human. Soon, the persimmon might become a spirit too... It was better to run away first.

Chi Ce activated the golden light spell, and a magic knife suddenly appeared in the void. He held the magic knife tightly and pointed the blade at Chu Caiwu and the cabbage spirit.

Chu Caiwu had a blade pointed at her nose. She looked at Chi Ce in shock. What came over her was an invisible pressure and murderous aura...