Just like outside, there were lights on inside the house.
It’s just not as exaggerated as outside. All the eaves are densely hung with lanterns, turning the night into day.
There were only two lights on in the room. Under the warm yellow light, their master and mistress were each holding a child and had fallen asleep.
It's not easy for the master and the mistress to stay up until three in the morning before going to bed.
But it is even more difficult for them, as they have to stay up until dawn.
Fortunately, it is already three o'clock in the morning. If they can endure for another hour or so and wait until dawn, they can go back and rest.
Thinking of this, the servant withdrew his gaze from the house, rubbed his face vigorously with his big hands, then took out an oil-paper bag from his arms and opened it.
Wrapped inside are two pieces of braised meat.
The oil paper package had been kept in my arms for a long time, so it had not completely cooled down and was still warm. As soon as I opened it, the rich aroma of meat wafted out.
The servant picked up a piece of braised meat and was about to pass it to his companion, but at this moment, his outstretched hand suddenly froze.
Looking at his companion, he was just like him, standing still without moving. One of his feet wanted to touch the ground but didn't have time to do so. He kept the posture of taking a step forward, just hanging in the air.
Not only the two of them, but also the other servants who were patrolling the yard were motionless like wooden sculptures.
If it weren't for the lights under the eaves swaying gently in the night breeze, this scene would look as if time had stopped.
However, everyone in the yard remained motionless in various postures, which was already a very strange situation.
And in this strange atmosphere, two black mists emerged from the night and turned into two men the moment they landed.
One is tall and the other is short. They are dressed normally. Except for their eyes with pupils that are so small that they are not even as big as sesame seeds, they look no different from normal people.
But how could the pupil of a normal person's eye be so small that it is smaller than a sesame seed?
This alone determines that they are not normal human beings.
After the two men landed, they sniffed the air like dogs, then walked straight to a house, kicked the door open and went in. When they came out, each of them was holding a child in his hand.
This was the scene that Shen Qiqi and Xie Beiming saw when they arrived: two evil spirits were each carrying a child, and they were swaggering out under the gazes of everyone in the yard.
Shen Qiqi glanced at the servants who filled the yard like wooden sculptures and immediately knew what was going on.
Each of the people in the yard was shrouded in a layer of light black mist.
It was the faint black mist on their bodies that made them fall into the state of puppets. When the time came and the black mist receded, they would be able to return to normal.
And this recovery is seamless.
In other words, when they return to normal, they will not remember that they were puppets for a period of time.
No wonder so many children are missing in the city, yet no parent can say how or when their child went missing.
Looking at these two evil spirits, they don't seem to be that powerful. At most, they are just half-grown evil spirits. But it is puzzling that they can use such powerful evil magic.
But this confusion was only temporary, and Shen Qiqi soon found out the reason.
Perhaps because they felt that everything was going too smoothly, they did not feel any threat. The two evil spirits had a low level of vigilance. After stealing the child, they did not leave quickly. Instead, they stared at the braised meat in the servant's hand.
There were two pieces of braised meat, and the two evil spirits each shared one piece. They sat under the eaves, eating and chatting.
The short one said, "Hey, the braised meat in the human world is really delicious, much better than the braised meat in our Jiuyou City."
The tall man smacked his lips and said, "Yeah, it's fat but not greasy, and the meat is delicious. It's indeed better than the braised meat in Jiuyou City... Come to think of it, the braised meat made by Pig Head Xishi is actually quite delicious, but I don't know what happened to that woman. She sold the braised meat shop without saying a word and disappeared... Hey, do you know where Pig Head Xishi went?"
The short man replied, "How would I know? But she's definitely still inside Jiuyou City. Our Lord City Lord has set up a restriction at the city gate, allowing only entry but no exit. Without an exit order, no one can leave... That woman might be being kept by some man."
The tall man nodded in agreement and said, "I guess so. It's a pity that she sold her shop. It will be difficult for us to eat delicious braised meat in the future." As he spoke, he licked the oil stains on his fingers, looking unsatisfied.
The short man said, "If you want to eat braised meat, that's easy. Let's build a good relationship with the guardian. Once the guardian takes over Yuzhou City, we can follow him to Yuzhou City. There's no way we can eat as much braised meat as we want, right?"
The tall man was awakened and immediately laughed, "You are so smart, brother. Why didn't I think of this? This Yuzhou City originally belonged to the Protector, and the future master will naturally be the Protector... That fifth elder of the Shen family thought that by cooperating with the Protector, he could become the master of Yuzhou City in the future. He didn't know that he was actually making wedding clothes for our Protector. What an idiot, hahaha!"
"How foolish and stupid! He really thought our protector was the eldest daughter of the Shen family. But this time, thanks to that idiot for helping us open the city gate, otherwise we would definitely not be able to sneak into the city. The protective barrier of Yuzhou City is too powerful."
"Who says it's not... Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's hurry up and capture some children for the guardian. The guardian is waiting to use these children as supplements. We need to capture a thousand boys and girls, but that's still a long way off."
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