Wen Jiajia smiled even more brightly after hearing his words, "Didn't I say, give me the things, and you can have the person?"
She stretched out one hand, her fair and delicate palm facing upwards, and waved to him.
What do you think of my suggestion?
The next moment, the clothing store owner began to tremble all over. He raised his hand shakily, pointed at Wen Jiajia with a pitiful expression, and said...
"How about it? You actually have the nerve to ask me how it is?! You went to great lengths to extract crucial information from me, and then you immediately turned around and bit me. Now my lover is still in your hands, what can I say? But—"
His tone suddenly turned sharp, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
"What you want is not in my hands at all! -- Hahahaha, you can just wait to stay here with me forever!"
Wen Jiajia's face turned ashen; she didn't believe a word the other person said. So she gave Sun Jue a meaningful look.
The next moment, Wen Jiajia poured the bowl of water over the head of the woman in red. Strangely, the mere bowl of water elicited a scream like a pig being slaughtered from the woman in red.
"ah--!!"
Yan Qing was startled and quickly covered her mouth. She had already seen it: the white paper flowers on the woman in red's head, when poured with water from the bowl, had turned a bright red, like blood.
Yan Qing immediately recalled the "Rules of Yongning Lane":
Article Six mentioned being wary of women wearing red flowers. It turns out that the reason she had searched for so long without finding a woman wearing a red flower was because this "red flower" only became visible after being sprinkled with water.
At this moment, a significant change also occurred in the woman in red. Originally, the woman's appearance was normal; although not exceptionally beautiful, she was fair-skinned and delicate-looking.
But ever since the water from Wen Jiajia's bowl fell on her head, the woman felt as if she were being gnawed by countless tiny maggots, and her entire body began to rot and decay rapidly from head to toe.
In just a few moments, the woman's face had become a mottled pit of flesh, and a strong smell of decay filled the air. Wen Jiajia couldn't bear the smell and instinctively took a few steps back.
She covered her nose, looking disgusted. "I never imagined you went to so much trouble, even sacrificing the entire neighborhood to support the underworld messengers, just for this lump of rotten flesh?!"
"You're the one who's a lump of rotten flesh!" The clothing store owner gritted his teeth. "She's my wife, and in my heart, she'll always be the most beautiful! Much more beautiful than a woman like you who looks pretty but is full of scheming! Bah—!!"
"You—!" Wen Jiajia was furious. She pulled out an identical bloodstained spike from her bosom and stabbed it directly into the red-clothed woman's head.
"Ah—ah—!" The woman in red began to go limp, and Yan Qing saw that her body was rotting at a visible speed.
Before long, it slowly turned into a pool of bloody pus. Only a long, bright red dress remained, covered in unidentified black and dark green substances.
Sun Jue looked on with a pang of pity. "Jiajia, how will we get out if this woman dies?"
Wen Jiajia glared at her. "Don't worry, if we want to get out, this woman has to die! -- Everything is going according to plan. We just need to find that thing."
After the woman's body turned into blood, the clothing store owner seemed to be in a trance, staring intently at the pool of blood on the ground, motionless.
Then he looked up at Wen Jiajia and the other person, his mouth stretching to his ears, revealing an extremely eerie smile.
"You wicked woman, I curse you to a horrible death!"
Then he picked up the red clothes from the ground and put them in his pocket.
The clothing store owner walked out of the main hall. Strangely, Wen Jiajia wasn't angry, and Ye didn't stop him.
As she passed the door, she wondered if it was just her imagination, but she thought she saw the clothing store owner glance at where they were hiding before leaving expressionlessly.
The blood moon, which had been receding somewhat, shone even brighter in the sky, its light spilling onto the ground and dressing the earth in a vibrant red coat.
Yan Qing felt inexplicably uneasy.
It was very quiet outside, so quiet that it seemed there was no danger whatsoever. However, not only her, but Yue Qi's brows also furrowed.
His voice came from beside me, "That little monk is gone."
As a disciple of the Xuanmen sect, Yue Qi was extremely sensitive to these strange and evil arts. However, at the moment, he could not sense the little monk's presence at all.
"Yue Qi, do you think that strange little monk is dead?" Yan Qing hoped to get some comfort from him, as she was really worried right now.
Yue Qi shook his head. "I don't know either. But this person is indeed completely lifeless. There must have been something special about that explosion just now."
“That’s true—” Yan Qing pursed her lips. “That Wen Jiajia seems to be someone who wouldn’t do anything without a profit. They also have information that we don’t know. The fact that she can show up in public means she must be extremely confident.”
Fearing discovery by Wen Jiajia and the others inside the house, the two decided to slowly begin their retreat.
Yan Qing turned to leave, but Yue Qi stopped her. "Shh—don't go yet, take a look inside."
Inside the main hall, Wen Jiajia and her companion had somehow managed to push aside the offering table in front of the golden statue.
At the bottom of the offering table, a huge red array was revealed. Upon closer inspection, it was a large array somewhat similar to the Bagua (Eight Trigrams), but the array seemed incomplete, with a small piece missing from each of the eight key points.
In addition, the formation was surrounded by a dense array of strange lines, as if it had been deliberately graffitied. The entire formation looked somewhat chaotic and lacked focus.
Yue Qi whispered a reminder to her, "This is the Seven Star Demon Subduing Formation. It seems that Wen Jiajia and the others are planning to leave now."
Yan Qing certainly couldn't let them leave like that. In the Rules of the Strange Tales instance, fewer people meant double the danger.
Moreover, it seems that Wen Jiajia just offended the owner of that clothing store, and she doesn't believe that the clothing store owner would just sit idly by.
The enormous formation before him, however, looked rather awkward. But Yue Qi was certain it was the Seven Star Demon Subduing Formation, so surely it couldn't be wrong, right?
Just to be on the safe side, she voiced her guess, "I have a feeling this formation is a bit too chaotic. Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
It wasn't that she didn't trust Yue Qi, but rather it was a woman's intuition. The entire hall was spotless and tidy; how could the most crucial array have become so chaotic?
It's like a rat dropping suddenly appearing in a white jade plate; it looks extremely abrupt.
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