I breathed a sigh of relief when I heard her voice. This soft and sweet voice belonged to Hu Lingshang. I didn't expect that she didn't come to me through dreams this time, but took the initiative to knock on my door and visit me in the real world. Moreover, she came when we were afraid of her. I don't know if she really didn't understand or didn't care. However, if she wanted to come, she must have something important to do, and it must be something important related to her own interests.

"Brother Zhou Bo, do you want to go open the door?" This was the first time Song Bailu took the initiative to speak in these days, and her eyes were full of worry as she spoke.

Hu Lingshang is still a suspect and is the most likely person to have committed the crime. Not to mention that Song Bailu is afraid that she will hurt someone if she comes in, I am also a little afraid. But since she is here, wouldn't it alert her if I refuse to let her in? If she really wants to kill someone, how can the wooden door of the courtyard stop her?

When the enemy comes, we will fight back; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. We have no choice but to fight on.

"If you're scared, just go and hide in the backyard. Yunwen, accompany me to receive the guests," I said.

So, Bai Lu hid in the backyard, and I responded to Yunwen for a few times, then went out to open the door. When I opened the door, I saw Hu Lingshang, who was as graceful as a swan, with her hands folded, her right hand supporting her chin and smiling, saying, "I am sorry to bother you so late at night. I hope Mr. Zhou and Miss Yunwen will forgive me."

Yunwen and I felt a little confused at the moment. It felt like we had gone back to ancient times, with two wealthy families visiting each other. I even got goose bumps for a while.

"Don't disturb me, White Fox Fairy. Why are you here so late? Is there anything I can help you with?" Yunwen asked.

"There are indeed two things. First, to express our displeasure at the last argument between us, and to avoid resentment in your heart, we have specially sent some fruits, nectar, and precious fungi, so that you can calm your resentment and put aside the past grudges with our fox clan. Then we can be good neighbors. Children, quickly send them to Mr. Zhou and Miss Yunwen's house." Hu Lingshang said.

As soon as she shouted, the red foxes behind her all piled things in their mouths at our feet. They were all packed with vines and lotus leaves. There were more than ten pieces of different sizes. It seemed that they came with sincerity.

"Secondly, I have something to discuss with you. May I come into the house so we can talk it over?" Hu Lingshang asked.

Yunwen and I looked at each other in bewilderment, but the other party had already given the gift, and it was now night time. It would be too rude to turn the other party away, and it would also increase the hostility between the two sides. Although many clues now still point to Hu Lingshang's wanton killing and brutal behavior, since the discovery of those dungeons, I also realized from the clues in the dungeons that there may be other survivors in the castle, so there are other possibilities.

In this case, Hu Lingshang is at most a suspect, and the case has not been concluded yet. It would be a waste of time if we break up with her.

"Okay, come in. There are wild beasts coveting us outside. The little red foxes should follow us in to avoid being attacked. But Yunwen and I have never had any visitors in these desolate mountains and wilderness, so our hospitality may have been a little poor. I hope you can be considerate." I said.

After some polite exchanges, which made even my own words sound awkward, Hu Lingshang expressed her gratitude and then brought the little red foxes into the house. The little red foxes also brought the lotus leaves into the house, helping us solve the problem of transportation. After Hu Lingshang came in, she couldn't help but admire them. After all, she had never seen these houses built with cement and red bricks, so she found them strange.

After visiting for a while, she followed us into the house, came to the dining table, and sat where Bailu had just sat. At this time, Song Bailu had already hidden away and was nowhere to be seen.

After the little red foxes finished transporting the things, they smelled the meat on the table. About fifteen or sixteen of them surrounded Yunwen and me, opened their mouths and stuck out their tongues, drooling all over the floor. Their eyes showed a pitiful look, which made people want to give them more. Yunwen was about to throw the piece of beef in the bowl away when she heard Hu Lingshang scolding, "Lili, Huanhuan, don't do this. What did I warn you about? Meat is smelly and will be bad for your future cultivation. Take your brothers and sisters and leave quickly."

When the two red foxes closest to us heard Hu Lingshang shouting like that, they made choking sounds in their throats, and their ears drooped. The other red foxes also scattered and later went to the courtyard to play with Sanfu.

Yunwen was a little embarrassed and took the beef slices back, but secretly hid them in her sleeve. Maybe she was thinking of keeping them for them secretly. Yunwen has always had a good relationship with the red foxes and she had shown that she liked them very much when she was on Diaolou Mountain.

"Sorry, they are used to being naughty. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you two." Hu Lingshang said.

She kept her hand half covering her nose, but apart from the slices of roast beef and the herbal beef bone soup stewed in the pot, there was no other smell. She probably couldn't get used to the smell of the five pungent vegetables and five meats. She heard that many practitioners would eat vegetarian meals and not touch meat, and some even reached the level of fasting. Hu Lingshang must be one of these practitioners, so she seemed to be unable to accept the smell of meat.

"It's okay, it's okay. I just want to ask Miss Lingshang, when the fox tribe was fighting near the underground factory, there was a great disaster. Is this batch of red foxes related to it?" I asked.

Hu Lingshang looked at me meaningfully, then said with a smile, "My Lord, you think that I resurrected them using other means, right?"

"After all, the Yinshi Pot is in your hands. If you want to do that, I think you can do it, right? I think that in Xiying City, the high priest of the Blood Eye Clan who lived a thousand years ago was awakened by the Yinshi Pot. Therefore, I think that as future neighbors of both sides, it is necessary to know the truth of this matter." I said.

She didn't get angry, but supported her chin with one hand, smiled sweetly, and said, "That makes sense, but why don't you ask Miss Yunwen if she has seen Xuexue, her best friend? Xuexue was the one who was most attached to her before, and Miss Yunwen has an extraordinary memory. I'm afraid she already knew whether Xuexue was there or not from the first glance she had just given me, right?"

I looked at Yunwen, she shook her head at me and said, "No, I don't recognize these little red foxes. I think they are all new. Zhou Bo, you misunderstood the White Fox Fairy. She doesn't even eat meat, so how could she use the Yin Xie Pot to refine corpses and save lives? You are overthinking."

Come to think of it, there is no smell of corpse maggots on those red foxes, so it is unlikely that they have gone through that kind of disgusting ritual. I am worrying too much, so I said: "I'm just asking, I'm a little curious about their origin."

"They are the children left behind by Xuexue's group. They hid in the fox cave where I lived before, and then I and the remaining adult foxes raised them. Since we didn't have enough milk, we often took them to the goat herd to ask for some drinks. In the process, several of them were eliminated, and I buried them with their parents. Miss Yunwen, do you think Lili and Huanhuan look familiar? They are Xuexue's children, and their personalities are really the same as their mother's." When Hu Lingshang said this, her expression was full of kindness.

Yunwen kept nodding and said with tears in her eyes, "It's so familiar. The way they beg for food is exactly the same as their mother."

But I found that Hu Lingshang had no hostility, and her true feelings made me feel that she was not capable of doing such a murder. It also made me think that it might be just as Yunwen said, and there might be other hidden stories behind Yingchun's death. This also reminded me of the dungeon in the castle. Various signs there indicated that Yingchun might have let a living creature go not long ago.

Since it was a living thing, it couldn't be that Lei En, because Bai Lu said that Lei En was a wandering soul there, and after the soul was transformed, it was implanted into the spliced ​​body, so the living thing should be someone else. If it wasn't the person killed by Hu Lingshang, could it be it? This reminded me of the day when I took the shovel in the storage room, there was a strange movement in the corner.

"I see. I'm sorry that I misunderstood you. So, why did Miss Lingshang come to visit me?" I asked.

"This is about the crisis inside the castle. I would like to discuss it with you two." Hu Lingshang said.

I was stunned immediately. She actually knew this too.