This city is wrong
Seeing Guan Sha completely relaxed after she took out the crudely made low-level Ganyuan map, Qin Baoyao breathed a sigh of relief and didn't dare to say anything, although there were many other people in the main hall that she could name.
After a while, the butler who was ordered to get the information books came with a stack of things and placed them respectfully on the table: "Two Taoist priests, the information you want is here."
Qin Baoyao picked up the top volume, flipped through it, and then felt it was a bit too much, so she put it down again and said, "City Lord Guan, could you briefly tell me about the mission?"
Guan Sha stared at the two of them for a long time. In his eyes, the two of them had pure and strong spiritual energy, which was very suitable for what he was going to do next. However, their identities as disciples of Guiyi Sect made him a little wary. After all, with their current abilities, they would try to avoid a head-on confrontation if possible.
With this in mind, he decided to calm the two of them down first. "More than a month ago, people in the city went up the mountain to collect herbs, and people started disappearing one after another. I organized some teams to go up the mountain to investigate, but everyone who went narrowly escaped death. According to the men who escaped and returned, there were demonic beasts and some cultivators who killed people without a word. They were simply not something ordinary mortals could handle."
"As for the details, they are all recorded in the file. You two can take a look." Guan Sha said.
The ordinary housekeeper stepped forward and started moving the books again. "I have already arranged accommodations for the two Taoist priests. Please follow me and I will move your things over as well."
"No need, we have already found a place to stay. We can just take the information back and look at it." Qin Baoyao was still hesitating whether to stay or not, but Shi Yue had already refused.
"This..." The butler glanced at the city lord.
"What? Is there a problem?" Qin Baoyao's face was furious. "We accepted the mission and came here to help out of good intentions. Do we even have to listen to you about where to live?"
"That's not the case. I just thought you two would choose to stay in the City Lord's Mansion to investigate the case, so I asked someone to arrange accommodation for you in advance." Guan Sha said, "Since you two don't want to live here, then of course it's up to you. I'll have someone send the information to your residence?"
"No need." Qin Baoyao stepped forward and took the information from the housekeeper. "It's just a small thing, we can still get it ourselves."
Shi Yue saw her take the things and bowed to say goodbye.
"Then how can I contact you two?"
"We will return it after we finish reading the information." Qin Baoyao took the things and ran away in a hurry.
Shi Yue was still being polite. When the two of them were about to step out of the city lord's mansion, Guan Sha asked nonchalantly, "Did your clan only send you two to help? If so, we might not have enough manpower. How about I send a few people to assist you two?"
Qin Baoyao retracted her foot and looked at Shi Yue: Do you want to tell others about their existence?
Shi Yue's eyes indicated that he could not hide it, and he said simply: "We have other brothers and sisters with us, so we have enough manpower, so the city lord does not have to worry about it." After that, he took the books from her hands, and the two of them left.
The people behind them looked at them with greed on their faces. It seemed that they were going to make a fortune this time.
Qin Baoyao and the other person walked for a long time, until they were out of the sight of those people, and then they looked back cautiously.
Shi Yue had already realized that they were too impulsive in this mission, so he took out the voice stone and sent a message to others, asking them not to come to the City Lord's Mansion, but to gather at the city gate.
"Are we going to run away?" Qin Baoyao looked at Shi Yue. She also realized that she seemed to have done something wrong. She brought people straight to Songzi City without checking in advance.
"Run?" Shi Yue was puzzled. "Why do you have such an idea?"
"What else? Why call the others back?"
"Let's discuss countermeasures. I now suspect that something is wrong with this city."
After a while, Yan Yuan and the Jiang sisters came from different directions.
After meeting, they exchanged glances and then walked towards a restaurant not far away.
Seeing their attire, the knowledgeable shopkeeper personally greeted them: "Masters, would you like to stay at the hotel or have a meal?"
"Open five rooms for us, the best ones." Qin Baoyao, who was used to having one room per person, said generously and took out some money.
Shi Yue grabbed her hand as she was about to pay and said to the shopkeeper, "Two rooms will be enough."
Jiang Lan and Jiang Qing, who were about to say that the two sisters lived together, had no doubts when they heard this.
Yan Yuan looked at him curiously, but didn't say anything.
"Ah? Two rooms?" Qin Baoyao, who was paying, was confused. It was not like they were short of money, so why did they have to live together?
Under the shopkeeper's watchful eyes, it was difficult to communicate, so Yue repeated, "Just two."
Okay, two rooms will do.
Qin Baoyao saw that Shi Yue insisted, so she didn't say anything and just paid the money.
The shopkeeper took them to the top floor and arranged two adjacent rooms for them.
Qin Baoyao looked at the door and thought: This is not so good.
As soon as Shi Yue saw her expression, he knew what she was thinking. This young lady had seen a lot of good things. Even when she decorated a new yard for him some time ago, she used the best things to decorate it.
I've never been out with her before, so I'm not sure, but it's likely that she's not someone who would put herself in a difficult position.
At this moment, business was of the utmost importance. He was afraid that Qin Baoyao would say something disdainful, so he gently pushed her away.
Qin Baoyao, who was a little disgusted, was pushed by him and remembered something. She waved her hand and said, "Let's do it here. Prepare something to eat for us."
The shopkeeper was stunned: "Food?"
"Yeah, isn't there?" Qin Baoyao widened her eyes, with an expression that said, "You have such a big restaurant, but you don't even have food?"
The shopkeeper came back to his senses and said, "Yes, yes, would you Taoist priests like to order some food?"
"No need, just serve some signature dishes." Qin Baoyao said generously.
However, he did not expect that the shopkeeper was stunned because the people in front of him were all in the Foundation Establishment Stage. The Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators who came before basically did not need to eat. This was the first time he saw a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator directly asking for food. Don’t people in the Foundation Establishment Stage all practice fasting?
The shopkeeper's actions also made Qin Baoyao and Shi Yue feel that something was wrong, but they didn't say anything at this time.
After the shopkeeper came downstairs, Qin Baoyao and the Jiang sisters entered one room, and Shi Yue and Yan Yuan entered another room.
Yan Yuan and the Jiang sisters were puzzled. Shouldn't they have started sharing the information they had gathered? Why did they separate?
After a while, the shopkeeper came up with the food himself. Qin Baoyao called Shi Yue and the others in front of him. Then, they began to eat under the shopkeeper's gaze. After the shopkeeper left, they pretended not to see him and did not close the door. They ate with great relish.
In fact, as soon as the shopkeeper turned around, Qin Baoyao took out the Golden Wing Realm and at the same time took out several substitute puppet talismans and placed them on the chairs, creating the appearance that they were eating heartily. Then the shopkeeper who walked out of the door turned around and looked at them with a satisfied smile.
Shi Yue cooperated with her series of actions until the shopkeeper came downstairs, and then they looked at the three puzzled faces.
"There's something wrong with this shopkeeper too." Qin Baoyao hadn't expected that not only was there something wrong with the City Lord's Mansion, but the people in the restaurant they casually entered were also wrong. She had discovered it just as she entered the restaurant's door and wanted to turn around and leave, but Shi Yue told her that there was a high probability that there was something wrong with the entire city, so they stopped rushing around.
At this time, after everything was arranged, Qin Baoyao asked everyone to talk about what they had discovered.
Yan Yuan, who had gone to the southwest corner, said, "There's a demonic aura in that place."
Jiang Lan, who went to the northwest corner, said, "There are some there too."
Jiang Qing went in another direction and shook his head to indicate that he found nothing.
"What about you? What do the people in the City Lord's Mansion say?"
Qin Baoyao looked at Shi Yue. She already felt something was wrong, but she didn't expect that there would be demonic energy in Songzi City. The people in the City Lord's Mansion gave her a very strange feeling, but she didn't feel any demonic energy, so she couldn't say for sure.
"There's a high probability that there's also one in the City Lord's Mansion." Shi Yue said directly, nodding at the table: "There's a high probability that there's also one here."
"What?" Several people almost jumped up. Where did they enter? Why were there so many places filled with demonic energy?
"I suspect that this city has met with an accident." Shi Yue said another bombshell.
"This city?" Qin Baoyao couldn't help but jump up. "Are you saying something happened to the whole city?"
She paced back and forth anxiously, "This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible! Songzi City is not a small city. How is it possible that something happened to the entire city and no news came out?"
"Yes, Junior Brother Shi, it's not that serious, right? We didn't feel anything wrong when we were outside the city. After entering the city, everything was basically normal. How could something happen to the entire city?" Jiang Lan said, Jiang Qing nodded in agreement, and Yan Yuan was already drawing his sword.
Shi Yue had not expected this, but his intuition as soon as he entered the city, the City Lord's Mansion which looked very wrong, the city gate just now, and the restaurant now, were gradually verifying his guess.
"I guess we have no way to spread the news now." Shi Yue expressed another guess.
Jiang Lan and Jiang Qing hurriedly sent messages to their familiar friends and found that there was nothing unusual and the messages could be sent normally.
Qin Baoyao also tried to send a message to her brother. Not only did she send it, she also received a reply from her brother.
She held up the sound stone and said, "Shi Yue, if you guessed wrong, you can send it back. Look, my brother has replied to me."
After hearing her words, Jiang Lan and Jiang Qing realized something was wrong. No one replied to the messages they sent.
The two sisters looked at each other, and then immediately spoke on the "Two or Three Things in the Cultivation World" section, only to find that they could only see their own messages and not those of others.
Qin Baoyao ran over to them and took a look. She also tried to speak on the "Two or Three Things in the Cultivation World" section and found that everything was normal. As soon as she spoke, her brother replied below, as well as Bu Jitong and Senior Sister Yu Ying.
"This? What's going on?" The Jiang sisters tried again in disbelief, only to find that they could only see their own messages.
"This is a trick." Yan Yuan, who had already drawn his sword, circled around them, looking back and forth vigilantly, and said distractedly.
This kind of thing had happened in the secret realm he had visited before.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
