I became a fox girl and was captured by the True Dragon Saint

The two women walked side by side without talking.

Jiang Ke'er was worried.

As the night deepened, the streets of the night market began to become deserted and empty.

Today is no longer the era of monks. Without the support of spiritual power, people need to rest and recuperate at night.

The lively scene of bright lights all night long and monks bargaining on the streets may never come back.

The stall owners yawned as they packed up and went home, the shops along the street closed their doors, and only the hotel was still lit with the faint light of lanterns.

"If this were Chang'an City, there would be a curfew at this time." Jiang Ke'er suddenly sighed.

"Yes," Qiao Qianxue nodded, "Since General Pei passed away, His Majesty has issued a curfew. It starts at the first watch and lasts until the fifth watch. No one is allowed to go out on the streets."

"General Pei? Did it start from the time General Pei passed away?" Jiang Ke'er frowned, "General Pei from the Qinglian Sword Sect?"

"That's right," Qiao Qianxue seemed to be looking at the girl beside her, and then said, "She is the direct disciple of Saint Ancestor Jiang Ke'er. Since Jiang Ke'er left Shenzhou, she has been the closest helper of His Majesty the Supreme, and is even qualified to be on an equal footing with His Majesty the Supreme."

"Then he must be very important to His Majesty." Jiang Ke'er said.

"Yes," Qiao Qianxue nodded, "It is rumored that after his death, His Majesty aged ten years overnight. He resigned from the throne and moved into the temple under the Holy Ancestor's Pillar of Heaven. He also issued a curfew order that was widely complained about, often saying 'The Tang Dynasty has already broken its arms, and we cannot let flies live in the ditch'..."

Jiang Ke'er listened in a daze. The missing memories were a little confusing, and she felt inexplicably uncomfortable in her heart.

Qiao Qianxue sighed softly.

The man who was once full of vigor and vitality lost all his confidence almost overnight with the death of Pei Min.

He no longer had the courage to break into the enemy camp alone. He became old and timid. Even when facing a peaceful and prosperous time, he felt fear all the time.

As he said, he had already lost his left and right arms, and he was afraid that one day he would lose even this last part of his torso.

"I always feel that as long as they are big shots, they are related to the Saint Ancestor," Jiang Ke'er suddenly laughed, "General Pei is also related to Gongsun Da Niang, and Taibai Xia is also related to him... How powerful is the Saint Ancestor?"

Qiao Qianxue looked into Jiang Keer's eyes.

"There is no other like it," she said.

From the confusion in the girl's eyes, she knew that Jiang Ke'er had discovered some clues and discovered some connections between herself and the Shenzhou world.

Even if her soul was torn apart, all the beautiful things that had happened here were shattered, and she forgot everything...but the world will never forget.

Shenzhou has memory and will remember what that little guy has done for it.

Every bit of the transition from cruelty to peace records her controversial life.

She lived at every node of history and brought true civilization to this place with her own scars.

Even if she had forgotten, every detail around her carried fragments of her memory, telling her about the past of the little fox demon.

"Don't worry, you'll remember."

Qiao Qianxue quietly held Jiang Ke'er's hand, and under the wind-blown shawl, she revealed a shallow and gentle smile of comfort.

Jiang Ke'er lowered her head in a daze, and was led forward by Qiao Qianxue in a daze, following the fragrance.

The fear from the unknown that lingered with the gaps in memory disappeared in that instant.

Just like Qiao Qianxue’s bright smile like the sun in the snow.

——Why worry, everything will be fine in the end.

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Early the next morning, there was a noise of footsteps outside the inn.

"Your Excellency the Prefect has arrived! I'm sorry for not welcoming you in person!" The innkeeper shouted in surprise.

"No need to be polite, I'm here for serious business, hush——"

Mr. Zhao had a blank expression on his face and walked straight towards the guest rooms behind the courtyard.

He was accompanied by a large number of troops, and others thought he was here to arrest someone, so they all poked their heads out of the guest rooms to watch.

However, he stopped at the door of a guest room, knocked on the door, and then bent down respectfully and waited.

"Mom..."

Who is worthy of such an important position as prefect?

"Miss Qiao, Miss Jiang, Zhao has something important to discuss with you. Please follow me to my mansion to discuss it."

Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Ke'er, wearing loose pajamas, rubbed her sleepy eyes and pushed open the door.

However, she was shocked by the scene.

"What's going on? Why are you making such a fuss?" Having just woken up, her voice was as soft as a kitten's.

The prefect looked extremely solemn.

"Last night's investigation yielded results."

(1/1)

(I'm in the middle of a cold... I'll update once today, and I'll resume updating twice a day tomorrow.)

40. Photo Book

"There are results."

The strange scene at the fortune-telling stall last night suddenly emerged in my mind.

Jiang Ke'er didn't even have time to dress up.

She called Qiao Qianxue, casually put on a windbreaker and went out.

"Miss Jiang!" The caravan boss Li Niu also lived in a nearby inn. He saw Jiang Ke'er walking forward surrounded by a group of soldiers and officers, and didn't know what was going on.

"Brother Li Niu, you guys take a good rest. I'll go take care of some small things." Jiang Ke'er smiled at him.

Thanks to Jiang Ke'er's rescue incident that spread throughout the city yesterday, the caravan has now been released.

They can finally freely experience the comfort of Jinguan City.

Li Niu looked at the officers and soldiers beside Jiang Ke'er, a hint of worry flashed in his eyes.

He glanced back at the fat man in black robe beside him, then said to Jiang Ke'er: "Although I can't help much, but if you have any trouble, you can talk to the brothers... The brothers have traveled far and wide and know some capable people, maybe they can help a little."

"Do not worry!"

Jiang Ke'er waved her hand and continued walking with the prefect and a large group of fully armed soldiers towards the Chengdu government office.

After entering the government office, Jiang Ke'er was shocked to find that the entire Jinguan City had entered a state of full alert overnight.

What discovery made the prefect so nervous?

"According to the idea you provided last night, we started by asking questions based on the common points of these stall owners."

The prefect motioned Jiang Ke'er to sit in front of his case-judging table.

There were more than a dozen notebooks on the table, which contained the investigation records from last night.

"The similarities are already drawn in the book."

Jiang Keer picked up a notebook.

Turning to the third page, a big red circle caught my eye.

【Five years ago, I came into contact with the art of Zhouyi divination and read a lot of books.】

A red circle was drawn on the four words "博阅读群书".

Jiang Keer continued reading.

[He has studied Zhouyi, Hanyi, plum blossom divination, copper coin hexagrams, facial bone physiognomy, and ghost physiognomy.]

There are red circles on the two words "Zhou Yi and Gui Wu Xiang".

It goes without saying that the Book of Changes is a compulsory course for all fortune tellers.

However, this Ghost Wu Xiang was the first time that Jiang Keer had heard of him.

Jiang Ke'er opened another inquiry book, and sure enough, the same content was circled.

"Most of them don't have much in common," the prefect said, "but these fortune tellers who don't have a master have to rely on their own study to be able to tell fortunes properly, so they have all read a lot of books on divination."

That's where the problem lies.

"Ghost Wu Xiang?" Jiang Ke'er discovered the key point.

Most of the similarities between them are not worth mentioning, except for the Gui Wu physiognomy, which all physiognomists have read.

Moreover, the name is unfamiliar and sounds suspicious.

"'Ghost Wu Xiang', what kind of book is that?" Jiang Ke'er asked.

"It is a book of divination that came from southern Xinjiang. It is said to have been written by the first generation of witches," the prefect said. "Jinguan City is close to southern Xinjiang, and merchants often come and go. It is inevitable that it has been influenced by southern Xinjiang culture. This is also a part of the culture that was introduced from southern Xinjiang to the Tang Dynasty."

He waved his hand and called over an old scholar who was wearing a gray coat and looked gentle and refined.

The old scholar was holding the book "Ghost Wu Xiang" in his hand.

The prefect was worthy of being the prefect. The moment he got the transcript, he sent someone to the bookstore to get the book.

"There is only one bookstore in Jinguan City that carries the book 'Ghost Wu Xiang', so it is not difficult to find the original copy they have read."

The prefect wanted to hand the book to Jiang Ke'er, but he hesitated midway.

"Things from southern Xinjiang always carry an incomprehensible evil. Forget it. You'd better not watch it. What if you end up like them..."

"It's okay." Jiang Ke'er snatched the book.

"Don't rush to look at it. Even if you want to study it, you don't have to do it now," the prefect said quickly, "In fact, this is not the first time that a similar incident has occurred in Jinguan City."

"Not the first time?" Jiang Ke'er immediately became curious.

"In fact, there has been a legend circulating in Jinguan City," the prefect took a deep breath, his face becoming gloomy, "It is so old that the documents are difficult to study. We only know that it happened hundreds of years ago..."

"how?"

"It's hard to recall the details. All I know is that a few hundred years ago, one night, many fortune tellers suddenly went crazy and started talking nonsense at the same time," the prefect said. "They said exactly the same thing, shouting in fear that a disaster was coming, and then fainted..."

"and after?"

"Later, the world was in chaos. The monks in Southern Xinjiang suddenly went crazy and started to massacre the city. The area southeast of Jinguan City, including Jinguan City... was littered with corpses. People narrowly escaped death, shocking the world."

Jiang Ke'er immediately understood the source of the prefect's nervousness.

The situation this time is very similar to the last time.

Everything also started in southern Xinjiang, and all clues point to southern Xinjiang's restlessness.

Then the fortune tellers went crazy.

But Jiang Keer didn’t understand...what did all this have to do with her?

Why did I become the fuse that triggered the fortune tellers to go crazy?

She looked down at the "Ghost Wu Xiang" in her hand.

Perhaps the answer lies in this book.

But this could also be a trap.

In my current state, I may very likely suffer the same fate as these fortune tellers... If they have ulterior motives, it may be even worse.

But... whether it was the weirdness of last night or the legend from hundreds of years ago, they were all like flames of temptation, arousing my strong curiosity.

I really want to know the truth.

Although the truth is fraught with uncertainty.

The poisonous assassination in Chang'an City, the life and death of Taibai the Great, the whereabouts of Gongsun Da Niang are unknown...

Everything indicates that something undercurrent is brewing beneath the light.

The key to the answer lies between the words of this book.

With my personality, how could I not read it?

"Miss Jiang, you should..." The prefect looked embarrassed and grabbed the corner of the book "Ghost Wu Xiang" in Jiang Ke'er's hand. "I have explained the urgency of the incident to His Majesty. It should be soon that a former Xiangmen disciple will come to study this book. You should not take this risk..."

"Give me a copy," Jiang Ke'er smiled bitterly, "After all, this matter is related to me, and I really can't help but want to explore it..."

"no!"