Something's wrong with this demon.

Chapter 28

Outside the window, the night was gradually receding.

The next day, when Luo Qingchen came out of the first house, Chen Ju was in a stone house not far away, humming a song and brewing medicine, looking to be in a good mood.

Luo Qingchen's gaze fell on the second house next door.

The bloodstains at the entrance have not yet been cleaned up.

The door was ajar, but Wang Long and Wang Hu were no longer inside.

Last night, he took out several bags of nails from under the bed, arranged the room, and then left by removing the roof tiles and hiding in the first house.

He was naturally fully aware of what was happening just across the wall.

The hunter suddenly became the prey, benefiting other hunters.

It's unknown how much blood those hunters hiding in the shadows took from the two brothers, but they probably "showed mercy" and didn't kill them on the spot.

After all, every medicine person here has their own master.

If two people die at once, and the other party's master really wants to investigate, everyone here might be in trouble.

Besides, they are different from the people above.

Those above don't care whether the medicine users live long, because they have more than one medicine user; while the people here, because they don't have their own medicine users, understand the importance of a long-term, sustainable approach.

The longer the other party lives, the more chances they have to draw blood again.

Therefore, they will not directly kill someone unless absolutely necessary.

Luo Qingchen went into the second room and packed her things.

He left the room and arrived at the stone house.

Inside the stone house, Chen Ju was standing in front of the stove, stirring the medicinal broth in the pot with a spatula while humming a cheerful tune.

A rich medicinal aroma filled the entire room.

"Brother Chen seems to be in a very good mood."

Luo Qingchen spoke from the doorway.

Chen Ju turned to look at him, his face immediately breaking into a smile: "Brother Luo, you're up? How are you feeling? You had a lot of blood drawn yesterday, I was worried about you."

Luo Qingchen calmly replied, "Thank you for your concern, Brother Chen. I'm fine."

As he spoke, he looked into the pot and asked, "Brother Chen, are you preparing a medicinal bath? Is there any fresh blood?"

Chen Ju laughed and said, "There's no blood involved. It's just like what Brother Luo did before, brewing some medicine to try."

As he stirred the medicinal broth in the pot, he sighed again and said, "For cultivators like us, who are poor and have no background, obtaining blood for cultivation is no easy task."

Luo Qingchen nodded: "Brother Chen is right. By the way, where is Boss Zhang? I haven't seen him for several days."

Chen Ju said, "It's all because of the case of the death in the building. The town garrison has been running around like crazy these days, so they asked him to go and help. What's up, Brother Luo, do you need to see Chief Zhang?"

"It's nothing, I just asked casually."

Luo Qingchen didn't say anything more and prepared to take her leave.

Chen Ju suddenly added, "By the way, Brother Luo probably doesn't know yet, right? Last night, the Wang brothers, Long and Hu, went out to do something, and they came back injured. They can't walk for the time being, and they're extremely weak. So tonight, the two of us will have to take over their night patrol."

"Oh?"

Luo Qingchen looked at him and asked, "Are they recuperating inside the house right now?"

Chen Ju said, "Yes, Brother Sun and I went to visit them this morning. Brother Luo, would you like to go and see them too?"

"Of course, we're all brothers."

Luo Qingchen smiled faintly and walked towards Wang Long and Wang Hu's house.

Chen Ju watched his retreating figure, his smile still intact.

After the figure had disappeared into the distance, the smile on his face gradually faded, and he muttered to himself, "That kid is really something. Those two brothers were not to be trifled with either, but I almost lost my life on our first fight. It seems I'll have to be more careful from now on."

"Thump! Thump!"

Luo Qingchen arrived at Wang Long and Wang Hu's door and knocked.

Wang Long's tense and chilling voice immediately came from inside the room: "Who?"

Both brothers are injured now and are probably on guard against others at all times. When they are sleeping to recover, one of them is probably asleep while the other is awake.

Luo Qingchen said, "Having heard that my two elder brothers were injured, I have come to visit them."

At this moment, Wang Hu also woke up. Upon hearing the name, he couldn't help but curse angrily, "Get lost! I don't need your hypocritical act, you little bastard!"

Wang Long suppressed his anger and gritted his teeth, saying, "Thank you for your concern, Brother Luo, but we are both injured and cannot get up to greet our guests."

Both of their voices sounded very weak.

Seeing that they were indeed still alive, Luo Qingchen didn't say anything more, said "I'm sorry to have bothered you," and turned to leave.

It seems those people still don't dare to kill easily.

In this way, he could at least feel a little more at ease, without constantly worrying about being assassinated at any moment.

Even so, he cannot be careless in the slightest.

No one can guarantee that those people won't be tempted by blood again and cause fatal bloodshed.

Moreover, the heart-ripping monster is still lurking in the darkness and could jump out at any moment to deliver a fatal blow.

Return to the second house.

After setting up the traps, he lay down on the bed, preparing to sleep for a few hours.

I have to patrol tonight, so I must be in top mental condition.

As he closed his eyes and fell asleep, Chen Ju had already prepared the medicine, moved the medicine bucket into his house, locked the doors and windows, and started the medicinal bath.

The collision of the magic stone and the blood quickly transformed into a powerful medicinal energy.

Chen Ju groaned comfortably.

In the other two rooms, Sun Tong and Zhou Yan were also soaking in the rich medicinal broth with expressions of enjoyment.

Only the two brothers, Wang Long and Wang Hu, lay weakly on the bed, groaning in pain.

"Whoosh!"

After getting up in the early morning, Luo continued her cultivation.

The remaining medicinal energy in his body was tempering his bones at an even faster pace.

Pain and pleasure coexist.

In the evening, he took a bath, changed into clean clothes, and left Baixianglou.

The streets were deserted and eerily quiet.

Zhao Shi sat alone in front of a roadside stall, his gaze vacant, lost in thought.

As Luo Qingchen walked over, he was about to call out when he suddenly recognized the person and exclaimed with delight, "Achen, it's you!"

Luo Qingchen sat down beside him and looked at him, saying, "I heard Uncle Zhao had an accident?"

Zhao Shi's expression turned somewhat blank: "Yes, something happened to my father. I heard he was walking on the road when he was bitten to death by a rabid dog. I didn't even see his body."

Luo Qingchen remained silent and did not speak.

Just as he had expected, those people were unlikely to tell Zhao Shi the truth.

"Yesterday, A-Yun came and said that her father went to Bai Xiang Lou that night, slept with a girl, and didn't pay her, so he's in debt."

After Zhao Shi finished speaking, a bitter smile suddenly appeared on his face.

He looked at the boy beside him and said, "Achen, will you look down on me and my father? Living off a weak woman like me, even going to a brothel requires Ayun to pay."

Luo Qingchen didn't answer, but asked, "Why didn't you go to Qinghe City back then?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Shi's face was full of bitterness: "Achen, not everyone can enter the city, and even if they can, not everyone can survive in the city."

Luo Qingchen remained silent.

"For people like us, just being alive is a miracle."

After Zhao Shi finished speaking, he remained silent for a while, then said in a complicated tone, "Actually, with Father dead, A-Yun is finally free. Back then, Father did many bad things to her in order to force her to sell herself in a brothel, and then he would always come to her asking for money."

Luo Qingchen didn't interrupt, but listened quietly to his story.

Zhao Shi seemed largely unaffected by Zhao Laosan's sudden death. After saying a few words, he asked Luo Qingchen, "Achen, are you doing well at Baixiang Tower?"

Luo Qingchen said, "It's fine."

Zhao Shi smiled wryly: "If things were really that good, we wouldn't be borrowing money everywhere. Although you've become a cultivator now, I know that your situation isn't much different from ours as ordinary medicine practitioners. We also need to donate blood, we also need to eat, and we can also disappear at any time."

Luo Qingchen nodded.

This is indeed the case.

The two looked at the pedestrians on the street, who were like walking corpses, and neither of them spoke again.

Luo Qingchen sat with him for a while longer before getting up to say goodbye.

"Ah Chen, live well."

Zhao Shi encouraged him.

Luo Qingchen looked at him and said, "Brother Shi, you too."

Night had fallen.

Luo Qingchen returned to Baixiang Tower and went straight inside. Just as he was about to patrol the various rooms, the manager, Sun Ping, approached him with a cold face and questioned, "Guard Luo, Qingmei said that when you were patrolling the second floor that night, you tried to force your way into her room and assault her. Is that true?"

The eyes of several girls and maids nearby all turned to look.