When Li Changan arrived.

It was early morning the next day.

The town has not yet woken up, but a large crowd of onlookers has gathered outside the courtyard. There are few women and children among them, most of them are capable men. They are also vaguely divided into many small groups, wary of each other, and they all poke their heads into the courtyard.

Seeing Li Changan yelling for a while, they rushed to surround him.

His enthusiasm is like that of a fan following a star.

It's a pity that these guys are not fans of Taoist priests, but so-called "monster hunters". All their enthusiasm is to get some information about monsters from the Taoist priests' mouths.

This situation is not the same one or two. Li Changan has already experienced it. He held down his long sword and put on a face that kept strangers away from him. His piercing eyes glared at him, causing the crowd to move out of the way.

In the courtyard, Bo Ziyu waited for a long time.

Skip the unnecessary pleasantries.

He immediately led the Taoist priests around to look around and introduced the whole story of the case.

From Wang Liuzhi causing an occlusion, to asking the strange things from the ugly boy's mouth, to rounding up the demon without success.

Each one is detailed, one by one.

It's not complicated, the Taoist priest quickly figured it out, but...

"What's his condition?"

The Taoist asked about Wang Liuzhi.

This unlucky guy who has spent the rest of his life under the claws of the cat demon is still huddled in the corner of the room, still naked, covered in dirt made of mud, sweat, and blood, and underneath the dirt are bruises and scratches all over his body.

The wound was not deep and had already scabbed over.

It's just that the long and thin scars are densely packed and criss-crossed vertically (harmoniously) horizontally, which makes people's hearts feel chilly.

I saw him just a few days ago boasting about his achievements and parading around in high spirits. In such a blink of an eye, he has become this virtuous?

But Bo Ziyu was also scratching his head.

"When I found him, he looked like this. He didn't say anything when I asked him, and he didn't react when I touched him. But when I took him out of the house, he would struggle desperately. I was worried that he had been planted with some evil spirit.

I don't dare to deal with it easily."

Li Changan stepped forward to check, and it turned out that it was just as he said. It didn't react at all despite being manipulated, like a curled-up corpse.

Then he carried him outside the house.

really.

As soon as they reached the door, Wang Liuzhi's face suddenly became distorted. Although he still gritted his teeth and kept silent, he started to thrash and struggle like crazy, as if there was some abyss of hell outside the door.

But Taoist Li was not as "gentle" as his colleagues. He carried this 100-pound man like a little chicken and forced him out of the door.

Didn't think about it.

Arrived at the yard.

His struggle stopped instead, and he stared blankly at the sky. The distortion on his face gradually calmed down, his eyes gradually became moist, and the corners of his mouth gradually trembled.

Finally, with a "wow" sound, he threw himself at the Taoist priest beside him.

The Taoist priest was very smart and he ducked out of the way.

He didn't pick on anyone, he turned around, hugged Bo Ziyu's thigh, howled loudly, and wiped his nose on the person's pants.

"Let go! Let go!"

Bo Ziyu's face turned blue, but this guy was like a little kid going to kindergarten for the first time. He hugged his trouser legs tightly and refused to let go.

Bo Ziyu was so angry that he picked up the scabbard and hit the guy on the head several times. He slapped the guy to the ground and stuck him out before he finally calmed down.

…

After a while.

Bo Ziyu wiped the snot on his trouser legs with a rag and asked with a dark face:

"Why don't you say anything in the house?"

Wang Liuzhi shed tears from the corners of his eyes.

"It didn't let me make a sound. It scratched me every time it opened its mouth. It was so painful that I couldn't even scream."

"Why don't you leave the house?"

Wang Liuzhi howled loudly.

"It won't let me go out. As soon as I go out..."

Already trembling, crying.

Okay, I finally figured it out.

"It turns out that the female cat treated her like a mouse and played with it a lot. She was silent in the room just now. Could she be imitating a mouse and pretending to be dead?"

After saying that, seeing the Taoist priest's puzzled expression, Bo Ziyu patted his forehead and explained:

"This woman turned into a monster with the body of a cat and the face of a cat."

Cat demon?

Li Changan was stunned for a moment, then smiled casually.

"It won't have a mouse son."

Bo Ziyu was surprised and wondered how the Taoist priest knew.

"I have a son, and he does look like a mouse." He kicked Wang Liuzhi, who was laughing on the ground, "and he was caught by this guy as a rat."

When these words came out, it was Li Changan's turn to be confused. He asked tentatively:

"Orphans and widowers?"

The catcher nodded.

"Opened a noodle stall?"

The detective nodded again.

After a brief question and answer, Li Changan gradually opened his eyes.

A certain thought popped up in my mind, as if trying to overcome the fog in one fell swoop.

Yes! Yes!

Aren't this street, this courtyard, and this family the same cat, mother, and mouse that Amei met in her dream?!

No wonder I felt a vague sense of familiarity as soon as I entered this courtyard.

It turns out that what happened here actually coincided with the dream!

"Taoist Master, have you discovered something?" Bo Ziyu noticed the change in Li Changan's expression.

The Taoist priest was about to open his mouth, but the words stuck in his throat.

wrong.

Little Amei's dream was originally based on Xiaoshui City, so it was normal for this family to appear in her dream. The son looked like a mouse, so Amei imagined him to be a rat demon, and his mother also imagined a cat demon.

Logically speaking, this matter is probably just a coincidence. Otherwise, why is the son not a monster?

The thoughts in my mind calmed down.

Li Changan shook his head:

"It's okay, it's just random thoughts."

Bo Ziyu did not ask further questions. He had always respected Li Changan and would not think too much about it. He just sighed.

"This time we mobilized troops in the middle of the night, but I didn't expect it. After all our efforts, we managed to get rid of the monster."

However.

"No."

Li Changan shook his head with a smile on his face.

He had just followed Bo Ziyu around, and although he looked calm, he had actually discovered something fishy. Now after thinking about it carefully for a while, he solved an important doubt.

"On the contrary. Brother Bo, you have made great achievements this time!"

Bo Ziyu was baffled.

"But the cat demon ran away?"

When a Taoist priest has something to say, he just says it, and explains it right away.

"Even if you catch it, it's just one more monster imprisoned in Shuiyue Temple. You also know the monsters in the temple. When you don't catch it, they are more cunning and fickle than the others; when you catch them, they seem to have become unintelligent.

You beast, you can't ask anything."

"We are not just trying to defeat one or two monsters, but we need to figure out how the monsters lurk in the city."

Li Changan took Bo Ziyu to the kitchen, where many sacks containing grain were piled up in the corner.
To be continued...