#313 - Eye of Yama
Sending Youjia "back" to the Dragon Guard was a weight off Wei Changtian's mind.
However, many unfinished matters remained.
The most pressing of course, was "Slaying Yama".
Now that he had been in Fengyuan for seven days, there were eighteen days left before the common people evacuated Fengyuan City, and forty-eight days until July 15th.
Which meant he had a maximum of forty-eight days to kill Yama.
Wei Changtian actually felt that this time was more than sufficient.
After all, as long as he could catch a glimpse of Yama, the latter would most likely have no chance of escape.
In the study, Pei Dajun handed over several case files, which detailed the circumstances of several "Yama Eating People" cases from yesterday.
The "centralized accommodation" of children in the city was now seventy or eighty percent complete. Only about a thousand children were still scattered in the city. The rest had either been sent out of the city or were concentrated in dozens of temporarily requisitioned mansions near the Princess's residence.
“Okay.”
Wei Changtian took the case files and casually flipped through them, his brows furrowing slightly: “Lord Pei, more than fifty people died yesterday?”
“Yes.”
Pei Dajun sighed softly: “Alas, in recent days, the number of crimes committed by this monster has obviously increased a lot, and…”
“And it has never committed a crime near the Princess's residence.”
Wei Changtian finished Pei Dajun's sentence, his face looking grim.
According to the information previously gathered, although this Yama's methods of killing people were very strange, it came and went without a trace, and it could even transform into a phantom to be immune to all attacks.
But it had a weakness, which was that its intelligence was very low, or it might not have any intelligence at all.
The time and target of its killings were completely random, as if it never considered things like "Is this a trap?".
It was precisely because of this that the watchman was able to successfully lure it out sixty years ago, giving that swordsman a chance to slay the demon with his sword.
But now…
Ninety-nine percent of the children in Fengyuan City lived near the Princess's residence, but this monster never committed crimes there.
This undoubtedly showed that it was no longer as "stupid" as it was sixty years ago.
“Lord Pei, perhaps we need to hurry up.”
After thinking for a moment, Wei Changtian said: “As long as all the young children in the city can be gathered together, this monster will probably show up near the Princess's residence even if it knows there is a risk.”
“Yes, I have already ordered people to complete this matter within two days.”
Pei Dajun nodded first, then shook his head: “But I'm afraid that if this monster stops killing people by then, then…”
“If that's the case, then we can only evacuate all the people in the city as soon as possible.”
Wei Changtian looked at the pile of files on the table, feeling uneasy.
Each file represented the life of a young child. So far, there were more than six hundred of them.
Faced with such a monster that only "ate" children, Wei Changtian really wanted to eliminate harm for the people this time.
But if there was no way to grasp the whereabouts of this demon, then all of this would ultimately be empty talk.
Perhaps the Demon Mirror Compass could sense Yama's location?
Wei Changtian had long had this guess, but unfortunately, he didn't bring the Demon Mirror Compass with him this time. It was with Qin Zhengqiu, who was on his way to Fengyuan.
Therefore, there wasn't much he could do now.
“Lord Pei.”
Suddenly, Wei Changtian raised his head, as if he had thought of something: “I want to see someone who has personally seen Yama.”
“No problem.”
Pei Dajun immediately replied: “I'll arrange it right away.”
An hour later.
With Pei Dajun's arrangement, Wei Changtian quickly met someone who had witnessed Yama's crime in the watchman's office—a peddler who carried a load of cosmetics.
And at that time, the child who died was his son.
“…”
“Like a bird but not a bird, like a leopard but not a leopard… So it looks like a demon when it kills people?”
Looking at the haggard man opposite him, Wei Changtian asked: “What happened after that? How did it leave?”
“Reporting to the young master, it left in the form of a young man.”
The man had obviously answered these questions countless times, so he didn't hesitate at all at this moment: “It glanced at me, and then left from beside me.”
“From beside you?”
Wei Changtian frowned: “It killed your son in front of you, didn't you think about fighting it?”
“This… This lowly one naturally thought about it.”
Mentioning this matter again, the man's tone trembled slightly: “But at that time, this lowly one couldn't muster any strength in my body, and couldn't even move a finger.”
Couldn't move?
Was he scared silly?
Wei Changtian touched his nose. Pei Dajun next to him saw what he was thinking, so he whispered a reminder:
“Young Master Wei, this may be related to the demon's eyes.”
“Eyes?”
Wei Changtian was stunned, but before he could speak, the man opposite him suddenly became extremely frightened.
“Eyes! It's because of its eyes!”
“Those aren't human eyes! Nor are they beast's eyes!”
“Those… Those are Yama's eyes! They are the eyes of an evil god!!”
“Ah! Ah!!”
“Don't… Don't kill me! Don't kill me!!”
“…”
The almost frantic shouts were filled with fear from the bottom of his heart.
The man suddenly became emotionally out of control, but several watchmen seemed to have expected this and immediately stepped forward to restrain his hands and feet, dragging him out of the room without explanation.
“Uh…”
Wei Changtian was stunned by this scene and turned to ask Pei Dajun: “Lord Pei, is he alright?”
“It's alright. It's the same as before. Every time he talks about the demon's eyes, he's like this.”
Pei Dajun shook his head: “It'll be fine after a while.”
“Oh.”
Wei Changtian retracted his gaze, thought for a moment, and then asked: “He also said that the demon left after transforming into a man. Has a portrait of this man been drawn?”
“There is a portrait, but we haven't been able to find anything, and…”
Pei Dajun smiled wryly: “And everyone who has seen Yama describes Yama differently. Some people even say that it has transformed into a woman.”
“Is that so?”
Hearing this, Wei Changtian was a little surprised at first, and then his expression slowly became serious.
Both true and false, both real and illusory.
Apart from that mysterious swordsman, even the moves of a Second-Rank expert could not hurt it in the slightest.
Its eyes possessed extremely strong bewitching and deterrent abilities, which could cause people to temporarily lose their ability to move.
Its main body was a leopard with wings, but it could transform into the appearance of a human, or even the appearance of anyone.
Any one of these things would be awesome enough, but now they were all concentrated on "Yama".
So to speak…
What the hell was he going to face???
