They Actually Wanted to Sleep with Foxes?

Xu Ye and the other two stepped onto the street, but the pedestrians still continued onward, each minding their own business.

Whenever they encountered Xu Ye's group, they merely detoured around them. It was as though there was no one else in their eyes, as if they had lost their minds.

Seeing this, Xu Ye and the others frowned slightly.

Nearby, the families of those men were still crying and shouting.

Lin Yuyan could not bear to watch.

She stepped over to the mother and son from earlier. "Get up first!"

Hearing her voice, the mother and son looked up and saw Xu Ye's group.

The woman froze at once, then her expression changed drastically.

With a thud, she dropped to her knees with her son. "This humble woman greets the Demon-Suppression Guards, my lords!"

"Please, my lords, uphold justice for us!"

Lin Yuyan hurried forward and helped the mother and son to their feet.

The woman's face was still streaked with tears, pale as paper.

At that moment, Xu Ye said, "Since we're here, we'll definitely resolve this matter."

Upon hearing that, the woman seemed to have found hope. "Thank you, my lords!"

The Demon-Suppression Bureau's reputation was now known to everyone in this age of rampant demons and monsters.

They were the bane of demons and monsters.

Though these people did not know whether demons were truly behind this, seeing members of the Demon-Suppression Bureau arrive gave them hope.

Only then did Xu Ye ask, "Can you tell me about your husband?"

Xu Ye felt that what they had learned from the waiter during the day had still been far too little.

He had always felt that the waiter's account was rather one-sided.

Now that a victim's family was right before him, he naturally had to get to the bottom of it.

Hearing Xu Ye's question, how could the woman possibly conceal anything?

She sobbed so hard she could barely speak. After a while, she finally said, "This began a few days ago. A few days back, Miss Xi'er suddenly came to Mu Family Town and set up some Ten Thousand Flowers Gala at the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion."

"From that day on, not only my man, but all the men in the entire town seemed to have been bewitched by her. Every night, they went to the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion."

"No matter how we dragged them back or tried to persuade them, we couldn't stop them. But every time they went, they would return at daybreak."

"Only, after coming back, they changed completely. Either they became noticeably thinner, or they were like walking corpses. They spoke less and less. Once home, they just slept, sleeping for an entire day. When night fell, they repeated what they had done the day before."

At this point, her voice became anguished. "A few days ago, it was still manageable. When my man came back, he still recognized my son and me. But these past two days, things have become more and more wrong."

"After my man comes back now, he no longer recognizes my son and me at all. I feel like he isn't my man anymore, as if he has become someone else entirely."

Hearing this, Xu Ye inwardly said, Just as I thought.

What the waiter had said during the day really had been far too one-sided.

He had spoken entirely from his own assumptions.

What this woman had said was the truth.

Those men had not gone of their own accord.

Their minds had been thrown into chaos by demons, leaving them unable to control their own bodies. They were completely like walking corpses.

This demon is a little unusual! With that thought, Xu Ye spoke.

Lin Yuyan looked at Xu Ye. "What do you mean, Chief Xu?"

"To be able to bewilder so many people at once, it definitely isn't an ordinary fox demon," Xu Ye said.

Ordinary demons, even if they possessed the ability to harm people and methods to confuse their minds, could not possibly be this outrageous—bewildering all the men in an entire town, including outsiders.

This was far too absurd.

How did this seem anything like the Demon-Patrol Guards' report that it only possessed the strength of the sixth level of Meridian Opening?

Hearing Xu Ye's words, Zhao Heng sneered. "You're overthinking it. The intelligence of our Demon-Suppression Bureau's Demon-Patrol Guards can't possibly be wrong."

That was something everyone had witnessed for themselves.

The Demon-Patrol Guards' intelligence was famous for its accuracy.

Otherwise, the Demon-Suppression Bureau would not have specifically established such a department.

"Let's hope so," Xu Ye said with a nod.

"Please, my lords, you must save my husband! If something happens to him, how are my son and I supposed to live?" Seeing Xu Ye's group like this, the woman hurriedly kowtowed.

She was terrified that Xu Ye's group would leave. If they did, she and her son would truly lose all hope.

Xu Ye quickly said, "Don't worry. We won't leave. I'll definitely bring your husband back."

"Thank you, my lord! Thank you, my lord!" The woman continued to kowtow.

Xu Ye helped her up, then led Zhao Heng and the others along with the flow of people.

Before long, Xu Ye and the others arrived at the back street of Mu Family Town.

At that moment, a pavilion was brightly lit and filled with bustling voices.

All the gathered men were heading into that pavilion.

Xu Ye raised his head and saw the three characters on the plaque.

It was the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion the woman had mentioned.

The three exchanged glances. Xu Ye said, "Let's take a look first."

They did not rashly enter.

Instead, with a leap, they jumped onto the rooftops. A moment later, they arrived above the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion, and Xu Ye carefully lifted a roof tile.

Their gazes could clearly sweep over the scene within.

Everything inside lay in full view.

At that moment, many people had gathered inside the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion, and every one of them was a man.

They stood on the first floor of the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion, heads tilted up toward the air as though waiting for something.

Yet Xu Ye could see that these men all shared the same traits: sunken eye sockets, dark circles around their eyes, and utterly vacant gazes. It seemed they no longer had any will of their own.

"Look over there!" Lin Yuyan suddenly pointed toward the second floor of the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion.

Following her gaze, Xu Ye saw several women on the second floor holding flower baskets and scattering flowers down onto the first floor.

From time to time, they let out laughter as crisp as silver bells.

"Welcome, gentlemen, to Miss Xi'er's Ten Thousand Flowers Gala."

"On behalf of Miss Xi'er, we welcome you all."

"Do you like Miss Xi'er?"

Hearing the women's voices, the men below all revealed greedy looks, as if they had seen peerless beauties.

With lecherous grins, they teased, "Of course we do!"

"We like her far too much."

"If we can't spend a night with Miss Xi'er, then spending it with you fairy sisters would be just as good!"

"Yeah, yeah!"

"To die beneath a peony flower, even as a ghost, one would still be romantic."

"Fairy sisters, give yourselves to us!"

Hearing the men's words,

the women immediately began posing flirtatiously.

"Don't worry, you all!"

"If Miss Xi'er doesn't choose you tonight, us sisters won't let you come for nothing."

"Us sisters will satisfy you too!"

Hearing the women's words,

the men below went completely mad.

Each was incomparably excited, their eyes filled with greed.

They could hardly wait to rush up and strip those women naked.

When that scene fell into the eyes of Xu Ye's group on the roof,

their expressions shifted, their eyes widening as they froze on the spot.

Zhao Heng's face turned pale. Pointing at the men below with wide eyes, he said, "Th-they... they've gone mad?"

"They actually want to sleep with foxes?"

For a moment, Zhao Heng could not even speak properly.