[comprehensive] not human

After leaving Heishi Mountain, Yan Bai and Zhu Juren continued to march towards the capital.On the way, Yanbai told Zhu Juren that the monster was transformed from the entire Black Rock Mountain. It has been practiced for thousands of years. It is very powerful. Because the body cannot move, he has not seen a human for a long time. He heard that human flesh is delicious a long time ago, so Only this time I wanted to stop Zhu Juren to have a taste.But after becoming friends with Yan Bai, he didn't care about this human being anymore, and with a wave of his hand, he let his new friend leave with his rations.

"Ration?" Zhu Juren sighed, "It seems that what is said in the book still makes sense, monsters will still eat people." Not all monsters are as pure as the group in the mural.Ah, speaking of it, the one in front of me is also a big monster, I don't know if the other party has eaten it.

Thinking of Yan Bai slowly picking up a piece of bloody human flesh and stuffing it into his mouth with an expression of enjoyment, Zhu Juren felt a chill.

Seeing what he was thinking, Yan Bai deliberately joked: "When I was not in human form, I had to eat three people every day, one for children, one for adults and one for the elderly. If I didn't eat, I would feel uncomfortable."

Seeing that Zhu Juren's face was pale with fright, he was satisfied, and smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up: "I'm joking."

"Brother Yan! Please don't make such jokes in the future!" Zhu Juren glared at Yanbai, and it was the first time he discovered that the other party had such a bad taste.

While talking, both of them saw a house not far away, sitting alone on the side of the sidewalk, other than that, the surrounding area was still barren and uninhabited.At this time, it was twilight and the haze was dim. Zhu Juren was ready to sleep in the wilderness again, but when he saw a house, he immediately forgot the fright he had just received and quickened his heavy steps.

As the distance shortens, the outline of the house becomes clearer.It was a two-story inn, and a flagpole carrying a flag with the word "Inn" protruded from the second floor, hanging on the road to remind every pedestrian that there was a place to rest.There is also a small courtyard in front of the house. Push open the thick wooden door covered with deep scratches, and you can see a stable in the corner of the courtyard, apparently for travelers to tie up their horses.On the other side of the courtyard is a well with wooden buckets for lifting water.

Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, a thin and dry young man ran out from the inn, with a gray towel on his shoulders, his thin yellow face with protruding cheekbones squeezed out a smile: "Yo , Guest officer, welcome, are you staying at the top or staying at the hotel?"

Zhu Juren stepped over the threshold, scanned the empty lobby, and replied, "Have dinner first, and then stay overnight."

"Okay! You go to the shopkeeper to pay the money first, and I will take the guest officers to the guest room to put the luggage later."

Standing at the door, Yan Bai saw that the hall was dark because the lights hadn't been lit to save candles.Five tables, surrounded by benches, are spread out in the lobby.All the tables and stools were covered with a thick layer of dust, and the waiter was quickly wiping one of them with a gray towel on his shoulder, probably for them to eat later.On the left side of the lobby near the door is the counter. Behind the counter, the fat shopkeeper is registering Zhu Juren. There is a door a little further inside. There is a dark blue cotton curtain hanging on the door. From the crack of the curtain, you can see the kitchen inside.On the right side of the lobby is the staircase leading to the second floor. On the right wall is the only window in the entire lobby. At this time, the casement is closed tightly, and the paper pasting the window has turned yellow due to age.

Zhu Juren put the broken silver close to his body, turned around and saw Yan Bai looking at the opposite corner with an unfathomable expression, his heart tightened.When going up the stairs, under the cover of the creaking noise of the stairs, he couldn't wait to ask the young man walking beside him in a low voice: "Is there a monster in this inn?"

Yan Bai stared at Xiao Er who was leading the way in front of him, who was bent over to protect a candlestick, the candlelight was flickering, and his huge shadow printed on the wall was also flickering non-stop. Hearing this, he glanced sideways at him and thought it was a bit funny: "There are so many monsters."

Zhu Juren breathed a sigh of relief. Since he knew that monsters really existed in the world, he really felt that monsters can be found everywhere around him. The new friends he met were monsters, even the mountain he just climbed.

When they went downstairs again, candles were already lit in the inn lobby, on every table, and three new guests were sitting around one of them talking loudly.When they heard the movement, they looked up at Zhu Juren.

These three people are not ordinary people at first glance. The big man sitting with his legs stretched across the middle has a scar across his right eye, and his entire black eye is covered with a layer of white. He is obviously half-blind. He is sitting alone on a bench. There was a broad-mouthed sword.On the left of the big man is a woman with a silver hairpin in her head, wearing a colorful dress, and her eyebrows and eyes are full of spring.Sitting on the other side of the woman was a little old man with white beard and hair, wrinkled face and smiling face, but Zhu Juren felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at his shrunken neck and back.The three of them stared at Zhu Juren intently, until he sat down in the seat farthest from them, and then resumed talking and laughing.Even in the middle of the conversation, I still glanced here from time to time.

While waiting for Xiaoer to bring the food, Zhu Juren leaned closer to Yan Bai and said in a low voice, "Brother Yan, be careful, that group is probably bandits." He was also a person who traveled through mountains and rivers, and there were many bandits, robbers and robbers along the way. Such people have a different temperament from ordinary people.If you don't know the truth, it just makes you feel uncomfortable.

Yan Bai lowered his head and played with his chopsticks with no expression on his face. He knew that those three people were not good people, but they were not the only ones. It is estimated that everyone in this inn except Zhu Juren was not clean.Just now he caught a glimpse of something incredible in the kitchen through the crack of the curtain, well, it's better not to tell Zhu Juren, lest he won't be able to eat at that time.

The dishes were served, steaming hot, with meat and vegetables, and they looked quite delicious.Especially the braised pork, all glowing with oil under the candlelight, with a tangy aroma.Zhu Juren swallowed his saliva—he had eaten dry food for several days, not to mention the meat, he couldn't even see the end of the oil.He stuffed a piece of braised pork into his mouth, his eyes lit up immediately, he didn't expect the cook in this kind of simple inn to have such skills, he picked up another piece, and said to Yan Bai: "Brother Yan, this meat is very good food."

Yan Bai didn't move his chopsticks, not only turning a blind eye to the meat and vegetables, he even didn't eat the rice.When Zhu Juren picked up the fifth piece of meat, he suddenly pulled out a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo tube to block his hands: "Don't eat it."

Zhu Juren still had a mouth full of rice, and stared at him puzzled, "Why?"

Yan Bai slowly put the chopsticks on the plate: "That's a piece of human flesh."

Contrary to his calmness, Zhu Juren felt nauseated for a while, his stomach was churning, his throat was choked, and the food in his mouth was either swallowed or vomited.

"Why don't you eat it?" Yan Bai was surprised, obviously he ate so deliciously before, he himself was really not hungry, snakes are usually full when they eat, and then they can not eat for several months afterwards.

Zhu Juren spit the rice onto the table. The rice balls were mixed with chopped vegetable leaves and small pieces of meat, and the surface was coated with a layer of crystal saliva, making it even more disgusting.

"Human flesh! Why didn't you say it earlier!" Zhu Juren took a few sips of tea to get rid of the meaty taste in his mouth.He put down his teacup and growled angrily at Yan Bai.

Yan Bai said calmly with a blank face: "You used to eat pork, not all of it was human flesh. This piece, this piece, and these few pieces are all pork." He ordered with his fingers in the air. Point, and show Zhu Juren all the normal pieces of meat.

Zhu Juren felt that even if these were all pork, he couldn't bear it!They were mixed with human flesh and burned!Thinking of that scene, he couldn't help vomiting again.

"Xiao Er! Why is your meat not fresh!" The table was slammed, and it was the three people sitting diagonally across the table, and the one who got angry now was the big man in the middle.

Xiao Er, who was so skinny that he almost lost his shape, hurried over, and behind him, the chubby anecdote rolled over like a ball.

"Shopkeeper, you came just in time! Why is your meat so sour? Could it be that you gave us bad meat on purpose!" The big man's voice was loud, and the yelling resounded throughout the inn.

"Oh, what is this master talking about? How dare we dare." The shopkeeper rubbed his hands and smiled apologetically, "This is the freshest meat in our shop! Human flesh is a bit sour."

"Fart! You're your grandfather, I've never eaten human flesh! You're fucking soaked in a vinegar vat!" The big man stood up abruptly, and slashed a knife into the table next to him.He was tall and broad, like a bear, and now standing up like this, he was almost a head taller than the shopkeeper.

No matter how they argue over there, how the shopkeeper apologizes.Zhu Juren felt a chill in his heart, and his limbs became stiff.Those three people knew they were human flesh!This is human flesh!It's not snake meat, rat meat, or cat meat.Why can they have such a normal discussion?

Yan Bai looked at his pale face, shook his head and said softly: "This is the coming chaos of the troubled world, maybe it has already come."

As if to confirm his words, the door of the inn that was closed was kicked open with a slam.

Whether it was the big man holding the shopkeeper's collar, the giggling woman watching the show, or the frowning Zhu Juren, all of them turned their heads to look at the newcomer.

In the dark night, with a human skin mask on his face, the old man in a cloak flicked his sleeves and stepped into the inn, followed by four or five people dressed in the same clothes as him.Behind this group of menacing people, a prisoner with shackles and shaggy hair was helped into the door by two women who also had iron chains on their hands.This group of people instantly became the focus of the entire inn's sight.

The old man at the head snorted coldly, and said, "Where's the shopkeeper here?" His voice was weird, hoarse, soft, with the femininity of a woman.This is a eunuch.It should be said that he and his subordinates were all eunuchs.

The shopkeeper skilfully slipped out from under the man's hand, pulled the corner of Xiaoer's clothes to bring him back to his senses, and at the same time greeted him with a smile: "Oh, my lords, are you a top-notch or staying in the store?"

The old man turned around and sat down at a table at the door without answering. A young eunuch behind him chuckled and said coldly: "Are you blind? Where are we going if we don't stay in the store so late?" An old eunuch with wrinkles and white powder on his face, this young man has nothing on his face, still pink lips, eyes like cold stars, really good-looking.

The shopkeeper hurriedly bowed down and apologized: "Yes, yes, the villain is stupid. Erhu, come and order for the adults!"

The group of people with long knives and official boots sat down at two tables. The old eunuch was the only one sitting alone at the table. The young man behind him didn't take a seat. He was obviously ready to serve at any time.As for the three prisoners, it was much more miserable. They were driven into a corner of the inn and huddled. The prisoner in the middle was old and wearing heavy shackles and walked a step slower, and was kicked behind his knee by a eunuch. Bend, his legs went limp and almost fell down.The two female prisoners exclaimed and quickly supported him.Amid the painful coughing of the prisoners, the eunuchs laughed loudly and thinly.