The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The shopkeeper quietly opened the gap in the film, looked out, then retracted his head, sighed, and shook his head at Zhong Liu.

"It appears the decontamination process is continuing."

The implication is that the two have to maintain this awkward posture to hide for a while.

After maintaining the same posture for a long time, coupled with the steaming heat permeating the surroundings, Chong Liu began to feel drowsy.

Zhu Helan felt something leaning against his shoulder, looked down, and saw that Chong Liu had dozed off at some point, with his forehead resting on his shoulder, his lips slightly parted, and snoring softly.

Zhu Helan's heart, which had been dry for a long time, seemed to have got into a butterfly for no reason, and it stirred up and down.

kinda...cute...

Zhu Helan adjusted the angle of her standing so that Chong Liu's forehead could rest on his shoulder and neck. It was not so hard there, and it should be more comfortable to sleep.

Thinking back to Chongliu, in order to rescue him from Xu Hanke, he didn't have a good rest.

It's been a long, long time since I felt so close to another human being.

The coppersmith said that everyone wants a companion, someone who can be with him and understand him.Perhaps he was right.Zhu Helan once thought that he had surpassed those instinctive and meaningless things that human beings need, but the satisfaction brought by this kind of contact now shows that he is just an individual.

No matter how many years he has lived, how many secrets beyond human and ordinary life he has touched.

And the young man in front of him also has layers of secrets.But when contacting him, Zhu Helan inexplicably felt relaxed.He likes to observe Chong Liu quietly, watching him observe everything quietly when others are not paying attention, watching him and Zhu Yi and the others briskly chat and laugh, watching him squatting in the yard washing sheets, sweeping the yard, and wiping the table. Looking at his quick movements, he was devoting himself to flipping through the books while munching on the steamed stuffed bun.

At first, he just noticed that Chong Liu was not as simple as the philistine he showed, and he became curious. Later, he began to feel that Chong Liu was following him, which was a good feeling.

As for why he felt this way, he didn't quite understand.

Chong Liu's snoring stopped suddenly, and the suffocation made him wake up suddenly, and he immediately realized that he was leaning on another person's neck.He stood up straight in fright, but his head hit the hard wooden part of a branch.

"oops!"

Chong Liu raised his head and met the shopkeeper's crooked eyes.And on the shopkeeper's collar, that suspicious water stain...

It can't be his saliva! ! !

Chong Liu wished he could get into the gaps between the tree roots...

"Boss... why don't you call me..."

"I can't bear to see you sleeping so soundly. How does it feel to be dreaming in a dream?"

"I dreamed that Master Liao made a whole roast suckling pig, and I haven't touched it yet..."

"Then why don't you come back and sleep for a while, and wake up after eating? Anyway, your collar is already wet." A narrow smile flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes.

If Chong Liu could move, he would have already grabbed the ground with his head.

At this time, the shopkeeper poked his head out to look out again, and said softly, "The tentacles have retracted. You can go out."

While Chong Liu was thankful, he felt a little lost in his heart.

The shopkeeper supported Chongliu's waist and helped him climb out first, followed closely by himself.

The surrounding forest scene is different from before. The trees are denser and larger than before, and there are almost no gaps between the trees.The chunks of flesh in the sky were pushing and wriggling, and suddenly, a gap across the sky was slowly torn open.

Chong Liu raised his head and watched the whole sky slowly open, feeling a little dizzy for a moment, as if the whole world was pushing and wriggling along with it.Behind those chunks of meat was a glowing red sun covering a large swath of the sky.There are also countless smaller protrusions in the red, densely crowded together.

In the center of the sun, a black gully was split horizontally, purely empty and dark, exuding the original evil.

No, that is not the sun, but an eyeball.

Huge goat's eyeballs growing from the flesh.

It stared at somewhere in the forest.

Chong Liu hurriedly lowered his head, blinked hard, trying to push out the crazy scene he saw just now from his mind.The red goat's eyeball left a large emerald imprint behind his closed eyelids, and when he opened his eyes, there was an invisible hole in the middle of his field of vision, which did not dissipate for a long time, as if he had been burned after looking at it for too long Same.

The shopkeeper suddenly said, "I think I probably know where the locust tree is."

Chong Liu hurriedly asked, "What? Where is it?"

"In your dream, do you have an experience that you are in your own body, but you are also a bystander at the same time, and you can see what you are doing?" The shopkeeper said, pointing to the "eye" in the sky , "This is the bystander body of the locust tree."

Chong Liu suddenly realized, "So the place it is looking at should be the place where the incarnation of the locust tree is!"

"good."

"Then let's go!"

But just as Chong Liu took a step, his arm was pulled by the shopkeeper, "We know where it is, and Yan knows it too. If you meet me later, be careful. I will find a chance to wake up the locust tree, you just need to be responsible for hiding it." Be yourself."

Chong Liu nodded, "I understand, but how are you going to wake up the locust tree? Do you kill its incarnation before Yan? Or is there any way to drive away Yan?"

"In other people's dreams, many of my methods are limited, but Nightmare is the most powerful. Not to mention our own danger, we may accidentally hurt the spirit of the locust tree. It takes too long to kill the incarnation. For the siege It is too late in the case.

But I have a way to make it realize that it is dreaming.It is the dream master, as long as it wakes up in the dream, it is easy to eliminate the nightmare. "

Chongliu nodded in conviction, "Then you must be careful, my boss!"

"When we get back, I'll ask Master Liao to make roast suckling pig for us." The shopkeeper said, winking at him, and then walked to the direction where the eyes were looking.

Chong Liu chuckled twice, then followed closely.

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The moment Yaoyao saw the incarnation of the locust tree, Chong Liu recognized it immediately.

Is that... the locust tree he saw in his dream? !

The gnarled tree's body is covered with a network of blood vessels, embedded with many melted internal organs, and even has eyes that are constantly moving.What stretched in the air was not branches, but twisted and bent arms.Some of the arms ended in human hands, others had too many fingers, and some had only a single spike, or webbed feet like frogs, or claws he couldn't even recognize.

This is not quite the same as its real body, but it is closer to its "illusion" in the inn, and it also incorporates many characteristics of humans and other creatures into it...

This locust tree doesn't have any self-awareness problems...Chongliu is a little worried.

But now is not the time to worry about that.The shopkeeper is right, those nightmares have indeed been found.

At this moment, those weird, slender black figures that make the scalp tingle are sliding from every direction.Not by walking, but by gliding across the ground like a shadow.

Like leeches, they cling to the body of the huge locust tree. The slender and unbalanced body is twisted and twisted around the trunk, and there is a vertical crack in the middle of the head that seems to have been smashed and crumpled again. A lot of scarlet whiskers emerged from it, waving and vibrating, and sucking on the body of the locust tree.

Fortunately, there are not many of them left, only five or six.The rest have probably been cleaned up by the Tentacle Forest of the Mother Goddess of All Things.

Chong Liu saw that there was a large piece of bark attached to the shreds of meat that was torn off by the nightmare, and the whole body of the locust tree was shaking, and countless arms in the air were constantly waving and struggling as if calling for help.A strong image suddenly and vividly entered Chong Liu's mind, and he could feel that somewhere in his body was also hurting, the degree was far less serious than the tearing of the flesh, but it was quite distinct.

"It hurts—" "It hurts—" The feeling was similar to the first time Chong Liu heard the locust tree wrapping around his feet and shouting "hungry".

Chong Liu looked angry and distressed, and looked anxiously at the shopkeeper.The shopkeeper made a shush gesture to him, and then pressed his palm down, signaling him not to move, and to hide behind this piece of meat.Then the shopkeeper quietly dodged behind a tree, turned around several times, and got closer and closer to the locust tree.

The two nightmares stopped devouring the locust tree, and looked vigilantly in the direction of the tree where the shopkeeper was hiding.

Chong Liu's heart lifted, and the swelling pain in his fingertips suddenly returned.

The shopkeeper put his right index finger in his mouth and bit it, and quickly drew a symbol on his left palm.It seemed to be a branch with three branches on one side and two branches on the other.

At this time, the two nightmares had already come down from the tree and began to slide towards the place where the shopkeeper was hiding.

Suddenly, a whistle sounded.

The clear and crisp voice is like a fluent light, rising from the wet and sticky world everywhere, it is exceptionally clear and clear.

It was a piece of music that Chong Liu hadn't heard before, but the melody was melodious with a bit of ancient rhyme.

Now all the nightmares were attracted and quickly approached where the shopkeeper was.But the shopkeeper suddenly stepped out from behind the tree, with his palm stretched out in front, revealing the palm symbol.

Yan, who was fluttering and rushing towards the shopkeeper, suddenly stopped suddenly as if he saw something they didn't want to touch.Their slender bodies even shrank a little, as if they wanted to stay away from the symbol.

However, when the symbols are not facing them directly, they will still be around.The shopkeeper fixed his eyes on the five surrounding nightmares, and kept waving his palms to force the approaching nightmares away, but the whistle in his mouth didn't stop.

The trembling of the locust tree stopped, as if listening to the shopkeeper's whistle.

But Chong Liu noticed a problem...

Just now...were there six nightmares on the tree?

While being terrified in his heart, he saw a black shadow approaching silently from behind the shopkeeper.The crack on that surface continued to tear, and even spread all the way to its abdominal cavity.Countless red beards squeezed out of the flesh as if they couldn't hold it, spraying thick venom.

At this time, once the shopkeeper turns around, the five will immediately do the same thing!

Chong Liu rushed out from behind the giant piece of meat, trying to attract the attention of the last nightmare.But it just hesitated for a moment, but decided to ignore Chong Liu and eat the shopkeeper who was already close at hand!

"Master!!!" Chong Liu yelled, his heart almost stopped beating, and his right hand stretched out in the direction of the shopkeeper, as if trying to grab something.

Suddenly, the last nightmare was caught.

Grabbed by the waist by a hand with more than 20 fingers.

Immediately afterwards, the giant hand began to close and squeeze hard, and the fingers squirmed, and began to press it toward the middle.It's as if a person is rolling a piece of paper into a ball.

Yan's whole body shook violently, but he was still squeezed little by little. With the clear sound of something exploding, black juice flowed down from between the fingers of the giant hand.Let go of your fingers, and a mass of black meat that has no shape can be seen falls on the ground.

The rest of Yan wanted to escape immediately, but it was too late.The locust tree grew at least four or five times larger than before, and all its hands became longer and larger than before, and it aimed at the remaining five fast-moving nightmares like swat flies.With the crisp sound of wetness, only a thin layer of black traces remained on the ground.

Chong Liu's heart relaxed, his legs softened, and he knelt and sat on the ground.

It seems that the whistle is something that can wake up the locust tree?

Fortunately, the pagoda tree woke up in time...

But Chong Liuyi bowed his head, but was too scared to come up.

His right hand... the right hand that he reached out to the shopkeeper just now to try to save him... is no longer a hand...

The gray-blue slender tentacles are about five or six feet long (about two meters), resembling the long feet of an octopus, but covered with dots of blue-green fish scales.The surface is smooth and wet, covered with suction cups that wriggle open and close.At the end, there is a closed opening of five gills in the form of "petals"...

There are five such "octopus tentacles" winding on the ground.The problem is that the other end of them is connected to his deformed right hand covered with fish scales.