The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The red flocs gradually faded from Zhu Helan's cheeks. He stood on the roof, opened his eyes, and coughed hard a few times.Streaks of bright red spread down the corners of his lips like thin threads, which he wiped away with a veil.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the churning breath in his chest after being hit by Dao Qi and yellow filth, and looked at the formation that trapped and strangled the door.

Daoist Qi Yao lay down on the ground, vomiting a mouthful of blood.Song Yuzi was supporting him, running some kind of mental spell to drive away the dirty.

The yellow slime spilled all over the sky like a torrential rain, covering the entire land.Some deformed human and animal organs crackled and fell to the ground, some were still twitching and wriggling.This was followed by more complete human and animal bodies falling from the sky.

The torso, head, countless hands and feet, and the organs of unknown animals seemed to be piled up at random, burned and then forcibly fused together. They twitched and wriggled on the ground, making meaningless whines.Among those people, several of them could still vaguely see traces of their original faces.

Perhaps those who disappeared and those who were swallowed by the giant yellow tower were among these deformed forms that were worse than death.

But... something is wrong...

Zhu Helan's gaze scanned the entire land covered in yellow mucus, but he couldn't find what he was looking for.

There was no trace of the foul smell emitted by the three Luzhou monks.

Although the giant tower was broken up, the remaining filth that fell down was not enough for its original size...

The Nine Heavens Subduing Demon Formation did not trap all the towers, and a small part of the gates escaped...

But how did he escape?That door has not yet formed, so it is impossible to escape from the shackles of the Subduing Demon Formation?unless……

Unless it is not all the doors that entered the trap from the beginning, it left a "passage" for itself.

After Zhuang Cheng was controlled by the Qing Ming Sect, one Luzhou layman was missing... It needed to fill the vacancy, so there was another Luzhou layman, a Luzhou layman they didn't know!

Zhu Helan's heart skipped a beat, and he turned around suddenly, looking in the direction of the inn.

Anxiety spread in the air.

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Chong Liu entered the inn from the backyard and locked the back door first, then rushed to the lobby and locked the front door as well.At this time, several guests who were running into the hall with their luggage came up immediately when they saw this, and ordered loudly, "Open the door! We are going out!"

"It's not safe outside now!" Chong Liu leaned against the door, raised his hands to try to appease the distraught young man, "Please wait in our store for you and Madam, we won't leave until the alchemists and gods finish exorcising the ghosts." late."

"What is your intention to lock us here!" Another guest also said angrily, "If something happens, can you afford this responsibility?!"

All the guests quarreled in front of Chong Liu, making Chong Liu one head and two big, but still firmly locked the door to prevent people from going out, "Everyone! Everyone! Calm down! This inn is much safer than the outside If you go out, something will happen!"

However, his voice alone couldn't overwhelm a group of guests whose eyes were red and confused at the critical moment of life and death. Coupled with the sound of children crying loudly in the corner, the scene was even more chaotic.

Suddenly, a loud voice with a heavy dantian broke through the chaotic image in front of him and shocked the crowd, "Okay! Stop making noise!!!"

The crowd was frightened into silence by the shouting, and when they turned their heads, they saw Master Liao standing in the hall with his arms folded, his falcon-like majestic gaze swept across the red faces.

He simply stood there, and a fierce aura spread, making everyone afraid to move.

"Why are you arguing, you are not allowed to go out for your own good, do you want to take your wives and children out to be food for ghosts?!"

At this time, a woman quietly tugged on her husband's sleeve, "Why don't you go out first, let's hide here..."

All the women's relatives also came to persuade each other, and finally suppressed the chaotic scene.Chong Liu breathed a sigh of relief and got behind the counter.Zhu Yi Xiaoshun and others immediately surrounded him and asked what was going on.

Chongliu gave the shopkeeper's instructions, "The Qingming sect and the boss are both dealing with that thing, so it shouldn't be a big problem. We just wait here."

Master Liao asked, "Did the owner say how long it will take?"

"No……"

"It turns out that we have to guard this place." The master spoon looked at the crowd and sighed, "Be careful and keep an eye on it, don't let these people sneak into the backyard and open the door while we're not looking."

After a period of time, some guests returned to their rooms when they got tired, leaving only two tables of guests still in the hall.Chongliu asked Zhu Yi and Xiaoshun to watch in the backyard so that no one would approach the back door.He himself stood in front with Fuko Kuro.

Gradually, Chong Liu became a little tired.After all, it was another sleepless night.In recent months, there have been more and more cases of staying up all night, which made the blue under the eyes more and more serious.

Before he knew it, Chong Liu dozed off while leaning against the counter.He tried several times to wake himself up, but drowsiness, like sea water, gradually overwhelmed him.

In the dream, he returned to the primitive, dark sea water soaked with countless primitive lives.His sense of existence is very thin, as if he is part of the ocean, and his consciousness gathers and disperses from time to time, like clouds that happen to meet in the sky.

Gradually, the darkness was no longer solidified, and he began to be able to see things.

Not sure how I saw it, there was no light.Rather than seeing it, it is better to say it is perceived.

He can feel shapes and colors that do not exist in human perception.

It was a palace, a palace silent in the depths of the sea.

Ancient conch and coral covered all the overly large walls and pillars, mottled and in brilliant but chaotic colors.The spiral shape and dense holes are like curious and malicious eyes, peeping at him in the dark.

And deep in the palace, there is a door.

A door closed forever.

Attracted by the door, he stretched out countless slender arms, wrapped around the pillars composed of dead coral corpses, and pushed inward one after another.The further you go, the more disturbed you become. "It can't go any further..." He heard a voice say, "Now is not the time."

Suddenly, the ground trembled violently, dragging Chong Liu out of the chaotic dream that seemed to be sleeping but not sleeping.When he woke up, he saw everyone huddled under the table or the counter, terrified and bewildered.

The air was trembling, and an indescribably terrifying sound came from afar.It seems to be dull thunder, but also hides some paradoxical sharpness.

here we go?

Chongliu sat behind the counter, until Jiulang gave him a strange look, he realized that he was muttering in a low voice: don't have an accident, don't have an accident, don't have an accident...

At this moment, Chong Liu suddenly regretted that he came back.Even if he can't help, at least he can follow nearby, so he doesn't have to be so worried...

Continuous vibrations, strange roars, screams and screams from afar... everything was like a nightmare.Chong Liu heard the child asking why this happened, but no one could answer.

The shaking was frightening.Chong Liu felt that he was going crazy with panic, so he fumbled around, trying to divert his attention.He suddenly remembered something, reached out his hand and took out from his bosom the piece of paper that Xi Zhu had stuffed for him, that Lu Zhi ordered her to burn.

Originally, I got it before I set off to find Zhuang Cheng, but after a series of more crazy and urgent things happened, I forgot about it.Luckily I didn't throw it away when I changed clothes.

He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should read the paper.But considering that it had been delayed for many days, and he was really curious, he carefully unfolded the ball of paper.

The font is... weird.

Those strokes, taken out alone, do look like Lvzhi's own unique font, but put together... there is something strange.

It's as if the strokes have swam by themselves, exchanged and reorganized between characters, and reassembled.

But it's still not the scariest.

There is a play written on this paper.

Even though Chong Liu hadn't watched the second half of Huang Yi Ji, the few words in the play were enough for him to guess the source.

what happened……

Lvzhi was emotionally unstable due to a major change, and has never left the inn very often. Even if she went out for a short time, she was accompanied by a buddy. Why did she know about Huang Yiji?

No...The Story of Huangyi was completed only recently...Lvzhi only wrote it five days ago. She has never been out of the house during this time, let alone heard of The Story of Huangyi?

Could it be... Could it be that she is also a layman in Luzhou?

Impossible... The locust tree showed him, there are four laymen in Luzhou, and they already know their identities...

Wait...they controlled Zhuang Cheng and imprisoned the Demon Suppressing Tower of the Qingming Sect, which is full of Dao Qi... Did this create a "vacancy"?

But Luzhi wrote this before Zhuang Cheng was trapped by them?

Or when they decided to look for Zhuang Cheng, they had already influenced some kind of cause and effect, which led to Lvzhi being selected as a possible replacement?

Chong Liu stood up abruptly and ran towards the courtyard.

"Brother Six! Why are you going!" Fuzi shouted behind him.

But he didn't have time to explain, a bad feeling seized his heart.

He rushed to Midori's room, but there was no answer when he knocked on the door.Finally, he kicked the door open, only to see Xi Zhu sitting on the ground, murmuring something in a daze, her body swaying back and forth.

"Xizhu! Xizhu! Where's your wife?!" Chong Liu rushed over and shook her shoulder vigorously.

After a long while, Xizhu slowly turned her eyes to his face, and she said, "Our wife said, we want to let it in..."

There was a sound in Zhongliu's head.

The ground shook just now, and there was constant noise. If someone tried to force open the backyard door, he would not be able to hear it...

Zhu Yi...

Zhu Yi is still there!

Chong Liu rushed to the backyard.At this time, Master Liao Fuzi and others who came out called him, and he had no time to explain.

Looking at the backyard, Chong Liu knew it was too late.

Zhu Yi passed out on the ground with blood on his head and a table leg nearby.As for Xiao Shun, he had scratches on his face and disheveled hair, as if he had fought someone.

Xiao Shun hugged one person's leg and kept saying, "Can't drive! Can't drive!"

And what he was holding was Yan Luzhi's leg.

The lady who used to be gentle and dignified, now her hair is disheveled and her complexion is sallow.She stretched out her hand with bulging veins, that originally slender arm burst out of strange force from nowhere, and broke the locked iron chain!

"Don't drive!!!" Chong Liu yelled and rushed over.

But it was too late.Yan Luzhi turned her head. One of her eyes was normal, but in the other eye, three deformed black eyes were crowded together. She showed a charming smile and opened the door.

For a while, nothing happened.

Chong Liu froze at a place ten steps away from her, and Zhu Yi, who was diagonally ahead, made a movement at this moment.

He clutched the back of his head after being beaten, let out a cry of pain, and got up from the ground.

At this moment, a terrifying yellow filth erupted from Yan Luzhi's body.Xiao Shun, who was closest to her, flew out like a paper doll in an instant, and hit the wall of the shopkeeper's courtyard.

In the yellow filth, Yan Luzhi's body deformed rapidly, and yellow mucus sprayed out from her seven orifices and pores, quickly engulfing her.Countless yellow Tai Sui are rolling, like springs and gushing fires, quickly piled up and formed, towering high.

Although the giant tower was several times smaller than the original one, it was still majestic and frightening. It bent from the middle, pressing down like a collapsing mountain on Zhu Yi, who was closest to it at this time and was completely stunned.

Chong Liu rushed over.He actually knew that it was too late to pull Zhu Yi away, but he rushed over anyway.

The shopkeeper handed over the inn, the people in the inn, and Zhu Yi to him, but he failed...

He can't let it in... Protect it no matter what...

The overwhelming yellow waves exuded a suffocating stench, and covered the two of them like mountains and seas.

Zhu Yi closed his eyes in horror, but the expected bad luck of being swallowed by the disgusting mucus did not come.

He timidly opened his eyes, but was shocked by the scene in front of him, beyond words.

Chong Liu's hands... no, they are no longer hands.Starting from the forearm, his hands are gone, replaced by countless long and strange dense tentacles, some are as strong as deep-sea octopus and covered with suckers, and some are as long and slender as jellyfish silk ribbons and covered with poisonous needles, scattered in the air into huge tentacles. The umbrella cover exudes the salty smell of countless lives buried in the depths of the ocean.The canopy not only blocked the yellow Tai Sui Pagoda that was pressing down, but even began to shrink.The petal-shaped openings at the front of the tentacles firmly bit the tower body, swallowing non-stop, as if chewing the yellow substance.

And Chong Liu turned his back to him, unable to see the expression.