The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The shopkeeper took Wu Feng upstairs and asked carefully what happened. Chong Liu couldn't follow because he had to stare in the hall, so he was so curious.

It's only been a few days, and something happened...

While trying to figure out what might happen, he was distributing wine into the flagon, but he noticed a shadow covering his body.Chong Liu raised his head and saw Xiao Yi standing in front of the counter, looking at him with lowered eyes.

"Hey, guest officer, I'm sorry I didn't see you. What do you need?"

"Brother, why is your inn always leaking water? There is a puddle of water on the ground in my room, and the bedding is all wet." Xiao Yi frowned, a little irritability appeared on that majestic face.

Chong Liu hurriedly put down the things in his hand, wiped the wine on his apron, "Leakage? Shouldn't it? I remember that no one lives upstairs, so I didn't burn the water. Then I'll go and see it now?" "

"You go. I'm going out later. I hope this problem can be resolved when I come back."

This tone really has the aura of kneeling down and begging for mercy...

Chong Liu was so frightened that he quickly took the bucket and rag and ran to the north building where Xiao Yi and the other three lived.

These three friends on the road were generous and frightening, and directly asked for three first rooms, so Chong Liu gave them three connected rooms on the middle floor of the north building.The girl disguised as a man lives in the middle, A Liang's room is on the left, and Xiao Yi's room is on the right.

Chong Liuyi opened the door of the room on the right, and a damp and damp breath came out, making the already cold winter day even more biting.

Even though braziers were still burning inside and outside the house, and candles were lit everywhere, the cold air still couldn't be driven away.

Chong Liu shivered, thinking that he must quickly get a brazier to remove the humidity from the room.It is also rare that people have lived here for so many days before complaining.

But as Xiao Yi said, the crabapple wood floor, which had been refurbished in the last two years, is now black and moldy, and when you step on it, water gushes out, as soft as cotton that has absorbed water.

Chong Liu felt strange.I looked over my head, but I didn't see any traces of water leakage on the ceiling?

What's more, as he said, the rooms upstairs are not occupied.

Chong Liu walked around the room, touched the neatly folded quilt by Xiao Yi with his hands, it was indeed damp, and it felt damp and cold.So he rolled up the cup, carried it all out and threw it into the corridor, then waved a dry towel and started sucking water from the floor.

The water seemed to be squeezed out, and it kept seeping out from the wooden boards.This wood seems to have been soaked...

Why don't you give me another room...

While wondering, Chong Liu tentatively took the soaked towel to his nose and sniffed it, but he smelled a kelp smell.

Chong Liu wondered, is this sea water?

Liangcheng is so far away from the sea today, even if the Bian River flows fresh water?

Could it be...the thing they messed up at sea followed...

Just wondering, he noticed that a corner of the floor suddenly turned up by itself.It wasn't a very obvious change, if it didn't happen to happen in Chong Liu's peripheral vision, he wouldn't even notice it.

Chong Liu frowned and became more and more confused. He squatted down and poked the wet and soft wooden floor with his fingers.But at this moment, he clearly heard the knocking sound.

Three thumps, thuds, came from under the floor.The raised floor trembled slightly.

Chong Liu was startled and sat down on the ground.

He remembered what A Liang had told him, the knocking sound coming from the bottom of the cabin.

It can't be such a coincidence, can it?Is it the guest downstairs?

Or is it my own hallucination?

Chong Liu nervously untied the wine gourd from his waist and poured a sip of tea into his mouth.He raised his head and looked at the whole room. At first glance, it seemed that there was not much difference from before, but he always felt that something was not right.

The angle of the room is not quite right... it seems that the left corner near the bed is kind of... distorted?

The wall also seemed to no longer be straight up and down, but sloped inward, as if it was about to be pressed down.

Chong Liu shivered, and immediately grabbed the wooden barrel on the ground and ran towards the door, but when he raised his hand to pull the door, the door knocker felt very soft and soft like pig intestines or jellyfish. Something tough.He had to hold on to the wooden door on the door instead, but everything turned into that kind of soft and sticky texture, which would deform if he pulled it, and would spring back to its original place when he let go.

That weird touch made goosebumps all over Zhongliu's body.He yelled loudly, hoping to be heard by passing guests.But after calling for a long time, his voice became hoarse, and no one responded.He even wondered if his voice had passed through this very strange door.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the room became more and more strange.Water began to ooze from the originally white-painted walls, condensing into water droplets like sweating, and the water droplets converged into thin streams that flowed down the wall one by one.The air is full of salty moisture, which makes the sunlight coming in through the window screens become a little unclear and gradually dim.

An invisible pressure gradually condensed, making it difficult to breathe.

Through the increasingly dim light, Chong Liu saw that the paint on the wall began to peel off in large pieces, and the beauties on the pictures of beauties hanging on the wall were also subtly deformed.Their foreheads are becoming low and flat, and their eyes are slowly protruding from their sockets.Those dark bean-like eyes seemed to be staring at Chong Liu.

In the end what happened?Shouldn't the inn be the safest place? !

Bang bang bang, chaotic knocking sound came continuously from under the floor and outside the doors and windows, as if thousands of hands were clapping the wood and the wall.Chongliu felt in a trance that he was not in the inn, but on the big ship that trapped A Liang and a hundred other people.This is not an inn room, but a cabin surrounded by the vast sea.

He is no stranger to the sea, but he has never been to the center of the sea in such a big ship.The endless and vast salty seawater, the seawater that has existed since the beginning of the universe, the seawater that gave birth to everything... No one knows what terrifying things that have not been understood are hidden in the darkness of the deep sea where the sun has never reached.

Chong Liu's eyes fell on the window.He saw a very huge shadow passing quickly outside the window.

That size...much larger than a person, and couldn't possibly be any bird...

Windows are the only possible exits other than doors.But Chong Liu didn't dare to push it away now.

What is that shadow?

Is it the illusion that the shadow cast by some bird in the distance falls on the window?

Chong Liu took a few deep breaths and cheered himself up.No matter what, he had to find a way to escape from this room and tell the shopkeeper about the situation here... He drank a few more sips of tea from the gourd, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and stretched out his hand to open the window sash.

The window did not turn into a sticky and weird texture, and he opened it as soon as he pulled it.

But what you can see from the window is not the backyard and the alleys beyond.

Instead, it was dark.

No...not pure darkness, there is light, a faint light coming from nowhere...

Or maybe it is the light that exists in him...

This description is equally inaccurate.That feeling, as if he didn't need external light to perceive various scenes in the dark depths.

It was as if he was born in the endless darkness, as if he had never had eyes or vision.

Chong Liu suddenly realized that it was not darkness, but a sea.

The deepest, belly of the ocean that no living person has ever seen.

This realization made his whole body tremble, unable to move.This room, what was it that was suddenly moved to the depths of the sea?

Why didn't the sea water come in?

Why hasn't this room been crushed yet?

Why hasn't he been drowned yet?

Chongliu realized that although the inn was infiltrated by the horrible filth from the sea for unknown reasons, some basic protections might still be there.There is still an invisible shield between him and this unknown darkness.

He then took a few tentative steps towards the window.Sight didn't help, but he squinted, trying to make out more from the darkness.

In the dark, there is indeed something.

He saw the huge city towering on the undulating and desolate land under the sea, the dazzling city gates formed by the slanted angles, and the majestic buildings that stood tall like tombstones.They stand silently, as if they have existed since the beginning of time.

What kind of thing would build such a majestic and vast city in such a deep abyss where only a few fish can survive?

Why those angles, those dark intertwined silhouettes, gave him a strange sense of déjà vu, as if he had seen it in a dream.

Is he dreaming now?

Chong Liu's eyes gradually became hollow and fascinated, attracted by the thick darkness and coldness, he took another step forward.

In the darkness, a pair of dirty and white eyes lit up.A crooked shadow was watching him not far away.

No... If you perceive it carefully... you will find that there are dozens of similarly crooked, human-shaped shadows, suspended in the ancient darkness.

people?

How could anyone be alive in such a place?

When Chong Liu took another step forward, a stooped figure also began to approach his window.

In the distance, on the outskirts of the undersea city-state, there are some tentacles that are so huge that it is difficult to understand for a while.

He heard a low, indescribable tremor through the water.

Buzzing, low-frequency vibrations that the ears can't catch, but they can feel a trace of strangeness in the air.If Chong Liu hadn't drank the tea, his perception would have been more acute at this moment.

That vibration is a language.The "language" of those crooked, gigantic, ancient sea-men.

Chong Liu couldn't accurately understand the meaning conveyed by the vibration, but some chaotic pictures appeared in his mind.

He saw two statues of gods as huge as mountains.

It's not so much a statue, it's more like a monster.

The statue on the left has a head like a fish, and its fangs cut into iron like mud are arranged in layers. The body covered with fish scales is extremely strong and tall, with countless spikes sticking out of its back like a sharp sword.The other one has a woman's body, also covered with dense scales, but on her shoulders, there are nine extremely long necks, and nine heads of different shapes.

Some heads looked like lizards, others like fish, and still others were human.

They are the king and queen of this undersea kingdom, and the gods of those undersea people.

They are calling him...

Chongliu ghost raised his hand in a strange way, as if he wanted to put his hand through the window lattice and into the darkness.

But at this moment, a thick and strong tree vine with fleshy tendons wrapped around his waist, pulling him back violently.He yelled, spinning, and the next moment he was lying on the dry corridor floor.

The shopkeeper was standing next to him and looking down at him, with a bit of scrutiny in his eyes.

Chong Liu blinked a few times, and the hypnotic power of the dark sea gradually faded away.He realized that he had just almost...

He immediately got up from the ground and said hastily, "Master! That room smells like the sea!"

"I know." The shopkeeper's eyes moved to the room behind Chong Liu.

Chong Liuyi turned his head, but was surprised to find that although the floor and walls in the room were still damp and smelled like the sea, the sun was shining brightly outside the window, so there was no dark deep sea.

What happened just now?Hallucination or really happened?

"Meow……"

Chong Liuyi lowered his head, and saw the cihuamao squatting between him and the shopkeeper, staring at him unblinkingly with its big golden green eyes.

"If the cat hadn't come to call me in time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to save you in time." Only then did Chong Liu notice that Zhu Helan's complexion was not in a good mood.

The shopkeeper probably thought he was the one who brought the filth here!After all, when he was deformed before, those tentacles did look a bit like things in the sea...

Chong Liu's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly explained, "Xiao Yi said that the house was flooded and asked me to take a look, so I was trapped inside!"

"Although the filth on their bodies is stronger than that of ordinary people, it shouldn't have such a big impact on my inn." Zhu Helan took a step forward, and his height, which was slightly higher than the gravity six, naturally formed a certain sense of oppression, "The distortion has penetrated into the inn This kind of thing inside has never happened in the past 300 years.”

Chongliu stammered to explain, and stepped back a little scared, "I'm also surprised...My boss, it's really not me...I didn't do anything!"

Zhu Helan narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was looking into Chong Liu's brain through his pupils to see if he was lying.Just when Chong Liu was beating drums, half fear, half bewildered, and a little bit wronged and hurt, Zhu Helan withdrew that aggressive aura again, and turned his gaze to the end of the corridor.

Someone came humming a ditty, but it was Ming Yuandao A Liang who had just returned from playing in the city with his junior sister.When the two of them saw the shopkeeper and Chong Liu standing outside Xiao Yi's door, they immediately turned serious and became alert.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Aaron asked.

Zhu Helan looked at the two of them with the same scrutiny, but suddenly put on his usual cordial and sincere smile, "I'm sorry, a guest upstairs knocked over the bathtub, and water seepage occurred in your room The situation. I'm afraid I have to ask the three of you to change the house."