The strange story of Huai'an Inn

That pool of viscous liquid churned with fluorescent blue waves, engulfing fragmented organs, bones, hair, and pieces of meat, as if it had a strange vitality that could not be understood by human beings.The light reflected in Chong Liu's eyes, making it look even more bewitching.

Zhu Helan squatted down by the pool and sniffed the scent floating in the air.There are so many pieces of meat, but there is no blood to be seen, and no meaty smell, but there is only a strong, open fishy smell of the ocean that envelops countless lives.

"Your master never mentioned this place to you?"

"No……"

Zhu Helan was almost fascinated looking at the mysterious pool water, he could feel...a weak but...very pure filth.

Generally, the filth encountered in the world is more or less mixed with Dao Qi to some extent.But...here's not...

It's like...the filth coming out directly from behind the door...

Zhu Helan stretched out his hand and felt it above the pool water.The amount of bad smell is very stable, and there seems to be no sign of increase or decrease.That is, the pool of water is a constant stream of filth, not some inlet...

Those pieces of meat reminded him of Fanzi and Huangyiji inexplicably.

Fans are constantly being produced, and the foul smell on them is getting stronger and stronger, and the impact on people's spirit is getting bigger and bigger.The same is true for Huang Yiji. The number of Luzhou laymen is increasing, and the scripts they write are becoming more and more dangerous. In the end, they almost created a door.

Before the final work comes out, there will be many defective products...

Could the ones in this pool be defective products?

So... what is the finished product?

Zhu Helan's eyes turned slightly, and he looked at Chong Liu, with a layer of haze and confusion in his heart.

But at this moment, the two of them heard a series of small footsteps running past behind them at the same time, as if a child had slipped past them, bringing a light wind.Chong Liu and Zhu Helan suddenly turned their heads, but they obviously saw nothing.

Is it an illusion?Or is there something else in the hole?

The two looked at each other, and both looked in the direction where the voice disappeared.

hole...

There was more than one opening, and they found that there were densely packed honeycomb-like openings everywhere on the slightly sloping stone wall of the entire cave.Some are big and some are small, some are within reach of human beings, while others hang in the sky like empty eyeballs.

"If there are passages behind every hole... I'm afraid this land will be hollowed out?" Zhu Helan sighed in amazement, "It doesn't look like it was formed naturally."

"It's impossible for my master to do this alone?" Chong Liu looked at the honeycomb-shaped black holes looming in the blue fluorescent light in disbelief.

Zhu Helan walked towards the direction where the voice disappeared before, and stood at the entrance of a cave about one person's height, and looked inside.It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.A thin wind blows out from inside, carrying a faint sour smell.

Standing behind him, Chong Liu poked his head and looked in.There was always an unbelievable bewilderment in his heart. A Bai Xiaosheng who liked to explore secrets grew up sitting on such a huge secret without realizing it.

Thinking about it now, was I too obedient when I was a child?He never had any doubts about what the master said, and he didn't even have the thought of disobedience.

Zhu Helan turned to look at him, "Do you still want to continue?"

Chong Liu hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Master hid a box in these holes. It's the one I told you about, the box that can keep taking out money. So, he should know about it..."

"Okay, let's find out these secrets today." The shopkeeper smiled slightly, "Your notes can be enriched a lot. At that time, your title can be written: Those years when you grew up with the mysteriously missing Mr. Gou Chen."

Chong Liu was amused, "What kind of third-rate tabloid headline is this..."

While speaking, the two had already entered the tunnel leading to nowhere.Light could no longer penetrate the darkness, so they took out the South Sea Night Pearl they had brought earlier, and let the faint candle light illuminate the space one step away in front of them.

At this time, they had penetrated deep into the earth, and the sound of the sea tide on the surface had completely disappeared.Even the light emitted by the beads in their hands dimmed a lot. The darkness seemed to have its own consciousness, constantly squeezing the little light they had left.

"It's so quiet..." Chong Liu, who was not used to such dead silence, couldn't help but make some noises.

Zhu Helan said, "It's strange to hear the sound in such a deep underground."

"Boss, what if we get lost? Can we take a shortcut in this kind of place?"

"I still remember the general orientation of your room, it should be fine. But... if the space here has been affected by the foul smell, the shortcut may instead lead us deeper underground."

"And there may be dogs on the road..." Chongliu sighed, pretending to be melancholy, "I am a waiter in an inn, and I have endured too much stimulation that my job type should not have to bear..."

"What? Want to raise your wages again?"

"Ahem, at least increase the benefits?"

Suddenly, the two fell silent at the same time.

In the extreme silence, any sound can be transmitted very far.They heard voices coming from deep in the darkness.

It seems...someone is singing?

And listening to that voice, is it still a child's voice?

How can there be children singing in this kind of tunnel where you can't see your fingers and no one cares about it for many years?

Chong Liu felt his scalp go numb, and looked at Zhu Helan uneasily.The latter smiled expectantly.

"It seems that there is something weird here."

"It's weird what are you doing so happy..."

Zhu Helan stepped up, while Chong Liu hid behind him and followed nervously.

Gradually, the content of the ballad began to be heard clearly.

"Sit in a row, eat fruit, and daddy comes back and cuts his ears... Weigh it, two and a half catties, burn it, look, a big bowl..." Note, nursery rhymes are from "Guang Tian Lai Ji" compiled by Wu Chisheng. Several children His father cut off his ears for stealing fruit, and burned them into a pot of stewed ears...

The originally innocent childish voice and tune, but sang the most eerie and dark lyrics.Chong Liu became more and more shuddering.

The singing voice became clearer and closer, and in the end it was as if it was right in front of you.But the range that the beads can illuminate is only one or two steps in front of you, like the only island in the endless treachery that can keep people from going crazy.

Suddenly, the two stopped abruptly.

A pair of feet facing them appeared on the boundary of the area illuminated by the pearl light.

But it was not a child's foot, but a pair of adult-sized feet, covered with dust and calluses, as if they had never worn shoes.

Just as they were about to raise the bead to illuminate the face of the owner of the foot, the feet suddenly moved away with incredible speed.Strangely, they did not turn around, but kept facing them, and quickly ran backwards into the darkness where the candlelight could not reach, leaving behind a series of rattling footsteps.

The singing also went away.

Chong Liu's heart beat faster, and his palms felt numb.In fact, they are just a pair of human feet, and he has seen even more crazy things, including doors, including the Tianzhu and Chenghuang that appeared in Tianliang City, and the rainbow in Tailong Town...but he grew up here. In the depths of the cave, these feet brought him very strong anxiety and fear.

The singing began to echo in the distance again, as if with a trace of ridicule, "Eat a bowl, leave a bowl, the door corner eats Arhats, Arhats don't eat meat, swallow tofu and gluten whole~" "The smell is getting stronger and stronger. "The shopkeeper sniffed the smell in the air.

Chong Liuye vaguely felt it, his hands were extremely itchy, and the air seemed to have turned into a thick and sticky film to stick to his body.

The shopkeeper seemed to sense something, and looked at Chong Liu seriously and concernedly, "Do you want to move forward?"

Chongliu's expression was tense, but he nodded.

They followed the song and continued on in the dark.This road seems to have been extending forward without end.On the rocks on both sides, ancient carvings and murals gradually began to appear.There are still many characters scattered around the murals and carvings, but they are not characters that Chong Liu knows.

Zhu Helan illuminated the carvings with pearl light, and said in amazement, "This word... I know it."

Chong Liu hurriedly asked, "What's the word?"

"This is a very prosperous ancient country that appeared about 200 years after the time I was born - the language used by Sinah. But the site of Sinah is far away from the northwest pass, and it has long been buried under the desert. Their How could the words appear on the South China Sea, which is separated by hundreds of thousands of miles?" Zhu Helan murmured in confusion, reading those words carefully.

Chong Liu couldn't read, so he went to see the well-preserved murals deep in the mountains.

Although those paintings are very simple and abstract, all composed of straight lines, sharp corners and circles, the style is very weird, but Chong Liu can still roughly see the meaning.It seems that a city that was originally in a distant place was corroded by a fog-like thing. Most of the people in it died. Something like a shuttle.

These Shuozi enslaved the fugitives, forced them to build huge and magnificent dungeons for them, and sometimes threw disobedient slaves to a kind of... irregular-shaped things to eat.After the underground palace was built, those Shuozi people began to make a kind of... magic weapon in the pool deep in the underground palace?Stone?crystal?The picture was so unclear that Chong Liu couldn't determine what it was.In short, they use this thing to fight the monsters in the sea.

At this time, the slaves in the underground palace quietly released the huge shapeless monster.The monsters devoured all the Shuttle who stayed behind.However, the Shuozi people who signed some kind of contract after a tie in the sea came back and found that their homeland had been destroyed, so they returned to the sea and never appeared again.The human slaves, however, were unable to escape the dungeon because the gate was buried in a landslide caused by the irregularly shaped monster.

Chong Liu guessed that those people were once trapped in this tunnel and recorded their history in desperation.

The question is...if they died here, what about the bones?If this tunnel was ever sealed, when was it opened?

And... what about that irregularly shaped monster?

Could it be... still in the depths of this earth...

Just as he was thinking like this, suddenly a low, sighing howl, accompanied by a gust of wind exuding the smell of corpses, blew from the depths of the darkness.The voice of singing nursery rhymes that had been fluttering in the distance also stopped abruptly.