my roommate is not human

"Oh, but why are we hiding?" Ye Xi asked curiously.

"The yang energy of a living person will collide with a zombie, and if you are not careful, a corpse will change, which is the so-called fraudulent corpse. So when you encounter a corpse, you must avoid it."

Luo Ke glanced at the sky and said, "It's too late, we can't pass Stanley Peak today, we have to find a place to stay."

"Where is there a home in this barren land?"

Ye Xi's question got Luo Ke's weird sneer: "Of course there are, but we don't accept living people."

"What do you mean?"

Luo Ke didn't respond, and his smile became more and more mysterious, which made Ye Xi's heart shudder.

As he circled around, it didn't take long before a wooden house appeared in the spacious and flat place in front of him.

In front of the house stood a tall black-painted wooden pillar, with a white windproof paper lantern hanging from the top of the pillar.

The wind was strong at high places, the lanterns were swaying, and the candles were flickering inside.

"Even if you have no money, you shouldn't use paper lanterns, right? There are trees everywhere on this mountain, so you are not afraid of fire." Ye Xi said in surprise.

"You see clearly." Luo Ke raised his hand and knocked him hard.

Rubbing his forehead aggrievedly, Ye Xi stared his eyes wide open, and the ghastly white light of the fire highlighted the four large black characters on the paper lantern - "Zombie Inn."

As if he was frozen, he only felt the cold air whizzing up from the soles of his feet, and stammered, "I, we don't want to live here, do we?"

Luo Ke asked rhetorically, "Where do you live if you don't live here?"

"Yes, but..."

"With me, the authentic celestial master, what are you afraid of?" Luo Ke gave him a white look.

Ye Xi muttered in a low voice with a mournful face: "But you don't always have aura, and you can't even see ghosts when you take the bus..."

He should be thankful that Luo Ke didn't hear his words clearly, and continued to walk forward: "I love you as long as you want, Stanley Peak is very dark, and there are probably many wandering ghosts..."

As he spoke, his feet had stepped onto the low threshold.

Ye Xi hurried over in two or three steps, the zombie inn is scary, and staying alone is even more terrifying, of course the lesser of two evils should be chosen.

This inn is very old and looks dilapidated.

The door panel was actually removed and leaned against the gray wall.

The light inside was very dark, and on the old-fashioned log counter, a kerosene lamp was burning half-deadly, and a moth was stubbornly circling around the lampshade, unwillingly seeking its own death.

The boss behind the counter was a man in his sixties.

The top of the head is sparse, the temples are gray, and the appearance is extremely ugly, with wrinkles like chrysanthemums all over the face, and the huge nose is like a curly poodle.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Shu Shu raised his head, saw them, showed a surprised expression, and said coldly, "This is not the place you should come to."

"We've missed Sutou, there's nowhere to go.

It's cold in the middle of the night, so please let the boss make it easier for us to leave early tomorrow. "Luo Ke smiled with his eyebrows bent. His appearance is really pleasing. Whenever he shows such a sweet and bewitching smile, few people have the heart to refuse it.

Sure enough, the boss hesitated, and said in a slow tone, "Are you tourists from other places? Don't you know where I am?"

Luo Ke said softly: "It doesn't matter, there is a way of yang, and there is a way of Yin, we will not disturb other guests."

The boss groaned, and picked up the lampshade. The moth finally got his wish and landed on the flame. With a puff, a puff of blue smoke ignited, and turned into a small charred black corpse, which "slapped" and fell on the counter.

Ye Xi frowned, Luo Ke still smiled slightly, as if he didn't see anything.

The boss put on the lampshade, squinted his eyes and looked at them carefully. After a while, he said slowly: "Well, since there are no guests today, I will take you in for one night, but I have to leave early tomorrow. My place is very cloudy. It's no good for you to stay too long."

"Of course." Luo Ke readily agreed.

The boss didn't say anything, and walked out from behind the counter with one foot high and one foot low. It turned out that he was crippled.

Leading Luo Ke and Ye Xi to the second guest room on the left, the boss leaned against the door frame and beckoned them to go in.

Like all the doors in the inn, the door panel of this room was also taken off and leaned against the wall.

Ye Xi sighed: "Are you used to not using doors here? It seems that the folk customs are very simple, and there are no robbers."

The boss was stunned, looked at him but smiled without saying a word, Luo Ke frowned slyly, and said slowly: "The back of the door panel is for storing zombies."

Ye Xi hurriedly shrank behind him.

"However, it should not be there now." Luo Ke put his index finger on his forehead and added kindly, "If it is not missed by the wandering gentleman."

Knowing that he was trying to scare him on purpose, Ye Xi angrily gave him a goosebump, but unfortunately, the dark and clear pupils were not deterrent, but automatically deduced the taste of hatred.

His expression greatly pleased Luo Ke, and his gaze swept across the room slowly.

The furnishings are very simple, simply too simple, and the wooden lattice windows are pasted with snow-white window paper.

The wall is painted with blue-coloured white ash, which is estimated to be some years old, and it is full of mottled stains, like graffiti done by children when they were naughty.

Under the wall is a simple log bed. It is said to be a bed, but in fact it is just a few planks and four pillars, and it doesn't look very stable.

It was covered with hard-washed khaki home-skin bedding, reminiscent of a hospital mortuary.

In the center of the room is a wooden four-legged table and chairs, and on the table is a set of coarse porcelain teapots and teacups.

He turned back and smiled at the boss: "It's pretty clean..."

How can it be unclean?Except for these few basic things, there is nothing.

The boss raised his sparse gray eyebrows and asked, "Do you two need dinner?"

"There are two bowls of red bean porridge." Luo Ke picked a wooden stool and sat down lazily.

"I just want porridge!" Ye Xi emphasized.

"No," Luo Ke shook his head, "you must drink red bean porridge here."

Ye Xi glared at him angrily, thinking that he was doing it on purpose. He lived in the same dormitory for more than a year, and of course he knew that he didn't like soy products, and he didn't even eat bean paste buns.

Turning a blind eye to Ye Xi's anger, Luo Ke said nonchalantly, "Red beans have the effect of warding off yin, so they are the most suitable for you to eat."

The boss was surprised when he heard this, and stared at him carefully with his cloudy pupils, a smile finally appeared on his wrinkled face, and he said meaningfully: "I don't worry about it for nothing, so I'm an expert."

Hearing what he said, Ye Xi couldn't help but believe it.

Luo Ke turned to ask the boss again: "Is the gentleman who didn't leave today staying at the inn?"

The boss shook his head: "No."

"Strange……"

"Oh?"

"On the way we met Mr. Walker."

"Really?" The boss was obviously a little surprised, guessing, "Maybe he was on his way overnight."

"Maybe." Luo Ke inserted his fingers into his hair, thoughtfully, and replied casually.

"By the way, are you tourists? Why did you appear on Stanley Peak at this time?" the boss asked.

"We came here by tourist bus. There was an accident on the way and we were delayed, so we had to stay here." Ye Xi explained.

"Tourist bus?" The boss was surprised. "Wobu Kuda has not been peaceful in the past two years, and no one has gone there. Therefore, there has been no tourist bus passing by Stanley Peak for a long time. What kind of tourist bus are you taking?"

"It's a blue and white single-decker bus, it looks quite ordinary." Ye Xi replied.

The boss changed his face slightly, and hurriedly asked: "Is the driver a middle-aged man in his forties? Putonghua is quite standard, and the car's tail number is 0489?"

"Yes." It was still Ye Xi who answered. When he got out of the car to look for the hit Miao girl, he had carefully looked at the car.

The boss looked at them sympathetically, and sighed softly for a long while: "That car had an accident a year ago and fell down a mountain stream. None of the dozen tourists and drivers on board survived."

Luo Ke and Ye Xi immediately looked at each other in dismay, only then did they realize that what they were riding was actually a ghost car.

Luo Ke had seen ghosts more than people since he was a child, so naturally he didn't have any reaction, but Ye Xi broke out in a cold sweat.

The boss moved quickly, and in a short time, he cooked two bowls of steaming red bean porridge and brought them over: "I'll just stand by the front desk and just call if I need anything."

The red bean porridge in front of him was soft and rotten. It was hot and smelled of beans. Although Ye Xi didn't like it, he was tired and frightened after tossing all day. He was really hungry. He picked up the spoon and took a sip He took a small mouthful, and his small face immediately wrinkled into a bitter gourd. It was really unpalatable, sticky like paste, and he put down the spoon angrily.

"Don't be picky eaters! We live in a zombie inn with heavy corpse energy, so eat more to avoid the erosion of Yin energy!" Luo Ke scolded, looked at Ye Xi's unhappy face, softened his tone a little, and explained, "Mr. Before leaving, in order to ward off evil spirits, you must put seven red beans in the mouth of Xishen."

"What is the God of Joy?" Ye Xi asked curiously.

Luo Ke didn't say a word, and squinted at the red bean porridge in front of Ye Xi.

Although Ye Xi was reluctant, but he knew Luo Ke's vicious character of being unwilling to give up until he reached his goal. If he insisted on not drinking, he didn't know what method he would use to force him...

Thinking of this, the scene of him feeding himself talisman water immediately appeared in his mind, and his face immediately became redder than ever. Of course, he was not only angry, he quickly lowered his head to cover up, picked up the spoon and sipped the porridge.

Seeing that he was still obedient, Luo Ke was in a good mood, and said with a smile, "You know how to drive corpses in Xiangxi, right?"

"I've seen it in ghost movies." Ye Xi said vaguely with porridge in his mouth.

"The exorcising of corpses that is prevalent in western Hunan is actually a kind of white witchcraft of the Miao family.

Originated from Chi You, the ancestor of the Miao people, it is a spell that can drive corpses to walk.

The morticians can't just call them 'mortalists', but they should be honored as 'Mr.', and the corpses are called 'walkers'. As for the corpses..." He glanced at Ye Xi slyly, and slowed down his speech, " In order to avoid the taboo, we can't directly call the dead or the dead body, but we should call it "Xi Shen", which is the homonym of the dead body. "

Ye Xi was stunned for a moment before asking: "You mean, the red beans were actually put in the mouths of dead bodies?"

"Yes."

As soon as the words fell - "Pfft..." Ye Xi spat out the red bean porridge he was holding in his mouth, and he got up awkwardly, covering the corner of his mouth that had turned into a painted cat: "I, I'm going to wash my face."