"Let's take a look." Xu Ziyan was helpless. Without enough information, he couldn't figure out how to break the trap.
The two sat on the second floor of the inn, staring out the window boredly. At the moment when night fell, the entire Jiangnan water town suddenly underwent an unknown change.
The originally colorful world seems to be forcibly erased at this moment, leaving only the dim black and white interlaced...
"What's going on?" Xu Ziyan looked out the window with a shocked expression. The originally black sky was now a misty white, and the night just now seemed to be his hallucination. In the blink of an eye, the night has become what it is now.
"Brother..." Xu Zirong called out softly and pointed to the first floor of the inn.
I saw the shopkeeper in the lobby on the first floor slowly stretched his waist, and his original simple and honest appearance was like a candle that met flames, melting from him continuously.
After a while, a pale skeleton stood behind the counter, shook his head, and made a clicking sound. Then two blue flames suddenly ignited in his empty eye sockets. : "It's time, hurry up and change the lantern."
The kid in the shop is also a skeleton, and the fireworks lit in his eyes are obviously smaller than those of the boss. Humph agreed, put the towel on his shoulders, and then carried a soul-calling banner to the original restaurant. The inn's sign was changed.
Xu Ziyan: ... the rhythm of entering a ghost town in one second! What about the Jiangnan water town? In the blink of an eye, what does a room full of zombie skeletons mean
Xu Zirong glanced around calmly. The few guests on the second floor had also changed their appearance. Most of them were skeleton zombies, and there were a few who looked like normal people, but their tails were occasionally exposed behind them. And the foot-long tongue that sticks out from time to time is enough to prove their inhuman identity.
After changing the spirit banner, the skeleton boy hurriedly came to the second floor. Originally, Xu Ziyan thought that he would still be ignored, but he did not expect that the other party was very attentive and wiped the table for them with a rag, and asked with a smile: " What do you two guests want? The thousand-year-old foxtail in our shop has just matured, and it is especially effective for you humanoid spirits."
Xu Ziyan:…
Xu Zirong glanced at the little Er with a half-smile but not a smile, and the little Er's heart was chilled by this look, and he immediately shrank his neck unconsciously, straightened his back and said, "Actually, the drunk spring breeze in this shop is also very good. The effect is not as good as that of the foxtail, and the taste is mellow, which is the best of our store!"
Xu Ziyan didn't say anything. He glanced at Xu Zirong and saw that this skeleton boy was someone who bullied the soft and feared the hard. At this time, Xu Zirong's cold face always gave people a queen-like aura, which was very useful.
Xu Zirong knocked on the table and said casually, "Come on a jar. What else is there good for?"
That little Er hurriedly mentioned several special dishes in the store one by one. When Xu Zirong heard it, they were all good things, but...
He raised his hand and interrupted Xiao Er's promotion: "It's our first time here, let's bring anything good, but..." He paused and smiled kindly: "What do you pay for here? ?"
Xiao Er nodded again and again: "Not only the spirit stones, but also all kinds of heaven and earth treasure shops are purchased at a uniform price. If the guest officer wants to buy some other things, the shop can also run errands for them. When you first arrived in the South of My Ghost River, you must want to buy some special products, as long as you can afford the spirit stone, there are a lot of good things in our town."
Xu Zirong nodded when he heard the words, and dismissed him at will. After a while, there were a few side dishes and a jar of drunken spring breeze on their table.
Xu Ziyan opened the wine jar and smelled it. The aroma of the wine was strong and very attractive, and the side dishes on the table looked extraordinarily delicious.
He swallowed hard, suppressing the desire to take a bite.
This town is so weird that he didn't dare to eat the food here before he knew what was going on here.
"Brother, everyone in this state can see us now," Xu Zirong said in a low voice.
Xu Ziyan glanced around seemingly inadvertently, and found that the zombie skeletons around were all looking at them with covetousness—the food and wine on the table.
Xu Ziyan looked at it casually, and happened to see a skeleton downstairs with half a leg bone missing, squatting at the door of the inn begging, and occasionally passing spirits would throw a coin or two.
Several other guests on the second floor have begun to continue their own topics. Two guests with weasel heads are feeling that the recent business is getting worse and worse, and a skeleton and a zombie next door are discussing The homework that the gentleman in the academy left them was too difficult.
Because of his cultivation, Xu Ziyan could hear a group of stout, rock-like monsters complaining downstairs. A few new anti-bag monsters had arrived at the dock, always robbing them of their business.
Seeing such a group of monsters and monsters seeking life like ordinary people, Xu Ziyan had a strong sense of disobedience. If he closed his eyes and didn't look at their appearance, Xu Ziyan would definitely believe that this was a group of ordinary people struggling to survive.
The question now is, why are these monsters living such a completely ordinary life
"Little Er, you call up the beggar downstairs." Xu Ziyan instructed. Although the skeleton Xiao Er was puzzled, he obeyed honestly.
After the lame skeleton came up, it seemed a little timid. It looked no different from a real beggar. Xu Ziyan even thought that maybe they didn't even know they were monsters, but regarded themselves as pure ordinary people. .
Xu Ziyan chatted with the beggar skeleton very kindly, and thoughtfully gave him all the dishes he ordered.
Beggar Skeleton was very pleasantly surprised, and regarded him as a good man, answering various questions from Xu Ziyan while eating Haisai.
From the beggar's mouth, Xu Ziyan had actually learned a lot of information. Compared with poor communication and aimless eavesdropping during the day, this kind of targeted questioning was obviously more efficient.
This small town with only one street is called Guijiangnan. It is a very 'ordinary' town. The people who live here are all day and night, and live an 'ordinary' life.
The beggar himself doesn't know how long he has lived here, he only knows that he has been begging here for a long, long time.
If there is anything unusual about this small town, it is only the ghost and god festival that the beggar mentioned unintentionally in two days.
Xu Ziyan sent the beggar away, and opened a guest room with the skeleton boy. When he went to the guest room, he knocked on Tianle's door, but unfortunately there was no response, so Xu Ziyan had to temporarily give up the idea of meeting with the other party. .
When he was about to enter the room, Xu Ziyan vaguely heard that someone was calling his name, but he looked around, and there was no one else except Xu Zirong.
He suspected that he heard it wrong, but remembered Tianle's reaction during the day, and his heart suddenly moved. After returning to the room, he said to the air, "Tianle? Is that you? If you are, make some noise."
Bang!
The stool next to the table was touched so badly that it fell to the ground. Xu Ziyan was overjoyed, knowing that this was probably Tianle's response.
He thought about it for a while, and accidentally saw the teapot placed on the table, his mind brightened, and he quickly sprinkled the tea on the table.
Soon, an invisible finger dipped in tea and wrote a few words on the table: "What the hell is going on?"
Seeing this, Xu Ziyan couldn't help laughing. Although they and Tianle couldn't see each other now, they could communicate with each other in this way.
In this weird place, multiple people help multiple people. As long as the two sides can communicate, at least in terms of intelligence collection, they can compare.
Xu Ziyan could speak, so he quickly shared his and Xu Zirong's findings. Tianle also used the tea on the table to communicate with them what he had inquired about.
The information obtained by the two parties was slightly summarized, and the key words of the sacrifice of ghosts and gods were highlighted.
"In three days, it will be the sacrifice of ghosts and gods. I think that should be the opportunity for us to leave here, but our current information is not complete, it is best to collect more." He said to Tianle: "Tomorrow during the day, you Walking around, you must focus on listening to some news about this ghost and god sacrifice. I always feel that this is a bit complicated, and..." Xu Ziyan suddenly thought of something, and said quickly: "Go to the pier tomorrow to see, although these people are transformed into monsters at night. , but it still continued the daytime life. I heard them downstairs just now that a new group of people have arrived. Since they are new, they are definitely not from the original town, you go and find out."
Tianle nodded, and then realized that the other party couldn't see him, so he wrote on the table to show that he understood.
Xu Ziyan thought about the news they had obtained, and found that there was nothing more to analyze, so he sent Tianle away. Today, he is a mortal body, and after such an afternoon of tossing, he actually feels a little tired.
Fortunately, Xu Zirong had refined some arrays before, and as long as he used the spirit stone to drive it, he could carry out basic defense. Otherwise, in such a ghost place, Xu Ziyan was really worried that he would never wake up again after falling asleep.
A good night's sleep.
Early the next morning, Xu Ziyan once again became an 'invisible person'.
He took Xu Ziyan to explore around, but he mainly focused on the square where the Ghost and God Festival was about to be held.
The square is located in the center of the town (street), very close to the inn, and it is only a few minutes' walk away, but for some reason, the square is extremely deserted, even if people pass by, they are all in a hurry. No one dared to stop here.
There is a big tree in the center of the square, which looks very old. Under the tree is an altar made of stones. It is not large and can accommodate a person lying on it.