When the two woke up, it was already dawn and there was still some time before Ji time.
"I was really scared yesterday!" Meng Jingzhou recalled what happened last night and felt sad.
Lu Yang acted relatively calm: "Get familiar with the rules first, then you won't be afraid."
Meng Jingzhou nodded.
The two checked the twenty-one rules to make sure there was no memory bias, and then they felt relieved.
"What time is it now?"
At this time, the sound of gongs was heard outside, and the night watchman shouted loudly while beating the gongs: "It's time."
The two hurried downstairs.
On the first floor, two traveling merchants were holding saddles and yelling at their boss: "We left the horses in the stable in the backyard yesterday, but today there is only one saddle left!"
Lu Yang thought of the huge monster he encountered last night. Maybe it was the one that ate the horse.
I didn't hear any horse neighing last night, which means the horse didn't even have a chance to resist. It's really a terrible monster.
Without paying any more attention to the traveling merchant, the two ran out of the inn.
The Immortal Fairy warned: "These two traveling merchants are very evil and haunted by wronged souls. They are not simple traveling merchants."
Lu Yang nodded, indicating that he remembered it.
There were bursts of aroma coming from the street. The restaurants were open, and steaming hot meals were arousing people's appetite, but the strange thing was that the restaurants were empty. There was a sign on one of the steamers that read "Meat Buns".
The people of Buyi Town wore brown coarse linen clothes. They were used to this. They took their breakfast, sat down and ate, and stayed away from the meat buns.
Lu Yang and the other person also followed suit, eating three sesame cakes and a bowl of soy milk, enjoying their meals with gusto.
Lu Yang noticed that people ate very quickly. Some people ate while walking, looking very anxious.
There was a commotion coming from one side of the street, and a group of people fled in a hurry. Those who were eating didn't even bother to eat and just ran away.
"Let's run too!" Lu Yang picked up the pancake and ran.
The two ran to the other end of the street and turned around to see what had just happened.
A group of people dressed in black came over, about several dozen of them, with knives on their waists.
"That man, stop!" The man in black called out to a person who was running away. The man subconsciously turned his head 360 degrees with his neck drooping.
The man in black clothes burst into laughter upon seeing this, sat down at the door of the restaurant, opened the steamer, picked up the meat bun and started eating, his mouth full of oil.
The dead man raised his head, then turned it back and returned to normal, as if he had forgotten what had just happened, and slowly left the scene.
"They are the government runners. The rules say that we can't eat meat buns, but the runners can. This means that the rules they need to abide by are different from ours." Lu Yang analyzed in a low voice.
"There are many types of breakfast, but all the yamen runners chose to eat meat buns, which means they can only eat meat buns."
"Also the rules say you can't turn your head. It looks like turning your head will break it!"
The two looked at each other and decided to leave, staying as far away from the yamen runners as possible.
“When a man is born, he is good by nature. Natures are similar, but habits make them different…” When I passed by a private school, I heard the sound of someone reading a book. The voice was mature, as if a group of adults were reciting the Three Character Classic.
However, Lu Yang remembered that the rules stated that the private school had been abandoned for many years and there was no private school teacher in the town. The only sounds heard in the private school were barking dogs and no sounds of reading.
This is absolutely unreasonable.
The two hurried away, but were stopped by a man in gray clothes: "You two look unfamiliar, are you from somewhere else?"
Article 9: Those wearing grey robes are private school teachers. If you meet a private school teacher, you need to pretend you didn’t hear anything he says.
Article 10: You cannot look your teacher in the eye. If you do, you will turn into a black dog.
The two of them were the first to react, walking forward with their heads down, not looking into the private school teacher's eyes, nor listening to what the private school teacher said.
The private school teacher was not willing to give in. He said to the two of them, "I see that you two are dressed in extraordinary clothes. You must have some cultivation skills. Could it be that you also believe in the rules on the white paper?"
"Not all the rules on the white paper are true. There are some confusing parts."
"In fact, the master who set up the rules here had no ill intentions. He just wanted to protect himself, so he resorted to this desperate measure. When the master learned of your arrival, he specially asked me to help you."
"I have a way to leave the town, but the price is that you will lose your memory of the town."
"As long as you recite the Three Character Classic in the private school for three days, you can leave the town! I'm not lying to you. If you listen to the voices in the private school, someone left the town with my help yesterday."
The private school teacher suddenly ran up to the two of them, bent down and looked at Lu Yang.
Lu Yang closed his eyes and walked forward. Before closing his eyes, he saw that the lower half of the other person's face had no skin, and the red muscles were exposed, which was very creepy.
Seeing that the two ignored him and kept their heads down, the private school teacher had to give up and shouted behind them: "You only have this one chance to leave the town. You will regret it if you don't accept my help."
The Immortal Fairy said in the spiritual space: "Lu Yang, don't believe him, only part of what he said is true."
"Part?" Lu Yang was a little surprised. He thought the other party was telling lies.
"He does have a way of making people leave town, but not in the form of 'people', but in the form of 'black dogs'. I saw him let a few black dogs run away last night."
"Before he met you, someone looked him in the eye. The person who looked at him had a splitting headache, bloodshot eyes, and black hair gradually grew on his arms. Then he walked into the private school."
Lu Yang felt a chill down his spine. The private school teacher was very difficult to deal with.
"Go to the tailor shop." Lu Yang had some ideas that needed to be verified.
The two of them went to all the tailor shops in Buyi Town, but none of them sold black, white, or gray clothes, nor did they have the corresponding fabrics.
While walking around the town, the two discovered a question: "Where is the ancestral temple?"
The rules say that the ancestral temple is safe, but there are monsters in the temple. With such contradictory statements, this place must be complicated.
But after walking around, the two of them still couldn't find the location of the ancestral temple.
It was already late at night, approaching midnight, and the two had to return to the inn.
"My two guests, you are back safely. Our inn is very safe. You don't have to be so nervous. I will protect your safety." At the door of the inn, the smiling waiter greeted the two. The waiter had no whites in his eyes, and his eyes were pure black, as if he could see things that ordinary people could not see.
The two men's hair stood on end, this sound was exactly the same as the knocking on the door in the corridor last night!
It was him last night!
"Waiter, it's not time yet, go back to your room!" The innkeeper drove the waiter away.
The waiter stared at the innkeeper, and the two looked at each other for a long time before he left unwillingly.
Lu Yang noticed that the waiter went to the third floor, which was the number one room.
(End of this chapter)