Chapter 402 Black Shop
The carriage walked slowly along the official road. The official road was in disrepair and was full of bumps. The old horse walked on the bumpy official road as if it were treading on flat ground. The two people in the carriage did not feel any bumps.
"We've arrived in Huangzhou." Lu Yang spread out the map. There was a light spot on the map, which represented them. This was a magic weapon that could roughly show their location. It was a must-have magic weapon when going out.
"It's getting late, let's find a place to rest nearby." Meng Jingzhou saw that it was getting dark and he had arrived in Huangzhou again, so there was no need to rush.
“Hey, look, there is an inn here, we can stay there!” Meng Jingzhou saw an inn not far away. The plaque was shaky and the name of the inn was not clear. The quality of the inn was worrying.
Lu Yang looked at the inn suspiciously. It was so gloomy, as if a strong wind could blow the inn down.
“Just make do with it, it’s better than spending the night on the carriage.” Lu Yang comforted himself.
The two of them arrived at the door of the inn. The door was wide open, and it was dark and empty inside, as if it had been abandoned for a long time.
The two of them finally saw the name of the inn - Qingming Inn.
“This name is not very auspicious. Is this place closed down or still open?” Meng Jingzhou muttered, strode in, and shouted loudly, “Is there anyone there? Let’s stay at the hotel!”
No one responded.
Meng Jingzhou shouted again: "Is there anyone there? Let's stay at the hotel!"
I heard a thump on the counter, like the sound of a corpse falling to the ground, and it was extremely dull.
“Who is yelling, you don’t even understand the rules of the hotel!” A man wearing a white paper hat came out of the counter and cursed, staring at Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou with an unfriendly expression.
"Stay in the hotel, get the two best rooms!" Meng Jingzhou always only stayed in the best places.
"You two, are you staying in a hotel?" The man in the white paper hat looked at the two of them in surprise, stretched his neck and looked back, and found that no one was following them.
“Go, go, make trouble, this is not the place you should be, find another place to live.” The man in the white paper hat drove the two away impatiently.
Meng Jingzhou was puzzled that this was the first time he had stayed in an inn so many times that he was not allowed to stay.
“Is our store full?”
“The room is still half empty.”
“Then why don’t you let us stay?”
The man in the white paper hat saw that these two people really didn't understand the rules. Just as he was about to explain, he heard noise coming from upstairs.
Tread—tread—tread—
The sound of uniform footsteps came from the top of the building, so neat that it was disturbing.
The monk in robes came down from the second floor, followed by a group of people. They were wrapped in black cloth and silent. They looked particularly scary in the dark night.
The number of people wrapped in black cloth made Lu Yang and the two of them doubt whether there could be so many rooms upstairs to accommodate so many people, especially since the man in the white paper hat said half of the rooms were empty.
Is it possible that more than ten people live in the same room?
How are you going to live here? Is it possible to sleep standing up against the wall?
"Brother, check out, you are the worst Qingming Inn I have ever stayed at." The monk in the Taoist robe threw a bunch of copper coins to the man in the white paper hat. The style of the copper coins was something the two of them had never seen before, and there was a faint... The mana fluctuation seems to have a special effect.
The man in the white paper hat chuckled and didn't respond, as long as he could make money.
Lu Yang was confused, it was dark now, why did he leave the store now?
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were both shocked when they saw clearly the appearance of the man wrapped in black cloth.
The people wrapped in black cloth had dull eyes, some had mud and grass on their mouths and noses, some were disfigured as if they had been hit by something, and some were old and thin, with only a layer of skin left.
“Those who were drowned, those who were crushed to death, those who died of old age...these are all dead people!”
No wonder he checks out of the hotel as soon as he arrives at night, rests during the day, and drives away the dead at night. This is what the book says.
The two of them did not expect that as soon as they entered Huangzhou, they would encounter the corpse exorcism technique that they had heard about for a long time. The man in the white paper hat put away the copper coins and rolled his eyes at the two of them: "This is a corpse inn, which provides a place for the corpse drivers to stay. The rooms are all for the dead. If you are not taboo, you can stay here."
The corners of their eyes twitched, and they were somewhat unable to adapt to living in a room with dead people.
“That person just now knows how to exorcise corpses. Is he a member of the corpse exorcism sect?” Lu Yang asked again. If he is a member of the corpse exorcism sect, they can just chat with each other.
The man in the white paper hat shook his head: "You two are outsiders, I guess. Our Qingming Inn is a chain in Huangzhou. How can anyone know the name of our hotel and come to stay here?"
“We are from Yunzhou.”
White Paper Hat suddenly realized: "It's a great state in the Central Plains. No wonder, I heard that there is Taoist Sect, one of the five great immortal sects, there. Together with the entire Yunzhou, it is extremely powerful, with convenient transportation, developed economy, and powerful people like the clouds."
He corrected the misunderstanding between the two of them: "The art of exorcising corpses is not limited to the corpse exorcism sect. There are many informal cultivators among the people who know the art of exorcizing corpses, but they are far less serious than the corpse exorcism sect."
“In our barren state, whether they are corpse exorcists or disciples of the corpse exorcist sect, they are collectively called corpse exorcists. The transactions between them are not spiritual stones, but large copper coins.”
The man in the white paper hat shook a bunch of copper coins in his hand: "This is it."
The two of them thanked the man in the white paper hat and decided to find another inn.
Leaving the Qingming Inn, Lu Yang saw a sign upside down at the door of the inn, and out of kindness, he helped the innkeeper up.
I saw the sign saying: Due to the adjustment of business strategy, our store has now moved to Baiquan Town, 20 miles east. Please understand.
The payment date was five years ago.
"What!"
The two men suddenly raised their heads and looked at the Qingming Inn in front of them in astonishment, a chill rising in their hearts.
The real Qingming Inn has moved away, so who did they see just now?
They rushed into the store, but there was no one inside. There was no man in a white paper hat anywhere.
“Was it a human or a ghost just now?”
The two of them were horrified. They actually didn't notice anything strange about the man in the white paper hat. The man in the white paper hat didn't react when he saw Meng Jingzhou, who had a body of pure yang. How high should his cultivation be? He was a ghost king.
"superior!"
A decisive voice gave an order, and a group of monks dressed in police uniforms poured out from all around and rushed into the inn.
“Damn it, let him run away!”
The leader of the group had a beard and was very unhappy when he saw that there was no man with a white paper hat in the inn.
“Brother, what is going on?” Lu Yang asked politely.
The bearded detective quickly saw that Lu Yang and the others had just come out of the inn, and knew that they were not suspicious persons, so he explained:
"This Qingming Inn has been abandoned for five years, but in the past five years, there have always been people who said that they had stayed in this inn and thought it was haunted. They reported it to us. After secret verification and confessions, we finally figured out the reason. "
“There was a man in a white paper hat pretending to be a shopkeeper, pretending to open a shop here, and letting the corpse-killers move in to make money.”
"Because the corpses were not housed in any place, it was understandable that the environment would be poor. Later, some corpse removal workers couldn't bear it anymore and felt that the environment of the Qingming Inn was too bad, so they complained to the Qingming Inn's head office. The Qingming Inn's head office was even more surprised and said that this The store had been closed a long time ago, and this is when the crime happened.”
“After we found out the truth, we thought we would wait and arrest the man with the white paper hat, but we failed and let him run away!”
Lu Yang: “…”
Can you, Huangzhou, even do such a thing just to make money?
The second update is around eleven o’clock
(End of this chapter)