Shanhai Inn

Lu Zhuo also had this feeling when he first came to the inn.

At that time, he had just grown his ears and tail, and he was very panicked. Subconsciously, he saw the inn with a strange filter. When he came over, he saw that the inn was pasted with talisman papers. That kind of weird filter is naturally deeper.

Lu Zhuo didn't leave at that time and didn't ask any other questions. There were two reasons.

One is because although the little Daoist is talking about it, his talisman is really useful, and he promised Lu Zhuo that it can solve his problem.

The second is because of Lu Fengzhi.

He has a warm filter of people he's liked and appreciated since he was a kid, and it completely overrides the inn's creepy filter.

There will be no problem where Mr. Lu is there.

Lu Zhuo believed this almost blindly.

He just stayed at the Shanhai Inn.

Later, I got acquainted with everyone and accepted that the strange style of the inn was the reason for the setting of the theme of Shan Hai Jing. Those strange things were unconsciously ignored by him, and he corrected them in the normal direction in his mind.

until today.

Because of the ears and tail, that feeling of being wrong came back.

In Lu Zhuo's cognition, his ears and tail belonged to special atavistic phenomena, which could only be removed through surgery. I haven't seen surgery or anything, and they have disappeared unexpectedly, and everyone in the inn naturally thinks that It is the reason for cultivation.

The word cultivation should not be within the normal range of cognition.

Lin Xin and the others think so, Lu Zhuo thinks about it, and thinks there are probably two reasons.

One is that the people in the inn have been brainwashed by certain concepts.

The second is that there are indeed supernatural phenomena in this world, and the Shanhai Inn belongs to them, so Lin Xin and his ideas are normal, and the person who doesn't understand is actually Lu Zhuo himself.

In Lu Zhuo's heart, Lin Xin and Lu Fengshi are gentle and tough people, and they will not be brainwashed by those unknown ideas casually, so he prefers the latter between the two.

supernatural.

These three words lingered back and forth in Lu Zhuo's heart, and gradually brought out some of the previous things.

The very strange species column on the inn registration form.

The day the drunken guest set fire to him, the shadow with dragon scales whizzed past his eyes.

The fleeting black shadow behind Lu Wu, Lin Xin said at the time was the shadow of Jiji's wings, and Lu Zhuo believed it, but after thinking about it later, he felt that what he saw that day was clearly a few fluffy Tail.

Also, when playing the game I Have You No, Lu Wu and Gu Jiuzhang frankly admitted that they were not human, but Lin Xin's explanation at that time was really blunt.

The more Lu Zhuo thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, his tail was tensed, and his brows gradually frowned.

……

The day passed slowly amidst the cub's preoccupations, and the city was once again enveloped by the gentle moonlight.

At night, Lu Zhuo took a bath and lay on the bed with the cats in his arms. After a long time, he didn't fall asleep. The words "supernatural" and "something wrong with the inn" had completely occupied his mind.

He tossed and turned for a while, and stopped falling asleep when he couldn't fall asleep. He turned on the light, touched the phone, and tapped He Xiaoyu's profile picture.

The messages sent before still haven't received a reply, and Lu Zhuo hasn't spoken to him these days. The latest message is that he told Xiao Yu that he had a fight many days ago.

Lu Zhuo looked at Xiao Yu's name, hesitated for a while, and typed with his hands down.

: Ayu, there is something I haven’t told you all the time, that is, I didn’t stay at school during the summer vacation, and now I work as an online customer service in a store called Shanhai Inn.

: The people here are very nice, I like them very much, by the way, do you remember the Mr. Lu I mentioned to you before?He is also here, just across from me. The neighbor who took good care of me mentioned last time is him.

: He is just like I imagined, a very gentle person in his bones, I am very happy to meet him.

: I also like Shanhai Inn, besides the orphanage, it is the second place that gives me the feeling of home.

: But... Now I feel that something is wrong with the inn.

The cub treats his friend like a tree hole, and confides his thoughts to him word by word, even if He and Xiao Yu can't respond to him in time.

What Lu Zhuo didn't know was that ten minutes ago, after finishing the archaeological work with Xiao Yugang, they walked out of the deep mountains and old forests where there was no signal.

When I came out to connect to the Internet, the first thing I did was to contact Lu Zhuo, and then I saw that Lu Zhuo had sent him a lot of messages back and forth.

The earliest one was at the beginning of July, when Xiao Yu had just entered the mountain, Lu Zhuo softly wished him a safe journey.

Then there are some daily sharing.

He Xiaoyu looked at it softly, until the news moved down and saw Lu Zhuo saying that he was going to attend the high school reunion.

The smile on his face disappeared instantly.

Why are these rubbish bastards still haunted?

It seems that the beating was not hard enough.

He and Xiao Yu frowned, wanting to reply that they don't want to go, but seeing that several days had passed, it was meaningless to say it now, so they could only press down the irritability that was about to burst out, and continued to read.

Then I saw Lu Zhuo's first fight mood sharing.

And Xiao Yu: [Unbelievable].jpg

Our squishy little friends can actually fight, and win?

congratulations.

He Xiaoyu felt that it should have been like this long ago, there is no difference between reasoning and talking nonsense with those people whose bones are rotten to the extreme, just go straight up and do it.

He and Xiao Yu had a sense of accomplishment that their own children had finally grown up. Just as they were about to reply, they saw another new message from Lu Zhuo.

He lowered his head, and the smile on his face froze immediately after seeing the text in the message box.

Mountain Sea Inn? !Mr. Lu? !

How did our children get involved with these people in this place?

Also, why did he say he felt something was wrong with the inn?

Could it be that he already knew that he was a youkai?I haven't had enough vaccinations yet, can Lu Yan bear it?

broken.

Together with Xiao Yu, their hearts were pounding, and they read the latest news several times. They felt that Lu Yan probably didn't know about those things, but only realized some problems at the beginning, and the frequency of heartbeats slowed down a little. .

But he was still nervous, so he asked the cub urgently.

[He Xiaoyu pulls out the weeping willow]: When did you come to Shanhai Inn?why go?How did you get there?

Lu Zhuo was stunned for a moment when he received the news from Xiao Yu, and then he was happy.

[Student Xiaolu never cuckoos]: Ah Yu is back?Are you at school yet?

[Pull weeping willows with Xiao Yu upside down]: I just came out of the mountains and haven't returned yet, so I'll arrive around nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

[He Xiaoyu pulls out the weeping willow]: I'll talk about this later, you answer my question first.

Lu Zhuo paused her fingers, wondering if she should tell him about her sudden ears and tail.

However, such hesitation did not last long, and Lu Zhuo quickly made a decision——say.

He and Xiao Yu are his close friends, they have been protecting him since the first time they met, and they are worthy of Lu Zhuo's wholehearted trust.

Lu Zhuo started typing, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Yu couldn't wait any longer, so they directly sent a call request.

"Ding--"

The crisp bell sounded in the silent night, waking up the two kittens who were already snoring and sleeping next to them.

Lu Zhuo stroked the cat with one hand to show comfort, and held the phone close to his ear with the other hand: "Hello?"

He Xiaoyu's voice quickly rang out, and he asked the question he had just asked in WeChat text again.

Lu Zhuo answered one by one, and after hearing him finish speaking, there was only silence in the hearts of Xiao Yu and Xiao Yu for a while.

Failed.

Careless.

sloppy.

She actually forgot that Lu Zhuo was about to come of age.

He Xiaoyu carefully probed: "Then you think there is something wrong in the inn?"

Lu Zhuo told him the details that he noticed, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Yu were silent again after hearing the words.

Calculating the time, it took Lu Zhuo almost 20 days to arrive at the inn.

It took him so long to stay in the inn day and night before he realized that something was wrong. Other people, including Xiao Yu, would definitely think that there was something wrong with this person's head, but it was different on Lu Zhuo.

Even a silly white sweet cub can't hide it, what's going on with these people at Shanhai Inn?

In the past, He Xiaoyu would be like Lin Xin at this time, making up a lie to fool the children, this time he originally planned to do the same, but changed his mind in the end.

Lu Zhuo will be an adult in one month, and he will not be able to hide anything at that time. Compared with letting him know the truth unprepared, it is better to let him come step by step.

Thinking so in his heart, he rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and when he spoke again, he didn't comfort and coax the cub, but asked Lu Zhuo a question.

"If the inn and the people you know are supernatural beings, as you think, would you be afraid of them and avoid them?"

Lu Yan didn't even think about it: "Of course not."

"Then do you think they have ill intentions for you?"

"Definitely not."

"That's all right." He Xiao Yu laughed, "They don't have any malice towards you, and you also have a good impression of them, so what else do you want to do?"

"Don't worry about the unknown, isn't that what you often say to me?"

Compared with Xiao Yu, who is more thoughtful and often bothered by some things, Lu Zhuo is like a little sun, which has healed him many times in this way.

Lu Zhuo lowered his eyes, and after a while, as if he was persuaded by He Xiao Yu, he laughed: "That's true."

The kids are still as easy to coax as before.

He and Xiao Yu laughed silently.

Silly, sweet and soft, he doesn't think deeply about anything he encounters, he believes what others say, and fully implements the words "safe with the situation".

Such a character may look silly and childish to others, but He Xiao Yu will never think so.

Lu Zhuo's experience is more complicated. He heard too many sharp words in the orphanage when he was a child, which was enough to crush all his expectations. He also experienced campus bullying in high school. overwhelmed.

At that time, Lu Zhuo and Xiao Yu had to follow closely every time Lu Zhuo went up to the fifth floor to endorse the book quietly, for fear that Lu Zhuo would be overwhelmed and suddenly collapse like his elementary school classmate and go to extremes.

Fortunately, Lu Zhuo came out.

So what does it matter if you are a bit silly or soft?

He and Xiao Yu have seen his gloomy and broken appearance, and feel that Lu Zhuo's current appearance is very good.

As long as he is happy, that's enough.

"So don't think too much about it. I heard from the teacher of the archaeological team at Shanhai Inn before that your special atavism can indeed be cured there. Don't think too much about it. Stay tuned and it will definitely get better." Xiao Yu said, "By the way, you just said that your neighbor is Lu Fengshi? He still lives across from you, um...how are you getting along with him now?"

"Very good." When Lu Fengshi was mentioned, Lu Zhuo's voice became more joyful, "Mr. Lu took good care of me, he is really a gentle person."

It is completely inconsistent with the image of Sha Shen that Xiao Yu has heard.

The children will not be deceived, right?

He and Xiao Yu were worried.

"Really? He didn't kill you, did he?"

"No."

"Did you say anything weird to you?"

"No."

"Isn't it always cold to you?"

"Mr. Lu is a bit cold, but he is actually very gentle, not a cold face."

"Then...he didn't touch you, did he?"

"..."

Lu Yan was a little shocked: "Why do you think so?"

After speaking, he persuaded him earnestly: "Ayu, it's wrong to judge people by their appearance. You can't think that Mr. Lu is that kind of violent person just because his appearance is colder and fiercer."

He Xiaoyu: "..."

No, why is this judging people by their appearance?

At least two-thirds of the monsters in the monster circle have been beaten by this fierce god. The data is clearly displayed here. Am I afraid that you will also be educated by pain?

Ayu was wronged, but Ayu couldn't say anything.

He mumbled a few perfunctory words, and then got back to the topic again: "Then who is taking you to practice in the inn now?"

"It's Mr. Lu."

"..."

Can Zhulong still care about this kind of thing?

He and Xiao Yu were really shocked by this.

Feeling happy after being shocked.

Although Zhulong has a bad reputation, his cultivation level is nothing to say, and it would be great to have him lead the way.

And whoring a vicious god for nothing, not everyone can do this kind of thing.

Whoring him!

The more they thought about it with Xiao Yu, the happier they became, and they started coaxing Lu Zhuo flatteredly, focusing on two points.

One is don't think too much, hold on.

The second is that supernatural phenomena may indeed exist. You can make mental preparations, but you don't have to panic about it.

After coaxing and warning for more than an hour, Lu Zhuo was fooled into a dizzy state, and the troubled things during the day gradually dissipated from his heart, and he felt that these things were not a big deal.

The night outside the window was getting darker, and the hands of the clock on the wall gradually pointed to eleven o'clock.

"It's time for you to go to sleep." Seeing that the person was almost fooled, he and Xiao Yu agreed to leave.

Lu Zhuo hummed: "About what time will you arrive in Longdu tomorrow? I'll pick you up and introduce you to my new friends."

The new friends naturally refer to the people in the inn.

He Xiaoyu: "..."

Still not.

In order to hide someone, he tried his best to disappear in the monster circle. There are so many monsters coming and going in the Shanhai Inn. I have to cry.

He Xiaoyu can only lie: "My work here is not over yet, I have to do file records and reports with my tutor, and I won't be free recently."

Lu Zhuo actually wanted to meet his friend, but he told Xiao Yu that he would naturally put the latter's studies first, so even though he was disappointed, he still agreed.

The two said a few more words, said good night to each other and hung up the phone.

Lu Yan put the phone back on the pillow, rubbed the kitten to get ready for sleep, but the phone rang again.

I took it over and saw that it was a string of unfamiliar numbers.

Lu Zhuo connected, and the voice over there sounded, it was Yao Liang's voice: "It's Lu Zhuo, right? I apologize to you for what happened before, can you ask Lu Fengshi to let me go?"

It was an apology, but still in that commanding tone.

This person is really inexplicable.

The good mood that Lu Yanhe had when chatting with Xiao Yu disappeared, and he didn't want to talk to Yao Liang, so he hung up the phone directly.

After hanging up, I wanted to unblock it, but before I clicked on the page, the bell rang again.

Lu Yan didn't want to answer the call, and wanted to hang up at first, but thinking that this might make the other party feel guilty or afraid of him, he made more progress, so he connected.

Yao Liang's voice sounded again, much more anxious than before: "What do you mean? I apologized to you, what else do you want?"

Lu Zhuo frowned in disgust.

Let's not say that he didn't think Yao Liang was apologizing. He didn't apologize so arrogantly. Even if this person was apologizing, why did he think he would forgive?

Lu Zhuo thought so, and said so, with a cold voice, which was not at all the same as the obedient and submissive person in Yao Liang's memory.

He gripped the phone tightly, the veins in his hands were bulging, and the joints were turning white.

Because of jealousy and anger, but also because of fear.

Yao Liang has had a rough time recently.

He didn't dare to tell his family about the compensation form of the Kyushu Hotel before, so he found some friends to piece it together. After seeing that there was no movement on Lu Fengshi's side, he thought it was over like this, but he didn't expect it to be just a storm. The previous calm, after dormant, finally broke out three days ago.

The Lin family's project that the family wanted to compete for had already been kicked out by the Lin family before it came to bid, without retaining any old friendship.

Not only this, many projects that have already been negotiated and signed contracts suddenly regretted it, and would rather pay liquidated damages and cut off contact with the Yao family, and terminate all contracts.

The Yao family could bear it if one or two did this, but things happened one after another, all at the same time, and the Yao family was greatly hurt by this.

Why is this happening?

The Yao family was in a state of desperation, and they ran around all day asking why and looking for ways out. In the end, the Lin family spoke up, saying that you offended Lu Fengshi, and no one dared to contact your family again until the matter was resolved.

Yao Cheng, the Patriarch of the Yao family, who was also Yao Liang's father, was stunned.

He had only met Lu Fengshi at some receptions before. The latter was surrounded by many people, and he didn't even have a word with him. He really couldn't think of how the Yao family would offend him.

Check if you can't think of it.

What happened at Kyushu Hotel that day was not a secret, and after investigation, Yao Cheng knew the reason.

That day, Yao Cheng called Yao Liang home, and it was the first time he hit him so hard.

Yao Liang was able to do whatever he wanted in the past because of the power of his family, which was his safe haven. As long as the Yao family is still there, he still has the capital to act unscrupulously.

But this sheltered bay is vulnerable to absolute suppression.

Now that the building is about to collapse, Yao Liang is really scared.

The Yao family cannot fall, and the worst is yet to come.

He had done a lot of dirty things with a group of cronies and friends, and several times they almost failed to stop the trouble, and it was only when they joined forces that they settled it.

Yao Liang thought that those traces were handled very cleanly, but it was not the case.

In the past few days, the people who did those things with him have been taken away by the police for investigation. In the past, it was actually a process, and they could come out after less than half a day, but this time it didn’t work. It’s useless to use all the connections .

Yao Liang knew that it would be his turn soon.

not like this!

He is the only heir of the Yao family, and should have an extremely luxurious and bright future, how could he spend the rest of his life in such an unseemly and small place?

... Or maybe there is no chance to die for the rest of my life.

Yao Liang knew in his heart that for the crimes committed by the few of them, if they were punished for several crimes, they would definitely be punished by death.

He was only 19 years old, his life had just begun, how could he die?

Absolutely not!

"...I really know I was wrong, so I beg you, let Lu Fengshi let me go."

It was the first time in Yao Liang's life that he said such weak words, his voice was trembling.

Lu Zhuo heard many people say this, not to him, but to Yao Liang.

He was not the only one who was bullied back then. Lu Zhuo didn't resist, but he didn't bow his head to beg for mercy, but he had seen other classmates, and once knelt in front of Yao Liang and begged him to let him go.

What did Yao Liang say at the time?

He didn't say anything.

He only sneered mockingly, and then continued his unscrupulous evil deeds.

Lu Zhuo was expressionless thinking about the past, and her voice was calm: "When you did those things before, did you think about today?"

"When you saw them begging you, did you ever feel a little bit of compassion?"

"Now when you think of those people you bullied before, do you feel guilty? Even if it's just for a moment?"

"..."

The voice on the other side of the phone stopped, and even the gasp disappeared.

Yao Liang felt as if he was being strangled by the throat, and his heart was throbbing... He suddenly had an unprecedented feeling of guilt.

But only for a moment.

Why should he feel guilty?

This world has its own laws. It is normal for the weak to prey on the strong. Incompetent people should be bullied. What is wrong with him?

Yao Liang had a grim expression on his face, saying these words over and over again in his heart.

His silence told Lu Zhuo the answer, although the answer is actually not important.

Before Yao Liang spoke, Lu Zhuo made a sound first.

"Mr. Lu has never told me about the things you said, and I cannot and have no right to interfere with any of his decisions, and—"

Lu Zhuo was serious and opened his mouth word by word.

"I don't forgive you."

"You should pay for your actions."

"Stop calling again."

Yao Liang's face turned pale instantly: "You—"

There was no chance to say the following words, Lu Zhuo hung up the phone, blocked him and quit the classmate group.

He was in a calm mood, not angry at Yao Liang's refusal to repent, nor overjoyed that they were about to be punished.

Anger is not necessary for such a person.

Rejoice, they deserved what they deserved, and it is normal to be punished. Although it was a bit late, it still came after all.

Lu Yan put down the phone.

The cats didn't sleep again after being woken up, they nestled beside him and watched him quietly, and when Lu Zhuo finished making the phone call, they immediately came over meowing and meowing.

Lu Zhuo picked up the little flannel and was rubbing the cat with his hands, his thoughts had already drifted to other places.

He was thinking about Lu Fengshi.

According to Yao Liang, he felt that Mr. Lu did these things because of himself... Could this be the truth?

Lu Zhuo is not sure.

The cub hugged the cat and thought about it for a while. If he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. He shook his tail and lay down on the bed again.

But this time I still couldn't sleep peacefully.

Just as Lu Zhuo was about to turn off the lights, he heard a few knocks on the outside door.

Who will come this late?

Lu Zhuo's first reaction was Zhou Dabao. He put on his slippers and walked out of the bedroom. He glanced out through the peephole, but what he saw was not a child.

It was Lu Fengshi who had just come back from the outside with a suit in a straight suit.