Forces of Temptation

If you want to find another place to live in a foreign country, it must be a big expense.

Fortunately, they paid the group fare in advance, and the tour group solved the problem of where to stay for them.

It's just that the accommodation environment is really shabby.

The specifications of the hotel are probably only a little better than youth hostels. It is a bungalow with only three floors.

Nanzhou and the others were assigned to the big bed room at the end of the corridor on the third floor, and added a spring bed to make it a triple room.

The wallpaper is slightly black because of the humidity, and in some places even oozes the green of moss, giving off the fishy smell of anti-tide.

Outside the only window, there is a half-packed small balcony of less than 1 square meter, which is narrow and small. The bottom is not so much an alley as it is a ditch dedicated to throwing garbage, with a faint rancid smell.

It's winter in Tyrande now, and luckily, if it's really sweltering summer, they might be no different from sleeping on a garbage dump.

Less than a meter away from the balcony is the balcony of another cheap hotel.

Because the buildings are crowded with each other, like birdcages, the sunlight and moonlight that can penetrate through the windows are really limited, and they can only sprinkle a thin layer of tokens on the ground, which is better than nothing.

Fortunately, even though Nan Zhou had a picky, noble and indifferent appearance, he was easy to support and had no complaints. He went into the house and looked at the house, tidied up and got under the covers.

He deliberately placed a second-hand Thai dictionary that they had just bought from a street stall for 20 baht under his pillow.

Because in that [Book of Mystery], except for some special esoteric symbols, most of them are written in Thai.

Without the tutor to teach face to face and hand in hand, Nanzhou had to learn from scratch by himself.

Jiang Fang knew that he had to work hard when he slept at night, so he hid a small bag of candied walnuts under his pillow as encouragement.

After turning off the lights, Nanjixing, who had been trapped in the storage compartment for a day, finally had a chance to come out to let the air go.

After going through the chasing battle with thousands of people, the news that Nanzhou and the others followed a sugar glider has spread widely.

The three of them used aliases to carry out the mission, and the risk was not low. If they brought a unique living creature like Nanjixing to the market, it would be better to directly report to the daimyo for a showdown.

One master and one pet steal walnuts from under the pillow to eat respectively, in an orderly manner, with priorities in order.

In the darkness, there were two crackling noises, one after the other, as if there were two little mice in the house.

Jiang Fang put his hands on Nan Zhou's waist, and gently stroked his flexible waistline.

He doesn't know what the mood of love is, but he just feels that after crossing that threshold, the world is much wider and clearer.

This kind of ordinary skin-to-skin contact with him made me feel at ease in my heart.

Nan Zhou was obsessed with studying and cracking walnuts. Seeing that Jiang Fang liked his waist so much, while chewing candied walnuts, he took the initiative to send his waist and buttocks back, and sat on Jiang Fang's lap , so that it is easier for him to touch.

Jiang Fang: "..." Well, this is a little bit more than expected.

Li Yinhang slept on the extra bed next to the window, which was soft and spacious.

She spread out the money one by one and pressed it under the pillow to help her sleep.

But for some reason, she always had that man named Shao Mingzhe in her heart.

It wasn't because of the coin he left behind, nor was it because he intentionally or unintentionally stopped the head that was rolling towards her.

He just showed a pair of eyes in front of Li Yinhang, let alone liked it.

She just felt...he was familiar.

It was an indescribable, wonderful feeling.

Li Yinhang was thinking hard when he saw a small head poking over from the side of the bed.

Nan Jixing stole a candied walnut, threw it beside her pillow, and ran back in a hurry, afraid that if she ran too slowly, all the walnuts would be snatched by Nanzhou.

Li Yinhang smiled lightly.

Even after brushing his teeth, Li Yinhang still picked up the half walnut, put it in his mouth, and closed his eyes.

At this time, the three groups of six people participating in the instance were all in different rooms on the same floor.

If "Cubic Ark" and the others can be regarded as the group of masters, the young couple can be regarded as the group of standard scumbags.

They secretly recorded the audio with their mobile phones in violation of the regulations in the shed, planning to take a shortcut and come home to forcefully hug the Buddha's feet.

It would be best to be able to master a craft through surprise supplementary lessons like Nanzhou did.

Like a scumbag who is too lazy to listen in class and fantasizes that he will work hard after class.

But I don’t know if it’s the recording function that’s blocked, or something else. The sound of the master’s chanting mantra they recorded was full of noise, like a hoarse whisper, caressing, like fingernails scraping against the eardrum, it feels extremely uncomfortable.

Without the blessing of the spell, the sound of the spell in the later period simply turned into a strange sound of piercing and pulling.

As the spell progressed, the young couple seemed to smell the strange smell of burning living things.

This stench irritated the nose, and it was quite unpleasant to smell it.

They were quite knowledgeable about current affairs, and when they realized that the atmosphere was not right, they hurriedly turned off the recording, stared at each other for a while, and finally realized that they paid 200 baht for nothing this time, and they really returned without success. , Didn't even get some soup.

Cao Shuguang said dejectedly: "Daughter-in-law, go to bed."

Ma Xiaopei opened the window to let in air, and then turned on the light.

The couple had a big heart, sighed at each other for a while, and after realizing the fact that they are rookies and the other party is also the fact, they relaxed with pride and fell asleep soundly.

As for Shao Mingzhe's room, it was completely dark.

Shao Mingzhe was the first among them to return to the hotel.

However, even when he was alone, he still wore the heavy outfit that is not suitable for the tropics, and he didn't even take off his mask.

He turned on the faucet and slowly washed the damage and blood on his knuckles with rust-smelling water.

He did snatch the 200 baht from a thief.

So when he met Li Yinhang's questioning eyes, he didn't try to explain anything.

He would have done it.

After wiping the blood off his hands, he walked back to the bed silently like a nocturnal animal.

He sat down upright, face up, and said to himself: "Sleep."

After giving this order, he turned over and fell down, pulled the quilt, and closed his eyes, as if this was a set of rigid procedures that required careful study to execute.

At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Li Yinhang woke up from his sleep.

She went to the bathroom in a daze, and when she got back to lie down, her drowsiness disappeared, and she still had to spend time thinking about it.

She slept under the curtains, so she could see the shadows of the trees and the moon outside the window, including the shadows cast by the security window, very clearly.

Outside the tulle curtain, a stray cat tiptoed and slipped silently past the edge of the balcony.

She wasn't surprised.

Before going to bed, she heard the long and short calls of wild cats, and there are many small fly houses nearby. Kitchen waste is sent in and out every day, and there are hundreds of wild cats that can be fed.

She looked at the curtains and continued to sleep.

At this moment, she saw an extremely strange scene——

A person about 1.6 meters and [-] in. imitated the posture of the cat just now, with his back arched and all fours on the ground, crawling from their outer balcony.

The huge shadow was sent across the curtain, the visual impact was too great, like a giant, crawling over Li Yinhang's body upright.

Li Yinhang's original drowsiness had accumulated to eight points, so he became numb to this shadow for a while, and didn't realize what it meant.

When she found out that the shadow crawling outside in the middle of the night was actually a person, she didn't even cry out, she rolled sideways, and rolled off the bed with a bang.

Seeing the figure who was about to crawl away from the window, he turned around on both hands and feet, and looked inside through the half-enclosed balcony and a thin layer of gauze curtain.

He only showed a dark head, but it was enough to remind people of the appearance of all the terrible facial features when they appeared on this face.

Li Yinhang got up from the ground, and before he could panic, he put a hand on her shoulder.

It was Jiang Fang's hand.

And Nan Zhou had already crouched silently at the foot of the bed.

The ten years of growing up in Neverland have trained him to be extremely sensitive to danger perception radar.

In his sleep, he even realized the arrival of this shadow earlier than Li Yinhang.

Nan Zhou grabbed the long windbreaker, put it on his shoulders, and immediately moved.

When Li Yinhang saw him clearly again, he had already stepped on the window with bare feet, lifted the window screen, and twisted the wrist of the crawling human outside.

And Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang also took this opportunity to see the whole picture of the people outside the window.

——They didn't know the man, but they were blind in the middle of the night, imitating the cat's appearance, twisting the window, and crawling through their window.

His body was naked and white, like a big snow-white snake.

However, the man's strength was not small. After being controlled by Nan Zhou, he snapped and broke his arm, and then rushed straight towards Nan Zhou, looking like a living zombie, trying to bite Nan Zhou to death on the spot.

Unfortunately, this attack was too childish for Nan Zhou.

It took him only a moment to snap the man's neck, before he even opened his mouth.

But in the man's eyes, Nan Zhou saw a strange circle of strange colors that seemed to have been rendered with oil paint.

... Such a color, he had seen yesterday in the eyes of the dancing mouse that the head-subduing master cast down.

Nan Zhou raised his hand to grab the bewitched man's neck, and slapped him twice, making sure that he didn't feel pain. Within the distance, I began to look for the solution to surrender in the many patterns in my mind.

We can't let this person turn into a crazy mouse and find a place to bump him to death.

But it is not so easy to get rid of surrender.

"Book of Mystery" says that black dog blood can be used, but now it is not easy to find a black dog to take blood.

It is also said above that reciting the "Heart Sutra" or "Tao Te Ching" also has an effect on restraining the lowering of the head.

But Nanzhou wasn't sure if it would be possible for such a person who had fallen deeply to be relieved immediately.

The last method is the simplest and rudest, and the most once and for all.

Kill the person who cast the surrender, or destroy the magic weapon that cast the surrender.

It's a pity he couldn't get away.

Nan Zhou was facing this innocent human being who was eager to eat his own flesh and lay down his own skin. While thinking about the solution, he suddenly heard the wind blowing towards him from the side.

Nan Zhou originally thought that there were two people who had been hit by Fantastic Fall, and the two of them planned to engage in an unskillful cooperation against him. Who would have thought that before he had time to look back, his hand would suddenly be empty, and when he realized it, the one The living zombies have already rolled downstairs with the visitor.

It turned out to be Shao Mingzhe.

From the height of the third floor, Shao Mingzhe and the monster didn't seem to feel any pain when they fell down so straight.

Zhongshengren's calf was thrown in three different directions, but he still did not forget his mission, and opened his mouth to bite Shao Mingzhe's neck.

Not to be outdone, Shao Mingzhe casually picked up a wooden stick from the ground, and let the Zhongsheng people bite on it.

Nanzhou: "..."

He propped himself on the window frame and studied for several seconds before he was sure that Shao Mingzhe wanted to help himself.

He raised his eyes to confirm where Shao Mingzhe came from.

... He was separated from them by the balcony of two rooms.

Even if it is a quick jump with an approach run, there is at least a distance of 7 and a half meters in between.

Although Nanzhou also has such a jumping ability, it seems unusual for Shao Mingzhe to be able to jump so far in one jump.

Nan Zhou was a little distracted, until Jiang Fang's voice sounded behind him at the right time: "The person who surrendered, can't be too far away from the person who is surrendered?"

Nan Zhou blinked, jumped twice, and was already standing on the opposite roof.

——Since Shao Mingzhe helped him control the surrendered person, he can also let go and find someone.

Moreover, what they can use at hand is not just lowering their heads.

Nan Zhou resolutely released the S-level prop [Lamir's eyeball] he won in the arena.

An eyeball that can share the vision with Nanzhou rolled around, moving at high speed, walking along the corridor side of the hotel, squeezing in through the cracks of the door one by one to check.

Li Yinhang had just recovered from the shock, and stumbled to the window, and saw Shao Mingzhe entangled in the alley with the biting naked man who scared her half to death.

She whispered: "Shall we help him?"

Jiang Fang didn't move.He looked at Shao Mingzhe from a height and narrowed his eyes slightly.

His external conscience is not at home now, so Jiang Fang wants to see what kind of person this weird lone ranger Shao Mingzhe is.

As early as when he met Shao Mingzhe, Jiang Fang had already seen everything about Shao Mingzhe calmly.

In Jiang Fang's eyes, he was far more suspicious than the young couple.

Getting out of the car and walking alone, grabbing money alone, and going back to the hotel alone are all in line with his style of a lone ranger.

But when he took the initiative to admit his identity in the car, blocked Li Yinhang's head, gave Li Yinhang coins, including his sudden action to help Nanzhou, compared with his proper style, it seemed a bit nondescript.

Why did he choose to be alone and deliberately stay away?

If you want to integrate into the group, why should you reject people thousands of miles away?

Is it to cover up, deliberately arouse others' interest in him, or is there another reason?

In the face-to-face close fight, Shao Mingzhe's mask was ripped off by the frantic surrender, and his fleece cap was knocked crookedly.

His true face was exposed for the first time.

It's just that in the cramped alley full of garbage and the smell of garbage, only the recipient can see this face clearly.

He's not ugly, and he's not disfigured.

On the contrary, his facial features are extraordinarily heroic and upright, even the three white eyes, under the harmony of his handsome facial features, have weakened into a cold and proud look, not fierce and outrageous.

His skin is darker, but there are strange facial lines on his cheeks.

On his forehead covered by a fleece cap, there is an inverted triangular golden streak, on the left side of his cheek there are two horizontal, cat-like golden streaks, extending all the way to the ear, and on the right cheek, there are three almost symmetrical horizontal golden streaks , under the reflection of the small water pool formed by the rotting garbage, there was a thin shimmer of light, which made his eyes become brilliant golden pupils.

Unexpectedly, Shao Mingzhe's mask was ripped off, and after a long while, his expression changed drastically, and he became very angry.

He hates being seen in his face.

His eyes sank, and he knocked the struggling living zombie face down into the sewage. He held the victim's chin with one hand, and his arm formed a lock to support his neck.

Li Yinhang saw that this movement was very familiar, and instinctively felt that something was wrong, so he shouted: "Don't—"

At this critical juncture, Nan Zhou jumped off the roof and returned to the balcony.

He didn't know that someone was almost killed just now, so he poked his head and said to Shao Mingzhe, "Okay, stop."

Shao Mingzhe actually stopped.

I don't know who listened to them.

In Nan Zhou's hand, he was holding a white paper man about one palm wide, with a decapitation spell drawn on his face, and pierced into the head with a fine needle.

He twirled and pulled out the capillary needle on it.

And the unlucky man who was tightly strangled in Shao Mingzhe's arms suddenly pulled out twice like a convulsion, and no longer struggled to his death, his body suddenly became fatigued and became soft into a puddle of mud.

"No one was there. I only found the paper man who cast the spell." Nan Zhou softly explained the origin of the strange man who climbed the window in the middle of the night, "He is a guest of the hotel next door."

He just came to Tyrande on a business trip, found a cheap hotel to save money, and slept in the room well in the middle of the night, but he was put down in a daze.

The paper figurine was drawn vividly, and the lips were particularly bright under the thin moonlight, as if they had been coated with oil.

Jiang Fang took it, researched it, and guessed: "Corpse oil?"

Li Yinhang shivered with nausea.

"Probably." Nan Zhou didn't change his face, "The person who descended put corpse oil on the paper man's mouth, maybe he wanted him to bite me, or any one of us."

If the corpse oil is poisonous, Nan Zhou may be unable to heal if he swallows it.

Although the reason is unknown, it appears that their death was intended.

During the conversation between several people upstairs, Shao Mingzhe put the unconscious hapless guy in the trash, put the mask back on his face, and walked out of the alley slowly with only a pair of indifferent eyes .

It seemed that his helping hand and gaffe just now had nothing to do with him.