no soul

No one came to welcome the inn, and Duan Yu was still sitting on the horseback. Lin Hong led the horse and went to the stable to have a look. It was clean, but there were two horses sitting side by side, chewing grass.

"Bao'er, I have wronged you." Lin Hong patted the handsome horse.

Duan Yu awkwardly slid off the tall horse.

"I think this inn feels weird..." Duan Yu rubbed the goosebumps on his hands and followed Lin Hong inside.

"Isn't it..." Lin Hong lifted the thick cloth in front of the inn, and the scene inside the inn came into his eyes——

The inn looked dead silent from the outside, but inside it was full of people.

Men and women, old people and children, crowded with mud and sand.

The people sitting at the table were drinking their cups of wine, the chopsticks were flying with the dishes, the chatter and laughter, and the noisy voices were mixed together. Even if you listen carefully, you can't distinguish a complete quotation.

Duan Yu pulled Lin Hong and asked him in a low voice, "Are... are they all alive?"

Lin Hong looked around in the hall, and felt that the tables were arranged in a mess without any structure. People, like the one in Ganye City last time, looked like ordinary people, with neither tiptoes nor missing arms. less legs.

Presumably these worlds can reflect the living people at that time.

"It should be..."

"Do you want to stay at the hotel, you two?" The owner of the inn stood behind the counter, stopped to dial the abacus, and asked them with a narrowed smile.

The boss was wearing a bright red dress, from head to toe, it dazzled Lin Hong's eyes.

"Oh, the boss is happy!"

The boss squeezed his beard and smiled.

Out of the corner of Lin Hong's eyes, he glanced at those quacks with knives on the table and drinks.

He put a few pieces of broken silver on the counter, "We brothers are not so festive, we don't bring any silver when we go out, we are poor, give us a room."

The boss looked at these coins, but he lacked interest. He thought that they were all bluffing, his smile faded a little, and his mouth was still polite, "Hey! Arrangements are made."

He took out a strong set of keys and locks and handed them to Lin Hong, "The innermost room on the third floor."

Lin Hong took the lock, "Boss, I have a few questions for you."

The boss continued to look at the account book, Yingde was not enthusiastic, but polite, "You ask."

"What year is it?"

The boss was immediately happy when he heard this, and looked up at him, "Young master, are you confused? Dezhi has been around for 23 years!"

The 23rd year of Dezhi - exactly the time in this world.

"Where is this place?"

"Hey, come and amuse me!" The boss stopped thinking, "Two hundred miles northwest of Jiangfeng City—you found it yourself, don't you know where it is?"

Lin Hong laughed straight, "I'm lost in the date and region!"

The boss's life is boring, and he laughed out loud when he heard this joke, "Young master is funny! I think he is hungry and confused!"

"The boss is right." Lin Hong brought up a jug of wine in front of the counter, "I'm really hungry and confused, let's have something to eat first."

"Young master, this wine is expensive."

"What are you afraid of? I'll cover you even after I take off my clothes."

The boss shook his head with a smile, and continued to ring the abacus beads.

Xiaoer sat in the corner, slacking off with Erlang's legs crossed.

After Lin Hong ordered a few dishes from him, he found an empty table and sat down, and Duan Yu sat on his right.

"Have you been to Jiangfeng City?" Lin Hong asked Duan Yu while opening a wine jar.

Duan Yu lifted up the corner of his clothes that were stuck on the ground, "It's so remote, I've never been there before."

"I haven't been there either." Lin Hong opened the wine and poured it into a bowl, "The location of this inn is remote, but the business is good."

Duan Yu pushed the bowl over, "Give me some."

Lin Hong smiled, and pushed the bowl back to him, "Kids are not allowed to drink."

"I'm not!" Duan Yu poked the bottom of the empty bowl with his chopsticks angrily.

"Then I am." Lin Hong smiled at him, and took a sip from the bowl.

Very strong old wine.

The dishes I just ordered were served.

Most of the inns in the outskirts lived in rivers and lakes. Lin Hongcai didn't dare to reveal it, and ordered cheap side dishes.

Duan Yu's family is not poor either, so eating this dish feels tasteless.

At some point, a woman sat opposite Lin Hong.

The woman's hair was in a crooked bun, with a few strands of black hair hanging down, making her look a bit messy.

His skin was pale from blood loss, and he stared straight at Lin Hong with his eyes, which were covered with bloodshot eyes.

The three fingers of her right hand were placed near her mouth, her lower jaw moved slightly, she kept biting her nails, and could faintly hear the sound of "click".

This terrified appearance seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying...

As soon as Lin Hong looked up, she was taken aback, "What's the matter, sister?"

The woman didn't answer, her bloodshot eyes were bulging, and she stared at him motionless, her teeth "clicking" on her nails.

Lin Hong was afraid that she would bite off his finger...

Duan Yu only glanced at her, then lowered his head to look at the bowl, not daring to look at her anymore.

The sound of "click" stopped suddenly, the woman stared and grinned, her voice was hoarse, not like a woman's, but like a saw pulled through a stake, "help me find something."

"what?"

As soon as Lin Hong finished speaking, a man's roar sounded from the other side of the lobby.

"It's his grandma! You don't want to touch you anymore! You're such a fucking bitch, you are seducing me by showing off, don't you just want me to love you?"

The five-year-old man raised his hand and slapped a woman with a loud slap. The woman was slapped hard and fell to the ground. Nosebleeds followed, and she covered her face with her hands and began to cry.

The people around were all shocked by this sudden turn of events and suddenly silenced, looking over with their heads raised.

"What are you looking at!" The man who looked like an iron wall swept everyone with a pair of copper bell eyes angrily. He carried a heavy steel knife on his back and a pair of leather boots under his thick legs.

The muscles on the arm were looming under the fabric, as if it could be foreseen that such an arm could tear the flesh and smash the human bone by swinging the steel knife.

"You dummies are still interested in the excitement?" The man smiled cruelly.

Lin Hong was taken aback when he heard the words, it seemed that this person came in from the outside just like them.

The man's wolf-like eyes flicked across the crowd inch by inch, and Lin Hong looked at each other in a blink of an eye.

Lin Hong felt that the hostility and bloodthirsty hidden in those eyes were like a knife ruthlessly gouging out his flesh and blood, and with just one look, it made people feel like they were standing at the gate of hell.

"Smelly bitch!" The man's eyes fell on the woman, looking at every inch of her body with impunity, as if he had peeled her clean with his eyes.

He squatted down and roughly grabbed the woman's slender feet with a big hand.

"No, no, no..." The woman struggled, her nosebleed was still flowing, half of her face was wiped by her hand, she frowned, begging for mercy.

The knives-wielding quack sitting in the lobby became a bastard hiding under a woman's skirt at this moment, silent, and no one dared to step forward.

"Fuck... what's going on with this guy!" Lin Hong couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to stand up.

Duan Yu grabbed his arm.

Lin Hong couldn't stand up because of being pulled by him, and looked back at him with a frown.

Duan Yu's expression was even more terrified than the woman who faced the fear directly, and his speech was not smooth, "Brother...he...he is the thief 'Hu Zhan' who has put a reward on!"

"Murdering for money, slaughtering several families...the blood flowed like a river..." Duan Yu held Lin Hong tightly, "I remember the face on the portrait!"

Such a person actually came in.

"Then what should I do..." Lin Hong frowned, looking in that direction.

The woman was still begging for mercy, Hu Zhan smiled, and touched her calf with his hand.

The people around were still watching, as if they were looking forward to what would happen next.

"Let him do this kind of thing in broad daylight? Wouldn't it be a mess!"

"You...you keep your voice down..." Duan Yu was about to hang on his arm.

Lin Hong was very angry, he knew he couldn't beat that person...it was really useless, he wanted to fight for justice without the ability...if only...if only Wan Guchuan was here, maybe there is a way.

The more I think about it, the angrier I get, what else do I have... "Can I smash him to death with money?"

"..." Duan Yu: "No. You calm down."

"I threw him with a bowl, run away when you hear the bowl is broken! Don't look back!"

Duan Yuren was dumbfounded: "Are you serious?"

Hu Zhan's hand slid towards the inner thigh of the woman.

"Don't! Don't..." The woman was dragged by her ankles and couldn't move back. She could only cover her face with her hands, and said in a desperate voice, "Don't!"

Hu Zhan smirked.

Her dark eyes looked at the man through the gap between her fingers, and they were obscured under the shadow. Half of her face was covered with blood, and she murmured, "Don't...don't..."

Behind her hand, she suddenly grinned at Hu Zhan, "I said it. Don't."

Seeing such a strange appearance, Hu Zhan's face changed, and he immediately withdrew his hand, "Fuck! Bad luck!"

He stood up, kicked the table over, and things fell to the ground with a clatter.

He turned away.

As he left, the atmosphere in the lobby suddenly relaxed a bit, and everyone came back to their senses, chirping.

Lin Hong and Duan Yu, who were weighing bowls, looked at each other.

"What's the situation?"

Duan Yu's head shook like a rattle.

The woman turned her back to them, Hu Zhan was probably the only one who knew about it.

The atmosphere was like a tense string, which suddenly loosened again. Only then did Lin Hong realize that the woman sitting across from him and biting her nails just now had disappeared.

He suddenly looked around, there was a stream of people, but there was no sign of her.

Duan Yu was also stunned.

She was looking for something and was interrupted by this without asking.

"Girl, are you okay?" Lin Hong handed a handkerchief to the woman sitting on the ground, asking her to wipe her nosebleed.

"Thank you, Mr. Xiao Lang." The woman took the handkerchief and forced a smile at him, a bit pitiful.

She was really beautiful, with willow eyebrows and long eyes, a small nose and a small mouth. At this time, half of her face was covered with blood, and she was also a beauty. No wonder Hu Zhan wanted to tease her.

Lin Hong borrowed strength from her and asked her to stand up with her arms supported.

While standing up, the woman covered her nose with a handkerchief and wiped the blood.

She stood up, her plain hand was still on Lin Hong's arm, and she squeezed it lightly for no apparent reason.

Lin Hong was startled.

The handkerchief covered the lower half of her face, revealing a pair of affectionate eyes with a smile in their eyes, looking at Lin Hong, hooking people like thorns.

Lin Hong withdrew his hand.

The girl's eyes softly plucked out at him, and her thin body floated away like the wind.

Standing in this lobby, Lin Hong was surrounded by noise again.

There is chatting and laughing when raising a glass, and sighing when dropping a glass.

People come and go.

But he felt that every corner of this inn was weird.

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Wan Ge is still walking in the fog, doubting his life...