A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

With this anger, he was extremely rude when he spoke. He raised his eyebrows and sneered, "Why did you arrive faster than me? Could it have something to do with this case?"

Ren Tingting, who was sitting on the chair and was unable to cry, heard his unreasonable doubts, stood up quickly, and persuaded him: "Cousin, don't wrong a good man. Uncle Ninth has always been highly respected, and he is doing it to my father." Business, how can you do such a thing?"

"Hey, cousin, you also heard that he was arguing with his cousin that day!" Awei said, trusting his own judgment more and more.

That happened a few days ago when Uncle Jiu came to Ren's mansion to discuss the selection of a private house. Although he had a quarrel with Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng and didn't hear it all, I still remember that Uncle Jiu raised his voice and said: "'Jiuyin Jucai Point 'It's a wicked sorcery, forgive me Lin Jiu for not obeying!"

Isn't this a quarrel?If you are a funeral business, you should do what the client asks you to do, and it’s not that you won’t be given money!

"You're making accusations and framing good people." Uncle Jiu shook his head, "I don't know where Master Ren heard the sorcery that hurt other people's feng shui and enriched his family's fortune. I just discouraged him. 'What? And even if I disagree with Mr. Ren, at most I won't do this business. How can I hurt people? It's outrageous for you to suspect me as a murderer without evidence. !"

"Huh? Credentials?"

Awei rolled his eyes, walked over and lifted the white cloth covering Master Ren's head and face, looked at the wound on his neck, and said forcefully: "...my uncle's wound was clearly pierced by a round sharp object, It was this, this...the thief killed him with a gun...someone, go to his house and search for a gun!"

"The wound is not pierced, and there is no bullet at the scene, so how could a gun be used?" Uncle Jiu retorted subconsciously.

"...Then the murderer...was a martial arts master, and he sent out a...nine-piece chain of money darts to kill him...Old man, I heard you are good at martial arts?"

"...What about the dart?"

The security captain, A Wei, was so angry that he pointed to Uncle Jiu and asked, "That's not true, that's not true, then how did you say you died?"

Uncle Jiu didn't think too much about it, and said directly, "Of course it was nailed to death!"

"Oh, the fingernails stuck it to death." Awei quickly grabbed Uncle Jiu's hand, pointed to his long nails and said, "That must be done by someone with very long nails? Also, you said it wasn't you You did, then how do you know so clearly?"

Uncle Jiu just wanted to smile wryly when he heard that, why are zombie nails the same as human nails?If human nails were so hard and sharp, and if their arms were so strong, wouldn't a fight between husband and wife be fatal?

Seeing that he didn't answer, Awei was even more complacent, and shouted: "Come on, put the suspect in the team!"

"Wait a minute!"

Just when the security team was about to shackle Uncle Jiu, someone shouted outside the door, and then Ikabu walked in with Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng, pushing through the crowd of onlookers.

"Uncle Jiu is from Kaiyi Village. The dead in town usually go to him. What's wrong with knowing more about the various ways of death? Besides, Uncle Jiu was with me last night and this morning, It is impossible to appear at the murder scene."

Ikab continued, walked up to Ah Wei, and nodded to Uncle Jiu.

Awei looked like a foreigner, and his momentum weakened by three points at first, but he still refused to admit defeat and insisted: "What? You two have always lived together and have a good relationship. Your words are just to excuse your friends. How can you believe it?"

"We weren't in the town last night, because we went to see the cemetery too late, so we stayed at the hotel in the next town, and didn't come back for morning tea until dawn today. Can the hotel owner and tea restaurant owner prove it?"

Ichab said, sighing inwardly.He was extremely reluctant to use the following method, especially in front of his valued friends; but for the safety of Uncle Jiu, he had to use it if he didn't want to.

"... I remind you that I am a citizen of the United States, and on the credit of a citizen of the United States, my friend was not involved in this matter. If you still insist on arresting him without evidence and without a warrant, My lawyer and I will complain about you to your superiors and file an abuse case in court. If this happens again, I reserve the right to seek help from the embassy.”

"What the hell? An arrest warrant is needed to arrest someone? I am the local security captain, and I'll go back and write you one right now..." Awei muttered unconvinced.

Later, his subordinates hurriedly whispered into his ear, "Captain, Americans can't afford to mess with them. If the lawsuit goes to foreigners, Marshal Chen can't do anything about it."

Hearing that the "Nantian King" who actually ruled the separatist side might not be able to keep him, Awei finally regained his composure and waved his hand impatiently: "Leave quickly if you have nothing to do with us, don't interfere with our case handling. You guys, take it easy Do it, take my cousin back, don't be rude."

After saying this, he sat next to Tingting again, put his arms around her shoulders, and boasted, "Don't be afraid, Tingting, although my uncle is gone, I'm still here!"

Ninth Uncle ignored him and waved to Ikab and his apprentices, and the group quickly left Renfu.

"What's the matter?" On the way, he asked his apprentice in a low voice.

Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai replied in unison: "The coffin is scattered, the body is gone!"

"This is too bad. Didn't you tell the two of you to fill the whole coffin with ink thread? Now that he has sucked the blood of his relatives, the body and blood are stronger, and it is even more difficult to control!" Uncle Jiu hated iron and steel Cursed, "And he stabbed Master Ren to death, and soon there will be another zombie! Qiusheng, you and I must go back and get the guy now, and we must rush to the security team before dark. Wencai, you and Ikab Go to Ren's house and protect Miss Ren Tingting, she is also the blood relative of Mrs. Ren!"

The three young men acted accordingly, and Ikab even made a special trip to the market, and when he came back, he carried a cloth bag.

Not to mention Uncle Jiu and Qiu Sheng who were going back to Yizhuang, Wen Cai who was waiting for him at the intersection had already died of anxiety, and they ran to Ren's mansion regardless of what he bought.

It has to be said that Master Ren is quite popular in the local area.

With the help of clan relatives and other village elders, the mourning hall was quickly set up, and the people of the Ren family all put on filial piety clothes. The monks came to play and play all afternoon, and after crying for a while, all relatives and friends finally fell silent. down.

Except that Mr. Ren's body was not there, everything was completed step by step.

At night, Tingting, who saw off all the guests, knelt on the futon and threw paper money into the brazier one by one, silent.

For some reason, after the shock of the day passed, she felt less sad.Didn't the book say that the pain of the death of a loved one can break the heart?Even when writing a book to describe sad scenes, she would say "crying for heaven and earth, like mourning for a concubine", not to mention that she has lived with her father since she was a child, and the relationship between the two father and daughter is better than ordinary people. Why can't she cry now?

"Am I a ruthless and cold-blooded person, am I an unfilial daughter?"

She thought so in her heart.Thinking about it, she rarely thinks about what her father is doing and whether there will be any problems. She always subconsciously thinks that "the adults must be able to handle it well".Moreover, as the only daughter in the family, she also lacks concern for the family business situation; the night before, Dad was obviously worried about business problems. Did you share his difficulties?

Under the steps on the other side, Ikab was taking out a peach from a cloth bag and handing it to Wencai.

"What is this?" Wen Cai took Tao Zi and asked strangely.

"Uncle Jiu said that peach wood can ward off evil spirits... His magic sword is made of peach wood. I just thought, isn't the peach pit also peach wood? Eat it quickly and leave the peach pit, so we won't have no weapons."

Ichab whispered to him, and drew a slingshot from his pocket.

Wen Cai looked at him and blinked, and suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment, and snatched the bag: "...it happens that everyone in the mourning hall is hungry, let them prepare weapons together!"

Chapter 10 Chao Chao Scattered Jingting Autumn

"Come, come, don't throw it around, it's disrespectful to the mourning hall. Throw it all in the bag, and throw it away after you gnaw it clean."

Holding the bag, Wencai walked among the servants on duty in the mourning hall, and walked over to collect the kernels they left after eating.Everyone has been busy all day, and it was the time when they were both hungry and thirsty. When they saw peaches to eat just now, they all came over. Only Tingting shook her head and handed her the biggest and reddest peach without reaching out to pick up the text.

There was no way, he could only hold the peach in his arms and start gnawing on it after handing over the collected "ammunition" to Ikab.

I don't know if this peach is a new variety from Nanyang. It can be bought so early, and it is so big and juicy that his face is covered with juice.

"Hey, Wencai." Before he finished eating, Ikab asked again: "You know this, you said that zombies are strong and hard, how can we deal with him other than Taomu?" Woolen cloth?"

When Wencai heard that there was an opportunity to show off, he quickly swallowed the peach meat in his mouth, and said happily: "Hey, you are asking the right person. Although zombies are fierce, they are most afraid of fire. They have corpse oil on them. It burns very fast, especially with lychee firewood, just like roasting goose... Moreover, if the zombies are not sucked too much blood, most of them are blind and invisible, and can only detect people through human breathing."

"Breath? The composition of breath is similar to that of air, but the proportion of 'carbon dioxide' is higher." Ikab immediately interrupted him, "Could it be temperature? Sound? Or air flow? People are not so sensitive when they are alive. After you die, you won't grow organs that can detect these things, right?"

Wencai knew that this guy started to think about some "scientific" explanations again, and said casually: "That's what it says in Taoism, why does it have to be temperature or something, 'carbon dioxide'? Master said that zombies can smell it' Popularity', can perceive 'vitality', so when encountering zombies, we have to temporarily stop breathing."

"That's right. It's a supernatural monster in the field of occultism. Of course, the various abilities it possesses follow the logic of occultism." Ichab nodded. He was just about to take out his notebook to write something down, but he heard "" from the door. bang".

The western-fashionable iron grille door was slammed open, and a black figure with legs clasped together and a stiff body jumped towards this direction.

Wen Cai, who wanted to say something, jumped up suddenly, went to the front of the main hall and closed the wooden door, and the latch fell down, but obviously this obstacle was not enough to stop Old Master Ren Weiyonggong. Knocked down with the door frame.

Ichab let out a soft "ho" exclamation, this old man is completely different from when he was dug out a few days ago.The former official uniform on his body has rotted a lot, exposing the twisted and gnarled muscles of limbs that have turned black and exuded a rotten smell; The pit covered the entire face, and the facial features were buried in the face, leaving only a few holes.

"Still stunned, let's get out of the way!"

Wen Cai picked up Ikabu and walked upstairs.The servants of Ren's family had already fled in fright and left their young lady behind; fortunately Tingting reacted quickly and ran upstairs at this time.Thinking that the zombie jumped with straight legs, it must be a bit difficult to go up the stairs, right?

Unexpectedly, when the two young men followed up the stairs, the zombie jumped up straight with his hands outstretched in a posture that would have Sir Newton lift the coffin, and hit the staircase between them, throwing Ichab, who fell behind, was knocked down.

"Hey, Yika!" Wen Cai shouted, but seeing Mrs. Ren's zombie rushing towards him again, he didn't dare to stay for long, stretched out his hands to climb the top few steps, and with all his hands and feet, he turned over and rolled up to the second floor.

The kind-hearted Tingting was still waiting for him. Seeing him coming up, she quickly pulled him up by the shoulders, and the two quickly ran in the other direction.

Because the master always runs back and forth between the province and Hong Kong, the Ren family can be regarded as the most trendy family in the town. Even the house is a small western-style villa, with specially installed electric wires and a large chandelier in the main hall.

In such a house, the second floor is usually the living room and bedroom.The last time Uncle Jiu came to discuss the cemetery, it was with the head of the family in the living room. Master Ren used this method to show his closeness and importance to him.

At this time, Ren Tingting took Wen Cai to hide away from the zombies, and fled to her boudoir unknowingly.In this situation, there was no need to care about the difference between men and women, and the smart young lady immediately pulled Wen Cai into the closet. Under his frantic gestures, the two of them held their breath together and did not dare to make a sound.

The zombie chased his blood relatives to the depths of the second floor. Only then did Ikab downstairs take off the broken boards on his body and let out a long breath.

Fortunately, I just fell down half a flight of stairs, it wasn't very high, it just hurt for a while, and I was able to get up and think about something after I took a breath.

"This 'zombie' is really strong and moves much faster than humans; from a physiological point of view, even if a dead person can move, it will only be weaker than a living person, because the metabolism has stopped and the energy in the body will only escape. However, if the so-called 'corpse aura' is considered, it is reasonable for zombies to be stronger than humans... Now the question is, what is 'corpse aura'? How can we reduce this kind of thing in zombies? content?"

The situation was urgent at this time, and he didn't take out his notebook like a fool to write down what he was thinking. He just looked around and ran towards the stairs on the other side of the hall.

Upstairs in the Missy's boudoir, a couple of young men were hiding in the closet, covering their mouths and noses tightly.The zombies chased here, and suddenly they couldn't smell the traces of the two people, so they slowed down and searched the room continuously.

Grandpa Ren Weiyong died 20 years ago, but Tingting is not yet 20 years old this year, she has never met her grandpa, so naturally she has no feelings for her.At this time, she was hiding in the dark and trembling with both hands. Looking at the terrifying figure through the cabinet door and hearing the deep roar from the zombie's chest, she felt terrified in her heart; when the zombie turned around, When I went, I couldn't help but relax...

This inattentiveness would be a disaster, she covered her mouth too tightly, and when she relaxed at this moment, her fingers leaked, just unconsciously taking a breath.

Hearing a "hoo", the zombie outside stretched out his hand and swung it back. The steel-hard arm brought a sound of wind and smashed the wardrobe door.Fortunately, Tingting saw the opportunity quickly, and quickly lowered her body, and escaped the catastrophe.

Before the two of them could move again, they heard footsteps coming from the door.

The zombie also turned his head, and when he was about to jump over there, Ikab had already stood still, took out a peach pit from the cloth bag hanging under his ribs, put it on the slingshot and aimed at him.

"Try this..." He muttered in a low voice, let go of his right hand suddenly, and shot the peach pit into the zombie's eyes with a "boom" from the elastic rubber band.

Wencai and Tingting who were hiding in the closet didn't even see clearly, they heard the zombie howl in pain and jumped back a step.

Ikab, who was standing at the door, took this opportunity to quickly wave to the two of them. If he doesn't run away, he is waiting to die!

Wencai and Tingting quickly crawled out of the closet, bent over and covered their heads while the slingshot in his hand was ringing, and rushed out.

"Your thing really works!" After walking out, Wen Cai couldn't help but say that.

"It doesn't work that well..." Ikab still had a bad expression on his face. He hit the peach pits one after another, and he could only hurt the opponent, but failed to injure him... Even if it was the first aim The attack on the eyes was also clearly blocked by the rotten flesh hanging from the brow bone of the zombie, and those hitting the limbs were directly bounced away.

"You don't have mana, look at me."

As he spoke, Wen Cai took the slingshot in his hand, loaded it with a peach pit, and was about to shoot.But this hastily made slingshot was already very fragile after continuous firing. The rubber band connecting the bow arm and the bullet bag was broken by him, and it bounced back and was directly drawn on the back of his hand.

He screamed in pain, and the slingshot in his hand fell directly to the ground.

Sensing the eyes of the two people next to him, he smiled awkwardly, turned around and asked, "What should we do now?"

"I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going to run straight away." Ichab shook the ashes on his body, took a last look at the zombie who was raising his arms towards this side, turned his head and left without hesitation .

Miss Ren Tingting didn't say a word, and ran out quickly following the young foreigner, and Wen Cai quickly followed. The three of them rushed down the stairs without even looking back.

The zombie didn't want to give these young people a way out, and jumped down while roaring, blocking them.

Fortunately, at this time, Uncle Jiu had already heard from the door angrily shouting: "How dare you be fierce!"

Following his words, a group of people blatantly squeezed into the courtyard of the Ren Mansion and rushed towards the main hall.

When Uncle Jiu saw his apprentice, Mr. Ren's daughter and that little foreigner being blocked in the room, his eyes were already burning with anxiety, so he immediately shut his mouth, stuffed the ink fountain in his hand into Qiu Sheng's arms beside him, exerted force on his feet, With a bang, he rose from the ground, stepped on the shoulders of the person in front of him, jumped seven or eight feet high, stretched out his hand to hook the lintel of the Ren Mansion, turned over in the air, and threw a copper coin towards the zombie. .

The copper coin flew around in mid-air, and landed on top of the zombie with a yellow paper talisman.

There is a saying for Taoist priests to use copper coins, which is called "hundreds of money". It must be in the hands of small merchants and peddlers and circulated in the market. This kind of money has passed through the hands of hundreds of people and gained popularity, and only then can it catch ghosts and subdue demons. ability.

The copper coin landed on the top of the zombie with the paper talisman on it, and a "hoo" was heard, and a fire was ignited, which made the zombie scream.

Qiu Sheng also rushed in at this time, shouting: "Wen Cai!"

Wen Cai quickly rolled over, came to his senior brother, pulled the ink fountain line together with him, and put it on the struggling zombie in the middle of the hall.

The zombie was injured by a spell, and his limbs were entangled by the ink fountain thread. He fell to the ground and fell silent after a while. There was only a burning human-shaped torch left in front of the main gate of Ren Mansion.

Only then did Ikabu help Ren Tingting, who was so afraid that her hands and feet were going weak, to go around the zombie and walk to the main entrance, and said to Uncle Jiu, "Fortunately, Uncle Jiu, you arrived in time, and it's finally over."

"It's over? It's still early..." Uncle Jiu shook his head helplessly.

Ren Tingting also thought of something, grabbed Uncle Jiu's arm and asked, "Uncle Jiu, you are back, where is my father?"

"I was asking you, Wei Shao." Ninth Uncle glared back angrily, just as Ah Wei, who was timid and afraid to speak, emerged from the crowd.

Chapter 11 Chaoyun night into nowhere

Awei knows what kind of person he is, and he also knows that he has made troubles a lot in his life.

But this time the disaster was too great, so big that he immediately wanted to abandon everyone and flee to Nanyang with a different identity... Facing the gaze of his cousin Tingting, he stammered: "Biao, Biao, Uncle Cousin turned into a zombie and bit my two teams, only I ran back..."

Not only that, but it happened in the worst possible place... on the way to the provincial capital.

After being refuted by Ikab at the murder scene during the day today, he has been holding his breath in his heart.We can't afford to offend Americans, but what Uncle Jiu said must be right?It just so happened that his subordinates reminded him that when it comes to autopsies, there is a special "forensic doctor" in the provincial capital.

Unlike Uncle Jiu who can only ride in a carriage, Ah Wei's security team has cars.

So, just to save his own face, he ordered ten people, divided them into two cars, and took his cousin's body to the provincial capital overnight.

Halfway through the road, the cousin lying in the back of the car performed a zombie resurrection. Awei's men tried their best to shoot but failed to stop him. Instead, he was killed more than half of him.

Awei, who still wanted to get out of the car to pass his commanding addiction, was scared to pee at that time. He went straight into the bushes on the side of the road and ran back desperately. He ran back to Renjia Town before midnight, and hit the The security team failed to find Uncle Jiu and Qiu Sheng.From this point of view, his physical strength is still good...

Uncle Nine looked at the old Mr. Ren Weiyong who was still burning, shook his head wearily, and added to the dumbfounded Awei: "When he ran back, those people he threw on the road should have turned into zombies... Master, there are eleven zombies running around outside right now, and it is possible to go to any nearby town."

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Hearing this, Ren Tingting's eyes widened, and no matter what manners were impolite, she poked at Awei's military uniform that had been scratched by bushes, and said angrily: "Cousin, you are really not good enough, you have failed! More than enough!"

Awei, who was severely reprimanded by his cousin for the first time, blushed and retreated embarrassingly.

"It's okay, Uncle Nine, haven't you already solved the worst problem?" Ikab first said something nicely, and then asked seriously, "Then now... what is the biggest problem we are facing?"

"...We need to search around along the traces of the road as soon as possible, and we can't let these zombies bite more people. But there are too many targets and they are lost in the wild. How many people are needed to search them? If tonight We can’t catch them all back. The one-hundred-one-hundred-thousand, one-thousand-thousand rumors will be over in less than a month. Especially those who were scratched don’t understand these things and can’t get rid of their corpses in time. If they go to various places as usual tomorrow walk around..."

Thinking of the worst possibility, Uncle Jiu pressed his chest and lowered his head in regret.Although it is mainly Awei's fault that the matter has come to this point, the source is that he and his two apprentices did not properly handle the corpse of Old Master Ren.As a Maoshan Taoist priest, this time he has smashed the signboard!