A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

"The poor are incompetent...the poor are incompetent!"

"...Uncle Nine, without you today, how could any of the people here survive? As for Mrs. Ren, it would be impossible for any 'Taoist' to do better. The important thing now is, We've got to do what we can to get those zombies back... tonight isn't over yet. Manpower-wise..."

Ichab said, turning his head to look at Awei.

Awei understood what he meant, and quickly patted his chest and agreed: "I'll send a telegram to Dashuai Chen right away, and press my head to convince him to believe me."

While speaking, he ran out the door and headed towards the security team.

Ikab didn't pin all his hopes on such an unreliable person. He pulled Uncle Jiu aside and whispered a few words.

Uncle Jiu looked up in surprise at first, then fell into deep thought.But after a few seconds, he made a decision, turned his head and said to the young man from the town who came with him at the door: "Everyone go home first and ask your family to close the door, leave a few people to patrol the street, and the others will arrive later Wait for me at the gate of Yizhuang. Wencai, Qiusheng, go find glutinous rice, rooster blood, black dog blood, and cinnabar immediately. You can find as much as you can within half an hour. When the time comes, you must return to Yizhuang! Ikabu, let’s go .”

The voices of people in Renjia Town gradually rose, and the watchmen knocked on clappers in a hurry to convey the matter of "zombie wounding" to the townspeople.In this kind of era, we can't do some kind of information interception like the Chunmu Town police. If we don't let everyone know, there will only be more casualties.

Now that the security team exists in name only, everyone skillfully picked up all kinds of cold weapons at home and organized a village brave team; the townspeople locked their doors and windows, put furniture behind the doors, and groped in the dark with their eyes open. Wait for dawn.

Which part of China has not fought wars this year?Now it's just that the caller is replaced by a zombie, and I'm used to it.

Uncle Jiu and Ikab walked out of Ren's mansion, came to a corner a few streets away, looked at each other, and pushed open the door.

Not many people are still soaking in this tavern late at night.

Gibb has found a part-time night job, which can save her study time during the day and earn more money, and she should be at work now; her sisters are not night owls, and they have to sleep in the second half of the night anyway.

Selene is not here, so she doesn't know what she is busy with in her own world, presumably she will have a lot of things to try as she becomes more and more human.

Only Amelia was still sitting at the bar as always, stretching out her metal fingers and tapping the rim of the glass lightly.

Uncle Jiu and Ikab who were walking in were looking for her. The two went straight forward, and Ikab, who was probably more popular, said to the vampire, "I want to ask you for help."

"...If it's your request, let's talk about it." Amelia said, raising her eyes to look at Uncle Jiu beside him.

"From the legends I've heard, your race is particularly sensitive to 'blood'? So... can you also detect the smell of blood after the blood has dried?" Ikab asked immediately.

"Yes." Amelia replied, and then spread her palms and pointed behind the bar: "But whether I can help you depends on the boss."

Xue Li reluctantly took out a notepad from under the countertop, and shook his head while turning the first page: "You are taking advantage of the fire...I have known that such a day will come sooner or later since you insisted on staying here. Uh... ...you can just be a 'security guard', although no one will cause trouble in our tavern, and you will not be paid, but I really can't think of other positions for you, after all, you do nothing but sit and drink every day Do it. I won’t wrong you, Elder Amelia?”

Amelia smiled disapprovingly: "Sounds good, although I think I should be called 'thug'. Isn't I just going to do something? Although I like this young man... But if it wasn't For the sake of this bar and you, the boss, I don't bother to move."

"Our size is considered an entertainment place, and there is not much difference between security guards and thugs." Xue Li pushed the notebook towards her, asked her to sign it, and then took out a key from his trouser pocket and handed it over.

"Don't do anything that would give me reason to fire you," he said.

"Isn't there a vampire hunter watching me over there?" Amelia tilted her head in Uncle Jiu's direction, raised the corner of her skirt, bowed slightly to Xue Li, and walked between the old and the young , followed them out the door.

In China in the 30s, on a night in late spring, in a damp and dark alley, she took a deep breath, stretched out her canine teeth and grinned: "I already feel much younger..."

Uncle Jiu didn't speak, but silently took out the money sword from his bag and stared at her pale face.

"Don't worry, 'Uncle Nine'... we're hunting partners tonight, and I've just had a big glass of mead and I'm not thirsty. So, where do we start?" Amelia said.

The place to start is of course on the way to the provincial capital.

Fortunately, Awei didn't leave all the cars of the security team there, and he could let the people who came to help squeeze into the remaining car and rush to the scene of the incident quickly.

That place has become more bloody than a slaughterhouse. Although there is no body left at the scene, the blood soaked a large piece of land next to the two cars can be vaguely seen under the firelight, making Amelia's face appear. Unusual flushing.

But she kept her promise and did not show her bloodthirsty nature. Instead, she carefully felt the smell floating in the air, and stretched out her slender fingers to point in several directions.

"Over there, over there, over there, the smell of blood extends in these three directions, and the smell becomes more rancid the farther away from us. The smell is the heaviest over there..."

"...It has changed. They were killed directly, and the corpse gas entered their bodies, just as I expected. The smell is the strongest...in the direction of the provincial capital."

Uncle Jiu didn't have time to regret it anymore, so he ordered the two apprentices to bring the prepared things, stretched out their hands to touch the dark red ink mixed with cinnabar and rooster blood with a brush, stepped forward, and exhaled loudly.

"The sky is round and the place is full of nine chapters of the law. I will write now, ten thousand ghosts and treasures!"

After reciting the mantra, he took out a large handful of yellow paper cut into the size of a palm from the bag he was carrying, drew dozens of mantras in a short while.

What is written on the talisman is: order General Bai Yi to come here.

After writing a lot of Taoist talismans, he finally stopped writing, rubbed his brows tiredly, asked his apprentice to divide the talismans into three piles, and said to everyone: "Qiu Sheng, Wen Cai, I have already counted the zombies for these two compasses. It's bloody... Each of you take a compass and drive in one direction, remember to follow the compass pointer, and don't disperse. This spell is a corpse-suppressing charm. If you stick it on the zombies, it will make them immobile. The upper part of the injured wound can also prevent the spread of corpse gas. Catch zombies and move them to an open place and burn them with lychee firewood. Don’t move around after sunrise, and send someone to the provincial capital to report. Ikab, ... and this Miss, let's go to the provincial capital. Master Wei, come and drive. "

Awei showed embarrassment, looked at the truck with blood splattered on the seat and half of the ear stuck to the rearview mirror, gritted his teeth and nodded.

Chapter 12

The most prosperous place in the provincial capital has a completely different scene from Renjia Town.On both sides of the main road are eight or nine-story high-rise buildings. Wooden telephone poles are pulled along the sidewalk, and colorful signboards in various poses and with different expressions protrude from both sides, brightly lit all night under the illumination of incandescent lamps.Those big businessmen with the richest net worth even proudly hung out the most fashionable colorful neon lights even on the Bund in Shanghai.

Just under a neon signboard, a man wearing an expensive suit, with a shiny head and smelling of alcohol, came out with the support of others.

Someone was waiting for him by the side of the road. Seeing him coming out, he quickly went up to support him, patted his back, and whispered a few words in his ear.

The man's eyes immediately cleared up, and when he saw that irrelevant people were all backing away, he asked in a low voice, "Is what you said true?"

"Really, Mr. Wu, Adjutant Liu overheard it from the commander in chief. The local security captain called. There was a zombie riot in Renjia Town. Ren Fa was the first to be bitten to death!"

"It deserves it! Tell him not to let me buy shares, so that I will die with cousin Kong San." Master Wu scolded bitterly, and then a sinister smile appeared on his face, narrowing his eyes, and said with a smile: "I heard that he only has one daughter? Then there is no need to invest in shares. Let his daughter come to be my concubine, and the two families will become one family... Hahaha..."

"Master Wu is brilliant!" The confidant who was supporting him immediately began to lick, "Master himself will do it himself, isn't that chick obedient?"

"That's right...what's right! Fuck it!" Master Wu's face suddenly changed, and he turned around and slapped his cronies: "If what you said is useful, I should have five concubines now instead of Four! Have you disposed of the woman's body, do you want me to have sex with Miss Ren in the mourning hall?"

"Don't worry, I tied a stone and threw it into the sea early in the morning." The confidant rubbed his face and smiled apologetically, helped the grumpy old man into the car, and the driver drove him to the direction of the mansion, and then stood under the neon lights and vomited A mouthful of saliva.

"Bah, you're a dog who takes power, wait until your third cousin loses power, and watch you get retribution!"

After cursing a few words, he looked around again with a guilty conscience, shrank his neck, and went back to his home.Although he is a helper who specializes in dirty things, although he has to follow the master to do his best during the day, he still has to go home to sleep at night, and there is no place for him in the master's house.

"Extend your hand, touch my sister, touch the top of my sister's head, oh, oh..."

Humming a little tune while walking, the man got into an alley and patted on a door facing the street.

"Open the door! Grandpa is back!"

In front of Mr. Wu, he was flattering and full of slavish looks; but when he returned to his own home, he was also an old man who could afford to hire a permanent worker and support a nanny.

But after knocking for a long time, no one answered. Instead, the door opened as soon as it was pushed.He couldn't help cursing angrily: "These bastards, the master dares to sleep before he comes home, and he doesn't lock the door when he sleeps! If you lose your snuff bottle, you will pay for your lives!"

After cursing a few words, he felt drowsy, he didn't care about it anymore, he turned around and locked the door, humming a little song while walking inside.Go to sleep, Master Wu will definitely ask him to trouble the Ren family tomorrow!

It's just that the little song was hummed halfway, and the bed hadn't been made yet, when he heard another voice coming from the back window.

The voice was terribly strange, neither male nor female, if I had to describe it, it was like a man with a hoarse voice trying to imitate a woman by pinching his throat.

"...The golden and jade fate deceived me, causing my sister's soul to return to Lihentian... Now that I don't know where to go, I have left a plain candle and a white curtain to accompany my soul..."

Master Wu's confidant buzzed in his head, and his sleepiness disappeared immediately. He hurriedly crawled over the bed boldly, and pushed the rear window open.

The window behind the bedroom is connected to the corridor, and the other side is the kitchen for cooking.Now the kitchen window is wide open, and a white figure is squatting in front of the stove, stuffing briquettes piece by piece into the stove at the bottom of the stove.Didn't that weird sound come from Bai Ying?

"Who, who, you fucking started the stove in the middle of the night to scare the master to death?" The confidant thought it might be a servant at home, and hurriedly yelled.

The white shadow stopped and slowly turned towards him.

"Master, you don't recognize me?" Bai Ying said still holding his throat, leaning on the kitchen window facing the corridor, his face was close, and he stretched his face to the place where the light in the bedroom came from.

It was okay if the cronies didn't look at it, but when they saw it, they were scared to death. They opened their mouths wide and couldn't make a sound. After a few seconds, they let out an "ouch" and fell back to the ground.

That blue face, with white eyes, bleeding from the seven orifices, two mustaches and a sparse crown, isn't that the Master Ren from Renjia Town?

"Help, Ren Fa, Ren Fa..."

The confidant screamed and rushed to the door, and quickly slammed on the servant's door.But when he looked under the verandah, he was frightened again, "Aw".

Several servants had already collapsed under the porch, the wounds on their necks still had dried blood, and they had been dead for a long time.

Master Ren, dressed in white, also staggered out from the back door, with a strange smile on his face: "Master, I am Ren Fa, but I am also Chunhong. You discount my father's shoulders so that he can no longer I worked hard and prevented people from treating his wounds, forcing him to sell me to you; then I was given to Mr. Wu, and he tortured me to death; I also tied stones to my body and threw it into the sea. Why don't you recognize me now?"

While lying on the ground with weak hands and feet and crawling back, the confidant begged for mercy and said: "Auntie, dear ancestor, these, these are all forced by Wu Youde, it's none of my business, please do me a favor, I will definitely leave I will do my best to give you a way to save you..."

Master Ren didn't care about this, he still rolled his eyes and grinned, walking towards him.

The confidant was already in despair, but suddenly remembered that there was still a string of Buddhist beads consecrated by an eminent monk in his bedroom.

At this moment, he didn't care about anything else, he jumped up quickly, ran back to his room from the yard on the side, opened the cabinet with trembling hands, and took out the prayer beads from the jewelry box.

"Great Mercy, Great Mercy, Great Mercy..."

As he was chanting, he saw that Master Ren, who was bleeding from his seven orifices, had already chased him in, he quickly yelled, and took the Buddhist beads in his hand and drew them on the body that looked like a ghost but not a ghost, and a corpse that looked like a corpse.

Just hearing "pa", "pa", "pa", a puff of smoke rose from Master Ren's chest, he screamed in pain, and took a few steps back.

Seeing that the beads were effective, the confidant suddenly became courageous, and caught up again, waving the beads vigorously.

Only this time, Master Ren had already stood still, reached out and grabbed the Buddhist beads, and regardless of the green smoke rising from his palms, he just said in that unmasculine voice full of hatred: "A man like you The human Buddha also wants to bless, is there any justice in this world! But I borrowed Master Ren’s body, and now I have all my soul, you can’t beat me!...The hatred between us, you and Wu Youde will pay back with blood!”

As he said that, he pierced the evil slave's chest with his other hand. Blood and flesh flew all over the small yard, mixed with the man's screams, and finally stopped after half a moment.

When the police patrolling the city were bumped into by an awakened neighbor on the street and came here, all they saw was the lower body of this confidant, and blood, bones and minced meat all over the floor and walls, even the most senior, the former Even the patrolmen who have been soldiers can't stand it.

The night is too long...

At the same time when the police were about to investigate the scene, Uncle Jiu, Ikab and Amelia also came to the outskirts of the provincial capital in Awei's car.

Amelia frowned, because there were too many people and too much space here, and the smell of rotting blood on the zombies had been completely covered up.

"Now our 'Bloodhound' won't work..." Ichab whispered, drawing Amelia's eyes.

"It's okay to compare me to anything...but I hate canines. You seem bolder than you started! Come here!"

Uncle Jiu had already pulled out the compass, and he was watching the movement of the pointer with all his might.

Drawing talismans, descending corpses, and exorcising evil spirits, these are not just for appearances, each of them requires him to use mana.It may be a bit mysterious to talk about what mana is, but it cannot be separated from the spirit, energy and spirit; the feeling of using mana is similar to that of ordinary people carrying heavy objects, but it is more complicated and requires more focused will.

After being busy all night, Uncle Jiu, who is not young, can no longer hold on.

However, the situation is such that there must be no time wasted, and the zombies in the city must be found as soon as possible.

"Ah Wei, you go to your 'master', we will use the firework as the name after we find the zombie, and bring people over when we see the firework!"

Uncle Nine knocked on the back window of the truck and said, and waved his hand to get a man and a ghost on the other side to jump out of the car.Now that you have entered the city, you don't need to hurry any more.

Ikab looked at the needle shaking unsteadily in Uncle Ninth's compass, shook his head, and said, "This 'compass' is not accurate enough to locate in the city at all."

"As long as you have a general direction, you take it first."

Uncle Jiu gave Ikab the compass, took out his bag, and took out a small turtle shell and a few copper coins.

The serious "candle lighting tortoise divination" is to roast the tortoise shell with fire and observe its cracks, but Jiushu's Maoshan technique does not need it. He just borrows the aura of the tortoise and pours it on the copper coins with a special technique to see how the coins fall when they fall to the ground. Azimuth arrangement and forward and reverse only.

He put the copper coins in the tortoise shell, shook it seven times while murmuring words, and when he tipped the tortoise shell, several copper coins were splashed on the ground.

"The hexagram is Kun, the land belongs to the southwest, and the compass pointed to the south just now... The copper coin is positive and the eight negative, and the zombie is now by the water!"

Uncle Jiu coughed a few times, put away the tortoise shell and coins, and pointed to the southwest.

"Go, go to the river first!"

The provincial capital is located on the southern coast, and there are dense water systems in the city, but when it comes to "river", there must be only one.Unbeknownst to the three Uncle Jiu who rushed over, the place not far from the river is an area where rich people live together, and Master Wu Youde's mansion is in it...

Chapter 13 Daozhi doesn't teach ghosts

After four o'clock at night, the lights in Wu's mansion were still on.

The old servant who has been in the mansion for a long time is used to it. The master is a night owl. Instead of having fun in the room, he didn't come to ask someone to boil water for a bath until five o'clock, and he would go to bed when it was bright, and he would get up in the afternoon to order food, and then go out to visit friends, like this every day.Unless there is a serious matter that the master has to take seriously, this timetable will not be changed.

Although the master came back on time today and asked someone to make hangover soup, he sent all the concubines away and went into the study by himself, not letting anyone in to disturb him.

There was more than one person who died in the house, and no one was so closed-eyed, and they all hid away, only the housekeeper was waiting for summons at the stairs on the second floor.

In the study, Master Wu Youde was grabbing the phone and calling Adjutant Liu to ask whether the important news was true or not.

He has heard what a zombie is, but he has never seen it before. He doesn't know whether it is true or not. How can he believe it if he doesn't ask in detail?

But Adjutant Liu swore on the other end of the phone that it was true.He was also suspicious when he got the news in the middle of the night, but now that Awei has arrived at the commander's mansion, the bloody truck and the first-hand news of the person involved are of course more credible.Not only that, Wei Ge also paid for ten of his subordinates. It is said that now those ten people have also become zombies and have gone to several surrounding towns.

Ren Fa?Dead to die no more.

"Okay, good brother, thank you so much. When I swallow the sugar factory, I will naturally have a red envelope, plus seven days in the Fanglan Guild Hall. You can ask the commander-in-chief for leave now!"

Wu Youde, whose brows were filled with joy, said so, put down the phone, stood up and rubbed his hands.

[26. No. 26]

Sugar mills, this is big business.It’s not just about making a lot of money... Don’t think that sugar factories can only make rock sugar cubes. The technical basis of sugar and wine making is interoperable with many other industries, such as feed fertilizers, biopharmaceuticals; food industry channels That is retail, and the next step is commercial logistics; even if the development is good, the acid production process will be arranged in the future, it will be even more intense, and Wu Youde and his three cousins ​​will have to come to make connections.

After so many years of messing around, this time it really turned Xianyu over, let's see who dares to treat him as a second-generation ancestor who has no ability!

Thinking of this, Wu Youde was overjoyed, and couldn't help but want to find a concubine to celebrate.I remember that the third lady was the most fun, and last time I prepared a lot of new gadgets to make him have a good time... Then this time it will be the third child!

He stood up, pushed open the door of the study, and shouted loudly: "Old Zheng, Old Zheng!"

After shouting loudly for a long time, no one answered him.The whole house was quiet, not even the sound of concubines playing mahjong.