Chapter 2: The Late Night Hotel
The sky was gray, and it was impossible to tell if it was the night or the world was in the most dead silence.
When Zhuangzi wakes up, what he feels is not the warmth of the sun, but a rare depression, which is unprecedented, as if God has locked the world tightly in a cage.
The wind is gusting, and the shadows of the trees are swaying...... No, it wasn't the shadow of a tree, but a trail of black shadows floating in the air. They have the shape of a human and the wailing of a crow.
Holding back the piercing pain all over his body, and pressing the sandy ground, Zhuang Zifei finally stood up. Looking at the miserable and dark scene in front of him, his heart was empty.
"Where am I?"
Knowing that no one answered, he couldn't help but ask himself, because in such a dead environment, only through his voice could he feel a trace of life.
At this moment, he was standing on a sandy beach without sunlight, and the river beside him was blowing wet wind from time to time. He subconsciously walked towards the closest place to the river, but the closer he got, the more obvious the oppressive feeling became.
"I'm probably dead...... Smelling the bloody smell of the river, Zhuang Zifei remembered some legends about the Lechuan River and laughed softly.
He walked to the river, leaned down, and was about to feel the feeling of the water in Lethe, but the moment he put his finger into the water, the surface of the river moved violently.
A silver light tore through the dark clouds in the sky and plunged straight into the water. In an instant, the river rises, and a wooden house with classical beauty disappears in the waves.
Zhuang Zifei's eyes widened, although he had already understood the principle of the so-called mirage, but he could not explain the scene in front of him at all.
Then, a stone bridge rises abruptly to reach the wooden house......
With a worried heart, Zhuang Zifei walked onto the stone bridge. I thought something even more incredible would happen on the bridge, but as expected, everything was very calm, and it was not until I walked in front of the wooden house that I heard the sound of human footsteps.
"Grandma, pick up the customer!" The door was opened by a little girl, about seven or eight years old, with two ponytails and dark eyes, very cute.
"Oh, it's been so long, it's been a visitor, please ......" From the voice, you can hear that the owner of this shop is a middle-aged woman.
This wooden house is not big, but there are many rooms, guest rooms, kitchens, and dining tables. The boss walked out of the back kitchen, although he was wearing modern clothes, but from the point of view of appearance, he still had a classical beauty, which was very harmonious with the dim yellow wooden house.
"Uncle, please take a seat!" the little girl politely entertained Zhuang Zifei and brought him the menu.
"Our shop is mainly based on soup stock, pork rib soup, black chicken soup and so on, you can choose ...... at will"
The boss took off his cooking apron and walked over to him with a smile.
Zhuang Zifei didn't want to eat, but when he smelled the smell of soup wafting from the store, he couldn't help but sit down.
He was just about to open the menu when he heard a loud thunderclap outside the door, followed not by a torrential rain, but by the fall of night. Zhuangzi had never seen such a strange celestial phenomenon in his life, and then looked at the so-called "soup" in the menu, which made his heart cool for most of the time.
The female boss saw some clues from his expression, and then smiled:
"Look, the weather here is so bad......"
"This ...... What is it?" Zhuang Zifei's voice trembled a little, and his expression was solemn.
"What kind of place is this...... I think you should know it very well......" The boss's voice suddenly became much colder, but he was still smiling, which couldn't help but make Zhuangzi feel creepy.
Zhuangzi saw that the situation was wrong, and just wanted to leave, but he never thought that the door had already been locked tightly by the little girl.
"Look what you're nervous about, we're just a normal soup shop, just this place...... It's just a little different. The boss pressed Zhuang Zifei's shoulder and pressed him alive.
After a while, there was a knock on the door, which annoyed the boss:
"Xiao Man, tell them to line up and come one by one. ”
The little girl nodded and walked out of the room......
The boss let go of Zhuang Zifei, but for some reason, Zhuang Zifei was already unable to move.
"You can't run around while eating, I think you should understand......" The boss sneered a few times, and soon brought a bowl of pork rib soup from the back kitchen and put it in front of Zhuang Zifei.
"Drink it, it won't taste good if it's cold......" Her voice suddenly became very gentle, gentle and seductive. Zhuangzifei forced himself not to be deceived by the vision, but the aroma of the soup was so tempting that Zhuangzifei gulped it as if he were enchanted, and he didn't seem to know what was happening until he was completely drunk.
"I know the cause of your death, so ...... Your soup is not the same as theirs. ”
"You are obsessed with life and death, how is I different from you?"
"I have been trapped on the bank of this Lethe River for more than 3,000 years, living in a dark environment all day long, how can I never want to live a living life again? But this heavenly way is ...... unfair."
Zhuang Zifei had lost consciousness and could only sit there stiffly like a puppet.
"I'll just ask you one ......"
"If you have the opportunity, would you be willing to fight against this fate?"
As soon as the words fell, the tips of Zhuang Zifei's ears moved slightly, and his body shook slightly.
"Even if you give up the opportunity to be reincarnated......"
The tips of Zhuang Zifei's ears trembled even more, and the expression on his face became more solemn.
Seeing this, the boss was overjoyed and shouted:
"It's done...... It became ...... Xiao Man, come on in, we've become ......"
The little girl walked in, looked at Zhuang Zifei and Grandma in front of her, and looked dazed:
"What's wrong, Grandma?"
"I have been boiling Meng Po soup for more than 3,000 years, and I have finally waited for this day...... All the people who have drunk my soup have forgotten all the memories of their past lives, but he is different...... He can still ...... I can also touch the events of my past life!"
"Go, carry him into the guest room, I'll get the gold needle......"
Although the little girl didn't understand what Grandma was going to do, she was in a much better mood when she saw Grandma so happy.
Don't look at the little girl's thin figure, but she really does the work more than several big men, after all, she is the daughter of the Lord of Lethe, and her strength should not be underestimated.
Soon, Zhuang Zifei was carried into the guest room, and the boss took a thick and long gold needle in his hand and walked in with a smile:
"Xiao Man, you go and bring the blue and white porcelain vase at the bottom of the counter. ”
"Bottle...... Grandma, isn't that your most precious thing? Even Xiao Man is reluctant to let ...... see it" The little girl pursed her lips, pretending to be dissatisfied.
"Oh, grandma, please, go quickly......"
The little girl smiled and walked towards the counter.
After a while, the small blue and white porcelain bottle was handed over to the boss.
"Boy, my thousands of years of hard work, thousands of years of wishes, but it's all up to you......" she whispered to the sleeping Zhuang Zifei.
The little girl still didn't understand what Grandma was going to do, and it wasn't until the moment Grandma's golden needle pierced Zhuangzifei's head that the little girl's frightened voice suddenly sounded:
"You...... What are you ......" Grandma ignored her, just doing her own thing with a smile on her face.
Then, the boss uncorked the bottle, and a green light flowed out of the bottle and rushed straight into the depths of Zhuangzi's non-earthly brain.
In an instant, a miserable howl sounded, permeating the heavens and the earth......
"Two souls intertwined...... Haha, it's my first time!"
"I hope you don't let me down!"
She cast a spell, and in an instant, Zhuang Zifei's eyes were chaotic, with no dark sky and no sunlight...... The only thing you can see is just clouds after clouds.
Yes, it is a cloud, a cloud that will never be seen in the underworld......
Zhuangzi Fei propped up his weak body and slowly stood up, not knowing what was happening, not knowing what was going to happen......