284|Undercurrent 7
The bookkeeper subconsciously looked down, and sure enough, he saw a dirt bag suddenly bulging at his feet. γγ
ββ¦β¦ Why do you keep showing up like this? The bookkeeper was not surprised, he put the ledger into his arms, and said flatly, "I was not surprised." β
The raised dirt bag rose up and down, and Hu Ji thought that he was going to run away silently again, but the dirt bag rose in vain, and the guy hiding in the ground suddenly showed his form.
The figure of the hunchbacked man in the black cloak seemed to be distorted a little, and at first glance, it looked a bit like the appearance of a mortal street acrobat deliberately bending his back to perform.
The black yarn that was originally wrapped around his body also changed, twisted into a rough hemp rope, if it weren't for a few long sticky wires hanging, I was afraid that it would have broken into several pieces by this time.
The tip of Hu Ji's nose moved, and he immediately took a step back.
It was the smell of burnt flesh.
The bookkeeper was also a little surprised, he looked back and forth, and said half-loudly: "Although I often call you a burning stick in secret, but now I see that this name is so vivid!" β
The man under the cloak shook his head violently, and then a bandaged hand poked out of the cloak.
The hand was the same as his body, unevenly thickened and distorted. The bandages that were wrapped around them were mottled black or yellow, as if they were the bandages of a seriously injured person's long-healed wounds.
Seeing that the other party raised his hand to lift his cloak, Hu Ji on the side was so frightened that he suddenly took a step back.
I think Hu Ji is a person who loves beauty, and he also collects beautiful things in his life, and he has to read beauties every day, and he will not look at any filthy things and ugly characters. Now this guy is going to show his true face as soon as he comes, and he must not frighten Hu Ji.
Hu Ji, who had seen the true face of the other party, had palpitations, so he hurriedly stopped: "Stop!" If you have something to say, just say it! No need to show your face! β
Mr. Bookkeeper is not as ugly and beautiful as Hu Ji, but he said calmly: "I'm very curious about how ugly you look again!" Look at your figureβwell, smell the burnt smell againβare you going to be overwhelmed by the candle dragon underground? β
"Candle Dragon awake?" Hu Ji looked back in surprise and said, "So, the fire in the kitchen was really made by the candle dragon?" β
Mr. Ledger's eyes lit up suddenly, but without waiting for Hu Ji to pay attention, he adjusted his expression while touching his nose.
"Lord-man-horse...... Horse-on-just-come-" The shapeshifter under the cloak stumbled with difficulty, "I-I need-more-more-"
"Got it, got it!" The other party's speech was too difficult to hear, and his voice was so long that he couldn't say a word for a long time, so Hu Ji hurriedly waved his hand and said, "This year, the inn has also received a lot of treasures, and I will let Mr. Accounts send them to you when I turn around!" β
"Why me?" Mr. Bookkeeper said unhappily, "I'm just Mr. Bookkeeper, I'm only responsible for settling accounts, when will the delivery be under my control?" β
Hu Ji sneered when he heard this, but he took the opportunity to retort: "Didn't you say it yourself before, I am responsible for entertaining guests and collecting money, and you are responsible for bookkeeping and managing money." Since all the money and treasures are under your control, it is naturally your duty to transport them. β
After saying that, he clapped his hands, and his anger was over, and he suddenly felt comfortable.
The bookkeeper touched the account book in his arms, he was very reluctant to give those treasures, if he wanted to give them personally, it would be like robbing his money bag and making him feel pain.
After feeling distressed for a moment, he turned his head to look at the cloaked man again: "Are you almost unable to hold the burning stick?" Hu Ji doesn't want to see your appearance, I'm very curious! Why don't you lift that cloak now and let me see it? β
The cloaked man shook tremblingly under the cloak, and when Hu Ji looked at it, he was nodding.
"Wait!" Hu Ji, who suddenly felt bad, hurriedly covered his eyes and turned around and said, "Let me avoid it!" β
Before they could reply, he appeared eight snow-white fox tails, and in an instant roared out of the inn like a tornado of white light.
The guests in the lobby had already dispersed, because the Tsing Yi had seen blood before, and the monsters who were about to move were either driven out by Ji Li and the Fei family, or clamped their tails and hid back in the room, and the inn was a little depressed and cold for a while.
It's also a loss that there is no one around, otherwise the cloak man would not have shown up lightly.
At this time, Hu Ji hid, and the cloaked man seemed to be a little concerned, so he didn't open the brim of his hat for a long time.
"It's okay if you speak slowly, but your movements are terrible slow!" The bookkeeper urged, "Hurry up! That's why I like to see you look like you're scorched! Otherwise, if you drag it a little longer, the people upstairs should come out! β
Before he could finish his words, he saw several figures appear at the end of the corridor on the second floor.
What are you afraid of! Afraid that he would run away with the burning stick, the bookkeeper hurriedly reached out and grabbed the brim of his hat and said, "I'd better do it myself!" Let me seeβ"
As he spoke, he exerted a force with his hands, and at once lifted the brim of the cloaked man's wide, heavy hat.
A face covered in mottled bandages was suddenly revealed in front of Mr. Bookkeeper. Or, it's not a face anymore.
He had lost his nose, and the bridge of his nose, which should have been undulating, was as flat as his cheeks on both sides. The bandages with black stains were piled up crookedly and messily on that Ma Pingchuan's face, and through the staggered gaps, the black and red scabs could be faintly seen.
His left eye was blocked by a loose, drooping bandage, and his right eye was so tightly wrapped that it exposed his entire eyeball, which was already eyelidless.
As he slowly untied the knot tied to his chin, and untied the bandage little by little at the same slow pace, Mr. Bookkeeper, who was very close, seemed to hear the sound of the flesh that had grown together with the scab tearing.
But the bookkeeper was still not deterred, he just stared at the other party's side face seriously, and when the bandage was halfway undone, he said in a tone that was indeed so: "You really have no ears!" No wonder we can't be heard! β
The cloaked man continued to untie the bandage as if he had not heard of it, and his face that had been burned by fire gradually revealed.
Rao is the bookkeeper who was looking forward to it, and he couldn't help but gasp when he saw such a face.
Just as the cloaked man was about to continue, the man at the end of the aisle had already arrived at the railing.
Mr. Bookkeeper squinted and saw that it was Tsing Yi and Dongqiao.
"Oops, Tsing Yi is here!" The bookkeeper shouted, dragging his long hair to the corner, "More is better than less, I'm not very good at explaining." β
Seeing that the cloak man was about to uncover all the bandages, he shook his wrist when he heard this, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the second floor.
Besides, when Tsing Yi came out, she saw a strange-looking guy standing by the counter from a distance, and it was very similar to the character who had just rescued herself in the kitchen, so she stood on her feet and looked at it seriously.
Who knew that the other party suddenly turned back. Tsing Yi and the other party just looked at each other, only to feel that the face was like a charred sweet potato burned in a charcoal fire, black, black, red and red cracked into countless pieces, and the huge blue and white eyes like a pair of dead fish eyes were more terrifying than the charred face that could not be seen.
"Little lady, don't look at it!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Dongqiao on the side hurriedly stepped forward to block Tsing Yi's sight, "Please also ask the little lady to go back to the room immediately!" Xiao Langjun's food will be prepared by me! β
"That's-" Although Tsing Yi was frightened, she had seen many hateful horror things in the inn for several years, so she immediately forced her to calm down again, "It's okay, you get out of the way." β
Dongqiao saw that Tsing Yi's expression was quite calm, so he let go.
He couldn't stop it for a moment, and the cloaked man had wrapped his face back in bandages. It's just that his hands are also burned out a lot, and his movements are not sharp enough, and the bandages are tied in a mess, and the places that should be covered are all false, and at a glance, it is better than nothing.
Tsing Yi had the heart to thank her for what happened before, but before she could speak, she heard someone behind her: "Monster! β
"Fire?" Tsing Yi, who recognized the other party in an instant, hurriedly lowered his voice and stopped, "Don't be rude!" β
"But he smells it!" The fire that chased out of the chase threw himself on Tsing Yi's back and said, "Niangniang, don't talk to him, Daddy will be angry!" β
"Shhh-" Tsing Yi was afraid that outsiders would hear, so he hurriedly turned around and covered his mouth and said, "Why did you come out?" Didn't you tell you to wait for your mother to bring back food? β
"My father told me to come out." Yu Huo raised his head and replied proudly, "He is in the room now, and he told me to take you back!" β
"Really?" Tsing Yi was so pleasantly surprised that he couldn't even bother to thank the strange cloaked man, "Then let's go back!" β
As she spoke, she took Yuhuo's hand and made a gesture to run back.
Unexpectedly, the bath was like an iron pillar, and it stood still in place.
Tsing Yi couldn't pull him, and when he looked back, he saw that Yuhuo opened his mouth to the cloaked man in the lobby, but it was a distant spit out something like a bead of fire.
Strange to say, the cloaked man did not hide when he saw this ball of fire, but only turned his eyes like dead fish eyes and stared at the ball seriously. It wasn't until the burst of fire that caused a burst of fire on him that he bent down and hugged himself as if in pain, and fled to the ground as fast as he could.
Just before he disappeared, he suddenly looked up at the bathed fire.
Tsing Yi was frightened into a cold sweat by the strange eyes of the other party looking at the fire. She hugged the bath fire without thinking, and then pulled him to run away