Chapter 4: One Less

At night, Zhou Chen returned to the room where he slept. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He didn't fall asleep, nor did he practice as usual, but sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes and waited for something.

Tuk Tuk ......

After waiting for more than an hour, I finally waited for a knock on the door.

The knock on the door was silent, and it only stopped after three knocks, apparently not wanting to wake the other three people in the room.

Zhou Chen got out of bed, walked over directly and opened the door.

Through the rather bright moonlight, Zhou Chen saw clearly that the person waiting outside the door was not the cow cook, but the apprentice Dalong who was collected by the bookkeeper.

"They're not awake, are they?"

Dalong probed into the house, but he couldn't see it clearly at all, mainly asking Zhou Chen questions.

"Nope. ”

Zhou Chen shook his head and said.

"Very well, come with me. ”

Dalong dropped a sentence and walked ahead on his own.

Zhou Chen didn't ask anything, and seemed to follow behind Dalong honestly.

Soon he found out that Dalong did not mean to take him to the guest room on the second floor, but led him towards the outside of the lobby.

"Is it the person who wants to deal with the carriage first?"

Zhou Chen could easily think that if there was really anything of value in the carriage of those guests, then even at night, someone would be in charge of guarding it.

The door of the inn was open, and as Dalong was about to walk out of the inn, his steps slowed down and his expression became much more cautious.

Zhou Chen could fully understand why he looked like this, because even he had already heard some sounds of fighting.

When he finally walked out of the door, the real fighting scene came into Zhou Chen's eyes.

The first person who caught his eye was a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties.

This middle-aged man was dressed in a gray robe, with a hooked nose and mung bean eyes, his face was full of ruthlessness and coldness, and his skills were extremely sharp and agile, and he was fighting two opponents alone with his hands into claws.

This person is the shopkeeper of the Zephyr Inn.

In this fight in front of Zhou Chen, there were only five people in total, and it was a two-on-three situation.

Compared with the situation that the cow chef is still evenly matched on the one-on-one, the shopkeeper can still have the upper hand with one enemy and two, which is really eye-catching.

"Hey, hey, die!"

At one point, the shopkeeper kicked one of the opponents away, and in the midst of a sneer, his right hand clasped the throat of the other, and then grabbed a large piece of flesh in the opponent's neck, and the latter immediately fell to the ground with blood spurting wildly.

Shout!

However, at this moment, the person who had been kicked away a few steps away suddenly raised his hand with one hand, and a small black arrow shot out quickly, and it sank into the chest of the shopkeeper.

"Ahh

The shopkeeper screamed in pain, his face suddenly became extremely hideous, and he caught up with him in three or two steps, and launched a fierce attack with both claws, the other party was completely unable to parry, and only resisted two or three moves before being deducted into the throat by the shopkeeper's claws.

Burst!

In the same way, the man fell to the ground clutching his blood-spurting neck.

The shopkeeper who killed the two did not stop, nor did he care about the small arrow inserted in his chest, he just took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a small pill from it and swallowed it, and then went to join the war group of the cow cook, and there was no suspense at all under the two against one, and the battle ended quickly.

Thump!

As the last man fell, a total of four bodies lay on the grounds. One of them was killed long ago before Zhou Chen came.

After killing all the people, the shopkeeper walked towards the two carriages.

Several horses had already fallen to the ground, as if they had been poisoned before, and Zhou Chen couldn't tell whether they were dead or fainting.

The shopkeeper got into the wagon to check the spoils, and the cow cook was not idle, and he began to grope around the four corpses one by one.

"What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you get all of this done soon?"

Chef Niu finally searched out a few money bags and some sundries, and then looked towards Zhou Chen.

"Yes. ”

Dalong took the lead in responding, then greeted Zhou Chen with his eyes, walked to a corpse, and began to be carried by the two of them.

The direction they carried was a deep pit not far from the north of the inn, and as long as they threw the body into it, it would not be long before the wind and sand would completely bury the body.

After walking back and forth a few times, and finally finished moving the four corpses, Dalong sighed and said, "Let's move quickly, there is still work to do." ”

Zhou Chen also nodded, he knew what Dalong was talking about.

Sure enough, after returning to the inn, there were eight more corpses that they needed to dispose of.

These eight people were the first to be killed, they slept in the guest room, and the bookkeeper single-handedly eliminated them all.

Of course, it is not a head-on confrontation, but by smoke.

Zhou Chen was a little puzzled, he solved the eight people by relying on the smoke, this is too easy, wouldn't the people who run the rivers and lakes guard against this most common means of plotting?

These are all things that Dalong said to Zhou Chen, but when Zhou Chen asked in depth, he became vague, at most, this smoke seemed to be relatively special, not an ordinary product.

Hearing this, Zhou Chen also understood.

In the final analysis, there are only three people in this black shop: the shopkeeper, the cow cook, and the bookkeeper. Being able to have the confidence to do black work and deal with so many people at once is obviously something to rely on.

At present, it seems that Zhou Chen has learned only these two points, one is the storekeeper's strong martial arts, and the other is relying on this special smoke.

And through comparison, Zhou Chen also concluded that the combat power shown by the shopkeeper was not as good as his peak strength when he was in the last world.

The reason for this is that Zhou Chen can definitely be in his physique.

At that time, his physique was comparable to that of a four-star demon beast, and through the increase in the power skills of the Yang Clan's killing fist, he was able to confront a seven- or eight-star demon beast head-on. Coupled with the use of soul thoughts and the effects of spells, he also has the power to fight against nine-star demon beasts.

And when he arrives here, the shopkeeper's claw skills are not trivial, but his physique will never be so high, and Zhou Chen at the peak will definitely be killed by the latter.

"I just don't know how much of the treasurer's force is in this world?"

Although he had doubts in his heart, Zhou Chen didn't think much about it, and he continued to carry the corpse with Da Long.

Their work was not done until dawn.

Back at the inn, Chef Niu and Mr. Bookkeeper were already waiting in the lobby, and the shopkeeper was nowhere to be seen, Zhou Chen expected that he had gone back to the room to heal his injuries, and he didn't know if the small black arrow was poisoned.

"Erhu, you will be considered to have joined the gang in the future, I will start teaching you some kung fu in two days, and you will be able to help a little bit after two years of studying. ”

Chef Niu patted Zhou Chen's shoulder, stuffed a string of copper coins into his hand, and said: "As long as you join the gang, there will always be benefits in the future, and you will always have a share, remember to work more and be obedient." ”

After speaking, Chef Niu glanced at Mr. Bookkeeper again, and the latter saw Zhou Chen put away the money string, and also nodded, which was regarded as acknowledging Zhou Chen's joining.

The bookkeeper seemed to be a witness, and he nodded his head and did not stay any longer, and walked towards the backyard with the dragon.

"Okay, I'm tired from a fight, I'm going to sleep, you kid go back to the house, and you'll know the benefits of joining in two days." ”

Chef Niu said something that made Zhou Chen inexplicable again, and then left the lobby with a wave of his hand.

Zhou Chen couldn't figure out what the other party meant, but seeing that it was almost morning, he walked towards the room where he slept.

There were no more guests in the inn, and after Da Long's reminder, it seemed that no one would take care of him if he slept for a day, so although Zhou Chen didn't feel tired at all, he was still ready to go to sleep.

And when he returned to the house, he felt a faint chill, because he saw that there were three men sleeping in the house, but now there was one missing. (To be continued.) )