54. Inn
Now it's been a year since I went down the mountain, but I can't live in seclusion, and I really haven't lived in an inn. When she walked into here, people came and went, but it seemed to be quite prosperous.
She booked a one-night stay and sat down in the lobby with the best view. Before sitting, wipe down the seat.
She asked Xiao Er to serve a pot of wine and two plates of side dishes. Out of the housekeeper's reminder, it may be a human butcher shop, so he didn't order meat dishes.
The little second was still warmly greeting the guests at the door, and with his unique accent and tone, he shouted: "Please come in the guest officer!"
After sitting for a while, Ru Sanshui saw the person she wanted to see. A masked woman wandered outside the store, surrounded by more than a dozen subordinates, dressed the same as the people who came to invite Ru Sanshui in the morning.
Seeing that the woman had instructed her subordinates to stay outside the inn, the woman left, following only two personal maids.
Ru Sanshui put down the wine cup and followed. The woman in front of her walked faster and faster, and Ru Sanshui guessed that she had been discovered, but she was originally going to see the other party, so she still followed openly.
Turning a corner, a cold sword suddenly pointed at the tip of Ru Sanshui's nose. The maid who carries the sword is not steady, and the swordsmanship is also fancy.
Ru Sanshui put his hands in his hands, faced the sword, and took another step forward indifferently.
The masked woman spoke, "You're not from the inn, why are you following me?"
"I am the person sent by Madame to help Madame get what she wants. ”
The woman will be suspicious: "Do you know what I want?"
"Madame lost her husband and wanted revenge. If that inn is really a black shop, I am willing to solve my worries for Madame. ”
The woman lifted the white veil covering her face, her face was haggard, her eyes were red, as if she had just cried: "What do you want?"
"One or two is enough. ”
Ru Sanshui saw that the woman was suspicious, and said with a smile: "For Madame, one or two is a small amount of silver, I guess at this moment, even if there is a risk of being deceived, Madame is willing to give it a try." ”
On that day, Ru Sanshui stayed in this inn, not a room, because one or two pieces of silver were not enough to spend.
Ru Sanshui didn't sleep at night, just sat on the edge of the bed. But after the moon went up, she felt dizzy and dreamed. She hadn't dreamed in years.
She dreamed of the village she had visited, the village plagued by wild cannibalism. I dreamed that I had killed all the living beings in the mountains.
Then she saw the child she had met that day, and she had retrieved a painting for the child. At this time, in the dream, she saw the child standing in front of her, pointing a sword at her: "Why did you do this? Why do you want to harm living beings? You ...... a demon girl."
Ru Sanshui finally remembered why the child was so familiar at this time, it was clearly what Liang Qian looked like when he was a child.
As soon as her electric thought came out, she suddenly woke up.
The years have passed, and the dusty memories have been inadvertently opened, and a long-lost, heavy sadness has swept in. It was as if a rope was holding her heart tightly, and it was as if a pair of big hands were pressing down from behind.
Before she knew it, she burst into tears.
But what remains in her memory are only some abstract things, as if they are other people's stories, and she will not be touched again.
Something was wrong, she quickly wiped away her tears and became alert.
She had already been rescued from Yinglin House two hundred years ago, and she dismissed her negative emotions. Even if we want to reawaken the spirit and accumulate new emotions, the old emotions will never be restored.
Why is there such a sudden and intense grief today, or is it for the feelings that have been removed? Is it false?
It's as if there's a weird power in this inn that creates and amplifies a person's negative emotions in the middle of the night.
She hid herself in the soul mist, came out of the wall, and began to search the inn inch by inch.
The guests in each room were absolutely asleep, but they looked unwell, as if they were having a nightmare, just as the lady and the servant had said before.
Ru Sanshui felt that someone would definitely take the opportunity to make a move at this time, either to make money or kill someone.
The indescribable oppressive aura spread from the kitchen on the first floor, and the closer you got there, the more irritating the negative emotions became.
Through the kitchen door, she saw a hellish sight.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of ghosts, weak and thin, overlapping each other, crammed into this small kitchen in confusion.
They were hideous-looking, with their limbs torn apart, or they were slashing around with kitchen knives or cattle slaughtering knives, or they were running and struggling frantically.
They couldn't hurt each other, but they kept fighting. They can't leave here, but they don't want to leave all the time.
It was they, every night, who exuded strong negative emotions that affected all the people in the inn.
The large pieces of fresh meat and cured meat stored in the cupboard have been cut off from the distinctive hands, brains, crotch and other parts. I don't even know what kind of leisure and leisure, and let those cooks decorate it with flowers carved from fruits and vegetables.
Ru Sanshui is also a soul at the moment, but she is alive. The living soul, called the living soul, is the object of envy and murder for the dead soul.
But she is different, she has the ability to control her soul freely.
Ru Sanshui entered this chaotic Shura field with an overwhelming aura. Out of the instinct of all animistic things, out of chaos, a centripetal force emerges. It was as if she had been born to rule here.
The suppression of absolute power quickly brought about a brief period of absolute order, and all the souls quieted down, standing solemnly in the face of Ru Sanshui, trembling.
But she knows that what is needed for long-term order is not coercion, but emotion.
Ru Sanshui spent a long time comforting and questioning these dead souls one by one. Many have been dead for years, unconscious, and their souls are very thin. There are not many who can answer logically.
Many more souls don't know that they are dead, and only remember the last image they saw before they died. Or die while still asleep, thinking you're still in a nightmare.
Or they are too afraid to accept reality, distort their memories, think that they are people who kill people with butcher knives, and are unwilling to accept that they are the fish under the butcher's knife.
Ru Sanshui found five souls who remembered the murderer, and one of them, she guessed was the husband of the lady, but she did not mention it to him.
"The drug is in incense, left every day when the bed is ironed, and it will make people sleep to death. ”
"At night, they will pick and choose who to attack, and if someone doesn't go to bed, if they don't sleep, they will only die. ”
"If you are awake, you will put down a stick, or drag it away, the dose of the drug is very large, as long as you are hit, you will be unconscious for a few hours. ”
In such troubled times, in order to survive, cannibalism and human flesh trafficking have even become group behaviors.
This is even more chaotic than when the Jin and Song wars began, at least at that time it was a clear confrontation between countries, and now it is a chaotic mix of forces, and there is no order and position to speak of.
Thou shalt command them, and point out all the evildoers.
She dissolved the turbid and stagnant qi in those souls, and opened the barrier formed by the resentment here, and in an instant, these cleansed souls were all out of this place.
On the second day, when all the customers woke up, they could no longer call any more people, and the shopkeeper was gone.
No one knew that they had all hanged themselves overnight, and they were all left in the locked kitchen forever.
On the riverside, a group of people is about to get on the boat. Thou shalt say goodbye to that lady.
"What are your plans for this visit?"
"Now that he is gone, I will be lonely for the rest of my life, and I will have no one to rely on. After you avenge me, I don't plan to live anymore. ”
Ru Sanshui couldn't imagine that this lady was so affectionate to her husband that she would commit suicide. She hurriedly said: "Madame, don't be too sad, life is still long, and you will eventually meet a lover." ”
Madame took a step back and looked different: "What are you talking about?
Ru Sanshui thought that her love was deep and could not be offended, and was at a loss for a while: "It's me who lost my words, I mean ......"
Unexpectedly, the lady didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and then reprimanded inwardly: "Vulgar girl! I have taught etiquette well since I was a child, and my husband should observe the festival when he dies, even if he sacrifices his life, he will never do such an unchaste and unclean thing!"
Ru Sanshui paused, completely dazed.
How is it unclean? How is it chastity? What kind of bullshit is this?