Red Dust Inn The ninety-eighth chapter of the heavy snow covers the mountain
The stronger the snow, the more it turns into a blizzard, and the blade-like snowflakes fly all over the sky, and when they fall on people, they will cut people's lives. Zhongguan Road had been blocked by a snowstorm last night, and under such snow, it was difficult for even a martial artist to move forward, and if it was an ordinary person, it would be even more difficult.
Many pedestrians were trapped on the road by the wind and snow, compared to the guests stranded at the Red Dust Inn, who were much luckier, at least they had a brazier to keep warm, a hot kang to sleep on, and did not have to suffer from the wind and snow.
Zhao Zheng was wearing a white cotton jacket and a rabbit fur cloak, but he was still a little cold. He stood behind the guardrail on the third floor, holding the hot little black in his arms, looking down from the railing. He is very calm on the surface, but inside he is thinking about the ups and downs of cháo, and the dark waves are surging. The reason why he was excited was because the thousand-faced drama was coming soon, as short as one day or no longer than three days.
The time period of the game task is very consistent with the time of this world, and after the experience of completing the task several times before, Zhao Zheng has confirmed this.
In the game, the Thousand Faces drama arrived at the Red Dust Inn when the door was closed by heavy snow, and was trapped in the Red Dust Inn by the heavy snow. These few days are the time limit to complete the task, and if it is overdue, the thousand-faced drama will leave.
Zhao Zheng has been here for a year, and he is very familiar with this place, and it is much better for him to do it here than to do it in other places.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door in the snowstorm, and the sound was clear. Zhao Zheng was attracted by the knock on the door, suspecting that the knocker was a thousand-faced actor, and immediately set his eyes on the door.
The shopkeeper reluctantly left the warm brazier and ran over to open the door. As soon as the door was opened, a foul smell poured into the room along with the wind and snow. It turned out that the person who knocked on the door was a passing beggar, dressed in rags and torn jackets, with a foul body odor, wrapped in a layer of snow all over his body, and almost turned into a snowman.
The shopkeeper pinched his nose and waved his hand: "Why is it a stinky beggar, we are a clean place here, and beggars are not allowed to stay overnight, you can go somewhere else." ”
"Okay, little brother, the snow is so heavy outside, my body is almost freezing, if you refuse to take me in, I'm afraid I'll be frozen to death outside." The beggar begged.
"But the smell on your body is too great, I let you into the house, how can others live?" The shopkeeper frowned.
"Okay, little brother, let me in." The beggar made a gesture.
The two stood at the door arguing, Zhao Zheng looked at it from a high place, and said continually: "Let him in." Human life is at stake, how can you watch him freeze to death outside. ”
Hearing this, the shopkeeper glanced up at Zhao Zheng, and hesitated: "Young shopkeeper, the smell on his body is too big, if you put him in, the shopkeeper who has always liked clean shopkeepers may be unhappy." ”
"My sister has her own place for me to confess, you can let him in." Zhao Zhengdao.
"Okay." The shopkeeper stepped aside.
"Thank you for raising your noble hand, you are so kind, the Buddha will definitely bless you." The beggar thanked him and made a long gesture at Zhao Zheng in the high place. He shook the snow off his body on the spot, and then walked into the relatively warm house, leaving a trail of snow footprints on the ground.
The people who were baking the fire smelled the stench of the beggars and complained. The beggar did not dare to cause trouble, and a man obediently hid in a secluded corner, sat on the ground and shivered.
The thousand-faced drama jīng can become any person, and of course he can also become a stinky beggar. In order to test the beggar, Zhao Zheng got up and went to the kitchen to carry a pot of daughter red, and then hugged the black cat and walked to the corner of the front hall with the wine. His pace slowed down, his eyes fixed on the beggar.
The beggar saw the black cat in Zhao Zheng's arms from a distance, his face changed slightly, he stepped back, and his body curled up, as if he was very afraid of the little black cat.
Zhao Zheng noticed the beggar's reaction, his eyes condensed slightly, and his heartbeat immediately increased a lot.
The power of this martial art is not very strong, but it has a special ability to shape the flesh and skin at will, relying on this ability, the thousand-faced opera can be transformed into anyone, and there are almost no flaws at all, no one knows what his real body is like, and maybe even he has forgotten it.
In the game, the appearance of a thousand faces is randomly generated, it can be a man, it may be a woman, it may be a fat person, or it may be a thin person. If you want to see through his disguise, you can only rely on one way, and that is to use the black cat to test it!
When he was a child, he was frightened by a black cat at night, and he had a heart attack, and once he saw a black cat, he felt uncomfortable and showed many abnormal reactions. Using this fatal flaw, it is easy to identify who is the trick in the end.
It is precisely because the black cat has such an effect that Zhao Zheng uncharacteristically bought a black cat, and Jīng has been bred for so long.
During these days, whenever a new guest arrives, he will come to that guest with a black cat in his arms as a way to test it. So far, he has finally met a person who reacts abnormally when he sees a black cat, and mentally lists him as a key suspect.
Zhao Zheng suppressed the excitement in his heart, walked over with a smile on his face, handed over a pot of daughter red in his hand, and said with a smile: "This pot of wine is given to you, the wine can drive away the cold, and it will be much warmer after drinking." ”
"Thank you...... Less shopkeepers. The beggar raised his hand with great difficulty and took Zhao Zheng's flask.
Zhao Zheng deliberately loosened his embrace, allowing Xiao Hei to fall to the ground, in order to further test the beggar's reaction.
Xiao Hei fell suddenly, shocked that his black hair stood on end, changed his posture in mid-air, and stepped on the ground with his four legs. It was still a little confused, hunched over and looking around.
When the beggar saw that the black cat had obtained the zìyóu, he screamed, and the wine jug in his hand fell to the ground and almost shattered.
Zhao Zhenghu was even more suspicious, pretending to be nothing, picked up the cat, and held it in his arms.
When the beggar saw the cat being picked up again, his fright subsided slightly, but he was still panting heavily.
"I'm sorry, I didn't hold it tightly just now, let it fall, didn't scare you, right?" Zhao Zheng snorted and asked casually.
"No, don't worry, as long as you take this cat away, I'll take it a little bit." The beggar stammered.
"This cat is so cute, what are you afraid of it for?"
"Let the young shopkeeper smile, I have scratched a cat before, so I have always been a little afraid of cats."
"I see." Zhao Zheng did not go deep into the temptation, so as not to show the horse's feet, and held the black cat away from the beggar.
Zhao Zheng turned his back to the beggar, gradually moving away, his eyes showed brilliance, and he had already decided that this beggar was dressed as a thousand-faced actor. He stroked Xiao Hei's head, and many thoughts turned in his heart, planning how to kill people and goods at night. He went back to his room, put Xiao Hei in the cage, and walked around the room excitedly, but it was hard to calm down.
At noon, the shopkeeper knocked on the door and came over to call Zhao Zheng for dinner.
Out of the house, Zhao Zheng caught a glimpse of two more unfamiliar faces in the lobby, his footsteps stopped suddenly, and muttered in his heart: "Why are there two more people, it's troublesome now, although I have tested the beggar, but I can't be 100% sure that the beggar is a thousand-faced play, just in case, these two people have to test it." ”
Thinking of this, Zhao Zheng went back to the house and hugged Xiao Hei out, walked down the lobby quietly, and deliberately approached the two new strangers.
One of them was a hunter with a small game around his waist, and the other was a woman with a baby in her arms. Orion is tall and large, with stubble on his face and eyes like frog eyes. The woman was about thirty years old, with a yellow face and thin muscles, a plain appearance, and the swaddling clothes in her arms were layered on top of each other, and they were very thick.
The two of them each occupied a place, and there was no communication between their eyebrows, and it seemed that they were not companions, but came here separately.
It is strange that she is a thin woman, but she dares to walk alone in the wind and snow. Zhao Zheng first had doubts about this woman, but after thinking about it, even if the thousand-faced actor had the ability to transform into a woman, he would not have the ability to turn into a baby. Thinking of this, his doubts were much less.
The two newcomers were both roasting the fire, and when they heard Zhao Zheng's footsteps, they turned their eyes over. As soon as they saw the black cat in Zhao Zheng's arms, both of them reacted, the woman frowned obviously, and Orion scolded even more bluntly.
"The black cat is a hoodoo thing, how did you raise such a disaster-inducing thing. Go and go, stay away from me, and don't spread bad luck to me. Orion raised his eyebrows and waved his hand unceremoniously at Zhao Zheng, his voice was loud, he had calluses on his hands, and he obviously knew how to do some work.
The shopkeeper next to him was a little angry when he heard that Orion was so rude, but when he saw that Orion was too tall, he didn't dare to attack rashly.
"This big brother is wrong, the black cat is a spirit animal that seeks good fortune and avoids evil, but it is not an ominous thing. But since you hate black cats, I won't be looking for trouble with you. Zhao Zheng spoke politely, smiled, made a detour from the spot, and deliberately passed by the woman's side.
The woman hurriedly blocked the child in her arms with her hand, and frowned: "Childe, don't hold the black cat and get closer, so as not to startle the child in my arms." ”
"Hey, it's really strange today, how come everyone I meet hates black cats." Zhao Zheng smiled bitterly, hugged the cat and passed by the woman, at this moment, he quietly glanced at the swaddling clothes in the woman's arms with his spare eyes, and found that the swaddling clothes were very tightly covered, and he couldn't even see the baby's.
Zhao Zheng walked away from the brazier with all kinds of questions, and the smile on his face gradually turned solemn.
The two newcomers also seem to hate the black cat, one more suspicious than the other, which means that the number of suspects has increased from the beggar to three! Only by taking a deeper step of temptation can we clear the fog and find out the real trick of a thousand faces.