The sudden appearance of the innkeeper made me uneasy, I always felt that the events of the previous night had something to do with him, and the look on his face when he asked us where we were going was so horrible that I had to suspect that there was something wrong with him.

After returning upstairs, we each went back to our rooms, and the poisoned Uncle Chen and the unconscious Sister Yang were placed in the room where Uncle Chen lived alone, and the rest of the people took turns to take care of them, changing people every two hours.

The first wave of caregivers were Wang Xi and Dong Qian, then Xia He and Ling Rou, and the doctor and I were the third wave of caregivers. However, not long after returning to the inn, my condition also began to deteriorate, and I developed a high fever, weakness in my limbs, and a terrible cold. I know that this is a residual corpse poison attack, but I am not too worried, according to what the Taoist priest told me at the beginning, it is impossible to contag the corpse poison of the walking corpse, and after pulling out the toxin with glutinous rice in time, the residual toxicity will only make people sick for a few days, and will not endanger life.

Because of the deterioration of my body, except for Wang Xixiao, who was taking care of the injured, the rest of us crowded into our room, which caused a lot of panic. After the doctor explained to everyone in time, they left in doubt, and the third wave of caregivers became the middle-aged couple.

Uncle Chen's condition was very serious, and not long after we returned to the inn, the shopkeeper came to check on the situation. Listening to the doctor, the shopkeeper seemed to know some medical skills, and recognized the origin of the poison in Uncle Chen at a glance, he told us not to panic, he immediately went to find the antidote. So, the shopkeeper left the inn again, and we finally stabilized.

Due to what happened last night, almost everyone didn't rest, and at this time they couldn't stay up anymore and went back to their rooms to rest. Because of what happened to Boss Li's room, no one dared to live in it, so Xiao Li moved to Luo Yi, as for Xia He and Ling Rou, the two daughters were not so taboo, and they still lived back in the original room, but when Ling Rou left, her eyes kept staring at the doctor, with a look of attachment and reluctance, but in the end she was pulled away by Xia He angrily.

My ears were clear, and I was relieved, the sudden high fever made my ears buzz, my whole body was hot, and I sweated a lot, I felt quite weak at this time, and it was a problem to even get up from the bed.

The doctor called hot water, wiped my sweat, and said that this is a normal situation of extreme high fever, so I don't have to worry, although he doesn't have fever medicine now, but he can temporarily use some physical fever reduction methods to help me deal with it first, and when the innkeeper comes back, he will go to see if he can find some Chinese medicine.

In fact, I am fundamentally worried that the high fever caused by the residual corpse poison cannot be reduced with ordinary medicines, and it can be resolved by drinking some glutinous rice porridge or rooster blood. As soon as I talked to the doctor, he immediately called Luo Yi, Luo Yi was also worried about my situation, and when she heard that drinking glutinous rice porridge could make me better, she immediately patted her chest to reassure us, and Xiao Li took some glutinous rice at her feet and went downstairs.

I looked at the sack of glutinous rice and smiled bitterly, and asked the doctor to put the glutinous rice back before the shopkeeper found it, the old man didn't look like a good person, so don't mess with him.

Speaking of the innkeeper, the doctor's face froze slightly, and he suddenly asked, "I don't know if you have noticed that something is not quite right with this shopkeeper." ”

I lay on the bed and couldn't nod my head, so I could only hum, and then said: "It's really not right, when we first came, the old guy's attitude was not salty or light, and he seemed to treat us as air, but when we came back just now, his reaction was very wrong, that kind of expression, although it looked terrible, but I had a strange feeling that I couldn't describe." ”

The doctor raised his eyebrows, and suddenly interjected: "To be specific, the weirdness you said was that he was afraid?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's fear, I felt this way, the old man was very concerned about our sudden departure, it seemed that what he was afraid of was that we left suddenly, if the driver hadn't reacted quickly enough and dealt with the past in time, maybe the old man had turned his face at that time."

The doctor also nodded, looking at his expression, he should have thought of these things as well.

"The shopkeeper does have a problem, there is something I didn't tell you!" The doctor looked at me, his expression suddenly darkened.

My heart jumped, and I hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Does it have anything to do with the shopkeeper? ”

The doctor hummed and said, "Actually, last night, I not only saw the tour guide behind the counter, but also... The innkeeper! ”

"Ahh What did you say? "I was so surprised that I almost fell out of bed and looked at the doctor in shock.

His face was also not good-looking, he sat down at the head of the bed, and continued: "At that time, I was also shocked when I saw the situation behind the counter for the first time, the tour guide was choked by the neck of the shopkeeper at that time, and he was already unconscious, and the shopkeeper's whole face was distorted, bruised, his eyes were round, the canine teeth in his mouth were overgrown, exposed to the lower lip, and the two hands that pinched the guide were even more cyan nails, which were very sharp. ”

After listening to the doctor's description, I couldn't help but gasp, this, this kind of appearance is clearly the appearance of a zombie!

The doctor took a deep breath and continued: "Seeing this scene, I was also startled, thinking that the shopkeeper had become a zombie, but he didn't move at all, so I went around and found that the shopkeeper had no vital signs, and his body was stiff, and he should have been dead for a while. I thought that the blood stains on his teeth were left by biting the guide, but when I checked it carefully, I found that there were no tooth marks on the guide's body, and she was not dead, but she was unconscious, so I took her out. ”

"I was afraid that telling you what would cause panic, so I didn't tell you, but when I woke up today, the body was gone, leaving only a pool of blood. At that time, I felt that the situation was not good, and you also saw it just now, the body of the missing shopkeeper not only appeared, but also came back to life, and his appearance was clearly a living person, and there could be no fake. ”

I gasped and asked, "But, if he was alive, what ...... you saw last night?"

The doctor shook his head: "I don't know either, so I think there is something wrong with him, and judging from what he just said, he is very worried about us leaving the ancient town." ”

"The ancient town, the ancient town again, etc... Could it be that we can't leave, it's the shopkeeper who made the ghost, he returned to the inn and found that we were all gone, guessing that we might want to run, so he opened some kind of mechanism, so that the ancient town was blocked by that strange spatial cycle, so as to intercept us? ”

"Well, it's not impossible, but if that's what you say, then our situation is even more dangerous, since he doesn't want us to leave, there must be some kind of purpose that we can't fathom, and the fat man's disappearance is likely to be related to this purpose, and even everything that happened last night also revolves around this ulterior purpose."

I suddenly felt cold all over my body, and I thought this is terrible! Damn it, I just want to accompany the beautiful woman out for a trip, why do I have so many things to do inexplicably, who is going to reason with this?

The doctor patted me, smiled, and told me to recover first, no matter what the conspiracy, since the brother came with me, he will definitely find a way to help me through this catastrophe.

I haven't heard such sensational words for many years, and my heart was suddenly moved, but the high fever was too torturous, and the two of them talked for a while, and I finally couldn't hold back and fell asleep.

When I was woken up, it was already late in the evening, and the sky was already gray because there was no sun.

After drinking two bowls of glutinous rice porridge, I suddenly felt a heat in my body, sweating all over my body, and it didn't take long for a thin layer of gray mucus sticking to my body, which looked very nauseous.

The doctor looked at the changes in my body in amazement, and I was also surprised, those gray mucus were clearly the residual corpse poison, but I didn't hear the Taoist priest say that drinking glutinous rice porridge would directly discharge the corpse poison in the body! Did he forget to say it, or did I hear it?

The doctor is very keen on pharmacological research, before he first witnessed the glutinous rice pulling out the corpse poison, and now he saw the glutinous rice forcing out the toxins in my body, his curiosity about the efficacy of glutinous rice has climbed to the peak, so he picked up a bowl of white porridge and studied it carefully.

Luo Yi left after delivering the porridge, saying that he was going to take care of Sister Yang, but I didn't care. At this time, the corpse poison in my body was gone, and I only felt comfortable, but the sticky things on my body made me feel very uncomfortable, so I asked the doctor to help get water, filled the bath bucket, and took a comfortable bath.

The shopkeeper rushed back before dark and handed us a few pairs of Chinese medicine, so that the poison could be boiled and taken by the poisoner, and the toxin could be solved within two days. After bringing us food and telling us not to make any more noise in the future, he hurriedly closed the door of the inn and left.

This night, everyone was very uneasy, for fear that last night's horror would recur, so after discussion, some people voluntarily merged the rooms, moved the bedding and other things to the merged room, and the four of them lived together, so as to strengthen their courage. There are two rooms like this, Changmao and the driver and Wang Hanjun and his wife. Of course, there are also those who are unwilling to do this, such as Xia He and Ling Rou.

After the shopkeeper's medicine was boiled, we fed Uncle Chen, and it didn't take long for the blue color on Uncle Chen's face to fade, spit out a large pool of black blood, and the situation stabilized a little. Someone needed to take care of Uncle Chen and Sister Yang at night, and the doctor and I had planned to do something tonight, so we took the initiative to take over this thing that no one wanted to do.

As night fell, the doctor checked all the rooms, and when he was sure that the lights had been completely extinguished, I immediately covered the doors and windows with the bedcloth I had prepared and turned the lights back on. With the help of the light, the doctor approached the unconscious Sister Yang and pressed more than a dozen acupuncture points on Sister Yang's head repeatedly.

Soon, fine beads of sweat appeared on the doctor's head, and it was clear that the job was not as simple as it seemed.

I looked anxious and asked him in a low voice, "How is it, can it be done?" ”

The doctor did not answer, but continued to concentrate on pressing the acupoints. I was bored with myself, and I didn't say anything, this is the plan I made with the doctor during the day, originally Xia He witnessed Uncle Chen's accident, but she lost her memory, and the clue to the fat man's disappearance was broken, and now we have transferred the object of suspicion to the shopkeeper, and Sister Yang went to the shopkeeper to ask for help last night, and if you want to check the shopkeeper, you can only ask for news from Sister Yang.

And Sister Yang, as a tour guide, has been in contact with the shopkeeper long ago, and she should know more about his details. The ancient town is so hidden and weird, Sister Yang's company still has a way to make a tourist route, which shows that they should know more about the situation of the ancient town. Now that the ancient town is sealed, if you want to leave, you can only hope for Sister Yang.

Therefore, whether Sister Yang can wake up is the key to whether we can leave the ancient town.

Fortunately, the doctor's method of dredging the meridians did not disappoint me, and ten minutes later, Sister Yang, who was unconscious, suddenly let out a painful moan and slowly opened her eyes.