"Shopkeeper, are you going to take us for fools?" Li Er looked at the shopkeeper coldly, because of his perennial smoking, his eye sockets were sunken, which made his whole person look a little resentful.

The two brothers turned and looked outside.

Outside, a bright moon hung high, and a cool breeze blew the leaves on a few dead trees.

The two brothers turned pale, walked out directly, and found that except for a small road, there were dead trees, which was very desolate.

Where are the huts and villages?

"This ......" The two brothers were suddenly stunned, and a chill was cold from head to toe, and they almost collapsed with fright.

Seeing Li Er and Li San's appearance, Ye Kong picked up the gun on the table, quickly got up and rushed over.

"Where's the village?" Ye Kong felt that his heart had fallen to the bottom.

He looked back at the team members, at the middle-aged shopkeeper, and at everything in the inn.

He suddenly had a feeling of extreme absurdity, unable to distinguish between what was true and what was illusory.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and meditated on the compass in his mind.

The compass appeared in the consciousness space in an instant, and there were many light clusters suspended on it, which were the main materials of the space-time spiritual path 9.

"The compass is still there, it's not a dream." Ye Kong thought in his heart.

It's not a dream, it's likely that the village you just saw is a hallucination.

There are two types of hallucinations, one is when you are outside the hallucination and what you see is an illusion. For example, the weasel who transforms into a little girl.

Another is that you are in an illusion, and everything you see and hear is an illusion. This kind of estimation requires a strong spiritual cultivator to be able to do it.

But if there really were powerful cultivators who wanted to kill them, would they still be alive until now?

"How so, how so?" At this moment, the little fat man also walked out, and he was about to collapse.

"Big brother, let's launch signal flares, give up the assessment, the instructors didn't say that they would encounter extraordinary events!" The little fat man cried.

Originally, the biggest problem in the assessment was still the fierce beast, or the spiritual creatures such as the blood python.

But the blood python is a physical entity after all, at least your bullet can hit it, and all the weirdness that happened during this night can simply break people's minds.

The unknown is the greatest horror.

"Close the door." Ye Kong said calmly, he took a deep breath, "Let's go in first and think about it in the long run." ”

Just casually send a signal flare to call people, that's not Ye Kong's style, they have two big hole cards, one is useless.

The team members all looked a little complicated, closed the door, walked into the inn together, and found a new table to sit down.

"Park Guochang, sleep!" The little fat man was annoyed by the rolling around of the goods, and scolded.

"I, sleep, sleep, sleep......" Park Guochang was confused for a while, then immediately stopped, lay on the ground, and snored.

At the moment, no one cares about him at all, and everyone doesn't even care about themselves, they just think he's noisy.

"Shopkeeper, how long have you been here?" After Ye Kong sat down, he looked at the middle-aged shopkeeper with a smile.

It looks like he treats the shopkeeper as an old friend.

"It's been five years." The shopkeeper was still standing, flattered.

"Oh? So in the past five years, you haven't seen a village outside? Ye Kong asked.

The shopkeeper fell silent, he looked at his son who was sticking out his head to peek at the side, and scolded: "Xiao Ke, go back to sleep!" ”

The little boy quickly retracted his head.

Seeing this scene, Ye Kong smiled and said, "Can the shopkeeper talk now?" ”

The middle-aged shopkeeper looked out of the house a little timidly and sighed.

"Of course I do." His tone was very low, "And not only have I seen empty villages, I have also seen living people in the villages!" ”

The middle-aged shopkeeper's voice was a little erratic, which suddenly attracted everyone's attention. I only heard him continue:

"One night, when I was sleeping, I felt footsteps outside. So he had the courage to go out and see. ”

"I didn't light a candle, and as soon as I got to the lobby, I saw some vague figures shaking outside. At that time, I was so scared that my heart was in my throat. ”

"Dad, didn't you say you don't have a heart?" The little boy suddenly stuck his head out of the blue cloth and interjected.

"Stay and go!" The shopkeeper said with a straight face.

The little boy quickly retracted his head again.

"After standing in the lobby for a long time, I was in a cold sweat, and the shadow shaking outside the door still didn't move, so I decided to go over and have a look."

"I pierced a layer of window paper and found that there were many villagers outside, men, women and children, all of them blind, groping with their hands in front of them."

"And they all have words out of their mouths - don't let me catch you, don't let me catch you."

"I have a hunch that something terrible will happen if I am caught by the villagers."

Speaking of this, the middle-aged shopkeeper took a deep breath and looked like he was palpitating.

"Didn't it happen after that?" The little fat man asked both frightened and curious.

"No, that's all I've experienced. Every time I see the village appear, I don't dare to go out. The middle-aged shopkeeper shook his head.

What he said was weird, but there were no useful clues.

Ye Kong lowered his head and was silent for a moment, he tapped the table with his fingers, and then said with a homely taste:

"Shopkeeper, in the wilderness, is it enough to make a living if you open an inn here alone?"

The middle-aged shopkeeper explained with a smile: "Our father and son originally lived in the Black Blood Shelter, but later offended the enemy and had to flee here to settle down. ”

Although the shopkeeper's language was full of smiles, there was a disappointment on his vicissitudes of life that could not be concealed.

"Oh? Who offended the Vault? Ye Kong asked curiously.

"It's the big man who offended, Commander Xu, one of the seven leaders of the Vault." Speaking of this, the middle-aged shopkeeper suddenly looked at Ye Kong and the others with hostility, his eyes turned red, and he said word by word: "You were sent by Commander Xu to seek revenge?" ”

The team members were stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer, but silently picked up their guns.

Ye Kong smiled indifferently and said leisurely: "Naturally not, the shopkeeper can rest assured." It's just that I don't know what grudge the shopkeeper has with Commander Xu. ”

The middle-aged shopkeeper glanced at Ye Kong carefully, and then fell silent.

"Dad, when are we going to sleep?" The little boy seemed to realize something and ran from the back kitchen.

"Xiao Ke, don't worry, Dad will come over immediately, you can sleep first." The middle-aged shopkeeper touched the little boy's head dotingly.

"No, Daddy, I don't sleep, I want to listen to your story." The little boy said wistfully.

The boy was about five years old, with short clean hair, a pointed chin, a somewhat pale complexion, and a malnourished appearance.

"The children are all going to listen to the story, why don't the shopkeeper tell the story between you and Commander Xu." Ye Kong said with a smile.

The shopkeeper raised his head, looked at Ye Kong again, his eyes stayed on the black rose in his hand for a moment, and then said, "It's all old chores." ”

The middle-aged man's tone was very complicated.

He lowered his head, as if trying to remember the past, and after a long time, he suddenly said in a slightly frightened tone:

"You may not believe it, Commander Xu, he ......"

As he spoke, the middle-aged shopkeeper looked at the gun in Ye Kong's hand and cringed a little.

"I didn't say it, you said it." Ye Kong smiled kindly.

The middle-aged shopkeeper tilted his head slightly to look at the team members, and finally gritted his teeth and said:

"Commander Xu, he's actually a monster!"