Chapter 8: The Psychic Tavern

A dilapidated iron door, rolled stone walls, rusty red handrails, and a neon sign from the 60s hanging less than three feet above your head, the four large characters of the psychic tavern shimmer in colorful colors.

"Psychic Tavern?"

Gao Yanli and Zhang Mingyu's curiosity rose suddenly.

It's not like I've never been to a speakeasy, pub or something like that, but this kind of offbeat, supernatural tavern is really the first time I've seen it.

"The location is here, and I don't think it's a mass business, it's all 'fixed' customers, am I right?" A cunning flashed in Gao Yanli's bright pupils, and the corners of her lips raised a faint arc, and she said proudly.

"That's half right, but you'll know what it looks like when you go in and experience it." Ye Xuanfu stepped forward and knocked on the door, three long, two short and two long.

After a while, someone opened the door from the inside, Ye Xuanfu led Gao Yanli and Zhang Mingyu in, Gao Yanli saw the person who opened the door, he was wearing a yellow paper shroud, his body was thin like a piece of firewood, he lowered his head with his hands down, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

Don't living people feel bad luck when they wear shrouds?

Doubts flashed with the afterglow, and her eyes followed back to the front, and Gao Yanli's eyes lit up suddenly.

The psychic tavern is a three-story structure, generally in a steampunk style, with iron blue and rust red as the main tone, and the internal structure is mostly steel wire mesh, iron pipes, huge nuts, etc.

"The Psychic Tavern was a converted from an abandoned underground factory, and the design was based on the original style, and it was remodeled on a small scale. Hahaha, mainly to save costs. Ye Xuanfu explained, laughing, revealing a hint of pride.

"Come with me, the place I'm going to is on the third floor." Ye Xuanfu walked up a narrow staircase, the main entrance was on the second floor, and there was a passage to go up to the third floor or down to the next floor.

Gao Yanli was attracted by the peculiar style of the psychic tavern, and couldn't help but take a few more looks, and then followed.

"Sister Yanli, I'm going to have a fun!" Zhang Mingyu said excitedly.

Gao Yanli hesitated, Ye Xuanfu smiled and spoke, letting Zhang Mingyu go and play at will, and at the same time warned him that there were some taboos not to touch, and also told him not to pull out the things behind him without saying a word.

"Don't worry, they're no match for me." An evil smile swept into the corner of Zhang Mingyu's mouth, and as he spoke, he threw his hands on the railing, turned over and jumped directly from the second floor.

"Mingyu!" Gao Yanli exclaimed, glaring angrily, trying to hold him, but Zhang Mingyu had already run over to talk to someone.

"Let's go, he'll be fine here." Ye Xuanfu turned around and went upstairs.

"The psychic tavern, as the name suggests, has two meanings. Eh, do you know psychic games? ”

"Psychic games, pen fairies or something?" Gao Yanli followed while watching around through the iron net.

For some reason, it felt quite strange at first, but suddenly there was an eerie feeling.

"The pen fairy is a kind of one, and what kind of disc fairy, mirror fairy, etc., is also called a conjuring game. Because of the irritation, it seems to be quite popular among girls. ”

The corners of Gao Yanli's mouth twitched, indicating that she was indifferent to the psychic game.

"Actually, it's difficult to summon anything in general psychic games, and it needs to be done at the right time and place, so there is not much danger."

"Wait a minute, Mr. Ye, are you saying that here, you can increase the success rate of channeling?"

"Yes, the location of the psychic tavern belongs to the 'geographical advantage', and the former factory was also often haunted. If the success rate of general psychic games is only 5 per 1,000, then here, it can be increased by a hundred times, to 50 percent. And today ......"

Ye Xuanfu smiled and said, "The time and place are perfect, basically as long as you play psychic games, no matter what it is, no matter whether the steps are right or not, you will summon ghosts!" ”

Before the words fell, a piercing scream sounded on the first floor, piercing the tavern, and several little girls played a game of saucer fairy, which really summoned a female ghost in white, which was very scary.

At this time, standing in front of the bar, a tall middle-aged man in a tuxedo was bartending, and suddenly spilled the wine and spilled it on the female ghost in white.

The white-clothed female ghost screamed, twisted a few times, and disappeared.

"Fang Cai?" Gao Yanli's face turned a little pale, and she was shocked, frightened and suspicious of Fang Cai's scene, "It's really ...... Ghost? ”

Ye Xuanfu nodded, pointed to the tall middle-aged short-haired handsome guy at the bar and said: "He is the owner of the Psychic Tavern, and he is a powerful mage, uh, how strong, anyway, two or three Qingyun Dao Masters are not his opponents!" ”

Gao Yanli looked at a few frightened little girls on the first floor and asked, "Are they okay?" ”

"Playing games in the psychic tavern, you will definitely not be attacked by ghosts, how to compare it, the tavern is arranged with a powerful magic circle, like a filter, so that it is impossible for ghosts to be summoned completely, just now the tavern owner's cup of realgar wine directly cut off the summoning ceremony, so the female ghost disappeared."

"It's strange to say, it's obviously scary, scared to death, but there are still people who are willing to spend that big price to play, but they drink very little. In all fairness, the tavernkeeper's wine is truly superb! ”

Gao Yanli wanted to ask something, but it turned out that she had already reached the third floor.

"Here." Ye Xuanfu said, "It's all mages!" ”

"This mage is in a broad sense, which includes Taoist priests, wizards, psychics, psychics, head lowerers, and so on."

Gao Yanli glanced at it, different from the open style on the first floor, the third floor was all closed, and the rooms were all separated by iron plates.

"What are those mages doing here?" Gao Yanli asked.

"Psychic, of course! As I said earlier, the location of this tavern is quite special, so it is better to be psychic than other places. However, the mage psychic is different from the psychic games on the first floor, but the real 'please god'! ”

"God, please?"

Ye Xuanfu didn't want to say more about this, so he changed the topic: "Because there are often mages here, and the boss is also a powerful mage, over time, the psychic tavern has also become a gathering place for mages, and there are often mages here to exchange information." ”

"We're looking for someone who makes a living exchanging information."

Ye Xuanfu found room 404 and knocked on the iron door three times, but there was no movement, he knocked four more times, each with a different rhythm and a different gap.

There was a click, a rusty iron plate rubbing in the card slot, a small window opened under the iron door, and a badly deformed iron plate stretched out, and at the same time saw a white and bony arm like a ghost claw.

The iron pan trembled.

Ye Xuanfu comprehended, took out a wad of money from his pocket, put it on the iron plate, and then took out a glass vial, which was also placed on it.

Gao Yanli glanced at it curiously, thinking that Ye Xuanfu was rich, but she was shocked to find that those were all dark coins, and as for what was in the glass bottle, she couldn't see it at all.

The iron plate was put back, and then there was a strange creaking sound behind the iron door of room 404.

With a brush, the deformed iron plate stretched out again, but a wad of coins and glass vials were gone. Instead, there was a crumpled piece of yellow paper that had been kneaded countless times, and a short charcoal tip, on which were written four big characters crookedly: three questions!

"Is he?" Gao Yanli looked at Ye Xuanfu suspiciously, the arm stretched out from the opposite side of the iron gate was too terrifying, as thin as a bone, without a trace of flesh and blood, which made her wonder if it was a normal human being.

"Yin people, specially report to the underworld." Ye Xuanfu leaned sideways to Gao Yanli's ear and whispered.

"He said he could ask three questions." Ye Xuanfu thought about it, picked up the charcoal pen, wrote down three questions, and then pushed the iron plate in.

Three questions:

Where is the original owner of the twelve coffins washed into Lijia Village by the mudslide?

Where is the thirteenth coffin?

What caused the rain of corpses?

After a while, there was a rustling sound from the other side of the iron door, followed by a violent cough.

In the middle of the night, the iron plate was pushed out.

Ye Xuanfu picked up the crumpled yellow paper, and the iron plate was taken back like an electric shock. With a thud, the rusty iron plate from the iron door slammed shut.

"Why did he ......" Gao Yanli wanted to say something with an angry expression, but was stopped by Ye Xuanfu.

"This is the rule, the Yin people don't do your business, and no mage can force it, let's go."

Ye Xuanfu glanced at the yellow paper, his face sank, and he immediately pulled Gao Yanli away.

"What's written on paper?"

"For the first question, his answer was 'Yamanaka', for the second question, his answer was 'Murachu', and for the third question...... His answer was, 'You can't afford to mess with him'! ”

"Can't be provoked?" Gao Yanli exclaimed.

Ye Xuanfu smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that this time I really encountered a tricky character." ”

He suddenly stopped and said seriously: "Remember when I said that the time and place were right? The third is the day of the third day of the first month, and the spiritual quality between heaven and earth will be ten times richer than before, so it will be easier to channel and invite the gods, plus the previous rain, which caused the space to be filled with corpse qi, so it ....... ”

"When you go back tonight, don't go out! Especially at midnight! ”

Ye Xuanfu called Zhang Mingyu and repeatedly instructed him when he left.

"These two talismans are attached to the window to keep you safe all night."

Ye Xuanfu solemnly handed out three yellow talismans, and the blood-colored mystical talisman was written on the rune paper.

"Hmph, there are really some ghosts that don't have long eyes to come to the door, and my master let him walk around without eating!" Zhang Mingyu said angrily.

Gao Yanli snorted, glanced at Zhang Mingyu, and in an instant, she was full of charm: "Don't cry and run to my room when the time comes." ”

Zhang Mingyu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with a smile: "Sister Yanli, I know you are the best, Mingyu has been most afraid of ghosts and zombies since he was a child, and he will ...... when the time comes."

"Don't even think about it, if you're afraid of sleeping with Mr. Ye!" Gao Yanli hugged her arms and hummed.

"That's it." Zhang Mingyu looked disgusted.

Gao Yanli glared at Zhang Mingyu viciously, and said gratefully: "Mr. Ye, then we will accept this generous gift!" ”

"Alright, it's getting late, so let's go back first." Ye Xuanfu said, and at the same time sneered, "You are my employer, if you die, who will pay me!" ”

Gao Yanli knew what Ye Xuanfu was thinking, and she was extremely moved, and proposed: "Mr. Ye, you see that it's so late, why don't we send you back." ”

Ye Xuanfu smiled and declined: "I still have some things to deal with." ”