"Next door?...... You don't know, Lord Reverend?"

What do you know? Luo Xiaotian put down the fork in his hand and signaled his doubts with his eyes.

The barbecue at this tavern tastes good, and it is not known what ingredients are used to grill it. Basically, in a place like a tavern, the so-called barbecue materials are varied, whether it comes from beasts from the nearby forest, from some manor where beasts were domesticated and bred beasts, or even from horses that have been eliminated by the army. The barbecue meat in this tavern is juicy and delicious, it can't be from the army's horses whose age is close to the limit, but what it is, Luo Xiaotian can't taste it.

"That room, it's been a ghost for many years, and if it weren't for the fact that our tavern was full of strong men coming in and out, I wouldn't dare open the tavern next to that haunted house. ”

Haunted? refers to the undead?

Luo Xiaotian was very puzzled, the undead or something should be a very easy thing to solve, at least for any city with a church, it is a problem that the clergy can easily solve.

After all, just turning a house into a haunted house doesn't look like a particularly powerful undead.

"Can you elaborate on that?"

"Probably... It was 10 years ago, when I hadn't opened this tavern here, and I heard from other people. Ten years ago, there was a family of three who built a new two-story building, that is, the one next door, and then lived in, at that time, this area was not as full of shops selling things as now, and there were ordinary residents like them, at the beginning it was peaceful, the family of three, the father was a miner in the surrounding mountains, the mother was good-looking, and did some sewing and mending work at home to subsidize the family, and their child was a girl under ten years old, so they followed her mother to do some work. ”

The tavernkeeper paused, then continued.

Then one day, the male owner of the family, who was a miner in the mountains, fell ill and was sent back by his co-workers. I heard that the pastor of the church was not very willing to come at that time, because it was far away, but it seemed that the wife herself played a role, so the pastor finally came, and I wanted to say that if the pastor hadn't coveted his wife's beauty, there would have been no such thing, and he would not have died so miserably... Ah, Lord Reverend, look at my mouth, I don't mean to speak ill of that pastor......"

Luo Xiaotian was interested, because relatively speaking, pastors or other clergy, unless they died by themselves, it is generally difficult to describe a miserable death. On the one hand, this is because most of the clergy themselves have things that can heal themselves and improve the survival rate, such as healing and restoration, and on the other hand, things that can restrain divine arts basically did not exist ten years ago, that is, unless the level gap is large enough to kill in seconds, the possibility of the clergy leaving is much greater than that of any profession. Luo Xiaotian didn't care much about the tavernkeeper's expression of being afraid of saying the wrong thing, and he wasn't a real priest.

After thinking about this clearly, Luo Xiaotian nodded to the tavern owner, intending to continue to listen to the other party's next story.

It is said that the priest entered the next room in the evening, and that no one saw him come out of it that night, and the next day the room stood quietly, and no one came out. It was not until the third day that the church, which had not seen the priest returning, sent a knight to check on the situation. This sight scared everyone!"

Whether anyone was taken aback back then Luo Xiaotian didn't know, what he knew was that he was taken aback by the tavern owner in front of him who suddenly became hideous and startled.

"Ahem, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but when I first heard what they described, I thought it was incredible and scared. It is said that the whole room next door was turned into an altar, blood was spread all the ground on the second floor, and on the walls of the first and second floors, patterns of unknown meaning were drawn with blood, and the priest was nailed to the inside of the window on the second floor, and the blood on his whole body was drawn clean, and his expression was as if he had seen something horrified and inexplicable. In addition, the family of three, whether it was his seriously ill father, his good-looking wife, or their young daughter, were nowhere to be found, but it was said that the amount of blood on the second floor was obviously not something that the hapless priest could provide alone. ”

The tavernkeeper swallowed and foamed, as if his description had brought back some memory he didn't want to recall, and he took a sip of ale from the barrel next to him, and continued.

Such a thing made the bishop of the church at that time furious, not only sent all the holy knights and priests of the church, but under the pressure of the church, the nobles of the whole city mobilized their knights and began to look for clues about all this, but they searched through the city or every piece of land around the city, and did not find anything, and the next room was also almost dug into the ground by them, but unfortunately they did not find anything useful. In the end, after almost half a year without finding any clues, the bishop had to give up the idea of continuing the search, but since then, the house has become haunted, and each time it has become more and more serious. In the beginning, a merchant who came here from out of town bought the house from the town hall, but unfortunately moved out within two months, according to him, living here has nightmares every night, in addition to the blood everywhere, there is a little girl in bright red clothes who has been following him in his dreams, and it is getting closer and closer, and on the last night, it is almost stuck behind the merchant. When the locals heard about it, of course no one would live in it, until another merchant came here and was bought again. However, this time it was not so lucky, and the merchant who lived here disappeared the next day, and it is said that a new pattern appeared on the wall, and the blood that drew the pattern was just the weight of a person's whole body. After that, no one lived in the next room anymore, and even for a while, the town hall cordoned off the place and asked the priest of the church to dispel the strangeness of the place, but unfortunately it had been ten years and nothing worked. ”