readx;?“ Before entering the city gate, he was cheated of a bag of money, and instead of knowing his way back, he was still kept in the dark until now, which is really stupid!" Facing the old woman who disappeared at the end of the street, Lan Chen glanced at Lu Yifan with disdain, and then a clear light flashed in his eyes, and he said bluntly sarcastically. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"What did you say?" Lu Yifan's mind was obviously not on Lan Chen's body, his eyes had been on this mysterious old woman since just now, so that until now his heart was still wondering what the vague words that the old woman said meant by it.

"It's nothing!" Lan Chen snorted coldly, "I'm just laughing at you for being stupid, I didn't know that I had been deceived!"

"You said that poor old woman just now was a liar?" Lu Yifan frowned slightly, and asked suspiciously, "Why do you say that?"

For Lu Yifan's question, Lan Chen's eyes began to become a little strange, and at this moment he looked at Lu Yifan's eyes as if he was looking at a joke, and said lazily: "Didn't you see that old woman tossing like this for a long time just now, and none of the pedestrians in the city actually paid attention to him? didn't even look at this ...... with his eyes."

"You also found out?" Before Lan Chen's words fell, Lu Yifan hurriedly asked, "Then do you have absolutely this weird?"

"Lu Yifan, are you really stupid or fake?" Lan Chen sneered in disbelief, "This old woman must be a notorious liar in Night City, but the locals know her methods, only you, an outsider, don't know!"

"Is that so?" Lu Yifan frowned and shook his head slightly, then glanced at the direction where the old woman had gone, and muttered in a low voice, "But I don't think so......"

"Yes or no! Anyway, now that you've got all your money bags, it's useless to say anything more. Why don't you hurry into the city and find a place to rest, and find some medicinal herbs for the sick brother by the way!" Lan Chen urged quite impatiently, although he still looked down on Lu Yifan now, but at least before making any decisions now, Lan Chen would already subconsciously discuss with Lu Yifan.

"That's reasonable, Yifan, let's go to the city first!" Xie Yun nodded and said, "It's a big deal, after we enter the city and settle down, we'll ask people about it!"

Regarding Lan Chen and Xie Yun's proposal, Lu Yifan nodded undeniably, and then temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and led people to walk towards the Night City.

And from beginning to end, Liu Sandao's eyes were focused on Hai Lao behind Lan Chen, he always felt in his heart that there was something wrong with this Hai Lao, but he never found the slightest clue.

Lu Yifan and his party slowly entered the city, and at this moment the sky was about to completely darken, and the door-to-door shops on the streets of the city were closing in an orderly manner, and some vendors who set up stalls on both sides of the street also began to slowly and methodically clean up, and it seemed that they were also going to close their stalls and go home. Pedestrians on the streets are equally bustling towards their homes, and it seems that the phrase 'sunrise and sunset' seems surprisingly appropriate in Night City.

Everyone's actions are slow, it seems that everyone is not in a hurry to do anything, and the whole Night City gives people a feeling that life is very slow. Of course, Lu Yifan will see some outsiders like them in the city, but most of them are caravans, and they also place carriages outside the city like Lu Yifan, and a large group of people enter the city on foot. Interestingly, the locals in Night City don't seem to pay any attention to these foreign merchants, and they won't even look at you when they pass by.

On the contrary, the people who had been looking around curiously were almost all outsiders like Lu Yifan, and it seemed that all the outsiders in Night City had the same curiosity.

"Yifan, life here seems to be very comfortable and the people here are very well-behaved, you see these vendors are just getting dark and ready to close, obviously there is no night market here at all, which is a bit sorry for the name 'Night City'. Liu Sandao said with a light smile.

"I'm more curious about a city without a city lord, how did these rules that are strictly followed come about?" Lu Yifan looked around with a blank expression, "And I always feel that the people in the night city seem to be a little ...... ...... apathetic"

"Maybe they just don't have a good impression of outsiders!" Xie Yun analyzed.

"But I didn't feel any malice in their eyes, we outsiders seem to be ignored here......" Lu Yifan said while still sighing in amazement, "It's really the first time I've seen such a strange place." ”

"My lord, you see there's an inn ahead!"

Entering the night city and walking along the main street in the city, after walking for about a stick of incense, Yin Xi, who had been walking in the front, finally found an inn, and at this moment, some shadows of other outsiders could be seen in front of the door of this inn.

The inn is a two-storey small building, two old wooden doors with four large openings hung on a mottled wooden plaque, the original color on the plaque is now completely invisible, only the wooden plaque is inscribed in the middle of the "Red Flower Inn" four crooked gray and white characters. The font is not only beautiful, but it can even be said to be a little ugly, the thickness of the strokes is different, and the pen is even more crooked, it is not difficult to guess that the person who wrote these four words must be a rough person who does not know a few words.

In fact, the tallest building in the entire night city is a two- or three-story small building such as the Red Flower Inn, although the houses in the city are very densely arranged, and the pavilions and courtyards are also row upon row, but they are not very tall and magnificent.

"Red Flower Inn, could it be that the shopkeeper here is a woman?" Lan Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced at the dusty plaque above his head, the look of disgust on his face overflowed, "Isn't this inn cleaned all day?"

"Childe, it is said that this Red Flower Inn is the only inn in this night city that can be used by outsiders to stay, and there is no other home!" Hearing Lan Chen's complaint, Sanchun hurriedly told his master the news from hearsay from nowhere, "Outsiders don't have to choose, except that this is sleeping on the streets, so this Red Flower Inn will naturally not be too elegantly furnished." ”

"It's not surprising, Night City is not a big city in the first place, not to mention that it is located in the mountains of North Ridge, the terrain is remote and steep, and who will come here to rest until it is absolutely necessary, so it is good to have such an inn for us to stay!" Ami explained with a smile.

"It's useless to talk too much, if you come, you will be safe!" Lu Yifan thought about it, and he didn't have anything particularly picky about the environment of this Red Flower Inn, so his reaction was naturally much more indifferent than Lan Chen's. After that, Lu Yifan took the brunt of the step into the inn.

It is also strange to say, although the sky is dark, but in the lobby on the first floor of this huge red flower inn, there are only four candles lit in the corner, and the candle flame is as dim and weak as the fireflies in the night sky, which is really a little stretched for this huge inn, so the inn is still unusually dim, and the faces are not distinguishable at all, Lu Yifan They can only see some figures walking back and forth in the inn.

"Where is the shopkeeper?" Yin Xi shouted, "Don't you have a candlestick here?

"The hotel is for sleeping and resting, so what's the use of you asking for candlesticks?

A rich but quite kind voice came out of the counter in the depths of the inn, and then I saw an old man holding a faint candlestick and walked slowly in front of Lu Yifan and a few people, through the faint candlelight can vaguely see the old man's face, about sixty years old, but the dark face is already wrinkled, presumably when he was young, he must have been a hard-working person who suffered from wind and rain all day long, and the most impressive thing is that the old man's mouth has been hanging a trace of an unpredictable smile, I can't tell what is wrong with this smile, in short, it gives people a feeling of insincerity。 The old man's eyes were slightly cloudy, although he kept looking at Lu Yifan with a smile in his eyes, but Lu Yifan couldn't see who the old man's eyes were looking at, as if his eyes were looking at everyone, and it seemed that he was not looking at anyone but emptying his eyes.

It's a pity that although Lu Yifan has some perception, he doesn't have any conclusive evidence, and he can't figure out what the reason for all this is, and in the end he can only attribute the old man's strange look to the external reason that the inn is too dim.

"You're the shopkeeper here?" Lan Chen still had a domineering posture, and he always asked with a hint of an order.

"Yes!" The smile on the old shopkeeper's face was still the same, and he didn't feel the slightest displeasure because of Lan Chen's unkind tone, and then said with a smile, "Several distinguished guests have come from afar, and the small shop is shining!"

The old shopkeeper's tone has always been unhurried, but in Lu Yifan's opinion, in addition to being unhurried, this tone seems to be somewhat unhurried. To put it bluntly, it is the kind of speech that does not have any change in tone, as flat as water as reciting an extremely rigid article, and it is as flat as water from beginning to end.

"You're so dark here, how do you ask diners to eat?" Xie Yun frowned slightly and glanced around, he found that although there were a few tables in the lobby of the inn, these tables were empty at the moment, and there was no trace of wine and food.

"It's okay during the day, but usually at night, we will deliver the food to the guests' rooms!" said the old shopkeeper with a smile on his face, "The rules of Night City are that candles are not allowed to be lit too brightly at night, and the lobby on this floor is too empty so it is darker. You can go to the room and light the candlestick again, it will be much brighter. ”

"How many rooms do you have left here?" Lu Yifan asked.

"There are only two upper rooms left, and the rest are full!" replied the old shopkeeper.

"My lord, since the inn is so crowded, I think it's better to let the brothers outside the city not enter the city for the time being, it's better to stay outside the city for the time being, and I'll send the wine, food, medicinal herbs, and bedding over later!"

Hearing Yin Xi's words, Lu Yifan turned his puzzled gaze to Lan Chen, obviously asking Lan Chen's opinion, but Lan Chen didn't have anything wrong with this, and nodded lightly.

"Okay, I want you to go to the next room!" Xie Yun said when he saw this, "Yifan, Brother Liu, and I live in one room." Lan Chen, the three of you live in another room!"

"Yes, man, take the distinguished guest upstairs!" the old shopkeeper agreed with a smile, and then turned to one of the men in the inn and ordered, "Send the wine and food to rooms seven and eight later!"

"Wait a minute!" Lu Yifan suddenly interrupted the old shopkeeper's words, and after he thought about it for a while, he asked softly, "Shopkeeper, I want to ask you about something!"

"Childe, please?"

"It was only dusk, and when we entered the city, we met a crazy and weird old woman, I wonder if you know this person?" Lu Yifan raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively.

"Oh, I know!" the old shopkeeper nodded with a smile and explained, "that old woman is a well-known fool in the city, delirious and crazy all day long, and has done some strange things, and if she offends Childe in any way, please don't meet such crazy people!"

"Crazy?" Lu Yifan looked at the old shopkeeper and opened his mouth to confirm, "Are you sure?"

"This crazy woman is not only known, but everyone in the city knows it, if you don't believe it, you can ask the others!" the old shopkeeper nodded with a smile, as if to confirm his statement again.

"That's fine, let the guy take us upstairs!" Lu Yifan nodded hesitantly, and then changed his words and bowed politely to the old shopkeeper.

"Come with me, a few people!" The guy had been standing at the stairs for a long time, and when he heard Lu Yifan's words, he hurriedly greeted respectfully.

"Have a good rest!" The old shopkeeper still sent Lu Yifan upstairs with a smile on his face, and his smile never changed half a point from beginning to end.

In the room, the dim candle flame is placed in the center of the table, although the room is not big, but it is still neat, at this moment the table is full of fragrant wine and food, Lu Yifan and Xie Yun are sitting at the table quietly waiting for something.

"The shopkeeper just now seems to be smiling a little hypocritically!" Xie Yun was the first to open his mouth and said.

"It's not just this shopkeeper, in fact, from the moment I met the old woman I met in the city, I felt that everyone in this city seemed to be a little weird and unspeakable!" Lu Yifan said softly, "That's why I asked Brother Liu to go out to investigate, and when he comes back, we won't be too late to move our chopsticks!"

"Everyone?" Xie Yun's face was a little surprised, "What do you mean......"

"I can't say it well, it's just a feeling...... Lu Yifan said faintly, his brows were tightly locked, carefully recalling everything he had encountered since he entered the city, "Excessive comfort, methodical speech and demeanor, it seems to be ......" Lu Yifan thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with a suitable word to express this feeling in his heart.

"Could it be that we're too tired along the way, so we're becoming suspicious of everything around us?" Xie Yun speculated.

"Maybe!" Lu Yifan let out a sigh of relief, and then smiled bitterly at Xie Yun.

"Squeak!"

While the two were talking, the door was suddenly pushed open through a crack, and then a tall and flexible figure rushed in like a ghost, and the door closed again after the person entered.

"Brother Liu!" Lu Yifan and Xie Yun stood up in unison.

"Yifan, I just checked around the inn and didn't find anything strange!" Liu Sandao said in a solemn whisper, "As the shopkeeper said, all the rooms in the inn are full, and most of them are passing vendors coming and going, some guards who are not in the stream, but there are no masters!"

"Does that mean everything is normal?" Xie Yun asked.

"Almost!" Liu Sandao nodded slightly.

Liu Sandao's words immediately attracted Lu Yifan's attention, his eyes moved, and he asked softly: "What do you mean by almost? Is there something abnormal?"

"Yes!" Liu Sandao hesitated slightly, as if he was thinking about whether what he was going to say next was abnormal, and then opened his mouth to reply, "That is, the door number of the room is not the same!"

"What do you mean?" Lu Yifan and Xie Yun asked at the same time.

"The door numbers of the rooms in this inn are distinguished by different numbers and upper, middle and lower, but strangely, some of the house numbers are like us, and there are only numbers like the seventh upper room and the eighth upper room, and there are no other markings. But in addition to these numbers, there is also a thumb-sized red flower mark next to it!For example, the upper room of No. 9 next to us is like this!" Liu Sandao said quietly.

"The door number, the saffron mark, the safflower inn?" Lu Yifan muttered and repeated these words, "What does this have to do with it......?

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