Chapter 24: Midnight Terror
Xu Ping came to the shop where he bought the pill last time, this is the pill shop of the Xu family's Xiuxian family, and it is the safest place in Qinan County, at least in Xu Ping's eyes.
No matter how chaotic it was outside, everything was normal in Xu's Pill Pharmacy, the clerk was orderly entertaining guests coming in and out, and the business in the store was not bad.
Xu Ping took a moment before it was his turn to buy the pill.
It seems that in the troubled times, the business of pills is the best, some people want to be strong, they must buy pills to cultivate, and there are casualties when there is war, so there can be no shortage of healing pills.
No, when Xu Ping bought the pill, he was told that the price of the pill in the pill shop had increased by more than 30%, which meant that the price of buying four bottles of pills in the past could only buy three bottles now.
Although Xu Ping was a little dissatisfied, he had to buy the pill, otherwise how could he cultivate all the exercises to the extreme?
In fact, he has fallen in love with this kind of drug-dropping life, and he doesn't feel comfortable for a day.
This time, Xu Ping brought all the gold, and today he plans to spend it all.
Because of the situation outside, I don't know when it will be chaotic, and whether there will be a chance to come to the county seat next time.
There's going to be a chance, at least after the chaos is over.
Qi and Blood Dispersion and Essence Qi Pill were no longer suitable for him who had achieved great success, so Xu Ping had no choice but to buy the Bone Refining Pill and the Quenching Bone Pill.
Originally, seventy taels of gold should have been bought seventy bottles of Bone Refining Pill and Bone Quenching Pill, but now you can only buy fifty bottles.
In order to cultivate and let himself have some self-preservation power in the troubled times, Xu Ping was ruthless and decided to buy it.
Who knows if the price will continue to rise in the future? If the price of the pill rises, it will be a pity if he doesn't buy it today.
What's more, these gold were all exchanged for a spirit stone, and the spirit stone was thrown into his shack by someone who didn't know who threw it into his shack, which was a bit of a gratitude, so Xu Ping didn't feel very pity.
During this time, he had taken out the spirit stone many times for research, because he had no spirit root, he could not absorb the spiritual energy inside, so the spirit stone was not as good as gold for him.
Fifty bottles of pills were already a lot, Xu Ping put the pills under the back basket, on top of which was the table salt he bought today, and then covered it with a tattered dress he usually wore.
If someone stopped him on the street of the county town and asked him to hand over the things in the basket, Xu Ping had no choice but to fight hard.
But in fact, no, immortal cultivators and martial arts masters will not fight the ideas of ordinary people, and there are many officials patrolling the streets, and no one robs in broad daylight.
So Xu Ping's chance to be a hero was not encountered, and he slipped around the street a few times and did not find a stalker.
Although it was still early, Xu Ping had to consider the issue of accommodation, he couldn't keep wandering around the street with pills on his back, after all, he was so hateful, maybe some people who didn't want to rob him couldn't help but take the initiative to rob him.
Everything is normal in the county during the day, but at night?
Some shady deeds often happen at night, so for the sake of safety, Xu Ping found an inn to live in, an ordinary room used to cost only 30 yuan, but now it costs 80 yuan.
Xu Ping was too lazy to bargain with the shopkeeper, after all, everything in the county was rising, and it was normal for the shopkeeper to raise the price.
After staying at the inn, Xu Ping asked the shopkeeper for a basin of hot water, washed his face and hands and feet, and removed the bad luck from his body, because he had buried the body with the villagers today.
After some things were cleaned up, Xu Ping took out a pill and swallowed it, and then began to practice Tiger Fist in the guest room.
For fear of frightening the people living next door, Xu Ping's moves were very slow, but the effect of the elixir did not decrease.
Tiger Fist +2
Tiger Fist +2
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In the middle of the night, there was a little movement outside the door, Xu Ping woke up for the first time, quickly took out a dagger and bow and arrow from the back basket, and then stood behind the door and quietly listened to the movement outside.
When he came to the county seat this time, Xu Ping didn't bring the steel knife he usually used to practice martial arts, but only brought a dagger and a bow and arrows with him.
A moment later, someone came to the guest room where Xu Ping was staying, and began to pull the door of the guest room with a knife.
Xu Ping stood motionless behind the door, waiting for the thief to quietly open the door and squeeze in, not the shopkeeper, nor the shopkeeper, but an unfamiliar face, about thirty years old, with a steel knife in his hand.
After the thief came in, Xu Ping took the dagger and stabbed the thief in the back of the heart, this stab was fast and accurate, and before the thief could react, he screamed and fell to the ground.
"So weak?" Xu Ping thought that the thief could still resist one or two, but he didn't expect to be solved by him with a dagger.
The matter is not over, according to Xu Ping's observation just now, there are a total of more than a dozen people in the inn, and after coming in, they will be separated, and then they will act separately, each person is responsible for a guest room.
The leader was downstairs, it seemed to be a martial artist who had learned martial arts, Xu Ping was not sure if he could kill it, at this time he couldn't think so much, he could only act at the opportunity.
"Wang Er, is the matter done?"
It seemed that the people in the next room had already burped, and someone began to greet the thief in Xu Ping's room.
"It's over!" Xu Ping opened the door, came to the thief outside, and replied in a low voice.
"You're not ......"
The thieves outside immediately realized that something was wrong, but before they could finish speaking, they were cut off by Xu Ping with a knife.
Without waiting for the corpse to fall, Xu Ping grabbed the corpse, took it to the room where he lived, threw it on the ground, pushed the window open, created an illusion of running away after the killing, and then picked up the backpack and went out to hide in the guest room next door.
The guest next door has been killed by thieves in bed, this guest Xu Ping still has a little impression, almost at the same time as Xu Ping entered the hotel to stay, but he didn't expect to go one step earlier.
The rooms in the inn were very basic, with no place to hide except for a bed and a table and two chairs.
Xu Ping had no choice but to hide behind the door, planning to wait for the thieves to leave before finding a way, he couldn't stay here, whether it was the thieves, or the officers and soldiers guarding the city, they would be in trouble after encountering them.
Soon, someone noticed the anomaly next door, and although they couldn't shout, they still disturbed the leader downstairs.
After the leader went upstairs, he saw the two corpses in the room, and realized that the guest who lived in this room was a martial artist, and his kung fu was not low, otherwise the two dead people could not say a word, and they were directly killed.
Looking at the open window, the leader pointed with his hand and ordered: "Chase me, you must not let go!" ”
Seven or eight people immediately jumped out of the window and searched along the street outside the inn.
The leader walked out of the room and stood outside the door for a moment, quickly realizing that something was wrong, that there was a strong smell of blood outside, and that blood had been found near the door.
Outside the guest room where Xu Ping was hiding, the leader did not go in, and stared at the guest room with the door wide open.
Suddenly, the opponent threw a fist at the door on the left.
With a "bang", the door was smashed in half and flew to both sides, and Xu Ping walked out of the room with an expression on his face.