The cold wind and cold rain can't cool down the excitement on the table.

On the stage, Jin Ling'er sang emotionally, the high notes were clear and clear, and the low chant was tactful and grasping, and at the interval of the repertoire, the audience who had been holding their breath for a long time could finally applaud.

Jin Ling'er bowed his head and thanked him, and the old man next to him also took the opportunity to hold a copper plate and come down to ask for a reward.

The listener in the first row was most fascinated, his face flushed, and he was not stingy, and when he scooped up the hem of his clothes, he knocked the flesh open with his fingernails, broke his ribs with his left hand, and drilled into the heart with his right hand.

In the blink of an eye.

"Wave. ”

After a clean tearing sound.

A bright red heart landed on the copper plate, still beating slightly.

He screamed with black blood and wet clothes.

"Reward!"

There was a moment of silence in the courtyard.

Then.

"Good!"

"The atmosphere of the shopkeeper!"

"Sister Jin'er's song is worth the price!"

......

The shopkeeper was already stiff on the table, probably not hearing these praises, and the old man was already holding the plate and walked to the next listener.

Linzai was a wealthy businessman and a bold man, and without saying a word, he drew a dagger, cut it from his navel, and then ripped open his belly along the knife.

Suddenly.

The yellow, orange, and orange fat mixed with the red intestines flowed straight to the ground, and he didn't care, and wanted to take off the liver, gall bladder, spleen, and kidney one by one, but after all, he didn't have enough strength, so he picked one kidney, and he died of exhaustion.

Cangtou was very considerate to help the merchant put the kidney in his hand into the plate, and then stepped on the bloody footprints and went to the next table to ask for a reward.

At the banquet where the drizzle and breeze blow, the lanterns sway, the candles flicker, the wine spilled, and the cups were messy, the audience appreciated like rain, and the beautiful women smiled lightly with their red lips.

The Taoist priest drank a glass of cold wine.

Moisturizing things silently.

Good means!

"It's Jin Ling'er and the old man who are awakened!"

The "truth" of Dionysus is long overdue.

"I remember!"

"These two monsters are a pair of ghost mother and son who Yu Mei surrendered in Huaiyin, and I don't know where to get a fragment of "Taiyin Refining Formation Method", which specializes in taking people's five internal organs, intending to return yang with evil arts. In the local forcible occupation of a rain temple, induce the villagers to worship, after accumulating incense, even got some clouds and rain magic. ”

"These two monsters have just woken up, and they are still weak, so if you want to kill them, take advantage of them now. ”

However, the Taoist priest did not move to eliminate the demon, let alone escape, and only fixed his eyes on a guest in the seat in front of him.

The guest's eyes were slightly closed, and his body swayed slightly, as if he was intoxicated by Jin Ling'er's lyrics and songs, unable to extricate himself.

But the Taoist priest noticed that tiny scales were emerging from the skin on the back of his neck.

There are signs of awakening!

Is it provoked by the demonic spirit of the ghost mother and child, or is it driven by the instinct to survive?

The Taoist priest was thoughtful.

Either way, there seems to be a lot to be written about.

Bacchus urged in his ears again.

If the Taoist priest doesn't want to do anything, he should leave quickly. Don't forget! There are also vine demons and phantom butterflies. ”

These words gave Li Changan a wake-up call, one or two monsters who woke up, hungry and crazy, were no threat, but if Yu Mei and Lang Zhong were recruited and their own self was exposed, it would be a bad thing.

No more grinding.

Li Changan drank all the remnants of wine in the pot - although it was an illusory thing transformed by essence, but it tasted really good - and got up to leave.

He wasn't worried that the two monsters would entangle him, after all, there was no reason to put the fat in front of him and not eat it, but instead chase a difficult opponent.

But just got up, and there was a new change in the field.

The third youkai woke up.

Not a guest with scales on the back of the neck.

At a table in the front row, in front of a copper plate full of organs, a long-faced drinker struggled, and the tip of the knife was on his belly for a long time, and finally ...... The whole head turned into a shiny, black and blue donkey's head.

Li Changan almost didn't squirt out the wine he had just drunk, and subconsciously picked up the long sword in the bamboo box.

However.

Almost at the same time.

"Woo~"

A strange trombone burst into the yard.

The sound was loud and harsh.

It was like stuffing a hacksaw into a person's brain and pulling it back and forth, making the Taoist priest almost want to vomit, and he gritted his teeth and was about to recite the "Pure Heart Mantra".

"Taishang ......"

However.

The sound of the trumpet suddenly disappeared, as if it had appeared suddenly.

The difference is that after the trumpet.

The world is a dead silence like nothing else.

The wind stopped, the rain stopped, and even the hustle and bustle of the banquet disappeared.

Li Changan looked up in surprise and saw the raindrops floating in the air one by one.

What a familiar scene.

Turning his head to look around, sure enough, the banquet seemed to press the pause button, and the guests, including the donkey-headed man, maintained the posture when the trombone sounded, motionless.

There are only three living creatures in the huge courtyard.

Jin Ling'er, Lao Cangtou and Li Changan are their own.

Under the upheaval.

Li Changan's movements were undoubtedly very conspicuous, and the two monsters stared at him for the first time.

The Taoist priest sniffed in the air with a sudden nose, then smiled at them, quickly took out the long sword and put it on his waist, and sat down on the seat peacefully.

The next moment.

The towering rain walls on all sides suddenly collapsed.

It seems that the flood bursts the embankment, and it is like an iceberg pouring, and there is a sound of "boom", and the water pours into the courtyard.

In the corridor, all the lanterns and candles were extinguished immediately.

It was difficult to see in the darkness, and only many vague shadows could be seen jumping into the courtyard.

Immediately.

Roaring, screaming, smashing, swords and guns fighting, bones and blood splattering, all at once.

The Taoist priest just sat still, waiting for the follow-up.

But suddenly.

A grimace emerged from the darkness and broke into front of the Taoist priest's seat.

The blue-faced fangs, the hair is like withered grass, but the body is covered in blood, large and small wounds, and it seems more miserable than hideous. Looking closely, I can vaguely identify the old man who is square.

Li Changan didn't know what it wanted to do, and he didn't wait for it to do anything.

Listening to the sound of "buzzing", a dense swarm of mosquitoes chased out of the darkness, enveloped its body, and burrowed into its holes.

Pause.

Its body and face shriveled down at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Subsequently.

A bird's claw poked out and grabbed its Celestial Spirit Cover, pulling it back into the darkness.

Li Changan was calm, he only felt that his eyes were a little sour all the time, and he had already closed them when he knew it.

Fortunately, it didn't take long.

The fighting subsided.

The wind began to "rustle" and the rain was "gentle".

Losing the rain curtain like a high wall, the moonlight poured in, lighting the red lanterns under the porch in turn.

Only then can you see that the courtyard is already in a mess, and the residents maintain a stagnant posture, being thrown around, and some have even suffered from the disaster of pond fish.

Jin Ling'er and the old cangtou, or the ghost mother and son, had been killed, and their tattered corpses were thrown haphazardly under the stage.

And the person who killed them had already revealed his appearance, it was a team of hunters, and the first two people - Li Chang'an's hand holding the wine glass suddenly tightened - the two faces in front of him were too familiar.

That's Xing Zhutou and Bo Ziyu.

............

Under the moonlight, the officials were busy again.

Under the fingers of Xing Zhutou and Bo Ziyu, the officials straightened the table that had been turned over, hung up the lanterns that had fallen down, and put the drinkers back to their seats...... All in all, try to eliminate the traces of the fight.

Even, a certain official even came to Li Changan's table, picked up the wine jug that Lao Cangtou had knocked down, and poured half a pot of stagnant water in the courtyard.

Li Changan treated himself as a stone, and like other residents, he did not move.

Merely.

As the official approached, the Taoist priest's nose smelled a familiar smell, as if it was......

"Alright, that's pretty much it, we don't have time to delay. For the rest, after today's business is done, let's clean it up again. ”

"Xing Zhutou" suddenly spoke, and the officials got the order, and immediately stopped the movements in their hands, and remained silent from beginning to end, and even their expressions were cold and hard.

Only "Bo Ziyu" paced to the donkey-headed man.

"What should this donkey demon do?"

Li Changan remained silent.

"Xing Zhutou" glanced at it and waved his hand.

"It's okay, it's just a matter of making a head. ”

Let's talk about it.

He took out a cloth bag from his bosom and shook it away in the wind, spilling a lot of fine dust.

"Xing Zhutou" pursed his mouth and blew on the mouth of the cloth bag.

It didn't take long.

The whole yard was filled with dust.

Then he clapped his hands.

Suddenly.

The air in front of Li Changan's eyes blurred for a moment.

and so on again clear.

"Xing Zhutou", "Bo Ziyu" and other people have disappeared.

On the contrary, the drinkers came to "life" again, handed over glasses and changed lamps, so lively.

Take a closer look.

The lanterns that had been knocked down earlier, the broken window lattices, and the smashed dishes were all intact.

There was another song in my ears.

Jin Ling'er, who was supposed to die, sang lightly on the stage again, and off the stage, the dead audience sat upright and cheered for her.

Li Changan closed his eyes.

Calm your mind.

Open your eyes again.

Dead corpses are still dead corpses, living "people" are still living "people", the gaps in the window lattices are still there, and the dishes picked up from the ground are still wrapped in muddy water.

The servants did not disappear, but still stood in the courtyard, staring wide-eyed at the drinkers.

The only difference is that the donkey-headed man is slowly turning back into a human head, and right now, only a pair of donkey ears are still in the air.

Li Changan was not interested in tasting the "new wine" in the wine jug, he closed his eyes slightly, pretending to listen to the music wholeheartedly.

In his head, he asked the god of wine.

"Will the youkai in the fantasy world be resurrected?"

Bacchus didn't think twice.

"How is that possible?!"

"Whether it is a demon in the illusion or an innocent person from outside, in the illusion, death is death, from the soul to the body, it will be swallowed up by the illusion array, how can it be resurrected?"

After all, it's weird

"Why does the Taoist priest ask this?"

Li Changan was silent for a while, and glanced at the catchers with his eyes.

"See the two in the lead? They have already died once, and I collected the corpses. He couldn't tell whether it was regret or happiness in his tone, "Heh, it's really just an impostor." ”

Maybe I understood the mixed emotions in the Taoist priest's words......

"They're long dead. Bacchus's tone was particularly solemn, "To be exact, the whole city is an impostor. ”

"It's not unusual. ”

He explained to Li Changan

"Although the characters played by the monsters in the fantasy world seem to have their own stories and lives, they are all made up by Yu Mei one by one. First the parents, then the wives and children, then the neighbors, then the neighbors' wives and children. Nothing more than that. ”

"Like a serial set?"

"It's a serial set. ”

"But some are in the middle, and there are many rings. Some are on the edges, and there are few rings that are covered. ”

"When Yu Mei first fiddled with this illusion array, the monsters often broke free from the illusion, and she had to clean it from time to time. And after the cleaning, whenever the illusion is restarted, the empty characters, the marginal ones are okay, but the middle can't be ignored. Otherwise, the whole story loop will have to collapse, and the monsters will have to wake up. ”

At this point, she erases the marginal characters, leaving the yokai to take the place in the center. ”

"The same is probably true for these catches. However, look at their strange behavior, which side should be the minions. ”

Li Changan agreed.

"I smelled the smell of spoiled incense from a few officials, it should be Yu Mei's rampant soldiers. ”

The god of wine sneered: "Drink to quench your thirst." ”

But the Taoist priest said again

"The bird demon who can subdue the old man is a mosquito mother and the larvae of the Phantom Butterfly. ”

This sentence taught the god of wine to be speechless.

Long.

I sighed

"I see, the vine demon lost. ”

............

The watchful eye of the minions of the Phantom Butterfly did not last long.

After confirming that there is nothing unusual about the drinker, he quickly leaves.

But this hurried style aroused the interest of the Taoist priest, an uninvited guest.

Before you keep up.

The Taoist priest took one last look at the courtyard.

Jin Ling'er's tattered corpse leaned on the stage, and in her empty eyes, the drinkers cheered for her music.

Offstage, the shopkeeper bowed down to a disemboweled corpse and spoke to it with a warm smile.

Orr.

Turning back and shouting to his wife in the kitchen.

"The money shopkeeper, add a plate of mutton and two taels of warm wine. ”

Don't forget to call before moving on to the next table.

"Amei, come out and help the guests clean up. ”

"Okay. ”

The childish but energetic response sounded immediately.

Amei dangled her pigtails, carried a dustpan and a broom, and ran into the yard.

The bright smile on his little face taught Li Changan's cold eyes to soften a little unconsciously.

Since entering Xiaoshui, every time she sees Amei, she seems to be smiling.

Maybe.

This is also Yu Mei's original intention to create illusions?

The Taoist priest suddenly asked the god of wine

"What is Ame's real body?"

Bacchus may also have been in a trance, waiting a while before hearing his answer.

"I guess it's a living corpse. ”

A living corpse?

The answer is somewhat unexpected.

Living corpses are actually a type of zombie, but their joints are not yet stiff.

This is a very common kind of monster.

In troubled times.

It is common in the wilderness, on wild roads, in abandoned villages, and even in slaughtered cities.

It's not that powerful, ordinary men can meet it, as long as they can be bold, they can also drive them away. Of course, if you are scratched or bitten and infected with rotten poison, whether you can find treatment in time is another matter.

Even, Li Changan once walked through a no-man's land and saw a pack of hungry wild dogs hunting this thing.

There are many kinds of monsters in the fantasy world, and it can be said that it can compile a compendium of southern monsters, and there are several powerful monsters, such as the hundred fantasy butterflies.

But in his childhood role, he only used an ordinary and weak living corpse?

It's really puzzling.

"Is there anything strange about this living corpse?"

"Unexpected?"

"Come to think of it, well, Yu Mei only told me that this living corpse was found somewhere in Wuyue in a village that had been burned down by war. At that time, she passed through the village and tried to draw water in the well, but she saw that the well was filled with the corpses of the villagers, who were gnawing on carrion in the well. ”

"If you want to say surprisingly, it must be that the appearance of this living corpse is somewhat similar to Yu Mei's childhood. ”

This reason, heh, also echoes the real man's way of doing things.

Li Changan finally glanced at the innocent Amei.

"Poor people, too. ”

Bacchus solemnly retorted

"Pity the child who died in the rebellion, not the demon her body turned into. ”

"I know. ”

Li Changan smiled, he knew the meaning of the god of wine, so he didn't say much, and left.

............

Li Changan's departure did not affect the enthusiasm of the banquet.

Little Ame walked through it with a handful of baskets and brooms, like a diligent bee.

Not much.

"Uncle. ”

She shouted.

"There's too much garbage to move. ”

When the shopkeeper heard the sound and looked back, he saw at first glance that there was a red intestine in the basket of Xiao Amei.

"You kid, how can you treat a guest's belt as garbage?"

He hurriedly came over, returned the "belt" to the fat rich merchant, apologized a few times, and turned around and patted Amei's pigtails.

Pointing to a half-filled dustpan.

"Why can't you move such a thing?"

"Hurry up and pour it in the back door drain, don't be lazy. ”

After speaking, he was busy greeting the guests, leaving Xiao Amei to look at the guests in the front row and bite her thumb in distress.

Suddenly.

Her eyes lit up and she clapped her hands.

In the reality of the false feast, the corpses of the guests in the front row stood up one by one, and jumped to the back door with Amei's brisk steps.