"This guest arrived in the town during the day, but there was a delay, so he came to the store at this time, you don't have to worry. Seeing that the guests in the hall were staring at Li Pu, the emaciated man hurriedly explained.

Only then did everyone withdraw their skeptical gaze and continue to talk about themselves.

Li Pu didn't care, he found an empty table and sat down, and ordered a large table of good wine and food.

A man in a gray shirt, who had been sitting alone in the corner, did not order snacks, but only drank alone with a small wine glass from time to time. After hearing the inn junior shouting a large list of dish names, this person immediately came over and said with a shy face: "This son, I see that you are sitting at such a big table alone, it is really too lonely." It's better for the two of us to be together, so that someone can talk. ”

Li Pu looked at this person a few times and found that his clothes had been washed and washed a little white, but they were still neat. The hair was a little messy, obviously not properly cleaned up for a long time, but it didn't get a trace of oil stains. This is a person who has a difficult life, but there is still hope for life in his heart.

"Feel free to sit down. Li Pu nodded, revealing a hint of a smile, "I just want to talk to someone too." ”

When the gray-shirted man heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly sat down opposite Li Pu. When he sat down, he was no longer polite, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and drank it all.

"Ah, it's still this 'red drunk' that tastes good! It's much more refreshing than the sour 'Mountain Monkey Wine'!"

"Since Brother Tai likes it, let's serve two more pots. Li Pu smiled slightly, summoned Xiao Er, and said casually: "I'm tired of serving two more pots of 'red drunk'." ”

Xiao Er nodded respectfully and wrote it down, and it didn't take long for the wine to be served. Three meat dishes and a plate of vegetarian dishes were also delivered.

The shopkeeper really didn't brag, these meat dishes are full of color and flavor, crispy skin and tender meat, burnt and fragrant, and the thick juice around is shining under the light, shining a little oily, which is coveted. Even the plate of vegetarian dishes is verdant and fragrant.

"Feel free. Li Pu made a "please" gesture.

The gray-shirted man hadn't seen meat for a long time, and when he saw the piece of meat, his eyes immediately lit up, and he didn't even drink the wine in his hand.

After eating a few large pieces, he found that Li Pu didn't move his chopsticks at all, and couldn't help but smile, "Let my brother see me laugh." Lan has been in trouble for a long time, but today he is out of shape. ”

Li Pu waved his hand again and again and said, "Where is the brother Tai?" It's good to have an appetite, so why bother. As for the hardships of life, it's not a big deal, who hasn't had a difficult time. ”

The gray-shirted man sighed and said, "Brother Tai is really good at talking. I know my own affairs, and I can't just say it clearly when I'm in trouble. That's it, don't say these disappointing words, in the next blue cang, I don't know the name of Brother Taigao?"

"Under Li Pu. ”

"Brother Li, Brother Li. Lan is polite. Lan Cang clenched his hands into fists in salute, and then suddenly lowered his voice and said, "I don't know where Brother Li is from?"

"I'm from Fuhe City. I don't know what Brother Lan has to say?" Li Pu also learned from him and lowered his voice.

"Fuhe City...... Not many people dare to go that way now. How many people did Brother Li come with him?"

"I just came alone. Li Pu said lightly.

"What?!" Lan Cang was startled and almost stood up, but he looked around and sat down slowly, "Brother Li is bold, Lan really admires it." Although it was daytime, it was amazing to dare to walk that road alone. ”

Li Pu was noncommittal, tapped the table lightly with chopsticks, and said softly: "I see that the atmosphere in this town is a little abnormal, I don't know what the situation is?"

"You'll know right away. So many of us didn't sleep, just waiting for that moment. Lan Cang said mysteriously, with a hint of intoxication on his face, but more of a nervous look.

"It's coming, it's coming!" a guest shouted not far away.

"Brother Li, you come with me. Lan Cang drank all the "red drunk" in the cup, and gave a long burp before he said to Li Pu with satisfaction.

Li Pu nodded and stood up with him.

At this time, everyone in the hall also got up and walked out of the hall one by one.

Li Pu followed behind Lan Cang, and walked through the courtyard with the others, coming to the side of a slender tall building that stood alone.

The group followed the stairs and climbed to the fourth floor.

This is already the top floor, which resembles an attic. The walls on all four sides are closed, and there is not a single window.

"Shopkeeper, open it. A rough man lowered his voice and spoke.

The emaciated middle-aged man who opened the door to Li Pu before was the shopkeeper of this inn. He replied vaguely, took out a large bunch of keys from his bosom, chose the longest of them, and plunged them into the wall.

There's a hidden mechanism here?

With a click, the lock was opened.

The shopkeeper pushed to the left with both hands, and a slender carved glass appeared in front of everyone's eyes, like a scroll slowly unfolding.

The glass is cleverly inlaid to be about the height of an average adult, and its length can be viewed by more than a dozen people at once.

The outward side of the glass has been carefully polished and painted to match the wall, and it would never be visible if it were not opened from the inside, but from the outside.

This design not only satisfies everyone's desire to peep, but also ensures its own privacy.

Especially when encountering strange things, it will also give people a sense of satisfaction that stimulates fear and is extremely safe.

This mood is actually similar to the fact that some people in modern times like to watch horror movies. There are even some people, the more thrilling and bloody it is, the more he likes to watch it.

Li Pu followed everyone's line of sight.

What everyone looked at turned out to be the street that Li Pu had walked on before.

The streets were still as empty as before.

Suddenly, four snow-white figures appeared at the end of the street, their size was slightly smaller than ordinary people, roughly equivalent to the appearance of thirteen or fourteen-year-old children.

But with Li Pu's eyesight at this time, he could vaguely see that the faces of these four people were adults.

Each of them had a musical instrument in his hand, but he didn't play it, so he didn't make a sound at all.

Behind the four of them, a group of women dressed like brides, wearing hijabs and holding bamboo baskets with white flowers in their hands.

Immediately behind them was a scarlet sedan chair, from the top of the sedan chair to the horizontal bar, all the way to the silk cloth that was about to hang to the ground. Even the sedan chair bearers were wearing scarlet clothes, and if they didn't look closely, they thought that these sedan chair drivers were one with the sedan chair.

Behind the sedan chair, there were four snow-white people, but these four people were different from the previous four, each of them was extremely tall and thin, like four bamboo poles.

The group of people walked slowly and slowly on the street in the middle of the night.

Everyone watched them get closer and closer, and they all stopped breathing with nervousness.

Li Pu didn't think there was anything, these people outside were indeed a little weird, but his side was all on the closed fourth floor, and this single building was still some distance from the street, and there was a courtyard wall in the middle, so it should be said that it was relatively safe.

Maybe that's the fun of watching horror movies.

However, he soon discovers that he was wrong.

As the distance got closer, he found that everyone on the street was not a living person, but a paper person!

Paper people, people made of paper!

Before, because the distance was too far, I only felt that these people's movements were relatively slow, and they were relatively dull, and their faces were expressionless.

When they got closer, they realized that the truth was so terrifying!

No wonder the crowd in the attic behaved so nervously.

The scarlet sedan chair walked slowly.

Li Pu suddenly had a strange feeling, as if a certain part of his body was being pulled by this sedan chair and was about to leave him.

This is absolutely not normal!

Looking around, he found that everyone here had a more or less intoxicated look on their faces, as if they were having a wonderful spring ~ dream.

"Tian Yuan!"

"Check my physical condition. ”

A blue screen appeared, showing his body data in detail.

Li Pu didn't notice anything unusual.

"Detect the physical condition of everyone around you. ”

As soon as the blue screen flipped, Tian Yuan began to actively detect the energy fluctuations around him.

"Nineteen subtle strands of energy were found to be dissipating outward. This is the conclusion that Tian Yuan has reached.

"Tian Yuan, can this kind of energy escape be observed by my eyes in a concrete way?"

"Loading embodiment program...... Tian Yuan's interface flips again.

"The program has loaded. ”

Li Pu felt as if his eyes were filled with something, and he felt slightly swollen. But in an instant, it was back to normal.

When I looked at it, I saw that the people around me had a white line floating out of the center of each person's head, and these white lines were very small, as if they could be blown away by the wind at any time.

However, these lines are actually energy-melted, scattered and continuous. When they floated to the roof, they gathered together again and turned into a thick thread the size of chopsticks.

This thick white line circled around the roof several times, leaving some arc-shaped traces. Then he got out.

The direction it threw itself into was the scarlet sedan chair!

If you take a closer look, not only is there a white line being drawn out of this attic, but almost all the houses in the whole town, whether they are lit or not, have white lines of different thicknesses that are pulled out by the scarlet sedan chair!

Could this be the extraction of the essence of the living?!

Being able to extract the essence of the entire town at the same time on such a large scale, what is in this scarlet sedan chair?

Even if he was just a bystander, Li Pu felt a little unbearable. The area is large, the number is large, and it is extremely draining to observe.

Perhaps because of some mental exhaustion, the feeling of being pulled by this scarlet sedan chair appeared again.

Tian Yuan's blue interface flashed, and his body immediately recovered.

He froze, retracted his gaze, and turned his attention back to the attic. But he was surprised to find that the shopkeeper was looking at him with blazing eyes.

Li Pu was shocked, because he found that there was no white line escaping from the top of the shopkeeper's head!

This shopkeeper is either a master who is deeply hidden, able to resist the suction of the scarlet sedan chair;

Or maybe it's with the Scarlet Sedan Sedan chair!