When I came to the town, the night was already dark, and there was only one inn with a courtyard on the official road that was faintly lit. Yin Fan rushed directly and got off the horse. The little white horse immediately became the size of a fist and jumped into the arms of the realm spirit. Yin Fan glared at it, and then walked into the inn.

On the counter of the inn was a small half-cut candle, swaying in the night breeze, as if it was about to be extinguished in the next moment. A withered arm stretched out from the darkness to protect the candle for fear that it would be extinguished in the darkness.

Yin Fan looked at the hazy figure in the darkness behind the counter, and after a long time, a faint voice with a slight hoarse voice came from behind the counter: "Is it objectively a sharp hit, or a hotel?"

"Stay. By the way, some more food and two sets of clean clothes came to the room. ”

"No problem. However, the world is not good recently, the capital is small, and I can't afford to pay the account, so I will settle the account objectively. ”

Yin Fan took out the ten taels of silver given by the old monk and put it on the counter.

The hand of the man in the darkness who was protecting the candle moved over, put it on the silver, made a scratching sound, put it away, and said, "Objectively, where did you come back from making a fortune, and you brought so many silver taels with you?" The small shop couldn't be found for a while. ”

"Give me change, arrange a room for us first. ”

The man raised his arm and pointed to a door on the left side of the counter that was squeaking and swaying in the wind, and said, "After that door, the first room in the courtyard is." It's late, Xiao Er, who boils water, has already slept, and the guest officer will just settle down and rest directly. ”

He took a small candle from behind the counter that had been used many times, lit it and handed it to Yin Fan. Yin Fan glanced at the figure hiding in the darkness again, didn't speak, took the candle, pulled up the realm spirit, and walked into the inner courtyard. In the huge courtyard, only two potted plants and a large vat can be faintly seen by the faint candlelight. Yin Fan pulled the realm spirit to the house on the left and pushed it away with a squeak.

The room was extremely dilapidated, with scratches on the tables and chairs, and a few corners missing, but thankfully the room was clean. However, Yin Fan originally thought that he could take a shower in the inn today and change into clean clothes, so that he could be a little more pleasing to the eye when he entered the city tomorrow, but he didn't expect this to be such a situation, but he was a little depressed.

However, there is a little strangeness about this town that makes Yin Fan extremely concerned, just now he was in a hurry and didn't think much about it, this will be idle, and he doesn't feel too sleepy, and he can't help but feel a little strange in his heart.

Although it was already the middle of the day, most people had already rested, but this Shiqiao Town, as a town only a few dozen miles away from Jimo County, had no sound at this moment, and I suddenly felt a little strange in my heart.

Seeing him sitting on the stool in a daze, the realm spirit couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking?"

Yin Fan raised his head and smiled, "I'm thinking about you." ”

The realm spirit looked strange and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

The corners of Yin Fan's mouth twitched, he shook his head helplessly, and said: "This store doesn't have manpower at this time, just rely on him to make some meals and get a set of clothes, I'm afraid that there won't be enough manpower, I'll go to the kitchen to see if I can make a start, it's better to be faster." ”

The realm spirit hesitated for a moment and said, "Then you have to come back quickly." ”

Yin Fan nodded and said, "If someone bullies you, you just don't care about thirty-seven twenty, and just smash spells of various colors on him!"

The realm spirit nodded vigorously, and Yin Fan left with confidence. When he came into the courtyard, he found that the last clouds had dissipated, and the bright moon had finally sprinkled its precious moonlight for a long time. Yin Fan closed the door and walked towards the inn hall. As he reached the entrance to the hall, he frowned and turned to look into the room behind him. By the light of the moon, he suddenly noticed the upper figure of a person behind the paper window, standing motionless.

He stared at it for a long time, and when he saw that the shadow was still motionless, he frowned and ignored him. Turning his head, he stepped into the hall, only to bump into a man head-on.

"Objective, you can't see clearly at night, it's better to be careful. The speaker was a small, hunched old man, with his withered hands carrying a wooden plate, under which lay two sets of simple linen clothes, on which were placed two bowls of gruel and three nests.

In this extreme time, food and clothing were prepared.

Through those dry hands, Yin Fan recognized this person at a glance as the shopkeeper standing behind the counter. It's just that at this time, he is backlit, and he hangs his head so that he can't see his face clearly. He took it directly from the shopkeeper and said, "Got it." He glanced at the food on the wooden plate in his hand, he hadn't seen it for a long time, and it looked a little drooling.

"Recently there has been a plague, and the livestock are almost dead, so we can only eat some of these grains. ”

"The plague?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "There is not much fighting here, and many soldiers who have been defeated and fled have run around here." But many of them were hacked to death by the pursuers when they ran around here, and many of them died one after another, and the people from Jimo gathered all the corpses, pulled off their armor and threw them on the mass grave in the south. When there were many dead, the plague came. ”

"The people on the other side of the grave are all dead soldiers?"

The shopkeeper paused, and then said, "Not all. ”

"Huh?"

"Because of the war and drought, many farmers in the town lost their fields, and the traders were unable to do business, so many people starved to death. Many of the people in the town were starving to death in the mass grave. Now in this town, those who have no money have starved to death, and those who have a little money have long run out. ”

"That's right. Yin Fan's frowning brows relaxed slightly, and sighed, it turned out to be like this, no wonder this town looks so quiet, it turns out to be this reason.

"It's not too early, so let's rest early after eating objectively. ”

"Thank you. ”

Yin Fan thanked him, pushed open the door with his things, and was about to go back to the room, when he suddenly remembered something, turned his head sideways, and looked at the window next to him. In the moonlight, behind that window, it was empty.

Yin Fan frowned, and his heart became a little vigilant. He went back to the room, shouted the nest head and porridge with the realm spirit, and let the realm spirit rest early, while he changed into the clothes, half-squinted, half-asleep, lying next to her, and rested.

I don't know how long it took, suddenly, Yin Fan suddenly opened his eyes, his body flipped to the window, the blood talisman in his left hand flew up, and the Xuantian Sword Qi in his right hand was in his hand. He leaned against the window and listened to the movement outside.

It was a woman's singing voice, melodious but extremely eerie, humming an unknown ballad faintly. The sound is sometimes near and sometimes far away, sometimes it seems to be in the courtyard, and sometimes it seems to be far away.

Listening to the singing, even a person like Yin Fan, who had been tempered in his state of mind, felt panicked in his heart, and a burst of unstoppable fear spread. Yin Fan was shocked, he didn't know what was going on for a while, and he didn't dare to act rashly.

It's just that after the song went back and forth a few times, it gradually weakened until it was inaudible, as if it was far away from here.

Yin Fan let out a long sigh of relief, and couldn't help but think that he had recently formed a fate with the demon and ghost, and it was only some weird things wherever he went. This woman's singing voice is probably not a good sight, eight or nine times out of ten this place is a place of right and wrong, and she should leave here as soon as it dawns.

"Jingle Bell ......"

In the dark night, a bell was suddenly heard ringing in the courtyard. Yin Fan's whole body was shocked, his whole body couldn't be controlled for a while, he couldn't help but stand up and began to walk out. But in just a moment, he came to his senses, and his heart was shocked. It's just that although he is sober, the other person is not.

After the bell rang, the realm spirit involuntarily stood up from the bed, and without opening its eyes, it walked out the door. Yin Fan was startled, ran over and shook her twice, and called softly:

"Ling'er!

But no matter how hard he shook or shouted, the realm spirit didn't react at all. And in inverse proportion to her, the little white horse lying in bed and curled up in a ball still sleeps like a dead pig.

Seeing that the realm spirit was about to walk out of the door, Yin Fan was helpless, gritted his teeth, and the blood talisman made a move, directly tying up all the hands and feet of the realm spirit. But just when Yin Fan was dumbfounded, the spells of gold, wood, water, fire and earth around the body of the realm spirit hit Yin Fan's blood talisman one after another, although he did not mark the blood talisman, but every time he received a spell, Yin Fan's face turned pale, and in the end, Yin Fan had to withdraw the blood talisman.

"Jingle Bell ......"

As soon as the Blood Talisman was withdrawn, the Realm Spirit stood up, pushed open the door, and walked outside. Yin Fan had no other way, groaned slightly, and immediately followed behind the realm spirit, slightly letting go of his heart, and letting the constant sound of bells pierce into his heart. But he controlled the proportions very appropriately, just enough to let the bell sound control his physical behavior, but did not let the bell sound completely dominate his thoughts.

In this way, the realm spirit was in front and Yin Fan was behind, and they all walked outside. The two of them walked to the courtyard and walked straight out into the street.

"Squeak"

The room behind them was opened, and the sound of "ooh, poof, poof" came as they walked out of the street after the two of them. Hearing the sound of "oops, oops, oops" behind him, Yin Fan felt goosebumps all over his body, but he couldn't wake up when the world spirit died, and he could only do this.

The candles on the inn counter had long since been burned, only a large puddle of wax remained, the door of the inn was wide open, and the old shopkeeper had long since disappeared. By the light of the moon, when I saw the scene outside, I was even more frightened.

But when I saw that there were more than a hundred people on the originally silent official road, I don't know where to appear, and I looked demented. Judging by what they are wearing, almost all of them have just gotten out of bed.

"Jingle Bell ......"

Not far away, the sound of the bell came again, and the woman's mournful and melodious singing sounded again. Everyone followed the sound of the bell and walked slowly forward, out of the village, and towards the south.

In its direction is a mass grave.