Li Zheng walked by the Tianhe River and came to the inn that year.
The tall flagpole was still fluttering in the wind, and the dark sky was like a strong wind splashing ink. Large black clouds were torn apart, as if it was about to rain, but it didn't fall.
The reeds bend in the wind, and the catkins are red.
Red reed catkins were flying all over the sky, falling into the swamp, and falling on the dense bones. Li Zheng walked by and took a look, but didn't stop.
This time Li Zheng did not take Lao Lao with him, he came alone. But here he met Que Ge and her partner, Lian Shan, who was also a newcomer to the team.
Que Ge had been waiting for a while. When he saw Li Zheng coming, he hurriedly greeted him, "Senior."
Lianshan quickly followed up and called out "Boss Li" respectfully. Li Zheng nodded calmly, looked at the gate of the inn, and asked, "Are you sure the person is inside?"
Que Ge: "Yes, and we have confirmed that there are no wanderers who accidentally fell into the gap. They are all NPCs. The gambler was sitting in the yard drinking and ordered one or two pig heads."
Lianshan added: “There are also dumplings stuffed with chives and eggs.”
From so far away, even in the mountains, you can smell the aroma of dumplings coming out of the pot. Mixed with the strong aroma of wine, you will feel hungry in an instant. Lian Shan couldn't help but rub his belly. God knows how he became a regular partner with Que Ge just by messing around. Originally he just wanted to be an ordinary, dedicated search and rescue team member, but he was led by this king of rolls. Rolling around life and death, he rolled all the way to the bank of the Tianhe River.
None of the old team members came, but the two newcomers came and vividly explained what it means for a newborn calf to not be afraid of tigers.
Looking at the big boss in front of him again, Lianshan felt his heart pounding.
Que Ge: "Do it directly?"
What? Are you going to take action directly? Lianshan was frightened and was about to give some words of advice when he heard Li Zheng say: "No, let's be polite first and then attack."
The person walked to the door of the inn.
Que Ge and Lian Shan followed Li Zheng, one on the left and the other on the right. Que Ge explained: "I checked just now and the door is closed. Someone inside needs to open the door. Shall we knock on the door?"
Li Zheng: "Kick him away."
Lianshan: "?"
Isn’t it better to be polite first and then to fight?
Lian Shan didn't understand, but Que Ge was already striding forward. He hurriedly looked at Li Zheng again and saw that the big man took off the long string of crystal beads from his wrist and slowly wrapped it around his palm.
He clearly did not turn around to look at him, but he seemed to have received his doubts and explained: "There are all kinds of people in the inn, one is the inn's people, one is the guest, and the other is the bandit. How do you enter the door? , determines what kind of person you are.”
Lianshan discovered that Li Zheng had a special rhythm when he spoke. It sounds very calm and slow, but in fact it is not sluggish. The sound is not heavy, but very clear.
But in the blink of an eye, "Bang!" Que Ge kicked open the door of the inn with a clean kick. And Li Zheng also wrapped a string of crystal beads. The small beads were of an elegant purple color, and each one had countless cross-sections. Lianshan's brain subconsciously popped up an idea - being entangled by this string of beads. Hit by fist, it must be very painful.
But he blinked and looked at that hand again, feeling it was beautiful.
The lavender crystal beads shone with tiny lights in the dim skylight. Red reed catkins are fluttering and dotted, like the sky
All the bright colors on the ground are concentrated here.
Those are a pair of hands that are beautiful to all men.
Lianshan was slightly absent-minded.
Until both Li Zheng and Que Ge walked into the door,
He quickly followed.
The people in the inn all looked over. Some looked evil, some were whistling, and they had different styles. A corner of the yard is filled with broken wine bowls, just like the gimmicks in many tourist attractions in this world, where people drink and smash bowls, stacked up into a mountain.
Li Zheng ignored everyone's gazes and walked directly to sit opposite a man wearing a bamboo hat.
A gust of wind blew by, blowing up the translucent black gauze hanging from the bamboo hat. There is no face underneath the black veil, there is only a black hole, which seems to be able to suck people's souls in.
Alarm bells rang in Lianshan's heart, and his body automatically tensed up.
Xiao Yi, who had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, ran over immediately, rubbed his hands and asked several guests what they wanted to order. Que Ge crossed his arms and looked at him, and asked, "Which of your eyes saw that we are guests?"
Xiao Yi: "This..."
Li Zheng: "Que song."
"Understood." Que Ge responded.
Before Lian Shan knew what she had understood, Que Ge suddenly pulled out the dagger hidden in his belt. A cold light flashed, and the dagger was placed on Xiao Yi's neck, pressing him tightly. on the table.
The tip of the knife was aimed at the eye.
Que Ge was like the female bandit who came down the mountain. She stepped on the stool with one foot and pressed him with one hand. She leaned over and asked, "Do you understand now?"
Xiao Yi's pupils shrank suddenly and he begged for mercy again and again, "I understand, I understand, my aunt, please spare my life!"
Que Ge then let him go and said, "Get out."
Xiao Yi ran away in a hurry.
The guests at other tables met Que Ge's scanning eyes and either sat back down or lowered their voices and muttered, not knowing what they were talking about. No one acted rashly.
At this time, the man wearing a bamboo hat spoke, "Li Zheng."
He called Li Zheng's name directly, and the sound was very strange, like the sound of metal and stone rubbing against each other. Li Zheng went straight to the point, "Why did you leave Hu Di?"
"I've been away for a long time."
"Don't you plan to go back again?"
"Can't go back."
"There is no access to the Tianhe River?"
"The Tianhe River has changed its course." The man in the hat said in a straight, emotionless voice, with a coldness unique to metal, "The source of Hu Di has probably become a lake."
Que Ge asked Li Zheng for instructions with his eyes. Seeing that he had no objection, he asked tentatively: "How do you know if you haven't gone back?"
The man in the hat pointed at the black hole on his face, "The wind told me."
Lian Shan had no idea what the black hole was and how it worked. He only remembered hearing from his predecessors that the source of the Tianhe River was in Hu Di. It was a magical river that ran through many gaps. When you go to Hudi by relying on the red boat, you probably take this waterway as well.
"Would you like to gamble again?" Li Zheng suddenly asked.
"Last time, you won a garden." The man in the hat said, "What do you want to bet on this time?"
A gold coin slipped from Li Zheng's sleeve and fell into his palm. He put the gold coin on the table and pushed it in front of the man in the hat. "If you win the gold coin from the Golden Kingdom, it is yours. Otherwise, you keep the hat."
The man in the bamboo hat lowered his head, as if "looking" at the
A gold coin, two seconds of silence, "Okay."
Gamblers never say "no"
, but the content of the gamble must be decided by him. This is the rule.
"Let's bet today how many people in the inn will be alive in the end." As soon as the man in the hat said this, other guests became alert. In an instant, the tense atmosphere in the inn seemed to be full, as if there were countless tight strings in the air, and if you took a few steps forward, your throat would be cut off.
Lian Shan subconsciously touched the weapon at his waist, and quietly looked at Que Ge, always on guard.
Li Zheng was still calm and calm, "The scope of human beings?"
Man in a bamboo hat: "As far as the eye can see, there are living creatures that can breathe and think."
Li Zheng: "Time?"
Man in a bamboo hat: "The sun sets and the moon rises."
Li Zheng: "How many?"
The man in the hat glanced around: "."
The word "" has an obvious metallic buzzing sound. The black hole seems to be a loudspeaker, making people dizzy and even bleeding from their ears.
The next moment, the man in the hat moved, and the figure seemed to teleport, making people feel like their eyes were blurred, and the person seemed to disappear. But it was too late and then too fast. The hand wrapped around the string of crystal beads seemed to stretch out slowly, but it caught him at the right time.
"Don't be so anxious." Li Zheng stood up at some point, walked over, pressed his shoulders, and asked him to sit back down again, "You can't kill someone with just a nod."
As he said that, he looked at the dumplings on the table again and said, "Your dumplings are getting cold."
His tone was slightly disgusting, because - leeks are unpalatable.
Lian Shan finally understood the content of the bet at this time. When the sun sets and the moon rises, the man in the hat wants only one living person left in this inn. If this requirement is met, he wins, otherwise, Li Zheng wins.
The method to achieve the requirements is also very simple, just kill until there are only one left.
Li Zheng, Que Ge, and him were just the same person.
But when Lian Shan looked at the others, they didn't run away. They stared at them with eyes that made it impossible to guess what these NPCs were thinking.
I just feel weird and creepy.
At the same time, Yan Yueming returned to Huayuan Road after get off work.
Opening the door, Wen Renjing was not at home because he had to make up a class. The teacher Li Heping didn't know if he had gone to pick him up or not, but he wasn't there either. The seniors and sisters were not even there, and Yan Yueming was the only one left in the huge villa.
etc.
What about rhubarb?
"Dahuang?" Yan Yueming called Dahuang's name and started looking for the dog everywhere. But I searched upstairs and downstairs, but I didn't see any familiar figure.
Yan Yueming called the teacher again to ask if Dahuang had gone out with him, but the answer he got was no.
"Don't worry, it might be playing nearby." Li Heping quickly calmed down and reassured Yan Yueming, "I'll be back soon. You can look for it in the park first. You can go as far as the chess and card room in the community. It will follow me. I’ve been there many times and everyone there knows it.”
Yan Yueming calmed down and said, "Okay."
When going out, Yan Yueming subconsciously searched around the door again. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something colorful in the grass. When he went over to take a look, he found that it was a colorful yarn ball made by Li Zheng for Dahuang.
Dahuang likes this yarn ball very much and sleeps with it every day recently.
The moment she saw the yarn ball, Yan Yueming's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly put the ball in her pocket and ran out to find the dog. There were not many pedestrians in the park at dusk.
The nearby residents had all gone back to have dinner, and few were still wandering outside. Yan Yueming asked one by one, and finally asked an uncle who was a cleaner, and told him: "That dog you mentioned, I did see it. It was about, about how long ago, when the sun hadn't gone down anyway. , afternoon, I seem to have seen it go out."
"Where have you gone?"
"Run over there."
Yan Yueming followed the direction he pointed and looked for it. Thanks to the nearby residents' familiarity with rhubarb, most of the owners and customers in the small roadside shops knew it, and some people actually saw it passing by.
And Yan Yueming looked out in the direction they pointed, that place...could it be Heping Street? !
