The shop owner seemed to be getting excited, and his head shook slightly. In this short moment, Zhou Rong saw the person standing in front of the shop owner.
He was stunned for a moment, and then he shrank back suddenly as if he was greatly frightened.
He didn't control his arm well and actually knocked over the candle on the candlestick.
The moment the candle was about to fall to the ground, a hand quickly caught it, and then placed the candle back on the candlestick at an extremely fast speed.
Jiang Cheng pulled Zhou Rong and signaled with his eyes. The two quietly stepped back, opened the door, and got into a room.
Almost as soon as the door closed, there was a slight "creak" sound.
It was like a very heavy door being pushed open.
After a while, there was a burst of rapid and powerful footsteps outside the door. The man seemed to think for a while, and then went straight to the door of the room where the two were hiding.
The crisp sound of keys clanging sounded, and Zhou Rong was shocked. He didn't expect that the store owner actually had a spare key in his hand.
With the sound of pins popping open in the lock cylinder, the door was pushed open.
The sound of footsteps broke in, followed by the sound of rummaging, but he was destined to miss. Jiang Cheng and the two hid in room 308, opposite room 307.
The shop owner rummaged for a while, but seemed to find no trace of anyone's presence, and then left. He returned to the wall in front of the darkroom. With a rubbing sound, the door became completely quiet.
However, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Rong both remained silent and kept their breathing to a minimum.
One minute, two minutes...until the third minute was about to end, there was suddenly a clear sound of footsteps outside the door, very close to the two of them, and then a rubbing sound was heard outside the door... again Return to silence.
Jiang Cheng and Zhou Rong still didn't move.
It wasn't until 5 minutes later that the process was repeated again, and the two quietly left the room.
But instead of going directly downstairs to join his teammates, he came to the corner of the second floor.
"Mr. Zhou," Jiang Cheng pretended to be terrified and asked in a low voice, "What did you just see?"
Zhou Rong's expression was more frightened than Jiang Cheng's, but he wasn't pretending. His breathing had not yet adjusted.
He was hiding behind the door of room 308 just now, and saw through the crack of the door that the store owner changed from the good old man he was yesterday, and his face was ferocious and twisted.
What's even more terrifying is that he holds a sharp knife with a cold light in his hand.
If discovered, the consequences are obvious.
"The darkroom... In addition to the shop owner, there was a woman in the darkroom," Zhou Rong's face became increasingly ugly as if recalling the scene at that time, "It wasn't his wife, but an old woman. She... ....She was sitting on a wooden chair, half of her face seemed to have melted, leaving only one eye, nose, lips... all gone!"
Jiang Cheng's pupils slowly narrowed.
"Mr. Yin," Zhou Rong suddenly grabbed Jiang Cheng's wrist and said, "I know you are not an ordinary person. You should also be able to tell that the difficulty of this mission is different from those we have experienced in the past. This time it is not even Matched with someone new.”
Jiang Cheng didn't speak, but gave him a look that said, "Although I'm very scared, I can still continue to listen to you."
Zhou Rongke ignored this and said quickly: "I want to join forces with you, Mr. Yin," he swallowed, "I have successfully passed 5 missions, this is the 6th time."
He glanced at the stairs going up, and said with lingering fear: "But this mission is probably more difficult than my previous five missions combined. Something like this happened before I even entered the domain. I feel very bad." A premonition.”
Ignoring Zhou Rong's nonsense about how scary the mission was and how good he was, he raised his head and asked bluntly: "What do you mean by domain?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhou Rong couldn't help but froze. The look he looked at Jiang Cheng gradually changed from doubt to suspicion, but only in an instant, he returned to his previous appearance.
"It's the range where ghosts can move or interfere," he explained.
"Then you mean that Anping Town is not within the range that ghosts can reach or interfere with?" Jiang Cheng asked back.
Zhou Rong nodded, "According to my judgment, it should be like this."
Jiang Cheng did not delve into his judgment method or anything else. First, time was tight. If he delayed for a while, the people downstairs would have noticed something unusual.
The second is that it is unnecessary, because these are his cognitive blind spots, so no matter how Zhou Rong explains, he cannot confirm the authenticity.
It would be better not to ask, which would make you appear inscrutable.
He gave Zhou Rong an I-don't-say-anything-but-you-better-think weird look, and then neither agreed nor rejected Zhou Rong's cooperation proposal.
"Come downstairs," he said quite naturally.
After arriving downstairs, the two said nothing about what had just happened, except that they did not find the store owner.
"Then what were you two doing upstairs for so long?" It was Chen Xiaomeng who spoke. She stared at Jiang Cheng fiercely, wanting to rush up and bite him to death.
"Could it be that you two..."
Chen Xiaomeng's face became weird. In order to throw dirty water on Jiang Cheng, she had done everything possible, even to the innocent Zhou Rong.
When Benfu heard this, his eyes towards Jiang Cheng became even more intense.
"Long'er," Jiang Cheng looked at Chen Xiaomeng affectionately and said coquettishly, "What are you talking about? How reluctant I was last night...you, it's not like you don't know."
Chen Xiaomeng's eyes darkened when she heard this, and she almost vomited a mouthful of blood in her throat.
"Dear gentlemen!"
The village chief stood outside the hotel door, looking eagerly at these saviors. He finally managed to get the two to come down, but found that they were getting together to flirt and had no intention of following them to the village. This was so anxious. Got him.
When everyone looked at him, he smiled as kindly as possible with his few remaining front teeth: "It's getting late, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk. Otherwise, we should..."
"Okay," Jiang Cheng nodded, "Let's set off now."
Hearing this, the faces of the village chief and all the villagers beamed with joy.
Following them on the road, Pei Qian walked side by side with the village chief. The two exchanged views on the local customs from time to time. Jiang Cheng followed them and squinted his eyes to listen.
Chen Xiaomeng initially planned to find an opportunity to strangle Jiang Cheng when she was alone, but Jiang Cheng seemed to have read her mind and would pull someone with her whenever she went to the toilet.
However, he doesn't seem to be picky about who goes with him, and the latest time he even dragged Yu Man along.
It took about a quarter of an hour for the two of them to return.
"That is to say, the village is located between two mountains," Pei Gan seemed to have thought of something and looked at the village chief as if to confirm.
"That's right, master, that's it," the village chief was very respectful to Pei Qian. He shouted to each master one after another, and even asked people to use paper umbrellas to protect Pei Qian from the sun.
Jiang Cheng glanced at him sideways and suddenly shouted: "I'm hot too, and I want a strong man to hold an umbrella for me!"
The village chief was stunned for a moment, then looked at Jiang Cheng and explained: "This little brother..."
But what I didn’t expect was——
"Who are you with?!" Jiang Cheng pinched his waist, rolled his eyelids, and groaned, "Why is he the master and I am the little brother?"
"I'm an expert too!"
