Several people had traveled a long distance, their nerves had been tense, and now they finally came to a resting place, and they were also drowsy. After an unknown amount of time, the tea in the pot had completely cooled down, and the hungry people were getting impatient.
"Where on earth did this guy go to prepare food and he still hasn't come back after so long?" Mu Fengchun yawned.
"Senior Mu, please wait here, I'll go down and take a look!" Wu Hao couldn't hold his breath, so he stood up and pushed the door open and went downstairs.
Everyone only heard Wu Hao's footsteps on the stairs. The creaking sound gradually faded away. Not long after, a burst of exclamation came: "Senior Mu! Everyone, come down and take a look!"
Hearing the urgency in Wu Hao's voice, everyone woke up instantly, swished downstairs, and followed Wu Hao's voice.
"Everyone, come and take a look! What's going on?" Wu Hao leaned out from the small door of the backyard with a suspicious look and waved.
Several people swarmed into the backyard kitchen. They saw that the house was in tatters and covered with cobwebs. No one had been there for a long time.
Especially when they stepped in, they stirred up countless dust and quickly exited the house.
"Longshanshou, did you see the waiter when you came down?" Youya looked around and saw no one, but the door of Qingyang Restaurant was tightly closed from the inside, so she asked aloud.
"No, I originally wanted to find a place for convenience, but I didn't see anyone. I thought the waiter was in the backyard and wanted to ask him, but I didn't expect to see this situation." Wu Hao was also very puzzled. .
"There's a problem with this store! No! There's a problem with this village! It seems we can only go upstream!" Mu Fengchun gritted his teeth and said.
No one knows why the waiter in this shop disappeared out of thin air, but with this weird situation at the moment, we can only take one step first! But just when they were about to leave the backyard, they heard the sound of stone slabs moving, and they became alert.
"Crack!" Just when they were alert, a stone slab in the shadow behind them was suddenly lifted, and a figure tumbled out of it. But before the man landed, Huang Qilin saw the black dart shoot out from his hand, directly nailing the figure to the wall, making the latter scream in fright.
The voice seemed familiar to several people, and then they looked up the man's head and saw that it was the waiter from the restaurant? But now that the situation was unclear, they did not dare to take it lightly and surrounded the guys with eager eyes.
"Ouch! Dear guests, what are you doing? Please, gentlemen, please put me down quickly..." The waiter looked cowardly and begged for mercy again and again.
"Say! What did you do just now?" Wu Hao said angrily.
"Oh... I'm going to prepare food!" the waiter stammered.
"It's full of nonsense! How can anyone go underground to prepare meals?" Wu Hao said again.
"I'm not lying to you! If you really don't believe me... you can come with me to find out!" the waiter said with his head shrinking.
"Just go! Who is afraid of whom?" Wu Hao was brave enough to pull the guy off the wall and wanted to go down with him.
"Longshan Hand, be careful of fraud!" You Ya said worriedly.
"Don't worry! If there is anything wrong at all, I will burn this cave to ashes!" Wu Hao said, a starlight lit up on his finger, which was really beautiful.
The guy looked aggrieved and could only lead Wu Hao into the cave honestly.
Although everyone was on the ground, they still felt a little uneasy. Just when Mu Fengchun was about to ask others to come down to help, they heard Wu Hao calling from below: "It turns out it was a misunderstanding! Everyone, come down!"
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"Sure enough, it's my benefactor! I didn't have time to thank my benefactor, so I feel guilty all the time! God really opened my eyes and allowed me to see my benefactor again!" As soon as everyone got off the ground, before they could take a closer look, they saw a figure copying a The silver light rushed towards them in a hurry. They thought there was a sneak attack and were about to defend themselves, but saw the man kneel down in front of Huang Qilin and kowtow repeatedly.
"It doesn't matter!" Huang Qilin frowned. He didn't like being watched, so he quickly pulled the man up. Seeing clearly that the silver light on this man's hand was just a frying spoon, everyone burst into laughter.
"Everyone! It was just a misunderstanding. Please come with me!" After saying that, the man hurriedly came to him and led them behind him.
The few people left and looked around, and found that although the place was underground, it was not depressing at all, especially since there were many openings above the head, which introduced sunlight from the ground into the underground.
"San'er! I planned to give my benefactor a surprise! You ruined the atmosphere!" The man pointed angrily at the waiter before, holding a frying spoon and scolding him.
"Brother, you can't blame me! I just heard you describe the appearance of your benefactor, and I don't dare to confirm it!" The young man known as San'er brought the last plate of food to the table and then pinched it. He closed his ears and stepped aside.
"Benefactor? What kind of benefactor? Guys, can you tell me what's going on?" Mu Fengchun looked at the expressionless Huang Qilin, and then asked the cook holding a frying spoon.
"Oh? Has my benefactor never told you about it? Haha! It seems that this benefactor is really low-key!" The cook laughed, held the jade cicada around his neck in his hand, and recounted word for word.
"No wonder I thought there was evil in that Taoist temple. It turned out to be the spider demon!" Mu Fengchun said with relief after learning that several people had eradicated Taoist Master Lu Yan of Qingyang Temple.
"I wonder what the purpose of these guest officials visiting with my benefactor today is?" the cook asked.
"To be honest, we are here to find a partner. Have you ever met this person?" Mu Fengchun described Yuan Hua's general characteristics.
"Well... I just came back here a few days ago. I'm not sure. San'er, have you ever seen this person?" The cook turned around and asked.
"I...I..." Saner hesitated, speaking very hesitantly.
"If you've seen it, you've seen it. If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it. What are you doing, mother-in-law and mother-in-law?" The cook shouted angrily, then turned around and explained to everyone: "Dear guests, please don't mind, the character of these three children is actually not like this. These are all caused by Qingyang Watch!"
Although Qingyang Temple was indeed eradicated by Wu Fan, Huang Qilin and his team at that time, the people in Qingyang Temple were deeply harmed by Taoist Lu Yan. Although they returned to normal on the surface, their spirits were greatly stimulated, especially for those who They are very repulsive to outsiders, and once they see unfamiliar faces, they will fight to drive them away.
This cook was originally the waiter of the Qingyang Restaurant. However, due to the death of the shopkeeper, there was no one to take care of the restaurant anymore, so he settled here. But because these villagers are very xenophobic, they will be driven away whenever guests come here. After many visits, no one dares to come to Qingyang Restaurant anymore.
Although San'er calls the cook his eldest brother, they are not related by blood. When Wu Fan and others came to Qingyang Restaurant, the shopkeeper had become Taoist Master Lu Yan's puppet. The cook, who was a waiter at the time, wanted to save Wu Fan and others, but after secretly handing over the note, they did not expect that they were still stunned by the food. , and then went up the mountain to wake them up.
But when he found the right opportunity and came to the side room, he found that several people were just pretending to be unconscious. Then he felt relieved and wanted to give the jade cicada to them to let them escape, but he didn't expect that his eyesight went dark and he fainted. When he woke up, he saw the Qingyang Temple in a mess, and then he learned that Taoist Master Lu Yan had been killed by several people.
When he found his brother, he didn't expect that the person he longed for was already a cold corpse. Just as he was grieving, he heard a faint sound of breathing next to him. He saw that a young man about the same age as his brother was still alive, so he brought him back from the mountain of corpses and took good care of him, and finally rescued him. Come alive.
Although Qingyang Mountain is not small, the village is not that big. They have met each other before. He naturally knows the approximate location of the young man's home and wanted to send him back. But after searching all the way, they learned that the young man's parents and siblings had passed away, so he could only keep him by his side and call him San'er after brother.
Although these three children survived, they also suffered a lot of mental damage and were very timid and fearful. It was only after his patient teaching that he dared to contact strangers.
After listening to the cook's explanation, everyone suddenly realized that no wonder the people in Qingyang Mountain behaved so strangely. They seemed to be poor people who were influenced by Qingyang Temple.
"Then what this guy said before is that there are no more ships passing through Sanchawu. Is it probably because of this reason?" Mu Fengchun said with relief.
"Haha... Yes, as long as outsiders come here, they will be expelled. Not only Qingyang Restaurant, but also the two of us are ostracized! That's why San'er and I dug this tunnel so that we could have a place to hide. But hiding all the time is not an option. I can only leave here at night to buy supplies so that I can persist here."
No wonder these three children looked so nervous when they spoke before. At first they thought there was something fishy about the waiter in the shop, but they didn't expect it to be this reason.
"In this case, if we disturb you too much, I'm afraid it will only bring you trouble. Farewell!" After hearing this, Mu Fengchun stood up and left.
"I...I have seen...the person you are talking about!" San'er looked troubled for a long time, gritted his teeth, and finally said it cruelly.
"A few days ago, when my eldest brother went out to buy supplies, a person like the one you described did come! And... he also came down from Qingyang Mountain. At that time, the villagers of Qingyang Mountain wanted to drive him away, but the man was filled with murderous intent. With a flash of white light, the villagers were pushed back. Perhaps the villagers saw that this person was not easy to mess with, so they no longer dared to approach him, and could only stare at this person from a distance. However, this person seemed to ignore them. He seemed to be walking straight towards Qingyang Restaurant..."
