Zhou Zhang took the key from the shopkeeper and nodded.
"Sir, this way please!"
A waiter dressed in gray with a white towel on his shoulder walked over and respectfully extended his hand to invite Zhou Zhang.
However, Zhou Zhang noticed that this waiter was also full of smiles, as if he was carved from the same mold as the shopkeeper. Zhou Zhang followed the waiter upstairs. The room was on the east side of the second floor. The decoration was quaint, clean, and tidy. When he opened the window and looked out, he could see the rows of houses in the ancient town.
The streets below seemed to be as lively as before. Looking at the entrance of the ancient town, there were scattered merchants pushing goods from time to time, or pedestrians rushing in with bags. They were all glad to find a place to rest for the night before sunset.
One had to know that ghosts and monsters were rampant in this world, and ferocious beasts roamed about. Staying in the wild was much more dangerous.
After the waiter led Zhou Zhang into the room, he immediately retreated and closed the door.
The smell of decay!
After the waiter left, Zhou Zhang turned around and sized up the guest room again. Even though it looked clean and elegant on the surface, Zhou Zhang's sharp five senses could sense a dense rotten aura.
This feeling was very real and not fake.
Zhou Zhang circulated his zhenqi, and his eyes instantly emitted a dazzling light. Then, the light was restrained, but there was a faint purple light jumping in his pupils.
When Zhou Zhang looked at the room again, the scene in front of him changed drastically. The house that greeted Zhou Zhang's eyes was dilapidated, old, and rotten. There were spider webs in the corners, the quilt on the bed was yellow and black, and the curtains were tattered and hung beside it.
Illusion? A smokescreen?
Zhou Zhang was slightly shocked. Fortunately, his cultivation had already reached the realm of martial arts grandmaster, and the divine treasures of his physical body were gradually being developed. After circulating his true essence, his eyes actually faintly carried the taste of the heavenly eye breaking the illusion. Otherwise, even if he knew that something was wrong, he would not have been able to see so clearly.
Suddenly, Zhou Zhang's gaze fell on the houses in the ancient town outside the window. All the houses were in a state of decay, and many places had even collapsed. White bones could be seen piled up on the ground, and the curling smoke from the chimneys turned into rolling evil black smoke that soared into the sky.
The merchants on the street, as well as the people drinking and tasting tea in the taverns and teahouses in the distance, were now white skeletons in Zhou Zhang's eyes, moving in human skin.
Bang!
Zhou Zhang directly kicked open the door and walked down.
At this moment, in the lobby of the inn, there were scattered foreign merchants eating. Zhou Zhang glanced at the dining table and saw that the plates were filled with cockroaches, earthworms, pale baby hands, and dirty human hair.
However, those traveling merchants were eating happily. In their eyes, these things should be fried beef, pork, pig trotters, noodles, and so on.
Zhou Zhang retracted his gaze expressionlessly and walked out of the hall.
"Sir, the sky is already dark. Where are you going?”
Suddenly, the manager's gentle voice sounded behind Zhou Zhang.
Zhou Zhang raised his head and looked at the sky outside. Just now, it was still the setting sun, but in the blink of an eye, the sky had completely darkened. The night was as dark as ink, and it felt like he couldn't even see his own fingers.
"I want to go out and admire the moon!"
Zhou Zhang suddenly turned around and looked at the shopkeeper calmly.
At this moment, the shopkeeper's face was still full of smiles. However, when he heard Zhou Zhang's words, his body froze slightly, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He looked at the pitch-black sky from the corner of his eye. There was no moon.
"Sir, there are many wild beasts outside at night…"
Peng! Before the chubby shopkeeper could finish his words, his head exploded and his voice stopped abruptly. Then, his corpse staggered two steps back and fell to the ground with a bang.
"Kill, kill!"
"Heavens, the shopkeeper's head was blown off!”
"How terrifying. Is this person crazy?”
At this moment, the merchants and travelers who were eating in the hall instantly changed their expressions. They stood up and looked at the handsome young man in white clothes not far away with fear.
F * ck, when this person goes crazy, he really can't be judged by his appearance! The shopkeeper had clearly only greeted him earlier, but in the end, he didn't even have a head.
"Guest, this is not good."
Just as everyone was looking at Zhou Zhang in horror, a cold voice echoed in the inn. The headless corpse on the ground slowly got up. Then, the broken pieces of the head moved on the ground and actually reformed a complete middle-aged man's head.
The face on the head was chubby, and it was still smiling. However, the head and face were covered in crisscrossing cracks. Coupled with the coldness and ruthlessness in its eyes, it looked ferocious and terrifying.
"Ghost!"
"My dear mother!"
……
In an instant, everyone present was so frightened that they almost jumped up. They felt their hair stand on end and shuddered. The scene in front of him was too strange and impactful.
"Urgh, urgh! We were eating just now!"
"Baby hands, hair, vomit! Ugh!"
"We've entered a ghost nest!"
At this moment, the scene in front of everyone's eyes seemed to peel off a layer, revealing its true appearance.
The dilapidated house was filled with rotten wooden planks and spider webs. At this moment, someone glanced at the things on the table from the corner of his eye. His expression changed drastically, and he cried out. He vomited profusely, and it was extremely disgusting.
There were also some people who were glad that they hadn't touched their chopsticks yet. However, their faces were also green at this moment. They knew that they had probably entered a ghost's nest by mistake.
At this moment, the headless corpse that had crawled up was staggering as it picked up the head from the ground and put it on its neck. With a twist of its neck, its head turned almost 180 degrees from behind to the front.
"Since all the guests have come, then stay…"
Boom!
Suddenly, it was as if a volcano had exploded in the cold inn, and rolling heat waves poured out.
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