Chapter 23: The Nether Lock Talisman
Obviously, the shopkeeper was not killed by Song Xue - at least it didn't look like it was.
Ren Yi walked forward with the smile of the shopkeeper and reflected on the second floor with him.
"They went to your room." The shopkeeper's fingers were touching meaninglessly on the abacus. After a few seconds, he shook his head a little regretfully, "I'm so sorry, the guest, today's room is full, there is nothing to change."
Ren Yi heard this and said, "But I paid the money, and this room should be mine. If I can't change the room, please solve the uninvited things in my room for me."
The shopkeeper walked out from behind the counter, bent down and bowed, and smiled with his face: "Oh... Guest, you really polite me. How dare I deal with them - I will go up and not be torn by them!"
"Then the refund." Ren Yi stretched out his hand and his palm was facing up. "I will give me the room fee I paid, and in addition, I will give you three times the compensation."
"This..." The shopkeeper's smile slowly faded, he stroked his beard and said slowly, "We businessmen are naturally reasonable."
"But... this guest, I see you are from another place. You are not familiar with the place. If you return the money and leave the inn, it is so dark outside, it is hard to say what will happen."
His smile gradually could not hide the gloating and threat. He rubbed his hands and said in a tone that was obviously bullying:
"How about we make a good relationship, and you will feel wronged for a night. When you come to stay in the hotel tomorrow, I will give you a 20% discount?"
During the day, I looked at the shopkeeper who was still normal, and at this moment I suddenly felt like I was looking at the scathing eyes.
Ren Yi said "Oh": "It means that I will not refund my money, and I don't plan to solve the problem for me. The shopkeeper, your business is interesting."
No matter how beautiful some things are, once they are pointed out directly, they appear to be both unreasonable and extremely hypocritical.
When the shopkeeper's face became gloomy and wanted to continue saying something, Ren Yi suddenly pulled out a knife, raised his hand accurately, and cut the shopkeeper's throat with a sharp blade.
A puff.
The sound was a bit like a knife cutting a paper.
No drop of blood flowed out. The shopkeeper covered his throat in surprise, and slowly penetrated wisps of white smoke from the cracks of his fingers.
"You don't seem to be the shopkeeper I met during the day." Ren Yi played with his offering knife in his hand and said calmly, "You are a shadow puppet."
Will shadow puppet die if it is cut into its throat?
Maybe it will be too.
The closed skin sac broke a hole, and the white smoke continued to overflow from the hole, and the shopkeeper couldn't block it no matter how hard it was.
Seeing this, the shopkeeper simply gave up the ineffective blocking of the wound, stretched out a hand, pointed at him tremblingly, and his face was full of viciousness: "How dare you kill me?"
"Haha, you will be the shopkeeper in the future. The owner will like this look!"
After saying that, a very strange tiny voice came from the shopkeeper's body. I wonder if it was an illusion, but the shopkeeper's face seemed to have bulged.
Ren Yi paused, his pupils shrank, and he suddenly turned around and jumped.
There was a loud bang.
The wooden counter saw the wood chips splashed, and he was pressed to the ground by a shock force. The thick smoke rolled, almost blocking his vision.
The shopkeeper exploded.
He turned around and saw that there were only a few broken human skins left where the shopkeeper was standing. The human skin and the debris of his clothes were scattered everywhere. One of them should be half a face, with dark eyes hanging on the edge of the counter, as if looking at him quietly.
Ren Yi quickly checked his body. He only exploded a shadow puppet, but he felt a wave of dizziness in front of him, but after checking, there was no trace of being invaded by ghost energy.
He slowly walked back to the counter and reached out to pick up the human skin with half of his face.
Thin and flat.
It turned out that the bumps and bumps in the eye sockets did not exist at all, and even the eyeballs were painted.
But no matter who it was before, I couldn't see the problem of the shopkeeper at all.
Speaking of which, it’s all like this. Will the shopkeeper still appear after he becomes the boss?
Ren Yi touched this human skin and fell into deep thought.
Song Xue said that she killed the shopkeeper and thought that the shopkeeper no longer existed, so it should be a normal "kill". She thought that the shopkeeper was a human being, so she had such an idea.
What is the difference between him and Song Xue? This time the shopkeeper will die in front of him in a way that is obviously not a human? Because he took action too quickly, the shopkeeper did not have time to disguise? Doesn’t that mean that as long as the shopkeeper is prepared, he can also simulate the real human bleeding and death?
Also, the shadow puppet shopkeeper just mentioned the "master". This master should be the one who brought them into the stage world. Will it be Mr. Feng or Master Wanbian who occupy the topic of the people?
Thinking was piled up in an instant, and Ren Yi only stopped for a moment before taking action again.
He walked to the counter that was blown to pieces, tried to search for useful information, and finally found a stack of yellow talisman paper in the drawer.
The talisman is not a common talisman. It is divided into two types, one with copper locks and the other with keys. Both are painted by cinnabar mixed with ink, and at first glance, there is a sense of evil spirit.
The system prompted him to find a special prop, the Nether Lock Talisman.
This talisman is specially used to open the door for ghosts. If the talisman paper is pasted on a normal door, if the type with copper locks is pasted, the person inside will be trapped to death. Even if the body goes out, the soul will linger in the house and not leave.
On the contrary, if the key is pasted, the rule of "allowing the door" will be automatically established, making the rules about doors in Fengtou Town invalid and allowing all ghosts to move freely.
If you stick the copper lock first and then the key, the two will slam the effect of the copper lock when the key talisman is pasted.
Ren Yi immediately took the stack of talisman paper back to the second floor. The deducers on the upper floor were almost annoyed by the ghosts. He carefully observed the doors of their rooms. Sure enough, there were traces of the talisman left, and half a piece of the key talisman was falling under his own door.
Perhaps it was when he broke the door violently and shattered the talisman.
The broken talisman is hidden in the shadows and cannot be discovered without careful inspection. Perhaps it is because a ghost is deliberately hidden behind?
While thinking, Ren Yi communicated with other deducers, divided several talismans and used the copper lock talisman to trap all the ghosts into several rooms, leaving one room for them to live in.
This sudden crisis finally came to an end.
Afterwards, when he continued to study this talisman paper, Ren Yi found that only living people could use it.
Therefore, the talisman on their door cannot be posted by ghosts, but someone deliberately harmed them.
Chapter completed!