Feng Qing covered her head with the quilt for a while, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

She heard someone knocking on the door downstairs.

But who would be outside on such a rainy day?

In such weather, even Li Xiaoqi would have crawled into bed early.

Feng Qing listened carefully for a while, and then climbed up.

Yes, someone was really knocking on the door.

She acted decisively, immediately lifted the quilt and ran downstairs, and her rabbit slippers made a clacking sound on the stairs.

Li Qi and Chu Changzui were originally resting in the back, and they were both quietly watching the lightning flashing outside the house.

But at a certain moment, the two of them sat up at the same time.

An aura close to violence was slowly approaching the inn, and it felt like a poisonous snake that was about to go berserk at any moment.

Without saying anything extra, the two of them jumped up from the bed and ran towards the lobby.

Feng Qing reached the door and tightened her clothes. After a heavy rain, she always felt a bone-chilling chill.

She leaned on the crack of the door and looked outside.

In this weather, she was still outside, and she was afraid that she had been soaked like a chicken in the soup. If there were really travelers who had to come here to take shelter from the rain, then she had to let them in for a night out of humanitarianism.

However, Feng Qing did not open the door immediately.

Not only because she was still a little wary, but also because she didn't know how to open the door.

The door bolt of this inn was something Feng Qing had been trying to figure out for a long time. In modern times, she would just use an iron chain to lock it, or at least there would be a security door.

But ever since Li Qi came, he insisted on putting the door bolt on every day, so theoretically speaking, Feng Qing couldn't open the door without Li Qi coming out.

She lay on the crack of the door, trying to look outside.

At first, she saw a red dress, and then she saw an arm.

Slowly, she saw the whole picture.

Then...

Feng Qing took a breath of cold air.

——She couldn't tell for a moment whether the person standing outside the door was a human or a ghost.

"Shopkeeper!"

Li Qi and Chu Changzui came over without knowing when. Li Qi had one hand behind his back, and it seemed that he was holding something in his hand.

Chu Changzui was obviously just a child, but he came over so fast that Feng Qing almost thought she was dazzled, but in the blink of an eye, he crossed the entire lobby and came to her side.

"Why are you two here?" Feng Qing was a little surprised, but with two guys accompanying her, she suddenly became a lot braver.

Although these two guys, one is a fool and the other is a brat, they can't face the guy outside, but three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang.

Feng Qing leaned over the crack of the door and took another look. The man outside had long hair that reached down to his waist, and it was wet and draped over his body.

He looked especially like a legendary water ghost. I can mention a famous Tibetan fox here.

However, this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was that the man outside had extremely pale skin. It

was the first time that Feng Qing saw such pale skin without a trace of blood. Even the skin color of a dead person might be more vivid than this.

She stood up straight and thought to herself that she might as well pretend that she didn't see it and go upstairs to sleep.

"Save me..."

At this moment, a very weak voice came from outside.

"Please, save me..."

The voice was particularly resentful, causing goose bumps to appear on Feng Qing's body one after another.

Li Qi and Chu Changzui were also standing at the door. They could both feel the violent aura of the man outside.

Even they were a little frightened by that aura. This feeling was definitely not something that an ordinary person could bring.

The man outside was definitely not simple - Li Qi thought.

It was just like the feeling given to him by those people in the Demon Cult who were about to fall into the devil.

But there was one thing that was rather strange. According to Li Qi's experience, people with such a terrifying aura usually had violent personalities and would never stand so honestly in front of the door.

They were more accustomed to smashing the door with a slap, and then killing their way in, killing anyone who stood in their way and killing anyone who stood in their way.

Chu Changzui also realized this.

He glanced at Li Qi, who was also a killing god in his eyes, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

However, before their doubts were resolved, An Huoshaxi outside knocked on the door with her last bit of strength, and then collapsed.

She had indeed been trying hard to suppress her murderous intent.

When An Huoshaxi knocked on the door in front of her, she was actually feeling nervous and expectant.

If she followed her usual style, she should rush in and kill everyone inside.

But after seeing the lightning outside just now, she suddenly changed all her ideas.

Inside that house... there is a person who can control lightning.

She saw with her own eyes that the terrible and fierce lightning was like an obedient pet in that person's hands.

Moreover, that person appeared in the evening when it was raining heavily.

Anhuo Shaxi almost used up all her strength to knock on the door in front of her. She hoped that it would be opened, and then a person would come out and pull her up.

Just like the oracle, giving her life and hope.

However, she kept knocking until the last bit of strength in her body was gone, and she didn't wait for the door in front of her to be opened.

"... Save me quickly." Anhuo Shaxi gradually became desperate.

She suddenly began to realize that the door in front of her might not be opened.

The last bit of strength supporting her began to dissipate, and she slowly slid down and sat on the cold ground.

That's right.

How could someone like her, who had betrayed the oracles so many times, possibly receive God's mercy?

However, just before Anhuo Shaxi's last bit of consciousness faded, the door in front of her was suddenly opened.

...A scent of flowers, accompanied by something called hope, appeared in front of her.

Flowers are also something that Anhuo Shaxi, who lives in the desert, can never reach.

A dim light shone through the house behind the person in front of her.

Such light is relatively dark for ordinary people, but for Anhuo Shaxi, who has lived underground since childhood, such light is the most reassuring brightness.

Just like the moonlight she saw on the desert horizon after she came out of the ground at night.

The man grabbed her, she didn't use much strength, but was exceptionally gentle.

Just like what the oracle said:

The goddess is generous and kind;

she protects everyone in the Jiuyou Sea with her love;

no matter what kind of sins he has committed;

God will forgive him.

An Huoshaxi touched the man's slightly cold arm, her hands trembled, and she couldn't speak.

Suddenly, a very reassuring darkness enveloped her.

She finally fainted completely.

Before she fainted, there was a reassuring smile on her face.

...

Feng Qing looked at the person lying on the ground in front of her.

She was numb.

At this moment, she, Li Qi and Xiaobai surrounded the paralyzed woman on the ground, coordinated with the huge thunder outside, and the occasional dazzling lightning, especially like the scene in a horrific murder case.

If someone who didn't know what was going on came, they might think this was a murder scene.

She just wanted to open an inn, but how come she encountered all kinds of weird situations?

Even if Feng Qing was afraid of ghosts, she was not a heartless person after all, so when she saw the girl was about to fall, she immediately asked Li Qi to open the door.

Before the girl fell, she was still holding her arm tightly. Her body temperature was terribly high. Feng Qing felt that the girl's temperature might be over 40 degrees.

It was only after opening the door and feeling the scalding temperature that Feng Qing was truly convinced that this was indeed a living person, and she finally felt relieved.

However, it was raining all the time, and the girl was wearing a red dress and had such a pale skin, which was a bit too scary.

After helping Feng Qing open the door, Li Qi kept looking at the woman lying on the ground.

When Feng Qing began to touch the woman's forehead, he had already quietly closed the door.

Although the woman in front of him looked very dangerous, since the shopkeeper had tacitly agreed to take her in, Li Qi would definitely not say anything.

He looked around carefully, and slowly put down the hand holding the knife behind his back to avoid attracting other people's attention. He prepared to go to the kitchen to boil a pot of water.

This woman was about to go crazy. If something really happened later, he had to prepare hot water in advance.

Because hot water can clean blood stains faster.

Chu Changzui was also sizing up the woman in front of him, his eyes lingering on her red dress for a long time.

The color and style of this dress came from the Western Regions...

With just one glance, Chu Changzui knew that the woman in front of him was extremely dangerous. Because even if she fainted, the aura on her body was like a terrible bomb.

Her nails were pitch black, and based on Chu Changzui's experience, they must be full of poison.

There was a faint blue light in her hair, which was the effect of the poisoned hair under the light.

This was a woman who was armed to the teeth, and only the top killers in the desert would arm themselves like this.

It stands to reason that such a terrible woman would not have a good temper when facing anyone.

But Chu Changzui just caught a detail.

——When the woman grabbed the shopkeeper's arm, she deliberately retracted her nails, as if she was afraid of scratching the shopkeeper.

Chu Changzui didn't think that the killers in the Western Regions would have any good qualities of gentleness and consideration. They were just like hyenas in the desert.

So in his eyes, there was only one reason for the woman's actions.

Awe.

Because of awe, she didn't even dare to show her nails, just like worshippers dared not speak loudly after entering the Buddhist temple. Maybe she knew clearly what the consequences would be if she hurt the shopkeeper, so even if she fainted from the pain, she still remembered to retract her nails.

Just like a ferocious desert cheetah will still retract its pads and roll around coquettishly when facing its master.

He recalled the woman's appearance when she fell down just now. Although she looked like she had no strength left, there was a glimmer of light in her eyes.

A woman from the Western Regions, exuding an extremely terrifying aura, but after seeing the shopkeeper, she was like a bird that found its way home.

This woman's status is not low, but she treats the shopkeeper with an almost pious attitude. She

is worthy of being... the shopkeeper.

"Shopkeeper, I'll go get a blanket for this big sister." Chu Changzui decided to leave here first.

The woman in front of him was obviously the shopkeeper's subordinate, and perhaps there were some secrets that were not convenient for outsiders to know.

Li Qi had already escaped. Chu Changzui felt that he certainly couldn't continue to cause trouble here, lest the shopkeeper get upset and beat him into a meat pie.

Huh?

Feng Qing looked up and was stunned.

How come they all left in the blink of an eye?

She wanted to call Xiaobai, but when she looked at Xiaobai's small figure, she couldn't speak.

How could she say "she's scared, please don't leave" to a ten-year-old kid? She should have some shame.

Forget it.

Feng Qing looked at the pale and wet man in front of her and thought to herself, what should she do?

This complexion was definitely not normal. It reminded her of her roommate who had a sudden hypoglycemia in college. That time, her roommate fainted without saying a word, which really scared everyone in the dormitory.

What do people with hypoglycemia need the most?

Feng Qing suddenly calmed down.

She began to feel around in her pockets. Recently, she often liked to carry two pieces of mint candy with her, the kind of whistle candy given by hot pot restaurants, but this time she had eaten all of them.

Not finding the mint candy, Feng Qing began to look around.

Just as she was casually flipping through the cabinet next to her, she suddenly found a bag of heavy things.

It was the Maltesers that she had thrown there before.

...

Maltesers, a black spherical object, is composed of cocoa butter, cocoa butter substitute, whey powder and other things.

Of course, there is one thing that is indispensable and irresistible to humans.

-- white sugar.