Four people
Liu Jingyu knew that in fact, neither of their statements was right or wrong.
Her guards always seek to be cautious. They all like to wait in this room for the night to pass, and then take action if something unexpected happens.
But she was different. She preferred to explore. She had no idea what was happening in the city, nor did she know if she could rely on the normal cycle of the sun and moon to determine the situation. Rather than waiting for danger to strike, she wanted to leave the room and see what was happening inside the inn.
The four of them traveled all over the country with her, and she didn't want to force them to obey her. It would not be a good choice emotionally or logically.
"This..." The woman looked hesitant.
"We're just leaving the room to see what's going on next door. We won't leave the inn." Seeing that she was no longer so insistent, Liu Jingyu softened his voice and persuaded her gently.
The woman hesitated for a moment, then finally gritted her teeth and nodded: "I'll listen to you, young lady!"
"It's okay. We have to face it no matter what. If there's danger, it's unavoidable even in the room."
Liu Jingyu smiled and comforted him as he opened the door.
"Click...squeak..."
No matter how lightly the movement was made, the sound of the wooden door opening was still very obvious in the silent darkness, making people's hearts tighten.
The woman in plain clothes was in front, and Liu Jingyu was behind. The two of them walked out of the room slowly and came to the corridor.
There was no candlelight in the inn. It was pitch black and you couldn't see your hand in front of you.
The inn was quiet, and the sound of their shoes squeaking on the wooden floor echoed in their ears. On the way to the next door, every step they took was a long and fearful one.
The woman in plain clothes came to the tightly closed door next door and looked at it with some worry, wondering if the sound of kicking the door open would attract some strange ghosts.
Liu Jingyu, a few steps behind, stretched out his arms and groped forward in the darkness. Suddenly, the darkness before him seemed to stir. Liu Jingyu became alert, staring at the sticky darkness ahead for a long time without seeing any movement.
"call--"
After a moment, Liu Jingyu breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that he had seen it wrong.
She smiled inwardly.
——Most of the dangers she had encountered before were related to monks, so this time she encountered monsters and demons, and she was still very nervous.
When she opened her eyes, she subconsciously lowered her gaze to the lower right. She moved her eyes slightly, wanting to look up at the woman in front of her. When she turned her eyes, she was caught off guard by—
A furry face that looks like both a human and a cat...!
"ha……!!"
Liu Jingyu let out a low cry of fright, but the instinct she had developed over the years still told her to tap the ground on tiptoe, twist her body, and almost instantly, she swept her long legs and unleashed a neat flying kick, hard kicking the mud-like object in front of her!
"Bang!!"
“Clatter, clatter—”
The next moment, the human-shaped black shadow with a cat face was kicked backward without any resistance and fell heavily on the wooden railing beside the aisle!
There were crisp sounds of wood breaking, and broken pieces of wood fell to the ground downstairs.
At the same time, the plain-dressed woman in front kicked the door. Before she could say anything, the wooden door creaked open, and a sharp wind blew behind her, followed by a series of crisp sounds.
"Miss?!!"
The woman was frightened and turned back suddenly.
When Liu Jingyu heard the question, he quickly looked up and responded, "There was something here just now! I'm fine."
Then she frowned, feeling uneasy: "Why didn't I hear the sound of that thing falling to the ground? Where did it go?!"
As she thought about it, she quickly approached the woman in plain clothes in front of her.
The two people who met up looked back and forth in the darkness. The only remaining wooden railing was leaning outward and was about to collapse. They could not find any trace of the ghost.
"Forget it, let's go into the room first." Liu Jingyu said immediately.
The two people walked in carefully in the dim moonlight that came into the room. The layout of this room was exactly the same as the one they lived in before. They looked around and when they didn't see anyone, they went straight to the bed.
However, surprisingly, there was no one on the two beds.
Looking back at the room, they were shocked to find that there was no sign of anyone living in the room. The bed was flat and there was a thick layer of dust on the tables and chairs.
“Where are the people?!”
The woman in plain clothes screamed.
Liu Jingyu, who was standing next to her, also looked a little unhappy, and her brows unconsciously furrowed slightly. She didn't understand what was going on. Why were there only two of them left in the inn?
No, the current situation should be——
There are only two of them left in this city!
"Miss, what should we do?" the woman asked.
Liu Jingyu pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes with a serious look and said decisively, "Let's go back to the room and wait for dawn!"
"Yes!" The woman in plain clothes immediately protected her and quickly walked out of the room, returned to the room next door where the two of them had originally been, and closed the door behind her.
The two sat opposite each other in the dark without lighting a candle, listening to the wailing outside the window. They were both alert and not a bit sleepy.
“Wow!”
“Wow! Wow—”
“Wow—wow—”
The first rays of sunlight from the horizon passed through the window and fell on the table, dimly illuminating the scene in the room.
Liu Jingyu felt as if she had been thrown into a furnace and roasted. The oppressive heat eroded her mind, and she felt as if she was suffocating. Her consciousness became increasingly dizzy...
So stuffy, so stuffy...
I'm so thirsty, water, water... water...
"call!"
"Ha ha……"
Liu Jingyu suddenly opened his eyes.
She was breathing heavily, and her whole body seemed to be beating rapidly with a panicked heart. She was extremely tired, and sweat was breaking out on her back.
Her vision blurred for a while, and she blinked hard. Her vision became clear again, and what she saw was a familiar face with a flushed face.
“Wake up! Wake up!!”
Regardless of her own weakness, Liu Jingyu, who was lying on her side on the bed, stretched out her trembling hands and grabbed the shoulders of the woman opposite her, shaking her hard. She concentrated all her strength on her hands, her head felt dizzy and the world was spinning in front of her eyes.
"Hurry, wake up... wake up..." The heat in her body was drained away bit by bit, and the coldness enveloped her. She couldn't see the scene in front of her at all, and just kept shaking the person in front of her.
"Miss...Miss..."
The sound was as soft as a mosquito, and it gently entered Liu Jingyu's ears, like the sound of nature.
She suddenly dropped her hands, and with a thud, her arms slammed weakly onto the bed. Her consciousness was hazy, and she could barely even feel the pain. Liu Jingyu thought intermittently, "What... is going on... Why am I... so tired...?"
She was so tired and sleepy that she felt like she could fall into a deep sleep just by closing her eyes.
The woman opposite her had already closed her eyes again.
"No! I can't sleep..."
Liu Jingyu gritted her teeth, took out a dagger from the storage space, and fiercely cut two bloody marks on her arm. The pain suddenly woke her up.
She grabbed the arm of the person opposite her and cut it twice!
Taking advantage of the moment the woman in front of her was awake, she shouted, "Let's go! Let's go next door to confirm and leave the inn immediately!!"
After saying that, without waiting for the woman to react, she immediately stood up and forcefully dragged the woman out of the room.
Kicking open the door to the next room, Liu Jingyu dragged someone inside and saw four people lying on the bed, their faces flushed red. Without giving a second thought to what was going on, she immediately woke them up. As soon as they opened their eyes, she shouted, "Get up! Don't sleep! Let's get out of the inn!"
The four people were in a daze. After Liu Jingyu stabbed each of them twice fiercely, they instantly came to their senses and subconsciously followed him out of the room and down the stairs.
At this time, when passing by the aisle, Liu Jingyu finally had the energy to look at the wooden railings on the aisle.
I saw——
The solid reddish-brown wooden railing stood intact at the edge of the walkway, with no trace of the tragic scene from last night.
"How could this be?!" Liu Jingyu's heart tightened, but he did not stop and immediately walked out of the inn with the five people behind him.
The sky gradually changed from gray to a clean blue, the clouds gradually dissipated, and the increasingly golden sunlight covered the earth, shining on the six people who walked out of the inn. Suddenly, all the fatigue and sleepiness disappeared, and the six people woke up completely.
"Is it the inn's fault?" Liu Jingyu watched the people coming and going on the street, thinking back to the intact wooden fence inside the inn, and wondered, "Is it the killing realm of the magic weapon? Is there a magic weapon hidden in the inn?"
The five people next to her saw that she was lost in thought, but did not disturb her. Instead, they quickly and tacitly protected her in the center and kept alert to her surroundings.
Liu Jingyu immediately denied his guess: "If it is a magic weapon, then this magic weapon is definitely not an ordinary one. If it appeared here alone, those cultivators would have spread the flames of war here long ago. How could the city be so peaceful?
"And if it was the work of someone with ulterior motives, then after a night, there would definitely be no one who would notice anything unusual."
"It's not man-made, nor is it a magic weapon. Could it be a ghost?!" Liu Jingyu thought of the unknown thing with a cat face and a human body that she saw last night. She felt that the weirdness here was most likely related to that thing.
She collected her thoughts and turned to ask the four people next to her: "Did anything happen to you last night?"
The four of them were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then they began to recall it carefully.
After a moment, one of them stood up and said, "We went back to our rooms yesterday and rested, until we were awakened by a strange cry in the middle of the night. When we got up, we found that the city was quiet and there was no one in sight..."
Liu Jingyu listened quietly and nodded secretly. This was exactly the same scene they had seen last night, but...
Why didn't they find anyone in the next room last night, but saw four people this morning? Besides being drowsy and unable to wake up, they seemed unharmed.
Liu Jingyu calmly observed the expressions on the faces of the four people in front of her, trying to find something unusual on their faces.
This was so strange. The six of them must have been affected by some unknown influence last night, but why didn't anyone suffer any obvious injuries? If it wasn't intended to harm them, then what was the purpose of the strange phenomenon created that night?
Liu Jingyu's face was calm. The expressions on the faces of the four people in front of him were either undisguised fear or forced calmness. There didn't seem to be anything obviously unusual.
Perhaps because she has been traveling and encountering dangers for many years, Liu Jingyu is actually not as naive as she appears. Doubts and suspicions are common to her.
At this moment, an idea came to her mind uncontrollably -
Are these four people in front of her really... the four people who followed her into the city?
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