Chapter 402 Black Shop

The carriage was moving slowly on the official road. The road had been in disrepair for a long time and was full of potholes. The old horse was walking on the bumpy road as if it were flat ground. The two people in the carriage did not feel the slightest bump.

"We've arrived at Huangzhou." Lu Yang spread out the map. There was a light spot on the map, representing them. This was a magic weapon that could roughly show their location. It was a must-have magic weapon when going out.

"It's getting late, let's find a place to rest nearby." Meng Jingzhou saw that it was almost dark and they had arrived in Huangzhou, so there was no need to rush.

"Hey, look, there is an inn here. We can stay there!" Meng Jingzhou saw an inn not far away. The plaque was crumbling and even the name of the inn could not be seen clearly. The quality of the inn was worrying.

Lu Yang looked at the inn suspiciously. It was so gloomy and eerie, as if a gust of wind could blow it down.

"Just make do with it. It's better than spending the night in a carriage." Lu Yang comforted himself.

The two men and the horse arrived at the door of the inn. The door was wide open, and it was pitch black inside. There was no one there, as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

The two finally saw the name of the inn - Qingming Inn.

"This name is not very auspicious. Is this place closed or still in business?" Meng Jingzhou muttered, strode in, and shouted, "Is anyone here? We're staying here!"

No one responded.

Meng Jingzhou shouted again: "Is anyone here? Let's stay at the hotel!"

Then I heard a thud on the counter, like the sound of a body falling to the ground, extremely dull.

"Who is shouting so loudly? You don't even know the hotel rules!" A man wearing a white paper hat came out from the counter cursing and stared at Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou with a bad look.

"Let's stay in the hotel and get two of the best rooms!" Meng Jingzhou always stayed in the best places.

"You two, staying in a hotel?" The man in the white paper hat looked at them in surprise, then stretched his neck to look back and found that there was no one following them.

"Go away, go away! What are you doing? This is not the place for you. Find somewhere else to live." The man in the white paper hat impatiently drove the two men away.

Meng Jingzhou was puzzled. He had stayed in so many inns, but this was the first time he was not allowed to stay in one.

"Is your store full?"

“There’s still half an empty room.”

"Then why don't you let us stay?"

Seeing that the two men really didn't know the rules, the man in the white paper hat was about to explain when he heard a noise coming from upstairs.

Step—step—step—

There was the sound of uniform footsteps coming from the rooftop, so uniform that it was frightening.

A monk in Taoist robes came down from the second floor, followed by a group of people. They were wrapped in black cloth and remained silent, looking particularly terrifying in the dark night.

There were so many people wrapped in black cloth that Lu Yang and the others doubted whether so many rooms upstairs could accommodate so many people, especially since the man in the white paper hat said half of the rooms were empty.

Could it be that more than ten people were staying in the same room? How could they live there? Could it be that they were sleeping standing up against the wall? "Young man, leave the inn. This is the worst Qingming inn I've ever stayed in." The monk in Taoist robes threw a string of copper coins to the man in the white paper hat. The style of the copper coins was something the two had never seen before. There was also a faint fluctuation of magic power on them, which seemed to have a special effect.

The man in the white paper hat chuckled and didn't respond. As long as he could make money, that was enough.

Lu Yang was puzzled. It was already dark, why did he leave the store now? After seeing the appearance of the man wrapped in black cloth, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were both shocked.

The people wrapped in black cloth had lifeless eyes, some had mud and grass in their mouths and noses, some were disfigured as if they had been hit by something, and some looked old and so thin that only a layer of skin was left.

"Some were drowned, some were crushed to death, some died of old age...these are all dead people!"

"Corpse-driving technique?!"

No wonder they checked out and left the hotel at night. Rest during the day and drive corpses at night. That's what the book says.

The two did not expect that as soon as they entered the Deserted State, they would encounter the long-heard-of corpse-driving technique.

The man in the white paper hat put away the copper coins and rolled his eyes at the two men: "This is the Corpse Inn, providing a place for corpse drivers to rest. The rooms are for the dead. If you don't mind, you can stay here."

The corners of their eyes twitched. They were somewhat unable to adapt to living in a room with a dead person.

"The man just now could perform the corpse-driving technique. Is he from the Corpse-Driving Sect?" Lu Yang asked again. If he was from the Corpse-Driving Sect, they could have a chat with him.

The man in the white paper hat shook his head: "You two are from other places, right? I told you that our Qingming Inn is a chain in Huangzhou. How could anyone know the name of our inn and come to stay here?"

"We are from Yunzhou."

White Paper Hat suddenly realized: "The Central Plains Continent, no wonder, I heard that there is one of the five great sects, the Daowen Sect, and the entire Yunzhou is extremely powerful, with convenient transportation, a developed economy, and many powerful people."

He corrected their misunderstanding: "The art of driving corpses is not limited to the Driving Corpse Sect. There are many casual practitioners in the folk who can drive corpses, but they are far less serious than the Driving Corpse Sect."

"In our Barren State, whether they are casual corpse-driving practitioners or disciples of the Corpse-driving Sect, they are collectively called Corpse-driving Craftsmen. The transactions between them are not with Spiritual Stones, but with Large Copper Magic Coins."

The man in the white paper hat shook a string of copper coins in his hand and said, "This is it."

The two thanked the man in the white paper hat and decided to find another inn.

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After leaving Qingming Inn, Lu Yang saw a sign lying upside down at the door of the inn, and out of kindness, he helped the owner to lift it up.

The sign read: Due to adjustments in business strategy, our store has now moved 20 miles east of Baiquan Town. Thank you for your understanding.

The date of inscription was five years ago.

"What!"

The two men looked up suddenly and looked at the Qingming Inn in front of them in astonishment, feeling a chill in their hearts.

The real Qingming Inn has moved away, so who did they just see?

They rushed into the store, but it was empty, and there was no one there, including the man in the white paper hat.

"Was that a human or a ghost?"

The two were shocked. They had not noticed anything unusual about the man in the white paper hat from beginning to end. The man in the white paper hat did not react when he saw Meng Jingzhou, who had a pure yang body. How high could his cultivation level be? Was he a ghost king?

"superior!"

A decisive voice gave an order, and a group of monks dressed as detectives rushed out from all directions and rushed into the inn.

"Damn it, he got away!"

The leader had a full beard and was very unhappy when he saw that there was no man with the white paper hat in the inn.

"Big brother, what's going on?" Lu Yang asked politely.

The bearded constable saw Lu Yang and his partner just coming out of the inn and knew they were not suspicious people. He explained, "This Qingming Inn has been abandoned for five years, but during these five years, some people have said that they have stayed in this inn and thought it was haunted, so they came to us to report the case. After secretly checking and verifying the confessions, we finally figured out the reason."

"There is a man wearing a white paper hat pretending to be a shop owner. He pretends to open a shop here and lets the corpse driver live in to make money."

"Since corpses don't choose where to stay, it's understandable that the environment is a bit poor. Later, a corpse driver couldn't stand it anymore and felt that the environment of this Qingming Inn was too bad, so he complained to the Qingming Inn Head Office. The Qingming Inn Head Office was even more surprised and said that the inn had been closed for a long time. That's when the case happened."

"After we found out the truth, we thought we could catch the man in the white paper hat, but we didn't expect him to escape!"

Lu Yang: “…”

Are you guys in Huangzhou willing to do something like this just to make money? The second update will be around 11 o'clock

(End of this chapter)