My enemies became my companions

Chapter 341: Extras
All the strange things in the inn made Chen Yi fall into deep thought.

You reap what you sow, and you grow human legs by eating lamb legs...

No wonder even Deng Ai, the lord of ghosts, thought this town was mysterious and weird.

Even in the underworld, this kind of operation is too underworld.

Even the effeminate Four Heavenly Kings on the wall are nothing but child's play.

Not to mention the waiter who was walking backwards, and the shop owner who never showed up and only his voice could be heard.

From this glimpse, we can see that the origin of this ghost town is not simple.

But the question is...how did it come about?

It seems like the direction is completely different from the previous life. How did everything become like this? Where is its source?
Chen Yi couldn't help but ponder, but he couldn't think of the result for a while.

At this moment, the crazy scribe who had been sleeping soundly for a long time scratched his neck, opened his eyes and woke up.

Chen Yi looked up and saw the Crazy Sutra Master turning around.

"Amitabha, we know each other!"

The crazy sutra master opened his eyes as if he had just woken up, and then spoke excitedly.

The two Taoists who were traveling with him heard his words and looked towards Chen Yi.
"The old teacher knows this..."

Before the Taoist could finish his words, the Crazy Sutra Master waved his arms, jumped over on a stool in a few steps, landed in front of Chen Yi, and casually pulled open a bench.

The Crazy Sutra Master put his hands together in a salute, and said with a hearty smile:
"Long time no see, long time no see, Amitabha, the Goddess Taihua is here too."

Seeing that the Crazy Scripture Master had noticed him, Yin Weiying calmly returned the greeting and sang: "May you be blessed with infinite blessings."

Going deep into the underworld, he unexpectedly turned around and saw an acquaintance. It seemed like a chance encounter, and the crazy sutra master was in a good mood.

But Chen Yi didn't want to exchange pleasantries, so he asked directly:
"Do you know anything about this ghost town?"

When talking to this crazy sutra master who acts in a rush, the simpler the conversation, the better; the less respect you show him, the happier he will be.

The Crazy Sutra Master touched his head and continued:
“I know and I don’t know.”

Chen Yi was puzzled and asked:

"What does this mean? Do your companions know?"

"They?" The Crazy Scripture Master pointed at the two Taoists, then looked for the warrior, but couldn't find them. He simply gave up and turned around and said, "They are not companions. These two, a brother and a brother, set up a Taoist temple to cause trouble in the area, defrauded people of their money, and even helped decent women to have children. I captured them and made them work like slaves for me."

When he sees someone doing evil, he captures him and makes him work like a slave. This is consistent with the character of the crazy sutra master.

Chen Yi had no doubt about this and then asked:

"So what do you mean by knowing but not knowing?"

The Crazy Scripture Master pointed to the second floor of the inn.

Chen Yi looked over there in confusion.

I only heard the Crazy Sutra Master directly say: "'I don't know' because we haven't crippled the shopkeeper here yet."

"What about 'know'?"

"'To know' means to cripple the shopkeeper here and make him confess, and then we'll know." The Crazy Sutra Master said as if it was a matter of course.

Chen Yi was speechless for a while.

The Crazy Sutra Master had this idea before, but who knew if he beat the shopkeeper, it would trigger a series of events, such as beating the young and then the old, beating the female and then the male, or even a series of unexpected butterfly effects.

But when Chen Yi was thinking, the Crazy Scripture Master had already stood up and activated all the muscles and bones in his body.

Chen Yi realized what he was about to do and his mind was in a state of confusion.

He turned around and signaled Yin Weiying with his eyes to tell him his fortune.

The nun saw this and muttered to herself that he was clearly a golden elixir now, but he couldn't even tell fortunes, and his actions were mainly based on martial arts skills. It was a waste of his golden elixir cultivation, which was really a waste of God's gift.

Although she grumbled to herself, Yin Weiying didn't dare to say it out loud. She counted on her fingers.

The hexagram represents peace.

But Chen Yi remembered that the two four-legged Taoist priests not far away had told fortunes before enjoying their meals.

In this eerie inn, hexagrams can be deceiving.

Chen Yi was thinking about the hexagram.

Suddenly there was another knock on the door.

The waiter came out of the kitchen and called out, "Here we come."

Chen Yi turned around and saw a man and a woman entering the inn. Unlike him and Yin Weiying, they were a male Taoist priest and a female warrior traveling together. The man was handsome, while the woman was extremely ordinary. Their union looked like a couple who had shared the hardships of life together.

The waiter walked out of the kitchen backwards and greeted them enthusiastically:
"Sir, do you want to be a top-notch person or stay in a hotel?"

"We can stop by and stay in the hotel." said the Taoist priest.

Yin Weiying recognized from the Taoist robe that the Taoist came from Zhenwu Mountain.

The waiter said "OK" and asked the two men what they wanted to eat.

"What is there to eat?" asked the female warrior.

"Meat, vegetarian food, and some pastries." As the waiter spoke, his eyes swept over the female warrior.

The female warrior felt a little chill.

His eyes seemed to be lustful, and Taoist Zhenwu saw a bit of annoyance on his face, but due to etiquette he did not say much, he just turned slightly to block the gaze.

Chen Yi didn't take this scene seriously at first, but after thinking about something, he became confused.

Yin Weiying's appearance was far better than that female warrior.

But when the two of them came in, the waiter didn't even look at them.

Instead, he stared straight at himself.

Is this waiter's eyes really lustful? Chen Yi knew that the only thing he had in common with the female warrior was that they were both warriors.

In addition, the waiter just killed a warrior. Putting all these coincidences together, does it mean that the strange things in this inn are not afraid of Taoist priests, but are afraid of warriors?
Not impossible.

Moreover, the two Taoists read the fortunes for the food on the table, and the results were peaceful. They felt that there was nothing strange in the food, so they put down their chopsticks.

Thinking of this, Chen Yi's last bit of doubt slowly disappeared, and he nodded decisively to the Crazy Scripture Master.

Then, he turned to the waiter and said:

"Boy, stay at the hotel."

In the name of staying in a hotel, in order to avoid alerting the enemy, I went up to the second floor first.

"Okay, sir, wait for me to finish serving this table."

The waiter responded to him and continued to greet the couple.

After Taoist Zhenwu told his fortune, he ordered some meat and vegetables at random, and then asked about pastries.

"Sir, we only have wife cakes here." The waiter stared at him.

Taoist Zhenwu nodded slightly, and then said, "Then give me one too."

After receiving the order, the waiter walked back backwards. Before leaving, he pointed to the room for Chen Yi and the others and asked them to go to the second floor by themselves.

Chen Yi glanced at the couple. They were talking to each other in a low voice, mumbling something, mostly trivial gossip. He could vaguely hear that this male Taoist from Zhenwu Mountain went to the underworld in order to complete the sect's assessment.

Zhenwu Mountain enshrines the Great Emperor Zhenwu, who is the Nine Heavens Demon-Exterminating Lord. Unlike those disciples who practice seclusion in Taihua Mountain, their disciples have always taken it as their mission to slay demons and eliminate evil.

However, having killed so many monsters and demons and escaped danger so many times, the Taoist priest was somewhat wary of this inn, but not much.

Chen Yi took a deep look.

Taoist Zhenwu noticed it and turned around in confusion.

Seeing that he didn't understand the meaning of his gaze, Chen Yi turned around and didn't say much. That look made him feel a little wary, which was enough.

Put three points of effort into saving others and seven points into yourself. We are just chance acquaintances. If you ruin your plan or even put yourself in danger because of saving others, it would be really unacceptable.

Chen Yi winked at the crazy sutra master, and the two walked side by side. Yin Weiying followed closely behind and headed for the second floor.

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In a small room on the second floor.

Through the small window covered with black gauze, you can see the scene inside the Four Heavenly Kings Inn from top to bottom.

Whether it was the fortune-telling of the two Taoists, or the Taoist Zhenwu and his wife, or the warrior and the nun carrying swords and knives, or the old monk at the end...

monk?

A sticky, round hand clenched the Buddhist beads.

At first glance, the hand was crystal clear and round like a pearl, just like a baby's hand.

"The monk is not good, the monk is not good."

A mouth was muttering.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

The other mouth on the left asked in return.

"Don't you remember? Honen Kōsō said it was not good."

The mouth on the left couldn't understand: "Benyuan Gongcao turned out to be a monk, why do you say it's not good?"

"Because Benyuan Gongcao was originally a monk."

"What are you talking about, you stupid guy? Speak clearly."

"You are the one who is not good at talking. Benyuan Gongcao returned to secular life. His son died and was executed by an old monk, so he returned to secular life." said the mouth on the right.

The mouth on the left was curious: "Which monk executed him?"

"Keep your voice down and don't let anyone know... The old monk who executed his son went insane afterwards. Karma is retribution. This old monk also had a son who was also killed."

"Did Benyuan Gongcao do this?"

"Shh, don't talk nonsense!"

"Don't talk nonsense. What should I say?"

"Anyway, I can't say it directly." said Youzui.

Zuo Zui suddenly realized: "Oh! Benyuan Gongcao didn't kill the crazy monk's son!"

"That's right, that's right. Otherwise, how can it be called karma? What goes around comes around." The right mouth said approvingly.

The mouth on the left thought of a question and said in confusion: "But we don't believe in this Amitabha Buddha either. We believe in another Buddha. I forgot which Buddha it was..."

"Great Ming Buddha! Look at your stupid mouth. Have you forgotten the Great Ming Buddha we believe in? But we can't say this in public. We have to pretend slowly." Right Mouth said

"Come to think of it, what are our names?"

Zuozui's memory is a little poor. He has lost his soul and even forgot his name. He only remembers that they died next to each other, deep in the mountains, and died very quickly.

"I don't remember it either, and I guess no one else remembers it either."

"Do you remember the people who killed us?"

“…I probably don’t remember.” Youzui recalled the ups and downs of the capital, and then said, “We were just extras.”

"Then we have a good relationship!" Zuo Zui said excitedly, "Otherwise, why would we die together?"

The small window was closed, and the faint light in the room illuminated the appearance of the innkeeper.

The two heads were stuck together, with a dividing line formed from the eye in the middle, and then split apart, with two separate mouths opening on the left and right, like a deformed child drowned in the water.

What is even more shocking is that the two heads are supported by a neck as thin as a baby's, which makes people wonder if it will break in the middle.

The plot has reached one of the key points. I will revise it, save the draft, and update it for you in a few days!!!
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(End of this chapter)