Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 535 Tea House Owner
“Is this possible??”

Xu Yan looked at the clue that appeared in front of him, his jaw almost dropped in surprise.

"What's wrong with it? It's just a tea array. It doesn't matter who sets up a tea array. Why is the tea array I set up wrong?"

Xiao Ran turned around and asked back.

The task only states that three tea formations must be completed, but there is no stipulation on who will set them up.

After saying that, Xiao Ran looked at the shopkeeper at the counter and said, "Shopkeeper, is this the truth?"

The shopkeeper, not daring to show his head from behind the counter, said, "Yes, yes, yes, sir, you are right. The tea array can be set up as you like."

Xu Yan looked at the two cups on the table and thought, "This thing you put out doesn't look like a tea array, does it?"

Of course, he just murmured this in his heart, not caring about the tea formation or not, as long as he had fun.

At this time Xiao Ran looked at Wenwen.

When Wenwen saw Xiao Ran looking at her, she immediately understood what he meant. She picked up the cup of tea with blue smoke on the table and drank it. After drinking it, Wenwen's face had a strange expression, as if she had drunk a mouthful of old vinegar, and her whole body shivered uncontrollably from the sourness.

"I have received a blessing, which is..."

"Don't say it yet!"

Xiao Ran raised his hand to signal Wenwen that there was no need to tell her. There were so many people around and it would be best for her to know it herself.

However, Xu Yan saw that Xiao Ran and Wenwen had very strange expressions after drinking tea, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Wenwen, what does this tea taste like?"

Wenwen looked back at Xu Yan and shook her head: "I don't know, it's hard to say."

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xu Yan turned his gaze to Xiao Ran, but Xiao Ran pretended not to see it.

The scroll had already been opened, and Xiao Ran didn't want to put it away so easily. He looked up at the second floor, then at the shopkeeper, then immediately picked up the scroll and walked to the counter.

“It’s from the shopkeeper!!”

Xiao Ran knocked on the table.

The shopkeeper didn't even dare to show his head. He had already crouched under the table and said, "You speak, I'm listening."

"I'm listening." Xiao Ran glanced under the table and said, "Just now you said that I broke the rules. What rules are these? Get up and let's have a good talk."

The shopkeeper didn't dare to get up. He didn't even have the courage to take a look at the painting in Xiao Ran's hand, let alone argue with Xiao Ran about the so-called rules.

He lay down under the table and said, "No, no, no, you are talking about the rules. I was confused. I apologize to you."

As he spoke, the sound of kowtows came from under the table.

"Reminder!! The shopkeeper has revoked the privilege."

Xiao Ran felt his body lighten, and the 60% suppressed attributes immediately recovered.

"That's better." After saying that, Xiao Ran picked up the scroll and walked up to the second floor.

He wanted to go up and take a look today to see what those so-called thousand-year-old ghosts looked like.

But Xiao Ran's action made both Liumu and the shopkeeper nervous.

"don't want!!"

The shopkeeper didn't care about that anymore, and quickly stood up from behind the counter and hugged Xiao Ran's legs from behind: "Sir, please be magnanimous. It's okay with you. I apologize to you. Please be merciful and let's move on from this today. You can't go up to the second floor."

Liumu also walked up to Xiao Ran and pulled his arm: "Don't make trouble, if you go up to the second floor, the owner behind this teahouse will take action, otherwise his teahouse business will not be able to continue here."

Those who enter the door are guests, and those who go upstairs are guests.

The guest is respected and the guest is humble.

This is the rule since ancient times.

The reason why his teahouse can survive in this evil ghost market is because he has the protection. As long as you go up to the second floor, you will be a distinguished guest and the owner of the teahouse will protect you no matter what.

If Xiao Ran went upstairs like this, the owner of the teahouse would have no choice but to fight to the death. Otherwise, no matter what Xiao Ran did, even if he spit upstairs, no one would come to this teahouse in the future.

Without these distinguished guests, who would come to your teahouse to do business?

However, after hearing Liumu say this, Xiao Ran became even more interested in going upstairs.

He glanced at Liumu: "Are you afraid that I can't beat you, or are you afraid that the painting in my hand can't beat you?"

Upon hearing this, Liumu let go of his hand helplessly.

"My lord, please have mercy on me. I kowtow to you. I kowtow to you!!"

The shopkeeper was about to cry when he heard this. He knelt on the ground, holding Xiao Ran's shoes, and kowtowed to the ground with a bang.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ran raised his leg and kicked the shopkeeper away.

He turned around and stared at the shopkeeper coldly: "When you were bullying me, why didn't you think of showing me mercy? If I were weaker, if I didn't have this painting, I would have walked out of your store intact today. It's too late to ask me to show me mercy now!"

Perhaps you feel pity for this shopkeeper who is so old but kneels down to beg for mercy.

But there are countless unfortunate people who died at the hands of this group of people. When they were plotted against by this group of people, they knelt on the ground and cried even more miserably than the shopkeeper. If this group of people had any conscience, this would not have happened today.

Just like the zombie who was asking for a prescription they saw before, all he was asking for was a prescription. It doesn't matter if you offer a higher price, but in the end you not only got the prescription, but you also harmed the other person.

For Xiao Ran, it would be better to close a place like this as soon as possible.

Xiao Ran held the portrait and walked straight upstairs.

The sound of "Bang bang bang..." footsteps echoed in the teahouse, at the same time Xiao Ran stepped into the teahouse.

"Oh!" A long sigh was heard, causing Xiao Ran to stop. The sky was spinning in front of his eyes, the stars were moving, and the boundless darkness enveloped him.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes slowly opened. Their eyes were like the sun and the moon. When their gaze swept over, Xiao Ran felt as if his whole body and soul were being torn apart.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran immediately put the scroll in his hand in front of him.

I saw a breeze blowing through the painting, and plum blossoms flew out of the painting and landed around Xiao Ran. Every time a flower fell, a plum tree grew out of thin air around Xiao Ran.

In just a moment, Xiao Ran was surrounded by countless plum trees. Under the thousands of bright red plum blossoms, the vast and boundless sense of oppression instantly vanished.

"You are really still alive!!"

Those eyes that were like the sun and the moon were fixed on the figure in the painting in Xiao Ran's hand, with a look full of disbelief.

"You're clearly still alive, but I haven't heard any news about you in all these years. That's fine, but if you're going to pretend to be dead, then you better do it thoroughly. Why, why do you want to come back now?!"

The shadow in the void gradually became clearer, revealing a face that could not be identified as male or female.

If you say it's a man, this face is feminine and charming, but if you say it's a woman, the voice sounds like a man.

As the emotions in the words became more and more intense, visible ripples appeared in the void, impacting the plum blossom forest around Xiao Ran wave after wave.

Seeing that the figure in the painting did not respond, the figure became more and more anxious and slowly raised his palm: "Since you are here, I will give you a cup of tea."

As he spoke, he waved his hand in the void, and a cup of tea appeared out of thin air, falling towards him like a mountain.

But before the tea could fall, the figure in the painting slowly turned around, stretched out his hand and lightly grabbed the cup of tea into the painting.

"It's really you!!!"

When he saw the face in the painting clearly, his pupils in the void trembled violently, and then he let out a piercing scream: "Old thing, I will fight you!!!"

"boom!!"

The darkness before his eyes exploded, and a terrifying storm rolled up. The huge sense of oppression made Xiao Ran feel his scalp tingling.

However, the Plum Blossom Taoist in the painting turned around and threw the teacup in his hand away.

"You like tea, I'll give you a cup."

The teacup was thrown out of the scroll and then split into seven. The seven teacups formed a tea array and scattered in all directions. Suddenly, the world turned upside down, and left and right could not be distinguished. The world shrouded in darkness suddenly became like a mirror, chaotic and disordered.

When Xiao Ran raised his head, he could actually see his own scalp. When he lowered his head, he could see six or seven of himself standing there. At a glance, it was as if he saw everything.

This feeling is indescribably weird, just like when ordinary people can only see things in three dimensions, but now my vision has become four-dimensional.

Xiao Ran looked forward again and finally saw the full picture of the figure hiding in the darkness in front of him.

A woman was cursing with her teeth bared. Her eyes were very strange, the left one was emerald green, and the right one was bright red like a gem.

The woman was trapped inside, unable to move up or down, forward or backward. Her shape kept changing, sometimes turning into a puff of black smoke, sometimes into a black storm.

His pupils burst into a bewildering light, and vine-like meridians suddenly oozed out of his green left eye, growing wildly along the twisted space.

At the end of each meridian there is an eyeball the size of a baby's fist, which rotates 360 degrees to spy on the flaws in the tea formation.

The red right eye melted into a magma-like liquid, and the void made a corrosive sizzling sound wherever it dripped.

However, even so, he was still trapped inside and unable to move.

This tea array is so chaotic that it seems impossible to find any flaws.

After struggling to no avail, the woman began to curse: "Old thing, you shall not die well, you deserve to be a rat for so many years, without children or descendants, and cut off the inheritance..."

Xiao Ran felt that this woman seemed to have some personal grudge against Plum Blossom Taoist. Her behavior became more and more crazy, and her methods became insane.

The woman's head suddenly turned 180 degrees, a bloody hole appeared on the back of her head, and three skeletal arms emerged.

The palm in the middle held a bronze bell, and when it was shaken, the sound waves actually materialized into jagged ripples in the chaotic space, trying to tear the void apart.

Facing the woman's shouting and cursing, the Plum Blossom Taoist in the scroll did not respond, but slowly stretched out his hand.

The moment the hand stretched out from the scroll, Xiao Ran couldn't help but widen his eyes.

I unexpectedly discovered that the space I was in was actually held up in this palm.

But the painting is clearly still in my hands?

"Is this also a trick?"

As if he could see what Xiao Ran was thinking, the Plum Blossom Taoist said, "Just as you thought, it's all a trick. Just like the me in the painting, it's me and not me. When you practice the soul cultivation technique to the third level, you will understand."

"Oh!"

What could Xiao Ran say? The second level hadn’t even been completed yet, let alone the third level.

The difference between me and this old monster is not only in cultivation, but also in time. It is useless to think about these things now.

At this time, Meihua Taoist turned over his palm, and the hand that was holding up the woman immediately grabbed it down like a mountain pressing down on her.

"Po Xi Mei, I killed you seven times back then, but I won't kill you today. There are mice in my house, so please come over."

As he spoke, he reached down with his hand. There was a sound of glass shattering in the air. The next moment, the woman grabbed it with her big hand and lifted it into the scroll.

Suddenly the darkness disappeared, and six wooden teacups fell to the ground with a clinking sound.

When Xiao Ran looked at the scroll again, the Plum Blossom Taoist priest had disappeared. Instead, there was a black cat under the plum tree. It had one green eye and one red eye, and a bronze bell around its neck. In the scroll, it looked fat and simple, and even its fangs and claws looked adorable...

(End of this chapter)