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Chapter 134 Overnight
The temple was in a state of disrepair; even the main front gate was half collapsed. Everywhere you looked, there were jagged stones, and weeds and trees grew wildly. Only the inner hall was somewhat intact.

There seemed to be hardly anyone in sight.

However, upon seeing this, Lu Xiuyuan breathed a sigh of relief.

The fact that no one is tending to it means that no bandits live there, and the tall thatch means that no demons or ghosts use it as their lair.

It seems that even without the guidance of a cultivator, the nest I found in my haste is not bad.

Lu Xiuyuan smugly tugged at his mustache—but his rare good mood was immediately shattered by his nephew.

"Uncle, where should we set up camp?"

—Are your two eyes on your face just for decoration?!
Lu Xiuyuan pressed his throbbing temples, too lazy to curse anymore, and personally took charge, directing the guards to carry all the equipment into the temple.

His family's escort agency was a small one, and they didn't escort any valuable goods, so there were only a few people on the job. In total, it was just him, Lu Ping, and three other escorts who regularly traveled this route. Apart from the locked box, they didn't carry much equipment.

So they quickly cleared a piece of land, lit a campfire, and a small camp was set up inside the inner hall.

—At this moment, the dark clouds outside the window were as black as ink, thunder rumbled, and in an instant, the rain poured down like a torrent.

The temple was in bad shape, leaking everywhere due to the damaged roof. But at least it provided shelter from the wind and rain. Lu Xiuyuan breathed a sigh of relief, closed the temple door tightly to keep out the wind and rain, and took out the talisman he had bought from the sorcerer at a high price before leaving. He carefully sealed the doors and windows before turning around, intending to go back and warm himself by the fire.

however.

The moment he turned around, he suddenly sensed something was wrong.

Besides him, there were five other voices in the room.

Lu Ping was pestering a bodyguard to tell him about his escort missions in previous years, while the two bodyguards chatted idly—this was all that was in his escort agency.

Then
There's also a snoring sound, whose is it?

Lu Xiuyuan discreetly gripped his longsword.

His fighting skills were indeed mediocre, but he was still a seasoned veteran who had been in the game for many years. He knew that in this situation, one should not act rashly, but rather observe carefully before making a decision.

He followed the direction from which the snoring sound came and soon found a dark shadow under a collapsed statue in the temple.

—That corner was so remote and backlit that Lu Xiuyuan and his group hadn't discovered the guy's existence even after searching for so long.

are people.

Is it a ghost?

Lu Xiuyuan's hand holding the knife couldn't help but sweat.

Humans are fine; they outnumber each other, and they can communicate with any human being—but what about monsters and strange creatures?
Lu Xiuyuan could only hope that the other party had already eaten and drunk their fill that night and would let him go.

After a while, seeing that the thing did not move, Lu Xiuyuan took careful steps and moved a little closer.

There was no movement.

He took two more steps.

The snoring continued.

Finally, he boldly raised the torch and waved it in that direction—

That's when we discovered it.

...That was actually a beggar.

He was still a beggar, his clothes tattered and almost completely naked, huddled up in bed.

Upon seeing the torchlight, the other person seemed quite dissatisfied and muttered a few words, then turned over and went back to sleep.

Lu Xiuyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't doubt why a beggar would appear in this desolate mountain temple—because under the current household registration system, migrants like him couldn't stay in one place for too long, otherwise they risked being conscripted by the local government for hard labor. Over the years of his escorting business, he had often encountered these pitiful wanderers at his lodgings. However, very few of them survived more than three years; most starved to death or were devoured by demons.

Lu Xiuyuan shook his head, sighed softly, and stopped caring about it.

—If this guy had malicious intent, he wouldn't have shown up so openly. Life is so hard right now, it's better to avoid trouble.

So Lu Xiuyuan didn't greet the beggar. He simply walked back to the group, gave Lu Ping, who was on night watch, a word of advice, and then picked up the soup hanging on the pot and took a small sip.

The mixture of salted dried meat and wild vegetables tasted extremely bitter, much like the hardships they had endured during those days.

midnight.

Lu Xiuyuan was awakened by a strange sense of dread.

He suddenly opened his eyes and then raised his head.

The rain seemed to have stopped, with only the sound of water dripping through the holes in the roof remaining. The moon was still not visible outside the window. The campfire was half-extinguished, and Lupin, who had been on watch for half the night, was nodding off, seemingly dozing.

Lu Xiuyuan looked around but still didn't find anything unusual.

The other镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) remained asleep by the campfire, the donkeys rested peacefully, and even the beggar remained curled up in the corner as usual, without moving an inch.

—But the question is, where does this feeling come from?

Lu Xiuyuan took a few steps and hurriedly came to his nephew's side, nudged the body that was about to fall asleep, and whispered to him.

"Lupin, Lupin!"

The young man groggily regained consciousness, and with dazed eyes, he looked at Lu Xiuyuan.

"Oh, it's Uncle. What's up?"

There was no time to scold him for his lazy attitude, so Lu Xiuyuan hurriedly asked.

"Have you noticed anything strange while you were on watch?"

"Strange thing?" Lupin scratched his head blankly and replied. "I didn't see anything strange. The beggar you told me to keep an eye on is fine—except he's sleeping like a log—as for the rest, oh right, the door suddenly shook for a while earlier, probably from the wind. It's nothing serious. I saw you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake you."

"You idiot!"

Lu Xiuyuan smacked his nephew hard on the head, then hurriedly ran to the door.

Sure enough, just as he had guessed worst, several of the yellow talismans had turned black and showed faint signs of burning.

Recalling what the monk had said before he left, Lu Xiuyuan immediately understood.

—I've been possessed by a ghost!
However, at that moment, there was a knock on the door.

“Knock, knock, knock.”

Third tone.

The force was very light, even gentle.

Then, a sweet, delicate female voice rang out from outside the door.

"Excuse me, is anyone at the temple? I was on my way to visit relatives in another village, but I was caught in a sudden downpour and I'm soaked to the bone. I'd like to ask if anyone is home for the night."

Her words and actions made her seem like a real young wife.

but.

Peeking through the crack in the door, Lu Xiuyuan could vaguely see a bright red wedding dress, and...

One on the neck.
Two women's heads.

(End of this chapter)