When the two returned to their room, they happened to encounter two itinerant merchants. The merchants who were rude yesterday were unusually friendly today and invited the two inside. Lu Yang refused to have too much contact with them and straightforwardly declined.
After being rejected, the merchants were not angry and closed the door.
The sound of a gong rang again, and the night watchman shouted, “It’s the hour of the Pig.”
Clatter clatter clatter, the sound of footsteps echoed in the corridor again. The pitch-black-eyed shop assistant wandered in the corridor.
The shop assistant lightly knocked on the door opposite, “Guest, are you there? Please open the door.”
Just when the two thought that the merchants would stubbornly refuse to open the door like last night, the knocking from the shop assistant became louder and reached a deafening level.
Creak—
The door opposite was opened.
One of the merchants was shocked by his companion’s actions, “What are you doing! Why did you open the door!”
“Quickly close the door, quickly close the door!”
“If you want to die, don’t drag me along!”
“Why can’t we close the door!”
Although there were two merchants, only one of them spoke from beginning to end, and the other merchant did not make a sound, which was very strange.
“Don’t come over, ah—”
With a heart-wrenching scream from the opposite side, there was silence.
“What happened? The merchants are not stupid, why would they open the door voluntarily?” Meng Jingzhou felt a chill in his heart.
After pondering for a moment, Lu Yang thought of a possibility, “Do you remember the person who was killed by the official this morning and then came back to life? He looks exactly the same as a living person.”
“The rules say that ‘the activity of corpses is a normal phenomenon,’ but the rules don’t say anything about corpses coming back to life!”
“The person who came back to life this morning, is it really him?”
Meng Jingzhou widened his eyes, “Are you saying… one of the merchants has already died, but his companion didn’t notice?”
Lu Yang nodded, “Yes, that’s what I mean!”
Meng Jingzhou’s scalp went numb. He thought that not many people had been killed on the street today, but now it seemed that there were probably many walking dead in the daytime!
The sound of intense knocking on the door rang again, and this time it was the door of Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou’s room.
“Help, please save me! The shop assistant is going to kill me!”
“Open the door, quickly open the door!”
“Please have mercy and save me. I can give you the location of the Golden Core, Spiritual Stones, and the Ancient Ruins!”
“Don’t kill me—”
Then came the sound of an axe hitting flesh, accompanied by the merchant’s screams.
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou glanced at each other and decided not to open the door. The opposite side had clearly become quiet just now, and now they were asking for help again. No matter how they thought about it, something was not right, it was eerie and bizarre.
Moreover, Lu Yang learned from the Immortal Fairy that the two merchants were not good people and didn’t need saving.
The voice of the merchants disappeared, and the gentle knocking sound of the shop assistant came again, “Guests, are you there? Please open the door.”
“Guests, are you there? Please open the door!”
“I’m telling you two to open the door!”
“Open the damn door for me!”
Just like yesterday, the knocking became louder and could be heard throughout the inn.
Whether it was because of the quality of the door or the rules, the shop assistant did not succeed in knocking the door open.
Lu Yang heard the shop assistant going upstairs, probably returning to the room with the “天” character.
The monsters outside the window did not appear again, and the night was peaceful.
When Lu Yang left the inn the next day, he noticed that the door of the opposite room had changed from brown to black. The two merchants came out of the room, laughing and greeting Lu Yang.
[Rule 16: After entering the black door, do not speak or eat anything inside.]
Lu Yang’s gaze narrowed. The two merchants no longer needed to follow the ordinary rules.
Meng Jingzhou couldn’t help but ask, “Who asked for help last night?”
The two merchants were puzzled and their expressions didn’t seem fake, “Help? Who asked for help?”
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou couldn’t figure out the situation with the merchants and didn’t want to say much. They hurriedly left.
During the day, the two followed the officials from a distance and found that the officials only ate one meal a day, and it had to be meat buns.
Meng Jingzhou once stole a meat bun and found that besides meat, there were suspected nails and hair inside.
After the officials finished their meal, they would walk on the street, driving away the crowd like chasing ducks. Anyone unlucky enough to turn their head would immediately die a miserable death and come back to life.
“Have you noticed? The officials have been all over the town, but they never went near the private school!”
Lu Yang spread out the map he drew yesterday while strolling through the town. The map marked the crash site, inn, private school, tailor shop, pharmacy, and government office.
The map was poorly drawn, but the good news was that he could understand it himself.
“It seems that they follow different rules, and they are not the same group!” Meng Jingzhou smiled. This was good news; it just depended on how they could use this information.
While walking on the street, the two noticed a figure flashing by in a thatched cottage through the paper window.
The rules stated that “before the hour of the Dog, one cannot return to the thatched cottage or the inn.” What kind of creature could be in the thatched cottage?
“It seems that there are many rules in this town that we don’t know about.”
Different identities need to follow different rules. Lu Yang felt that being in the Harmonious Unity stage in ancient times was really idle and anxious.
“Fairy, can you see what’s happening outside? How is my master doing with his swordsmanship?”
The Immortal Fairy marveled, “Your master has a deep understanding of swordsmanship. He can hold his own against four opponents.”
Lu Yang nodded, feeling relieved.
The two returned to the inn, and Lu Yang wrote a line on a piece of paper and handed it to the innkeeper: Are you from outside?
Meng Jingzhou watched from the side and understood Lu Yang’s meaning. According to the rules, the locals couldn’t reveal anything about the town to outsiders, but the innkeeper could, which meant that the innkeeper was not a local.
The innkeeper didn’t expect Lu Yang to ask this question and wrote a “yes.”
Lu Yang wrote: Are you an ordinary person or a cultivator?
The innkeeper wrote: I am at the 9th level of Qi Refining.
Lu Yang wrote: How did you become the innkeeper?
The innkeeper wrote: I can’t say.
Lu Yang wrote: Do you need to follow different rules from us? What are the specific rules?
The innkeeper wrote: I follow the rules of the inn in Bu Yi Town, but I can’t tell you the specific rules.
Lu Yang wrote again: Do you want to leave?
The boss’s right hand trembled slightly: Yes.
Lu Yang took out his identity jade card: We are disciples of the Seek Tao Sect who have mistakenly entered this place and wish to leave.
Upon learning that they were disciples of the Seek Tao Sect, the boss became even more excited, writing with trembling hands: What do you need?
Lu Yang wrote: Take off your white clothes.
The innkeeper, upon seeing Lu Yang’s request, was initially stunned, not expecting Lu Yang to make such a demand.
The rules he adhered to stated, “Within the rules, try to meet the guests’ requests as much as possible, except those that violate ethical norms,” and did not mention that he couldn’t take off his clothes.
The innkeeper took off his white clothes and handed them to Lu Yang.
Lu Yang put away the clothes and returned to the room with Meng Jingzhou.
“We’ve been knocking on the door for two days, today it’s our turn!” Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou laughed coldly.
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(End of this chapter)