Chapter 110 Folk Rumors
Three days later, at You hour in the afternoon.
Kong Xian and Feng An took their servant Fengchen to the top of a short mountain.
From this position, you can see a bustling town below the hill.
Looking at the mundane atmosphere in front of him, Kong Ji took a deep breath.
This town is the one Feng An mentioned, the place where he was ambushed twenty years ago.
After three days of long journey, they had already left the area controlled by the Cangwu Sect.
The small town in front of you is right at the border between the Cangwu Sect and the Mosheng Sect. It belongs to neither the Cangwu Sect nor the Mosheng Sect.
“A zone like this without care can often hide dirt and evil easily.” While Kong Zhi was looking at the small town, he was communicating in a low voice with Feng An next to him.
But I didn’t hear the latter’s response.
Kong Zhen then turned his gaze and looked at Feng An, who had obvious astonishment on his face when he looked at the small town.
"Senior Brother Feng? Is there anything wrong?" Kong Jiang called out.
Feng Anshi just woke up from his trance, frowned, and replied in a rather surprised tone.
“When I came here, this town was uninhabited and dilapidated everywhere. I didn’t expect that twenty years later, so many people have gathered here.”
As he said , Feng An sighed with some distress.
“I really want to take action when the time comes, but I can’t hold back. If I hurt an innocent person, I will definitely be punished by the sect.”
“It’s really troublesome.”
Feng An is not aimless.
The current head of the Cangwu Sect, Huangfu Ying, not only hates those monks who harvest the essence of human spirits, but also has extremely strict control over his disciples.
Other sect disciples accidentally injured the lives of a few mortals, which is harmless.
But in Cangwu Sect, you will be punished, and in serious cases, you may even be expelled from the sect.
After hearing Feng An’s words, Kong Ji’s brows also frowned deeply.
Of course, what he cares about is not hurting mortals.
He was quite concerned about Feng An's words that there were no people living here twenty years ago.
It seemed that something had occurred to him that made him feel uneasy.
But he was soon forgotten by Kong Jin and said softly: "Anyway, let's go to the town to check out the situation inside."
" It’s not too late to discuss the specific plan.”
“Yes!” Feng An nodded and agreed with Kong Xi’s proposal.
The two gathered themselves, walked down the mountain, and walked slowly toward the town.
The people in the small town did not show any surprise at the arrival of the two strange visitors.
I think it's because this place is located on the border between two sects and there are a lot of travelers passing by.
If you look carefully, you will find that although this town is small, it has all the internal organs. Inns, vendors, rice shops, and cloth shops are all available.
Kong Xian feels that this place can no longer be described as a ‘town’, but more like a small town.
The two of them came to an inn to stay. The thin-faced waiter came up and greeted him warmly: "It's better for you two to stay in the inn."
"Get us some food first, and then serve A bottle of good wine first." Feng An waved his hand, and then sat down by the window of the inn with Kong Jin.
Along the way, Kong Zhen's eyes were constantly looking at the surrounding environment, including the various pedestrians in the town he saw along the way, and he observed them repeatedly.
Even the waiter’s expression and eyes when he talked to them were all being watched silently by Kong Zhi.
I didn’t notice any clues.
This is not the first time that Feng An has acted with Kong Jiang, and he is accustomed to the latter's observant behavior.
Said softly: "Junior brother Kong, don't be too nervous, they are just ordinary mortals."
"Yeah!" Kong Ji hummed noncommittally.
He did not notice anything unusual.
But when the waiter brought a bottle of sake and put the food in the store on the table, Kong Ji's expression suddenly darkened.
When he saw Feng An about to move his chopsticks, he even held down the latter's arm without leaving a trace.
“Junior Brother Kong, it’s not serious, is it?” Feng An pursed his lips, he was always the most cautious one.
Who knew that Kong Jiang’s performance today would be even more stable than him.
Kong An smiled but said nothing, and the seriousness in his eyes made Feng An compromise.
Feng An is not able to resist the desire for food, especially when he is traveling all the way, he is even more greedy.
However, he still trusted Kong Zhi. The latter looked at the good wine and food on the table, swallowed hard, but did not move.
Kong Jiang explained softly: "It's better to be safe than this."
As he spoke, he leaned forward slightly and said to Feng An in a deliberately lowered voice: "Senior Brother Feng, what you said before reminded me of a story in a travel note I saw in a miscellaneous library."< br>
"What story?" When Feng An was talking to Kong Xian, he tried not to look at the food on the table and moved his eyes toward the window, looking a little careless.
"It was the compiler of that book who recorded an interesting folk rumor." Kong Zhi paused slightly and recalled the rumors about that story in his memory, and then slowly said : "It is said that there was a monk who was doing business in various places. He once passed by a strange town. The inn inside only had wine and beef. If he wanted to order something else, the waiter would refute it and say that the shop was small and the dishes were not complete."
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“The monk was in a hurry and was not suspicious. He ate wine and meat and left the town.”
“Because at that time, there were two towns where he was doing business. Stable business, I have to pass through that town from time to time."
"The second time I went to that inn, there was still only wine and beef."
"Four times in a row, the monks had nothing. I've eaten other things."
As he said that, Kong Jin pointed at the food on the table. The food that the waiter brought up was two plates of beef, almost two kilograms in weight. .
After listening to Kong Xian’s dictation, Feng An’s face suddenly became solemn.
However, he didn’t ask any more questions and continued to listen to Kong Jiang’s statement.
“But that monk has been doing business all year round after all, and he doesn’t care as long as he has food to eat.”
“What do you think the ending of the story is?” Kong Zhi suddenly smiled.
"What?" Feng An already felt that something was wrong, and still asked patiently.
“When he passed by the town for the fifth time, all the people in that town had disappeared. Not a single hair was left, including the dogs on the street and the chickens in the henhouse.”
“The monk was also surprised, but he still didn’t think much about it. After all, in this world, even a city may be destroyed in a monk’s battle, and a small town cannot be tolerated.”
"But what shocked him the most was that forty years later, by chance, he took that road again."
"Guess what he saw?"
As he said , Kong Ji’s expression became solemn.
“The town reappeared, and the waiter was still the same waiter.”
"In the inn, there is still only beef and wine."
After hearing this story, Feng An's body visibly stiffened.
Looking at the door of the inn out of the corner of his eye, after the food was served, the waiter stood at the door bored, waiting for the next customer.
Feng An, after all, is a thoughtful person, in order to verify whether they really encountered the strange incident recorded in the book.
After rolling his eyes, he shouted to the waiter at the door: "Waiter, are there no other dishes? No beef."
Hearing this, the waiter hurried over and said, He nodded and bowed and said, "I'm sorry, sir, our restaurant is small and the dishes are not complete. We only have beef and wine."
The waiter's answer shattered Feng An's last trace of luck.
Pretending not to care, he waved his hand and signaled the waiter to leave.
Kong Ji quietly watched the brief exchange between Feng An and the waiter without speaking.
His eyes met Feng An's eyes vaguely.
They all saw solemnity in each other's eyes.
Obviously that story is not a folk legend, it seems that they really met.
"Junior Brother Kong, what happened to the monk at the end of the story?" Feng An swallowed, his voice slightly hoarse due to nervousness.
"Disappeared. The man disappeared together with the town." As he spoke, Kong Zhi turned his head and looked outside the inn.
The street vendors are still shouting, and from time to time, children run wildly on the street, laughing happily.
Everything is so natural. No matter how you look at it, this town is not as weird as recorded in that story.
The more this happened, the more fearful Kong Xin became, and he didn’t want to stay here any longer.
"Let's leave first and then talk." He threw a broken piece of silver on the table and greeted Feng An and walked out of the inn pretending to be calm.
Obviously, it is impossible for them to stay here any longer.
Kong Jin would rather sleep in the wilderness outside the town than settle down in this inn.
in this process.
A strange thing happened. When they just walked out of the inn, the moon disc mark between Kong Zhi's eyebrows appeared on its own without being moved by him.
The light flashed between his eyebrows and then took the initiative to disappear.
Kong's body stiffened slightly. He turned back and took a deep look at the waiter at the door, who was still nodding and bowing to them, and then his expression returned to normal.
Until they left the town and disappeared on the road outside the town.
In the lively town, all the sounds disappear instantly and you can hear a needle drop.
The waiters in the inn, the shouting vendors on the street, and even the bosses of rice shops and cloth shops all stopped at the same time, like puppets on strings, all tilted their heads and looked at Kong and Jiang. The direction in which people leave.
The update time of this book is, if nothing unexpected happens.
First update around 10am.
Second update around 6pm.
If there are additional updates, they will be released around 10 p.m.
If the monthly ticket reaches 600 today, I will add more
(End of this chapter)