Chapter 168.
“Fengwu? He’s not sleeping in the middle of the night, what’s he doing running out?”
Tang Wuyi followed Jiang Ran’s gaze, and sure enough, she saw that Feng Wu was running wildly in the night, and in the blink of an eye, he had already jumped out of the post’s fence.
The two of them glanced at each other, and Jiang Ran said softly:
“Go take a look.”
“No!”
Tang Yuyi clutched Jiang Ran’s wrist:
“I’m not going, what if it’s a headless ghost trying to find Fengwu to talk to late at night, and we’re disturbing people, what if they turn around and ask us to take over for him?”
“That’s what you’re afraid of?”
Jiang Ran raised his eyebrows slightly, “Hall demoness of the Devil Cult, in the end how did you manage to be as timid as a mouse?”
“Do you believe I’m so bold that the sky can wrap around me!”
“Then you wrap one for me to see ah.”
“…… Wait until there are no ghosts.”
Tang Yuyi was a little weak: “Brother-in-law, let’s not go, okay? I’ll sleep with you.”
“You’d better use this tiger and wolf word a little less.”
Jiang Ran rolled his eyes, “In this effort, Fengwu has run off to nowhere, so what’s the point of chasing. Alright, go to sleep.”
“You’re not coming with me?”
Tang Yuyi tilted her head and looked at Jiang Ran, “Brother-in-law, could it be that you’re really a decent person?”
“En?”
Jiang Ran glanced at her, “When you’ve made almost enough of a mess, hurry up and go to sleep, or else, believe it or not, I’ll throw you out?”
“Okay, okay.”
Tang Yuyi instantly didn’t dare to spare her tongue, and after spitting out her tongue at Jiang Ran, she ran all the way to the bed in small steps, and after covering herself with the quilt, she revealed another pair of eyes.
She seemed to be smiling a bit, her eyes bending as if they were a pair of crescent moons:
“Brother-in-law, the comforter is full of your smell.”
“I haven’t bathed for a few days, there’s a bit of a smell you can endure.”
“…… Not understanding the flavor.”
Tang Yuyi grunted, covered her head with the coverlet, and viciously rolled over, facing Jiang Ran with her butt.
Jiang Ran was happy, too lazy to bother with her, and took it upon himself to come and sit down in front of the table.
Lifting the teapot, he subconsciously wanted to pour a cup of tea, but the teapot was empty, then he remembered that this pavilion was not like an inn.
Moreover, most of the things here are rather dirty, even if there is tea, I wouldn’t dare to drink it.
So he shook his head and put it down again.
Glancing out the window, the heart is to Feng Wu ran out in the middle of the night this thing, or some hang up.
Although there is no friendship between each other, but always feel that he went out in the middle of the night, there should be some joints.
Headless ghost thing, Jiang Ran is not believe.
But to say that someone is messing with the ghost, that he is recognized …… just what is the relationship between this thing and Fengwu?
In his mind, he heard footsteps coming to the door.
Jiang Ran some surprises, this room tonight how this lively?
Tang Yuyi who was lying on the bed also heard the commotion, and was startled, and hurriedly rolled over and got up.
The moment the two people looked at each other in disbelief, they heard Ruan Yuqing’s voice coming from outside the door:
“Young warrior Jiang …… you, are you asleep?”
Tang Yuyi instantly crossed Jiang Ran’s eyes, filled with disbelief.
Although no words were spoken, her eyes clearly expressed ‘Why did she come to you in the middle of the night?’ ?
Jiang Ran rolled his eyes and replied with four words with his eyes ‘none of your business’.
“……”
Tang Yuyi gritted her teeth, wanting to pull out a knife and kill someone.
Jiang Ran, on the other hand, pointed to the door and spread his hands.
Tang Yuyi took a deep breath and decided to hold back for a while, followed by a difficult look at Jiang Ran.
”What should we do now?”
Jiang Ran pointed to the closet.
”Hide a bit.”
Tang Yuyi glared at him fiercely, carefully got down from the bed, opened the closet and drilled in.
At precisely this moment, Ruan Yuqing opened her voice again and asked:
“Young warrior Jiang?”
“In.”
Jiang Ran spoke softly, his gaze glancing in the direction of the closet again, seeing Tang Yuyi staring straight ahead, then stretching out two fingers, gesturing to his own eyes, and stretching back to Jiang Ran.
Meaning ‘I’m staring at you’.
“……”
Jiang Ran was too lazy to care about her, and the moment he started the bolt, Tang Yuyi hurriedly closed the closet door.
This moment if Ruan Yuqing found out that she was in Jiang Ran’s room, then the matter could not be explained in a million ways.
First of all, why she was a woman was a big question.
If she immediately resumed her identity as ‘Li Tianxin’, then the situation of two big men staying up in the middle of the night and sharing a room would even make Ruan Yuqing’s thoughts come to mind.
This woman wasn’t some ice-clear little girl.
Having read a whole lot of theoretical knowledge from books, who knows where she can think?
When the door to the room opened, Ruan Yuqing looked at Jiang Ran and let out a soft sigh of relief:
“Young warrior Jiang …… are you alright?”
Jiang Ran was a bit surprised:
“What can I do?
“Why did Miss Ruan come over in the middle of the night? Did you not sleep well?”
“…… Couldn’t sleep.”
Ruan Yuqing gently exhaled a breath, then glanced at Jiang Ran’s dark, rumbling room, and pondered for a moment:
“Can I …… go in?”
“Come in.”
Jiang Ran made way, and only then did Ruan Yuqing carefully walk in.
Her eyes glanced around the room before she came to sit down in front of the table and gently exhaled.
Jiang Ran gave her a somewhat strange look and left the door open, turning back to sit down:
“Why does Miss Ruan seem to be in a state of shock, did you find something?”
“Not really ……”
Ruan Yuqing frowned slightly, “But after I rested tonight, I always felt as if there was something wandering around. From time to time, I was able to hear some strange sounds, and just now there were footsteps leaving. But when I checked, there was no trace.
“Moreover, until now, I have always been able to hear movement around me.”
Jiang Ran felt a bit odd listening to it, it didn’t feel like it was real.
His inner strength was profound and unfathomable, if there were really so many voices lingering around, there was no reason why he wouldn’t be able to hear them.
As for the footsteps, they were mostly Feng Wu’s.
This person is really running out ……
Thinking of this, Jiang Ran said to Ruan Yuqing:
“You put out your hand.”
Ruan Yuqing’s heart fluttered, and she immediately stretched out her wrist.
Jiang Ran put three fingers on her wrist, and after a moment, his brows furrowed slightly.
In the next moment, he joined his two fingers and flexed them, landing on top of Ruan Yuqing’s brow.
With a turn of the Creation Positive Heart Sutra, the internal force probed in from the center of the eyebrow, and in the blink of an eye, it traveled around the body.
Ruan Yuqing could not move for a moment, and did not dare to move.
In this way, about a tea’s worth of work passed before she felt Jiang Ran’s internal force detach itself from her body.
She also breathed a huge sigh of relief, only to feel that the voices that had been haunting her ears had all disappeared, and she looked up at Jiang Ran:
“I’m poisoned?”
“It’s not a poison, it’s just a small misty smoke.
“Just this kind of poison, on the contrary, is not good to solve. Because of this thing, even if it is not solved a night down the road it will dissipate on its own.”
As he said this, his brows furrowed slightly:
“But when exactly did you get poisoned?
“Tonight dinner are in one place …… Cheng Chief Bodyguard side eat is their own bring, Dao Wu Ming they followed us to rub a bite.
“And the meals we eat are all made by Luo Qingyi herself. There is also Li Tianyu on the side to look after …… Even if that old man has any problems, I think there is no chance to do it right.”
Having been poisoned in the middle of this stagecoach station, the most likely person to have poisoned him was that rickety old man.
This person’s identity was unknown, his origins were suspicious, and Jiang Ran hadn’t made a move on him, also because he didn’t seem to know martial arts.
Moreover, his mind was muddled.
Furthermore, Jiang Ran and the others were only planning to rest for the night in this pavilion, so they didn’t intend to cause any trouble.
If it was really this person who had poisoned him, this would really be a death wish.
Ruan Yuqing shook her head:
“I don’t know how I got poisoned, after I had dinner and went back to my room this evening, everything was normal.
“The things in the room, I have not used them either.
“In the beginning, everything was fine, and I didn’t dare to sleep, I just sat on the bed and meditated.
“I don’t know when it started, but the sound of hee hawsing came to my ears …… I wanted to go out and look for it, but then …… but then …… ”
She said here, a little embarrassed to speak, after a moment of silence, which continued:
“Yet again, a little afraid.
“Young warrior Jiang, you must not laugh at me.
“Although the Soft Water Sword is also considered to be somewhat famous in the Jianghu, but I am ultimately a woman, for these strange stories and strange powers and so on, always …… always a little bit of fear.
“Therefore, although heard the sound, but also did not dare to go out to check.
“Until there are footsteps ringing, I only hesitated to get up, but unfortunately, when I check, the footsteps have been far away.
“I didn’t know what kind of person that was, and I was worried that you were in danger, which is why I rushed over to check.”
Jiang Ran nodded:
“Miss Ruan, let’s go to your room and take a look.
“It’s best to wake up all the others as well, lest there be another accident.”
With these latter words, he was looking towards the closet to say.
Tang Yuyi in the closet then glared at him fiercely, and as she watched him get up and go out with Ruan Yuqing, she hated that she couldn’t poke Jiang Ran to death with her eyes.
Ruan Yuqing then asked:
“Then should we go wake up the person first, or go to my room first?”
“Go check out the room first.”
Ruan Yuqing didn’t have an opinion, so the two of them walked towards Ruan Yuqing’s room.
The distance wasn’t too far.
Jiang Ran assigned rooms and his own people were naturally mostly in one place.
Ruan Yuqing was alone in a room because she was a woman.
As for Tang Yuyi,…… although she was dressed as a man, she was actually a girl, so she was also alone in one room.
The other Li Tianyu, Luo Qingyi, Man Sheng Ming, Mr. Big are two by two, one by one, so that they can take care of each other.
Jingtan Jushi although with Jiang Ran the same single, but he in the end is considered a guest, Jiang Ran is not good to command too much, then let him a person a room.
Jiang Ran also therefore had to live on their own, although it can be with the ‘Li Tianxin’ a house.
But after all, the two people themselves are clear about what the other person is.
Some words are good to say and not good to hear.
It’s just that Jiang Ran also didn’t expect that Tang Yuyi would come to his room in the middle of the night, if he had known that, he might as well not have been so troublesome.
At this time, after coming to Ruan Yuqing’s room, Jiang Ran took out the fire folders from his bosom.
He lit the oil lamp in the room.
The gentle light pushed away the darkness, giving the room a little more warmth.
Outside the window was a gentle rain, hitting the eaves, but also called people’s hearts cozy, if not for this room is ultimately a bit gloomy, in such an environment under a good night’s sleep, when it can be extremely relieved of fatigue.
Jiang Ran’s eyes walked through the room inch by inch, and Ruan Yuqing together to check the situation in the room.
Just after turning around, they didn’t see anything odd.
“The room’s windows are intact, there are no holes, it’s not a maze of smoke blown by borrowing a bamboo tube.”
Ruan Yuqing frowned: “The lamps and candles in the room I haven’t used either, I don’t think it’s the lamp oil that’s been tampered with.”
Jiang Ran nodded slightly, he had lit the oil lamp as soon as he arrived, precisely because he wanted to see if the oddity was here.
If someone had made preparations ahead of time, and had placed a mesmerizing drug in the lamp oil.
After lighting the oil lamp, the psychedelic drug would spread with the fire, which could also poison people without any sound.
But now it seems that there is no problem in the lamp oil.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ran came to the bed again to check.
The beds in this Pavilion Post were not quite the same.
The bed in Jiang Ran’s room was an ordinary wooden bed, but the bed in Ruan Yuqing’s room was a frame bed.
The four corners of the columns, the top of the bed four feet are in, although looking not too new, but with the other furniture in the room together, but obviously can be seen is not the same period of purchase.
Jiang Ran came to the bed and sat down, his eyes following the columns upwards.
Suddenly, his brows knitted slightly:
“There’s still carvings here… …… Is it a beast head? How come it’s on the inside?”
Generally such carvings tend to be on the outside to look good.
Where is there a beast head facing inwards?
Ruan Yuqing heard the words came to Jiang Ran side to sit down, and really saw the bed pillar inside the four corners, all have animal head carvings.
Fixed eyes to look closely, you can also find the beast head hollow, there is a tiny hole.
Two people looked at each other, suddenly suddenly realized.
“Is the mesmerizing smoke coming from here …… When was this bed changed?”
Jiang Ran said here, reached out to take the beast head carving, the seven exquisite celestial craftsman hand under the sense of touch, immediately perceived that this beast head is active.
Subconsciously gently turned, and immediately heard a click.
Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing was sitting on the bed, this sound, the two people at the same time feel the bed collapsed, the figure naturally fell into a slope.
This slope is extremely smooth, under the surprise, the two people slid down a period of time, Jiang Ran only then to submerged Shadow God Steps to control the shape.
He has the ability of Gecko Swimming Walls, and can stick himself in any complex environment with his limbs fitting together.
Now when he looked up, he heard a click, and the bed board had already been re-closed.
Jiang Ran wrapped one arm around Ruan Yuqing, looked up at that bedpan, and after a slight meditation, he simply relaxed:
“Let’s go down and take a look.”
“Good.”
Ruan Yuqing nodded.
Being in one place with Jiang Ran, she didn’t feel any danger.
The two then simply relaxed their bodies and let them slide down.
Jiang Ran, on the other hand, pondered slightly, how did this Pavilion Stage come to have such an oddity?
Was it that when it was built, it had already left behind a mechanism?
Or was it artificially remodeled afterwards?
Previously did not think carefully, but now I think that the overall structure of this post is in the shape of a ‘back’, except for the side of the porch straight up, the other is in the shape of a ‘concave’ progressive, respectively, there are three sides of the room.
This kind of calculation, one side can accommodate three rooms, overall speaking a layer when there are nine rooms, even if you need to give way to the stairs, how to have eight rooms.
As a result, there are only six rooms today.
That is mostly for the room in the dark way to make way.
Otherwise, from the second floor can only fall to the first floor of the room, and can not fall into other places.
With this thought in his mind, while sliding down, Jiang Ran controlled his speed.
Lest there were any traps at the end of the mechanism.
After sliding for a while, he saw the exit.
Jiang Ran eyes condensed, see this exit, there is a touch of cold light in the darkness glittering.
It was a blade embedded at the end of the dark passage.
Jiang Ran let out a cold snort, and his figure stopped right before this blade.
Ruan Yuqing looked at the blade that was already about to reach her feet, and her face paled slightly:
“How sinister.”
“If you are sleeping and roll down here, there is no difference in the early stage, but when you come to the end, you may not be able to get your head cut off by a knife, or be split in two.
“Ning Jiu Kite said that the rumor that there are headless ghosts around this stage station, I’m afraid it only came from here.”
Jiang Ran frowned:
“Just how did it come from this?
“The post station was established by the imperial court, and it’s not a black store …… made to look like this, what do you want to do?”
As he said that, he reached out and carried Ruan Yuqing over.
Through that blade gap, he smoothed it down.
When his feet landed, he heard a clattering sound.
Jiang Ran had also landed from here by this point, and when he looked down, there were actually several corpse skeletons around him.
“These are all the travelers who lived here and unfortunately died?”
Ruan Yuqing’s face darkened: “That old rickety man, he died for nothing!”
Jiang Ran, on the other hand, raised his eyebrows slightly:
“They should be the smart ones amongst these, otherwise they wouldn’t have discovered the details on the bedposts, thus opening the mechanism.
“But this way, it seems that the reason why there are so many legends circulating here without any semblance of solid evidence.
“Mostly because, all these people have died here.
“Either they died under this organ, or they were hit by the smoke and died elsewhere.
“If it’s really that old man who did it, he’s been operating here for so many years, he wouldn’t do it for no reason just to kill people for fun …… What the hell is he going to do?”
Jiang Ran blew out the fire folders that had just gone out and illuminated the surrounding area.
Discovering that this was a stone room, based on the few turns they had made all the way down, and the height.
This should already be the ground floor of the Pavilion Post.
“At a rough glance, this room does not see a portal. But it is thought that it is by no means completely sealed …… Otherwise, wouldn’t it be possible to carry out this many arrangements here? Miss Ruan, you and I will look around and see if we can find any traces.”
“Good.”
The two did as they said, and immediately started looking around.
Meanwhile, Tang Wuyi, who had climbed out of Jiang Ran’s room, had already recovered her ‘Li Tianxin’ appearance through the Heavenly Chance Dueling Great Transformation Method.
Going to the rooms of Li Tianyu and the others, she woke them up one by one.
A group of people gathered in one place, suddenly feeling safer.
Jing Tan Jushi glanced at Tang Yuyi:
“Young warrior Li, what’s going on?”
Tang Yuyi was about to expound on what had happened, so of course she had to change her story.
It couldn’t be known that she had sneaked off to Jiang Ran’s room to find out all this.
But without waiting to open her mouth, a cry of alarm was heard coming from outside the pavilion stage.
The crowd froze and immediately flew to look for it.
But in a few moments, they had come to the inside of the enclosure, where a body without a head was lying in a pool of blood.
Looking at the clothes, it was none other than a dart master from the Tianyang Dart Bureau.