Chapter 169: Agency
"Feng Wu? He didn't sleep in the middle of the night. What was he doing out here?"
Tang Huayi followed Jiang Ran's gaze and saw Feng Wu running wildly in the night. In the blink of an eye, he had jumped out. The wall of the inn.
The two looked at each other, and Jiang Ran said softly:
"Go and have a look."
"No!"
Tang Huayi grabbed Jiang Ran's wrist and said,
"I won't go, just in case the headless ghost wants to find Feng Wu late at night. We are having a heart-to-heart talk, what should we do if we disturb someone later?"
"Are you scared?"
Jiang Ran raised his eyebrows slightly: "How on earth did you become such a coward like a mouse, you, a dignified demon sect witch? "
Believe it or not, if I get brave enough, I can take care of myself!" "
Then you can give me one to look at."
"...Wait until there are no more ghosts."
Tang Huayi felt a little guilty: "Brother-in-law, we won't go." Okay? I'll sleep with you."
"You'd better use less words like tiger and wolf."
Jiang Ran rolled his eyes: "At this time, Feng Wu didn't even know where he was running and what he was chasing. Okay, go to sleep."
"Aren't you coming with me?"
Tang Huayi tilted her head and looked at Jiang Ran: "Brother-in-law, are you really a gentleman?"
"Huh?"
Jiang Ran glanced at her: "No! It's almost done, so go to bed quickly, otherwise, believe it or not, I will throw you out?"
"Okay, okay."
Tang Huayi immediately dared not talk anymore, stuck out his tongue at Jiang Ran, and ran to the bed in small steps, confused. After getting on the quilt, another pair of eyes was revealed.
She seemed to be smiling, her eyes curved like a pair of crescent moons:
"Brother-in-law, the bed smells like you."
"I haven't taken a shower in a few days, so you can tolerate the smell." "
...I don't know how to be charming."
Tang Huayi snorted, covered his head with the quilt, turned over hard, and faced Jiang Ran with his butt.
Jiang Ran was so happy that he didn't bother to argue with her, so he just came to the table and sat down.
When I mentioned the teapot, I subconsciously wanted to pour a cup of tea, but the teapot was empty. Then I remembered that this hotel is no better than an inn.
And most of the things here are quite dirty. Even if there is tea, I don’t dare to drink it.
He shook his head and put it down again.
Looking out the window, he was still a little worried about Feng Wu running out in the middle of the night.
Although there is no friendship between them, I always feel that there must be some connection between them when they go out in the middle of the night.
Jiang Ran didn't believe it about the headless ghost.
But if someone is up to something, then he agrees with it... But what does this matter have to do with Feng Wu?
With this thought in mind, he heard another footsteps coming to the door.
Jiang Ran was a little surprised. Why was his room so busy tonight?
Tang Huayi, who was lying on the bed, also heard the noise, was startled, and quickly turned over.
Just as the two people looked at each other, they heard Ruan Yuqing's voice coming from outside the door:
"Young Master Jiang... you, have you fallen asleep?"
Tang Huayi suddenly glanced at Jiang Ran, full of disbelief.
Although she didn't say anything, 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, 'None of your business'.
"..."
Tang Huayi gritted his teeth and wanted to draw a knife to kill.
Jiang Ran pointed to the door and spread his hands.
Tang Huayi took a deep breath and decided to endure it for a while, then gave Jiang Ran a troubled look.
'Now how to do? Jiang
Ran pointed to the closet.
'Hide and hide. Tang
Huayi glared at him fiercely, carefully got off the bed, opened the closet and got in.
Just at this time, Ruan Yuqing asked again:
"Young Master Jiang?"
"Here you are."
Jiang Ran spoke softly, and glanced in the direction of the closet. He saw Tang Huayi staring straight at him, and then stretched out two fingers. He raised his head, gestured with his eyes, and reached out to Jiang Ran.
It means 'I'm watching you'.
"..."
Jiang Ran was too lazy to pay attention to her. When he raised the bolt, Tang Huayi quickly closed the closet door.
If Ruan Yuqing discovered that she was in Jiang Ran's room at this moment, the matter would be completely unexplainable.
First of all, why she is a woman is a big question.
If she immediately resumed her identity as 'Li Tianxin', the situation of two grown men staying up most of the night and staying in the same room would make Ruan Yuqing even more imaginative.
This woman is not some innocent little girl.
I have read a lot of theoretical knowledge from books, but who knows where to go?
As soon as the door opened, Ruan Yuqing looked at Jiang Ran and breathed a sigh of relief:
"Young Master Jiang... are you okay?"
Jiang Ran was a little surprised:
"What can happen to me?
" "Why did Miss Ruan come here in the middle of the night?" Didn't you sleep well? "
...can't sleep." Ruan
Yuqing let out a breath, glanced at Jiang Ran's dark room again, and pondered for a moment:
"I...can I go in?" "
Come in. " "
Jiang Ran gave up his position, and Ruan Yuqing walked in cautiously.
He looked around the room, then sat down at the table and breathed out gently.
Jiang Ran looked a little strange. He glanced at her, didn't close the door, turned around and sat down:
"Why does Miss Ruan seem to be in shock? Did you find something?" "
Not really..."
Ruan Yuqing frowned slightly: "But after resting tonight, I always feel like there is something moving around." From time to time, you can hear some strange sounds, and just now there are footsteps leaving. But when I checked, there was no trace of it.
"And, until now, I can always hear movement around me."
Jiang Ran felt a little weird when he heard it, and it didn't feel like it was real.
His inner strength is profound and unpredictable. If there are really so many sounds lingering around him, there is no reason why he can't hear them.
As for the footsteps, they were probably Feng Wu's.
This person really ran out...
Thinking of this, Jiang Ran said to Ruan Yuqing,
"Stretch out your hand."
Ruan Yuqing's heart moved and she immediately stretched out her wrist.
Jiang Ran put three fingers on her wrist, and after a moment, he frowned slightly.
The next moment, he raised two fingers together and placed them on Ruan Yuqing's eyebrows.
As soon as the Zhengxin Heart Meridian is turned, the inner energy penetrates from the center of the eyebrows and spreads throughout the body in the blink of an eye.
Ruan Yuqing was unable to move for a moment and did not dare to move rashly.
After about a cup of tea, Jiang Ran felt that his internal energy was leaving his body.
She also breathed a huge sigh of relief. She felt that the sounds that had been lingering in her ears had disappeared. She raised her head and looked at Jiang Ran: "Am
I poisoned?"
"It's not a poison, it's just a small smoke.
"It's just this It's like a poison, but it's hard to detoxify. Because this thing will dissipate on its own even if it stays overnight.
When he said this, he frowned and said,
"But when did you get poisoned? "
"We all ate in the same place tonight... Mr. Cheng brought the food he brought with him. Dao Wuming and the others took a bite with us. "
And the food we ate was all cooked by Luo Qingyi himself. And Li Tianyu was watching over him... Even if the old man had any problems, he wouldn't have the chance to take action. "
The inn was poisoned, and the most likely person to have been poisoned was the rickety old man.
This man's identity is unknown and his origins are suspicious. Jiang Ran did not attack him because he did not seem to know martial arts.
Moreover, his mind was muddled. .
In addition, Jiang Ran and others only planned to rest in this hotel for one night, and did not intend to cause trouble.
If this person is really poisoning, this is really seeking death.
Ruan Yuqing shook his head:
"I I don’t know how I got poisoned. After I went back to my room after dinner tonight, everything was normal.
"I have never used anything in the room.
"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 there was a sound of chirping in my ears... I wanted to go out and look for it, but... but..." When she
said this, she was a little embarrassed to speak, and she was silent for a moment. After that, he continued:
"But he was a little scared.
"Jiang Shaoxia, don't laugh at me.
"Although Roushui Sword has some reputation in the world, I am a woman after all. I am always... always a little afraid of these strange stories, strange powers and gods." Therefore, although I heard the sound,
I I didn't dare to go out to check.
"It wasn't until I heard footsteps that I stood up hesitantly. Unfortunately, when I checked, the footsteps had already disappeared. "I didn't know who that person was, so I was
worried that you were in danger, so I hurried over here. Check. Jiang Ran nodded:
"Miss Ruan, let's go to your room and have a look."
"It's best to wake up everyone else to avoid another accident."
He said the last words while looking at the closet.
Tang Huayi in the closet glared at him fiercely. Seeing him and Ruan Yuqing get up and go out, she wanted to stab Jiang Ran to death with her eyes.
Ruan Yuqing asked:
"Then should we wake them up first, or go to my room first?"
"Go to the room to check first."
Ruan Yuqing had no objection, and the two of them walked towards Ruan Yuqing's room. .
This distance is not too far.
Jiang Ran allocated rooms, and naturally most of his people were in one place.
Because Ruan Yuqing is a woman, she is alone in a room.
As for Tang Huayi... although she dresses as a man, she is actually a girl, so she is in a room by herself.
Li Tianyu, Luo Qingyi, and Mr. Da all live in pairs, so they can take care of each other.
Although Jingtan layman was alone like Jiang Ran, he was considered a guest after all. Jiang Ran couldn't give too much orders, so he let him stay alone.
Therefore, Jiang Ran had to live in a room by himself, although he could share a room with 'Li Tianxin'.
But after all, both of them knew who the other person was.
Some things are nice to say but not nice to hear.
But Jiang Ran didn't expect that Tang Huayi would come to his room in the middle of the night. If he had known this, it would be better not to bother him so much.
After arriving at Ruan Yuqing's room, Jiang Ran took out the Huozhezi from his arms.
The oil lamp in the room was lit.
The soft light pushed away the darkness, adding a little warmth to the light in the room.
There is light rain outside the window, hitting the eaves, which also makes people feel comfortable. If this room is not a bit gloomy after all, a good sleep in such an environment will be extremely refreshing.
Jiang Ran's eyes moved across the room inch by inch, checking the situation in the room with Ruan Yuqing.
I just turned around and saw nothing strange.
"The windows in the room are intact, there are no holes, it's not the smoke blown through the bamboo tube."
Ruan Yuqing frowned: "I haven't used the lamps in the room. I don't think they were tampered with in the lamp oil."
Jiang Ran nodded slightly, He lit the oil lamp as soon as he arrived, just to see if the weirdness was here.
If someone had prepared in advance and drugged the lamp oil.
After lighting the oil lamp, the drug will be emitted along with the fire, which can also cause people to be poisoned silently.
But now it seems that there is nothing wrong with the lamp oil.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ran came to the bed again to check.
The beds in this hotel are also different.
The bed in Jiang Ran's room was an ordinary wooden bed, but the bed in Ruan Yuqing's room was a canopy bed.
There are pillars at the four corners and four legs on the top of the bed. Although it does not look new, when compared with other furniture in the room, it is obvious that it was not purchased at the same time.
Jiang Ran came to the bed and sat down, looking up the pillar.
Suddenly he frowned:
"There are also carvings here...Is it an animal head? Why is it on the inside?"
Generally speaking, such carvings tend to look better on the outside.
How can there be any animal head facing inward?
Ruan Yuqing heard this and came to sit next to Jiang Ran. Sure enough, he saw that the four corners of the bedpost were decorated with animal heads.
If you look carefully, you can also find that the animal head is hollow and has a small hole.
The two people looked at each other and suddenly understood.
"Did the mist come from here... When was this bed changed?"
Jiang Ran said this and reached out to pick up the animal head carving. Under the touch of the Qiqiao Heavenly Craftsman's hand, he immediately realized that the animal head was moving. of.
Subconsciously, he turned slightly, and immediately heard a click.
Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing were sitting on the bed. When this sound came out, they both felt the bed board collapse at the same time, and their bodies naturally fell into a slope.
The slope was made extremely smooth. Caught off guard, the two of them slid down for a while, and then Jiang Ran controlled his body with the Hidden Shadow Step.
His Latent Shadow Magic Step has the ability of a gecko to walk on walls. With his limbs together, he can stick himself to any complex environment.
Now when I looked up, I heard a click and the bed board had been closed again.
Jiang Ran held Ruan Yuqing in his arms, looked up at the bed board, pondered slightly, and then simply relaxed:
"Let's go down and have a look."
"Okay."
Ruan Yuqing nodded.
Being with Jiang Ran, I didn't feel there was any danger.
The two of them simply relaxed their bodies and allowed their bodies to slide down.
Jiang Ran thought for a moment, how could this hotel be so weird?
Was the mechanism already left behind when it was built?
Or is it that it was artificially transformed later?
I had never thought about it carefully before, but now I think about it, the overall structure of this hotel is in the shape of a "back". Except for one side of the porch that goes straight upward, the others are in a "concave" shape, with rooms on three sides.
Calculated in this way, one side can accommodate three rooms. Overall, there should be nine rooms on the first floor. Even if it needs to make way for the stairs, there must be eight rooms anyway.
As a result, there are only six now.
That was probably to make way for the secret passage in the room.
Otherwise, you can only fall from the second floor to the room on the first floor, but not anywhere else.
With this thought in his mind, Jiang Ran controlled the speed while sliding down.
Lest there be any traps at the end of the mechanism.
After sliding like this for a while, you can already see the exit.
Jiang Ran's eyes narrowed and he saw a cold light shining in the darkness at the exit.
It was a blade embedded at the end of the dark passage.
Jiang Ran snorted coldly and stopped right in front of the blade.
Ruan Yuqing looked at the blade that was almost reaching his feet, and his face was slightly pale:
"It's so dangerous."
"If he fell here in his sleep, there would be no abnormality in the early stage. When he reaches the end, he will be decapitated by a knife for no reason. , or split into two.
"Ning Jiuyuan said that there are rumors of headless ghosts around this inn, and I'm afraid they came from here. "
Jiang Ran frowned:
"But why is this so?
"The inn was established by the imperial court, and it's not a black shop... What do you want to do to make it like this?"
He said, reaching out to hug Ruan Yuqing.
From the gap of the blade, slide it down.
As soon as the footsteps hit the ground, a crash was heard.
Jiang Ran also fell down from here. He looked down and saw that there were several corpses and skeletons around him.
"Are these all travelers who lived here and died unfortunately?"
Ruan Yuqing's face turned dark: "That rickety old man would not regret dying!"
Jiang Ran raised his brows slightly:
"They should be the smart ones among them, otherwise Otherwise, the details on the bedpost would not have been discovered, thus opening the mechanism.
"But from this point of view, the reason why there are so many legends circulating here without any evidence.
"Mostly because these people have already died here.
"Either they died under this mechanism, or they were caught in the smoke and died elsewhere.
"If it is really the old man who did it, he has been operating here for so many years, and he will not just kill people for fun for no reason... What on earth is he going to do?"
Jiang Ran blew on the fire that had just been extinguished, lighting up the surroundings.
It was discovered that this was a stone chamber, judging from the several turns and heights they took along the way.
This should already be the underground of Guanyi.
"At first glance, there is no door in this room. But it is impossible to completely seal it... Otherwise, how could there be so many arrangements here? Miss Ruan, let's look for it and see if we can find anything. Traces."
"Okay."
The two of them did what they said and immediately began to search around.
At the same time, Tang Huayi, who crawled out of Jiang Ran's room, had restored the appearance of 'Li Tianxin' through the Great Transformation Technique.
Go to Li Tianyu and others' room and wake them up one by one.
As a group of people gathered in one place, they immediately felt twice as safe.
Jingtan layman glanced at Tang Huayi and said,
"Young Master Li, what's going on?"
Tang Huayi was about to explain what happened, but of course he had to change his explanation.
She couldn't let anyone know that she only found out about this when she sneaked into Jiang Ran's room.
But before he could speak, he heard an exclamation coming from outside the hotel.
Everyone was stunned and immediately flew to look for him.
But within a moment, they had arrived inside the wall, where a headless corpse was lying in a pool of blood.
Judging from his clothes, he is an escort from Tianyang Escort Bureau.
(End of chapter)