The boss was surprised and asked, "Ah? That one? Taoist priest, are you sure?"

Xie Lian said affirmatively, “Yes, that’s the one!”

After saying that, he rushed over and grabbed the dress, carrying Hua Cheng and rushed to the back of the clothing store, and got into the curtain. This clothing store was very bold and had a novel idea. It set up a small compartment in the store for changing clothes, and people who came to buy clothes could try them on on the spot. Everyone was stunned. After a moment, a Taoist priest in gorgeous clothes passed by the clothing store. He walked and muttered and rubbed his forehead. Behind him followed a group of fierce and weird monks and Taoist priests. Seeing that there were so many people gathered in this clothing store, they said dissatisfiedly: "What are you looking at?!"

"Oh, forget it, let's go, I want to go to the toilet again!"

"Wait, Brother Tianyan, there are a lot of people here, why not ask them if they saw it."

"Ladies, have you seen a Taoist priest in white clothes, with a child with a bandage on his face, passing by here?"

Everyone was silent, but someone's eyes involuntarily glanced towards the back room of the clothing store. The monks and Taoists showed vigilance and gestured "go over and take a look". Tianyankai strode in, holding his breath, and slowly approached the curtain. After a moment, he suddenly pulled it open, and there was a scream.

There was a woman sitting behind the curtain, her long black hair was tied into a loose bun, her neck was slender and fair, and she wore a black collar as wide as a finger, and a very thin silver chain. Her clothes were half removed, revealing her snow-white shoulders and half of her vest, which made people blush and their hearts beat fast.

After the curtain was opened, the woman shuddered, covered her face with her sleeves, and called out softly, as if she was frightened by such a rude and reckless behavior. Tianyankai suddenly lowered the curtain and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I'm sorry!!!"

The monks and Taoist priests who followed with their eyes opened also shouted, "What a sin!" and covered their eyes one after another. Taking this opportunity, the "woman" turned around suddenly. Who else could it be but Xie Lian? Hua Cheng was sitting in his arms, but was blocked by his body. Although Xie Lian was a man and his shoulders were broader than those of ordinary women, he only pulled down half of his clothes, revealing just the right amount of space, with a good effect. Xie Lian held Hua Cheng with one hand and lifted the hem of his skirt with the other, and ran away quickly through the monks and Taoist priests who were covering their eyes and shouting. The owner of the clothing store and the girls were all stunned. Seeing him running away, the owner wanted to reach out to stop him, but he opened his mouth, looked down at the gold foil, and thought that it would be more than enough to buy two more pieces. He shrugged his shoulders and didn't care.

Xie Lian ran all the way with Hua Cheng in his arms, leaving a trail of dust. The passers-by on the road could only see a "woman" holding a child, running by, as agile and swift as a cheetah, stirring up dust all over the sky, choking and making people cough repeatedly, it was simply unbelievable. The snack vendor on the roadside stall was covered in dust and cursed: "Are you kidding me!"

Xie Lian took the time out of his busy schedule to turn around and apologize loudly: “I made a mistake! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” At this moment, he heard a frantic cry from behind: “Stop——!!!”

Looking back, it was the group of people rushing out of the clothing store. Xie Lian thought, “I really don’t know what the people who shout ‘Stop’ from behind are thinking at this time. I know that the people being shouted at will not stop. It’s better to concentrate, hold your breath and run faster!” He immediately lowered his head and ran faster. Such a large group of people ran by, and the dust was flying all over the sky. This time, the snack vendor couldn’t even curse, and was so angry that he threw the pot and said, “Fuck, are you going to let people do business!”

After chasing for two hours, as expected, the monks and Taoists who were chasing and shouting were out of breath and ran slower and slower. However, Xie Lian, who had rich experience in escaping, did not say a word and persisted to the end. After throwing away all the pursuers, he put Hua Cheng down and stood on the side of the road panting. Hua Cheng held his shoulders and said in a deep voice: "Don't breathe too fast, be careful not to get hurt."

Xie Lian looked up and saw Hua Cheng’s brows slightly furrowed, but his face was still childish. He couldn’t help but laugh out loud: “Haha, hahahaha… Ouch!”

He laughed so hard that his ribs ached. He covered his chest and saw Hua Cheng’s expression change slightly. He waved his hand and said, “It’s okay… Hey, is there an inn over there?”

Indeed, not far ahead, in the dark blue night, there was an inn emitting warm yellow light, as if guiding passers-by. Xie Lian straightened up and said, "Let's go in and rest our feet."

Hua Cheng said: "Okay."

Xie Lian then took his hand and walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. When they arrived in front of the inn, Xie Lian realized that this inn had two floors and was much more spacious than it looked from a distance. The door was closed. Xie Lian raised his hand and knocked gently, saying, "Is anyone here to stay?"

After a while, someone shouted from inside: "Come on, come on!"

After a moment, the door opened and several waiters came up with smiles on their faces and said, "Sir..."

I wanted to call him "honorable guest", but when I saw that the guest was wearing women's clothing, I changed my words and said, "This lady..."

Before he could finish his words, Hua Cheng, who was led by Xie Lian, slowly walked out from the darkness. With a child, she looked like an unmarried girl. She changed her words again: "This husband..."

The "person" in "Madam" was still in his mouth, and Xie Lian's face was also illuminated by the yellow light in the store. Although this person was wearing women's clothes and had gentle features, to be honest, this face looked more like a man. Several waiters were speechless at once, and after a long while, they still honestly called back the original address: "Sir, please come in."

Xie Lian nodded with a smile. Now, he was very skilled in wearing any clothes, and he did not feel any psychological or physical discomfort. He took Hua Cheng with him, stepped into the very low threshold, and sat down in a corner of the lobby. The inn was empty except for a few waiters. When they arrived, all the waiters immediately closed the door and surrounded them, all smiling. On the contrary, these smiles made Xie Lian feel a little uncomfortable.

He took the menu and said, "It's not easy to find an inn in the wilderness."

The waiter also said, "Isn't it? It's not easy to have customers in the wilderness!"

For some reason, although they were all smiling, the smiles seemed to be painted on, very fake. Xie Lian remained calm, flipped through the menu, and ordered a few dishes. The waiters then went down to the kitchen and asked someone to cook.

Hua Cheng played with his chopsticks and said, "Brother, we have entered a black shop run by demons and monsters."

Xie Lian said, “Yeah.”

If it weren't strange, in such a remote place, a one-story inn with one or two waiters would be a big deal. How could there be so many waiters and such a spacious store?

Of course, this is not a strong proof. The main reason is that when Xie Lian entered the store, he smelled a strong, fresh smell of blood.

Most people probably wouldn't be able to detect this bloody smell, but for Xie Lian, who had sharp five senses and was experienced, it was already too strong to ignore. Xie Lian said, "There's someone else on the second floor. I heard footsteps. I wonder if they're also travelers who are staying here."

If it is, they must be rescued. The two sat opposite each other and talked in low voices for a long time. Finally, the waiters served the dishes and said, "Here it comes!"

Just as Xie Lian was about to speak, he caught a glimpse of movement coming from outside and immediately stood up and said, “Shopkeeper, we need to go inside to rest. Could you please send the dishes upstairs?”

“Okay, okay!”

Xie Lian held Hua Cheng’s hand with one hand and skillfully lifted her skirt with the other hand as they went upstairs. He turned around and said, “Oh, by the way, if anyone asks if they’ve seen us, please just say you didn’t see us.”

“Okay, okay!”

Xie Lian hurried upstairs. Not long after he went upstairs, he heard someone knocking on the door and shouting, “Open the door, open the door!”

The guys opened the door with a smile on their faces. In rushed the group of monks and Taoist priests that Tianyankai had been chasing after!

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng had already entered the room on the second floor and closed the door. They heard someone coming into the inn shouting, "Toilet, toilet, toilet!" and ran over. Someone else said, "Boss! Is there any water?"

Seeing so many people coming at once, the guys said happily: "Yes, yes, wait a moment, coming!"

Tianyan opened his eyes and said, "Oh, I'm almost drunk! This is absurd. That 'Jade Purity Pill' is really a deadly poison. I've only drunk twenty cups. When will I be able to drink the full ninety-nine and eighty-one cups?"

“…”

Xie Lian had never expected that these monks and Taoist priests would be so sincere. If they were asked to drink 9981 cups, they would really drink 9981 cups. One monk even said, “Amitabha, I have already drunk 25 cups. I have to say that the antidote is still very useful. I do feel much better now.”

Hearing this, Xie Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and fumbled around to find some cracks or holes where he could peek. He saw Hua Cheng half squatting on the ground and said, "Brother, look here."

Xie Lian also squatted down and looked at the place he pointed at. He didn’t see anything unusual and asked, “What’s going on here?”

Hua Cheng suddenly poked his finger downwards, and a small hole suddenly appeared on the hard ground, through which a ray of yellow light shone. He said, "It's visible here."

“…”

Xie Lian leaned down and peered through the hole. Everyone sat down around the long table in the middle of the hall. Tianyan slammed the table and said, "Humph! We were careless this time. Next time we see that evil Taoist, we will never give him a chance. We must take down Hua, Hua, Hua City Lord in one fell swoop and enforce justice on behalf of Heaven!"

Xie Lian whispered, “Sanlang, how did you offend them?”

Before Hua Cheng could answer, someone asked on Xie Lian’s behalf, “Oh, by the way, I haven’t asked yet, why did you come to capture the Ghost King? What grudge do you have against him?”

So, everyone started a critical exchange meeting:

"It's really hateful! Twenty years ago, there was a village where a pig spirit went crazy and pushed down the owner's house. The house collapsed and the whole family died. The pig escaped to the ghost market. I had just started my career at that time, so I went to take it, but was beaten out by a group of ghosts. It was really a great shame. He also sent his men to tell me that there was no reason for you to eat the whole family of the pig, and the pig could not kill your whole family in revenge. If it didn't take revenge, you were lucky, but if it took revenge, you deserved it. Tell me, is there such a perverted logic in the world!"

"What a coincidence, our sect has a similar situation, but it's all because of a chicken spirit."

"It's very simple. He specifically asked to beat down the priests of our sect, so he burned down as many temples as we built. It's really infuriating! It's so unreasonable."

"And more. You know my senior brother, he's a genius with a bright future! But he has a small problem, he loves women like his life. More than ten years ago, a prostitute ghost seduced my senior brother and sucked him alive. Hua, Hua, the ghost king actually protected her."

The people below were criticizing fiercely, but Hua Cheng above was bored and not even interested in giving a mocking smile. At this time, Tianyan opened his eyes and said, "I seem to have heard of your senior brother. Is he the one who raped several married women in the name of performing rituals in the early years and was released after being imprisoned for three months?"

“Cough cough cough!”

Just at this moment, the waiters brought the dishes over, and everyone hurriedly said, "The dishes are here, the dishes are here, come on, Brother Tianyan, stop talking and come and eat."

Xie Lian stood up and took a look at the dishes on the table that the waiters had brought over. Hua Cheng said, “No need to look. They will fall apart as soon as you put them in your mouth.”

Xie Lian whispered, “This is going to be troublesome.”

Although this group of monks and Taoist priests were nagging and annoying, they couldn't let them get stuck in this weird black shop, but they couldn't warn them. At this time, Tianyan said, "Wait a minute!"

He stared at the dishes, stopping the others, with a sharp gaze. Xie Lian secretly praised in his heart: "He really has some skills!"

Everyone asked, "What happened to Brother Tianyan?"

Tianyankai stretched out a finger, wiped the edge of the plate, raised the finger high, and said angrily: "I wiped it with one finger, there is so much oil! How can you do business if you can't even wash the plate clean?!"

“…”

Xie Lian thought he had sensed something, but he didn’t expect it to be a different kind of clue. Although he was speechless, it was fine as long as the result was the same. As soon as he said that, everyone started to say, “Oh, really, what is this? It’s so sticky and looks like saliva… Wait! There’s hair in this dish!”

Someone put chopsticks in and stirred it a few times, and indeed stirred up a few black hairs. Everyone said, "Oh my god, what's going on in your kitchen? Who is in there?"

The waiter rubbed his hands and smiled, "This... We recently slaughtered a few pigs, so it might be pig bristles!"

However, the chopsticks held those strands of black hair, pulling them longer and longer, and said, "There are pig bristles this long? Is your boss lady washing her hair in the kitchen?"

"Why don't you withdraw and redo it!"

The waiter hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, we will redo it right away, right away, drink some water, sirs."

Xie Lian thought to himself, “Drinking water won’t work either, there must be something in the water!”

But the guy hadn't gone down yet. When the water was about to reach their mouths, Tianyan opened his eyes and said again, "Come back!"

The waiter came back and said with an apologetic smile, "Master, do you have any other instructions?"

The Sky Eye said, "Let me ask you, have you seen a strange-looking woman with a child passing by?"

He really asked. Xie Lian thought, “Luckily I told you not to tell him.” But just as he thought this, he heard the guy answer without hesitation, “Oh, yes!”

Xie Lian: “???”

Everyone was shocked, put down their water, lowered their voices, and asked, "Where is it?"

The guy also lowered his voice and said, "It's upstairs!"

Everyone immediately became alert, their eyes all turned upwards. Xie Lian quickly blocked the black hole that Hua Cheng had poked out. After a moment, there was a rustling sound, as if a group of people were coming upstairs. Xie Lian quietly approached the door and listened to the footsteps. It was the guy leading the group of people, sneaking over. He was holding Hua Cheng in his left hand and holding a sword in his right hand. Ruo Xie was guarding him, fully armed and on high alert, but he heard the footsteps passing by his door and going deep into the corridor. He felt strange and approached the door. He looked out through the crack and saw that the group of people had actually passed this room and blocked the door of another room.

There seemed to be someone in the room. A faint light shone through the paper window, reflecting the black silhouette of a woman sitting at the table.