Chapter 403

"You two are from out of town, right?" Seeing that Lu Yang was not familiar with the Huangzhou, the bearded constable kindly reminded them.

"You must be careful when you meet someone wearing a white paper hat in the future. This bastard commits crimes everywhere and is very cunning!"

"How so?" The two were puzzled.

The bearded constable said indignantly: "We have been looking for this grandson in the white paper hat for a long time, but we have never caught him. I don't know where he popped out from, but he has been active in the Huangzhou for several years."

"Pick any place in the Huangzhou, and it's a place where he commits crimes. This time it was pretending to be the Qingming Inn to open a black shop. Last time it was instigating accomplices to steal things, letting the accomplices be wanted, and then catching the accomplices to collect the reward money. What's even more hateful is that none of us saw that it was him who collected the reward money!"

"The time before that was disguising himself as a corpse and selling himself to a corpse-driver. When the corpse-driver was ready to refine it, he found that the corpse moved by itself, almost scaring the corpse-driver into illness."

"By the time the man in the white paper hat left, he was still terrified, thinking it was a corpse scam, chanting small spells for several days, and only then realized he had been cheated!"

"There was another time when the Barbarian tribe reported the case, saying that someone was doing smuggling business at the border of the wilderness, and it was him too!"

"This grandson will do anything to make money! If we could catch him, we could work five fewer days a year!"

The bearded constable got angry when he mentioned the man in the white paper hat, and the more he talked, the angrier he got. If the man in the white paper hat appeared now, he could swallow him alive.

Catching the man in the white paper hat was not his own wish, but the wish of the entire Huangzhou.

"This grandson is also a bit strange. Several times, he appeared in two places at the same time, as if there were two of him. I don't know if they are twins or what."

"And this time, we surrounded the inn, and you were also at the door. Did anyone notice him leaving?"

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou nodded. With their cultivation, the movements of ordinary cultivators could not escape their perception range at all, even for habitual master thieves.

Being able to escape under such circumstances shows that the man in the white paper hat has extraordinary means, or cultivation beyond everyone's expectations.

"Fairy, did you notice when the man in the white paper hat ran away?"

The Decayed Fairy rolled her eyes, feeling that Lu Yang looked down on her too much.

"He ran to the west, but don't count on the constables catching him. Even with you two, it's useless, a waste of effort. His escape technique is very unusual."

"And even if caught, it's just catching a clone, which is of no consequence."

Lu Yang was shocked. Being able to make the Decayed Fairy make such a judgment, the man in the white paper hat is even harder to deal with than he imagined.

The bearded constable directed the other constables to seal the scene and see if they could find any clues.

"Don't forget to put on the seal!" he shouted.

"Boss, is it useful to put on the seal? He tears it off every time." The bearded man's subordinate asked cautiously.

With the degree of lawlessness of the man in the white paper hat, even if the seal was put on, he could still tear it off and let the inn continue to open.

The bearded constable glared: "If I tell you to put it on, put it on. Him tearing off the seal is his business, and his crime will be increased by one degree."

"Then we'll say goodbye." Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou said goodbye to the bearded constable.

Before leaving, Lu Yang kindly suggested: "I had a feeling when the man in the white paper hat escaped. He fled to the west."

The bearded constable looked at Lu Yang in surprise, but didn't say anything more.

"The Huangzhou is full of outstanding people. Maybe we can really find a way to break my curse." Meng Jingzhou sighed, feeling that he should really go out and walk more. Look, just entering the Huangzhou, he encountered such strange people and things.

"After tossing for most of the day, we still haven't found a place to stay." Lu Yang reminded Meng Jingzhou to take care of the immediate things first.

Meng Jingzhou touched the horse's back: "Old horse, find us a village to rest?"

The old horse swept its tail, lowered its head to eat a mouthful of tender grass by the roadside, and consciously pulled the carriage to the nearest village.

Not long after, the old horse pulled the two to the nearest village. A large stone stood at the entrance of the village, with the three big characters "Jianshi Village" written on it.

"Why is it so quiet?"

The two got off the carriage, wanting to borrow a place to stay for the night, and then found that every household in the village had their doors closed, oil lamps lit, and didn't make a sound. Naturally, there was no one on the village road.

In Lu Yang's impression, without entertainment activities, people in the village should have their doors open at this time, chatting with each other.

"It's like they are afraid of something. Strange." Lu Yang frowned.

Meng Jingzhou chose the household with the largest courtyard and knocked on the door: "Old fellow, we want to borrow a place to stay for the night."

Clang—creak—

Two sounds rang out, the old man opened the door, revealing half of his head, looking at Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou vigilantly.

"Who are you?"

Meng Jingzhou showed a very close smile trained at the barbecue shop: "We are two travelers passing by here. It's getting late, and we want to borrow a place to stay for the night. I wonder if it's possible? Of course, we will pay."

The old man drove the two away impatiently: "Go, go, go, Jianshi Village doesn't welcome outsiders. You hurry up and leave. If you don't leave, be careful of being eaten by dead corpses!"

"Eaten by dead corpses? Do you have dead corpses here? Our brothers are cultivators and can help you get rid of the dead corpses."

When the old man heard this, he was even more annoyed: "No need, you hurry up and leave!"

After saying this, the old man slammed the door shut with a bang.

"Hey, you old man are really unreasonable!" Meng Jingzhou felt that the old man was neurotic. He kindly solved the trouble, but was driven away instead.

"Is it because there are female family members in their house, and you can't get in?" Lu Yang teased with a bad smile.

"Get lost." Meng Jingzhou drove Lu Yang away like a fly.

Meng Jingzhou didn't give up, changing households to knock on the door, but the other party either drove the two away or didn't open the door at all.

"Not hospitable at all." Meng Jingzhou muttered.

"What now? Change to another village?"

Meng Jingzhou didn't want to move anymore: "Too much trouble. I saw a place at the entrance of the village just now, I don't know if it's a temple or an ancestral hall, but it's quite clean and should still be in use. We can go there and make do for the night."

"That's fine." Lu Yang didn't want to toss back and forth either. He was rejected when he went to the Qingming Inn, and now he was rejected again when he came to Jianshi Village. Who knows if he would be rejected in the next village?

Instead of tossing back and forth like this, it's better to find a place to make do for the night and investigate the reason during the day.

The two came to the ancestral hall and lit the oil lamp with Samadhi True Fire. The ancestral hall instantly became bright.

"It's quite clean."

The two bowed to the spirit tablets: "Sorry, seniors, we will stay here for the night."

At the end of the village, the graveyard.

Stones shook, the graveyard loosened, as if something was moving underneath.

A withered claw drilled out from the soil.

Immediately after, claws broke through the soil like bamboo shoots after rain, countless...