I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 358: Paper Shop·Super God·Old Willow
boom!
Cao Yang fell heavily to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

There is a saying that there is smoke but no injuries. Cao Yang seemed to have followed this rule. When the smoke cleared, Cao Yang appeared with an ugly look on his face, but there were indeed no visible injuries on his body, except that his clothes were covered with dust.

With a gust of ghost wind, Cao Yang's clothes became clean and tidy again.

If it was a paranormal incident in reality, Cao Yang would not use his supernatural powers so extravagantly, but this is a virtual game world where one-time deals are important, so he can naturally be more unrestrained.

He looked around vigilantly, and the strong wind howled again, hiding his figure in the ghost realm.

"Who is attacking me secretly? No, if they really have hostility towards me, they would not have missed such a good opportunity just now."

When he fell from the air just now, his consciousness was a little groggy.

If they really had hostility towards him, then would be the best time to attack and they could have killed Cao Yang. Why would they have to wait until now?

Cao Yang expanded the Ghost Wind and Ghost Domain to the extreme. It seemed as if a strong wind was blowing all around, and the trees and soil were all overturned, but no people or ghosts appeared.

Cao Yang turned his head and looked in the direction of Zhongzhou City.

Zhongzhou City in this era is far less developed than the real Zhongzhou City, and the lights are sparse in the middle of the night.

Cao Yang tried to walk towards Zhongzhou City. When he reached a certain limit, his head felt dizzy again and he fell to the ground. He recovered after a while and then immediately retreated.

"Sure enough, this should be the boundary of this game."

Reality has no boundaries, but games do.

It was the same with the ZS City back then and the Dahai City last time.

Although it has now been changed to Taiping Town from more than 40 years ago, the sense of boundary is still there, which is quite consistent with the setting of the game.

"That's understandable. If we can travel all over the world, our advantage will be too great. Especially Wei Jing, he can definitely increase the number of ghost messengers to dozens or even hundreds. Then, no matter how terrifying the evil ghost is, it will not be Wei Jing's opponent."

Although he understood it, Cao Yang still felt a little regretful.

"According to the game settings, even if Taiping Town is going to hold a market tomorrow, I estimate that there won't be too many ghost riders who can come, and we won't have the opportunity to gain points."

Thinking of this, Cao Yang determined the direction and prepared to meet up with Li Leping and Zhang Lei.

But just as he was about to move, he felt a cold breath coming. He turned his head to look at the woods beside the road. He didn't know when several figures appeared behind the trees there, their bodies half hidden behind the tree trunks, their eyes staring blankly in his direction.

"Good job, I hope it's not some ghost slave."

A cold wind blew up from around him, filled with a strange stench of corpse, as if there was a corpse in the air outlet and the stench was coming from the corpse.

The wind quickly enveloped those figures.

It was clearly just wind, but it was like some corrosive poison, and a layer of corpse spots soon appeared on the skin of these people.

The skin was rotting, but no blood was flowing out.

The skin and flesh that fell to the ground underwent a strange change, turning into a bunch of rotten white paper...

"White paper? Paper man? Liu San?"

This kind of supernatural power is indeed very similar to Liu San's method. Thinking of the paper-folding shop in the town, Cao Yang suddenly had a guess: "Liu San, could he have walked out of this town? No, no, if he is from Taiping Ancient Town, he would not have had no reaction when dealing with the ghost lake, and he would not have not known He Yin'er. But he must be related to the paper-folding shop."

In a short while, several paper figures were torn into pieces by Cao Yang's ghost wind.

"Liu San's chance this time was snatched away by Zhou Deng, which was not good in the first place. If he knew that there was a spirit similar to him here, he would probably want to kill Zhou Deng."

Cao Yang was about to leave again, but he felt a palpitation.

The ghost wind spread out again, enveloped his figure, and quickly moved away. In its place, a white paper strip in the shape of a hair slowly fell down.

On a small hill not far away, a short and fat old man appeared there at some point in time. He had the same smile on his face as the ones on the paper figures just now, but it was even more eerie and weird.

"You have good means, young man, but you shouldn't come to the town to cause trouble. We are just a group of poor old people who want to live a normal life. Why don't you sympathize with us and make things difficult for us?"

Cao Yang didn't dare to show up and still hid in the ghost realm.

This short and fat old man gave him a terrifying feeling, a feeling of powerlessness as if facing a ghost lake. "This old man may have misunderstood..."

The short and fat old man interrupted: "My last name is Liu."

"Uncle Liu, please don't misunderstand me. We just came here by accident. We really didn't mean to disturb your life on purpose. Please believe me. After all, my eyes are so sincere."

As he spoke, a pair of...sincere eyes suddenly appeared in the wind.

Old Liu: “…”

"You young people, there really is a generation gap. I believe what you say, but that doesn't mean others will believe it. If what you say is true, then leave and don't return to town within the next three days, otherwise I will be in trouble."

Old Liu seemed reluctant to take action directly and gave Cao Yang a choice.

go?
If he could leave, Cao Yang would have left long ago. Why would he stay here? But he couldn't bring himself to say the reason.

This is the game world that belongs to the "store manager". Even if it is based on a certain period of history in the past, it is ultimately his game.

In the game, can players reveal their identities to NPCs at will?

If he did so, he had a premonition that he would die miserably, and he didn't even have a single point yet.

So he could only choose silence.

His silence made Old Liu misunderstand him. "Since you don't want to leave, then stay. It happens to be hot in the town in the summer, and I, Uncle Liu, need some cool air. Although it's a bit smelly, it's still bearable."

"Okay, since you want it, Master Liu, come and get it."

As soon as Cao Yang finished speaking, a corpse appeared on Lao Liu's back. This was the ghost-pressing power he got from Fang Shiming and controlled, just like the ghost wind he controlled.

This is a very scary ghost that will attack the tallest person within a certain range.

Ordinary people will be crushed to death directly, even ghosts will be suppressed. Moreover, unlike ghost messengers, there is no limit on the number of them. As long as they cannot carry it, no matter how many ghosts they control, all of them will be weakened to a certain extent.

This is Cao Yang's most terrifying single-target attack method at present.

however……

Carrying the corpse, Lao Liu's body swayed slightly. "It's a very dangerous thing. Young people shouldn't play with it so happily."

"Uncle Liu, you are the one. You are so old but still so healthy. I believe you have more fun, right?" Cao Yang said unwillingly.

"what?"

Old Liu was not angry. He just looked at the corpse on his back disappearing in surprise, and then looked in the direction of Cao Yang.

The original ghost wind has long gone.

The strange smile on Old Liu's face became even more intense. "What a cunning boy, but if this is all you have, then you should just stay here."

……

Above the unknown valley, Li Leping and Zhang Lei stood together, looking solemnly at the valley floor below, their faces looking a little unhappy.

"We didn't encounter a single ghost along the way. According to the game settings, they should have been taken care of by the old people in the town, just like hunters going up the mountain to hunt and catch game. This is not friendly to us. There is no way to earn some points by hunting in the wild, and your strength cannot be improved." Li Leping retracted his gaze.

Zhang Lei shook his head. "My condition is maintained at a very good level. Even if I can't stack the supernatural power, I still have a strong attack power. What we should discuss now should be the puddle below. We just logged into the game near here. Although we haven't specifically explored it, there should definitely be no puddles in this kind of terrain."

Li Leping turned around and looked down the hillside.

In this era, there were mountains and forests everywhere, including the small earthen slope under their feet. Behind these lush trees, there were several strong men with half-hidden bodies, staring at them with empty and weird eyes.

Zhang Lei noticed Li Leping's vigilance and subconsciously looked back. His hair stood on end because the nearest man was only about ten meters away from him.

"This is……"

"We are being targeted. It should be the ghost rider in town."

"Then let's play. This is not their home ground. If not many people come, we can definitely turn it into points."

"can."

Li Leping and Zhang Lei quickly reached a consensus and no longer paid attention to the unusual puddles in the valley. Instead, they looked at the group of strange men.

Choking smoke rose out of nowhere and soon enveloped the visible space nearby.

"Ahem! Ahem!"

Interfering coughs rang out one after another. These were the sounds of that group of sturdy men. There were clearly several of them, but the sounds were unusually homogeneous, as if only one person was coughing.

But soon, the coughing stopped.

Those sturdy men disappeared, leaving behind only a few tattered paper figures that were roughly the same size as living people.

"Liu San's paper man? He's also come into the game?" Li Leping's face changed slightly.

Zhang Lei said: "Don't be confused. Liu San has the identity of a gamer, and he can't get in without going through the e-sports room. Don't forget, there is a paper-making shop in Taiping Town. Maybe this is the ghost of the paper-making shop."

"It seems that Liu San also has a connection with this town. If we have a chance, we must investigate. This will also prevent Zhou Deng from being hated by Liu San later." Li Leping said.

Zhang Lei nodded, "I understand."

The content of the virtual game cannot be concealed. There is a paper-making shop here that is very important to Liu San, but the opportunity to enter the game was snatched away by Zhou Deng.

When it comes to one's own supernatural powers, it is probably not a problem that can be solved by a few supernatural items.

"You guys are so nice. I just came to find you and you've already set your sights on my paper-making shop. What? Do you want to rob the old man's things?" Obviously, Old Liu was still playing the cat and mouse game with Cao Yang, but he appeared here and blocked Li Leping and Zhou Deng here.

Although Li Leping's ghost domain was still there, there was no way to stop Lao Liu's eyes from penetrating the ghost domain and falling accurately on them.

"Are all the ghost riders of this era such terrifying monsters?"

Li Leping shouted, "Go first!"

"it is good!"

The ghost smoke enveloped the place where Lao Liu was, and it seemed as if it had come alive, constantly drilling into Lao Liu's body through his ears and nostrils.

Zhang Lei also appeared behind Lao Liu. He lifted up his clothes, revealing his terrifying chest.

On his flesh, the human-like outline of a fierce ghost emerged, especially a head that seemed to have grown on it, weird and terrifying.

But at this time, the corpse had its eyes closed, as if it was in a deep sleep.

The skin around the corpse was all fiery red, as if something was burning inside his body.

At this moment, Zhang Lei looked like a demon that had crawled out of hell, hideous and terrifying.

The sleeping corpse suddenly opened its eyes, opened its mouth wide, and bit towards Lao Liu's head.

"It's a very good balancing act, but it's a pity that he is still too young after all."

Old Liu turned around abruptly. The ghost smoke that could corrode the body had no effect on him at all.

He raised his hand and grabbed the body on Zhang Lei's chest.

But when he was about to touch her, Lao Liu's body suddenly stiffened, and Li Leping walked out from the ghost smoke. His face, which was so ordinary that one could easily forget about it, turned terribly pale.

He used his ability to find ghosts.

But what he didn't expect was that the pressure of suppressing Lao Liu would be so great that the four ghosts who were originally balanced had begun to become restless.

The supernatural confrontation was still going on. He had no way of using his ability to forget the ghost and could only look at Zhang Lei blankly.

Zhang Lei did not hesitate and dodged Lao Liu's hand. The head of the corpse on his chest opened its mouth wide and bit Lao Liu's head.

Hiss!

The sound of flesh tearing was heard, and Zhang Lei's face changed completely. Li Leping hid in the ghost smoke again and sent Zhang Lei away.

Only a piece of torn paper and the old willow with a broken scalp were left there.

What was weird was that, although the scalp was broken, there was no blood or flesh underneath, but instead short black hair, as if there were other bodies hidden inside this body.

"What a vicious ghost! I am becoming more and more interested in you. Come and become mine. Only by being with me can you gain eternal life!"

Old Liu said something very misleading.

Li Leping and Zhang Lei naturally would not answer, nor could they answer, "This guy is very scary, there is no need to fight him head-on. If you want points, go find the younger generation in the town, they will definitely not be so scary."

"it is good."

As the two were discussing, the ghost smoke billowed, and the isolated Old Liu suddenly invaded. Two old but strong hands grabbed Li Leping and Zhang Lei's necks at the same time, "Discussing the future of the town in front of me, you... are too arrogant!"

Zhang Lei lifted the clothes again, and the corpse opened its mouth wide and bit the hand.

Li Leping's eyes gradually became cold, the breath of the living was dissipating, and at this moment he seemed to have turned into a real evil spirit.

The ghost smoke, which was originally peaceful, now became dangerous, cold and terrifying.

Even Zhang Lei felt a little uncomfortable. Old Liu exclaimed, "What an interesting little guy. He turned himself into a ghost?"

Li Leping did not answer.

The sleepwalking ghost has taken over his body. Now he is no longer the captain Li Leping, but a sleepwalking ghost, and a sleepwalking ghost who controls the forgotten ghost, the person-seeking ghost and the ghost smoke!
"go!"

This cold voice rang in Zhang Lei's ears, and then his vision blurred. When his vision returned, he had appeared on a mountain top several miles away.

Looking back at the expanding smoke, Zhang Lei did not hesitate and immediately ran towards Taiping Town.

"It doesn't make sense! It doesn't make sense! Even if points are very valuable after the point mall mode appears, the game difficulty won't increase to this level. There must be something wrong that we didn't notice. What went wrong?"

Yeah, what went wrong?
Lin Yuan was also thinking about this question.

As the master of this world, Lin Yuan naturally understood what happened to Cao Yang, Li Leping and Zhang Lei.

As for Old Liu who runs the paper-making shop?

His strength was a mystery to Lin Yuan, because even in the memories of Boss Liu and He Liansheng, they did not have a clear understanding of the strength of the generation of the paper-making shop owner.

Based on this, the strength of the paper-making shop owner Lao Liu is naturally more inclined to Lin Yuan's subjective cognition.

"Cao Yang and Li Leping are the captains, and Zhang Lei is the reserve captain. Their strength can be said to be among the best in reality. But they can't even last a few moves in front of Old Liu. Is Old Liu set too strong?"

Lin Yuan began to reflect.

He could still see that when Li Leping gave up his self-consciousness and let the evil spirit take over his body, his strength had become terrifyingly strong, but he was still suppressed when facing Old Liu.

The difficulty of this game is indeed inappropriate.

"Forget it, it's just a game. No matter how difficult it is, at most people will complain a few words afterwards. Then they can explain that there is a problem with the difficulty adjustment of the game in the points mode, and they will actively correct it later. Besides, it is a part of me who goes to explain anyway, not me personally. (Lin Yuan with ordinary consciousness: Thank you~)"

After realizing this, Lin Yuan felt relieved immediately.

He looked at the sky and it was still a bit early. There were still more than ten hours until the next day. This wouldn't do. He didn't have so much time to wait.

As soon as the thought came to mind, the passage of time in the whole world began to accelerate.

In just a few breaths, the dark sky had turned pale, and the originally cold Taiping Town, including the old street, began to become lively.

No one noticed anything unusual, as if all this was natural.

Boss Liu put down his pen, glanced at the sky outside, and said in surprise, "It's so fast, the whole night has passed, did I write for so long?"

"It did take a long time to write. Let me take a look."

Young He Liansheng picked up what Boss Liu had written and flipped through it. Soon his expression changed. "If what you wrote is true, then this store manager is really a terrifying existence."

What Boss Liu wrote down was naturally just his understanding of the Peace Hotel, and this understanding came from He Yiner's narration.

Although he also had three supernatural advertisements in his hand, like the middle-aged woman, the faceless man, and even the deceased He Liansheng, they did not choose to go to the Peace Hotel. Even the supernatural advertisements that served as tickets were given to He Yiner, who was in charge of handling them.

Since it is passed down by word of mouth, there are naturally some discrepancies.

But none of this matters. Boss Liu said solemnly, "In that world, our memories must have been tampered with. Because we don't have any memory of the store manager at all, let alone that the store manager has ever been to the town."

He Liansheng said in a deep voice: "According to what you said, I would have died by then, but I still have a granddaughter, Yin'er. If I can go back, I will tell her everything that happened here so that she can understand the store manager a little better and increase her weight in the store manager's eyes."

Boss Liu laughed and said, "You don't even have a son now, and now you're thinking about your granddaughter?"

"If I were you, I wouldn't be joking here right now." He Liansheng sneered, turned around and left the hotel.

Boss Liu was stunned for a moment, then quickly put what he had just written on the oil lamp and lit it, and it soon turned into a ball of ashes.

Then he blew out the lamp.

tread!
tread!tread!
There were footsteps coming down the stairs, and it was a series of footsteps. Obviously, many people were coming down from upstairs. These people were the ones who stayed here last night. They got up early today just to go to the market.

Some of them greeted Boss Liu, while others walked out of the hotel directly, looking very indifferent.

Boss Liu didn't pay attention to these people. Instead, he looked at Lin Yuan, who was the last to come down, with a serious look. "Boss Lin, how did you sleep last night?"

"Okay."

Lin Yuan answered perfunctorily. After all, he didn't sleep last night. "I'm going to go out for a walk and visit the market in Taiping Town."

Boss Liu said, "Boss Lin, please go ahead. I still have to look after the store, so I won't go with you."

"alright."

Lin Yuan didn't care, he turned around and walked out of the hotel. Only then did Boss Liu let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair.

Before he could catch his breath, his father, Lao Liu, came in with a gloomy face. Boss Liu's heart skipped a beat and he quickly asked, "What happened?"

"There were other people causing trouble in the town last night, which kept your Uncle Liu busy all night. They haven't cleaned up the mess yet. Where is the thief?" Old Liu was in a bad mood.

Boss Liu pointed to the small courtyard at the back and said, "It's locked up in the woodshed."

"Okay, I'll go take a look!"

Lao Liu immediately walked to the back. After a while, Lao Liu's roar could be heard: "You little bastard, I told you that you couldn't even keep an eye on a person, where is the person, where is the person?"

Boss Liu hurried to the backyard, but saw no ghost in the woodshed, let alone Zhou Deng.

Oh no.

Zhou Deng left a piece of paper with a few big words written on it: "The bracelet is very good!"

(End of this chapter)