A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Kia raised her objections cautiously: "What if it's a natural disaster?"

"No, no, no... If a natural disaster of this scale has passed, the re-published newspapers will publish lengthy reports of the 'disastrous situation'. Moreover, some obituaries released before that time, the key information in them has been blacked out It's like the authorities are deliberately trying to make a certain period of time disappear, what happened four years ago?"

Lori went on, till at last she trembled herself.

Gibb also followed suit: "... I also found something, and it happened four years ago... Our town is not big, and we have been going to school with the same group of children since we were young. Some of the kids dropped out. Nobody talked about them anymore, their friends moved to other towns, so our grade was always smaller than the rest of the grades...the school records even had those kids' grade sheets deleted, only Leaving the item of 'dropping out of school in a certain year and a certain month'..."

"Wait!" Lori seemed to remember something, and hurriedly interrupted Gibb's narration and asked, "...When did those children drop out of school?"

"... Oddly enough, it's all in January..." Gibb replied, then realized the same thing, and almost blurted out, "Your mother is..."

Kia quickly covered her mouth, but Lori continued with her eyes out of focus: "My mother died in that January."

They still can't understand whether there is any mystical connection behind this coincidence, but the coincidence itself is already terrifying enough.

In addition, ordinary cases are simply not enough for the federal authorities to take such a big risk and use so many human and material resources to eliminate all traces. After all, shootings, robberies, and theft are already part of American life. Not without it.

"What the hell have we been involved in?" Kia was about to cry, "...Gibb, you drank so much last night, why do you have to go to the little bar you just found for another drink? "

"So now it's all my fault again? How do I know where it is?" Gibb tried to light a cigarette with trembling hands, but he couldn't light it.

Girls' minds are always the most active, and that's when they like a series of negative energy concepts such as "death", "darkness", "witch", and "devil".Images of a large number of horror movies, thriller literature, and ghost comics that I usually read flooded my mind, causing the girls to start thinking about it uncontrollably.

"No, it can't be like this, at least the three of us can't quarrel."

Lori quickly took the hands of the two of them: "Gibb, Kia, do you remember when we were ten years old?"

It was very young, but the girls obviously remember it well.

As I said just now, this is a small town, and most of the children of the same age have known each other since childhood; There is a fundamental difference.

When Lori was ten years old, she ran into a wild wolf when she went out to play after school.

The town is far from the usual range of gray wolves, and it is not known how the wolf got here.One of its forelimbs was broken, and it was extremely thin. The moment it saw Lori, it began to salivate and show a fierce look.

Lori was petrified, and the ten-year-old girl could only scream and turn and run away, not knowing how dangerous it was to show the back of her neck to a predator.

At this moment, Gibb, who had a fight with the boys in the class and didn't want to go home, also came here.

She yelled, "Don't be afraid of it, Lori, we'll fight it off!"

Then the brave girl picked up a stone and threw it at the gray wolf.

But they were still too small, and the stones they threw were harmless, and seemed to irritate the gray wolf, until Kia also heard the movement from here and joined the fight.

She was tall and strong since she was a child, took out a slingshot, and aimed at the gray wolf's eyes with all her strength; Gibb packed a bag of gravel in a book, and rushed forward screaming; A long twig poked at the gray wolf's flank from the side.

The gray wolf was chased away, but Gibb, who rushed too fast, was caught on the arm and had to go to the hospital for rabies vaccination.

Gibb's parents never showed up, and it was Kia's and Lori's fathers who came to pay.

"...We have agreed since that day that no matter what difficulties we encounter, as long as the three of us unite as one, we will surely overcome it." Lori said, leaning her foreheads together with the other two girls: "... I'm not afraid of anything now, because you two are always by my side. I must know... why my mother died, and what happened four years ago..."

"Of course we'll help you, Lori, the best moments of our lives have been spent with you," Gibb said.

Kia also responded with a wry smile: "Yeah, of course. I don't want to lose you two."

Chapter 6 Nights

"Whatever happened to that bar, we're going to go back."

Lori said this after restraining her outburst of emotions and sorting out the investigation results obtained by everyone.

Kia objected: "But we don't know what it is, is it possible that the people who disappeared four years ago just walked into that place and never came back?"

Lori shook her head: "At least my mother wasn't. I attended her funeral and bid farewell to her body. And the people there...the 'things' there didn't show any malice towards us, did they? We All publicly available information has been collected; any further investigation will require confronting the authorities or visiting the bar again."

Gibb nodded, agreeing with her words: "And they confiscated our money... If it is really those monsters who want to eat us or devour our souls, then last night was the best chance?"

That's right.Of the three men I saw in the bar yesterday, two were unusually strong, and the third was at least healthy. If they wanted to do anything, the girls would have no chance of getting out of there.

Moreover, everything in that bar is normal, at best, business is not very good.

The waitresses doing nothing, the bartenders chattering, and the guests indifferent to anything but themselves are so normal that it makes one want to yawn.

Before Gibb drinks, he sees the scruffy man next to him ordering an apple pie...isn't this your typical neighborhood pub that sells everything?

Thinking about it on the bright side, apart from disappearing automatically after dawn, and what the bar owner said could not be verified, there is actually no big deal there...

Since nothing happened the first time, it’s okay to go again!

The three girls who decided to go to the bar immediately went out, but just as they reached the corner of Elm Street, they met Gibb's boyfriend Trey and his friend Blake on the way.

"Hey, baby! Haha, you sobered up early today, do you want to try another 'big cigar'? ... Oh, and sisters, fortunately we have a substitute here. How about we find a bar to dance ?" Trey exclaimed, and then laughed haha, not sober even if he hadn't had a drop of wine.

"Tell me again, why did you ask him to be your boyfriend?" Lori whispered in Gibb's ear.

Gibb shrugged, with an indifferent expression: "He has... special strengths."

Then, she shouted to her boyfriend: "We're going there!" and pointed to the door of the strange bar.

Trey turned his head and looked around, scratched his head, and said, "Gas station convenience store? Farewell, old Robin will come out with a gun and shoot us if you are drunk there... We are going to the 'shed House' have a few drinks, let's go together."

"No, we have something to do," replied Gibb, and whispered, turning to his sister, "They can't see the door."

"Gibb! Didn't we agree not to involve other people?" Lori asked in disbelief.

Gibb curled her lips. She just wanted to give it a try just now, but she didn't think so much... Besides, she didn't like Trey that much. I wanted to punch him hard in the face.

But Trey didn't wink at all. He showed a greasy expression that he thought he was handsome, swayed over and pinched Gibb's body, and said in front of everyone: "Did you forget, baby, we have to have fun in time... It doesn't matter if you don't go to the bar, let's go to my house and have a fight in my dad's car..."

"Go away, Trey, I don't have time to talk to you about this!" Gibb quickly pushed him away, seeing that he still insisted on coming to hug her without knowing what to do, he simply kicked his calf, and then gave him a slap hand.

"Fake...Bichi, what are you doing?" Trey looked up at her and said in disbelief, stupefied.

Gibb raised his eyebrows and scolded: "Go back and masturbate, we broke up! If you touch me again, I will call the police and wait for your dad to drive to protect you!"

Blake on the side quickly grabbed Trey and said, "Okay buddy, you made her anxious. Let's go drink our wine and let her do it if she has something to do..."

Trey rubbed his face, and said harshly to his ex-girlfriend: "You remember it, Gibb, this is never over."

Seeing that Jibu really took out his mobile phone to call the police, he hurried away with his friends in despair.

"Aren't you afraid that he will beat you at school tomorrow, Gibb, he can really do this kind of thing." Kia said, and hurriedly helped her sister tidy up her clothes.

"Shet, I didn't think too much about it just now... Forget it, I'll buy an electric shock device before I go to school tomorrow, or skip a few more classes, anyway, I will avoid him recently. Damn, troubles are one after another One thing...Let's deal with the immediate problem first." Gibb patted his head, and hurriedly dragged the sisters to the tavern, because just as the few people were talking, the sky had already started to fall. It's raining.

But in the blink of an eye, the raindrops turned into heavy rain, and the lower ground on both sides of the street was already rushing to the water outlet. The sky was thundering and lightning, which was the favorite background atmosphere of horror movies.

A few girls braved the heavy rain and pushed open the door of the tavern, entering a warm surrounding.

Xue Li was discussing with Max why air travel in the United States is so popular, when he heard the door slam, and saw three girls with wet shoulders rushing in with steam, and stepped on a few wet footprints on the floor.

"Welcome again, guest."

He smiled. He was used to it when he was alone in this tavern, but once he had his first customer, he began to long for the place to become more lively and communicate with other people.

Guests from other worlds came one by one, and they all looked bitter and bitter; suddenly a few young and beautiful girls came to the tavern to consume, and he was very happy.

Talk to young people more to keep a young mind... Although he really can't remember how old he should be.

"Uh...Thank you last night, we brought the money here today, let's count it together..."

Lori made a lot of plans when she didn't come here, and she seemed smart and brave, but after she really walked in, her first sentence didn't match her previous rhetoric at all.

"Forget it, how much money do you little girls have?" Xue Li smiled and shook his head, "What do you want to drink today?"

His kindness dispelled Lori's last bit of wariness and fear. This blond girl who fits all the stereotypes of an American silly girl mustered up the courage to say, "We didn't come here to drink today. I want to ask you, what happened to Springwood Town four years ago?" What happened? Those who disappeared, did they also come here?"

"Uh……"

Xue Li didn't know what to answer.

Max was right. The guests in the tavern must have a reason for being "chosen". These girls are not the ordinary American high school students he imagined.

But he can't answer this question, and he can't solve it, four years ago?Four years ago, he was probably still mad in the tavern. At that time, he had no guests, and of course it was impossible to receive the disappeared residents of "Springwood Town".

"It hasn't been long since our tavern opened." After thinking for a while, he slowly organized his words to answer: "Because we are not in this world, connecting to your town is only a matter of last night.  … ...I explained the characteristics of this tavern to you yesterday, I hope you understand. Now it seems that the person selected by the tavern must have something happened to him, or something is about to happen... But these things will never We brought it."

"You, you've never been to Springwood before?" Lori asked again, "But you're the only supernatural being we've come into contact with, and no one can make so many people disappear overnight and the authorities Keep it secret."

Seeing that the three girls didn't order, Xue Li could only shake his head helplessly, called Qiduo and Daige to prepare cups and boiling water, poured a cup of hot mead for each of the three guests, and then said: "It's raining outside Right? Warm yourself up with some mead and tell me why you think this event is supernatural? I'd love to help you guys, but I need to know what you're getting into to know if I can help How can I help you?"

Luo Li didn't speak anymore, she had to think about whether what the person in front of her was telling the truth?What if "accepting a favor" is just another, less alarming way of saying "sign a contract"?

Gibb and Kia had been discussing quietly for a while, and when they saw that she was in trouble, they quickly tugged at the hem of her clothes and made a gesture that only three people understood, which meant "antichrist".

Seeing that gesture, Luoli finally nodded slightly, and then said to Xue Li behind the bar: "...I swear I won't pay anything, not money, not my body, of course absolutely not Give your soul, and even then do you want to help?"

"I don't want your things either..." Realizing that the girl regarded herself as some kind of hell creature who likes to make deals, the corners of Xue Li's mouth twitched: "Well, it seems that I'm going to call out a few names now, let You are at ease. Jesus Christ! The Virgin Mary! Allah! Sakyamuni! The Great Merciful Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva! Any god who can control me, let me restore all my memories!"

After a while, he spread his hands to the shocked others: "... At least I have proved that I am not an enemy of any religion, right? I am doing you a favor and I am helping myself. After all, all the guests in this tavern are My friend. So, do you still want to tell me those supernatural stories?"

The other employees of the tavern also came over, obviously very interested.

Lori finally took a sip of mead, collected herself, and said, "Okay, I'm going to start with my mother..."

Chapter 7 Bloody Prelude

Trey is very upset tonight.

When he thought of the scene where Gibb beat and scolded him, he felt very unbelievable...his father never beat him!How dare a little slut let him be wronged like this?

You must take revenge, that little bitch will be waiting at school tomorrow, he said that if you want to fuck, you must fuck!

Blake next to him knew what he was thinking at a glance, and was speechless to this friend.Big limbs don't usually mean simple minds, but Trey's mind is so simple that it almost doesn't exist.

"Dude, you're not fucking thinking about something that'll land you in jail, are you? Just because you got slapped?"

Blake said so, trying to reason with his good brother.

"She dares! She doesn't have the guts to call the police." Trey replied.

"No... This is not a question of whether to report to the police or not..." Blake felt a little headache. Is this buddy over-secreted with adrenaline or male hormones?Or both?

With a headache, he took out his wallet, counted the money in his pocket, and said to Trey: "Tomorrow I'm going to the city to have some fun, if you don't want to come, forget it."

Trey immediately cheered up when he heard "Lezi": "What, don't you want to watch your sister? Your dad will let you out?"

"...I'm really not good at babysitting, and my sister hates me following her. Besides, she will be at my mother's place tonight and tomorrow, so it's rare that I don't have anything to do." Blake said irritably, "Hey, do you want to Come with me? It’s fine if you don’t come, I’m too lazy to talk to you.”

"...What about tonight?" Trey had no time to think about his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend, his eyes were almost shining.

"Tonight... I'm treating you..." Blake gritted his teeth with extreme pain, "Let's go to Miles' party and get some good stuff."

Just as every small town has its sheriff, every high school has its cheerleader...every school has its own "hawker."Young men and women who pursue cheap happiness will buy some things rolled in cigarettes or smoked directly through this hawker. Of course, because the money given is small, most of the products they buy are low-quality goods.

Miles is this peddler... You don't need to ask to know what the party he holds is just another name for a shopkeeper.

Of course, Trey liked this kind of occasion the most, and said with a smile: "God, buddy, you really understand me. Don't worry, I will definitely come back when I have money..."

After the two finished speaking, they hurriedly ran in the other direction in the increasingly heavy rain.

That's weird, I didn't feel like it was going to rain just now?

At the same time, at the end of Elm Street, in that strange tavern, Lori was telling the strange bar owner what a few people had discovered.

"I made a few copies of the report...here."

She took out a few sheets of paper from her bag, and as she said, a lot of key information was smeared out in black.

Xue Li picked up the pieces of paper and read softly: "...the local authorities announced a worrying news yesterday... It seems that (blacked out) failed (blacked out). So far there has been (blacked out) , the sheriff reminded parents with minors in their homes to keep doors and windows shut and to be vigilant for anything (blacked out).

"Obituary: The Funeral Meeting of the Teachers Corps of Chunmu Town Elementary School regrets to announce that a great teacher, a good wife, a good mother, and our church members (blacked out) were called by the Lord last night. (blacked out)(colored in) Black) (blacked out) She was dedicated and friendly during her lifetime. She fought for the education of Springwood Township for several years. She was a working partner of colleagues in Springwood Township Primary School and a good friend of ours. Her relatives were in great grief, so we formed this funeral meeting , to help his family with the funeral work. The funeral will be held on (blacked out) day, all relatives and friends are invited to attend.

"Fire! (blacked) (blacked) (blacked) Recently, a fire broke out in Chunmu Town (blacked), and the fire department arrived on the scene in time to fight the fire to prevent further spread. (blacked) was burned, (blacked) (blacked) died .”

After reading this report, Xue Li raised his head and clicked on the blackened areas.

"Among these few articles, this is the strangest...Other articles also involve death, but generally the cause of death, the deceased, and the time of death are all obliterated...Only this one, only the name of the deceased is erased, nothing Erase the cause of death."

The old bald-headed Max also came over and nodded in agreement: "...very sharp, boss. This approach is bound to leave a lot of loopholes... Based on my experience as a policeman, trying to 'black out the news' It is really stupid to control the information about a certain event... Generally, you only need to directly classify the file as confidential, recycle and destroy all publications during that period, and warn the media that leaking secrets will bear legal responsibility, and it can be fully achieved Purpose."

"...We can only assume that the sheriff in their town is not an idiot." Xue Li said, "Max, based on your experience, under what circumstances would law enforcement make such a decision?"

Max stroked his beard, took a look at the piece of paper, and said while thinking: "The methods are different, and the most likely reason is that the purpose is different... They are not worried about causing panic, but use physical means to ensure that the corresponding information It cannot be communicated, only because the danger comes from the act of transmitting the message itself."

Xue Li had a flash of inspiration, and interjected, "Mind virus?"

"...Your generalization is quite accurate. Maybe it is really something similar to a computer virus, but it only spreads in people's minds...I said, is there such a thing in the world?" Max said, turning his searching eyes to three girls.

Luo Li was in a fog, and when the two people talked more and more mysterious, she could only shake her head: "...I don't know what you are talking about, are you talking about something that only some people know and others cannot? Isn't this the right bar?"

[10. No. 10]

Xue Li smiled and shook his head: "No, on the contrary... If it's really what Max said, then of course this thing will try to let more people know, instead of limiting the scope of knowledge to a few people."