At the foot of the mountain.

The night had fallen.

"They are actually scaring people now!" Ning Zheng sat in the courtyard pretending to read a book, but in reality, he was studying the NPC tavern of their manor.

After all, uninvited guests had appeared at their manor for the first time, and he naturally felt curious.

Ning Zheng greatly approved of the NPC tavern's approach, as the manor needed to recruit some personnel.

Why approve?

It still comes down to those two words.

Foundation!

The foundation of their Sword Casting Manor was too shallow, lacking not only high-level ancestors to keep things in check,

but also cultivators with common knowledge at the lower levels!

No matter how diligent and hardworking these blacksmiths were, they couldn't change the fact that they lacked experience.

Therefore, recruiting some low-level cultivators, such as tailors, physicians, even blacksmiths, spirit farmers, could provide them with a lot of systematic foundational knowledge support.

They were a group of outsiders without common knowledge.

Ning Zheng himself didn't have much common knowledge.

But with the manor's bad reputation, who dared to come to this manor?

So scared that their legs turned to jelly.

Like Zhang Huaping.

Such a seasoned demon hunter, the blacksmiths had already become very aware and restrained, showing a beautiful and kind side, yet still frightened like that.

Ordinary people coming?

Ning Zheng simply couldn't imagine!

If the living didn't dare to come, then only these so-called embers would.

"I hope they can find some useful low-tier talents wandering in the Ash Disaster, to fill the gaps in knowledge."

Ning Zheng thought helplessly, silently said:

"From this perspective, this Red Sun is an opportunity for development for me!"

As for why talents from the Four Viscera Realm weren't wandering the land?

It's because the probability of occurrence was too low.

Zhang Huaping, who was at the Great Perfection of the Five-Body Realm, was already a leading figure among loose cultivators.

Four Viscera Realm, a full four realms.

In Pingchang City, they were middle to high-level figures, the pillars of family management.

Even in some small and medium families, the Four Viscera Realm was their ancestor.

The Three Elements Realm was basically the actual ruling level.

Even in the vast Pingchang City, their numbers were not many, and they wouldn't easily leave seclusion.

To obtain the Four Viscera Realm talents, one could only steal the thirty-thousand-year-old ancestral city wall.

Or go to the Red House for recruitment.

Of course, this was the silly way for families without foundation to rapidly increase their foundation.

Normal families would accumulate over several generations, and eventually, they would have the ancestors they needed, all very safely.

But Ning Zheng didn't want to wait; taking a bit of risk was necessary.

"Brother, it's time for dinner."

Ning Jiaojiao was somewhat unaccustomed to the days without Su Yuniang; now it was her turn to cook alone.

The oil lamp made from River Demon's oil was lit, flickering in the dim light.

"I wonder when Sister Su Yuniang will return?" At the dining table, Ning Jiaojiao ate her meal, feeling she relied more on Su Yuniang now.

"Hmm, the adult world always has things to do." Ning Zheng ate his meal while looking at today's forum.

Recently, he had inexplicably developed this strange hobby; if he didn't look at the forum while eating, he felt something was missing from his mouth.

According to other blacksmiths' descriptions, watching this while eating seemed like a kind of spiritual food, called electronic pickles.

Clicking on a post, as expected, one post was very popular.

"Heaven-defying: Stormy Snow Mountain Villa Opening!"

Ning Zheng first clicked on the post, where he saw all kinds of analyses.

Some contents within them were very valuable for reference.

"Hello everyone, I'm Jiucai Rong. I'm here to introduce the principle of the tavern: how to let ghosts kill each other, weaken their strength, and then recruit them."

"As everyone knows, ghosts only harm the living and rarely engage in internal strife with each other."

"But there are exceptions."

"1. A homicidal maniac in their lifetime, after death, believes they are still alive and continues to kill other living beings (ghosts). For this point, reference the Scarecrow Sister Ancestor."

"2. They believe they are living, using this as a premise."

"We can completely treat them as living beings, strategize, and let them kill each other in the tavern."

Ning Zheng nodded as he read.

It was indeed possible for ghosts to fight internally.

This was the principle behind their Stormy Snow Mountain Villa instance.

The tavern was divided into two steps.

The first step was:

Smart strategy.

Mental attack, make them paranoid, kill each other, weaken them.

The second step is:

Strong kill.

Wait until their internal conflict is almost over, then use the inn's mechanisms, finally come on strong.

After all, they are quite self-aware, knowing they might not be able to win.

This is indeed dirty psychological warfare; these blacksmiths are full of malicious intent.

Furthermore, this time a group of people enthusiastically signed up, scrambling to get in and play the so-called "script killing", using their brains in the inn to provoke internal strife, scare them, make them kill each other.

Each one is eager to try, looking very perverted.

For example, right now.

They spoke on the forum.

Jiucai Rong: "Big news! Hi~ o(*￣▽￣*)ブ A batch of fierce ghosts came today, as we predicted, they might come in groups."

"Came?"

"Whoa, defying heaven."

"Cool cool cool, military generals came to the tavern!"

Everyone is speaking, very excited.

Jiucai Rong: "Humans are social and group animals, ghosts also think they are not dead, will group together to travel, so they are called ember tide, coming in waves."

"And even if a living person enters their team, they might mysteriously be taken out, or even expand the team."

"There are a full eight in this team, but too bad, we can't go online at the inn at night, we have to guard against the other side, at night they easily wipe us out."

"We must use smart strategies, even if launching a full attack, it should be during the day."

"We have infiltrated three ember killers and two living victims ready to die in the team... Let these five inn participants speak!"

"First is the famous detective who has watched all Conan, Sherlock Holmes Collection, Kaneda series — Su Yuniang."

"Su Yuniang, please share your ember murder words."

Su Yuniang: "Friends who have killed know, controlling appetite to hide bodies, I will become the troublemaker in the inn, guiding the few guests to kill each other, cackle."

Jiucai Rong: "Next, please suspect number two, Medical Fairy, introduce your ember."

Medical Fairy: "My beauty is like Hannibal, everyone falls for it, I use my looks to make them kill each other and reasonably scare them, drive them mad."

"Hahaha, I suddenly have many sadistic interests, like scaring that cute little girl, she is so cute, if scared, would cry for a long time!"

Jiucai Rong: "Next, please ember number three, Dizzy, wait, no need to introduce this one, Dizzy is still in a blackout jail."

Dizzy sends seven or eight angry various emoticons consecutively.

Ning Zheng silently stole the emoticons while eating.

Jiucai Rong: "Next, please living victim, Food God, share your victim's words."

Food God: "As a living person, I will die first tonight, at seven just now when I went offline, I committed suicide in my room, opened Three Flowers, casually beat a few times, used my body to close a fellow villager."

"This method can make them suspicious of each other; I am proficient in more than a hundred locked room murder cases, disguise my death as a locked room murder case, let them solve the case, make them paranoid."

In the comments, many people thought this operation was too slick.

Jiucai Rong: "Not bad, next, please victim number two, Shao Chaikun."

Shao Chaikun: "I am not very good at trick reasoning myself, I crammed a bit, Food God dies the first night, I find a time on the second day, when there is no one, open Three Flowers suicide in the living room, the will states that scholar is the killer, I think he is the only tricky person among these villagers."

Very much that feeling.

The first day in the inn a locked room murder case happens, when everyone is extremely nervous, a moment of distraction, someone acting alone suddenly dies in the hall again.

The murder suspicion grows heavier.

Then a group of people start to deduce everyone's alibi evidence.

Medical Fairy: "I also think that scholar is a cultivator, might have some issues."

Mudworker: "After all, a copy, must have a mini-boss, I think he is, pin the blame on him as the killer, let a group of fierce ghosts execute him, kick him out."

Sensitive Lady also can: "I think you can use those Pikachu beauties with uremia, seduce them, enough to poison them (funny)"

Medical Fairy: "Ew, this trash is quite perverted."

Shao Chaikun: "Perverts have no right to call others sick (•́へ•́╬)"

Jiucai Rong: "Sigh, a rare leisure NPC tavern copy, has a ghostly wind flavor, mystery, thriller, horror, deduction, can scare travelers too, if only it was permanent, each time a few come in to play script kill, capture NPC babies, I charge ten magic coins for the inn fee, everyone happy too."

Code Farmer: "Agree!"

Shrimp Catcher: "+1"

Daojiu: "+2"

...

Everyone heard and thought the same.

Only say this NPC tavern is the most fun project activity they've seen.

Can play mystery, can capture babies.

This is too cool!

Ning Zheng saw this.

Only say truly wicked, even committing suicide to frame others.

Also, three embers in the crowd leading the pace, frantically deducing, misguiding them about who the killer is.

The ghosts coming here just fell into deep bad luck.

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