Chapter 196 Abnormal

Xu Leyan took a deep breath, frowned, and looked around at the furnishings in the box. This box was no different from the previous one. The furnishings were exactly the same, and it didn't look like there was a place where rotten things could be hidden.

But the stench became stronger and stronger, a bit like the smell of feet in a school cafeteria where the floor had just been mopped. The stench did not disappear as the time spent in the cafeteria increased, but became stronger.

Was this store also caused by using a mop that was not cleaned properly to mop the floor?

Xu Leyan stood up half doubtfully and half panicked, walked to the window, opened it half a crack, and let the scorching air outside rush in.

But the smell is still there.

Xu Leyan returned to his seat a little irritably, with obvious anger on his face.

"Director Xu, what are you doing going back and forth?" Liu Yue asked.

"Don't you think there is a smell in this private room? Tsk, there was a smell in the previous private room. I didn't expect that it would still be there after changing to a new one. This is a high-end restaurant." Xu Leyan said a little unhappily. When he thought about the price of this meal, he felt twice as unhappy.

Liu Yue's expression was a little stiff when she heard Xu Leyan's words. Her apple cheeks remained in an arc as if she was about to smile, and the corners of her lips trembled slightly.

Xue Yu and Ren An looked up while holding their phones, their expressions were unnatural, and their eyes seemed to look at Xu Leyan unintentionally.

"No, no, right? Isn't it just the smell of ordinary gardenia incense?" Xue Yu said.

Ren An, who was always silent, also said: "It really doesn't have any smell. Director Xu, maybe you smelled it wrongly."

Xu Leyan: “…”

He really didn't expect that these three people would refute him in unison. He took a deep breath of air. Could it be that he was really having an illusion because he was overly nervous after knowing about Lin Youxin's affairs?

"You guys, do you still remember what the filming clip of You Xin was about?" Xu Leyan changed the subject.

"Isn't it just that a poor man used an evil spell to take over his body, and in exchange for the rest of his life as a rich second-generation?" Xue Yu rolled his eyes impatiently, "First Sister Yue, and now you, what do you want to say? If it's really related to evil spells, would you be happy? Besides, the original ritual was Lin Youxin casting a spell on others. Even if the ritual was successful, he should have successfully become a rich second-generation, not become a dead person."

Xue Yu looked like he was annoyed by their repeated attempts to attribute the situation to sorcery, and there was also a bit of fear and anger in his expression.

"Yeah...that's right..." Xu Leyan still felt a little uneasy, the stench was still drilling into his nostrils, but everyone else said it was okay, so he used this to comfort himself.

This afternoon is an important turning point in his career. If today's investment is successful, he will be the man chosen by Lin's Pictures. No matter where he goes or how he says it, he will be proud.

Xue Yu's beautiful fingertips were covered with long, newly made nails, but this did not affect her typing speed at all. She quickly typed something on the screen, and it was unclear whether she was trying to please her rich boyfriend. Then she looked up and said to Xu Leyan, "Director, don't be so suspicious. If you are really anxious, why don't you go out and smoke a cigarette to calm down?"

Xu Leyan felt that what he said made sense, so he took out a cigarette box from his pocket and pushed the door open to leave the box.

He was leaning against the corridor smoking, and the waitress came over and said, "Sir, smoking is not allowed in this corridor. You can go to the smoking room over there."

Xu Leyan asked: "Where is the smoking room?"

The waitress said it was at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

Xu Leyan felt it was quite far away, so he took a deep puff of the remaining half cigarette and extinguished it on the trash can: "I don't smoke anymore."

With a creaking sound, Xu Leyan suddenly heard the sound of the box door behind him being pulled.

The one with half of her head exposed was Liu Yue. Seeing Xu Leyan still at the door, she forced a far-fetched smile and said, "Director Xu, well, I want to smoke too. Do you have any left?"

Xu Leyan glanced at the waiter and said, "You are not allowed to smoke here. If you want to smoke, you have to go to the smoking room. Want to join us?"

Liu Yue waved his hands quickly: "That's too much trouble. Never mind. I'll just bear with it. It's not a big deal."

As she spoke, she retracted her head that had been sticking out.

Xu Leyan returned to the box, but soon he smelled the horrible stench again. This time, he went out directly and asked the waiter outside the door if he smelled any odor in the box.

The waiter thought that the smell in the private room was not as strong as the smell of perfume on you. You have a down-to-earth square face, but I didn't expect you to be so showy and spray so much perfume.

"No, sir. Our private rooms are sterilized every day," the waiter said honestly.

They didn't smell it, but I did?

Xu Leyan's heart skipped a beat, and a new idea came to his mind - often in horror movies, the first person to discover something unusual is always the first to die.

It is even possible that he will die the most miserable death, serving as a warning to others.

Xu Leyan suddenly gripped the door handle of the box and turned to look at the other three people in the box.

The three men were sitting upright with their cell phones in their hands, and when they saw him looking at them, they all forced a smile.

Xue Yu: "Director Xu, it really has no smell. If you really feel it has, why not spray some of the perfume I brought? But the one I brought is called Banbusan, and the fragrance doesn't last long..."

For some reason, Xu Leyan felt that the way these three people looked at him was quite strange, and they didn't look like human beings, even though the way they spoke and acted seemed no different from the previous filming.

Xu Leyan’s mind suddenly popped up the statue of the God of Wealth that the store had placed at the entrance when he entered the store just now… Although it was not very professionally related, it seemed that there was no other choice now!

Xu Leyan couldn't give up the investment that was about to be made, so he said with a stiff upper lip: "Forget it, forget it, I might as well go to the first floor to ask for some Fengyoujing."

He quickly ran downstairs, walked a few steps to the statue of the God of Wealth, and bowed respectfully several times, hoping that the old man could bless him and make everything go well for the day.

Then I asked the front desk for some medicated oil and applied some on my philtrum.

Hmm...the Fengyoujing was so domineering that it completely occupied his sense of smell, leaving no room for any other smell.

The world is quiet.

When he returned to the box again, Xu Leyan no longer smelled the strange stench of corpse, so he was in a much better mood. His steps became lighter. He walked to the window and closed it again. Just as he turned sideways to close the window, he noticed that there was an empty stool between Ren An and Xue Yu. The two of them were sitting near the inside. Xu Leyan had not noticed this before.

"Why are you sitting across from each other? This is so unlucky." Xu Leyan said unhappily.

In some folk customs, there is a saying that people should not sit at different seats during a banquet, as it is easy to attract unclean things to join them.

Xu Leyan was not that superstitious, but the situation was different today. His intermittent superstitious attitude suddenly came up.

The three people's faces suddenly changed at the same time, as if they finally realized something, and they all looked towards the empty seat that Xu Leyan mentioned, as if they had lost their parents.