Ji Xingchen was walking in the darkness.

The ground under my feet is wet and uneven, and there is the sound of dripping water beside me. Here, ordinary people can only hear the sound and can't see anything with their eyes.

It was obvious that the person leading Ji Xingchen forward was not an ordinary person. He walked freely in such an environment, and even his relaxed voice could be heard in the darkness: "I don't know how your friend could find this place and run in."

Ji Xingchen did not respond.

The man continued, "This is where we draw water from the hot spring. There is a small hole. Usually no one comes here. It is underground. I don't know how they got in. There is not even a light inside. The road is slippery and full of water. It is very dangerous."

Ji Xingchen said in a cold voice: "Maybe it's because of curiosity."

Before that, he followed the hotel manager to the monitoring room. The security guard in the monitoring room enthusiastically found him the surveillance footage of his friends and told him that they might have come here. So he brought Ji Xingchen to this small cave.

They had been walking here for a long time, and this didn't sound at all like the "little cave" the security guard had mentioned.

Perhaps to allay his doubts, the security guard who brought him in kept talking to him.

But in fact, if the security guard looked back, he would find that Ji Xingchen did not show any doubt or panic or fear on his face. His face under the lenses of his glasses could be described as expressionless.

Unfortunately, the security guard did not turn around, and continued to speak loudly and self-righteously: "It's just courting death. I understand that some people just don't understand one truth, that is, if you don't do it, you won't die..."

Ji Xingchen didn't say anything. He seemed to be thinking about something and continued to walk slowly forward following the security guard.

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Compared with the peace and quiet here on Ji Xingchen's side, exciting little games are being played in the hotel lobby.

The female ghost in red hung up the phone and looked at Bai Wan.

Bai Wan looked at the office building of Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel and said with some concern: "Is Brother Ji okay? Isn't he worried at all? Brother Ji doesn't know how to do anything..."

The red-clothed female ghost didn't care about Bai Wan's worries. When she saw Bai Wan say that, she even showed an expression of incomprehension. However, her incomprehension was soon thrown behind her, and the whole ghost became excited: "There is a lot of smell of blood! Over there where we just came from!"

As soon as she smelled the blood, the red-clothed female ghost immediately ran away. Bai Wan was dragged over by her. She quickly held down her veil to avoid the fate of having the veil fall off.

The two ghosts turned around and ran away. Just as they left, a person stood up from behind the bushes in the next second.

He was still wearing the white chef's clothes, but there were many light red bloodstains on the white chef's clothes, which formed a sharp contrast with the bright red bloodstains before.

The previous bright red bloodstains were even diluted a little by the later bloodstains. When he stood up, streams of light red liquid were still oozing out from his neck.

His expression seemed like he was trying his best to endure something, but he didn't look painful, and even looked a little excited. He reached out and wiped the pink liquid on his neck, and a crazy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Although I don't know what you did, don't even think about making me like you."

The skin on his neck melted due to his shaking movements, almost falling off his neck, but it didn't fall off. This made his skin look like an old man, soft and hanging down, and the same was true for the skin on his face. His eye bags almost fell to half of his face, showing an abnormal pink-white color, but he didn't melt completely, trying to maintain the shape of a human being, looking scary but still within the range of a human being.

He was still holding the knife in his hand, and the hand holding the knife was also melting. The flesh and blood were almost stuck to the handle, melting and wrapping around the handle, but his hand holding the knife was still very steady.

A drop of pink liquid overflowed from the melted skin that decorated the handle of the knife, slid down the blade and dripped onto the ground.

He held the knife, moved it a little, and followed.

Outside the hotel lobby, a group of people whose skin had melted, like characters in a scream entering reality, rushed out. Running in front of them was Zhong Yi's uncle Zhong Jingzhu.

Although the bunch of things chasing him probably shouldn't be called human, Zhong Jingzhu still looks calm. As the person who could bring Zhong Yi to this place, his previous experiences were naturally not simple.

After all, this is where Grandpa Zhong died, so when they choose people, they must choose the most capable people in the Zhong family. Zhong Jingzhu is one of them, and of course, Zhong Yi is also one of them. Zhong Yi is almost being trained as the heir of the Zhong family. This time Grandpa Zhong is in trouble, so it is normal to let him solve it.

Zhong Jingzhu is usually quiet, but he is the kind of person who can do great things without making any noise. When it comes to the ability to exorcise ghosts and the difficult cases he has solved, even Zhong Yi's father, Zhong Jingsong, the eldest son of the Zhong family, cannot compare to him.

It's just that his name suggests, he doesn't care much about fame and fortune, so people don't usually hear about him, and he hasn't done anything out of the ordinary, so he's not well-known.

In this situation, after he rushed out, he even observed the current situation and ran to the outdoor hot spring area very quickly. At this time, Gui Lian happened to lead two male students out of the outdoor hot spring area.

The few of them bumped into each other head on, and the two male students' emotions, which had just been calmed down, quickly turned into fear again, and they both ran away.

"Don't go that way! It's a dead end!"

Seeing that the two students were about to retreat back to the outdoor hot spring area, Ghost Face shouted hurriedly.

"Go in!" Zhong Jingzhu was in a completely different state from his previous easy-going state. Although his face did not look solemn, it surprisingly made people dare not confront him. He stretched out his hand and pushed a student back, and said calmly again: "Go in!"

This time, the two male students were still very confused and at a loss as to what to do in this situation. They even felt their legs go weak when they saw those things that were neither human nor ghost. After being pushed by Zhong Jingzhu, they sat down directly on the ground.

Zhong Jingzhu reacted very quickly. Before the male student fell to the ground, he reached out and grabbed him, half dragging and half pulling him into the locker room of the outdoor hot spring.

This time, Gui Lian also reacted. The current situation had nothing to do with whether it was a dead end or not. In this situation, even if they climbed over the wall and fell into the icy river outside, it was better than being surrounded and killed by these monsters!

Ghost Face immediately dragged another student inside. As soon as they entered the locker room, they pulled the door closed with a bang, blocking out all the monsters that were chasing them.

"What are those things? Can this door block those things?" Ghost Face asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Zhong Jingzhu had already walked quickly towards the other door. He paused for a moment and added, "Maybe it was a person."

"Human?" Ghost Face said, "Tell me that this is still a human?"

Zhong Jingzhu was silent for a moment, then said: "They were all employees of the hotel before, and the receptionist was also there. They were indeed people we had contact with before, and we even had conversations with them to collect evidence."

The ghost face was silent for a moment.

When he saw so many monsters running out, he thought at first that Zhong Jingzhu had opened the door where the monsters were locked up in the hotel. At that moment, he thought of a lot of things, even that the Dongshan Hot Spring Hotel raised monsters and tricked tourists into coming to be feed. He didn't expect that those seemingly abstract human faces were actually a person.

After thinking about it carefully, he actually noticed a few familiar clothes, some of which were worn by the hotel receptionist, some by the exposed cleaner, and even some by the waitress who had secretly come to the hot spring to take a bath, whom he had peeked at before.

It seems they have all become something like that.

"But who are you?"

They ran out of the other side of the locker room, and Guilian looked back and heard Zhong Jingzhu's voice asking him this question. Zhong Jingzhu's voice was not intense, and it didn't even carry doubt or questioning, as if he was just asking him a very ordinary question.

The ghost face froze. He had an instinctive fear of the ghost-exorcist family. His neck stiffened at this moment and he immediately replied, "I'm a tourist, I came here to take pictures, and I just happened to run into them!"

Ghost Face looked at the two male students. Although their legs were still a little weak, they nodded repeatedly when they heard Ghost Face say that. "Yes, yes, yes, he saved us just now. We almost fell over the wall. He took us to the sauna room to warm up before bringing us out. It really worked."

Ghost Face immediately looked at Zhong Jingzhu, hoping that this statement would convince Zhong Jingzhu, but Zhong Jingzhu showed no doubt at all, as if he was just asking casually. Then he said, "I doubt the hot spring pool here will be useful to them."

"What do you mean?" a male student asked immediately when he saw hope.

"You still want to go back? Let's just climb over the wall and leave. Let's get out of this damn place, uncle!" The other male student became scared and asked them to run away quickly.

Zhong Jingzhu did not answer them, but talked to himself: "It seems that I can get out from here, and it is no different from the outside. But looking at the current situation, I am afraid that even if I climb over the wall, I will find that I will come back, or I will encounter invisible obstacles and cannot get out. This is a simple case of being trapped in a maze. If I try to get out, I will probably die."

Gui Lian was also a little confused by what he said. He originally wanted to take the two male students over the wall first. As for the others, there was no need to worry about them with Chi Shen there. But after Zhong Jingzhu said this, he, as a ghost, felt that since they had been allowed in, they would definitely not be allowed to leave easily.

"We have to find their weak spot. They keep melting. If diluted with water, perhaps they won't be able to stand up again."