Chapter 51 You Yu: Could it be that these hot spring waters are all dissolved human flesh and blood?
Huangquan Town, Ancient Hot Spring House.
"What's going on? Isn't there a curfew? Why is it so bright outside? Or did we miss some information again?"
Shuise was almost stuck to the wooden window frame. If it weren't for the upper-class etiquette taught by his teacher Bruce since he was a child, he could have just stuck his head out to take a good look at the lively and weird atmosphere outside.
"I don't know." Linglan's voice came from the distant kitchen. The bathhouse the three of them chose this time was a small bathhouse very close to the Great Evil Bathhouse. There was a ramen restaurant downstairs and a well behind the house, which was the place where the token fragments appeared in the warm-up match map. The window of the room faces the main entrance of Da'e Tangju. Through the thin frosted glass, you can only see the red lanterns at the main entrance.
"But why do you have to look through the window like this? Wouldn't it be better to just open the window and observe openly?"
Lily of the Valley, who had just been busy in the small kitchen of the bathhouse, came over with a plate of baked thumb cupcakes. For her, simple cooking could help her think better. Only at this time would Lily of the Valley say, "No, I'm so tired," without any hesitation, and then disappear.
"But the old man who owns the bathhouse warned us seriously not to open the windows after curfew, or we'll be attacked by scary beasts... Who knows if it's a beast or... something like that."
Shuise muttered to himself as he used a tissue to wipe away the water vapor on the glass that was caused by the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. Unfortunately, because frosted glass was used when the horizontal was installed, he couldn't see anything clearly even if he tried hard to think.
When they chose this hot spring house, the old owner at the front desk told them very seriously before handing them the keys that there would be wild beasts in Huangquan Town at night and it was very dangerous, so they should never open the windows or doors and leave their rooms.
"I see you are just scared, step aside and let me do it!"
Suzuran pushed Mizuiro away, and the latter quickly made way for Suzuran with an expression of being saved. Under Saotome Rin's shocked gaze, the green-eyed girl quickly and swiftly opened the wooden window with upper and lower hinges. Her movements were very careful, and she didn't even make a sound.
The moment the window was opened, Mizuiro, who had coaxed herself for a long time before deciding to open her eyes and face the world, trembled all over and almost shamefully hid behind the ordinary high school student Saotome Rin.
On the snowy streets, a team of soup workers wearing blood-stained maple-red feather robes and scary ghost masks, holding up their sacred swords, humming low and depressing songs, and walking forward step by step with strange steps. Their figures flickered in the lush lights, like the evil spirits on the other side of the Sanzu River in the legend of Yeshima.
The snow was still falling, and the footprints left by the team on the snow were quickly covered by the new snow, as ghostly as if they had never left any footprints.
Saotome Rin covered her mouth in panic. Although her whole body was shaking, she didn't make any sound. She was careful not to cause any possible burden to the two benefactors who saved her on the track. She was quite calm.
Just like before, in the deep forest where the track extended, the girl who was chased by will-o'-the-wisp fireflies met Linglan and Mizuiro, and was protected by the two of them, the seemingly weak high school girl was unexpectedly tough. She corrected the wrong route in time, and with her good sense of direction, she successfully led Youyu and others to the real Huangquan Town under the deliberate wrong route set by the fake blood butterflies.
"…What's the difference between this and a ghost…"
Shuise, who had been afraid of these things since childhood, was a little overwhelmed, but his remaining aristocratic upbringing prevented him from grabbing his hair like Youyu without caring about his image. He even looked calm.
"Calm down. They haven't noticed us spying yet. At least the people in these towns are still human."
Lily of the Valley stood in front of the window and narrowed her eyes. The false image of a gentle and peaceful smile that she usually wore was torn off by her own hands. Her dark green eyes were now no brighter than the will-o'-the-wisp fire circling on the tram tracks.
"...No, maybe not. Look over there."
Shuise's breathing suddenly became rapid. His perception was sharper than anyone else's, and he had obviously discovered something.
Suzuran and Saotome Rin both looked in the direction indicated by Mizuiro. The former's gaze suddenly became more stern, while the latter seemed to be on the verge of collapse and held Suzuran's arm tightly.
The team stopped in front of the bathhouse where they were, and saw a strange humanoid creature that was definitely not human and had no discernible form, with blood and flesh all over its body, crawling out of the bathhouse door on all fours, surrounded by several evil bathhouse workers. The bathhouse owner, who had just been so kind to them, was standing respectfully at the door, watching the "blood man" leave.
Shuise was most sensitive to sounds. He could roughly judge what the other person was saying through the shape of his mouth. It should be: "I wish you success, distinguished guest."
"call……"
“Wow!”
The team of the Great Evil Hot Spring left the Ancient Hot Spring in a mighty manner. At the moment when the figure of the last soup worker disappeared, the old grandfather who was the owner of the house standing in the snow seemed to have noticed something. Fortunately, Linglan's excellent eyesight helped her to detect the tendency of the owner of the Ancient Hot Spring to turn his head, and she closed the window in advance.
The footsteps of the owner of Gu Tang came from the wooden stairs very close to the room, creaking like the groan of a victim. The three of them held their breath and leaned against each other as if nothing had happened, as if they could draw a little warmth from each other in this way in the cold snowy night.
"Just now...what was that?"
Only after the footsteps of the owner's grandfather disappeared on the higher floors did Saotome Rin remove her hand from her mouth and ask tremblingly.
"I don't know... but there is definitely something wrong with this Huangquan Town. I'm afraid it has long been involved in the restricted area due to the conspiracy of the demon apostles. And the posture of the bloody man just now... is exactly the same as the puppets we encountered in Solomon College."
Shuise's expression was serious. When he thought about the devil apostles preparing to carry out a conspiracy related to the Demon King in Huangquan Town, he wanted to rush out and bring all those bastards to justice.
"I heard about the legend of Huangquan Town when I was in school... It is said that ten years ago, this place was a very famous high-end resort with unique hot spring resources. You said that the hot springs here can even prolong life. It even attracted many people from the upper society of Yedao to come and enjoy it. But for some reason, after a fire, this town disappeared forever in the depths of Tanghong Mountain. Even the shrine in the town was overthrown, and a new shrine was rebuilt in the current location..."
Saotome Rin's voice was a little trembling, but she was a local of Karahongshan Town after all, so she had some understanding of the legend of Huangquan Town: "Since then, Huangquan Town has become an existence similar to an urban legend and a banned word on the Internet and in reality. No information can be searched on the Internet, and people in reality are also very taboo about it. If the elders in my family hadn't mentioned it before, I wouldn't even know about it."
"This information has been of great help." Linglan nodded: "Dear guest... maybe the identity of the bloody man just now is higher than we thought. Shuise, you stay here with Yue to be alert to the movements of the owner of the house, I will go out and take a look..."
"What on earth do they want to do tonight?"
"It's too dangerous for you to go alone. How about turning on the headset and contacting the president and the others?"
Shuise knew that he and Yue were not the best candidates to gather intelligence in such an unclear situation, so he did not stop them, but still made a suggestion out of concern.
"It's okay. I just saw an acquaintance in the Tang Gong team. I'll go with him."
Linglan raised her eyebrows, opened the window and prepared to jump down.
"You mean... the person wearing a Tengu mask at the end of the team? An acquaintance... Could it be Izayoi who chose to walk alone from the beginning?"
Shuise suddenly realized, Linglan nodded, and jumped smoothly through the narrow window, disappearing into the snowy night.
None of them noticed that at the moment Izayoi was mentioned, the timid-looking hearing-impaired girl Saotome Rin hid in the dim light, her hands behind her back tightly grasping the hem of her school uniform.
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Huangquan Town, the hall where the great evil Tang lives.
"Don't just stand there like an idiot! Go and prepare for the arrival of the distinguished adults! Do you still need me to teach you?!"
Ruyuemaru cursed and pushed Tang Gong, the leader. Youyu stood at the end of the team and said, "Bai Ye, I feel like we may have joined some northern Myanmar fraud organization, or we jumped in on our own. This guy doesn't treat workers as human beings at all!"
Bai Ye silently replied in his heart, since something as weird as a parade on a snowy night has happened, it’s good enough that the people on the other side are human.
However, since Kisaragi was staring at him, he was not as fearless as Youyu after all. He could not remain himself in the face of the murderous eyes of the other party. He could only lower his head to reduce his presence and pray that Youyu would not draw Kisaragi's hatred towards himself.
"You're the one who talks too much, right?"
Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. Ruyuewan accurately spotted Youyu in the crowd and sneered, "I remember you seem to be new here. You and the one next to you go to the hot spring together!"
Kisaragi Maru showed a malicious smile, and Tang Gong, who was not a devil player around, also showed a disgusting gloating smile. Only when Bai Ye sighed, he knew it.
"We will complete your mission."
Bai Ye covered You Yu's mouth as he was about to argue, and retreated with a smile on his face.
Kisaragi snorted, "You guys should know what's best for you."
Judging from the reactions of other soup workers around, one can guess that cleaning the hot spring pool is obviously the most complicated and arduous preparation work. Bai Ye carried the wilted You Yu and walked towards the direction of the other soup workers who had bitter and resentful faces. That place was probably the so-called hot spring pool prepared for the "honorable bigwigs".
But for players like them, it might not be a bad thing.
After all, hot springs are the most important symbol of Huangquan Town, and cleaning the hot spring pool may be the easiest way for them to get to know the secrets behind the "hot springs".
The entire season lasts only seven days, and two days have passed. They have no time to waste here. They must find out the secret behind Huangquan Town as soon as possible and thwart the conspiracy of the devil apostle. For him, he must also find the token hidden in this game as soon as possible - the sword corresponding to the scabbard, the sword of Ame-no-Kurosakumo, one of the tokens of the ancient ten rings.
You Yu was obviously aware of this. He quickly regained his fighting spirit and took the initiative to walk in front of Bai Ye. Looking at the boy's face that had brightened up again, Bai Ye lowered his eyes, which were a little gray and unclear.
In fact, in addition to the Ten Commandments, he has one most important thing to figure out...
In the preview of The Thread of Destiny provided by t173, who is the "dead" who was killed by the "murderer" Wonder talking about...
Which "important character in the game" will die here?
Many names flashed through Bai Ye’s mind, but for each of those names, he didn’t want to see the person dying.
Death is not the only means to force the protagonist to grow. The so-called players and t173 let You Yu go through all this completely out of their superior desire for control and their evil taste for watching the show. Bai Ye can almost imagine how those superior guys arbitrarily control the life and death and destiny of everyone in this world, scattering deaths at will, and facing their struggles with joy.
He thought of the points that could be used to resist the "option" mentioned on the t173 panel, and secretly made a certain resolution.
In Huangquan Town, he was the only one who knew that the real murderer, Wonder, had no intention of killing anyone. He could not guarantee anything, but at least Wonder... would not be the first person to wield a knife in this cage designed by some high-ranking "players".
In that case, he would be willing to be thrown into Night Tide Prison by Faust right then and there.
The unfortunate hot spring workers were brought by Kisaragi Maru to a huge outdoor hot spring pool, the area of which was almost like a small landscaped artificial lake. The misty hot air produced thick fog, but what was horrifying was that the color of this hot spring was not milky white due to its rich minerals, but a strong blood red.
"See? Your job is to clean up all the garbage here and not disturb the adults' enjoyment this time."
Kisaragi Maru used his slender hook to hook twice in the blood-red hot spring pool, and an object swung twice in the rippling blood water. Bai Ye held his breath, and his and the other demon players around him suddenly looked very ugly. Only You Yu looked serious, as if he was ready to start reasoning at any time.
He saw clearly that it was a human skeleton.
A human skeleton whose flesh has completely melted away.
"Could these blood-red hot spring waters be dissolved humans?"
You Yu tilted her head and whispered in Bai Ye's ear in a low voice.
"I don't know, but I think I know why he didn't reject our job application."
He just saw the nameplate of Tang Gong hanging on the human bones. It took so many people to clean up the human bones. No wonder Ru Yuewan was not picky at all and directly let them start the job. It turned out that the jobs that were easy to get hired for were not good ones.
And those so-called important guests who are about to take a bath in such a hot spring pool are definitely not normal human beings.
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