Upon hearing Yan Ruyu's words, the receptionist did not force Yan Ruyu to drink it as she had done on their first meeting. Instead, she obediently placed the tea tray at the entrance of pool number three.
"Good guest, the hot tea is placed at the door, please help yourself."
After seeing the receptionist off, Yan Ruyu was about to go out again when she found that the pool was locked and she couldn't open it!
Aside from that, the entire pool was clean and elegant, filled with steam, and the water was spotless. No one would think that this was something that should be found in a strange dungeon.
With no way out, Yan Ruyu tried going into the water. The water was fine; it was just ordinary hot spring water with a faint... rose scent?
...
Yan Ruyu suddenly woke up with a start.
Warm hot spring water covered her body. Looking at herself in the middle of the pool, Yan Ruyu felt a little confused.
When did she enter the hot spring pool? How come she fell asleep in the hot spring pool again?
Just as she was wondering, that indescribable smell came again. The sulfur from the hot spring mixed with the aroma of rose tea. The fragrance of flowers, tea, and sulfur mingled together, making Yan Ruyu's head throb with pain.
Subconsciously, Yan Ruyu looked up and rubbed her temples, trying to make herself feel better. A smell like rotting corpse mixed with a little spice hit her face. When Yan Ruyu opened her eyes, she saw that her once lively right hand was beginning to decompose and rot at a visible speed, covered with maggots, revealing the skeleton inside.
The scene before her was so realistic that Yan Ruyu could even see the wriggling figures of the maggots!
She subconsciously put her hands into the hot spring pool and shook them. After a few shakes, the strange scene suddenly disappeared. There was nothing unusual about her hands; it was as if it was all her imagination.
We cannot stay here any longer!
I don't know if it will be enough for an hour.
Thinking of this, Yan Ruyu got up to leave the hot spring pool, but her feet were gripped by something dry and thin, like a withered tree trunk that had never decayed in a thousand years.
What is that?!
Yan Ruyu kicked out fiercely, but not only did she fail to knock it away, the thing became even more vigorous and began to move upwards along her ankle.
At the same time, the originally clear and warm pool began to change color, like the color of hot rose tea. Before anyone knew it, roses appeared on the surface of the water, and then quickly withered, decayed, and sank to the bottom of the pool!
Looking in the direction the roses sank, Yan Ruyu was surprised to find that the bottom of the pool was filled with all sorts of crisscrossing, dried-up corpses, twisted shapes, withered torsos, layer upon layer, covered with rose petals!
Just as Yan Ruyu noticed these withered bodies, they seemed to sense it, twisting their shrunken bodies and turning their heads to stare at Yan Ruyu with their dark, hollow eyes!
Although that face no longer had pupils, how could Yan Ruyu not recognize it after seeing it in the mirror every day!
Those are... her faces, one after another, all of them are her faces!
The withered hands that were clinging to her ankles did not give up. More and more hands stretched out to grab Yan Ruyu, trying to drag her into this abyss!
Yan Ruyu fought back with all her might, but there were simply too many places to go. The hot spring water, like hot rose tea, slowly washed over her body and submerged her mouth and nose.
Although the pool was only eighty centimeters deep, Yan Ruyu felt it was several meters deep, bottomless and without sunlight!
Is she really going to die here?
In the moment of utter exhaustion, Yan Ruyu closed her eyes unwillingly...
"Sister, you'll catch a cold if you sleep here."
Whew, Whew!
As air rushed in and the hot spring water receded, the withered, dry hands that had been holding her gradually loosened their grip and drifted away.
Yan Ruyu took deep breaths of fresh air, coughed a few times in discomfort, and subconsciously stood up. She found herself standing in a hot spring pool. The pool was neither large nor deep, and there were no strange or eerie things at the bottom. The water was clean and not the color of hot tea. Everything seemed to be her dream.
Beside her, Su Luo, dressed in a bathrobe, was taking a sip of tea from a familiar cup. Noticing Yan Ruyu's gaze, he even raised his teacup in a respectful toast to her from afar.
"You can't drink it!"
Yan Ruyu stepped forward and snatched the teacup away. Under Su Luo's astonished gaze, she emphasized again, "You can't drink hot rose tea. There's something wrong with that tea!"
Upon hearing Yan Ruyu's words, Su Luo was taken aback at first, then burst out laughing.
"I didn't drink tea."
After saying that, Su Luo raised her hand and tapped the teacup, indicating to Yan Ruyu that she should see for herself.
Half-believing, half-doubting, Yan Ruyu glanced at Su Luo and then looked down at the teacup in her hand. The contents were pure white and clear, even bubbling. She could smell the soda.
It's... not really hot tea.
But where did this soda come from?
Having learned from her previous experience, Yan Ruyu looked at Su Luo carefully, and after a long while, asked uncertainly, "You...are you really Su Luo?"
Upon hearing this, Su Luo stood up with great curiosity, and even spun around in a good mood for Yan Ruyu, asking in return, "Who else could it be but Su Luo? No doubt about it."
As she spoke, she seemed to remember something and deliberately added a question to tease Yan Ruyu, "Sister, do you perhaps have a new lover at the hotel?"
Yan Ruyu was a little nervous by those words. She couldn't very well say that she had just seen him after drinking hot tea!
Seeing that Yan Ruyu remained silent for a long time, Su Luo didn't press her further. However, she was quite curious about what Yan Ruyu had seen in the hotel that could frighten such a cold and aloof woman like that! Even the woman in the room two doors down was startled!
If she hadn't spoken up to remind her, Yan Ruyu would be dead by now.
Like those emaciated bodies, they will remain here forever.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
