Jiawang Swimming Pool (II)
Lifting the plastic curtain, it feels like returning to real life from the cold game world.
Voices came from the fitting rooms on both sides of the passage, mixed with the sound of showers and the clatter of slippers hitting the floor. Someone came out of the changing room, brushed past the six people, walked to the end of the long and narrow passage, stood in the small pool blocking the intersection, and waited for a large curtain of water to wash down from above the pool and soak his whole body before he stepped out of the intersection.
"I have to change into a swimsuit first." Brother Fan thought of the reminder from Jiawang Convenience Store.
The aunt grabbed Brother Fan and wanted to go to the men's changing room with him.
"That won't do. It's not that I don't want to take you, but if you, a woman, go to the men's changing room and break the rules, you'll be killed!"
Brother Fan quickly pushed her hand away and stopped her outside the men's changing room: "Don't take the risk. Go with this girl. She's not stupid."
After much persuasion, the frightened aunt was finally persuaded to come to Xu Wei.
Xu Wei felt a little reluctant about being separated from the main group, but Brother Fan mentioned that player deaths in the dungeon were closely related to breaking the rules. In order to abide by the rules, she had to suppress her emotions and go to the changing room with the aunt.
She had been to the swimming pool several times before. It was also during a hot summer that her cousin Song Qing, who studied physical education, brought her to learn swimming. Therefore, she was quite familiar with everything here.
The changing room was not much different from the swimming pool she had been to before, with a capacity of about a middle school classroom. The doors of the blue and black locked lockers were wide open, and five of them were arranged in a row on the four sides of the room.
In the middle of the room were several rectangular stools fixed to the ground, with a few daily clothes placed on them. An elderly man with a hunched back was changing his clothes with his back to them.
Considering the weirdness of this place, Xu Wei pulled the aunt away from the old man quietly, and found a place near the door where they could keep an eye on the old man's movements at any time to change clothes.
The aunt had already started changing in a hurry. She didn't care about whether she was shy or not. She was very scared and asked Xu Wei to help watch her.
While Xu Wei responded, she observed the slow-moving old man with her peripheral vision, her hands moving non-stop. In order to prevent her vision from being obstructed, she chose to put on the swimsuit from the feet. Fortunately, the one-piece swimsuit was of good quality, allowing her to put it on with brute force.
Next is the swimming cap. You have to tie your hair up before you can put it in. In order to prevent being picky about the rules, you have to shove all your hair in.
“Boom!”
The heavy object fell to the ground, and Xu Wei's hand, which was tucking her hair, trembled.
"ah!"
The aunt screamed and bumped into the locker behind her, making a loud noise.
A human head hit the ground heavily.
The old man in front was hunched over with a broken neck, as if he had been beheaded by a knife. The neatly cut surface was tangled with creepy scars, and blood was oozing out from the old blood scabs.
The skull that fell to the ground rolled to Xu Wei's feet. On it was a face of an old man who looked as if he would die in the next second.
The old man was groaning weakly, his back still facing the two of them. His fingers, like dead trees, were clutching a blue swimming cap and scratching at his broken neck, causing more dark red blood to seep out of the already incomplete scar.
"Help....."
"Please help me..."
The hoarse and low whispers seemed to come from hell.
Xu Wei stepped back with her scalp tingling, but unexpectedly the head rolled forward with her. The frightened aunt screamed and tried to run out, but she bumped into the iron gate with a "bang".
Before I knew it, the door I came in from had been closed.
"Help me..." The old man groaned, rolled towards Xu Wei's feet again, and stuck to her instep.
In an instant, a chill pierced from the soles of my feet to the top of my head, and the temperature in the entire changing room dropped by several degrees.
The aunt who was holding her head and screaming was frightened into silence.
His heart was beating very fast. The rough and sticky touch of the old man's head made him extremely uncomfortable. Xu Wei wanted to take another step back with shaking legs, but the soles of his feet were frozen like ice. He could only move slowly on the spot, and then he was filled with dense, tingling pain like needles.
Xu Wei took a deep breath and kept reminding himself to stay calm.
The copy will not be dead.
Before that, you must not lose your composure.
Perhaps the previous confrontation with Jiawang gave him courage. Xu Wei gritted his teeth, bent down, grabbed the old man's head with both hands, exerted force, and lifted up the heavy and cold head in one smooth movement.
As expected, his feet regained some feeling and he quickly ran towards the old man.
When she reached the old man, her hands were already red from the cold. She put them hard on his neck, then let go and took a few steps back.
The temperature in the room was already very low, but Xu Wei's heart was beating like a drum. She seemed to remember something and turned to the door and shouted, "If you don't want to die, push the door down!!"
The aunt had been collapsed at the door since she banged her head against it. Then she seemed to be called back to her senses. She quickly got up and banged hard against the door. The gray-black iron door made a "bang bang" sound but did not move at all.
Boom! Another heavy object fell to the ground.
The old man's head was not standing firmly, and was knocked down by the waving hand. He then rushed straight towards Xu Wei and hit him hard on the sole of his feet.
The temperature was still dropping, and a layer of frost formed on the blue-black locker door.
Xu Wei felt pain and his feet were bruised and black. He didn't care about his leg injury and raised his head again according to the previous method and smashed it on the old man's neck.
He did not dare to loosen his hand and kept it on his head. With his other hand, he snatched the blue shower cap from the old man's hand. He was accidentally scratched by the suddenly long sharp nails, and the wound immediately turned blue and black.
“Come and help!” Xu Wei put the swimming cap on the old woman’s head with one hand, glaring at the aunt who was limp and shouting for help. His voice broke in anger, “If you don’t want to die, come and help! Quick!”
When the aunt heard her shouting, she was stunned for a moment. Just as she was about to get up, she saw the sharp nails on the old woman's hands and sat back down subconsciously, her legs shaking and she dared not move.
Xu Wei's hands were so cold that they were almost numb, and the wounds on her legs and arms were aching slightly. Seeing her reckless behavior, he was furious.
"Welcome to use Singer Companion. Currently only the default songs can be selected. Please remember to give a five-star rating~"
The child's voice that appeared in the novice gift package sounded in my mind again.
Suddenly, a strange male voice appeared in the room. He cleared his throat solemnly and said, "Please lead the trainers to their positions."
Then, as if an invisible hand was operating, the body of the old man in front of him began to move like a puppet.
First, the corpse's standing posture was straightened, the waving arms were straightened and pressed tightly against the inner thighs, then the head was raised to look forward, the chest was straightened, and the legs were straight.
A very upright military posture.
The male voice was satisfied and said loudly: "The second set of global radio gymnastics: The stars are calling, now - start -"
When the familiar prelude sounded, Xu Wei was in a trance for a moment and returned to the morning exercises in high school. At that time, there was indeed a need for a leader to lead everyone in the exercises.
But the increasingly cold temperature in the changing room brought her back to consciousness, and she suddenly realized that the swimsuit and swimming cap she had just changed into were missing. After a while, she tied her hair into a high ponytail and put on the blue and white school uniform she wore in middle school.
Everything happened in a flash, and Xu Wei had no time to think so much. Since the old man couldn't move, he had to deal with his problem first.
Grab the swimming cap and put it on, quickly tucking in the leaking hair.
Within a few seconds, Xu Wei loosened his grip and the old man's body resumed movement.
It touched its head with its skinny fingers and found that it was already wearing a swimming cap. It then tremblingly stuffed its clothes into a nearby locker, picked up its goggles and earplugs, opened the iron door, and slowly walked out.
At this time, the male voice was still shouting passionately with the background music: "Three, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, four, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight..."
Sure enough, “help her” refers to wearing a swimming cap.
Xu Wei breathed a sigh of relief as the temperature in the room had risen. She did not dare to investigate whether the strange male voice was the effect of her skills or some uncontrollable unknown creature. She changed into her swimsuit as quickly as possible, locked all her things in the locker, and rushed out.
The aunt had already run away crawling after the old man left. Xu Wei came out at this time and saw several other people with pale faces.
Obviously, the men's changing room also encountered difficulties. The middle-aged man other than Brother Fan looked depressed and had a bruise on his shoulder.
When the others saw Xu Wei coming out, they all noticed the black and blue wounds on her body.
Brother Fan supported the old lady and laughed: "It's good that you are out, it's good that you are out. Let's go to the swimming pool first to see what the conditions are for passing the customs."
They didn't want to mention what happened in the dressing room, nor did they ask about the situation in the women's dressing room, so Xu Wei didn't mention it again. She just looked at the aunt and didn't hide the disgust in her eyes.
If it was normal for Xu Wei to encounter such a person who was not helpful but a hindrance at work, he would have endured it out of consideration for the relationship with colleagues or the fact that he would see her often. But this time -
If this person hadn't been such a drag, if my skills hadn't been useful, I probably wouldn't have been able to get out of this fitting room.
The aunt shrank back and moved to the side, causing Brother Fan next to her to look at the two of them carefully.
Xu Wei didn't give him a chance to speak. He retreated to the back of the team and walked next to the young man.
Compared to other people in the team, she liked this good-looking guy who was the first to speak up for him.
The young man glanced down at her and said nothing.
"Thank you for helping me earlier, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to argue with that boss." Xu Wei turned to look at him, trying to look him straight in the face to show friendliness.
The young man politely replied: "What are you thanking me for? It's my duty."
"What's your name? My name is Xu Wei."
"Lu Fanye."
Xu Wei nodded, feeling that this person was indeed not talkative, so he looked away.
Brother Fan comforted the middle-aged man and the aunt and invited them to go to the swimming pool.
"Did you hear any noise?"
Following the team forward, Xu Wei was silent for a moment, but finally couldn't help but ask the person next to him.
Lu Fanye listened carefully for a while and shook his head.
Xu Wei's expression was indescribable. He glanced at the ceiling cryptically: "Like some slogan? Stretching exercises, one, two, three, four, or something like that?"
Lu Fanye looked at the ceiling and gave the answer with certainty.
Xu Wei scratched his head and laughed awkwardly: "I must be hallucinating. I was too nervous... Come on, let's catch up."
In fact, it seemed that the male voice could only be heard by Xu Wei himself. From the moment he used the skill until now, he had been shouting the rhythm of the gymnastics very hard, with clear and loud pronunciation and full of passion.
"Eh?" The male voice suddenly stopped. The background music was still beating vigorously, but without his rhythm, it lacked a lot of passion. "Why is there no sound?"
Then, there was a commotion, as if someone was fiddling with something, and a male voice muttered, "Why aren't you singing? I've always been singing!"
With a click, the music stopped abruptly and the world returned to silence.
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