Chapter 138 Datai City 3
"What are you looking at?" Hua Haoming walked into the room and saw the body first, "There's a dead person here too."
Ling Changye turned his head, "Also?"
"There should be two people dead in room 406 on the fourth floor," said Hua Haoming.
"Should?" Xia Bai also turned over.
"Forget it, just come and see." Hua Haoming made an ambiguous "tsk" sound.
He had no idea how many games he had played and had seen all kinds of situations. To have such a reaction from him, the situation must have been unusual.
When Xia Bai walked over, he was mentally prepared for this. But when he really saw the scene in 406, he still got angry. "How can you do this to a corpse?"
“…”
This was probably the most horrific crime scene Xia Bai had ever seen.
It can be seen that two people should live here. If no one else had entered this room, one of the men should have killed the other woman first. The reason why Hua Haoming said "should" be two people is because the woman's body was scattered and broken into pieces.
Because it was too broken and scattered, and the blood was smeared on the wall, he couldn't be sure it belonged to one person.
Hua Haoming said: "Wen Yuxin and I were checking on the fourth floor. As soon as we approached this room, we smelled blood. This is what happened when we came in."
"They should be a couple." Zhou Buyu, who just walked over, said, "We just went to the hotel front desk and checked the check-in records here. We copied them all down. A man and a woman are both registered in Room 406. They are the same age."
Hua Haoming gave her a thumbs up.
"So it was the husband who killed his wife?" Wen Yuxin said, "What hatred or grudge? The body was chopped into pieces like this, and you can see on the wall that after killing his wife, he excitedly smeared her blood on the wall."
There were many traces of hand smears on the wall, circles of blood-red. From the violent ups and downs, one could see how excited he was at the time. Wen Yuxin said that his excitement was a bit biased, but the possibility was also very high.
After he killed his wife, he committed suicide. His body was also in terrible shape, covered in blood, and I don't know how many times he had been stabbed.
Ling Changye looked at Zhou Buyu. They were both experienced old players. When Ling Changye looked at her, Zhou Buyu knew what he wanted to ask. "We confirmed at the front desk. There should be an NPC waiter. The other three are all new players."
In fact, it is very easy to distinguish at this time who are the NPCs in the game world and who are the ordinary people in the real Datai City, that is, the new players of this game.
Faced with this situation, new players are somewhat scared, nervous, and curious, while the natives of the gaming world have long been accustomed to it and their expressions are numb.
Ling Changye: "Go find the waitress and ask her about the couple's situation."
Before going to find the waiter, they first checked their check-in status, fearing that their personal image would fail during the subsequent communication.
The information showed that they were all citizens of Datai City, so they should know about the colorful ghosts in Datai City. They could not use the excuse that they were tourists from other places to ask the waiter about the basic situation of the colorful ghosts in Datai City.
When Zhou Buyu came down just now, she confirmed which one was the NPC, so she asked, "Hello, do you know the couple living in 406?"
"How should I know?" The waitress was grinding her nails with a nail file. When she heard Zhou Buyu asking her, she blew on her nails, glanced at them, and continued to grind her nails with her head down, as if she didn't want to pay attention to them.
The other three waitresses were completely different from her. They wore the same work clothes as her, but they were much straighter and their hair was neatly tied up at the back. Not to mention grinding their nails, they were not even allowed to drink saliva while working behind the counter.
At this time, the three of them were standing aside, watching the waiter casually cross his legs and sharpen his nails, and then looking at them who came to inquire about the situation.
Wen Yuxin said: "Sister, they are all dead."
"Oh! Dead!" The waitress looked up immediately, and then she laughed, "He's dead, so what? You're making a fuss about a dead person. You have no sense!"
“…”
Xia Bai looked at the waitress carefully. From her words, he could tell that because of the colorful ghosts, death had become a common occurrence in Datai City. When death was no longer a big deal, people no longer had demands for many things. The hotel waitress had messy hair and blew nail dust onto the service desk casually.
But she was also wearing an exquisite pearl necklace. At first glance, the necklace looked very delicate. There were five pearls hanging from a thin gold chain. When she wore it around her neck, it naturally formed a smile shape. However, the pearls were dull and had a layer of gray.
Xia Bai reached out his hand to her, holding a handful of glittering pearls.
“…”
The pearl light reflected the waitress's wide eyes, blocking her unpleasant words. After a few seconds, when she opened her mouth again, it was full of joy and excitement: "Wow! What beautiful pearls!"
Of course the one my mother gave me is beautiful.
In the game on Blue Tea Island, he asked his mother about pearls. His mother probably thought he was interested, so she gave him a box of pearls to play with not long after the game ended. Because he was asking about saltwater pearls, the box was full of saltwater pearls, each one was round and flawless, shining brightly.
Thinking of Ling Changye's ability to make money, Xia Bai took some of them into his space props, thinking that maybe he could please the NPC.
Isn't this useful?
Xia Bai stuffed a handful of pearls into the waiter's hand and asked, "Do you know the couple in Room 406?"
"I know, I know!" The waiter took the pearl and said hurriedly, "I know it very well!"
“…”
Xia Bai looked at Ling Changye and saw that Ling Changye held his right hand against his lips and was laughing. He seemed to notice Xia Bai's gaze and turned his head to look over. Xia Bai immediately looked away.
Next, without them having to ask, the waiter started talking a lot, insisting on telling everything he knew.
"Room 406, right? There's a couple living there. I know them. They've lived here for a long time."
The waiter said, "They are locals, but they are all college graduates who have settled in other places. They came back to visit relatives this time. Maybe it's not convenient to stay there, so they stayed in our hotel."
"After all, they are educated college students. Even at their age, they are still very affectionate. Every time they come back, they hold hands. It's so sweet."
Several players were silent.
So sweet, with body parts and blood all over the room.
Xia Bai asked: "Have they changed recently?"
"Changes?" The waiter shook his head. "I haven't seen them for several days. As you know, after the outbreak of the colorful ghosts, many people don't like to be disturbed. There are quite a few such people in the hotel. They don't come out for several days and don't want to be disturbed. Of course, we don't care."
"You just said they were dead?" The waiter said, "They must have been killed by the colorful ghosts! Alas, we have colorful ghosts in our hotel too. If they didn't pay so much, who would be willing to risk their life to work here? It's so annoying."
"How do you know they were killed by the colorful ghosts? We saw that the wife was probably killed by her husband," said Xia Bai.
"Are you stupid..." The waiter covered his mouth and smiled kindly at Xia Bai, "Haven't you heard? Many people went crazy after encountering the colorful ghost. He loved his wife so much, why would he kill her? He must have gone crazy after encountering the colorful ghost and killed his wife."
"That makes sense." Xia Bai gave her a few more pearls, "You've heard of many people going crazy after encountering colorful ghosts?"
The waiter happily accepted the pearl and said, "I've heard of it. It's said that Wang Er from our village went crazy after encountering a colorful ghost and burned his mother to death. It was so scary. Do you think he was scared crazy?"
Coincidentally, they also wanted to ask her this question.
"How scary." Xia Bai, with a cute girl's face, said this convincingly, "What should I do if I encounter a colorful ghost?"
The waiter patted his hands and said, "Don't be afraid, little sister. I think your friends are tall and strong and can definitely protect you."
Xia Bai glanced at Ling Changye, Hua Haoming and Shi An and said, "Sister, I'm telling you the truth. Don't laugh at them. Although they look very capable, they are actually very useless. So far, they haven't killed a single colorful ghost. If they really encounter a colorful ghost, they will be doomed."
“…”
The waiter looked at the three men who were still very imposing in disguise, but actually useless. Fortunately, there was no mockery in the eldest sister's eyes. "This is normal. The Security Bureau calls on everyone to eliminate the colorful ghosts every day, but it is not so easy for ordinary people to eliminate the colorful ghosts. It's scary."
"But you three still have to work hard." The waitress was obviously very supportive of Xia Bai who gave her the pearl, and treated her as her own sister. "If my little sister really goes crazy when she encounters the colorful ghost, you have to eliminate the colorful ghost so that she can return to normal."
The three men looked at each other, realizing that they had obtained important information, and nodded quickly.
Xia Bai gave his elder sister a few more pearls with satisfaction. He decided to build a good relationship with her as they might be useful in the future.
"I've made a fortune!" The eldest sister rubbed the big pearls excitedly, "With so many pearls, who would still do this crappy job? I'm not going to do it anymore!"
Xia Bai: “……?”
The waiter put the pearls away and was about to leave.
Xia Bai stretched out his hand, and the waiter passed by his hand and left quickly.
Xia Bai turned to look at Ling Changye, "Is this normal?"
"Normal. Usually in this situation, the NPC has already given us all the information from her. It doesn't matter whether she is here or not." Ling Changye laughed, "You gave us too much. There are colorful ghosts here. It is logical for her not to want to stay here and face danger."
Xia Baidai, he didn't know that the pearls his mother gave him were so valuable.
Ling Changye: "I'm not proficient enough in the business yet."
Xia Bai: “…”
"Come to think of it," Wen Yuxin said, "In the game, anyone who doesn't look like they have a wealthy life actually has money to spend."
It can be told from the sound that he has used his cash ability many times, worthy of being in the same team.
Xia Bai didn't think too much about this matter before, but now that he has an understanding of the game's main system, he said: "This should be the game's stereotype of humans. It believes that anyone with poor financial situation will be greedy for money."
"It's not that stereotyped actually." Hua Haoming complained and talked about serious matters. "We have found a way to prevent people from going crazy or dying after being attacked by colorful ghosts. It's worth it."
"People will go crazy after encountering a colorful ghost." Zhou Buyu said, "Why does this colorful ghost have a bit of Cthulhu flavor? Mental pollution, twisted and crazy?"
Hua Haoming nodded, "Indeed."
"If that's the case, could it be that the man on the sixth floor really committed suicide due to depression?" Xia Bai said.
Zhou Buyu asked: "Someone died on the sixth floor too?"
Xia Bai told them what they found in Room 607 on the sixth floor.
They couldn't explain the death on the sixth floor.
Ling Changye glanced at the time and said, "It's almost time. Let's go see what Yang Mei and the others have found."
When the group was about to leave, one of the three waiters asked, "Are you old players? Are you the kind of players who are really good and have skills?"
Hua Haoming said: "It's not very powerful, but if you encounter a colorful ghost, you can come to the sixth floor to find us."
When they went upstairs, they saw Yang Mei and Yang Yi lying at the door of a room on the third floor, looking inside furtively. Yang Yi was also holding a small instrument, and seemed to be taking pictures of what was inside.
When Yang Mei saw them, she made a "hush" gesture to them and waved at them.
Several people walked over quietly, and Yang Mei made way for Xia Bai. Xia Bai looked inside through the crack in the door and saw a man inside kowtowing in front of a niche.
It was quite far away, and the voice was vague. Xia Bai could barely hear the words "please".
He immediately understood why Yang Yi wanted to film it. The man might be facing a colorful ghost. Apart from the one on TV that looked a bit like a human, they had never seen what a colorful ghost looked like, especially the specific process of a colorful ghost harming people. He wanted to film it and study it.
Xia Bai pulled Ling Changye and Zhou Buyu, and now they were blending into the opposite wall, and they could see what the man was kowtowing to.
Ling Changye and Zhou Buyu both disappeared.
Zhou Buyu was the first to come back. She typed on her phone: [There is nothing there.]
Not long after, Ling Changye also came back. [I looked around the room, but there was nothing.]
He typed to Yang Mei: [Use your skills to see if you can attract anything.]
Yang Mei's skill card appeared in his hand and he looked at Ling Changye. Ling Changye pointed at the Dad card but was interrupted by Yang Yi.
Yang Yi: [Don’t use the skill card if you haven’t figured out what the colorful ghost is yet.]
Ling Changye had no way to deal with this brother-con. Not wanting to conflict with his biological brother at this time, he withdrew his hand.
Yang Mei took the skill card back.
Ling Changye: [I put the surveillance equipment in his room. I will go back first.]
The few of them returned to Erwa's room. Erwa was tidying up something with his sister Xuemu. He was very focused and only glanced at them, which was mainly at Xia Bai.
Several adults walked to the window and shared their discoveries over the past few hours.
"So the man in room 302 is also crazy?" Yang Yi asked after hearing the information they heard from the waiter.
"It should be. There is nothing in the room. He is just kowtowing to the air." Zhou Buyu said, "Unless the colored ghost has a specificity and only he can see it, but this assumption is wrong. I saw the host being attacked by a black colored ghost on TV. Did you see it too?"
Several people nodded, they all saw it.
This shows that the colorful ghosts are not only visible to certain people, so the man in room 302 may also be crazy.
Yang Yi said: "We recorded every room on the second and third floors and made an occupancy form. We preliminarily estimated that there are 12 new players and 6 NPCs on these two floors."
Ling Changye took his form and compared it with the hotel check-in records Zhou Buyu and his team had obtained. "It seems that the players all checked in today. We have been staying in the hotel for a few days in the real world, and the registration records also show that we checked in today."
In this way, they can easily know which room in the hotel contains NPCs and which room contains new and old players.
"That's all for today." Ling Changye handed them the forms and check-in registration, and said, "It's two o'clock, time to go to bed."
After taking photos of the forms and documents, everyone else left. Xia Bai and Ling Changye remained in the room. They approached Erwa and Xuemu to see what they were sorting out.
When dividing the tasks, they thought that there shouldn't be many clues in the room they lived in, and the clues should be in the NPC room. So Xia Bai and Ling Changye went to the NPC room and asked Erwa and Xuemu to search in their rooms.
Unexpectedly, they found quite a few.
That is, as soon as they came over, they saw Sister Xue Mu carrying a dead person's finger and walking towards Erwa, but they were still silent for a second.
In fact, there is no need to carry and preserve this kind of evidence with such great effort.
Erwa didn't think so. He took the finger and told them, "Someone died in room 606. The bodies were not cleaned up. There are many bodies under the bed."
Thinking that 606 was the room Hua Haoming lived in, they felt there was no need to tell him.
"There's also this in the room." Erwa gave them a crumpled piece of paper.
It can be seen that the paper was originally crumpled up and thrown somewhere, and Erwa has tried hard to flatten it so that they can see the words on the paper clearly at a glance.
[Why can’t I draw! Why can’t I draw! Draw! Draw to the level I used to!]
Erwa handed them another crumpled painting in an orderly manner. This painting was only half finished and was scribbled all over with a messy black pen.
Looking carefully through the gaps in the black pen, based on Xia Bai's experience in painting over this period of time, this is already a very good painting.
He looked at Ling Changye, who was more admirable at appreciating paintings. Ling Changye said, "He should be a painter."
A painter, looking at that sentence and that finger again. Xia Bai had a guess in his mind, "Is this painter crazy? He thinks he can't paint at his original level, so he cut off his finger?"
Erwa handed over another finger.
Xia Bai: "...chop them one by one."
Thinking that two fingers were under the bed, he reasonably speculated, "Chopping them off was not enough to satisfy his anger, so he kicked his fingers around."
Just imagine that scene, it's quite chilling.
For a painter, the importance of hands is self-evident. Just because he couldn't paint well, he chopped off his fingers one by one. Chopping off one finger was enough to wake him up, so he continued to chop. After chopping off, he was still not sober and kicked the fingers away in regret.
This is too crazy, so crazy that it's scary.
I wonder what expression he had on his face when he did this.
Erwa handed them his mobile phone again. There was a photo on the phone. The photo showed a mattress with traces of unknown liquid on it. There was a large pool of blood near the head of the bed.
“…”
Erwa said, "The mattress in Yangmei's room."
The mattress must have been replaced with new sheets, probably very thick ones, otherwise Yang Mei would not have missed it. I mean, these two were too careful in finding clues, even lifting up several layers of sheets to look at the mattress.
Erwa: "Is it useful?"
Xia Bai didn't say anything. Erwa saw that he didn't say anything and took the initiative to say, "I think it's useful. Someone died, as if their neck was cut. Before or when they died, they might have been very happy."
“…”
The Tourism Administration’s popular science education for Erwa has been very effective. Xia Bai really wants to know which member of the task force taught him such advanced science knowledge.
Ling Changye said calmly, "Yes, the clues you found are very useful. Great! You've worked hard. Go to sleep now."
Erwa went to wash happily, taking his beloved sister with him.
Xia Bai and Ling Changye looked over the scraps of evidence they had found again, and then watched the surveillance footage on Ling Changye's phone together.
The man in room 302 had stopped kowtowing at this time, but at around two in the morning, he did not go to bed. Instead, he stuffed things under the sofa: pillows, quilts, books... He stuffed everything that could be stuffed under the sofa until there was no gap left and he could no longer fit anything else.
Ling Changye commented on his behavior, "He must have seen a colorful ghost under the sofa. It was a very scary scene, which left him with a serious psychological trauma."
Xia Bai, who was sitting on the sofa, subconsciously raised his foot.
“…”
Under Ling Changye's gaze, the pair of feet were silently put down again.
302 After the man stuffed the space under the sofa, he was still lying on the ground without standing up. He lay there stiffly for a long time, making Xia Bai think that he saw something under the sofa, or there was something behind him.
But, at least there was nothing behind him.
“Aaaaaaaaah!”
The man suddenly jumped up and ran around the room in fear.
His sudden jumping action was originally somewhat funny, but Xia Bai and Ling Changye couldn't laugh at all.
He was so scared, so scared.
It can be seen from the way he jumped that he is a middle-aged man who is a little bloated, but he jumped higher than Xia Bai. Xia Bai is not the tallest in their class, but in physical education class, he has always been the one who jumped the highest in their class. A boy in their class asked him if he was Yan Zi.
Normally this bloated middle-aged man should not be able to jump that high, but at that moment he was terrified to the extreme, and his instinct to escape overcame his physical limits.
At this time, he should be running towards the surveillance camera, and the expression on his face is becoming clearer and clearer.
His face was covered in sweat and tears, and tears were pouring out of his wide-open eyes. Those distorted eyes were filled with extreme fear, as if he had seen the most terrifying thing in the world, and that thing was chasing him.
Xia Bai and Ling Changye looked at his room carefully. All the lights were on in the room, and it was bright. There was nothing weird in the room, which made the scene even weirder.
The man ran to the bathroom again. The third floor was filled with ordinary small rooms, so small that one could see the bathroom from the bed. The man was still in their surveillance footage.
The glass bathroom door was open. The man must have wanted to hide inside, so he ran inside in a panic. When he stepped on the threshold, he slipped and hit his head on the sharp corner of the marble sink in front of him.
The blood spread on the marble like a small river.
Xia Bai rubbed his temples and took a breath.
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