Chapter 139 Datai City 4
"What's going on?"
Erwa finished washing up and came out just in time to see Xia Bai rolling on the sofa. His eyes lit up and he ran to the sofa as well. Before he could crawl, Ling Changye carried him to the bed and said, "The washed ones go to the bed, and the unwashed ones go to the sofa."
"That's not necessary." Xia Bai turned over again and said quietly, "What's the point of you being so clean? There might be pieces of meat on the mattress."
Ling Changye: “They have all been changed.”
Xia Bai: “…”
"Don't think about it. We've only been here for a few hours, and you want to find out the truth?" Ling Changye stretched out his hand and pulled him, "Go take a shower quickly, or it will be three o'clock."
Can't pull it.
Ling Changye looked at him, then bent over and picked him up.
Erwa immediately covered his eyes, just like when Xia Bai first saw him in the screening room of Harmony Cinema. Xia Bai reasonably suspected that Erwa's science education must have been very advanced at that time.
Even after entering the bathroom, Xia Bai was still talking, "It's just very disturbing, and I feel like everything is wrong. The waiter said that people will go crazy after being attacked by a colorful ghost, but the man in 302 seems to be crazy, but his fear is too real, and he doesn't look crazy. And he is very different from the madman in 406, and also different from the painter Erwa found."
"The man who dismembered the body in Room 406 and the painter who chopped off his fingers both fit the description of the waitress as crazy, just like what she said about the man who burned his mother to death."
"But I feel like the man in 302 and the man with depression on the sixth floor are not like that."
"Could it be that, like on Blue Tea Island, the colorful ghosts can make people enter a fantasy world? This seems to make sense. Captain, why don't we go down and take a look..."
"Xia Bai." Ling Changye interrupted him in a somewhat loud voice.
Xia Bai shut up.
The bathroom suddenly became very quiet. Even Erwa, who had covered his eyes, put down his hands and looked over.
Ling Changye pinched the back of Xia Bai's neck and said to him softly, "Don't be nervous. This game book is obviously different from that one."
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment, and asked blankly: "I am a little nervous?"
"Yeah." Ling Changye noticed his subtle nervousness and understood why he was nervous. "Think about this game carefully. It is very likely that you have to eliminate the colorful ghosts. If you want to eliminate the colorful ghosts everywhere, they may be hidden in the corners. Many players with skills will definitely be more useful than one player with many skills."
"So, that kind of situation will never occur in the game of Datai City." Ling Changye said again.
Xia Bai exhaled, stretched out his hands to hug Ling Changye, and rubbed his shoulder, "Captain, I seem to be a little anxious, and I am very anxious to know the answer."
"We have only been in the game for a few hours and haven't faced the colorful ghosts yet, so there is no need to rush." Ling Changye said.
Xia Bai said "hmm", stayed in Ling Changye's arms for a long time, and finally went to wash up.
After taking a hot bath, Erwa brought hot milk to Xia Bai, and Ling Changye gave him a pair of earplugs.
Xia Bai drank Erwa's milk, put on earplugs, and lay down next to Ling Changye. He finally relaxed from the inside out. Only then did he realize that he was a little nervous just now.
Xia Bai turned around and hugged Ling Changye, fortunately he was there.
That night, Xia Bai only slept for four hours, but his sleep quality was very high and he didn't feel tired at all when he woke up.
When he woke up, Ling Changye and Erwa had already gotten up.
As soon as Erwa saw Xia Bai open his eyes, he immediately ran over with the teacup he had been guarding. The three small white flowers in the cup swayed as he jogged.
When Xia Bai saw it, he quickly reached out to take it, said thank you, and drank the cup of fragrant and warm flower tea. It was the perfect temperature and made him feel refreshed.
"Where is the captain?" Xia Bai asked.
"309, someone died." Erwa said.
Xia Bai immediately got out of bed and took Erwa to Room 309.
Several other players were there, including a few new players, because the person who died was a new player, a 21-year-old male college student. Xia Bai had seen the check-in registration, and his name was Wang Chenyang.
"Is it suicide too?" Xia Bai asked, looking at the blood on the ground.
"He killed her." Ling Changye turned to look at another man sitting in the corner with his back against the curtains and said, "He killed her."
There was a knife at the man's feet, and his face was splattered with a lot of blood. The blood had already flowed down his face, leaving only a half-dried blood-red color, which made his eyes glow red.
"No, he wanted to kill me first. He was crazy and wanted to hurt me! I was acting in self-defense!" He shouted loudly, with tears in his voice, "It wasn't me! It wasn't me!"
"Okay, we don't care whether you were acting in self-defense or not." Hua Haoming said, "Tell me what happened last night. Is there anything unusual?"
Zhou Buyu handed him a bottle of water and said, "Don't be nervous. Talk slowly. We are all here. If he is crazy and wants to kill you, your behavior of saving yourself is correct."
The man looked at Zhou Buyu for a few seconds, then took the water and drank it in big gulps. The water that overflowed from his mouth washed away the blood around his lips, as if blood was overflowing from his mouth.
He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and began to speak, "My name is Fang Jian, and I live in 310 across the street. Last night we knew someone had died, so we secretly came out to check. I saw the boy across the street, Wang Chenyang, and he was quite scared. I was a little scared too, mainly because this place is too weird, and I don't know what I'll encounter."
"So I asked him if we should sleep in the same room so we could look after each other. Wang Chenyang agreed and let me live with him."
After explaining why he was in room 309, Fang Jian got down to business. "I was sleeping restlessly and heard something. I heard something... It sounded like nails scratching on the wall."
"Fingernails scratching the wall? Is that Wang Chenyang?" Hua Haoming asked.
"I don't know, I don't know." Fang Jian scratched his messy hair and said, "The sound was very creepy. It sounded very close to me. I didn't dare to open my eyes at first. The sound lasted for a long time. I got used to it a little bit and opened my eyes a little bit. Then I saw a dark shadow walking around in the room. It was Wang Chenyang."
"I called him, but he ignored me." Fang Jian paused here, wondering if the scene at that time frightened him too much.
His finger moved from the east side of the room to the west, and then to the east again. "He just walked like this, back and forth, back and forth, faster and faster, very fast, very fast!"
He may not realize it, but he's also been talking faster and faster.
"I was a little scared, so I shouted his name even louder." Fang Jian said, "He suddenly jumped up and landed on my bed from such a long distance. I almost broke my ribs. Before I could catch my breath, he started to strangle me with great force. He wanted to kill me!"
Fang Jian raised his head and revealed the handprint on his neck. "Look! His eyes are particularly scary. He looked as if he was determined to kill me. I had a knife under my pillow for self-defense, so I..."
He added vaguely, "He must have been possessed by a ghost! His eyes are particularly scary."
Xia Bai looked at the body lying on the ground and saw that his fatal wound was indeed caused by a stab wound, not just once.
As for the eyes that Fang Jian had always talked about as particularly scary, they were no longer visible, so he closed his eyes.
Hua Haoming sighed, "Another person died inexplicably."
Apart from the sound of nails scratching the wall, there seemed to be no other clues.
Yang Yi pulled up the video he shot in Room 309 last night, "This Wang Chenyang was walking back and forth in the room when he was alone in the room last night."
Xia Bai leaned over to take a look and saw that Wang Chenyang was indeed pacing back and forth in the room alone, biting his nails, but he probably wasn't walking as fast as Fang Jian said.
Wen Yuxin: "He bites his nails. Does that mean he is scratching the wall with his nails?"
"Not necessarily." Ling Changye said, "People tend to bite their nails when they are nervous and anxious. He should be in this state in the video. Of course, he may also be scratching the wall because of nervousness and anxiety."
Yang Yi called up the 310 video again. In the video, Fang Jian's face was zoomed in. He should be looking out through the crack in the door. After looking for a while and leaving, he came back to look out again, this time he was lying on the ground, looking at the crack in the door below.
For an ordinary person who has just entered the game, this is normal. He is a little scared and curious, but dare not open the door to look.
Ling Changye asked them: "Was there anything unusual in your room last night?"
Several people shook their heads.
"Let's have breakfast first." Ling Changye said, "If you're late, there won't be any food."
Tai Kwang Hotel provides breakfast and dinner, both in the form of buffet. Because the breakfast time is only one and a half hours, it is very fixed. Many people staying in the hotel will eat in the restaurant during this time, which is also a good opportunity for observation.
A few of them found a seat near the entrance of the restaurant and sat down, eating while observing the people around them.
Maybe it was because of the colorful ghosts, the aboriginal people who lived in the doomsday looked a little numb, and many of them just ate as if they were doing a task to maintain their vital signs, without any sign of love or enjoyment.
Most of the new players were quite nervous and were very careful in everything they did. During the night, many players started to form groups, but perhaps because of what happened to Ye Chenyang and Fang Jian, they were wary of their companions.
They observed every resident and didn't find any major problems.
Just as Xia Bai finished eating, a person who might be a woman walked into the restaurant.
The reason I say possible is that her face was covered with a large blue scarf and her hands were wearing gloves, so her hands and face could not be seen, and even her fatness or thinness could not be told. She was wearing a very loose sweatshirt and baggy pants underneath. One could only guess from her height that she might be a woman.
It should be winter in the game, just like in the real world, but Datai City is located in the south, so even in winter it is not cold during the day. At this time, Xia Bai is wearing a shirt and a woolen vest, while Hua Haoming is only wearing a black T-shirt.
It was strange that the man was so wrapped up in a woolen scarf and furry gloves.
She arrived very late. Not only had Xia Bai finished his meal, but the people who had arrived earlier than him had already left the restaurant.
As soon as she entered the door, a man in front of her was pulling a chair and turning around to leave, and bumped into her.
She was fine, she just swayed and didn't fall, but the scarf on her head came loose, revealing her face. It was indeed a woman's face, and there was nothing inconvenient on her face. On the contrary, she had a very beautiful face, and her big eyes were wide open in fear.
"Sorry! Sorry! Are you okay?" The eldest brother quickly apologized to her.
The little episode over there attracted the attention of many people in the restaurant. The woman's outfit was a bit strange, which made even more people focus their attention on her.
Facing these gazes, she felt like a vampire exposed to the sun, about to be burnt. She covered her face in panic and ran outside in a hurry.
Because she was wrapped in a hurry and there were no gaps, she couldn't see the road clearly. She fell down after running only two steps. After falling down, she hurriedly got up, fell down again, and fell down several times before she ran out of their sight.
The restaurant was quiet for a while, then a lively discussion broke out again.
Xia Bai thought of the last time he saw the woman's face before she wrapped the scarf around her face.
There were already traces of tears on her face. Her fingers were trembling, and many parts of her body were shaking. It seemed that having her face seen by so many people was a very scary thing for her, so scary that it made her collapse.
Xia Bai turned around and saw that Ling Changye was gone.
Knowing that Ling Changye had followed that woman, the few of them stopped chasing after him.
"Do you find it strange?" Hua Haoming: "The people and death here are very strange. It feels intangible."
"Indeed. This is the first time I've seen a dungeon where several people have died and are still confused." Zhou Buyu sighed, "It's worthy of being a decisive battle dungeon."
"I feel a bit like Cthulhu now." Shi An said: "Their deaths are like people seeing something unbearable, chaos, imbalance, and madness."
Yang Yi has a different opinion. "When the game system reported it, it said that this was a doomsday crisis caused by humans themselves, and it had little to do with Cthulhu."
"Cthulhu is to make humans realize the insignificance of themselves and human technology." Shi An said: "It can't be said that it is completely unrelated."
Wen Yuxin sighed, "If that's the case, then it means that humans can't defeat the gods of Cthulhu, and it's also difficult for us in the game to defeat the colorful ghosts?"
Xia Bai felt that it was meaningless to continue discussing this, "Let's go see what's going on with that woman."
They didn't know where the woman lived, but they were sure that she was not on the second, third or sixth floors. Yang Yi and Yang Mei took a video of everyone on the second and third floors last night, and she was not on the video.
The restaurant was on the first floor, and there were only three guest rooms on the first floor. When they were about to observe secretly, they heard a woman's scream. It was not very clear, so it should have come from at least the second floor.
Several people hurried upstairs and saw a lot of people gathered at the door of Room 502 on the fifth floor.
The scream came from here, from the woman who wrapped herself up.
Ling Changye was in the room at this time, with a bleeding scratch on his face. The woman was tied to the head of the bed by him, with her mouth propped open. Several people looked at him with something strange in their eyes.
Xia Bai asked: "What's going on?"
Ling Changye: "She wants to commit suicide."
Several people looked at the woman. In order to prevent her from biting her tongue to commit suicide, Ling Changye pried her mouth open with his teeth. She was still able to make sounds, but her words were not clear. She was only shouting vaguely, her face full of tears, and she was struggling desperately like a dying fish.
Even though her face was stretched, one could still see her despair and collapse.
Zhou Buyu asked: "Is it really okay for her to be like this? I always feel like she can't hold on any longer. Should we give her some sedatives?"
Ling Changye wiped the blood off his face and said, "I gave it to her, but it didn't work."
Ling Changye could think of everything they could think of, but he was still scratched with a bloody mark, which shows how difficult it was to deal with the woman who wanted to commit suicide at that time.
This woman checked in yesterday. She might be a new player. Ling Changye asked the onlookers, "Does anyone know her?"
A woman wearing glasses stepped forward hesitantly.
She should also be a player, and everyone else outside must be a player.
Hua Haoming kicked the door shut, blocking out the people outside.
"Hello." Ling Changye said, "How much do you know about her? Can you tell us about her?"
The woman didn't say anything. She pushed her glasses and said, "Are you from the Wangchuan Group?"
Several people stood in different places in the room without saying anything.
"You are indeed disguised, and you are different from what we see on the big screen. However," the woman pointed at Erwa, who had two pigtails, "a child so young who was not at all scared of death must be Erwa. Captain Ling, I have heard your voice. Based on the two of you, it is not difficult to guess the identity of the others by looking at their characteristics."
Seeing them looking at her, she said, "I won't tell anyone your identity. What I mean is that I can tell you everything I know, but if you know anything, you have to tell me too."
Her request was not excessive, and she did not ask them to save her. Ling Changye said, "Deal."
The woman didn't waste any time. After she covered the woman tied to the bed with a blanket, she said directly, "My name is Chang He. I'm an author. I came to Datai City to live and write. I've booked the room with a nice view in room 508 for three months, and it's about to expire."
She said she had heard Ling Changye's voice, probably at the Taiguang Hotel in Datang City. It had been less than three months since they went to Wugu Village, and she had already arrived at the hotel at that time.
"I don't know the full name of this girl. I called her Wanwan before." Changhe said, "She came to the hotel about a week ago and said she was here for tourism, but she doesn't go out often."
"We weren't familiar with each other before. Actually, we're still not familiar with each other now. But after she heard that I was an author and had written about all kinds of weird people and wasn't surprised by anything, she told me some of her stories."
"The first time we met was when we went to the hotel restaurant for breakfast."
Chang He is an author who loves traveling. Her life plan is to write a book in each city. She has visited five cities and written five books.
Generally, after arriving in a city, she would first spend a few days playing in the city and feeling the local customs and culture, and then start staying at home in a hotel or B&B, never going out unless eating.
She stays in her hotel room every day and usually wears whatever home clothes are comfortable for her. Most of the time, she just wears pajamas all day.
She was wearing a suspender skirt that morning. Of course, when she went out for breakfast, she wrapped herself in a long sweater coat, mainly because she was cold. She didn't pack anything else and just casually went out with the room card.
When I went out, I met a girl who lived on the fifth floor.
The girl had clearly opened the door, but closed it again after seeing her.
She didn't care and continued walking towards the restaurant. Soon she heard footsteps behind her, but she didn't care.
It was not until she sat down at a dining table and the girl sat in front of her that she realized that the girl had gone back to her room to get a coat and a very long and wide blue scarf.
She first handed her the coat under the table, and her action made her think that she was handing her something very shameful.
She almost leaned on the table and whispered to her, "Someone is watching you. Do you want to put it on? My coat is very big and can completely cover you. There is also this scarf."
Chang He: “…”
She turned around and looked around. Who was looking at her? Everyone was eating their own food. Besides, what was there to see?
Changhe didn't answer. She sat on the soft sofa chair and enjoyed her breakfast.
The girl just kept looking at her, but Changhe ignored her and just ate his own food.
After a long time, the girl asked her quietly: "Excuse me, are you a model?"
Chang He smiled, "Yes, there are many models with flat chests like me, but have you ever seen a model as short as me?"
I don't know why the girl was stunned.
Chang He thought her stunned look was quite cute, so he said to her, "I'm an author."
From this, she talked to her about some things about the author, and also learned that her name was Wanwan, and that she came here to travel and relax.
Wanwan seemed to like chatting with her very much. Every time she went out to buy something delicious, she would carefully call her to come and eat.
The way she called her was that every time she was about to have lunch or dinner, she would open the door, stick her head out, and ask, "I bought some very sweet mango rice, do you want to try it?"
She was already a little hunched over, and when she leaned out she looked even more shrunken.
When they were a little more familiar, during dinner, she asked her, "Why do you think I'm a model?"
Wan Wan glanced at her and gave her a warning, "I told you not to be angry. At that time, I felt that I dared to let others appreciate your body."
Chang He: “…”
She was just wearing a suspender skirt that day, and a sweater over it.
She looked at Wanwan, who was wearing a loose pajamas with long sleeves and long pants, and asked her, "Don't you have a suspender skirt? You have such big breasts, you will look good in a suspender skirt, sexy beauty."
Wanwan's face flushed red, her body stiffened, and after a long while she uttered, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
She said nothing more and left after eating.
Wanwan probably thought she was angry, so she came to apologize to her the next day and told her a lot about herself and the reason why she came to travel.
She asked her, very shyly, "Do you really think I am, I am, that beauty?"
Chang He: “No doubt about it.”
Wanwan is a great beauty with a pair of big eyes, but there is often timidity and evasion in these eyes. She also has slightly long lips that fit perfectly on her face, giving her her own unique charm.
When Changhe saw her for the first time, he thought about how charming she would be if she put on red lipstick.
Wanwan smiled. There was a little joy in that smile, but also a lot of uncertainty, which eventually turned into bitterness. "You know, my mother has been saying that I'm ugly for nearly twenty years, almost every day, especially about my mouth and nose, and..."
She glanced down at her breasts and quickly looked away.
"I remember when I was very young, the first time I could remember being called ugly by my mother was when I laughed with my mouth open. My mother slapped me and asked me why I opened my mouth so wide. Didn't she see that many men were looking at my mouth?"
"After being beaten a few times, I no longer dared to laugh out loud, especially in front of men. I would subconsciously lower my head when eating."
"She said my nose was ugly. One time, she took me to my grandmother's house in the countryside. When we saw a pig, she suddenly burst into laughter, pointed at the pig's nose, and asked me if my nose looked like itss."
"She said my legs were not straight and were spread too wide when I stood there, so she tied my legs together every time I slept."
"She said my breasts were too big and other men were looking at me, which was embarrassing. I often cried at night, secretly bought corsets, and always walked with my chest held in."
Wanwan lowered her head and bit her nails hard. "There are too many such things. I hear them almost every day and every time I eat. I gradually realized that I am an ugly girl who is not presentable. I have always been very inferior to men and elders. I subconsciously want to hide when I see men and elders."
"Sometimes I feel like I am a deformed grass growing under a rock, but that grass is blocked by rocks, while I am not."
"Until I went to college, my two roommates praised me for being pretty. At first I didn't believe it at all, but they kept saying it, and sometimes I would wonder, am I not actually ugly?"
"Because of this thought, my sky suddenly became sunny, and little suns popped out one by one. I was so happy every day, and once I even laughed. I counted the days until the winter vacation, and couldn't wait to tell my mother about it."
"Tell her that someone said I was pretty."
Here she paused.
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