Chapter 142 Datai City 7
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment, then he smiled. He leaned over to Erwa's face and asked, "Who loves you?"
The little white flowers on Erwa's body popped out, and soon he was submerged in the sea of flowers. The hotel corridor was filled with sweet floral fragrance.
Xia Bai picked up the white flowers on the ground resignedly and looked towards Chang He's room. There were still a few people gathered at the door of her room. He placed a bag of small white flowers at her door inconspicuously, and took Er Wa to continue to take the opportunity to steal clues in the room he had not been to.
After searching the room, they forgot about the lunch they had missed long ago and found some food for dinner, then returned to their room to look for clues.
Erwa and his sister Xuemu were both little robbers. They looted a lot of things from other people's rooms. The space props seemed to be bursting. Once they were opened, the things inside seemed to be pushed out by a bulldozer and piled up into a small mountain in the room.
Xia Bai: “…”
If the game fixed them in this hotel, it meant that there were enough clues for them to leave. Now they were more inclined to eliminate all the colorful ghosts in the hotel, and they might be able to leave the hotel, but even so, they did not give up looking for other clues.
So, while others are searching for Wanwan in each room, try to find as many useful clues as possible in the room.
Now, Xia Bai felt that all the clues in the hotel might be in front of him.
Xia Bai resigned himself to his fate and found a vacant space to sit down and began to read. Erwa and his sister Xuemu sat on the side to help him sort it out.
There are not many clues in the rooms where the players live. If there were any useful clues, they might have been told long ago. On the contrary, the rooms where the NPCs live are more likely to contain important clues.
From the contact and understanding during this day, Xia Bai realized that many of the NPCs staying in this hotel came to the hotel to seek refuge because there was an outbreak of colorful ghosts in the community where they lived and it was very dangerous to live there. Most of these people had experienced colorful ghost incidents in their own community and had a certain understanding of colorful ghosts.
There are also very few who come from other places, but they have also heard of the colorful ghosts in Datai City, and they may come here to study the colorful ghosts.
For example, the one in room 207.
Erwa found a magazine from Room 207. It was a medical magazine that contained a special report on colorful ghosts from a medical perspective. Xia Bai hadn't read the content yet, but he was stunned when he saw the accompanying picture.
There is a group photo in this special report. Everyone in the photo is wearing white coats. It goes without saying that they are all experts in studying colored ghosts from a medical perspective. Among these people, Xia Bai saw a familiar person.
The depressed man who committed suicide on the sixth floor.
He is a doctor, that's right. Last night he and Ling Changye found a letter in his room from someone else, who called him Doctor Wang and said the medicine he wanted was ready.
He is an expert doctor who studies colored ghosts.
Xia Bai sat on the floor and began to recall what he found in his room.
If he is an expert in studying colored ghosts, maybe he came from another place, so he lives in the hotel alone?
If he is an expert who studies colorful ghosts and can be featured in special reports, he may have suffered from depression before, but it was not so serious that he needed to read books like "How to Get Happy" and "Be a Shining Person" and was unable to go into nature and feel the sunshine.
So, he was attacked by a colorful ghost while studying it, and became depressed and committed suicide?
Xia Bai thought as he lowered his head to read the medical report.
People in Datai City call emotional monsters "color ghosts" and regard them as ghosts, but some people do not accept the existence of ghosts in the world and try to explain the color ghosts from their own professional perspective. Medical experts study from a medical perspective, and the starting point is the abnormal symptoms that appear after people are attacked by ghosts.
Their research shows that people will go crazy after being attacked by colorful ghosts, but the reasons for going crazy are different, and the specific behaviors before going crazy are different. Some people are indeed angry, some are sad, some are afraid, and some are in pain... In view of this, the research team added a psychologist.
They already knew this.
There are important clues in this magazine, but it is of no benefit to them. Xia Bai was a little disappointed, more disappointed than having no clues at all.
He paused for a moment, then continued to flip through the pages without giving up. At the back was an introduction to the research team, one doctor per page. A big blood-red cross was drawn on the first page, and the same was true on the following pages.
After staring at the red "X" for a few seconds, Xia Bai confirmed with Erwa: "Was this found in 207?"
Erwa took a look and nodded vigorously, "It's 207, for sure." He had a good memory.
"You two stay here to sort out the clues, I'll go ask 207." Xia Bai said.
"Okay."
Xia Bai went down from the sixth floor to the fifth floor and did not go any further. He called out a dead body waiting at the entrance of the corridor. A hair on the back of its head turned into a thin little snake and walked towards Changhe's room.
There was no one there and the door was shut.
Xia Bai walked to the door and saw Changhe sitting on the carpet in the room. Next to her was Wanwan, who was lying on the carpet in a skirt.
Xia Bai stood at the door for several seconds before speaking: "She's dead."
"She's dead." Chang He said, "I finally managed to drive the group of people away. When I came back and opened the closet, I saw that she was already dead. She struggled to open the blanket I had wrapped her in. I didn't know there was a nail sticking out of the closet... How could there be a nail sticking out?"
Xia Bai looked at Wanwan's body and saw a bloody hole on her temple.
"It's better to die." Changhe said, "I'll be free if I die, no matter if I'm a shame monster or a mother."
"Yeah." Xia Bai only responded softly, "I'm going to 207 to look for clues. Do you want to come with me?"
"You go first, I'll go later."
"good."
Xia Bai took a step forward, turned around, leaned against the wall and breathed slowly, stared blankly at the carvings on the ceiling of the corridor for a few seconds, pinched his ears, and went to 207.
A 24-year-old woman lived in Room 207. Xia Bai saw from the check-in registration that her name was Chu Jing.
Xia Bai knocked on the door twice, but there was no response. He knocked twice more with greater force, but there was still no response.
It was already dark and dinner was over, so Chu Jing should be in the room.
Without continuing to knock on the door, Xia Bai went around the outside of the house, smashed the glass of her window and entered her room.
There was no one in the room. Xia Bai did not leave, but searched carefully in her room. Erwa and Xuemu took away all the clues that could be taken away, but there were some that could not be taken away, such as those on large objects.
Xia Bai carefully checked the walls, bed, sofa and other places in the room.
He saw the red cross on the wall behind the bed again, this time on a person's name. Xia Bai saw two names in the medical journal.
After looking for a few seconds, he lifted the quilt and found that the bedding on the bed was already in tatters.
This hotel is an upper-mid-range hotel with very comfortable bedding. There is a thin and soft goose down mattress on top of the latex mattress. At this moment, the mattress has been stabbed with a knife and is full of holes, with the goose down inside all over the bed.
She hid herself under the quilt, and she didn't know when she started to poke holes in the mattress with a sharp knife. Each hole represented her hatred.
In addition to the mattress, Xia Bai lifted the sofa blanket and saw that the sofa was also riddled with holes, even the legs and the bottom of the sofa were not spared.
Xia Bai looked at the horrible bottom of the sofa, imagining how she would poke it. After thinking for a while, he turned around and went upstairs to the room of the depression doctor in Room 605.
The last time he and Ling Changye came in to check, they closed the door. At this time, the door was still closed. Xia Bai walked to the door and listened carefully, only then did he hear that there was indeed some movement inside, almost a "puff puff" sound, but a little duller.
He kicked the door open and saw the young woman from Room 207 squatting beside Dr. Wang's body with her back to him. The hair on both sides of her cheeks was thick with black and red.
She was doing to Dr. Wang's body what she had done to the mattress. The knife came up and down, again and again.
Her body was trembling, but Xia Bai knew she was definitely not afraid.
"Chu Jing!" Xia Bai walked over and took a look at Dr. Wang's miserable body, then grabbed Chu Jing's wrist which was about to fall, "Why do you hate Dr. Wang so much?"
Chu Jing struggled frantically, as if to stop her from stabbing Dr. Wang's body. She felt uncomfortable all over and wanted to explode. She let out an unknown roar and her arm was almost broken.
However, she still couldn't break free from Xia Bai's hand. She turned her head to look at Xia Bai, and under her bleeding hair, her blood-stained eyes stared at Xia Bai with hatred.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" She roared at Xia Bai and opened her mouth to bite Xia Bai.
Xia Bai stared into her eyes calmly for a few seconds, then he turned the knife in her hand and stabbed it into her body.
She is possessed by a colorful ghost, a hateful monster.
Chu Jing opened her eyes wide and fell to the ground slowly. The fresh blood and the somewhat rotten blood in her body mixed together, and a layer of purple gas suddenly spread out above it.
Xia Bai exhaled, looked around the room again, and returned to their room with confusion.
Erwa asked, "Found it?"
Xia Bai: “Found it.”
Erwa: “Oh.”
"It's tidied up." Erwa said, pointing at the things in the room.
Together with his sister Xue Mu, he sorted the items they had found for Xia Bai according to the room numbers. This way, if Xia Bai found anything useful, he could go find the owner of the item like he did just now.
Xia Bai continued to watch the people in 207. Originally, they all thought that Dr. Wang committed suicide due to depression, but later they thought that he and the others died because of emotional monsters and there was no other inside story. The appearance of Chu Jing in 207 and her hatred for him made Xia Bai feel that there might be something they had not grasped.
The most useful of these things is the magazine. In addition to the magazine, there are also several notebooks. Maybe they look like diaries, so I brought them here. In fact, they are very simple work records, with only the time of clocking in, eating time and leaving work time.
Xia Bai read it carefully and found that the back of the page was a countdown to his resignation, which started with 100 days.
Normally, if it has been such a long time and the numbers are so complete, the resignation should be one's own idea, not a request for dismissal.
The countdown to her resignation stopped at 56 days and then suddenly disappeared. That is, after the countdown started, she only worked for 44 days and then suddenly stopped working. It seemed like she was suddenly fired.
On this page, there is a familiar red cross.
Chu Jing hates Dr. Wang, or rather, she hates all doctors. It may be related to her job or being fired.
207 There are no other clues, so stop here.
Xia Bai drank a cup of tea made by Erwa to replenish his energy, lay on the sofa to rest for a while, then slowly got up and continued watching.
There were no useful clues in several rooms in a row, but he didn't get annoyed at all and continued searching quietly until he saw room 103.
There are only three guest rooms on the first floor. Room 103 is occupied by the old lady who told them how to completely eliminate the colorful ghost. A lot of things were found in her room, all in a computer bag. Erwa directly took her computer bag.
Xia Bai: “…”
He felt like someone was going to come to his door soon, and maybe someone was already catching a thief outside.
The old lady said that when she asked the security bureau for an explanation for her husband, she met many people with the same experience. Here is the evidence she hid, including photos taken after her husband died, photos of other people's homes, and various evidence of crimes collected by the security bureau, as well as various speculations.
The clock in the room ticked away, and time passed by. There was a faint noise outside, and I couldn't tell whether it came from the window or the heavy door, and it was blurred by the darkness.
All the intense emotions were brewing in the darkness and were suppressed by the darkness.
Xia Bai looked at the sheets one by one slowly, and when he was about to open a document, there was a knock on the door.
The person who came was Yang Mei. He said to Xia Bai excitedly, "Xia Bai, brother has captured the energy of the emotional monster! I need Erwa's help to refine it."
Xia Bai immediately thought of the purple air that dissipated in room 605 after Chu Jing died. He immediately took Erwa there and asked him to bloom some flowers.
Erwa’s skills are natural and physical. The small flowers that bloom on his body not only have pure natural power, but are also as pure as he is. Any "pollution" will be shown on them, and they can easily absorb some emotional things.
Erwa was there when the black gas emerged, so the little flower was particularly obvious in black.
This time the purple air has dissipated, but it is still stained with a little bit of barely detectable purple, which must have been left here.
Xia Bai picked the flower and was about to give it and Erwa to Yang Mei, but before he even stretched out his hand, he changed his mind and said, "Let's go and take a look."
Xia Bai followed them to Yang Yi's room.
Yang Mei was so happy that she almost jumped up and down. Seeing this, Xia Bai asked, "Why are you so happy?"
"Are you unhappy?" Yang Mei turned around and asked.
Xia Bai: "I am happy too."
If Yang Yi's detector could detect which person had the colorful ghost in his body, the difficulty of the game would be reduced by at least half. He would of course be happy, after all, this was the first game that made him anxious and nervous.
Yang Mei looked a little nervous before, but now she was just happy.
He said to Xia Bai: "I only encountered the dissipation of emotional monsters, and I didn't sense whether they were ghosts. If they were really ghosts, should I use skills?"
"No need. This kind of ghost is too special. If you attract them, what if they possess you? It's too dangerous." Xia Bai answered without thinking.
Erwa also said: "No, it's okay."
"I thought so too." Yang Mei said happily, "Anyway, my brother will develop a detector to detect them."
As they were talking, they came to Yang Yi's room.
Xia Bai handed the purple flower to Yang Yi, "This is the color of another emotional monster."
"Great. I just need the energy of another emotional monster to extract the same data from their energy." Yang Yi took the small flower and put it into a black box.
Xia Bai asked: "Can you catch the colorful ghost?"
Yang Yi also seemed relaxed. "It should be no problem. We should be able to figure it out tonight."
"Great!" Yang Mei said, "Then can we let them come back and rest? They haven't even had dinner yet, so they don't have to observe so hard. We can detect it directly tomorrow and deal with it directly."
Yang Yi nodded, "Indeed, let them come back for dinner."
Yang Mei went there happily.
Xia Bai blinked, and something flashed through his mind, like a feeling, but it quickly disappeared and he couldn't catch it.
After thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing wrong. He took out some food from the space props, put it on the table, and waited for others to come back.
Soon, they came back, and they were all very happy after hearing that Yang Yi had captured the energy of the emotion monster.
Wen Yuxin lay down on the sofa, "You can finally sleep well tonight, right? We can go out tomorrow."
"You are relieved." Yang Mei groaned and said, "My brother is so tired. I don't know how long he will have to work overtime tonight."
"Yo yo yo." Wen Yuxin said, "Is this still the Yang Mei who was giving Vice President Yang the cold shoulder?"
Yang Mei smiled, then pounced on the sofa and strangled her neck, "Say it again, say it again."
Xia Bai glanced at the two of them, thought about it, and told them what he had discovered today.
"If we can't find their complete story, we won't look for it anymore." Hua Haoming said, "I feel this may be related to the overall background. We may only have some clues here. There are more clues outside the hotel. We will continue to look after we leave the hotel."
Xia Bai nodded. He also felt that the involvement between these two people was related to the overall background.
"What about you?" Xia Bai asked.
Their main progress was to lock down about ten suspicious people, and Shi An also killed a person who was obviously possessed by a colorful ghost.
Shi An: "That's right, when she died, green gas came out of her body. It should be a fear monster."
The colored ghosts they have eliminated so far include: purple monsters of hatred, green monsters of fear, and black monsters of anger or anxiety.
"It's already great. With this progress, when Yang Yi extracts the energy of the emotional monsters tomorrow, we can eliminate more emotional monsters." Zhou Buyu said.
"Yeah." Ling Changye said, "You've worked hard. Let's eat."
The few of them had a relaxing meal while chatting, and it was almost ten o'clock when they finished the meal.
Ling Changye said, "Tonight we will squeeze into two rooms and take turns to keep watch, two people in a group. One person will check the entire hotel during the night watch, and deal with people who are parasitized by colorful ghosts and have emotional outbursts in time. One person will watch over the sleeping players, first to observe whether there are colorful ghosts approaching, and second to pay attention to whether anyone among us is parasitized by colorful ghosts and has obvious emotional fluctuations. Yang Yi will not participate in the night watch, so there are exactly four groups."
According to his arrangement, they each washed up before ten o'clock and kept vigil from ten o'clock to six in the morning, a total of eight hours, two hours for each group.
Xia Bai and Erwa were responsible for the time period from ten to twelve o'clock. Thanks to Erwa, Xia Bai was taken care of.
Before they patrolled, the other people had already observed everyone in the hotel. It was obvious that those who were parasitized by the colorful ghosts had been eliminated, and the other suspected people had not reached the level of madness in the past two hours. The two of them patrolled back and forth easily for two hours and then came back to sleep.
Because of the relaxation, Xia Bai had a good and restful sleep.
He was woken up by the six o'clock ringing in the morning. It was not just his cell phone that was ringing, but several ringing phones in the room.
Xia Bai opened his eyes precariously and turned off his phone. He saw Wen Yuxin and Zhou Buyu on the bed doing the same thing. After turning off their phones, they lay down again.
Since they are like this, he can't get up either.
Sleep a little longer, just for a while.
The result of the same situation for everyone in the room was that they all woke up late. They had originally planned to get up at 6 o'clock, but when they left the house it was already 7 o'clock. The people in the other room looked similar to them, all of them looked like they had just crawled out of bed.
Hua Haoming: "Anyway, Yang Yi's instrument can capture colorful ghosts."
Xia Bai: "Yes."
“…”
Yang Yi's instrument does work, and the process is not difficult. As long as his detector captures and confirms the energy of the emotion monster and records it, it will issue a prompt after sensing the energy of the emotion monster.
It's just that the time is short and not that precise, so you have to get close to detect it.
It’s almost breakfast time, so we can check up close in the restaurant to see which people have colored ghosts.
As they walked towards the restaurant, they talked about what happened last night.
Last night, Hua Haoming and Yang Mei killed a person who was possessed by a colorful ghost between two and four o'clock.
Yang Mei said: "There is clearly an angry monster inside him. We observed him for a while. He was smashing things crazily in the room and beating himself up. We dealt with him when he was about to leave. It was red qi."
If the anger monster is red, then the first emotion monster he finds in the player is anxiety, which is black.
"There shouldn't be many left." Hua Haoming said lightly, "I hope we can find a few more this morning."
They arrived earlier and occupied the seats closest to the restaurant entrance. Yang Yi sat at the outermost position, with his instrument facing further outward, half hanging over the table, so that everyone entering the restaurant would pass by the instrument.
He told them in advance: "Green means safety, red means there might be a ghost, and the darker the red, the greater the possibility."
After knowing how to look at it, they carefully observed the instrument while eating.
The breakfast time at Taiguang Hotel is from 7:30 to 9:00. As soon as 7:30 arrives, guests start to come into the restaurant to eat.
Chang He looked like she had just climbed out of bed. She was wearing a green silk nightgown without even a coat on. The V-neck of the nightgown was very low and the bottom was very short, so her underwear was obviously exposed. Several men in front and behind stared at her for a few seconds and then looked away.
The scent of perfume wafted by and a green dot appeared on the instrument.
Several people in a row had green dots.
A couple and their child came in front of us. The man seemed to have the habit of sleeping naked. He was naked and walked towards the restaurant. The boy he was holding did the same. The family of three walked into the restaurant slowly.
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