Chapter 143 Datai City 8
Three people passed by and the instrument showed a green dot.
Everyone in the restaurant looked at them, men and women alike.
Several of them were also watching, especially Wen Yuxin, who looked a few more times.
Hua Haoming noticed that she was looking at it seriously and asked her, "Is it so beautiful?"
"Normally." Wen Yuxin retracted his gaze and looked at the muscles faintly visible under Hua Haoming's shirt, laughing happily, "You look better."
Hearing the voice, Xia Bai looked at Hua Haoming. Today, Hua Haoming was rarely wearing a black shirt with red flowers. The buttons of the shirt were almost unbuttoned, and the clothes were spread out, revealing the muscles on both sides.
"Of course." Hua Haoming said as a matter of course, and glanced at the man again, saying: "He looks like he hasn't exercised in years."
"Actually..." Wen Yuxin said, "I want to see the captain the most. How about you take off your clothes too, captain?"
Xia Bai: “……?”
Ling Changye put his hands on the buttons of his shirt, and seeing Xia Bai's frowning face, he laughed and buttoned the top button as well, "My boyfriend will be angry, so I won't show it to you."
"What about letting your boyfriend talk about it?" Wen Yuxin looked at Xia Bai.
Xia Bai thought about it and licked his lips, "Siha."
“…”
They were just about to continue the topic when the instrument showed blood for the first time. Several people immediately looked up and saw the old lady.
As soon as she entered the restaurant, she shouted into the restaurant, "Who on earth stole my computer bag?"
"..."Xia Bai and Erwa lowered their heads to eat at the same time.
"It must be someone from the Security Bureau! There must be someone from the Security Bureau here! After hearing me say yesterday that I had evidence of their bad deeds, they went to my room and stole the evidence! Damn thieves! Absolutely heartless people!" She stood at the door of the restaurant, looking at the people in the restaurant, cursing loudly and calmly, and slapping her legs hard.
She might have been in a hurry and didn't hold up her pants properly, so she slapped them so hard that they slipped down even more.
"Stop cursing." Chang He laughed, "Your face is red, you are so emotional, are you attacked by a colorful ghost?"
The old lady seemed to be suddenly strangled. She showed with her actions that she was not emotional at all and was completely under control. She walked to a dining table, sat down, and ate silently.
Xia Bai whispered, "She didn't seem angry just now."
"No, she cursed very loudly and her movements were very big, but she looked quite calm." Hua Haoming said: "We have already eliminated one of the angry monsters in the hotel. It is very likely that there is only one monster of each emotion in our hotel."
Xia Bai nodded, he thought so too.
While they were talking, two more people entered the restaurant. Nothing seemed unusual until a young girl jumped up next to them and turned around.
The red displayed on the instrument is even redder than that of the old lady just now.
"La la la ~ la ~ la la ~" After turning around with her skirt in hand, she left happily singing a song.
Several players ate in silence.
They had previously been exposed to negative emotions, such as anger, anxiety, shame, etc. These emotions are harmful and it is easy to associate these emotions with monsters. If this girl had not appeared, they would almost forget that happiness and joy are also human emotions.
Can happy monsters harm people?
After about forty minutes, almost everyone staying in the hotel came in, except for one person, the man on the fourth floor, who was one of their suspects yesterday.
Among the people who came in, three showed abnormalities.
The most obvious one, the one with the darkest red on the detector, is the girl who is spinning.
The second one was a man in his mid-thirties with no expression on his face.
The third one is the old lady.
It is not certain what kind of emotional monsters are in the bodies of the two behind, but it is obvious that the girl is happy.
She is so happy.
"Don't do it in the restaurant, follow them to their room. The detector is just an auxiliary tool. Take action only after you are sure that there are colorful ghosts in their bodies." Ling Changye assigned them tasks, including a total of four target captains who did not come to the restaurant, about two people in a group, and Erwa followed Xia Bai and Ling Changye.
Leaving the restaurant, Xia Bai said, "There is still some evidence in the room. Before leaving the hotel, I want to sort it out again. Maybe it will be useful after I leave."
He just heard the old lady say that she had evidence of the Security Bureau doing bad things. Thinking of the things in the computer bag, he hadn't finished reading them yet, so he wanted to go back and take a look to see if there was anything new.
"Okay, you go and take the second child with you. I'm enough on my own." Ling Changye said.
Xia Bai took Erwa away. Before they walked out of the first floor, Xia Bai saw hair growing out of his cell phone. He let out sister Xuemu, who stared at him and Erwa.
Having been fed with Erwa's blood rich in natural power, Xuemu's face has now become much more normal. She looks like a mini version of a baby and can even show expressions.
For example, at this moment, Xia Bai could see from her face that there was something strange on her face when she looked at them.
Xia Bai's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He was just about to ask Sister Xue Mu what was going on when Xue Mu suddenly returned to her phone. Her long hair flowed back like black water and she disappeared from the screen in an instant.
"Sister?" Erwa stood on tiptoe and looked at the phone.
Sister Xue Mu did not respond to him.
Xia Bai looked at Erwa and saw that there was nothing strange about him. He asked Erwa again, "Is there anything strange about me?"
Erwa shook his head.
The big and the small looked at each other, and a minute later they returned to their room in confusion.
Xia Bai continued to look at what was left over from yesterday.
There was still some stuff left in the old lady's computer bag that she hadn't finished reading. Xia Bai picked up something that was sandwiched between a folder and should be a document.
It is not a common file. Many of the files inside are printed photos. These photos should be of people who were attacked by colorful ghosts. They are tied to beds. They are probably being treated to prevent them from committing suicide.
Xia Bailian looked at several photos and they were all the same, until he saw a photo of a person who was not tied up.
He was a man in his twenties, an age when people are easily overwhelmed, but he looked like he had experienced a lot. It wasn't his face that looked weathered, but he looked calm after all the hardships. There was no happiness, no sadness, no sorrow.
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment, then he continued to flip through the pages. There was no such person anymore. Only on the last page did Xia Bai see a piece of burnt paper. On the ground to the right of the top of the paper, there were only two words left: "Hua Lun".
What is the theory of transformation?
Xia Bai continued to form words using these two words.
Differentiation theory?
Evolution?
Theory of evolution?
Uniqueness theory?
After thinking for a while, he looked at the photos carefully again and an idea came to his mind that this did not seem to be a regular hospital, but a research institute.
What are they studying?
It must be something to do with the emotional monster.
An institute for the study of emotions.
The game system said that this was a doomsday crisis caused by humans themselves.
Xia Bai put down the folder and continued to look at the things in the remaining three rooms.
Apart from a letter, there is no other useful information.
Xia Bai opened the letter.
【Mother:
sorry.
I'm sorry for making you cry again. It hurts me to see you crying secretly in your room.
I knew from a young age that I was not a good kid and caused you trouble time and time again.
Every time you get really angry, you always say that I am the same as my father. I don't know what my father is like. I asked my grandma and grandpa, and my neighbors, to find out what kind of person my father is, and also to find out what kind of person I am in your eyes.
They said my dad was a moody jerk. He got angry very quickly and beat my mom several times, and you lost your first child because of that. He also lost his job because of his temper.
He and I are a bit alike.
Don't cry, mom, I will change. I know I have said this many times, just like my dad, you don't believe it anymore.
But I am not my father, I am your son, I will really change, I have found a way.
Mom, I'm leaving now. I'll come back next time and you'll be satisfied. 】
Xia Bai suddenly stood up and ran to room 605.
There were already two bodies in this room, that of Doctor Wang and Chu Jing, but Xia Bai did not come here to see their bodies. He went straight to Doctor Wang's desk, stood on it and looked up.
Still can't see clearly.
"Erwa." Xia Bai shouted loudly.
"Here I come!" Erwa walked in slowly.
Xia Bai pointed to the roof and said, "Can you help me up there?"
The rooms on the sixth floor of this hotel are the best and have the highest ceiling, which is roughly the height of the rooms on the floors below plus the height of an attic. The advantage of the high ceiling is that the space does not seem oppressive at all. The disadvantage is that when Xia Bai wanted to look up, he couldn't see clearly while standing on the table.
Erwa was very useful at this time. He used the branches that grew out of his hands to tie Xia Bai up. As the branches grew taller, Xia Bai got closer and closer to the plaster carvings on the roof, until he could touch the highest point of the roof with just a slight stretch of his hand.
Xia Bai: "It's ok, Erwa."
The branches no longer grow taller.
Xia Bai stood on a high branch and could clearly see the crack in the roof.
On the first night, he and Ling Changye came to this room to check, and they saw this crack. At that time, he asked Ling Changye, would Dr. Wang be able to see the sun in this way?
【I want to go to nature, to bask in the sun, the warm sunshine, where is it? 】
Doctor Wang is reading a book called "Find Happiness in Nature". The book says that sad people should go to nature and bask in the sun. The sun, which can heal all things, will give people warmth and hope.
But Dr. Wang couldn't walk out of the room and couldn't find the warm sunshine.
There was a crack here. Hua Haoming called them outside that night. They looked at it from a distance and didn't have time to think about it.
Only now did Xia Bai see clearly that the crack was caused by a collision, and the surrounding plaster showed signs of cracking and falling off, but the plaster pattern was too complicated and dazzling, and the floor height was so high that it was difficult to notice.
The ceiling is so high and there are no tools in the room, so it is impossible for someone to bump into it.
If not Dr. Wang, what else is in this room?
As an expert in colorful ghosts, why does Dr. Wang live alone in this hotel?
Xia Bai asked Erwa to put him down, and said to him, "Erwa, it seems we are going in the wrong direction. We have to go tell them."
Erwa nodded, "Yes, together."
The two of them walked downstairs together, as if they were taking a leisurely stroll in the garden.
Xia Bai asked Erwa, "Erwa, are we walking a little too slowly? Are we not in a hurry at all?"
Erwa blinked in confusion.
Hua Haoming and Wen Yuxin were standing at the door of 307 on the third floor, observing the happy girl in the room.
She was still very happy while eating breakfast in the restaurant. Maybe she was too happy and satisfied. She took off her top while eating, leaving only her favorite skirt.
After breakfast, she returned to her room and continued to spin in circles.
She lifted up the long blue cake skirt a little, and it formed big waves, sliding across every corner of the room.
She kept turning, turning, turning...
Legend has it that there is a bird without legs that has to fly and fly forever, and if it stops, it will die.
She kept spinning and spinning, as if she couldn't stop. It wasn't that she would die if she stopped. There was no threat of death. It was just that she was too happy, too happy, and she needed to do something to express and relieve her happiness.
Beads of sweat formed on her forehead, and a huge smile played on her lips.
Her body was showing signs of dizziness, and a huge smile played on her lips.
“La la ~ la ~ la la la ~ la — la la la — la —”
Finally, her body couldn't bear it anymore, and she fell to the ground as she spun. A sound of broken bones rang out in the room. She let out a satisfied sigh and continued to sing a sparse and unstable ballad with a cheerful tune.
Not long after, she stood up again, continued holding her skirt, jumping and spinning. This time, within two minutes, her body could no longer hold on and she was about to fall.
A soft sword like white silk supported her, winding to her slender neck and turning half a circle.
The girl fell down forever, with a splatter of blood, and would never jump and spin again.
After a while, a cluster of yellow air dissipated from her body.
Emotion monsters are happy, yellow, and destroyed.
Yang Mei and Yang Yi followed the expressionless 35-year-old middle-aged man to room 210.
This man is the most difficult to tell what kind of emotional monster is inside him. No emotion can be seen on his face and everything looks very normal.
After entering the room, he seemed normal.
After he went back, he went to the bathroom to wash his hands first. After carefully wiping his hands with a towel, he made himself a cup of tea and brought it to the small coffee table in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. He sat on the rocking chair next to the small coffee table and looked out the window quietly.
Ten minutes later, Yang Mei sent a message to her brother: [Brother, is there something wrong with the detector? He seemed to be fine and was very calm.]
Yang Yi: [That’s right, there must be something wrong with him.]
Yang Mei: [What’s the problem?]
Yang Yi: [Wait a little longer.]
After waiting for another 10 minutes, the man finally moved. He turned around and saw the cup of tea he had brewed. As if he had just discovered it, he picked up the cup of tea and drank it all.
Yang Yi came to a conclusion: [Sad monster. Xia Bai and Ling Changye found Dr. Wang on the sixth floor. He died from the sad monster. After his death, the sad monster in his body entered this man's body. However, this is not the first time that the sad monster has parasitized a human body. It has evolved.]
Seeing Yang Mei's bewildered look, Yang Yi explained to him: "Do you think that extreme sadness means unstoppable tears and crying? Some people are like this, while others behave normally and calmly when they are extremely sad. They do the same things as usual, but if you observe carefully, they are not in the state for a moment. 】
[Sorrow continued to brew beneath the calm ice surface until it suddenly erupted and instantly drowned the person.]
Yang Yi knocked on the door of the room. The man was still sitting in front of the French window, looking at the scenery outside, motionless.
Yang Yi knocked twice more with greater force, and the man finally turned around. He put down the empty cup of tea in his hand, stood up and opened the door for them.
"Hello, what can I do for you?" he asked calmly and politely.
Yang Yi used his skills: "You are very sad now, aren't you?"
The man froze for a moment, and his hand on the door handle began to tremble. Then his whole body began to tremble, and the trembling at the corners of his eyes was particularly prominent. "Yes."
After he said this fact, it was like a crack appeared on the ice and the contents inside were about to burst out. Veins bulged on his hands and he raised them up suddenly.
The card-like blade in Yang Mei's hand was one step faster than him. It spun a circle under his palm, flew out and came back in just one second.
The man fell to the ground with a thud.
A few minutes later, a cluster of blue air in the man's body suddenly dissipated, the breath was as thick as smoke, and a melancholy blue floated in the room.
Emotion monster sad, blue, destroyed.
1st floor, 103.
Shi An squatted outside the door, while Zhou Buyu merged into the wall.
After the old lady returned to the room, she seemed like a different person. She was no longer as fierce as she was in the restaurant, and she suddenly became gloomy.
There was a photo frame hanging on the wall beside the bed. In the frame was a smiling old man. She took the frame down and stroked the photo inside while talking to the person inside.
"Old man, do you know when this photo was taken? I remember it very clearly. It was last spring. We were in Linhe Park together and we met a silly cat. It wanted to get food from people, so it rubbed off the chair and fell down. You laughed."
"I hurriedly picked up my phone and captured your smile. I really like your smile, do you know that? I asked you, do you know that?"
Her voice suddenly became much higher. "I just want you to smile more like this. I just want you to be happier."
Shi An saw her body trembling outside the door. Zhou Buyu moved to the wall beside her and saw that her fingers were also trembling and her chest was heaving violently.
"I saw you looking at me with hatred that day, but I didn't hate you. I wanted to call our son, but I was afraid he would rush back. You know how filial he is. You also know what our Datai City has become. How could he come back?"
"I called the security bureau. I called them to save you! I shouldn't have done that. I really shouldn't have done that."
Zhou Buyu returned to the door.
The two of them were typing on their phones at the same time, showing each other the same message: regret.
The monster of regret is living in her body, and the emotion of regret is corroding her.
She regretted calling the security bureau, which led to the death of her husband.
She was so persistent and asked for justice from the Security Bureau again and again. In addition to her love and grief for her husband, she also felt regret. Regret brought infinite self-blame, which tormented her day and night, pushing her to go to the Security Bureau and making her hate the Security Bureau.
The two listened for a while longer, hearing her increasingly self-blaming words and seeing her breathing becoming increasingly difficult.
Zhou Buyu looked at Shi An, and Shi An nodded to her.
The old lady sitting on the bed pounded her chest hard and opened her mouth to breathe hard, but she seemed unable to breathe.
Zhou Buyu came out quietly from the wall at the head of the bed, stuffed a pill into her mouth, and covered her mouth tightly.
She asked her: "During this long marriage, do you often regret marrying a man who is always frowning and affects your mood?"
There is a poem that describes a poet's hope to meet a girl who is as sad as a lilac. Some netizens once joked that they can only meet each other, and there is definitely no expectation of being together for a long time.
Humans are emotional animals, and emotions are contagious. No one can always stay sunny with a depressed person until the end, and no one can always face their bitter-faced partner with a smile.
The old lady opened her eyes wide and her pupils kept trembling.
But she could no longer answer this question.
An orange aura dissipated from her body.
Emotion Monster Regret, Orange, Destroy.
Ling Changye is in 504.
He asked Xia Bai and Erwa to go back, because he copied Zhou Buyu's skills and could blend into every corner of the room. Indeed, one person could clearly observe the people in the room and make accurate judgments.
Although the man in the room was not tested by the instrument, they had listed him as a suspect last night, and his emotions were more obvious this morning.
I didn't go to have breakfast this morning probably because I was worried.
At this time, he was still lying in bed, too worried to get out of bed. He lay there motionless and sighed.
Ling Changye was standing in the wall at first, but then he just sat on the sofa. The man was so worried that he was no longer interested in anything around him. He might even have lost consciousness and was immersed in his own world of worry. He didn't even notice that there was another person in the room.
Ling Changye drank a cup of tea and began to count his sighs, watch how many times he frowned, and how many times he turned over.
When he sighed thirty times, Ling Changye picked up the detector and walked to his side.
The detector lit up a deep red light, and the man finally noticed him. He frowned and shouted, "Go away, don't bother me."
The knife in Ling Changye's hand had already circled between his fingers several times, but for some reason, it just didn't fly into the man's body.
His intuition had always been sharp, but it was this intuition that prevented him from taking immediate action.
He also sighed and frowned at the man on the bed.
Then he heard a sigh, not from the man on the bed, followed by the word "Captain".
It’s Xia Bai.
Ling Changye immediately walked out the door and saw Xia Bai's face turned into a bitter gourd at the stairs.
“Don’t destroy the emotional monster,” he said with a gloomy face. “We are heading in the wrong direction and are being misled.”
Ling Changye frowned, "Why do you say that?"
Xia Bai thought for a moment and said, "Let's go find other people first and talk later."
He slowly went downstairs to call for help, calling twice on each floor, and then climbed up the stairs with them.
Yang Mei pouted and said, "These stairs are so hard to climb."
Xia Bai lowered his head and nodded.
After finally returning to the view room on the sixth floor, the six of them sat down and sighed at the same time, looking out the foggy window where they could not see anything clearly, with worried expressions on their faces.
After a long while, Xia Bai finally asked, "Do you think there's something strange about us?"
"It's so frustrating. You're still asking questions at this time." Hua Haoming scratched his hair that was hanging down annoyingly. "What's weird about us?"
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