Chapter 61
After talking about the mineral vein, Mo Bai went back to work.
During lunch break, Gu Xiao suddenly came to find Shu Mo.
Shu Mo was interviewing new employees at the time. After the Arctic Fox bus was launched, it became convenient to travel back and forth. Many people couldn't wait for Bai Rongrong to send their resumes back and forth, so they simply brought their resumes to the company directly, which invisibly increased Shu Mo's workload.
Seeing that she was busy, Gu Xiao could only shut up and wait anxiously. It was not until the interviewee was rejected by Shu Mo and left with regret on his face that she came up to him.
He looked nervous when he spoke.
"Boss, have you heard about that rumor?"
"What?" Shu Mo tilted his head.
While she was talking, she was still massaging her eyes, which were a little sore from reading the resume. After that, she glanced out the window to exercise her eyeballs.
I saw that many players coming and going downstairs had a conspicuous little ball of fur floating on their heads and shoulders.
Since using white fluff as a token of reservation, over the past few days, this group of little fur balls have almost become the symbol of Nuannuan Hot Spring. Because before checking in, white fluff would follow the players closely, and gradually, everyone realized that those with white fluff on their bodies were the lucky players who successfully grabbed the Nuannuan Hot Spring Room within the week.
Moreover, the more fur balls you have on your body, the more days you have to stay or the more rooms you have to book. Suddenly, white fluff has almost become a fashion item.
Players who have managed to get a room would like to hang out outside 24 hours a day to enjoy the envious and jealous gazes of others.
Even when we arrived at the hot spring and had to return Bai Rongrong, he still seemed reluctant to leave.
Gu Xiao: “…”
Wake up! If you continue to hold the white fluff, you won’t be able to check in. Why are you here?
She couldn't say these words out loud and could only complain silently in her heart. Unexpectedly, when she took back Bai Rongrong, she unexpectedly heard some rumors from some players. So she took advantage of the lunch break to run upstairs to share with her boss.
At this time, Gu Xiao looked around and lowered his voice, "It is said that... the town is haunted."
Shu Mo: “?”
She stopped massaging her eyes, "Haunted?"
"Yeah!" Gu Xiao nodded desperately, "More than one player has mentioned this to me. Boss, you haven't been to the front desk to receive new residents recently, so you didn't know about it. In the past few days, several people came to check in, and they looked very bad. There were black eyes and bruises under their eyes, and they walked with tremors. It's like they saw a ghost!"
Gu Xiao is a girl who loves to laugh and talk a lot. When she sits at the front desk, she has a natural affinity. Many customers are willing to chat with her. She can be said to be a know-it-all in the hot springs.
Shu Mo had been so busy lately that he hadn't really paid much attention to the new guests who had come to stay. Hearing this, he was immediately intrigued. "They said they really saw a ghost? What did the ghost look like?"
"Could it be some ghost-like monster in the game?"
The sudden words scared the two of them. They turned around and found that Liu Xueruo had come to their side at some point, covering her chest, and looked scared and immersed in what she was saying.
Shu Mo: “…”
It turns out that everyone likes to eat melons.
"In fact, they didn't seem to see a ghost specifically." Gu Xiao touched the back of his head, afraid that the two would think he was joking, so he quickly said, "But the ghost story is definitely true! Because what each of them said is similar, which proves that it is not made up by one person."
Shu Mo interrupted her, "So what happened that made them think it was haunted?"
Gu Xiao kept beating around the bush and didn't get to the point, which made her feel very anxious.
"Hey, that's what I'm going to say next."
When Gu Xiao started gossiping, he immediately forgot that the person in front of him was the big boss. She waved mysteriously, and Shu Mo and Liu Xueruo immediately came closer to listen to her whisper, "They said that when it gets dark at night, when they are sleeping at home, they often hear strange noises coming from the house..."
Gu Xiao's voice was faint, and had a vague, outer-world feel.
"It's like the sound of long fingernails scratching on a blackboard. It's sharp and piercing, and it makes your scalp tingle..."
"Sizzle, sizzle..."
As she spoke, the voice that echoed in the night seemed to ring in the ears of both of them.
Sizzle——
Liu Xueruo: “Ah!!!”
She sat up suddenly and couldn't help but scream.
At this moment, Shu Mo slapped Gu Xiao on the back and said, "Don't play tricks."
"Ouch!" Gu Xiao pulled his hand away and said innocently, "This is how you tell a ghost story to create an atmosphere."
As soon as she withdrew her hand, the crackling sound disappeared immediately. Liu Xueruo looked down in a daze and found a few faint nail marks on the table below.
Liu Xueruo: “…”
Shu Mo was almost amused. "We have the atmosphere, but what if we leave a few claw marks on the table and people say the hot spring is haunted? How can we explain it?"
She turned her head to look at the frightened Liu Xueruo, and nodded Gu Xiao's head, "...Don't scare people again."
Gu Xiao quickly wiped the marks on the table with his sleeves and continued, "But Boss, I didn't make up the sound in the town! They really can hear that sound every night, and they can't sleep well because of it. Many customers came to me after staying in the hot spring for a day and told me that the haunting situation has disappeared and their sleep quality has improved a lot - doesn't this mean that the ghost only exists in Guangming Town?"
The more she spoke, the more convinced she became, and she shuddered herself.
"After listening to them many times, I feel like I can hear that kind of voice, too..."
Shu Mo frowned, afraid that Gu Xiao was overthinking and would scare himself, so he comforted him, "You don't have to think too much. The barrier is absolutely safe. If a monster sneaks in, I will find it immediately and it won't hurt you. Besides, I haven't received any reports of any abnormalities in the past two days."
"But boss, doesn't this just prove that it's the ghosts who are making trouble, not the monsters?" Gu Xiao made a crying face.
Shu Mo: “…”
It seems... that makes sense.
The logic was impeccable and it immediately silenced Shu Mo.
Liu Xueruo hesitated for a while and whispered, "Actually, I seemed to have heard that kind of sound last night."
Shu Mo and Gu Xiao: "?!"
"When I was half asleep and half awake, I heard a very subtle but continuous friction sound in the dormitory... Now that I think about it, it is indeed very similar to the sound of nails scratching on hard objects that Xiaoxiao described." Liu Xueruo's face was pale, "But I was too sleepy, I fell asleep while listening, and forgot about it when I woke up. I just remembered it when you mentioned it just now."
Shu Mo also felt a little numb on his scalp. "No, no way..."
The three girls looked at each other.
It was broad daylight and the sun was shining, but they felt a cold wind rising from the soles of their feet, making their backs shiver.
Gu Xiao was quiet for a while, then he and Liu Xueruo suddenly fell towards Shu Mo, "Boss, help me!!"
Shu Mo: “…”
Isn't she afraid anymore?
Gu Xiao and Liu Xueruo both looked at her with sad faces, as if they felt that the boss's omnipotence also extended to the supernatural realm. Facing the expectant gazes of the employees, Shu Mo could only bite the bullet and say, "Well, I'll stay up tonight and see what's going on."
I just don't know if the barrier given by the system can be used to catch ghosts...
*
Before getting off work in the evening, Shu Mo specially packed a large latte from the beverage area to take away. After finishing a few sips, he started to stay up late.
The hot spring was exceptionally quiet at night. She lay on the bed and, to kill time, first browsed the mall for a while, and then counted the balance in her account out of boredom.
After an unknown amount of time, he still didn't hear the legendary voice, and Shu Mo gradually felt sleepy.
She forced herself to check the time.
Two o'clock in the morning.
"It's impossible that there is a ghost."
Shu Mo felt relieved.
The strange noises in Guangming Town might be caused by a high-level monster that even the detectors at the city gate couldn't detect. If any customer mentioned this again, she would just ask Mo Bai to go and check it out.
As for the midnight noises Liu Xueruo mentioned, she was probably just mistaking a dream she had when she was half asleep for reality.
She silently repeated these explanations twice in her mind, and finally convinced herself. Then she patted her chest, turned over, and just as she closed her eyes and prepared to fall asleep...
Sizzle——
Shu Mo's half-closed eyes suddenly opened wide.
"?!" She sat up, her whole body stiff.
Sizzle——
The sound continued.
Accompanied by a rustling sound.
There was a gentle knock on the door, and Gu Xiao's trembling, crying voice came through the door, "Boss... did you hear that?"
Shu Mo figured out what was going on in the darkness for a while, then looked up at the ceiling.
She immediately got out of bed, opened the door quietly, and saw Gu Xiao pushing Liu Xueruo standing at the door, his face full of horror.
Shu Mo put on his coat and said, "That's the sound coming from the second floor. You guys should follow me..."
Gu Xiao: “QAQ”
Liu Xuerou: “QAQ”
Shu Mo: "...Forget it, I'll go and see it alone."
Just as she was about to take a step, Gu Xiao suddenly grabbed the corner of Shu Mo's clothes and trembled, "Boss, you said before that it is impossible for monsters to break into the barrier, so is it really a ghost?"
Shu Mo was reminded by Gu Xiao and suddenly stopped.
How could she forget the barrier?
As long as she uses the barrier, she can easily observe everything that happens in the hot spring without having to go upstairs herself.
For Shu Mo, the monitoring function of the barrier is like the God's perspective in a business simulation game. She can "swipe the screen" within the hot spring area at will, and then zoom in to sense anything happening within the barrier.
But if she keeps her "perspective" on one place for a long time - such as next to herself, then what is happening in the distance will become blurry.
Only when some "emergency" occurs will the system suddenly stir up consciousness and draw Shu Mo's attention.
Its function is like when an emergency occurs outside the field of view in a game, an exclamation mark pops up to remind the player.
There have been too many players coming to the hot spring recently, so Shu Mo habitually chose to follow the player's perspective to avoid being disturbed. Now it comes in handy.
Shu Mo slapped his forehead and said, "Wait a moment."
Then he closed his eyes and focused his attention on the place where the noise came from upstairs.
The picture moved, and after capturing the abnormality, it gradually focused, and finally presented a blurry... but somewhat familiar shape.
Shu Mo took a closer look and the expression on his face disappeared.
*
“Sizzle, sizzle…”
“Crack, crack…”
“Boom!”
When Shu Mo heard the last loud bang, he quickened his pace.
She took two steps at a time and climbed the last step, walked through the corridor of the boys' dormitory, accurately locked onto one of the empty rooms that were not yet occupied, and flung open the door.
The movement in the room stopped abruptly.
Inside the dark room, there was a mass of white things floating in the air, which were blown back a few centimeters by the wind created when the door was opened.
Shu Mo turned on the light with a "click".
The lights came on, revealing a dark face - it was Shu Mo's.
"Chi!" The white fluffy creatures were startled and seemed to have just reacted at this moment, hurriedly hiding the things in their hands.
"Don't hide it, I saw it all."
Shu Mo took a deep breath and looked at the melon seeds in the white furry children's hands. Then he turned his gaze and saw the light-colored marks left by the sunflower seeds on the originally snow-white wall next to him.
Turning around again, I found the white fluff in another direction trying to hide a big hammer stealthily——
"Where did this hammer come from?!"
The calm expression he had managed to maintain with great difficulty finally broke down, and Shu Mo lost his voice.
Do you need a hammer to crack melon seeds? ! Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken?
White fluffy people: "..."
…
Shu Mo never dreamed that the truth behind the midnight fright in Guangming Town was actually Bai Rongrong, who she sent out.
"What are you guys doing cracking melon seeds for without any teeth?"
Three minutes later, Shu Mo sat at the table, holding his chest, and slammed the table in grief, "If you really can't knock it open, you can ask for help. How can you grind it on the wall yourself? It's even worse to secretly use the customer's hammer to smash it! Return it to me tomorrow!"
In front of her, the white furry children hung their heads and accepted the scolding obediently.
Shu Mo thought again of what Gu Xiao and Liu Xueruo had said during the day, and felt as if everything had suddenly become clear.
No wonder the guests said their sleep quality improved as soon as they arrived at the hot spring. It turned out to be because the white fluffy things as tokens of love had been returned to the hotel.
As for the noise Liu Xueruo said she heard in the middle of the night yesterday.
Shu Mo recalled the pile of melon seeds she gave to Bai Rongrong as a reward after the delivery received five-star praise the day before yesterday. She was completely speechless.
...With so many melon seeds, wouldn’t you have to crack them day and night?
Shu Mo endured and endured, and finally said, "You are quite hardworking..."
“Chirp!”
The white fluffy ones understood this sentence and responded positively.
Shu Mo: "...I didn't praise you."
She looked at the empty dormitory and thought about changing the wallpaper tomorrow.
Changing the wallpaper doesn't cost much, but the problem of the white fluff disturbing guests' rest is very serious.
She emphasized once again that in the future, when at a customer's home, grinding melon seeds in the middle of the night is not allowed, and then she got up and left the room.
When I wake up tomorrow, I will have to give compensation to the disturbed guests...
Shu Mo felt a headache just thinking about it.
She closed the door and walked down the corridor towards the stairs.
The people living in the men's dormitory didn't seem to be disturbed by the noise just now. Faint snoring sounds came from the room of the two new interns.
After all, it was already midnight. Shu Mo walked lightly, feeling fatigue rising from every part of his body.
Let’s think about the compensation later. Let’s sleep in tomorrow.
She yawned and was halfway there when she heard the sound of a door being slowly opened behind her.
The teeth-grinding creaking sound stretched infinitely in the empty corridor... Shu Mo shuddered.
Two big words popped up in my head.
——Again? !
A gust of air blew past gently, and she stiffened her body and turned her head.
Facing a pale face without a trace of blood.
Shu Mo: “!!!!”
Before the scream burst out of her throat, the owner of that face spoke first, "Shu Mo, what are you doing here?"
There was a hint of doubt in the familiar voice.
The scream was suppressed again.
Shu Mo took a step back and saw the person in front of him clearly in the moonlight. He felt that a thousand complaints surged into his mind, but in the end, they all turned into a weak question, "Mo Bai, why...are you applying a facial mask...at two o'clock in the middle of the night?"
It’s one thing for these monsters to not sleep, but they’re doing some weird things to kill time in the middle of the night!
Shu Mo felt that she would not be able to sleep tonight. She was really curious about what the mimetic beast was doing at the moment.
Mo Bai could tell something was wrong with Shu Mo's tone and touched the mask on his face. "Aren't masks meant to be used at night?"
"Yes... But in the future, don't suddenly appear in front of others with a mask on in the middle of the night. It's easy to scare people."
Shu Mo wanted to cry but had no tears.
She tried to calm herself down, looked up at him, and said, "By the way, why are you suddenly applying a facial mask? I gave it to you a few days ago, but I haven't seen you use it."
Mo Bai: “…”
He shifted his gaze slightly, "I've been using it for a few days."
Shu Mo was puzzled, "Why?"
Mo Bai fell into a strange silence.
Shu Mo showed a suspicious expression.
It took her some effort to get the conversation between Yao Yonghui and Gu Xiao about the relationship between monster appearance and promotion from the shy little black dragon.
Shu Mo: “………………”
She inexplicably recalled the three priceless mineral veins that Mo Bai had just handed over to her during the day.
The little black dragon seemed to be completely unaware that this was the correct way to "please the boss" in the secular sense.
Starting from the appearance, he insisted on applying the mask. Should we say that he has taken the wrong path, or is this actually the right path...
Shu Mo is a little messy.
Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Mo Bai seemed to feel that he could leave.
——Originally, he just sensed Shu Mo's breath, so he came out to check the situation. Seeing that there was nothing else to do at this time, he pressed the folds on the hem of the mask and prepared to leave with that pale face.
Shu Mo came back to his senses and called out from behind: "Hey, next time when you apply a facial mask, don't go to the dormitory building! Especially at night when it's dark!"
...Otherwise, what if a rumor about the hot spring being haunted spreads? That would be terrible.
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