Tick, tick, tick.
The three brothers of the Bai family surrounded Su Yi and walked in the secret passage.
The second young master, the magician, led the way, the eldest young master pushed his wheelchair and walked side by side with Su Yi, and the third young master, Bai Ye, followed behind with a knife.
"Did you hear that?"
The secret passage in the church would pass through everyone's room. Su Yi listened, and in the quiet darkness, there was indeed:
Tick, tick.
Far and near, the sound rises and falls, but each sound is very subtle. If you don't listen carefully, you won't notice it at all. However, once you calm down and listen carefully, the sound of water will linger in your heart like a shadow, getting louder and louder. It's like the clock in the bedroom. You can't hear it when you're not paying attention. But when you lie in bed at night with insomnia, the ticking sound is so noisy that you can't fall asleep.
"I'm not wrong. The noise of the water kept me awake, so I came out for a walk." The magician turned to look at Su Yi and whispered:
"I heard my third brother yelling and cursing in the wall from a distance. I was curious and came to check it out. I didn't expect him to go into my sister-in-law's room. I hope he didn't disturb you three?"
“…”
Su Yi was the worst at dealing with magicians, so he lowered his head and silently walked away from him, getting closer to the young master. Bai Ye, who was walking at the end, said fiercely:
"What did you whisper to him?!"
Tick-tick——
Suddenly, a particularly clear sound of water came from the wall.
All four of them stopped.
Bai Ye frowned. This place was near his bedroom. He lived in A101, so according to the direction, this room should be A103.
Su Yi: "Did you hear the sound of water when you came here?"
Bai Ye shook his head: "No. There was a little dripping in the room when I took a shower before, but I haven't heard it since I came out."
Magician: "Then why didn't you check your bathroom? The sound of water in this instance is not a good sign."
Bai Ye said nothing, just walked silently at the end.
"Oh..." The magician suddenly realized, "You are not in such a hurry to see your sister-in-law that you don't even care about the weird sound of water."
"none of your business."
Bai Ye said coldly. He was exposed by what he said. He turned his face away from Su Yi and turned to another direction. He held the knife in his hand in an uncomfortably changed position.
"So fierce." The magician shrugged, made a scared gesture, and leaned towards Su Yi. "Is he so fierce to you too?"
When Bai Ye heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Su Yi again, wanting to hear the answer.
Su Yi didn't say anything, and glanced at the magician. He went through the secret passage late at night to investigate the plot of the water sound, not to argue with them.
The older and more mature Mr. Bai sat silently in his wheelchair, listening to the two brothers arguing with each other. He held his forehead and didn't want to talk. He reached out and knocked on the wall where the sound of water dripping came from:
"Whose room is this?"
"A105." Bai Ye paused, "It should be Grace's room."
The four people present were silent.
Su Yi clenched his fingertips and heard the sound of dripping water coming from the wall. The sound was particularly clear in the darkness and revealed an indescribable weirdness.
Grace had died during the wedding dinner, so it was impossible for her to return to the room to take a shower, let alone cause a water leak.
What is that sound of dripping water?
Clack, clack.
There is a small door in the lower left corner of the wall. You can go through the secret passage through the small door to enter Grace's room. Bai Ye squatted down and pulled:
"It's locked."
There was a keyhole on the door. Bai Ye turned around and asked the disabled brother:
"Have you got the key?"
Young Master Bai had an expression on his face that said "How could this be possible?", and just as they were talking, the magician squeezed to the door, click -
Su Yi saw the magician holding a small piece of wire in his hand. He inserted it into the keyhole and turned it a few times. With a click, the door opened.
The magician turned his head and glanced at Bai Ye and Bai Dashao with a look on his face: You are so useless.
"..." Bai Ye was disdainful. Young Master Bai was too lazy to care.
The magician slid into the small door as nimbly as a loach. This wall was connected to the corridor in the room. On the left was the bathroom, and the sound of water was particularly clear.
He checked the surroundings and found nothing unusual. He turned around and stretched out his hand to Su Yi, speaking in a gentlemanly tone:
"Be careful."
Su Yi was a little timid. As soon as his fingertips touched the magician's palm, it was held. The magician's hand was wearing black leather gloves, and it felt cold to the touch.
Then Bai Ye bent down and walked in swiftly.
This door is quite small. The young master is sitting in a wheelchair and can't get in.
"I'll be guarding the door here, you guys go in and take a look."
Click.
Turn on the bathroom light, the pale light is like paint on the tiles, illuminating every inch of darkness.
"The sound is in the bathroom." The magician said. "Have you looked inside? No one is there."
"There's no one in the room." Bai Ye said.
Tick, tick.
In the empty house, the sound of water continued.
Su Yi felt strange. He could clearly hear the sound, so why couldn't he find it? Where was the dripping water?
He followed the sound into the bathroom, and the magician and Bai Ye followed in.
The room is quite big, with a bathtub with a shower head, a glass door for separating wet and dry areas, also with a shower head, and a marble sink.
"Go check the glass door." Su Yi said to Bai Ye, then turned to the magician, "Go check the pool."
The two of them took action immediately. Su Yi went to the bathtub by himself, and it would be more efficient to check separately.
[Woo woo, they are like my wife’s good dogs, so obedient]
Su Yi's small TV was following him, but the screen was facing somewhere else, so it couldn't capture him. Instead, it captured Bai Ye leaning over the pool, carefully following Su Yi's instructions.
[Bai Shen, you are a good man, how come you have a mouth?]
[Isn’t it very obedient to not talk? I’ll sew its mouth shut from now on!]
Bai Ye turned the faucet and checked the water pipes carefully. Everything was fine and the water was not dripping from here.
The magician also came out from the glass door. The shower head inside was in good condition and there was no leakage.
[This dripping sound is really annoying after listening to it for a long time, please stop it! My wife, please find it!]
Now only Su Yi's bathtub is left.
[Emm, I don't think he can find it. He is just a newcomer. His exploration level is so low. He should just cling to his boss. The magician looks like a big boss, not to mention Baishen. Why is he, a newcomer, directing others to search for evidence?]
[Where is this blind command? The dripping sound is in the bathroom. What's wrong with splitting up to look for it? And my wife's exploration level is not very low, she is just in a hidden state.]
[It’s so funny, isn’t it just that the hidden status is too low to be revealed? But the exploration level is higher? Which one? The player won’t show it?]
In the snow-white bathtub, there squatted a beautiful boy.
Su Yi was wrapped in a bath towel, with Mr. Bai's suit on the outside. The sleeves were too long, covering his hands. He adjusted his cuffs. This bathtub was a massage type, with a circle of water inlets and outlets around it. He carefully touched it with his hand and could hear the sound of water nearby, but he couldn't find where the water was dripping.
"Do you need any help?"
The magician stepped into the bathtub and leaned over the wall. His tall shadow was cast on Su Yi's petite body. He stared at Su Yi with blatant eyes. Because of his squatting posture, the tightly wrapped bath towel outlined Su Yi's clear waist and hip lines. The graceful curves of her slender waist made people want to hold it with their hands.
"Sister-in-law, you are dressed so uniquely."
The magician lowered his voice very low so that Bai Ye, who was standing by the pool, could not hear it.
[Fuck! Why does everyone say this when they see their wife? What on earth are you wearing?]
[I really admire the men in the Bai family. They don’t let us see anything and only let us listen to the adjectives. How the hell is it unique? Tell me!]
Su Yi turned his head and found himself squatting in the magician's shadow. Looking up from below, he felt the pressure of the magician's height. He took a step back and asked in a low voice:
"Have you...finished the examination?"
"Well, there's no water in the glass door." The magician took another step closer, lowered his head, and got closer to him. His voice was so low that it was almost a whisper, and he said with his lips:
"Why are you wrapped in a towel? Are you not wearing anything underneath?"
"None of...your business." Su Yi turned his face away, thinking that he must not let the magician find out what he was wearing under the towel. He pretended nothing had happened and continued to check the inlet and outlet of the bathtub, saying:
"Also, don't call me sister-in-law."
"Then what should I call you, dear?" The magician said frivolously, "But I'm your ex-boyfriend in the story, and you're married, so it's not right for me to call you that? Oh, then I'll learn from your audience and call you wife!"
“You!… You are so shameless.”
The magician chuckled twice, and when he saw Su Yi's red cheeks due to his provocation, he felt even more itchy in his heart. He opened his mouth to say a few more provocative words, but suddenly his neck tightened -
“Is it ever going to end?”
Bai Ye grabbed the magician's collar with great force and warned him with a stern look: "Don't get in his way."
Tick-tick.
Su Yi lay on the side of the bathtub and listened carefully. He suddenly felt that the sound of dripping water might not be real water.
He reached out and knocked on the tiles next to the bathtub, four or five times in a row. Soon one of them made a hollow sound.
Bai Ye and the magician's expressions changed. This tile? It's empty!
Su Yi: "Can you open it?"
A sharp knife was inserted into the gap between the tiles. Bai Ye pried it hard and the whole tile was pried out. It fell into the bathtub with a clang, making a crisp sound.
Tick-tick-tick-tick
Something inside the tile rolled down with a gurgle.
Su Yi finally saw clearly what was "dripping water":
A square-shaped player is diligently playing the pre-recorded sound of water drops.
“…”
The three people were speechless when they saw what they saw.
Su Yi carefully picked up the player and observed it. He remembered that when Grace died, a doll took her place and followed the Postman Fang. There was also a cube player in the throat of the doll, which was exactly the same as the one in front of him.
[Ding——Congratulations to player Su Xinniang for being the first to unlock [The Secret of the Dripping Sound], truth exploration degree +5%]
[Congratulations to player Bai Shen, the magician, for obtaining the [Secret of the Dripping Sound] under the guidance of player Su Xinniang. The exploration degree is also +5%. Remember to express your gratitude to Su Xinniang~]
white night:"……"
The magician went to thank Su Yi with a smile, and Su Yi was so annoyed that he wanted to tell him to go away. Bai Ye couldn't do such a shameless thing, so he just stood there stiffly.
[Hahahaha, I laughed so hard! I didn't expect that it was White God and Magician who were trying to curry favor with me. How embarrassing! Go, wife, I won't take them with me next time I increase my exploration level!]
[But this rookie only found two exploration degrees by himself. One is Lin Xiu = second wife Linda, that one seems to be 3%, and now this one is 5%. This is only 8%. This year's rookie king scored an excellent result of 25%! ]
[What I'm saying is, those who like the Machine Gun Postman, please don't go to my wife's place! And this year's Rookie of the Year hasn't been named, he's just ranked No. 1 right now, please be more serious!]
[Come on, my dear! It's already 8%. There's still a lot of time left before the end of the dungeon. You can still keep looking!]
Su Yi didn't look at the barrage. In the hidden state, his actual exploration degree was: 35%.
This data has reached the highest record of the Hall of Fame rookie, but Su Yizhi is not here, his goal is 100%. He remembered that there was a history book in the small TV, which recorded that the highest record of all players in the Cursed Bride dungeon of [Thriller Script Killing] was: 62%
The eldest master said before that this copy had been modified, so the remaining 38% was most likely the original copy that was covered up by the system. It was something that was hidden under many clues and was even more difficult to explore.
Su Yi wants to find out what is hidden, which will be more valuable than all the gold coins, upgrades, and rankings, because it may hide the essence of this world and the real truth.
Tick, tick, tick…
The player in my hand was still making a dripping sound.
Bai Ye frowned: "How do I turn off this thing? It's so noisy."
Su Yi was also studying it. He turned the cube player around, but there was no switch on any side...
At this moment, the continuous sound of dripping water suddenly stopped.
The bathroom fell into silence.
Su Yi paused holding the player.
“Squeak… Squeak…!!”
The next second, the volume of the player was turned up to the maximum! The hissing sound was very harsh, like... scratching the door with fingernails!
Then, a woman burst into wild laughter!
It was a very sharp and terrifying sound. Su Yi's hair stood on end. In an instant, a strange red dot flashed in the lower right corner of the player, flashing faster and faster...
“Throw it away quickly!!”
All the changes happened in an instant. Before Su Yi could react, he heard the life-saving system yelling in his heart:
"It's too late! Hide in the magician's arms!"
Time was too short, and Su Yi could only trust the life-saving system. Without even a second thought, he threw the dripping cube in his hand toward the bathroom door, and at the same time turned around and threw himself into the magician's arms.
BANG!!!
The loud noise almost broke Su Yi's eardrums. He was temporarily deaf, and there was a buzzing sound in his head...
The field of vision was shaking violently, bricks, ceilings, and door frames were all falling down, and suddenly, a huge red light flashed, and everything in front of my eyes went black! The scorching heat wave swept over, and my skin felt the stinging heat, and even the air was distorted by the heat...
Vision, hearing, touch, feeling... the five senses were quickly stripped from the body, and Su Yi finally realized what he was holding in his hand just now:
That dripping player is a bomb.
...What is this place?
There was a black fog in front of him. Su Yi opened his eyes, sat up, and found that there was black fog all around him. He was even sitting on the black fog. There was no entity in this space.
"Is anyone there? ...Bai Ye?"
No one answered him?
Su Yi felt a little cold. The suit he was wearing had been taken off at some point. Now he was only wrapped in a bath towel, covering up his awkward outfit.
If even this bath towel was gone... Su Yi couldn't imagine herself walking around in that outfit.
Tick, tick, tick…
Suddenly, faint footsteps were heard from behind.
Su Yi immediately turned around——
There was no one behind me, only dark fog, making everything hazy.
Su Yi didn't notice that behind him, a man gradually emerged from the darkness.
Suddenly, my shoulder felt cold!
Su Yi felt a pair of hands as cold as a corpse, holding his round shoulders...
…Woo!
Su Yi was so frightened that all the pores on his body stood up. He wanted to jump up like a kitten with its fur standing on end, but his shoulders were held down and he couldn't move.
He was only wrapped in a bath towel, with his collarbone and shoulders exposed, and he gradually felt...the pair of big hands seemed to be rubbing him gently!
The palm of her hand, with thin calluses, was rubbing against his skin affectionately.
Su Yi bit her lips and was too scared to speak. The man behind her spoke in a low, hoarse voice, as if he had just crawled out of an ice coffin, and exhaled a breath of cold air:
"Hi~see you again?"
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