Is there anything else?!
I'm completely baffled. This hotel is getting more and more mysterious!
Before that thing came up, I hurriedly asked:
"Stop dawdling, just tell me what you know, hurry up!"
My urging made Xiaobin even more anxious; his lips trembled.
"It's said that when they dug that thing up, several workers died instantly, and their bodies were never found! The hotel specially built this viewing fish pond to suppress these things, saying it was a setup by a master to use flowing water to ward off evil spirits!"
Living water to calm the yin?
It seems the expert the hotel owner hired back then was indeed quite capable.
The method of using living water to suppress evil spirits is a good one, but it's only good for suppressing ordinary evil spirits. However, if the thing being suppressed is too fierce, it will backfire!
It may even become a breeding ground for evil spirits!
I just killed the water ghost, which made quite a commotion. I'm afraid it broke some fragile balance!
I frowned, realizing the urgency of the situation.
Just as I was deep in thought, I suddenly heard a ding sound coming from the end of the corridor behind us.
In the deathly silent corridor, that crisp sound was particularly jarring.
Suddenly, we all turned around involuntarily!
Above the elevator door, red digital indicator lights are lighting up one by one, starting from 1, slowly and steadily jumping upwards!
2, 3, 4, ...
There is someone, or rather, there is something.
We're taking the elevator up!
My scalp tingled with fear. Apart from people like us who accidentally stumbled in, no one would dare to ride this elevator!
So what's coming now must be a ghost!
"No, no one's using this elevator anymore, is he?" Xiao Bin's voice trembled, and he almost collapsed.
Li Huai and Luo Tianhe also nervously moved closer to me, as if facing a formidable enemy.
I stared intently at the constantly changing numbers, while my right hand swiftly reached into my pocket and pulled out three dark yellow "evil-repelling talismans" meticulously drawn with cinnabar mixed with black dog blood between my fingers!
This is the alternative I've come up with.
Besides my own blood essence, black dog blood is also extremely effective at suppressing evil spirits.
The talisman drawn with black dog blood, though not as powerful as my own blood essence, at least won't cause me to lose too much blood.
The numbers on the elevator continued to jump, seemingly faster and faster, and soon reached twenty!
Our hearts jumped into our throats. Xiao Bin was terrified and finally collapsed to the ground under immense pressure.
I glanced at him but didn't say anything. He was just an ordinary person, so it was normal for him to be terrified in this situation.
"Get ready to attack!" I shouted in a low voice, the powerful talisman in my hand poised to be unleashed!
Luo Tianhe and Li Huai also took out some Five Emperors Coins, cinnabar thread, and other such items.
Although they didn't actually know how to use these things, they could still pretend to do it.
Seeing that we all looked like we were facing a formidable enemy, Xiao Bin, not wanting to appear out of place, shakily pulled out several useless yellow talismans from his person, which had been tainted by evil energy.
I curled my lip. If this thing were useful, you wouldn't have been forced into that state by the water ghost just now.
"bite--!"
We've reached the top floor!
Before our eyes, the elevator doors slowly opened!
The scene behind the door made us all pause for a moment.
The elevator car was completely empty!
There was no one, and nothing at all!
However, the walls, floor, and ceiling of the compartment were covered with dense, wet, bloodstained handprints and footprints!
Those handprints and footprints were very small; they definitely couldn't be the size of an adult!
It's like countless children—no, more like dead children—had been playing around here, which is why this terrible scene has been created!
"So many children have died in this hotel?"
Li Huai spoke, trembling.
Luo Tianhe also opened his mouth, utterly perplexed by the scene before him.
After thinking for a moment, he looked at me and asked:
"This is a hotel, not a vocational high school restroom or a hospital maternity ward. How could there be so many dead children?!"
My face was ashen.
"What are you two thinking? Even in a vocational high school restroom, there wouldn't be that many dead kids!"
"This isn't a modern contraption, it's a tomb child!"
"Grave Child? What's that?" Luo Tianhe pressed.
"Some children who died young or were buried alive with their parents harbor resentment and cling to their burial sites. They are mentally impaired, but their resentment is pure, and when their numbers are numerous, they become extremely difficult to deal with!"
I explained quickly, my mind racing with alarm bells.
Sure enough, a very ominous thing was buried beneath this hotel; even the tomb boy appeared!
Although the scene inside the elevator was somewhat terrifying, Li Huai became bolder because he didn't see any actual ghosts or monsters.
"But since you said they're not modern things, but rather ancient artifacts, how come they still use elevators?"
Hearing his ridiculous question, I opened my mouth, but couldn't say a word for a long time. Then I glared at him fiercely and squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth:
"When they show up later, you can ask them yourself if they don't gag you with their blood-stained hands or feet."
Li Huai immediately shut his mouth; he didn't want to be gagged by that disgusting stuff.
Just as our memories were completely focused on the empty elevator, something unexpected happened.
"whee,"
"Hehehe,"
Suddenly, the laughter of some children echoed in the corridor.
Suddenly, a series of "bang bang" sounds came from the closed doors in the corridor, as if someone was banging on them from the inside.
The wallpaper and decorative paintings hanging on the wall were inexplicably curled up.
As all this happened, we smelled a strange odor, a mixture of earthy and bloody smells.
Suddenly, with a click, all the lights in the corridor went out!
And those windows were blocked by something, I don't know.
Suddenly, the entire corridor was plunged into darkness.
Luckily it was during the day; if it had been at night, it would probably have been pitch black.
"They're coming out!" Xiao Bin screamed, pointing towards the depths of the corridor.
In the dim, flickering light, one by one, blurry, translucent little figures began to appear out of thin air.
They were dressed in tattered, coarse cloth clothes, clearly indicating they were poor people in ancient times.
His face was pale and ashen, his expression stiff, but a strange smile played on his lips as he stared straight at us.
That eerie gaze sent chills down our spines.
Perhaps because of Li Huai's earlier joke, most of the tomb children were staring intently at him.
Li Huai gripped the Five Emperors Coins tightly in his hand, his legs trembling like leaves, he was almost scared out of his wits.
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