The two hot springs are separated only by a thin wooden wall and a few green plants.
Chi Shen's sigh can be said to be clearly audible.
Zhong Jingzhu said strangely: "He should have read this note?"
"He was keeping the notes before, and gave them to me on the plane," Zhong Yi said. He thought about how Chi Shen asked him to memorize them, "He should have finished reading them."
Zhong Jingzhu also fell into thought. After a moment, he said, "Is he testing me? He didn't actually take a hot spring bath, but he wanted others to think he did... Is there a surveillance camera in this hotel?!"
After saying this, Zhong Jingzhu looked a little nervous, and his expression became much more serious.
Zhong Yi shook his head: "I don't think so."
Zhong Jingzhu also said: "The police came to search the room before, and there was no sign of cameras installed in the room."
There was another sound of water coming from the next room, which sounded like it was coming out of the water, followed by unclear footsteps.
"Did I recite it wrong?" Zhong Yi had begun to doubt himself.
He immediately reached into his coat and pulled out his notebook.
Both of them were wearing loose gray and black coats, not because it was their uniform or their personal hobby, but because such clothes made it easier to put things inside. Once their coats were opened, it was like a treasure trove, and it was easy to put a notebook inside.
Although Zhong Yi had memorized the contents of the notebook, he still carried it with him just in case. When he opened it, he showed a puzzled expression.
He remembered correctly, the first page of the notebook clearly stated:
"On the first day, we checked in to room 1008, where the missing man and woman were staying. We checked every corner of the room and found nothing unusual, no evil spirits or evil objects. The detective Xiao Li who came with us has rich criminal investigation experience. According to his inspection, there were no cameras or other peeping equipment in the two rooms.
Afterwards, we went to the hot spring pool in the name of tourists, but we also found nothing unusual. Ashan performed a small soul-calling spell, but failed to find the souls of the missing man and woman. Perhaps they might still be alive.
We familiarized ourselves with the terrain of the hotel. It was the same as the terrain in the brochure. There was no weird or hidden place. Everything seemed normal here. Perhaps this disappearance case was not a supernatural incident. We discussed this with Xiao Li, and Xiao Li said that we needed to observe this place.
At night, after a day of unsuccessful investigation, we chose to rest. Xiao Li and I shared a room, and Ashan and Xiao Hu shared another room. Their room was next door, 1009. The layout of the room was basically the same as ours. After they checked, they found nothing unusual.
Around nine o'clock, I felt sleepy and lay down on the bed. In a daze, I heard some movement in the bed next to me. I opened my eyes and saw Xiao Li crawling up. He told me that he felt there was some movement outside the door leading to the hot spring. He heard a knock on the door and he wanted to go check it out.
I didn't hear the knock on the door, and I was thinking it was a bit strange, but he insisted that he heard it. I thought it was probably because I was old and hard of hearing, so I didn't hear it. I suggested to go with him, and he probably saw that I was tired, so he asked me to rest, and I lay on the bed and fell asleep again.
But I didn't really fall asleep. I'm old and always feel a little weak. My physical tiredness told me that I should fall asleep, but my brain told me that I shouldn't sleep and I should stay alert. My spirit was pulled between these two things. I vaguely heard some sounds of water. After a long time, I realized that Xiao Li did not come back.
I opened my eyes and looked at the time. Half an hour had passed and it was almost ten o'clock. Xiao Li's bed was empty, with the quilt still tidied up as it was when he left. The door leading to the hot spring was closed. I knew it was Xiao Li who closed it. Although he usually looks difficult to talk to, he is actually a young man who respects the elderly and loves the young. He closed the door to prevent me from catching a cold.
The hot spring pool in the room was not big, not much bigger than an ordinary bathtub. I found it strange that he hadn't come back for such a long time. Even if he had found something and wanted to check it out carefully, he should have informed me. So I got up and opened the door leading to the hot spring pool. It was empty outside, and there was no one.
Did I miss it? Or is Xiao Li in trouble?
I began to regret it. Although Xiao Li was an experienced criminal policeman, he was not from the same school as us after all. He would not know what to do if he encountered ghosts. I should not have let him go out alone to check.
I didn't shout to him, because if he was in danger, my voice might put him in greater danger. I first carefully checked the area near the hot spring pool. Through the light from the door, I soon found something strange. At the outermost edge of the hot spring pool, I found a line of words and a faint smell of blood.
I walked over and saw the words were dark red, which were fresh bloodstains. They said: Don't go near the water.
The line of words was written very sloppily, with a lot of water stains around it, as if someone had written it after crawling out of a hot spring pool. But I still recognized it; it was Xiao Li's handwriting. Xiao Li and I have worked together many times and I know his handwriting. I can confirm that this was written by Xiao Li. He always writes one more or one less horizontal stroke in the word "非". I even laughed at him because the word "靠" has one more horizontal stroke.
I immediately took a picture of the words and prepared to go next door to find Ah Shan and Xiao Hu, but when I turned around, I found that the door behind me was opened. Xiao Li was standing inside the door, looking at me strangely and asking me: "Uncle Zhong, why are you here?"
I felt something strange. Although I didn't sense any evil energy, I wasn't sure that this was Xiao Li. I turned around and looked at the hot spring pool. The water stains next to it were still there, but the line of blood words had disappeared.
Xiao Li looked at me even more strangely. I answered him casually and then tentatively asked him some questions that only he knew. He answered them fluently and seemed to be the real person.
But I did not let go of the doubts in my heart, and my suspicion of Xiao Li did not dissipate, so I recorded the incident. When I was writing notes, Xiao Li walked past me. He was going next door to discuss today's situation with Xiao Hu Ashan. I looked down and saw a series of wet footprints.
After Xiao Li left, I took out my phone and looked at the photo. The photo of the line of blood words was still in my phone.
Xiao Li may no longer be Xiao Li. "
This was the note that Mr. Zhong gave them, recording what happened on the first day after they checked into the Dongshan Hot Spring Holiday Hotel. At the same time, there was a photo clipped on this page. It was exactly as written in the note, a picture with the words "Don't go near the water" written in blood, with water stains next to it, and the character "非" under the character "靠" had an extra horizontal stroke.
"This is Officer Li's notes." Zhong Yi said. His grandfather often took him to cooperate with the police. Zhong Yi happened to be there when his grandfather laughed at Li's handwriting. Perhaps the usually serious Officer Li laughed too shyly at the time, so he remembered this scene.
At this time, they compared this photo with the hot spring pool and found that it could also be compared in their room. After all, the layout of the rooms on both sides was almost the same.
According to the description of the first day in the notes, they could even speculate that if they entered the hot spring pool and climbed out of it, they might not be human anymore.
Zhong Jingzhu took a breath of cold air and immediately said, "I want to save Chi Shen and the others—"
At this time, they heard a hoarse and strange voice next door saying: "It smells like someone has been drowned here. I like this place so much."
Both of them recognized the voice. It was the voice of the ghost with only one face who had always followed Chi Shen. His voice was so special, so unpleasant and strange, so both of them remembered it clearly.
Zhong Jingzhu looked strange for a moment, then he straightened his expression and said to Zhong Yi: "I'll go to the next door to take a look."
Zhong Yi shook his head, "Uncle, don't worry. This is the room where Uncle Shan and Lao Hu lived. Let's take a look first to see if they left anything for us. Uncle Shan and Lao Hu are both cautious people. They failed to leave here, so they may have left something for us."
"But their room, based on what's in the notes, looks even weirder."
Zhong Yi said: "Don't worry about them. I always feel that they come here as if they are really here for vacation."
Zhong Jingzhu added with a sluggish face: "They are more than just here for vacation, they look like they are back home."
"So let's not worry about them for now, let's take care of ourselves first. Uncle Shan must have left us some clues, let's look around." Zhong Yi said as he walked around the hot spring pool and pulled apart the green plants to look for it, but he didn't find any clues.
After searching the hot spring pool carefully, the two found nothing. They did not dare to touch the water in the hot spring pool, so they chose to go into the house to check.
Then, they began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets in the room. Before, they only checked some easy-to-check places, such as under the bed and in the cabinets, but found nothing. So now they began to take off the quilt covers, pull apart the sheets, and even check the hanging lamps and ceiling.
Just as they were about to take apart the hotel slippers to see if there was anything there, Zhong Jingzhu suddenly stopped and looked back towards the door.
"Did you hear that?"
Zhong Yi followed their gaze towards the door. It was pitch black there, with the entire door in shadow. "What?"
“Knock on the door.”
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