Chi Shen touched his chin with one hand and held the paper with the other hand, looking left and right, then turning it over, as if he wanted to stare a flower out of the paper. Of course, he didn't find any flower, because no matter how you looked at it, it was just an ordinary piece of paper.
Guilian stared at the paper for a moment, and suddenly realized: "Water! Brother Shen, drink some water! We have been soaking in the water for more than half an hour!"
There was actually water in their room, which was a few bottles of mineral water provided by the hotel. Guilian looked around the room and dove into the bottle of mineral water.
Perhaps the female ghost in red was afraid that he would drown, so she immediately looked at him worriedly and tried to pull him out of the bottle. The ghost face tried hard to get himself stuck in the bottle mouth, and the two ghosts started playing tug-of-war with a mineral water bottle.
Chi Shen looked around at the paper again, but still found nothing. He handed the paper to Ji Xingchen.
Ji Xingchen took it and looked at it for a while, then pushed his glasses up and said, "This might be a trap."
The ghost face that was trying so hard to pull the rope suddenly lost its strength and was pulled out with a "pop". He stared at his gray-green eyes and asked in horror: "Trap?!"
"We don't know who wrote this paper."
Ji Xingchen picked up the paper and said, "I don't know what this person's position is. If he wants to make us do the wrong thing in some way, the warning on this paper is undoubtedly false. It may even make us do the wrong thing."
Gui Lian was confused and asked dully, "What?"
In fact, Bai Wan was also confused. She also asked, "What's written on the paper could be wrong?"
Chi Shen said simply and roughly: "The one who wrote this paper to us might be a ghost."
Guilian shuddered immediately. He looked at the mineral water bottle and then at Chi Shen: "Is it possible that it is a ghost? Then we shouldn't listen to what this paper says!"
The female ghost in red looked at the ghost face with disdain. She showed her white bones that had just grown out and said to the ghost face: Who is not a ghost?
"You are also a ghost, but if we let you write it, you will tell us the truth." Ji Xingchen said from the side.
Ghost Face thought about it and nodded: "Ghosts can be good or bad. I am a good ghost, so I will definitely not write anything that harms people... But normal ghosts will eat people!"
The female ghost in red looked at Ghost Face with a look that said, "Who are you talking about is abnormal?", and Ghost Face pressed his entire face against the table to avoid eye contact with the female ghost in red.
"The content on this paper seems to be telling us how to safely vacation in Dongshan Hot Spring," Ji Xingchen picked up the paper, "but it is also possible that it is trying to lead us in the wrong direction. For example, it is okay to soak in the hot spring, but drinking the water after soaking in the hot spring will cause trouble."
Ghost Face immediately choked and coughed a few times, choking out the water he had just drunk. He was choked to the point of tears in his eyes: "You should have told me this earlier!"
Bai Wan continued at this moment: "Then how can we verify whether the content above is intended to help us or to harm us."
"Someone will help us verify it." Ji Xingchen put down the paper, pushed his glasses again, looked at Chi Shen, and a white light flashed on his lenses.
Chi Shen looked at Ji Xingchen, then at everyone who was looking at him, and could only say: "It's useless for you to look at me. This hot spring has no effect on me. I just feel comfortable soaking in it, without any discomfort."
Ji Xingchen looked down at the white paper with the handwriting on it: "I'm not talking about you."
As Gui Lian listened to them talking, several question marks slowly appeared above his head. He was already confused!
The female ghost in red was happily eating snacks. She finally had a body, so she must have a good meal. As for those messy speculations before, what did they have to do with her, a little female ghost!
They discussed for a long time when there was a knock on the door. Perhaps because they were afraid that Chi Shen and the others might think it was a ghost, Zhong Jingzhu's voice rang out while knocking on the door: "It's us. Can you come in?"
"Oh my god!" The red-clothed female ghost became happy after having food, as if opening the door was also a happy thing. She held a bag of potato chips in her mouth, crawled quickly to the door, bent her bony spine, jumped onto the door handle, and suddenly opened the door.
When Zhong Yi and Zhong Jingzhu, who were standing outside the door, saw the door open, they were faced with the horrible face of the female ghost in red. At the moment, she was looking at them with a silly smile, her eyes shining as if she was looking at two pieces of food delivered to her door.
The two Zhong family members were already on edge. They usually got along with Chi Shen, and although they knew that there were several ghosts around him, they had never come out before, so they were not familiar with these ghosts. If it was Ji Xingchen or Bai Wan who opened the door, it would be fine, after all, they looked more like humans, but when they suddenly faced the image of the hanged ghost of the red-clothed female ghost, they immediately made a subconscious action - reaching into the coat to take something out!
Seeing that Zhong Yi had taken out half of the talisman paper, the red-clothed female ghost's already wide eyes widened even wider. The potato chips in her mouth fell to the ground with a plop, and she quickly picked them up and ran to Chi Shen's side.
As a person who had experienced this, Zhong Jingzhu quickly came to his senses. He quickly grabbed Zhong Yi's hand and said with a smile: "Are you having a tea party?"
As he said this, he glanced into the room, and the smile on his face froze for a moment.
As someone who has been dealing with ghosts for decades, the last time I saw so many ghosts appear was last time!
Chi Shen waved to him: "Come in and sit down, we can eat and chat."
Zhong Jingzhu quickly adjusted his expression. As a person with experience, he can always see the current situation more clearly than the young and energetic ones, and can make adjustments better. He stood at the door for a while, and he seemed a little hesitant, but finally chose to go in. He coughed dryly and said, "We found something in the gifts that were sent."
"We also found it." Ji Xingchen pointed his finger at the table, on which were two pieces of paper. One was the paper in their gift box, and the other was the paper in the gift box that Bai Wan brought over.
Zhong Yi and Zhong Jingzhu came over. They did not touch the snacks on the table. Instead, they sat down beside them somewhat stiffly and took out the paper from their gift boxes.
Several people compared the three pieces of paper and quickly concluded that the content written on the three pieces of paper was the same. Judging from the handwriting, they were all written by the same person and were all handwritten.
While a few "people" were doing their work, the other ghosts were eating slowly beside them. The female ghost in red had been hiding behind the pool, occasionally poking her head out, looking at the two people from the Zhong family curiously, and commenting on what tasted better from time to time.
Chi Shen was also listening to their analysis, which was to analyze again what Ji Xingchen had analyzed before. However, this time, Ji Xingchen did not say "someone will help us verify it", but said that he still needed to observe.
The originally relaxed atmosphere in the room suddenly became serious. Chi Shen looked at it for a while, raised his hand and picked up a bag of spicy strips, and handed it over: "I see you have been looking at this for a long time, eat while you talk."
Being interrupted suddenly, Zhong Jingzhu was stunned for a moment, while Zhong Yi's ears turned red. He reached out to take the spicy strips and stammered, "Thank you."
Chi Shen laughed and handed Zhong Jingzhu another bottle of water, but Zhong Jingzhu declined it. When he was away from home, he would only eat what he brought with him.
Zhong Jingzhu and Zhong Yi also said that they did not find anything in the room, and asked Chi Shen whether he had found the clues left by Mr. Zhong and Officer Li. Chi Shen naturally answered that he had not.
After all, he didn't even look for it.
However, he also provided Zhong Jingzhu with some ideas: "I think you are all from the Zhong family. If they want to leave clues, they will definitely leave them in your family's way. Why don't you try this idea?"
Zhong Jingzhu thought for a moment and nodded.
Zhong Yi wanted to say something, but he looked at the spicy strips in his hand and didn't say anything.
He originally wanted to say that when the police were investigating before, people from their Zhong family also came to look for clues. At that time, they used the Zhong family's method to look for clues, but did not find any. This time they came to search carefully again, but they only had a tiny hope.
In other words, they hope that the souls of those who disappeared here can come back and tell them some clues.
It is very likely that they will not find anything, and the only thing they can rely on is the notebook that Mr. Zhong brought with him.
Before leaving Chi Shen's room, Zhong Yi thought about it and said to them, "You should be careful not to be alone. If you hear someone knocking on the door, ignore them. It's best not to go out at night."
"Okay, we got it." Chi Shen smiled and sent them away, and stuffed a bag of spicy strips into Zhong Yi's pocket.
As soon as the two members of the Zhong family returned to their room, the atmosphere became tense again.
Zhong Yi thought for a moment and opened Mr. Zhong’s notebook again.
The second page of the notebook contained only a few words:
"We received a strange warning. Although the wording was very much like a tourist notice, we regarded it as a warning. The paper was delivered with the hotel's gifts yesterday, but we only found it today.
I wrote down the above notes and decided to do as they said.
In just one night, Ashan disappeared. I suspected that it was Xiao Li who did it, because Xiao Li was not there when Ashan disappeared, but he acted as if everything was normal. I told Lao Hu about my guess, but Lao Hu told me not to think too much about it. I had to find Ashan and find evidence that Xiao Li was no longer human.
Lao Hu is not trustworthy either. He may not be a human being anymore.
We made no mistakes.
No.
We made mistakes.
The warning was sent yesterday.
Don’t believe the warnings.”
When Zhong Yi saw this page before, he also asked his grandfather what these words meant, but Grandpa Zhong shook his head: "I can't remember clearly."
Facing Zhong Yi's puzzled expression, Mr. Zhong explained to him: "I didn't lose my memory of what happened in the hotel. On the contrary, I remember it very clearly because nothing happened at the time, but I had such an idea. Until now, I can't judge whether my idea at the time was right or wrong, so I can't mislead you."
At that time, Zhong Yi could not understand what Mr. Zhong said, but now he understands.
After seeing Ji Xingchen in Chi Shen’s house, he also began to have doubts.
Ji Xingchen was so normal that he behaved like a living person. He could eat, had a calm expression, spoke to people fluently, and even helped them analyze the situation. If they didn't know that Ji Xingchen was a ghost, they would have thought that Ji Xingchen was a living person.
After entering this hot spring hotel, such changes will occur, which cannot help but make people think that if one dies here, the people traveling with him may not even notice it, and he may not even realize that he is dead.
From this, Zhong Yi came up with an even more terrifying guess.
——Are the people working here really human?
It was already very late after all this busy work, so the two of them decided to eat some compressed biscuits and take turns to rest for a while.
At this time, there was another knock on the door. Zhong Yi was taking notes. He wanted to record what happened today. Zhong Jingzhu had already lay down.
He stood up from his seat and prepared to open the door. His hand had already pressed down the door handle when he was suddenly stunned, because the knock on the door did not come from the door in the corridor, but from the direction of the hot spring.
Zhong Yi immediately turned around and looked at Zhong Jingzhu. Zhong Jingzhu had fallen asleep and didn't seem to hear the knock on the door.
Do you want to open the door?
There was wind outside the door, rustling the trees. Perhaps the knocks on the door sensed the hesitation of the person inside, and became louder and louder, one after another, vibrating the eardrums and the heart beating along with them.
Zhong Yi could feel his heart beating faster and faster with the sound, as if it was about to burst out of his chest. He immediately covered his heart, rushed to Zhong Jingzhu's bed, and shook Zhong Jingzhu awake: "Knock on the door!"
Zhong Jingzhu woke up immediately and turned over from the bed. He looked out the door and frowned, "Did you hear that?"
"Stop." Zhong Yi was still looking at the door leading to the hot spring.
"Let's go and take a look together." Zhong Jingzhu quickly put on a piece of clothing, went over with Zhong Yi, and directly opened the door.
There was nothing outside the door, no people or ghosts, and no remaining evil spirit.
However, both of them subconsciously looked towards the hot spring pool.
The hot spring pool was indeed full of water stains, and there were a few large words written in blood next to it: "Don't stay in the house, run!"
The two of them turned around suddenly and looked inside the house.
On the other side, Chi Shen did not hear any knock on the door.
Because he went out.
Ji Xingchen followed him and said calmly, "No barbecue."
"So, if it's a hot spring hotel, how can there be no late-night barbecues? I think the front desk clerk must not want to tell me, that's why she didn't say anything." Chi Shen stood in the night, feeling a little frustrated.
He is hungry.
And he didn't want to eat instant noodles and biscuits, he wanted to eat something hot, but he came out late at night and the hotel was empty. He looked around the restaurant but couldn't find any staff. Finally, he had no choice but to go to the front desk and asked the receptionist where he could eat in the evening.
The front desk lady on duty at night was not the same person as the one on duty during the day. She stared at Chi Shen for a long time, then lowered her head and ignored Chi Shen completely.
Chi Shen asked twice more, but the lady at the front desk still ignored him. He had no choice but to go out and see if there was any barbecue.
According to Chi Shen's idea, wouldn't it be normal and attractive for a hot spring hotel like this to have a barbecue party at midnight? It should be a reserved item here.
As a result, they walked around but didn't find a place to barbecue, nor did they meet anyone.
Seeing Chi Shen's frustrated expression, Ji Xingchen lowered his head and seemed to think about something, then he said: "You can choose to complain."
"Forget it." Although Ji Xingchen's words were incoherent, Chi Shen still understood what he meant. He said, "We are all workers, so we shouldn't make things difficult for others. Let's find a kitchen ourselves... You can help me do it."
They went out to look for food, and Bai Wan and the female ghost in red also had some problems.
After leaving Chi Shen's room, the female ghost in red went to play in the hot spring for a while. When Bai Wan saw her again, she almost didn't recognize her.
The body of the red-clothed female ghost has grown out!
Not only did her body grow taller, but she also looked younger. She now looked about the same age as Bai Wan, about sixteen or seventeen years old. Her ferocious eyes didn't look so scary anymore. Now it just looked like she was just staring at people. Her body, which was originally a pile of bones, grew flesh and blood, and her limbs grew bones instead.
The female ghost in red walked into the room standing, and the white bones touched the floor tiles, making a clattering sound.
Bai Wan looked at the situation of the female ghost in red and was stunned for a moment. She immediately held down the female ghost in red who was trying to give her a temporary new body, asked her to wait, and then went to knock on the door opposite.
In this situation, she must find Chi Shen to solve the problem.
But Chi Shen's room door was not open. Bai Wan thought about it and then went to knock on the door of the room where the two people from the Zhong family lived.
If she couldn't find Chi Shen, she could ask two reliable people. Zhong Yi had taken care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation this time, so she thought it would be okay to ask Zhong Yi in this situation.
She knocked on the door twice and found that it was not closed. She tilted her head in confusion and then walked in.
The room was brightly lit, but empty, with no one in it.
However, the door leading to the hot spring opposite the main entrance was open, and cold wind blew in from outside.
Bai Wan stood at the door for two seconds and walked in.
“Click.”
She didn't move, but the door closed behind her.
The sound of someone running was heard outside the door. Bai Wan turned around and looked at the door. She twisted her fingers, a cluster of blue flames ignited at her fingertips, and she opened the door.
There was no one outside the door, just like when she came in, except for some mist floating around, making the corridor look a little hazy.
Bai Wan lowered her head slightly.
Under the bright light in the corridor, the carpet laid in the corridor has a moist luster, and the color becomes darker and lighter in some places.
Those were not water droplets condensed from mist, but some wet marks.
She quickly identified them as footprints.
The candle in her hand trembled slightly. Bai Wan thought for a moment and said, "Hello?"
"Hello."
A voice responded to her.
It was a man's voice. Bai Wan turned her head and looked towards one end of the corridor, where the voice came from.
There was no one.
Bai Wan suddenly felt a little cold.
The feeling was strange, she hadn't felt cold in a long time.
The sudden temperature stunned Bai Wan. She had only experienced such coldness when she was dying and watching her blood flow out.
The dancing flame in her hand suddenly went out, and she heard the shrill cry of the female ghost in red: "Help, save me! Ah——"
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