Chapter 111 Come to me, we should meet
Not long after, Lin Zhuyue's cell phone rang.
Shican reacted quickly. He pulled his hand back the moment his phone vibrated before it rang, and lay flat on his back quietly.
Lin Zhuyue was woken up and dazedly picked up the phone to answer it:
"Hello, Mom..."
"We're not going back today. Let's spend the day at the hot spring resort and go home tomorrow."
"Take safety measures? What measures should we take..."
Lin Zhuyue was halfway through her words when she woke up completely from her sleep. She sat up and said in a panic,
"No, it's not what you think. I, I didn't..."
After finally explaining everything clearly and hanging up the phone, Lin Zhuyue curled up on the sofa bed, covering his face with his hands.
Shi Can also sat up and said, "I've been misunderstood."
He was not in a hurry at all, and there was even a smile in his words, as if he didn't mind being misunderstood at all.
Lin Zhuyue kicked his leg.
Shi Can finally stopped smiling. He took off one of his headphones, handed it to Lin Zhuyue, and asked:
"Listening to music? Bone conduction headphones, not those in-ear ones, they don't get dirty."
Lin Zhuyue took the headphones and put them on her ears. She listened for a moment and said with emotion:
“What an old song.”
Shi Chan said, “Old songs are more worth savoring.”
Lin Zhuyue stopped talking. She lay back on the sofa bed, closed her eyes, and listened to the music quietly.
Not sure if it was because of the peaceful melody or because Shi Can was lying beside her, but Lin Zhuyue felt inexplicably calm, or should I say, secure.
The two of them lay in the lounge until dinner was served.
The buffet dinner provided by the hot spring resort is not luxurious, but the variety is quite rich, with desserts, seafood, hot and cold dishes, and drinks.
Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi were also there.
Four people put together a big table.
Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue took two cans of cocktails and sat at the table, clinking their glasses. The cans clashed together, making a clear metallic sound.
Gong Yongyuan asked, "Are you two drinking?"
"We're both off-duty and won't be driving today, so you can drink."
Shi Chan shook the can in his hand and asked,
"Are you greedy?"
Gong Yongyuan: "Haha."
"Stop attracting hatred."
Meng Qi said as he peeled the shrimp.
"I'm really afraid that tonight I won't be able to resist sneaking into your room, putting a sack on you, hitting you twice with a club, and then throwing you into the moat."
Shi Can didn't panic at all. He put down the can in his hand and took out a recorder from his pocket:
"Everything you say will become evidence when I'm harmed."
Meng Qi: “…”
Gong Yongyuan: “…Shit.”
Why does this guy carry a voice recorder with him?
But think about it from another angle, with Shican's superb ability to attract hatred, he might really be put in a sack and beaten with a club, so he really needs to carry a recorder.
While the three of them were busy arguing, Lin Zhuyue moved the mussels on her plate towards Shican. The mussels tasted delicious, but unfortunately they were not cleaned properly and were full of sand.
After dinner, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can went to soak in the hot spring for a while.
However, because there were many mosquitoes at night, they couldn't stand the bites for long, so they took a shower, changed their clothes in the locker room, and walked to the resort hotel with their swimsuits.
"I've always had a question."
Lin Zhuyue walked and said,
“Do monks kill mosquitoes?”
Shi Chan: “…Why do you have such doubts?”
Lin Zhuyue analyzed seriously:
"Think about it, if you don't kill mosquitoes, you'll keep getting bitten. Killing mosquitoes might violate the precept of not killing..."
“Very deep thoughts.”
After Shi Can praised Lin Zhuyue, he said,
"I'll ask a monk later."
Shi Can was not a person who was good at praising others, but when he met Lin Zhuyue, he changed. No matter what strange ideas Lin Zhuyue had, he would always praise her.
Taking a hot spring bath is a very physically demanding activity.
So, Lin Zhuyue returned to his room, lay down on the bed, and soon fell asleep.
The night at the resort hotel was not peaceful.
While Lin Zhuyue was sleeping, she heard the sound of someone walking on the wooden floor in slippers. The sound was not very loud, but it was surprisingly clear to Lin Zhuyue's ears, so much so that she was startled and woke up completely from her sleep.
Lin Zhuyue stood up and walked to the door. Just as he was about to reach out to turn the door handle, he felt a chill and gloomy energy.
...There's something outside.
Lin Zhuyue returned to the bedside, picked up the phone and sent a message to Shican, asking:
【Did you hear the sound outside the door? 】
Shican lives next door to her. If he wakes up too, he will definitely notice the noise outside.
Not long after the message was sent, Shican called back directly.
Lin Zhuyue answered the phone.
"I've asked Gong Daxian and Meng Dake. That's their mission objective. They'll handle it. We don't need to worry about it."
Shi Can was also woken up, and there was a hint of tiredness in his voice, which made his voice lazy and low, and seemed particularly gentle and affectionate. He asked,
"Are you scared?"
"It's a little scary, but not too scary."
Lin Zhuyue sat back on the bed and asked,
"What's their mission all about?"
Shi Can already knew the details, so when Lin Zhuyue asked, he answered them smoothly.
"About a month ago, the mother of the owner of this resort fell into a coma. Before she fell into a coma, she used to walk around the hotel on tiptoe, which led to many complaints from guests."
Shi Can said,
"About half a month after the boss's mother fell into a coma, a guest began walking on tiptoe in the hotel corridor. Later, that guest also fell into a coma. The boss thought something was amiss and sought help from the Spiritual Master's Mansion."
"Gong Yongyuan and Meng Dake have already met the boss's mother and the guest. Both are physically alive, but their souls are gone."
Lin Zhuyue turned his head to look at the door and said:
"So, the one walking outside now is..."
Shi Can confirmed Lin Zhuyue's idea:
"The mission target has targeted the third person."
It doesn't seem to be a rare and difficult task, but a relatively common one. Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi should be able to solve it smoothly.
But for some reason, Lin Zhuyue felt very uneasy.
She chatted with Shican for a few more words, then hung up the phone and went back to sleep.
She fell into a deep sleep.
In the dream, there was an old woman who was holding her ankle and said to her with great sorrow and expectation:
"Come find me."
"Come find me—"
"Ling, the time has come. We should meet."
Lin Zhuyue wanted to break free from her skinny hand, but the hand held on very tightly. Not only could Lin Zhuyue not break free, but she was also pulled by her and forced to approach a door that had appeared in his dream at some point.
Just as he was about to step into the door, Lin Zhuyue woke up in shock.
She sat up, gasping for breath.
There was a sound of quarreling outside the door.
"How can you be so useless?"
Shi Chan accused impatiently,
"She was right in front of us, and you actually let her get away? It would be fine if she ran away, but how could you let her take away the soul of a living person right before your eyes?"
"We set up a formation!"
Gong Yongyuan defended himself and Meng Qi,
"But the formation had no effect on her at all. She wasn't hindered at all and passed right through it."
Meng Qi was very dissatisfied with Shi Can's accusation:
"If you can do it, go ahead!"
Shi Can scoffed and said, "I'll go up if I want."
Lin Zhuyue got out of bed, walked to the door and opened it.
Shi Can turned his head to look at her, his eyes that were originally full of ridicule became gentle as water. He lowered his voice and asked:
"Did it wake you?"
Gong Yongyuan hissed and began to touch his arm.
He got goose bumps.
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and asked:
"It's okay, what happened?"
Meng Qi said, "The Immortal predicted that the ghost would appear..."
Shi Can directly challenged Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi:
"You only expected the other party to show up, but didn't you expect yourself to fail?"
"Shut up."
Lin Zhuyue asked Meng Qi,
"Then what?"
"We set up a formation to capture her, and she did walk into it. But just as the Great Immortal and I were about to awaken the formation, she escaped, taking with her the souls of the people she possessed."
When Meng Qi said this, he couldn't help but sigh.
"The victim has been taken to the hospital by ambulance. The owner just hugged Daxian's legs and cried, saying that if this continues, the resort will not be able to continue operating."
This kind of thing happens frequently in resort hotels, which is really distressing.
Shi Chan asked, "Is the boss's mother in the hospital?"
"He was just taken out of the hospital the day before yesterday. He's very old and it's almost time for him to pass away, so the hospital persuaded the boss to take him home."
Meng Qi took a step forward and said,
"Do you want to go take a look? This way."
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can followed in his footsteps.
Shi Can asked: "Who assigned you this task? Our homeroom teacher?"
"Old Fu's."
Gong Yongyuan paused before continuing,
"Our homeroom teacher...you and Lin Zhuyue had better stay away from him. I can't explain why, but I just think he's a bad guy."
Shi Can muttered softly:
“…It’s definitely not a good thing.”
It's already morning.
After the trainee spiritualists arrived on the first floor, they asked to see the boss's mother. The girl on duty called the boss and after hanging up, she told the trainee spiritualists to wait and that the boss would be back soon.
The trainee spiritual masters were waiting in the lobby on the first floor. While waiting, they raised their heads and scanned the photos and paintings hanging on the wall.
Lin Zhuyue's gaze stopped on a photo.
This is a black and white photo. It shows an elderly lady wearing old clothes. Her eyes look through the photo and fall on Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue said: "This person is..."
"It's the former boss's mother."
The girl on duty replied,
"Our boss took over this resort from an old man named Liao. The old woman in the photo is Mr. Liao's mother, who must have passed away many years ago."
Lin Zhuyue clenched his hands and asked:
"Do you know her name?"
The girl on duty nodded and replied:
"Shang Gengfan, the ears are burning."
Lin Zhuyue recalled the person who was holding her ankle in her dream.
Shang Gengfan, Shang Gengfan...
So, this is your name...
Shi Can also fell into thought and said:
"This naming method... Is this old lady's mother's surname Geng?"
The girl on duty shook her head and replied:
"I don't know about that."
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