"Good morning, Mr. Nick." Baili Xin glanced at Mr. Nick and greeted him with an elegant and polite smile.
Her smile is as beautiful as a flower, and she has the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix.
Mr. Nick was stunned for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he saw Baili Xin, Red Moon Emil and the other two walking outside.
"Where are you going?" the philanthropist's wife asked in confusion, carefully protecting her belly.
Hongyue secretly looked at the philanthropist's wife. Compared with the slightly bulging belly yesterday, just one night had passed, and the philanthropist's wife's belly was now five or six months big.
If I continue at this rate, I will probably go into labor tonight or tomorrow.
Compared to the others, the philanthropist's wife looked more haggard after a night of running around, and her movements were visibly more inconvenient.
Despite such a strange change, the other people didn't find it strange.
"Mrs. Ashley," Hongyue said kindly, "You look a little weak. You'd better not walk around. Go see a doctor, change your clothes and take good care of yourself."
The philanthropist's wife gently stroked her belly, her slightly drooping hair looking disheveled: "The clothes for changing are all in the suitcase, which was thrown away when we ran away."
Baili Xin and the other two scanned the five people one by one, and all the luggage in their hands was missing.
Hongyue: "Really? That's a shame, but I think the resort is so hospitable that they should have prepared some spare clothes for you."
The attendants smiled and said, "Yes, guests, please come this way."
Mr. Nick stared at Baili Xin and the others with a troubled expression, but in response to the servant's respectful and enthusiastic invitation, he finally said nothing. Instead, he slowly turned around and left with the servant.
It was they who wanted to leave in the first place, and it was they who wrongly accused Baili Xin.
Baili Xin had mentioned many times that it might be a supernatural event, but they were all blindly confident and did not take it seriously.
The other party didn't open the door for them, and to be honest, they had no reason to blame the three people.
After watching the five people leave, Hongyue asked Emil, "Where is the craftsman?"
Emil: "Still in the room."
Hongyue: "Otherwise, don't follow me. Just go and watch over it and make sure nothing happens. We finally managed to find someone alive."
Emil looked at Hongyue, then at Bailixin: "No problem, no problem, but can you tell me where are you two going?"
Hongyue said seriously: "You don't know?"
Emil suddenly felt a little guilty, and his tone became uncertain: "Should I... know?"
Hongyue stared at Emil for two full seconds. Just when Emil was about to get hairy all over, she turned her head and looked at Baili Xin: "Yeah, Baili Xin, where are we going?"
Emil: “?”
There are too many grooves but no openings. Damn.
Baili Xin: "Just wandering around. There are still two days and two nights left in the resort trip. I haven't had a chance to see this place yet. It's a pity."
Emil: “.”
What a shame? Are you serious? Really
Emil took two steps back rationally and said, "Then I'll go take care of Sa... Ah, the craftsman, contact me if you have any questions."
After saying that, he ran away without looking back.
The three-person outing instantly became a two-person outing.
The first place the two people went to was the back garden.
The morning dew is charming. In the warm and gentle sunshine, the colorful roses stretch out their branches and petals, like innocent and beautiful little angels, dancing carefree among the green grass.
If we hadn't witnessed a supernatural fight last night, no one would have associated such a beautiful and pure garden with death.
The ground was covered with green grass, and there was not even any sign of a giant snake roaming around.
Baili Xin and Hongyue walked along and soon found a black backpack stained with blood on the grass.
This was left behind by the director who was swallowed last night.
Baili Xin squatted down, opened the zipper, and the contents of the bulging backpack were immediately exposed.
A mini camera, a few changes of clothes, a pile of silk, and a few precious manuscripts placed on the resort's bookshelf.
Overall, the things are not heavy, only about ten kilograms in total.
He did not take any gold or silver treasures from the resort, but chose things that would be more helpful to his career.
After leaving all the other things in their original places, Baili Xin just took out the camera and projector.
This instrument runs on batteries. Baili Xin opened it and took a look. There were only two bars left out of the five bars of battery.
Turning off the camera temporarily, Baili Xin continued to move forward.
After walking for a while, they came to a stone statue of the Virgin Mary.
Hongyue stared at the stone statues and the surrounding scene for a while, then said, “Here are the two stone statues where Nick’s family was last night.”
It is also the stone statue where Mrs. Nick hid the treasure at the beginning.
Baili Xin walked to the back of the stone statue, opened the secret door and looked inside. Several new scratches appeared on the already mottled inner wall.
These are the marks left by Miss Nick's fingernails when she struggled to free herself from the stone statue yesterday.
After carefully observing the inner wall again, Baili Xin withdrew his gaze thoughtfully and straightened his back.
Hongyue was still confused: "Did you find anything?"
Baili Xin nodded: "A little bit."
Hongyue: "Then do you want to see the other stone statues?"
Baili Xin glanced at the stone statue not far away and replied, "Look, let's go."
In the next half hour, they walked around the remaining four stone statues. To Hongyue, the statues looked similar, and Baili Xin looked at each one very carefully.
When Baili Xin finally finished looking at the last stone statue, his slightly tense face relaxed a little, and a smile appeared on his face, "Hongyue, let's go out for a walk."
Hongyue was looking up at the flowers. Hearing this, she looked at Baili Xin and said, "Go out?"
Baili Xin: "Yes, let's go outside the resort and take a look. Let's also walk the same path they walked yesterday."
The bus came at a very fast speed, and the surrounding scenery almost flew by. I could not see anything except green.
The two returned along the same route, and it was almost nine o'clock in the morning when they arrived at the fountain at the entrance of the resort.
Hongyue stood at the fountain and looked towards the resort hotel above the stairs. She saw the servants who had disappeared at night reappear and walked around the hall in an orderly manner.
Looks busy, but nothing to do.
When Hongyue turned around again, Baili Xin had already walked a few steps away and was about to pass through the resort's big iron gate.
She hurried to catch up, and when she caught up with Baili Xin, the two of them walked out of the resort's gorgeous and heavy black iron gate together.
At that moment, Hongyue shuddered physiologically.
It's so cold.
There is only a door between them, but the temperature outside is about ten degrees different from the temperature inside the resort.
If it was sunny inside the resort, it was windy and cold outside.
Hongyue looked up at the sky. It was the same clear sky, but the atmosphere was completely different.
When we came, we took a bus directly into the resort and didn't notice anything unusual on the bus.
Hongyue: "It's a bit spooky, Bailixin."
The resort gate was built directly on the asphalt road, and after passing through the big iron gate there was a winding road in front of them.
On both sides of the road is a dense forest, with a small hill on each side, and the only road is in the depression between the two hills.
No matter how bright the sunlight above our heads is, the dense trees on both sides block the sun above our heads. Although it is a sunny morning, this road is shrouded in the shadow of the trees.
Baili Xin: "If you come here in the summer, it's quite nice to escape the heat."
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Studio.
Ordinary people: Eerie, scary, so terrible.
Xin Shen: A good place to escape the summer heat and cool down.
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The two of them observed the terrain as they walked, sometimes chatting, sometimes silent, and slowly moving forward.
After walking for about half an hour, when Hongyue looked back, the outline of the resort had disappeared.
Baili Xin: "It's so quiet, no one is here."
Hongyue: "It's quite quiet. Isn't it normal that there's no one here?"
Baili Xin: "That's not normal. Didn't the tour guide say that all the servants that the resort could use had come here to dig the road? Logically, we should have encountered at least one person when we walked over here."
Hongyue didn't know what Bailixin wanted to say: "So?"
Baili Xin said seriously: "So the servant's form may only be maintained inside the resort. Once outside the resort, it will no longer be a human form."
Hongyue: “…”
Can we not say this seriously? Although I am not afraid.
"By the way," Hongyue pointed at the camera in Bailixin's hand, "Doesn't he like to take pictures? Look what he captured yesterday."
As she spoke, Hongyue took the camera from Baili Xin, opened the small screen, fiddled with the buttons for a few times, and opened the video content.
There were many clips in the video, and Hongyue randomly picked one and clicked on it.
Following a rough "crackling" sound of electricity, the contents on the screen began to be displayed.
— “Dear viewers, this is a documentary about the most mysterious resort in the world.”
The director's unique excited voice came from the screen, and the camera started from the bus.
The four of them were sitting very far back at the time, and the camera was recorded from the rear. Because the car was a bit bumpy, the camera was also shaking a bit.
—"I think you have guessed it. Yes, it is the Eden Resort. This is the most mysterious place in the world. I will spend five days and six nights to reveal its secrets to you."
—“Hello everyone, let me introduce myself, my name is Nick, and I am…”
A familiar yet distant voice came from the camera, and a familiar picture appeared on the screen simultaneously.
Hongyue remembered that this was the scene where they introduced themselves at the beginning.
At that time, everyone had joy on their faces, and the camera captured everyone's enthusiastic expressions one by one without them knowing.
Looking at the familiar faces on the screen, Hongyue suddenly felt a little sad.
These people never imagined at that time that in just a few days, they would be in such a miserable state with only five people left today.
Hongyue pressed the fast-forward button, and the faces on the screen immediately became funny, and the picture began to move forward rapidly.
Fast forward more than a minute, and with the transition of a scene, Hongyue let go of her hand.
The scene moves from the bus, fountain, lobby, restaurant to the familiar corridor. In the depths of the shaking camera is the strange golden room.
The director's excited voice was heard again from the screen.
—"Did you hear that? This golden room is the mysterious room the tour guide just mentioned. Are you all curious about what's inside?"
— “Is it the curse the tour guide mentioned? Will something bad happen?”
— "Are you scared?"
— “Hahaha, it’s all a gimmick!”
— “It’s like a psychological suggestion. The more you are not allowed to open it, the more curious you will be. If this room really doesn’t allow others to enter, then an extra lock should be added from the beginning. He gave us the key and told us not to open it, but actually he hoped that we would open it.”
— “Are you also beginning to wonder what’s inside?”
The camera suddenly shook and began to slowly approach Jin's room.
Baili Xin and Hongyue looked at each other, and Hongyue's eyes also became nervous.
Inside the shot, a hand reaches into the frame from below and places it on the door handle of the golden room.
Hongyue swallowed.
— "Haha, do you really want me to open the room now? Now the audience can guess what is inside."
He slowly took his hand off the doorknob, but did not open King's room.
—"We will treat what is in the gold room as an Easter egg. I will show it to you at the end of the video. Before that, you can use your imagination to guess what is inside."
—"Well, everyone, today's documentary comes to an end. See you tomorrow."
After the first video ended, Hong Yue looked aggrieved. "This director is indeed a suspense film director. I'm just curious why he didn't win any awards. With this much tension and suspense, I think it's not an exaggeration to say that he is the Sherlock Holmes of the director circle, right?"
Hongyue clicked on the second video.
The sound of electricity rang out and time began to move, but the camera remained pitch black.
Hongyue frowned slightly: "Is this video broken?"
Although she said this, her hand still honestly pressed the fast-forward button.
The screen remained unchanged in black. Just when Hongyue was getting a little impatient, the screen finally changed.
There was a slight "creak" sound of the door opening, and the picture finally lit up.
It turned out that the camera was placed in the corner of the corridor. The reason why there was no picture just now was because the corridor was pitch black.
In the picture, a faint light appeared in the depths of the lens, and the door of Mr. O'De's room opened. Mr. O'De's elderly body staggered to Jin's room with the key in his hand.
In the camera, Mr. Oude looked pale and numb. He tried several times before opening the golden room. The camera also completely recorded the scene of Mr. Oude walking into the golden room.
Hongyue: "Oh my god, this director knew that Mr. Ou De had entered the golden room, but he said nothing. Can people be so cold-hearted just to film the so-called shocking material?"
Baili Xin: "..."
Hong Yue started fast forward again, and about fifteen minutes later, the door of the room opened again and Mr. Ode walked out.
At this time, his face had become very rosy, and he walked much more briskly.
Then there was another long period of darkness until the end of the second video.
Hongyue closed the second video and opened the third video while walking.
The camera made a few "crackling" sounds, and the screen lit up. It was the treasure room they visited the next day.
—"I'm sure you've already been amazed by yesterday's fountains, carpets, silks, and portraits. Today I'm going to show you the treasure house of the owner of the Eden Resort. Seeing what's inside will surely open the door to a new world for you."
With the sound of a door being pushed open, the scene in the camera instantly became magnificent.
They should have separated by now.
The quartet of directors visited one corridor, while the others chose other corridors.
As the camera moved, the faces of three other actors were also recorded.
The scene flashed by, and Baili Xin suddenly said, "Wait, pause, and rewind."
Hong Yue did not refute, but directly pressed the pause button and played the video back. The video played back for two seconds, and Baili Xin pressed the pause button.
The picture froze on one frame.
In the picture, there is a blurry black shadow at the entrance of the stairs.
If you don't look carefully, you might even think it's a phantom in the lens.
Hongyue squinted her eyes for a while before she asked uncertainly, "It looks like a snake?"
Baili Xin: "Maybe it's the same thing as the black snake yesterday."
In addition to recording the black shadow, the camera also recorded the clock hanging in the hall. When the black shadow appeared, the time in the camera was exactly twelve noon.
Hongyue also discovered the time on the clock.
"The sacrifice disappeared at noon, and the shadow also appeared at noon. This can't be a coincidence, right? Could it be that the sacrifice didn't disappear out of thin air, but was taken away by the shadow? It's just that the shadow appeared so fast that we couldn't even see its existence?"
Baili Xin frowned slightly, "Play it back again, and then click the slowest setting."
Hongyue said "OK", went back a few seconds and pressed the slow motion button.
The screen was played again, but this time it was so slow that it turned into a series of PPT slides.
Baili Xin and Hongyue stared intently. They stopped and stood on the side of the road, staring at the screen without blinking, afraid of missing any scene.
Soon, a black shadow suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared.
The blurry black shadow only appears for less than one frame.
Hongyue was surprised and said, "So fast, it must be a few nanoseconds, right?"
Baili Xin took the camera from Hongyue, and he played it backwards several times before continuing to play it normally.
Hongyue: "What did you see?"
Baili Xin: "It's probably not because of the speed, it seems that there is a distortion in space."
He paused again and pointed to the same spot in the previous and next frames. "Look here. Even though there is a difference of a few nanoseconds, the lines of the wall here are a little blurry."
Hongyue felt a little confused: "What does this mean?"
Baili Xin: "This means that those who disappeared did not simply enter the golden room, but entered another dimension. If I want to find Gar, I have to be caught by this thing. I sincerely hope that Emil used me as a sacrifice yesterday."
Hongyue: “…”
I have seen people looking for food on their own, but this is the first time I have seen people looking for death on their own.
Baili Xin: "Do you remember those bodies hanging on the wall?"
Hongyue: "I remember, what's wrong?"
Baili Xin showed a subtle expression on his face: "I think Mr. Nick and the others will have very interesting expressions when they go back to their rooms to change clothes now."
Hongyue was stunned for a moment: "You mean, the bodies of the three people who were eaten last night will appear in the room again? Weren't they swallowed directly by the black snake?"
Baili Xin: "The black snake should be just a medium, taking people away and jumping back and forth between the two spaces."
"The director used the actress to wish for fame, the younger daughter was the one who slipped through the net, and the older daughter wished for delicious food."
"It's time to stop walking. Let's keep moving forward."
Hongyue stared at Bailixin's back with the camera in her hand, full of doubts: "If Black Snake is not the murderer, then who is the murderer?"
Baili Xin's voice was calm and gentle: "Think about it, isn't it true that there has always been a person who has never appeared from the beginning to the end? His presence has always been very strong, almost everywhere, but he has never shown up."
Hongyue thought seriously for several seconds before she asked uncertainly, "The owner of the resort?"
Baili Xin: "It's very likely him."
The trees ahead were becoming more and more dense. They had been walking for more than an hour, but at a glance, the road was still long. They could neither see the end nor the so-called mudslide roadblock.
Hongyue is now completely certain that the so-called mudslide is just an excuse used by the tour guide to trap people in the resort.
There was never any mudslide from beginning to end. The people in the resort neither went out to seek rescue, nor did they want to let people leave.
The tour guide's meaningful words at the beginning, "It's a pity that no one can take the treasure away", are now gradually coming true.
Hongyue turned on the camera and clicked on the last image.
As the footage played, the sound of quarreling soon came out from inside.
The camera was always placed in a backpack, which was carried on the director's back, so the picture was always bumpy. Most of the shots were of other people's chests, and occasionally other people's faces.
Director: "Who said it was a one-hour assembly first? Ape-man who thinks with his lower body, do you know that it's dark because of your half an hour?"
Mr. Nick: "Who asked you to wait for me? Didn't I tell you that those who don't want to wait can leave first? Since you are waiting, just shut up and keep going."
Elizabeth: "It's so cold. Do you feel particularly cold too?"
Two suits appeared behind Elizabeth at the same time. Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, then took one of the slightly smaller suits and put it on herself. "Thank you, Mr. Nick."
The actor had a bitter expression on his face, and finally took the suit back. "It's always colder at night than during the day. It will warm up after walking for a while. After all, there is no sun at night. If you are still cold, I will give you my clothes."
Elizabeth ignored him.
"But it's too cold, isn't it?" Richard looked around. "Did you hear any sound?"
The talking stopped abruptly, and the only sounds in the camera were the people's breathing, footsteps, and the rustling of leaves around them.
"Stop scaring yourself, okay?" Mr. Nick took a deep breath and said, "Richard, you are such a coward."
Director: "That's right. If there is something, with so many of us, are we still afraid of them?"
It was already dark outside, and the light in the camera lens all came from the flashlights in these people's hands.
"Damn it, how come we haven't seen any mudslide barriers after walking for so long?" Mr. Nick spoke again, his voice already breathless. "There really is something wrong with that resort. There was no mudslide at all. It was a lie, a lie from the beginning."
"Yes, Dad is smart. Fortunately, we left," the little daughter said, "Dad, you are so wise."
The eldest daughter: "Tsk tsk, can you stop flattering me so disgustingly? No matter how nice you say it is, you are not my biological daughter. I am the one that I love the most."
Mr. Nick: "Forget it, forget it. I am a human being. Although I am not your biological child, I have raised you for so many years and I have feelings for you. Since both of your husbands are missing, I will find new husbands for you when I return. What kind of husbands do you want to find?"
The eldest daughter: "I, I want to find someone more handsome!"
The little girl said timidly: "Dad, I don't want to get married yet. I want to stay with you and take care of you."
Mr. Nick: “Whatever you want.”
Suddenly, a short cry was heard, interrupting the conversation of several people again. Mr. Nick was a little unhappy: "Who was shouting just now? What happened?"
"It's... it's me." The philanthropist's wife spoke in an awkward voice. She covered her stomach and said, "Sorry, it's me."
Director: “Did you see anything, Mrs. Ashley?”
The philanthropist's wife stuttered, "No, no, it was the baby in my belly that kicked me just now."
Outside the screen, Hongyue and Bailixin were both stunned.
Hongyue: "Well, although I haven't given birth to a child, but... she should be pregnant for only one or two months, right? If the baby is formed in such a belly, can it kick people?"
Baili Xin stared at Mrs. Aisley, who was looking happy on the screen, and asked, "Is there a possibility that this is not a normal human child at all?"
Hongyue: “…”
you're right.
Mr. Nick: "Oh, my goodness, Mrs. Astley, it turns out that you were already pregnant when you came here, we didn't know that, congratulations. Now Mr. Astley can rest assured that even though he is missing, you still left him with offspring."
Director: “Yes, congratulations.”
The philanthropist lady just smiled forcefully and politely followed all the blessings.
Only she herself knows how this child came about.
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Studio.
On the importance of biology.
Mr. Ashley: Thank you.
True, the father is gone and the son is kept.
Mrs. Philanthropist is the werewolf.
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What followed was some meaningless conversation, so Hongyue just pressed the fast-forward button.
Amid the conversation, a scream suddenly rang out.
Hongyue quickly let go of her hand and rewound the scene two seconds.
This time it was Elizabeth who screamed.
She screamed and pointed at the dense woods with a terrified expression.
The actor rushed over immediately and held Elizabeth in his arms, "What's wrong? Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Elizabeth pointed ahead with a trembling hand, her voice trembling: "Snake, there is a snake, I just saw a very big snake."
Everyone was a little scared by Elizabeth's scream, but when they heard what Elizabeth said, Mr. Nick was the first to laugh: "It's just a snake, what's there to be afraid of? Women are women, they don't have any courage. There are so many grown men here, can't we kill a snake?"
Elizabeth waved her hands frantically, "No, it's not. Not that kind of snake. It's a very big snake. A very, very big snake."
She was obviously frightened, and her arms were waving around in fear.
Seeing this, the director laughed twice and walked straight towards the place where Elizabeth pointed.
As he left, all the remaining people appeared in the camera.
Elizabeth's face turned pale, and she tried to stop the director in panic, but the director said nonchalantly, "Even an anaconda wouldn't be as big as you're gesturing. Besides, anacondas are only found in tropical rainforests. There aren't even pythons on a small hill like this, so how could there be such a big snake? I'll catch it for you to see. It must be the reflection of the moon above your head that gave you an optical illusion."
Because the director had his back to the camera, only his voice could be heard.
With a rhythmic bump, the camera finally stopped.
Then the camera tilted, as if the director was bending over.
But the next second, a scream suddenly came from the camera, and at the same time, everyone's face was filled with uniform expression of fear.
Without any hesitation, they turned around and ran backwards.
The camera quickly turned 180 degrees, and a pair of blood-red eyes instantly appeared in the dim and bumpy picture.
The eyes almost popped out of the camera lens, and there was a broken arm hidden in the fangs in the mist.
Hongyue's breathing stagnated: "..."
Damn, I was scared to death.
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Studio.
… Shit, I’m scared to death.
Although I was mentally prepared.
So the question is, which horror movie are we watching now
Uh, copy → movie → video, third hand
God knows I was actually watching a picture-in-picture movie during the live broadcast.
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Hongyue held her breath, watching the night exploration turn into parkour in seconds.
Just when Hongyue was watching with great interest, the screen in her hand suddenly turned black followed by a white line, and the whole world became quiet.
"…" Hongyue, "The battery is out."
I’m enjoying watching it!
She looked up with some reluctance, only to find that she had unknowingly followed Baili Xin into the woods.
"Why are you here, Baili Xin?"
Baili Xin pointed ahead and said, "I just saw something shiny in front of me. Look over there. Is it a suitcase?"
Hongyue followed Baili Xin's gaze and looked carefully, and sure enough, she saw something in the distance that was reflecting the sun's light and flashing bright white light.
"It looks like a metal handle that reflects light." She closed the camera and held it in her hand. "Let's go and take a look."
It is not difficult to walk in the grove. There are only trees in the grove, but it is surprisingly quiet.
There were no small animals running around, and no birds singing in the trees.
It was so quiet that it was abnormal, but this abnormality seemed normal in the supernatural copy.
Hongyue didn't think much about it, and moved flexibly in the jungle, and soon arrived near the flashing spot at the same time as Baili Xin.
As she got closer, she saw the thing clearly. "It's really luggage. How could it be..."
Her eyes swept around and her voice suddenly stopped.
Behind this suitcase was a densely packed graveyard.
Many suitcases are placed crookedly next to the tombstones. From here, this place looks like a mountain of tombstones.
Hongyue: “…”
Baili Xin: "..."
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Studio.
Fuck, what is this? I'm shocked, my friends.
No wonder Lord Crow said there is a lot of death around here. I believe it, I really believe it.
… Hiss, I have a bold guess, those servants and tour guides in the resort, are they all goigoi? Is this a tomb where they bring people in to kill and inhale their energy? Aren't there many such plots in the strange stories
Damn, forget about the strange stories, the appearance of this bunch of tombstones is so vivid that it makes my scalp numb.
Humph, little fairies, I knew you were using me, the Lord of Danmu, to block goigoi again.
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Hongyue changed her casual expression. She stood in front of the tombstone solemnly, staring at the suitcase in front of her. "This is Elizabeth's suitcase."
After reading it, she pointed to the suitcases in the middle of the tombstone and said, "That one belongs to Mr. Nick, the eldest daughter, the second daughter, and the philanthropist husband..."
She carefully identified them one by one: "Besides these, there are many other suitcases we haven't seen before."
After Hong Yue finished speaking, the corners of her mouth suddenly twitched, revealing a very impactful and ferocious smile, "This is really a good place, Baili Xin, what do you think?"
Baili Xin: "..."
This girl has a bit of villain charm in her.