When the mummy sticks its head out of the quilt tremblingly, what it sees is this scene——
One of the two young men was still suspicious. And another girl standing side by side with him, holding a stainless steel pipe, was gently tapping on the palm of her hand.
"Be lenient for confession," she said coldly, "Strict for resistance."
"..."
Standing aside, Geng Qinghe felt that his style of painting was not quite right.
——The good protagonist's style of painting has become a villain.
He dared to look at the shriveled corpse. The flesh on the opponent's face had already sunk away without a trace, the cheekbones were raised high, and only a few wisps of sparse hair remained on the top of the head.
Although it is still a little better than skinny, it is scary enough at first glance.
At this time, the pair of deep-set eye sockets, the eyeballs that were close to the eyelids slowly turned to look in their direction, and the fierceness inside became more intense——
"I'll recruit!" The former Eugene Melville said hoarsely after quickly estimating the strength of the two parties, "I'll recruit them all!"
Geng Qinghe: "..."
What about ambition? ! !
Lin You didn't think it was a surprise, she casually threw the stainless steel pipe newly removed from the mop to the side. Judging from the virtues of this mummy during his lifetime and his behavior of staying here for so long after his death, he might be at the bottom of the food chain in the hotel.
"Is this diary yours?" She shook the little book.
"Yes, yes," probably because of the decay of the vocal cords, the folklorist's voice was hoarse with a trace of unspeakable shrillness, "it's mine."
"I cooperate with them," he explained honestly and clearly.
"They are responsible for killing people and offering sacrifices, and I will perfect them."
"Perfect what?" Lin You asked.
"—Of course it's the ceremony. They have something they want," Melville said. "It just so happened that I didn't have the opportunity to practice my research. At that time, I thought it was a win-win situation."
"Since it's what you want," Geng Qinghe's eyes wandered, "Why did the proprietress suddenly change her attitude?"
There was a "gurgling" sound in Melville's throat.
"Because the ceremony was successful, but the stupid woman found that it was not at all what she imagined."
There was fear and joy in his eyes, "Then? Then she actually wanted to burn down the house and our achievements, but she was killed by them!"
Lin You keenly noticed the information in his words, "They?"
She felt a little weird when she read the diary, but now she suddenly discovered the source of the sense of disobedience.
When he said "they killed her" when referring to the death of the proprietress, Melville must not have included himself, that is to say, at least there was another person besides him and the proprietress couple.
"Langton and the others thought they couldn't do it for a while," Melville said, "and recruited another girl to be a maid—she actually did everything with her."
"However, what are you asking about this?"
"It's impossible to get out anyway," he said.
At the end, Melville actually laughed out loud, almost bursting out of laughter. Seeing his crazy and determined attitude, Lin You couldn't help but glance at Geng Qinghe.
At this moment, a scream came from afar.
"Ah ah ah!"
The two looked at the top of the sound at the same time. Lin You immediately realized something, and she looked at the bed again, it was empty there, as if a certain folklorist had never appeared.
She made a "cut".
"It's pretty fast."
"I knew I wouldn't watch it," Geng Qinghe was annoyed, "I should have watched him more."
"fine."
Lin You said.
"Anyway, judging by his attitude, I can't ask any more questions. Now go and see what's going on upstairs."
As for what he said that it was impossible to get out, Lin You didn't take it to heart at all. It will not be a dead end, and a solution can always be found.
Going up the stairs to the second floor, they saw that everyone was gathering on the other side of the corridor, surrounded by the girl who had been pulling her boyfriend all the time.
Lin You still remembered that her name was Wang Yan.
Her eyes were obviously red from crying, but she calmed down a little. Looking at the situation, it is not difficult to guess who made the scream.
Lin You noticed that someone was missing here.
"What happened?" she asked.
"I can't go up to the fourth floor, the door is locked." It was Liang Yong who spoke, "We asked them to search the third floor with us separately, and then—"
"We just entered an empty room..."
Wang Yan said intermittently: "I heard movement outside, and then saw that it was a crawling... crawling thing, so he pushed me away and rushed up."
As for her boyfriend who was not present, the ending was self-evident.
The only good news is that "Box" will forcibly send the player out of the instance when it determines that the player is dead. If a teammate clears the level, he can get experience rewards that match his own progress. Of course, if they were all wiped out, everyone would be empty-handed.
So everyone, including Wang Yan, knew what the most urgent task was.
"See what that thing looks like?" Lin You asked.
"We passed by when we heard the sound," Chen Jundao, "we caught a glimpse of her when we were running together to cover her, but we didn't see the details clearly, but it seemed to be wearing an apron."
apron...
Since no one mentioned the sound of water, it is probably not the proprietress. Lin You remembered what Melville said, "It may be the maid hired by this hotel before."
Like Melville, the cause of death may be Mrs. Langton's revenge. But unlike a certain mummy who has no power to restrain a chicken, this girl also became a ghost after death.
Wang Yan: "Female, maid?"
"Ah, yes," she simply took out the diary and shook it, "We found this, and it wrote something about what happened here before."
Liang Yong took the notebook, flipped through it quickly, and said doubtfully, "But it didn't say that there was no maid."
"Here," Lin You said calmly, "We met the owner of this diary, and we sat down and chatted with him in a friendly manner."
Qi Lanlan stammered: "You, Youyou are you friendly?"
"Um."
Lin You nodded, "Friendly."
The friendliness of two-on-one with a steel pipe in hand.
Everyone looked at her like a ghost, and then at Geng Qinghe who decided to keep silent. And the latter's posture of standing obediently on the side made it easy to see who was the mastermind, so his shocked eyes turned back to Lin You again.
From the last paragraph of the diary, it can be seen that Eugene Melville died at the hands of a vengeful ghost. Who knows what has become of her now, she actually...
Should it be said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers
Geng Qinghe saw the meaning in their eyes, he thought about the whole process he had witnessed, and then looked at someone who was still smiling harmlessly, thinking that this was obviously pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!
"I want to go to the third floor to have a look now," Lin You announced, "Is there anyone with me?"
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
The three of Liang Yong had seen the ghost that the maid turned into with their own eyes, and even if they thought about it, they stopped at this moment, and it was even more impossible for the other two.
"I—I'll go too!" After struggling for a long time, Geng Qinghe responded.
Although he is still Congxin, he feels that it is the right choice to follow at this moment.
"Why don't you just stay in the hall until morning."
Liang Yong persuaded, "Isn't that safer?"
"Curiosity tortures me more than being safe or not." Lin You shrugged. "The fourth floor is locked, which means that there must be the final answer to the mystery."
Besides, there was no guarantee that everything would be all right by morning. And if you want to escape, if the doors and windows cannot be broken, the fourth floor that can lead to the roof is the only choice.
Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Liang Yong had no choice but to give up. He shook his head and sighed.
Such a beautiful girl, why is she so obsessed with dying.
Sure enough, he is still a newcomer.
"Is this the empty room that Wang Yan mentioned?"
He was trembling all the way up the stairs, and when he finally stood in front of the room, Geng Qinghe was finally relieved that he didn't see any trace of the female ghost.
Lin You: "Sure."
Even the door is wide open, nine out of ten they escaped too quickly and didn't have time to close it. There was a pool of blood that had not dried up on the ground, and anyone who thought about it knew who it was.
"This room is the same as that of the innkeeper on the first floor," she said, looking around. "There is no house number and no electronic lock. It is probably the maid's room."
"Remember what the folklorist said about her?"
"Uh, he said..." Geng Qinghe recalled, "Even if it's the dirty work of killing people, he will follow suit?"
"right."
Lin You snapped her fingers.
"So the couple should trust her very much. Since the key to the fourth floor cannot be found on the first floor, the most likely place to hide it is here—even if it's just a backup key."
Geng Qinghe's eyes lit up.
"Then what are you waiting for—"
"jingle."
The voice sounded almost at the same time as him.
The room was silent.
"Dingling," the crisp sound rang twice more, one closer than the other, "Dingling."
Geng Qinghe, who still had one foot not in the door, turned his head stiffly, watching helplessly at the corner of the corridor with a woman's face protruding from below.
She smiled unnaturally, and her facial features were deformed by the excessive arc. The limbs twisted and fell on the ground as if they were broken. Even so, her crawling movements were fast.
Wearing an apron.
But on the edge of the apron, what attracts the most attention at this moment is the bunch of keys that are constantly ringing.
However, Lin You made a decisive decision without knowing how quickly the opponent lost a teammate.
"run!"
Geng Qinghe had already been convinced by her words to a certain extent, and ran away before he finished speaking.
Lin You, who hurriedly caught up with him, said in his heart that at this speed, it was no wonder that he was able to rush out the door directly in the newcomer.
She took a moment to look back, but she was still a little late when she went out, and the maid was about to catch up.
Lin You's heart sank, and she pushed Geng Qinghe hard on the back.
Ignoring the other party's stagger when she pushed her, she rushed forward several steps following the inertia. She was hugged by her calves, and she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
The moment she fell down, what Lin You thought was that it was fortunate that there was a carpet to cover it this time.
The next second, she turned her head reflexively, and the maid's long, sharp nails rubbed against her ears and stuck into the carpet.
In return, she bent her knees and pressed heavily on the man's stomach.
The maid let out a muffled grunt, and she was yelling vaguely for something, her pale face became more distorted with a smile—
Then he was thrown off balance by a horizontal punch.
Geng Qinghe's teeth were chattering after going back and forth, but the opportunity never came again, and he quickly grabbed his teammate's wrist. Lin You's reaction was fast enough, she used her strength to break away from the maid, got up and rushed towards the corner in the opposite direction when the maid came.
There was another room unlocked like the empty room.
Fortunately, there are too many hotel cleaning supplies in the stairwell, and it is not too crowded for two people to stand.
Standing in the stairwell with only a small yellow light on, the two held their breaths and waited for the sound of the carpet to pass by the door—it seemed that they didn't realize that they were hiding here.
"Hey," Lin You said with a smile when the voice disappeared completely, "You're quite brave this time."
"Okay, okay, stop teasing me."
Geng Qinghe still had a bitter look on his face, "What should I do now, how can I get the key from her?"
"yes-"
Lin You also sighed, "What should I do now—"
She stretched out her hand, hooked her index finger on the bunch of keys that had been hung on the maid's waist, and turned around in front of Geng Qinghe's eyes, causing him to look straight at him.
God knows how she got through in just ten seconds.
"Since I have the key," Lin You raised an eyebrow.
"gone."