Geng Qinghe still remembered the powerful pulling force, he swallowed involuntarily, and then swallowed again, "...do you really want to move?"
"Otherwise," Lin You had already started to roll up her sleeves, "It's so boring to stay under the bed all the time, please come out and bask in the sun together."
Hearing this, Geng Qinghe looked out the window.
black.
What a ghost! Are you basking in the sun in the eastern hemisphere at this time! !
"You said what if you see a rotten corpse when you move it?" He pressed the mattress and persuaded earnestly, "If this bed is a seal, as soon as you move it, there will be a stiff 'wow-'" come out
Lin You: "..."
My little brother has a lot of imagination.
I also know Mao Zong.
"Did you just think so before, and then you didn't even dare to enter the door?" she asked.
Geng Qinghe: "... who said that, I was retreating strategically!"
Just by looking at the wandering eyes, it was said.
"Thinking too much," Lin You slowly rolled up the other cuff of the shirt, "I saw the finger, it's fine and not rotten. I've never seen anyone use the bed I slept in as a seal, besides—"
How can a really powerful ghost give up after being kicked.
"Come, come, move with me."
Lin You had a strong intuition that there might be something else under the bed besides the ghostly hand that pulled her just now—if you want to hide a little secret in the bedroom, besides the pillow, bookcase, bedside table, the safest and most concealed place is under the bed
Geng Qinghe, who was rendered speechless by her words, walked to the side of the bed, and rubbed a corner of it slowly.
The double bed is made of solid wood, and the weight is really not light. Lin You and Geng Qinghe moved to one side alone, and finally moved the whole bed a little away with most of their strength. However, the moment the light from the chandelier swept under the dark bed, a white afterimage suddenly jumped out!
Geng Qinghe was startled, and he let go hastily reflexively.
He just opened his mouth to say something, only to see that the reaction of the person next to him was faster than his.
Lin You, who let go at the same time as him, caught up with him in one step, and picked up the trash can near the table leg—steady, precise, ruthless, and directly caught the afterimage!
Unidentified object in the trash can: …
Geng Qinghe: "..."
The awe he looked at each other deepened.
Creepy back to creepy, Geng Qinghe must have looked. Seeing that the thing was still struggling after entering the trash can, he bit the bullet and took a step closer.
Only now can you see what's inside through the translucent wall of the trash can.
A pale palm was bouncing up and down, and it slammed into the wall of the bucket desperately, with such force that the trash can that was pressed by two people was a little unstable.
Geng Qinghe was still a little fuzzy in his heart, but he had already boarded this thief boat, so he didn't dare to let go at this moment.
After four or five minutes, the barrel suddenly became quiet.
"..."
Lin You and Geng Qinghe looked at each other and said, "Get out of the way."
Hearing this, the latter immediately obediently let go and stood aside. Although he always felt that his identity was a bit misplaced, he couldn't bear the suspicion that the other party was a real boss. He thought he could only call 6.
Lin You slowly opened the trash can, reached in with her fingertips, and found a card.
She couldn't help being taken aback.
That's it... Illustrated Book Hi Plus One
The job description at the beginning was "to establish a connection with certain creatures in a specific way". She thought about it and thought that those three cards might be obtained by helping Xue Yao resolve her grievances, but it seems that it is feasible to make the other party subdue and compromise.
Are you convinced
Unconvinced.
It's like discovering a new world.
Lin You was about to turn over the card when she suddenly remembered that there was another person present.
When she turned her head, Geng Qinghe immediately looked away humming a little tune as if nothing had happened, "I didn't see anything, and I didn't ask you if you said you were a student at the beginning—don't turn me into Ka."
The desire to survive was almost overflowing.
Lin You: "..."
What is this man thinking.
"Let's change the concept, I'm still a student in reality." She said leisurely, "The real profession is a summoner."
Geng Qinghe's mind is not bad, and he has been immersed in many games, so he understood immediately when he heard this, "It means that if it is like just now, it can be summoned again, right?"
Should be about the same
Lin You, who was also half-knowledgeable, responded vaguely.
In the eyes of Geng Qinghe, this became unfathomable, and he immediately stood in awe——
"This is a secret." In his eyes, the other party's gesture of raising his index finger to make a silence has its own light. "Don't tell them for now."
Geng Qinghe: "Okay, okay!"
Unconsciously, Lin You, who had unintentionally acquired a fanboy, raised her hand slightly, and the card disappeared in the air—she had already found a touch of the profession of a summoner.
But now is not the time to focus on this.
Her gaze landed on the place where the ghost's hand jumped out just now, perhaps because the action was too hasty, it brought out a corner of the things that were originally hidden under the bed.
It was a thick-looking notebook.
Lin You turned the page, and Geng Qinghe came over.
He asked tactfully, "Is this a newspaper clipping?"
"Yeah." Lin You turned a few pages back, looking thick because there were newspaper clippings pasted on each page, "It's all missing cases."
Why is there a newspaper clipping book of disappearance cases under the hotel owner's bed
When she saw the name of the next newspaper clipping, she couldn't help but pause.
"I've seen this name before," Lin You said, "it's on the hotel check-in."
She thought of something, and quickly turned back two pages.
"And this—Louis J. Aitken. They both disappeared only a day after they checked in."
Geng Qinghe: "It disappeared after staying in this hotel, that is to say..."
He looked numbly at the newspaper clipping in Lin You's hand.
"Some killers like to collect things from victims as medals." Lin You closed the notebook. "It seems that this boss likes to cut out all the newspaper reports after the incident as a souvenir."
"That is."
She took up Geng Qinghe's words.
"Even if the hotel is still operating normally, none of the guests can leave here alive."
The windows were closed and the door of the room was closed, but a trace of coolness ran up Geng Qinghe's back for no reason.
"I, I, I, let's get out!" Geng Qinghe jumped up as if he was being pricked by needles, as if he really felt that countless murdered souls were staring at him.
Even if you beat him to death, you don't want to stay in this murderous house any longer! !
"Don't worry." Lin You calmly said, "Maybe there are other clues."
Geng Qinghe's heart collapsed, should he still investigate how the boss killed those residents? !
"Damn it!" A yell came from a distance and saved him, but the content of the next sentence made people feel like falling into an ice cave, "Who locked the door?!"
The two looked at each other and stood up at the same time.
It was Chen Jun who was yelling. He and Liang Yong returned to the hall after investigating the right side of the first floor without finding any clues. In the end, I wanted to try to touch the door, but found that it could no longer be screwed.
"We never came down." The other three groups were all attracted back by the shout, Qi Lanlan was not happy to be suspected, "Is your group the first to arrive at the hall?"
Lin You was not interested in participating in the dispute, so she went over and twisted the doorknob.
The door seemed to be fixed with the space, not moving at all.
It doesn't look like someone locked it.
"Maybe it's a ghost." She said casually.
Everyone: "..."
This sentence can be described as amazing and endless.
Although everyone knows in their hearts that this hotel is haunted, but you clearly said that there are ghosts coming over when you split up, it is very scary!
Compared to this, it is better to suspect that someone locked the door as a prank!
"...Okay, okay, let's ignore the matter of the gate for now." Liang Yong came out to preside over the situation, "Our group didn't find any clues, did the others find anything?"
"I say that for a reason."
Lin You gave Geng Qinghe a look, and he put the clipping book on the table, "You can compare the disappearance news here with the check-in at the counter."
"To put it simply," Geng Qinghe said, "...the hotel owner and his wife are murderers, they use this place as a place of crime...then it may be that the resentment of the victims gathered to make the hotel haunted."
Everyone: "..."
Chen Jun went to the counter with a sullen face to get the check-in register.
"Then, I also said that." After hearing that, Qi Lanlan couldn't sit still, she said palely, "We found this in the stairwell on the second floor."
What she held in her hand was a piece of rope, the length of the rope was still convenient, but there was a short section of it that was weirdly black in front.
"Although I don't know what it is for, I brought it here because it feels a little strange."
Lin You looked at her silently.
Sometimes ignorance is a blessing.
"Do you know?" However, she could only choose to puncture it cruelly. Lin You gestured on the neck, "When a person is strangled, they will subconsciously struggle to grab the rope."
Qi Lanlan already had a bad feeling, "..."
"At this time, nail scratches don't feel much pain, so if a person is strangled to death, there will be blood marks on the neck."
After understanding her hint, Qi Lanlan screamed and threw the rope to the ground.
This isn't just a rope, it's a murder weapon!
It is basically the blood that the deceased struggled and scratched before being strangled by the hotel owner, and it condensed into black blood after a long time.
After holding the murder weapon without knowing it for so long, Qi Lanlan almost cried in fright. The girl who was holding her boyfriend's arm hesitated for a while, and sat down to comfort her softly.
Chen Jun also brought the register at this time, everyone opened the scrapbook and compared the names one by one.
... It's really not a leak.
Now that the identity of the hotel owner and his wife as murderers is confirmed, Lin You's guess is also very likely to be true, and everyone trapped in the secret room looks very unhappy.
"Stay overnight in the hall."
Liang Yongdao: "It should be no longer haunted until six o'clock in the morning, but the problem is how we can contact the outside world to take us out."
Although everyone has a mobile phone, I tried it in the car, but there is no signal in this mountainous area.
"There is probably a device that can be used in the hotel," he said. "We should follow the previous grouping and go to the two rooms to see if there is anything that can be used."
The next step is decided in this way.
There were only two people left on the first floor, and Geng Qinghe felt very guilty, but thinking about the person who acted together in the same group, he felt quite safe, and even rummaged through the room he was allocated with a little more confidence.
But when he heard the sudden knock on the door, he still almost dropped the kettle by mistake.
"Who, who?"
"Me." Lin You's voice sounded outside the door, and she opened the door directly, "Why are you closing the door?"
Geng Qinghe muttered: "The boss's house is next door, how dare I not close it."
Fine.
Lin You came in and closed the door thoughtfully.
"What is that?" Geng Qinghe saw what she was carrying in her hand, "a mop?"
"Huh? Oh, I forgot to put it back."
Lin You casually leaned the sponge mop against the wall, "Qi Lanlan wanted to wash her hands, so I let her use my room, but the sink leaked, so I found a mop from the stairwell to deal with it, and it turned out to be very absorbent."
"I've searched over there, but I didn't see any clues, what about you?"
"Still looking."
Geng Qinghe couldn't help but despise his own efficiency, "There are still two cabinets short."
He was about to reach out to pull the cabinet door when he stopped suddenly.
"... Is there a sound?" He was not sure, "Or did I hear it wrong..."
After the door was locked, they tried again to see if the window could be turned out. Not to mention opening a window, even the window glass can't be broken, and I don't know what kind of material it is—or the addition of resentment.
But the sound of the rainstorm outside the window can still penetrate, so the sound of the water...
"It's not that you heard wrong."
Lin You said calmly, "I heard it too, from the corridor."
Before he finished speaking, Geng Qinghe jumped up and rushed towards the door.
He quickly locked the door, leaned against the door and listened for a while, more and more sure that he heard correctly, turned his head in fear and asked in a breathy voice: "Aren't they strangled to death?"
"Not everyone is." Lin You thought for a while, "Did you see it before you came in, there is a lake next to the hotel."
If anyone drowned or dumped in a lake chooses to come back on this rainy night—
Geng Qinghe didn't dare to think about it, the sound of water from the corridor was still clearly audible.
It sounded like someone was wading through at least waist-deep water, getting closer.
Getting closer.
Then, he stopped in front of their door.
Geng Qinghe: ...
Ahhhhh! !
He held his breath, but the guy outside the door didn't intend to leave at all. Geng Qinghe watched helplessly as the doorknob was twisted.
Once, twice, the doorknob turned faster and faster, and the guy seemed to be getting more and more impatient. Geng Qinghe stared at the frantically turning doorknob without blinking, for fear that it would be scrapped if he couldn't think about it.
Suddenly, the rotation stopped.
This is... give up
Before Geng Qinghe had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he was dumbfounded by the water seeping from the gap between the doors.
This is not giving up, this is planning to break through directly? ! !
The water seeped more and more, and a few long hairs of women were mixed in. Until it merged into a muddy pool, when the water ghost was about to poke its head upward—
A horizontal mop interrupted all this.
Water ghost: ...
Geng Qinghe: "...?"
The sponge was full of water, and all the muddy water was wiped away. Lin You pushed open the bathroom door neatly, and pulled the lever of the squeezer to the bathtub.
With a "crash", the water in the sponge flowed directly into the drain hole of the bathtub.
Not a single drop was leaked.