"what-"
The night at the late-night hotel was supposed to be extremely peaceful and peaceful, but it was broken by a shrill scream.
"Anyone? Here, someone died here!"
It was a woman who screamed. In fact, if there were reincarnators present, you would find that she was Lin Ruo in the opening CG.
She had just taken a shower, steam all over her body, wrapped in a bathrobe, but she was sitting in the hall on the first floor, unable to say anything.
"What's the matter? It's so late, what do you call it, we have to get up early tomorrow to climb the mountain."
Following Lin Ruo's scream, several plot characters walked out of the room on the first floor one after another. President Hu yawned, wearing his silk pajamas and muttering dissatisfied.
But in the next second, his eyes widened, his drowsiness disappeared, and a scream came out of his throat: "Ah! Come on! Call the police!"
Along with the panic of these plot characters, from the second and third floors, reincarnations who breathed a sigh of relief appeared one after another.
But there are still some people who are reluctant to come out, because who doesn't know if the evil spirit will continue after killing the first person, but most of the reincarnators chose to check the clues.
The first young man to arrive at the scene, who was closest to the stairs on the second floor, his name was Jiang Linwen. He took a deep breath when he first saw the picture in the hall, and was wrapped up in layers by the people who came later.
There was a corpse thrown in the center of the hall, with a large font as a whole. It was Luo Sui. There was still a look of astonishment on his face, as if someone he didn't expect killed him. Breathing, stiff.
The back of his head landed on the ground, and a splash of blood splattered, staining the hotel floor black.
There was only a blood hole left in Luo Sui's nose, as if there was something hidden inside, peeping at everyone.
"His body was thrown from upstairs." Jiang Linwen was the first to say, his eyes swept over everyone present one by one, remembering everyone's expressions in his heart, "Miss, you are the first found?"
Under his gaze, Lin Ruo swallowed, she resisted the urge to vomit: "Yes, yes... I can't sleep, I want to come out to get some air, go out and wait to watch the sunrise, but I just passed the hall. Just saw this."
"Is that so..." Jiang Linwen said, "Have you heard anything?"
The last sentence he asked was everyone.
But most people chose to remain silent, and only a few people answered this question:
"I only heard light footsteps, it stopped at the door of a room a quarter of an hour ago, and then it went silent."
"I didn't hear anything, I didn't dare to look, I only dared to listen to the sound, it passed my door."
Jiang Linwen asked, "What is the sound of footsteps? Tall, short, fat and thin, without any clues?"
The people who answered the question glanced at him and collectively shook their heads: "No."
Even if there were, they wouldn't say it - if the evil spirits were hiding among these people, wouldn't it be self-inflicted to say it
Only one of the girls, she was thin and looked very inconspicuous, she shrank her neck: "I heard it, the voice seems to be... There is a person walking on tiptoes."
"I practice ballet on weekdays, and that's the sound of walking."
"Xiao Tu!" The man beside the girl immediately covered her mouth and apologized in a panic, "I'm sorry, my sister said nonsense, she is young and ignorant."
In the corridor late at night, the evil spirit walking on tiptoe...
The expressions of the people present were different, but Jiang Linwen imagined the scene at that time and felt his throat dry.
Seeing this, Mr. Hu immediately took out his mobile phone: "It's not our business to catch the murderer, we just call the police, I'll call the driver, and we'll leave overnight..."
Lin Ruo lowered her head and said nothing.
Jiang Linwen didn't stop him. Seeing that Mr. Hu pressed the call button and put the phone to his ear, Mr. Hu put down the phone again: "Damn, there is no signal in this mountain!"
This is not surprising. Although the mobile phone of the plot characters can get through to the numbers in this world, once this happens, the dungeon world often chooses to close all contact methods.
In other words, no matter how President Hu wants to leave, he will not be able to connect to the outside world until the reincarnator completes the task.
"Mr. Hu, where is our driver? Why don't you just drive away?" Peng Yue suggested, receiving the support of the bald man.
But Mr. Hu shook his head and said, "I asked him to go back a long time ago, and he promised to pick us up in three days. There is no car now."
The mountain road is rugged and there is no car. Walking on two legs alone, I am afraid that it will take several days to walk, and it may not be able to walk.
"The boss, why is there no boss for such a big thing?!" Peng Yue asked in a low voice, "He should have a way to contact the outside world..."
Everyone followed around and found no sign of the hotel owner. They didn't even know where the owner lived. After dinner, he seemed to be missing.
Obviously weird.
There should be other secrets in this hotel, but Jiang Linwen doesn't think the boss is a ghost because he is too obvious.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps from the gate of the hotel, and they were gradually approaching.
It was still late at night outside the hotel, and the sky was dark.
In the past, the stars on this kind of mountain would be particularly clear, but this was not the case on Lingxi Mountain. It was as black as a piece of velvet, covering the whole world, and no one could tell who would walk in from the dark outside.
Jiang Linwen took a step back calmly, letting President Hu and others stand in front of him.
The footsteps got closer and closer, and a teenager in a trench coat entered their field of vision.
Coincidentally, most of the people present really knew him because of the conversation this man had with President Hu during dinner time.
Xiao Li pushed the door open from the outside of the hotel, and in the blink of an eye, he saw a crowd of black people staring at him. He clenched the purple umbrella that was about to fall to the ground in surprise, and blinked: "... so many people."
Zheng Yi, who was in the crowd: "... Hercule, what are you doing out so late?"
He asked the question everyone wanted to ask.
Xiao Li's eyes fell on the umbrella in his hand.
He couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and the evil ghost who had been waiting didn't move, so he turned the window and went out to the east, preparing to do side quests - but who knows how far he went before he got lost, lost In the Lingxi Mountain in the dark night, it was impossible to tell the difference between east, west and northwest. In the end, the little black cat replaced the dog's function and led him back.
But if the truth is told, it will definitely take some time to explain the side quests.
Xiao Li finally chose an excuse: "I was going to go to the east to watch the sunrise, but I didn't find a good place on the way, so I came back."
Zheng Yi immediately turned his attention to Lin Ruo again, this person also said before that he wanted to go out to watch the sunrise.
At this moment, Jiang Linwen asked in a deep voice, "What are you doing with your umbrella when you go out? It's not raining now."
Xiao Li: "I guess it should rain tomorrow, so I brought it with me just in case."
Jiang Linwen, who was opposite him, frowned.
If it's a plot character who wants to go out to watch the sunrise, it's reasonable. After all, they don't know the existence of ghosts, and the scenery of Lingxi Mountain is good, but this person named Hercule is a reincarnator, so how can he go out in the middle of the night...
Is he the devil
Jiang Linwen's eyes flickered, he chose to skip this topic and wait for more clues before making inferences.
Zheng Yi walked to Xiao Li, and he arched Xiao Li with his elbow: "Look, the first victim."
Xiao Li lowered his eyes and glanced at Luo Sui's body on the ground. He listened to Zheng Yi recounting what had just happened to him. When he heard what the little girl said, his expression moved slightly, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he glanced at the crowd—Shen Mizhi was not in it.
Ye Zeqing walked over to the corpse, squatted down, and made a mark in the void with his hands.
"What are you doing?" Hu asked.
Ye Zeqing said: "My family has some knowledge about psychics. I will try to summon his soul and ask for some clues."
Mr. Hu sneered: "What's the mess, are you filming? Isn't this funny?"
As soon as he said that, Jiang Linwen's eyes lit up and he whispered, "The Ye family...?"
Among the reincarnators in the country, the Ye family's reputation is also considered high-ranking. Everyone wants to learn the art of fighting ghosts, but only the Ye family has gone the farthest on this road because of the family's constitution.
The most famous person in the Ye family is Yan Luo, aside from Big Brother Ye.
According to the revelations in the forum, it seems that he often arranges dungeons with Moriarty and is a good friend of the other party.
Ye Zeqing smeared a bit of Luo Sui's blood on the ground, drew a miniature version of the magic circle, and said casually: "The souls of those who have passed away will return—"
A gust of invisible wind blew through the hotel lobby. The wind was strange, and the corpse was lying there. President Hu felt uneasy and sat directly on the chair next to him.
But just when the gust of wind was about to gather on Luo Sui, it seemed to be stopped by some kind of supernatural power.
"Failed." Ye Zeqing clapped his hands, "His soul was swallowed by the evil ghost, and he couldn't summon it."
"It's inevitable."
Jiang Linwen comforted.
Mr. Hu tasted a different meaning from their words: "Who are you, who are you? It doesn't look like you are here for tourism? I warn you—"
Jiang Linwen interrupted him: "We are special personnel. We came to solve it after receiving news that there was a supernatural incident here. You are just unlucky to encounter this matter. I hope you can cooperate with us to solve it, so everyone will be happy."
President Hu was stunned: "What is it?! You lied to a three-year-old child?"
Jiang Linwen frowned, and was about to let President Hu accept the truth, but suddenly heard a voice that made him freeze on the spot.
It was a faint, erratic laughter that hit everyone's ears like a thunderbolt:
"Hee hee hee hee hee hee… "
"Someone came here again... looking for death, hee hee hee."