"Who? Who?!"
The laughter really made President Hu's scalp tingle, he suddenly stood up from the chair and looked around.
But he never found the owner of Laughter in this old hotel. President Hu grabbed Jiang Linwen in a panic and asked, "You heard that too, right? Who is laughing?"
Jiang Linwen was also flustered, but as a senior, he could maintain his composure on the surface, and searched for the source of the voice with the rest of the reincarnations.
Except for some tables, chairs and benches, the lobby of the hotel can be called "desolate". The overhanging beam on the roof is very high, which makes the hall look a bit empty. The surrounding windows are half-open and half-closed, and the breeze blows into the room with a strange laughter. inside.
When everyone was quite panicked, Lin Ruo, who was still holding the table, stood up, and a look of "it turned out to be true" appeared on her face.
Jiang Linwen, who had been watching her, hurriedly asked, "Miss, have you been here before?"
Lin Ruo said: "No, no, but I have heard some rumors about Lingxi Mountain."
This is the clue mentioned in the opening CG.
Jiang Linwen's eyes lit up and he asked, "May I ask what type of rumors it is? Maybe it will help us in our current situation."
Lin Ruo looked at President Hu, and was stunned by President Hu: "Look at what I do, just say what you want."
"It's like this. Recently, there are often news that people who come to Lingxi Mountain will disappear mysteriously, or they don't know if they are alive or dead, but there are still many companies coming here to play." Lin Ruo didn't want to come here at first. I followed it myself, and I said it all at once, "Then I saw a person replying under the news, saying that he had heard about Lingxi Mountain before. This mountain is haunted, and I hear inexplicable laughter at night. , that is the sound made by the little ghost on the mountain when it meets the prey, if you continue to stay on the mountain, you will encounter even more strange things, and... there is a rumor in Lingxi Mountain."
Zheng Yi asked, "What rumors?"
Lin Ruo: "There used to be a village in the depths of Lingxi Mountain. It was called Lingxi Village, but it has disappeared now. The reason is that it is haunted, and all the villagers are dead."
Jiang Linwen: "How did you die?"
Lin Ruo: "The person in the comment didn't go on, and I don't know the ending. I just think this rumor is terrible, because it means that there is a desolate dead village on the mountain."
Peng Yue on the side added: "Actually, in my opinion, those comments on the Internet have everything to say, and there are many hilarious ones. There is no need to believe that ghosts and gods do not exist."
"Then how do you explain now?" Lin Ruo asked, pointing to the corpse underneath.
Peng Yuewan's throat was caught by a wrist: "Maybe there is a murderer..."
She couldn't go on.
There are so many strangers on the opposite side, whether it's humans or ghosts, the situation is very bad for them.
Jiang Linwen showed a slightly disappointed look. He originally thought that the rumors in the story characters' mouths would be related to the hotel, but it was just a dead village, which sounded to have nothing to do with the reincarnators' main quest "identify evil ghosts".
The key task is to identify the incarnation of the evil spirit with clues.
"Hee hee hee, you will all die..." The voice whispered in everyone's ears, "Will die miserably, stay here and stay with me."
At the end, it laughed arrogantly again.
Lin Ruo asked boldly, "Who, who are you?"
"I'm... a witness to your death, hahahaha." The voice sounded like a ghost, and it echoed ethereally in the hotel lobby. "It's funny to watch you struggle and howl."
Jiang Linwen frowned deeply, but at this time, the owner of the voice did not attack the reincarnators. He wavered, and finally decided not to act rashly.
However, with the increase in the volume of laughter, everyone couldn't help covering their ears.
"Clap-"
For a moment, it seemed that countless hands were pressing against the window from the outside, leaving one handprint after another on the glass.
Bright red blood was then left over the handprint, rendering it a bloody handprint.
The ghosts surrounded the hotel, and the reincarnators in the house had absolutely nowhere to escape.
In the room, the blood under the back of Luo Sui's body had solidified, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of blood.
"Giggle," the ghosts kept changing their laughter, "to catch turtles in the urn, your human idiom... is that what you say?"
The windows of the hall were opened and closed by it from the outside world, and closed again, constantly switching, stirring the nerves of everyone.
"What's going on here? It's really haunted..." Mr. Hu's legs softened and he fell to the ground. He was about to lose control of his bladder, and rushed to Jiang Linwen, who was beside him, "Please, help, help. Me! If I have money, I will give you 100,000 after I go out."
Jiang Linwen stared at the windows all around, ignoring President Hu.
Lin Ruo and Peng Yue were also pale, their teeth trembling uncontrollably, and they wanted to step back, but were tripped over by the body.
The little girl who had spoken before covered her ears and buried her face in the arms of the man beside her.
Her brother stared ahead and hugged his sister tighter.
Zheng Yi turned his head and called Xiao Li subconsciously, "Hull."
Xiao Li directly stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, then closed his eyes. When his vision is invisible, his hearing will become sharp. He tried to locate the source of the sound, and after listening for more than ten seconds, he lifted his foot and walked to the right back. go.
"Oh, oh, it's interesting, there is a small human who seems to have discovered my existence—" the kid who laughed giggled, "What can you do if you find it? Why don't I cut you into pieces on the spot, you No more fear."
Before Xiao Li could reach the window, another pair of hands pushed it away from the hotel.
Losing the blocking of glass, the scenery outside the window becomes extraordinarily clear.
The laughter spread more clearly into the ears of everyone in the room, and Xiao Li looked at the ghost of laughter face to face.
It was dark outside, and the flowers, plants and trees that looked beautiful in the daytime looked like ghosts now. The dried and fallen leaves were swept up by the wind and swirled in a circle in the air.
Standing outside the window was a white shadow. It, or half of her body, was transparent. The entire face had no facial features, but only a mouth. From that mouth, sharp teeth grew wildly outwards.
"Giggle" laughter lingered in his ears.
Xiao Li propped his elbows against the window, and because of his action, the red and black clothes on the cuffs slipped down, revealing a skeletonized wrist.
He said, "… stop laughing."
Noisy and unpleasant enough, like a rooster crowing.
The laughter grew louder, and she grinned at Xiao Li: "Hee hee—"
Xiao Li spread out the small yellow book and wrote a name on it with a pen.
Then the female ghost opposite suddenly stopped.
—Because behind her, farther away, there was a faint cry.
"Woo, woo, woo."
The laughter froze for a moment, and the laughter was interrupted.
The cry was getting closer and closer to her like life, and then a force grabbed her hair from behind, her whole face contorted.
But she still had to laugh.
"Hee hee - woo."
... laughing and crying.
The crying woman grabbed Laughter Ghost's hair from behind and wrapped the long strand of hair around her hands, forcing the other party to bend back and try to cut off the other party's hair with sharp nails.
Her own hair hadn't recovered yet, it was still ugly long and short hair, and a bald spot could be faintly seen during the movement.
Xiao Li felt a little guilty inexplicably.
The crying woman tortured Laughter Ghost's hair with her nails for a while, then she raised her head and reached out to Xiao Li.
… and also know to use sharp weapons.
Xiao Li couldn't bear to look directly, covered his eyes, put away the little yellow book that summoned the other party, slipped the scalpel out of the sleeve tube and handed it to the other party.
The Laughter Ghost squeezed out a roar that was close to crying, but couldn't break free from the crying woman's hand.
This time, the crying woman was even more excited. In the cry of the laughing ghost "woo woo", she was excitedly cutting each other's hair with a scalpel.
Just looking at the action, it was even wilder than Xiao Li at the time, full of pain and anger that had nowhere to vent.
In just a short while, she had almost shaved off most of Laughter Ghost's hair, revealing a bit of her bare skull.
Xiao Li: "..."
In order to prevent one of the weird stories of the crying woman from bothering him, he would not disturb the other party's good wishes to change careers as a hairdresser.
He stood up straight, closed the window door, and turned back: "It's alright, go back to sleep."
Xiao Li went to the stairs as usual, and when he passed the little girl, he reached out and touched her head.
Just as Xiao Li spoke, there was a faint cry from outside the closed window: "... wow!"
... The eldest sister in the back, please don't cut it anymore! She can't laugh anymore!
Not only did I not want to laugh, I even wanted to cry!
I heard everyone crying and laughing outside: ? ?
- What's the situation, they saw that the ghost outside seemed to be... being forcibly cut? But why does the other party cry
The little girl's brother looked at him in horror: "You..."
Xiao Li didn't care about other people's plans. He turned around and picked up the purple umbrella on the table, and walked upstairs to the hotel.
Jiang Linwen stared closely at Xiao Li's back. He wanted to go to the window to have a real look, but he didn't dare to look at the ghosts seriously, for fear that this was a trap.
But... The only one who can make the ghost stop laughing, or even turn into crying, should be the ghost in the quest prompt, right
But the evil spirit with such an arrogant and obvious behavior is really not a trap
Jiang Linwen, who didn't read the forum very much, fell into deep thought.
In the panic, only Ye Zeqing calmed down because of the scene outside the window - there was a crying woman, and that evil ghost was definitely not Xiao Li.