It was night, and the cruise ship sailed on the sea, with an endless horizon in front of it.
It was eight o'clock in the evening, and there was no one on the bow deck at this time. It has to be said that it was a rare occurrence - in the past, there were always many people who loved to stand on the deck and look at the sea.
All this is only because today is the first night of the passengers on board, and there is an even more grand ball inside the Oriental Mermaid waiting for these guests.
In the center of the ball is a huge turntable, with colorful neon overhead, and eight pillars with feathers and balloons on them.
Outside the turntable, there is a circle of tables and chairs, each with a bottle of red wine and a card folded into a swan.
When Xiao Li came over from his room, the dance party had already started, and the neon lights changed colors along with the dynamic music, which made him dizzy for a while.
The dancers wearing miniskirts each used a pillar as a prop and danced to the music on the stage.
From time to time, several balloons burst, heating up the atmosphere.
Some of the boys in the audience had their eyes straightened—including Zhu Zhu and others who followed the group of characters in the plot. He stared at the dancer's thighs and chest, whistled, and clapped his hands excitedly.
Xiao Li stood at the door and glanced around, and when he was close to the door, he just met Ye Zeqing's eyes.
Ye Zeqing sat alone at a table, he proudly raised his glass and gestured to Xiao Li from a distance.
Xiao Li hesitated for a moment and walked towards Ye Zeqing's seat, but instead of sitting with him, he chose a table next to Ye Zeqing and sat down.
Ye Zeqing glanced in his direction. In the past, wherever he went, the stars held the moon. His natural sense of ghosts made him irreplaceable in the dungeon world, so people often wanted to hug his thighs. Now Xiao Li It didn't mean that, he was a little surprised.
However, Xiao Li does not seem to be as simple as he seems.
Ye Zeqing thought that he had faintly sensed a little ghost in Xiao's house before, but that ghost was looming, sometimes disappearing, thinking that it was the breath left by the master behind the Xiao family, and was he deliberately protecting this Xiao Li? Is he a master apprentice
Xiao Li leaned back on the soft chair and watched the dancer's performance in front of him for a while. It seemed that he didn't feel very interesting. He half pressed his eyes and picked up the card on the table, and gently unfolded it.
On the card was written a sentence: This will be a special trip.
Xiao Li folded the card back and put it back, and looked at the plot character again.
At this time, the dancer in front had finished dancing and began to take photos with the passengers.
The characters in the plot also moved. Zhu Zhu was the first to pounce on the most beautiful dancer, and raised his mobile phone: "Can you take a photo with me?"
The dancer looks very sweet, she looks like a mixed race, with long waist and thin legs, taller than Zhu Zhu. She bent down, made a V, and took a photo with Zhu Zhu.
"I want me too, beautiful lady, look at me." An Ran squeezed out another man who wanted to jump up after him, and came to the dancer's side.
The dancer was obviously more enthusiastic about girls than boys. She put her arms around An Ran's shoulders, put her face against the other's face, and took a photo.
"And me—" The last remaining man rushed forward impatiently.
"Lu Tang, slow down and you won't die. You bumped into me." An Ran reached out and rubbed her shoulders, complaining.
A girl named Roshan was standing behind them. Compared with her enthusiastic friends, she seemed out of place.
Somehow, ever since she got on this cruise ship, Luo Shan had a feeling of being spied on in the dark. That feeling was very light. She paid attention to everywhere and couldn't find anyone spied on her. In the end, she could only take this feeling as what she wanted. Too much.
The group of them took pictures with the dancing girls one after another, and finally invited another guest to take a big group photo, and then they ended with contentment.
While the guests were busy taking photos or chatting with the dancers, a middle-aged man in a well-fitting suit held a deck of playing cards in his hand. After looking for each guest in turn, he came to Luo Shan and the others and greeted them. He bowed politely: "Did you respect the guests and have a good time?"
Lu Tang had just finished watching the dancer performance, and was in high spirits. When he looked up and saw a big man, he didn't disappoint, and replied with a smile: "It's good."
"I have another little episode here." The man unfolded the cards in his hand and faced them with the back of the cards. "Please draw another card."
An Ran glanced at him suspiciously. The man's polite smile was impeccable, so she casually took one from the other party's hand, picked it up and looked at it, it was a 4 of hearts.
She turned the card around and faced the man, waiting for him to explain.
The man did not respond immediately, but signaled that the others also drew cards. Lu Tang drew a diamond a, Zhu Zhu a club 9, and finally Luo Shan drew a club q.
"This is our gift, please keep it close to your body." After everyone finished drawing, the man did not explain, but left such a meaningful sentence, and left in front of them with a swirl of footsteps.
The man approached Xiao Li little by little, and first said the same words to Ye Zeqing as he did to Luo Shan.
The young man put down the wine in his hand and looked at the unfamiliar man who was suspected to be a staff member from the beginning to the end, but he did not feel any ghostly breath from the other party.
He drew a card from the middle, unfolded it, and saw the 9 of clubs.
The young man raised his eyebrows: "What does this mean?"
The man in front of him put away the remaining playing cards, smiled slightly, and walked to Xiao Li at the next table.
Ye Zeqing looked at his back, the shadow on his arm moved like a tattoo, as if he was thinking about attacking this person, and finally chose to restrain.
Xiao Li had just seen the entire passage from Ye Zeqing, and now the man came to him. He used his index and middle fingers to turn over the card in the air, kid, black joker.
"Wow," the man sighed for the first time since entering the arena, "This guest, you are so lucky."
Xiao Li picked up this card, and the neon light fell on his face, half shadow and half bright: "Can it make you say a few more reminders?"
The man shook his head: "No, but I can tell you, please cherish it like your life."
He put away the remaining playing cards and went to find the remaining single guests.
Xiao Li played the little ghost card in his hand with his fingers for a while, put it in his pocket, and immediately met Ye Zeqing's eyes when he raised his head.
Xiao Li: "... what's wrong?"
The young man stood beside him with his arms around his chest, and said in a lukewarm tone, "You are lucky."
Generally speaking, big and small ghosts are special cards, no matter what the card number 30340 is, these two cards are by no means ordinary, either excellent or very poor.
Ye Zeqing's expression was not quite right, as if he was thinking about something, before Xiao Li could reply, Ye Zeqing suddenly reached out and touched Xiao Li's sleeve, he stretched out and retracted his hand like lightning, and muttered, "I'm lucky. It hasn't been very good, give me a little luck... "
Xiao Li: "..."
A generation of European emperors has been slapped with European gas like this!
Ye Zeqing rubbed his fingertips, and there was still the touch of Xiao Li's clothes. He held the playing cards in his hand and looked at Xiao Li.
Xiao Li didn't react, he stood up from his seat: "I'll go first."
The plot characters have been sticking to the dancer's side, and it seems that there is nothing to do on the first day.
Ye Zeqing touched his nose and said something out of his throat: "In this kind of world, if you go back alone, you are usually the first to die."
What he said was beating around the bush. On the surface, he was stating the fact, but secretly, he was persuading Xiao Li not to go back alone.
Xiao Li got what he meant, smiled lightly, and patted Ye Zeqing on the shoulder before Ye Zeqing became angry: "Don't worry."
Ye Zeqing turned his head: "Tell me what to do, I won't worry about you."
The smile on Xiao Li's face grew thicker, he didn't say anything and left the ballroom.
night.
Most people were immersed in sleep, and the outside moonlight shone on the sea like a pie.
Xiao Li stood in the bathroom, turned on the faucet, put his palms together, took some water, and washed his face.
It was nearly eleven o'clock at night, and the interior of the bathroom was very quiet, only the sound of running water could be heard.
The boat drove very steadily, with no swaying at all.
Xiao Li took off the towel, wiped off the water droplets on his face, and looked in the mirror for a moment.
In the mirror, the young man's forehead was wet with water and stuck to his forehead. His lips were soaked with water, and he looked bright in color and beautiful in outline.
When he wanted to wring out the towel and hang it back on the shelf again, behind him, there was a sudden "guru", like a bubble.
Xiao Li stopped for a while, and after continuing to hang the towel, he turned his head to look in the direction of the voice.
There is a toilet, a shower curtain, and a bathtub. The whole bathroom is not big, and it is almost unobstructed under Xiao Li's eyes.
There doesn't seem to be a place to hide ghosts.
But in the next second, there was another sound of bubbles, accompanied by the sound of some kind of object coming out of water. From the sound, it sounded as if there was a ghost who was wet and drenched in water, lurking under the water, and blowing his nose on the water to make these sounds. , then it came out of the water...
Xiao Li turned around and looked at the bathtub.
In his sight, the sea water poured out of the bathtub spout.
It rises little by little, slowly filling the entire tub.
There is more and more water, and there is a smell of sea water in the air.
Suddenly, a nearly rotten arm stretched out from the fish tank that was gradually filled with seawater!
There was still some seaweed tangled in that hand, which seemed to be a dead body in the sea—
First the hand, and then half of the head gradually rose from the water.
It has thick hair and bluish skin on its forehead.
Xiao Li didn't seem to be able to watch it anymore. He looked around, picked up a water basin from the place where the towels were placed, and fished it into the bathtub, just like fishing for fish in a fish tank, picking up the head and hands.
Then he held the water basin with one hand, opened the toilet lid with the other hand, and poured the human head in the water basin into the toilet together with his hand, and then Xiao Li closed the toilet lid.
There was a loud banging sound from the toilet, and the toilet lid was constantly heaving.
Xiao Li pressed his knee against the toilet lid and pressed the flush button at the same time—
With the sound of flushing the toilet, the world fell silent.
A full body water ghost is about to appear: "... ?"