Seeing that Gu Xizhou was ignoring him, Si Yu was not angry, just leaned against Gu Xizhou quietly, frowning slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and his eyebrows were furrowed.
Gu Xizhou, who was lying on the bed, did not continue to ask him about Si Yu, and he was relieved. He was actually worried that Si Yu was chasing him closely. He didn't want to admit that he mistakenly thought the female ghost was Si Yu, and he couldn't say it.
Gu Xizhou closed his eyes and slept for a while, the light that shone on his eyes did not appear overnight.
Gu Xizhou slept until the second half of the night, feeling a little uncomfortable to breathe, feeling uncomfortably hot, as if he was deep in a furnace.
In the end, Gu Xizhou was directly woken up by the heat. After he woke up, he discovered the reason.
Si Yu was too close to him, and his back was against Si Yu's chest.
A hand was placed on his waist, and there was an even sound of breathing, very close to him, and the long breath blew between his neck, Gu Xizhou thought of the female ghost from before, he moved his body subconsciously, and then he lightly Turning over lightly, he made sure that Si Yu was hugging him behind him, and then he let out a sigh of relief.
In the darkness, Gu Xizhou looked at Si Yu's face calmly.
The man beside him was lying on the bed, naturally and stretched out. His handsome facial features were more clearly defined in the dark. The corners of his mouth were slightly drawn. Soul lost six souls.
The room was very quiet, and there was no sound at all. Gu Xizhou stared at Si Yu for a while, then closed his eyes and turned his back to Si Yu with the smallest movement, not wanting to wake him up.
After Gu Xizhou turned over, the person behind him slowly opened his eyes, a faint light flashed in those deep eyebrows, the eyelashes like crow feathers trembled slightly, and the thin lips were pursed into a line.
Si Yu put his arms around Gu Xizhou, gently hugged the person, and slowly changed his movements.
This night, after the incident with the female ghost, no sound was heard all night.
The next day, when Gu Xizhou woke up, he found himself leaning on Si Yu's arm, and Si Yu closed his eyes slightly like last night.
Gu Xizhou's movement of getting up woke Si Yu, Si Yu saw that he was awake, gave him a slight look, then smiled at him, and slowly looked away.
After the two washed up, Gu Xizhou was planning to ask Si Yu to go to the restaurant for dinner, and glanced casually at the hanging painting in the room. He always felt that this hanging painting was a bit strange.
Seeing that he was staring at the hanging painting, Si Yu also looked over and pointed out: "One less snowman."
Gu Xizhou was stunned for a moment, and finally figured out why he thought the painting was weird: "Yes, there were nine snowmen in it yesterday, and there are only eight today."
He secretly thought that someone had an accident last night.
At this moment, Gu Xizhou heard a shrill scream from outside the door.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu looked at each other and rushed out immediately. Fang Zhi and Fu Yiran were also heard screaming. A few people rushed over, and only then did they know that it was one of the rooms where the hanging paintings were taken down. Son.
Companion Shen Bo sat down in the aisle, trembling all over, Gu Xizhou rushed over to ask about the situation, Shen Bo pointed to his room with his finger, "Blood, a lot of blood... on the bed... a lot of blood..."
When Gu Xizhou heard his words, he pushed open the door of the room where Shen Bo lived and walked in. There were no corpses in the room, but one of the beds was covered with blood, and the bed was soaked with blood.
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Drops of blood dripped onto the ground along the sheets, spattering.
The white sheets and quilt cover were dyed red with blood, and the pungent smell of blood overflowed.
No body was seen, only blood.
Gu Xizhou frowned, obviously the male companion in the same room as Shen Bo was dead.
The two girls hid outside... Fu Yiran also hid outside, his eyes already containing dense water vapor.
"What happened last night?" Li Yan asked, pulling Shen Bo up.
"I don't know, I don't know anything." Shen Bo's face was ashen, he shook his head and said.
"Shen Bo, carefully recall whether there was anything unusual last night?"
"Last night we both took off the hanging paintings and went to sleep, nothing special. I slept very soundly last night. When I slept until dawn, I knew a few minutes earlier than you guys..." Shen Bo recalled. After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "I really don't know if he heard a noise and ran out and died at night."
Shen Bo is also a person who has experienced the world of missions six times. He knows that going out alone at night is easy to die, but it is reasonable to say that except for the beautiful girl Fu Yiran, who is a newcomer, everyone else has experienced several worlds. His companions should not do this. That's right, Shen Bo couldn't help frowning when he said this.
"Is it related to the hanging painting?" Gu Xizhou frowned and said, "I wonder if you have noticed that there is a snowman missing in the hanging painting. I just took a look at the hanging painting before I came out."
After hearing this, several people immediately returned to their room to check the situation. After a while, several people came out and hurried out.
Fang Zhi said: "Gu Ge, you are right, there is a snowman missing from the painting in the room."
Li Yan also nodded and said, "There is one less hanging picture in my room."
"The hanging, the hanging painting is gone!"
Shen Bo hurried out and shouted.
"Gone?"
"Yes, it's gone. I took it off yesterday and didn't throw it away. I just buckled it up and put it on the table, but I just went in and found that the hanging picture was not on the table. The two of us searched the room and found nothing..."
"What should we do now?"
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou frowned and asked the other two girls, "Why didn't you look for the hanging paintings?"
Tang Jiajia nodded with a bad face, and replied, "I lost it. After we took it off, we threw the hanging painting outside the window because we were worried about the situation."
In desperation, Gu Xizhou and others had to accompany the two girls out to find the discarded paintings.
Gu Xizhou was digging the snow with a shovel when he suddenly heard a scream in the distance.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu rushed over, only to find out that Tang Xiaoshi was pushed into the snow pit.
The person who pushed her was another girl, Tang Jiajia, who had been with her all the time.
But Tang Jiajia didn't admit it. She explained, "I really didn't push her. I've been looking for paintings in the snow. How could I push her?"
"It's just you and me, who are you? You're not happy because I lost the painting! But don't forget, you and I threw the painting after discussing it with me yesterday! You can't blame me, right? "
"I really didn't push you, why did I push you?" Tang Jiajia said aggrieved, "Yesterday, the two of us discussed the painting before throwing it away. I don't blame you. After all, I made my own decision."
Tang Xiaoshi stared suspiciously at Tang Jiajia, as if she believed Tang Jiajia's words a little bit, she frowned and said, "Then who pushed me just now?"
Li Yan said in a deep voice, "Did you trip over yourself?"
Tang Xiaoshi shook his head firmly, bit his lower lip with his teeth, and said, "I'm sure someone pushed me from behind. I can tell if someone tripped or someone pushed me."
"Look for the painting first." Li Yan interrupted and asked, "Are you sure you left it near here?"
The cold wind whistled and his face hurt from scratching. While Gu Xizhou rummaged through the snow with a shovel, he kept an eye on Fu Yiran who was following Fang Zhi.
It's just that Fu Yiran moves slowly. If other people are really looking for something, then Fu Yiran is playing with snow.
"Xiaoran, what are you, what are you doing making a snowman?!" Tang Jiajia noticed that there was a snowman about the size of a palm in front of Fu Yiran. The snowman actually looked cute, but after hearing about the legend of the snowman and a companion's this morning After disappearing, she now has a shadow in her heart for the snowman. When she saw the little snowman in Fu Yiran's hand, her face turned pale.
Instead, Fu Yiran's brows and eyes were slightly curved, with a naive smile in his eyes, and the corners of his lips were slightly pulled, and he said, "Don't you think it's cute? This snowman is here for you."
"Go away!" Tang Jiajia opened Fu Yiran's hand, and the snowman on Fu Yiran's palm scattered instantly. Tang Jiajia scolded, "What's cute? Stay away from me!"
Fu Yiran stood up and cried a little aggrieved. When he cried like this, Shen Bo and Li Yan obviously felt a little bit distressed for him, especially Li Yan, a pervert who still didn't give up, he frowned and said, "Xiao Ran was originally here to help. You two girls are looking for hanging paintings, aren't you doing this well?"
"Tang Jiajia, okay, no matter what, please apologize to Xiaoran, you can see how she is crying."
Tang Jiajia looked incredulous, "Why should I apologize, she made a snowman first to scare me!"
"Sister Jiajia, I didn't want to scare you. I'm sorry, I live in the south and I have never seen such heavy snow, so I made snow. I'm sorry... don't be angry." Fu Yiran cried and said, "I will continue to help Look for paintings."
"You..." Tang Jiajia looked at the two male companions defending the white lotus flower, her face turned dark, why is she so unlucky today, when she thought about how she even helped Fu Yiran to speak to Gu Ran yesterday, she hated her teeth so much .
She subconsciously turned her head to look at Gu Ran, who was not dealing with Fu Yiran, hoping that Gu Ran could say a few words.
Gu Xizhou noticed Tang Jiajia's gaze, and abruptly turned his gaze away. It wasn't that he didn't want to help Tang Jiajia, but now Li Yan and Shen Bo were obviously fascinated by Fu Yiran's pitiful appearance. Neither of them could listen, so it was better not to speak.
"Oh, Xiao Ran is too gentle. It's not me who lost the painting anyway, so I don't need to help find it." Li Yan seemed to want to brush up on Fu Yiran's favor, and said again.
Shen Bo didn't continue to say, after all, there were no paintings in his room. The paintings in his room were obviously not lost, but they were also gone.
Seeing this, Tang Xiaoshi on the side hurriedly said to Tang Jiajia: "Jiajia, just apologize, it's not a big deal anyway."
"I'm right, why should I apologize, you all know about the legend of the snowman! She suddenly built a snowman, I was frightened, I opened her hand, what's wrong?" Tang Jiajia cried directly aggrieved.
"Don't say a few words. Sister Jiajia doesn't mean that. I know. Sister Jiajia helped me yesterday. It's my fault." Fu Yiran gritted his teeth, his lips were slightly red, and his eyes were red like a little rabbit. Same.
The same cry, obviously Fu Yiran's lethality is much more lethal than Tang Jiajia's.
"If you want to apologize, you just..."
Li Yan seemed to want to say something, but was interrupted by Fang Zhi: "Brother Li, Xiao Ran said it's not to blame Tang Jiajia, why are you still aggressive? In the mission world, the most important thing is to help each other in the same boat, and I don't understand the truth. ?"
Because of Fang Zhi's words, Li Yan didn't continue talking, and glared at Fang Zhi, obviously because Fang Zhi was talking too much, Tang Jiajia glanced at Fang Zhi gratefully, at this moment, Tang Xiaoshi pointed in one direction and said, "Behind that tree ... as if there was something."
Following the direction of Tang Xiaoshi's fingers, Gu Xizhou looked over and saw a vague outline, but the heavy snow with goose feathers blocked most of the sight. Several people hurriedly walked through the knee-high snow, and behind the tree turned out to be a snowman.
After seeing the snowman, Gu Xizhou frowned slightly. The snowman's face was not really facing the body, but turned sideways. Gu Xizhou took a step forward and followed the snowman's line of sight. painting location.
This snowman has been hiding here to watch them
"Look at the scarf on the snowman's neck, it belongs to him!" Shen Bo was shocked, because the scarf on the snowman was exactly the same as the one on the missing companion!
Si Yu nodded slightly: "It belongs to Liang Ke. I remember that he wore this black and white plaid scarf around his neck."
Liang Ke was the missing companion.
"It, is it Liang Ke?" Tang Jiajia was startled and asked in a trembling voice.
Li Yan pondered for a moment, then nodded: "It should be him."
"He's turned into a snowman!"
"That legend... the legend is true."
The faces of several people are not very good. The missing companion has really turned into a snowman. The only thing that can be confirmed now is that it is related to the hanging paintings.
"Let's go find the hanging paintings, and enter the hotel when we find them. I'm afraid." Tang Jiajia couldn't care less about being angry, and said fearfully.
"Let's go and find the hanging paintings."
The crowd continued to help the two Tang Jiajia and Tang Xiaoshi find the hanging paintings, but the snow was getting bigger and bigger.
Finally, in desperation, Li Yan patted it and said, "Forget it, I probably can't find it. There are still paintings in three rooms. You can change rooms to sleep at night. We must find clues, and we can't waste our time here."
Just before everyone left, Gu Xizhou glanced at Xue, who was already waist-high, and said to Li Yan and the others, "Go back first, and I'll go see if the snowman is still there."
Li Yan gave Gu Xizhou a strange look, and warned, "Be careful."
Of course, Si Yu and Gu Xizhou joined them, and the two walked to the tree again.
The snowman was not submerged by the heavy snow, it seemed to move up a section, Gu Xizhou frowned, he noticed that the snowman's face was straight, and he did not continue to look in the direction they were just now.
Gu Xizhou noticed that the hand made of the snowman's branch was obviously broken, and then carefully observed the snowman, and he simply cut the snowman open.
"There is only snow inside, no corpses." Gu Xizhou said to Si Yu in a deep voice.
Si Yu took all this into consideration, stretched out his hand to Gu Xizhou, motioned for Gu Xizhou to catch him, "Let's go, the snow is getting bigger and bigger."
Gu Xizhou nodded and said, "Well, good."
After the two left, the snowman behind him suddenly moved, crumpling the snow on the ground and filling it in the place where Gu Xizhou had just thrown it away, looking a little aggrieved.
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Si Yu and Gu Xizhou rushed to the dining room and found that the tour guide was also there. The tour guide saw the two of them and said with a surprised expression, "Where have you been? Why did you get to the dining room?"
The tour guide and six other companions were sitting at a table, and there was a steaming cauldron in front of them. Gu Xizhou glanced at it, it should be mutton stew, which is just right to eat in this weather.
"Walking around outside, I saw a snowman, very interesting, I don't know who made it." Gu Xizhou closed his eyes slightly and said to the tour guide.
"Oh, come and eat." The tour guide wiped his mouth with a paper and said, "I'm full, you guys continue."
After the tour guide left, Gu Xizhou suddenly felt a chill on his back, as if someone was looking at him, he turned his head subconsciously, the tour guide was talking to the hotel staff behind him, and did not look at him.
Gu Xizhou said it on purpose just now, wanting to test this normal-looking NPC, but the tour guide's expression didn't change.
Everyone sat around the table, waving their chopsticks, and devoured it, probably because they were looking for pictures to hang in the snow without breakfast this morning. Everyone was hungry and felt that the meal was very good. eat.
"It's so delicious." At the end of the meal, Li Yan touched his mouth and sighed.
After the meal, everyone in groups of two inquired about the situation in the hotel.
"Xiao Ran, let's make a group!" Li Yan said to Fu Yiran gently.
Gu Xizhou thought that Fu Yiran would still rely on Fang Zhi this time, but he was surprised that Fu Yiran agreed to Li Yan's invitation, "Thank you Li, then I will join you, don't dislike it. I'm just stupid."
Li Yan hurriedly said: "How come? Of course I won't despise you!"
Li Yan was overjoyed, and she thought she had succeeded in gaining favorability, and finally made the goddess interested.
In the end, Fang Zhi and Shen Bo joined Tang Xiaoshi and Tang Jiajia respectively, while Gu Xizhou joined Si Yu.
After the other two groups left, Gu Xizhou asked Fang Zhi, "Have you brought the mirror?"
Fang Zhi lowered his voice to prevent Tang Jiajia from hearing: "Bring it!"
"Okay, pay attention to safety. If you find something, don't explore it by yourself. After everyone talks, go in." Gu Xizhou urged.
"I know!" Fang Zhi nodded.
Tang Xiaoshi followed Fang Zhi away, and was suddenly stopped, "Wait."
Si Yu stepped forward with her long legs, and Tang Xiaoshi, who was stopped by him, looked blank. She didn't know what the handsome guy who had never talked about told her, "What's the matter?"
"There is something in your hat." Si Yu took out the contents of Tang Xiaoshi's hat.
Gu Xizhou saw clearly that what was in Si Yu's hand was a piece of broken wood as long as a little finger. Gu Xizhou took it over and glanced at the traces of the broken wood.
Tang Xiaoshi was stunned for a moment, touched his hat strangely, and said, "I don't know when it fell in."
"Maybe it fell into it accidentally." Gu Xizhou said casually, and after Tang Xiaoshi left, he continued to say to Si Yu: "It was the tree branch on the snowman, it pushed Tang Xiaoshi, she was pushed at that time. It's not an illusion."
Apparently, Si Yu also discovered this problem, he nodded, and then the two of them were about to leave to find someone to ask for clues. Just as Gu Xizhou was about to leave, he suddenly saw a familiar face.
"Wait, let's ask the waiter. I saw him chatting with the tour guide just now." Gu Xizhou grabbed the wrist of Si Yu who was about to leave, and walked straight to the waiter.
Si Yu, who followed behind Gu Xizhou, stared at his hand, his eyes were dark and unclear, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Hello, I'm a tourist here and I want to ask you something." Gu Xizhou asked the male waiter.
The waiter smiled and said politely, "I don't know how I can help you?"
"Have you heard the snowman legend?"
The waiter showed a faint smile and said, "Of course, many tourists come to our hotel now to confirm this legend."
"You have been working here for so long, is this legend true?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"Well..." The waiter glanced around and whispered, "It's true, since the first tour group disappeared from us, people in our hotel have disappeared every year, and every time someone disappeared, near the hotel There will be snowmen."
"What about before that tour group disappeared? Did something similar happen?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"If you think about it carefully, there is one more time before the tour group disappears..."
"The previous owner of this hotel was an old man. After the old man died unexpectedly, the hotel was inherited by his only granddaughter. His granddaughter disappeared shortly after inheriting the hotel. At that time, someone said that there was a snowman near the hotel... We don't know if it was True or false...she's missing anyway."
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Then who is the owner of this hotel now?"
The old man died and the granddaughter of the old man disappeared, but now the hotel is still running and there must be a new owner.
The waiter was about to answer when the three suddenly heard a clear cough. As soon as Gu Xizhou turned around, he saw their tour guide standing behind them, looking at them with a smile, and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Nothing... I still have something to do, I'll go to work first!"
After such an interruption by the tour guide, the waiter said hurriedly, turned around and ran away.
Gu Xizhou looked at the back of the waiter strangely, and turned to look at the tour guide. After seeing the tour guide, the waiter was suspicious like a mouse seeing a cat.
"It's snowing too much, but it's been a good few days. It seems that your travel expenses this time have been paid in vain." The tour guide looked regretful, and it was not worth it for Gu Xizhou and others.
Si Yu said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter if we can't climb a mountain. We are more interested in the snowman legend than mountain climbing."
The tour guide said disdainfully: "What legend, it's just fake, how could the snowman eat people, and that thing can't move."
After a few more chats, Gu Xizhou could hear their tour guide's contempt for the snowman legend from his words. Obviously, he didn't believe it at all.