Lin Huai glanced at Chu Tianshu, Chu Tianshu: "?"
"Actually, I kind of want to try it." Lin Huai whispered in his ear.
Chu Tianshu: "Are you serious?"
"I'm not like you." Lin Huai raised his eyebrows and said, "I can grow back even if I eat my own internal organs..."
Chu Tianshu: "... Please consider my tolerance as your boyfriend, thank you."
After speaking, he covered Lin Huai's mouth with one hand, and smiled heartily at the fat man: "No need, you can eat by yourself!"
The fat man is still reluctant. The smile on Chu Tianshu's face became darker, and the corners of his mouth widened: "You can eat it, why don't you give me this bowl in your hand? Huh? Let me taste it too... "
"...your smell. Wouldn't it be sweet?"
Fatty: ...
The grim expression on the fat man's face cracked. Soon, he left silently with the bowl in his hand.
Chu Tianshu said to Lin Huai: "Obviously, I discovered the real source of the plate of oden in his hand—the meat on his body. He was ashamed when I broke the conspiracy, so he left."
Lin Huaixu narrowed his eyes and said, "No, I just think he was perverted by your words. Even ghosts have the right and dignity not to be sexually harassed, thank you."
Chu Tianshu: "Is there?"
Lin Huai broke free from Chu Tianshu's arm, and finally gave up his idea of tasting it—to be honest, he was really curious about what his internal organs tasted like.
... But for some reason, he was very worried that when he operated like this, Chu Tianshu would say or do something that would make him not only want to be a man, but even a ghost.
A few people finished consuming oden and set off again. The fat man touched his stomach contentedly and sighed: "Sure enough, after eating, I feel full of strength, even my body feels lighter, and walking is not so strenuous..."
Apart from Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu, only the girl in the yellow skirt didn't go forward to eat - she brought a piece of bread and a chocolate bar with her, so she wasn't as hungry as other NPCs. The girl in the yellow dress laughed when she heard the words, her eyes swept across the fat man's stomach...
Then freeze.
"Is your belly... thinner?" The girl in the yellow skirt asked confused.
"Is there?" The fat man didn't care, "Maybe it's because I don't wear a little today."
The originally swollen belly did look much flatter now, but the fat man himself didn't realize it. Several people continued to walk in the town, Chu Tianshu was still thinking about the content of the DV player. He kept replaying the video he just took at the stall, and the video ended with the fat man chewing on his mouth.
Lin Huai walked beside him looking idly and yawning. Finally, Chu Tianshu's shoulder was bumped by Lin Huai, Chu Tianshu raised his eyes, and saw Lin Huai shrugged at him and said, "They stopped."
The place where they stopped was in front of the public bath.
"The red lantern is a bath for human beings, and the white lantern is a bath for ghosts..." The girl in the red skirt looked at the eerie, unoccupied bath not far away, and suddenly murmured, "Is this a bath for human beings?"
At the entrance of the bathing place, two red lanterns were swinging leisurely.
"Let's go, stay away from it." The girl in the blue skirt whispered, "Those two red lanterns... look creepy."
She was right. Under the already dark sky, the two red lanterns looked like a pair of red eyes. The girl in the red dress hesitated for a moment, then followed the crowd and walked back. But at this time Chu Tianshu took a step forward and knocked on the door of the bathing place.
"Is anyone there?" he yelled towards the inside. "Is anyone in there now?"
He yelled for a long time, until several NPCs started to stop him. The good old man said anxiously: "Don't waste your time here, let's hurry up..."
"Cough cough, cough cough."
Finally, the old man's voice came from inside.
The old man hunched his steps, and when he reached the curtain, he never lifted the curtain separating him from Chu Tianshu. He coughed and said in a hoarse voice: "What's the matter..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Tianshu quickly inserted the camera into the curtain and slapped him in the face!
Old man:?
"Nothing!" Chu Tianshu shook the DV player inside, quickly put it back, and said heartily, "We want to visit the bathing pool..."
"Are you kidding me!" the old man said angrily, "You can't bring a DV player into the bath!"
"Grandpa, what are you thinking! Of course we won't secretly take pictures—by the way, who are you, Grandpa?"
"I'm the administrator responsible for draining the water in the bath, if you do this again, I'll call someone!"
"Ah, the administrator? Is it the one who drains the water for seven hours every day for two hours, so that the water always fills the bath?"
The whole inquiry was messed up by Chu Tianshu, and several people were dumbfounded, even the initial fear because of the old man's hunched figure was forgotten. In the end, the old man ended the conversation with an angry "How can there be a bathhouse open during the day? Come back at night!"
The old man limped back to the bath on crutches. Chu Tianshu actually just stood outside and didn't open the curtain to catch up.
Compared with the rage just now, his gentlemanly demeanor at this moment simply surpassed Lin Huai's imagination.
Chu Tianshu stood where he was, looking thoughtfully at the video recorded in the DV machine. It wasn't until the old good man had the courage to come over and pat him on the shoulder that Chu Tianshu walked towards the crowd.
"What did you capture?" Lin Huai took advantage of the gap when several NPCs gathered together and watched the two whispering in fear, and asked them.
"Bathroom." Chu Tianshu said, "A clean bathhouse, and a kind old man with no brains or intestines exposed, an amiable expression, and no internal organs or bones exposed on his body..."
"... So as long as there are no bones and internal organs exposed, it is considered a kind face." Lin Huaixu looked at the old man with an angry and distorted face appearing in the DV player and complained.
"He asked us to come back at night, so come back at night." Chu Tianshu shrugged.
"Come again at night?"
The voice of the girl in the yellow skirt sounded beside the two of them. She seemed to be sent by several other people to negotiate with them. But after hearing Chu Tianshu's words, the girl in the yellow skirt was still taken aback: "Why did you come here at night?"
"Because he said that the bathhouse is only open at night." Chu Tianshu said naturally.
Yellow skirt girl: ?
"Such an eerie bathing place..." The girl in the yellow skirt hesitated to speak, and finally said, "Is there any need to come here again?"
"Because the bathing place is a place to wash off dirt, isn't it?" Chu Tianshu said, "About the word '正' on your body..."
He pointed to his lower back and said, "Although soap, shower gel or dishwashing liquid can't wash off the handwriting - of course, the curse from the small town is not so easy to undo. But have you considered... If you want to wash off the curse on your body, you have to come to the bathing place in the town?"
The girl in the yellow skirt froze for a moment, and soon, her eyes shone with excitement. She said: "This sounds like a good idea! If so, let's tonight..."
As she spoke, she hurried towards the other friends. Lin Huai looked at several NPCs and quickly reached an agreement. He turned to Chu Tianshu and said, "Do you think it can really..."
"Maybe." Chu Tianshu shrugged and said, "But unfortunately, there is no way to bring the DV player into the bathhouse..."
"Isn't this nonsense?" Lin Huaixu said narrowly, "How could a decent bathhouse allow you to bring a DV player that can take pictures..."
At that moment, he froze for a moment, as if he had caught something fleeting.
The opening time of the bathing place is nine o'clock in the evening. Although several people are quite afraid of coming to the bathing place at night, Chu Tianshu's statement is really very reasonable. But before that, the girl in the yellow skirt also felt that she couldn't sit still. Soon she came over again and asked Chu Tianshu: "Where do you think we should go in the next time?"
Unlike the rest of the team, the girl in the yellow skirt is obviously the calmest one. Chu Tianshu looked at her, scratched his ears and said, "Well... How about going to the mayor's house to see? Maybe I can find a map or something."
"The mayor's house?... Good!" The girl in the yellow skirt's eyes lit up, "Maybe the mayor will have gone home by afternoon!"
Seeing the girl in the yellow dress propose to everyone again, Lin Huai yawned and said, "What do you want to do at the mayor's house?"
Of course he didn't believe that Chu Tianshu wanted to ask the mayor. Normal inquiries do not exist in Chu Tianshu's dictionary.
"Look for a map or something." Chu Tianshu said, "or..."
Lin Huai:
Chu Tianshu: "It's really not possible, you can also look for corpses that can be used as props..."
... The smile of the girl in the yellow skirt who came over from the crowd froze immediately.
Several people then set off in the direction of the mayor's house. Along the way, Lin Huai saw that the fat man's posture was lighter and more vigorous than before. He seemed to be in a much better mood, and when he found Lin Huai looking at him, he even smiled at Lin Huai, his dark eyes were getting more and more bloodshot, and his face was as pale as a paper man.
Lin Huai always likes to be kind to others, and originally wanted to give him a 100% open-mouthed smile, but it was a pity that Chu Tianshu quickly stood between him and the fat man, and responded to the fat man with a hearty smile on his behalf. .
Seeing Chu Tianshu's enthusiastic expression, the fat man froze, and moved the horrible and swollen face aside.
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu patted his shoulder and walked to his side in a friendly manner.
The mayor's house appeared in front of everyone again. This time the girl in the yellow skirt rang the bell on the door several times, but there was still no response. She turned her head and said in frustration, "It looks like the mayor is still not at home."
"Then what should we do?" the old man asked.
"Otherwise, let's knock on the door of other people nearby and ask?" the girl in the red skirt suggested.
"Don't bother, no one will open the door." The girl in the blue skirt whispered, "The way those people look at us on the road... Don't you understand? We foreigners are dedicated to this town A... offering of the Hunger Curse."
As the girl in the blue skirt said, people on the road avoided them during the daytime today, not to mention they went to knock on the door in person.
The girl in the red skirt knocked on the door of a nearby house without giving up, but there was no response. When she wanted to try the third one, she was stopped by the good guy. The good old man said: "Don't we have to go to the bath to wash off the mark at night? Why bother..."
He glanced at those gloomy buildings, and said with some fear: "Why bother? And there are people living here, just in case..."
What if it was a ghost
The girl in the red skirt also stopped. Just when everyone was planning to go back home and wait for the opening of the bathing place, Lin Huai spoke.
"Where are you going?" he said, "Since there is no one in the police station in this town, isn't this the perfect time?"
When everyone turned their heads, the girl in the yellow skirt was a little puzzled when she heard the words: "What?"
Lin Huai knocked on the door of the mayor's house with his fingers.
"Since there is no police station, there will be no punishment for breaking in, so—" Lin Huai said, "Isn't this a good time to enter the mayor's mansion?"
"What, are you going to..." the girl in the yellow skirt said anxiously, "You can't do this..."
"In normal times, the mayor might hide some things from us. Isn't it a great thing to be able to search for them now?"
He said it with sincerity and gusto, as if it was something really good. He rubbed his fingers, his eyes full of joy: "After you go in, look in the frozen layer of the refrigerator, look under the bed, in the closet, in the basement, maybe you can find some high-quality companions..."
Yellow skirt girl: ?
Lin Huai: "I have never thanked you like this once. There is no police station in the infinite stream world. If you are interested, we can break into those houses and have a look at them later."
The girl in the yellow skirt: "No, no... Wait, why are you so excited?"
Lin Huai said, looked at Chu Tianshu and said, "By the way, you have tools to pry open the door..."
"."
Lin Huai's words got stuck at the moment when Chu Tianshu took out the ax from his bag. He twitched his eyelids, watched Chu Tianshu pick up the axe, and shouted: "Is there really no one? I don't want to look rude."
Then, he chopped down the gate of the mayor's house one by one.
Lin Huai: ...
"It's really impolite to chop down the door of the other party in front of the owner." Chu Tianshu said heartily with the ax on his back, "Fortunately, there is no one in the room, we kept our manners."