Seeing that Gu Xizhou was ignoring him, Si Yu didn't get angry. He just leaned against Gu Xizhou quietly with his brows slightly furrowed, as though he was thinking about something.
Gu Xizhou, who was lying in bed, sighed in relief when Si Yu didn't continue asking him. He was actually worried that Si Yu would chase after him. He didn't want to admit that he had mistaken the female ghost for Si Yu, but he couldn't bring himself to say it.
Gu Xizhou closed his eyes and slept for a while. The light that shone on his eyes didn't appear for the entire night.
Gu Xizhou slept until the latter half of the night and felt that it was difficult to breathe. He felt uncomfortably hot, as though he was in a furnace.
In the end, Gu Xizhou was woken up by the heat. When he woke up, he realized the reason.
Si Yu was too close to him. His back was pressed against Si Yu's chest.
A hand was placed on his waist, and there was the sound of even breathing. The person was very close to him, and the breath was long and soft. Gu Xizhou thought of the female ghost from before and subconsciously moved his body. He then gently turned over to make sure that the person hugging him was Si Yu. Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.
In the dark, Gu Xizhou silently observed Si Yu's appearance.
The man beside her was lying on the bed. His handsome facial features were even more distinct in the dark. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he was extraordinarily handsome. This person was indeed good-looking. No wonder those NPCs were so smitten with him every time.
The room was very quiet. Gu Xizhou stared at Si Yu for a while before closing his eyes. With the smallest movement, he turned his back to Si Yu, not wanting to wake him up.
After Gu Xizhou turned over, the person behind him slowly opened his eyes. An imperceptible light flashed across his deep-set eyes. His eyelashes fluttered like crow feathers, and his thin lips were pressed into a line.
Si Yu hugged Gu Xizhou gently and slowly changed his position.
That night, after the incident with the female ghost, they didn't hear any sound at all.
The next day, Gu Xizhou woke up and found himself leaning on Si Yu's arm. Si Yu's eyes were slightly closed, just like last night.
Gu Xizhou's movement woke Si Yu up. When Si Yu saw that he was awake, she glanced at him and smiled at him before slowly looking away.
After the two of them washed up, Gu Xizhou was about to call Si Yu to the dining room for dinner when he casually glanced at the hanging painting in the room. He felt that this painting was a little strange.
When Si Yu saw him staring at the painting, she looked over and pointed out, "There's one less snowman."
Gu Xizhou was stunned. He finally understood why he felt that the painting was strange. "Yes, there were nine snowmen yesterday, but there are only eight today."
Something must have happened to someone last night.
At this moment, Gu Xizhou heard a shrill scream coming from outside the door.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu looked at each other and immediately rushed out. Fang Zhi and Fu Yiran also heard the scream. When they rushed over, they realized that something had happened in one of the rooms where the painting had been removed.
His companion, Shen Bo, collapsed in the corridor, trembling all over. Gu Xizhou rushed over and asked about the situation. Shen Bo pointed at his room. "Blood, so much blood … on the bed … so much blood …"
When Gu Xizhou heard this, he pushed open the door to Shen Bo's room and walked in. There was no corpse in the room, but one of the beds was covered in blood. The bed was soaked in blood.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
Drops of blood flowed down the bedsheets and onto the floor, splattering everywhere.
The white bedsheets and covers were dyed red with blood, and the pungent smell of blood filled the room.
There was no corpse, only blood.
Gu Xizhou frowned. It was obvious that the male companion in the room with Shen Bo was dead.
The two girls hid outside … Fu Yiran also hid outside. Her eyes were filled with tears.
"What happened last night?" Li Yan pulled Shen Bo up and asked.
"I don't know. I don't know anything." Shen Bo's face was ashen as he shook his head.
"Shen Bo, try to recall if there was anything strange last night."
"Last night, the two of us went to sleep after we took down the painting. There was nothing special about it. I slept very well last night and slept until dawn. I only knew about it a few minutes earlier than you …" Shen Bo looked like he was recalling something. After thinking for a long time, he continued, "As for whether he heard something and ran out to die at night, I really don't know."
Shen Bo was someone who had experienced six mission worlds. He knew that it was easy to die if one went out alone at night, but logically speaking, other than the beautiful girl, Fu Yiran, who was a newcomer, the others had experienced several worlds. His companion should not have made such a low-level mistake. At this point, Shen Bo could not help but frown.
"Does it have anything to do with the painting?" Gu Xizhou frowned and said, "I don't know if you noticed that a snowman is missing from the painting. I took a look at the painting before I came out."
Hearing this, they immediately returned to their rooms to check on the situation. After a while, they came out in a hurry.
Fang Zhi said, "Gu Ge, you're right. The painting in the room is missing a snowman."
Li Yan nodded and said, "One of the paintings in my room is missing too."
"The painting, the painting is missing!"
Shen Bo hurriedly ran out and yelled.
"It's missing?"
"Yes, it's missing. After I took it down yesterday, I didn't throw it away. I just put it on the table. But when I went in, I found that the painting was not on the table. We searched the room but couldn't find it …"
"What do we do now?"
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou frowned and asked the other two girls, "Why didn't you look for the painting?"
Tang Jiajia nodded with an unsightly expression and replied, "We lost it. After we took it down, we threw it out of the window because we were worried that something would happen."
Helpless, Gu Xizhou and the others could only accompany the two girls out to look for the abandoned painting.
Gu Xizhou was digging in the snow with a shovel when he suddenly heard a scream from afar.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu rushed over, only to find out that Tang Xiaoshi had been pushed into the snow pit.
The person who pushed her was the other girl who had been with her, Tang Jiajia.
But Tang Jiajia refused to admit it, she explained: "I really didn't push her, I was looking for the painting in the snow, how could I push her?"
"There's only you and me here, who else could it be? You're unhappy because I lost the painting! But don't forget, it was you who discussed it with me yesterday before throwing it away! You can't blame me, right? "
"I really didn't push you, why would I push you?" Tang Jiajia felt wronged, "Yesterday, it was the two of us who discussed it before throwing the painting away. I don't blame you, after all, I made my own decision."
Tang Xiaoshi stared at Tang Jiajia suspiciously, as if she believed Tang Jiajia's words a little. She frowned and said: "Then who pushed me just now?"
Li Yan said in a deep voice, "Did you trip on your own?"
Tang Xiaoshi firmly shook her head, bit her lower lip with her teeth, and said: "I'm sure someone pushed me from behind, I can tell if I tripped or someone pushed me."
"Let's look for the painting first." Li Yan interrupted and asked, "Are you sure you threw it around here?"
The cold wind howled, causing his face to hurt. Gu Xizhou used a shovel to search in the snow while paying attention to Fu Yiran who was following Fang Zhi.
It was just that Fu Yiran's movements were slower. If the others were looking for something, then Fu Yiran was playing with snow.
"Xiao Ran, you, why are you building a snowman?!" Tang Jiajia noticed that there was a palm-sized snowman in front of Fu Yiran. The snowman actually looked very cute, but after hearing about the legend of the snowman and the disappearance of one of her companions this morning, she had a shadow in her heart. Seeing the little snowman in Fu Yiran's hands, her face immediately paled.
On the contrary, Fu Yiran's eyebrows were slightly curved, his eyes contained an innocent smile, and the corners of his lips were slightly raised as he said: "Don't you think it's very cute? I'll give this snowman to you. "
"Go away!" Tang Jiajia slapped Fu Yiran's hand away, and the snowman in Fu Yiran's palm instantly fell to the ground. Tang Jiajia scolded, "What's so cute about it? Stay away from me! "
Fu Yiran stood up and cried with some grievances. When he cried like this, Shen Bo and Li Yan obviously felt a little distressed for him, especially Li Yan, the pervert who still hadn't given up. He frowned and said, "Little Ran originally came to help you two girls find hanging paintings. Isn't this not good?"
"Tang Jiajia, that's enough. No matter what, you should apologize to Xiao Ran. Look at how badly she's crying."
Tang Jiajia's face was filled with disbelief. "Why should I apologize? She was the one who built the snowman to scare me!"
"Sister Jiajia, I didn't want to scare you. I'm sorry, I live in the south and have never seen such heavy snow, so I built the snowman. I'm sorry … don't be angry." Fu Yiran said while crying, "I'll continue to help you two find paintings."
"You …" Tang Jiajia saw her two male companions defending this white lotus, and her face instantly darkened. Why was she so unlucky today? When she thought of how she had spoken up for Fu Yiran and dissed Gu Ran yesterday, she was so angry that her teeth hurt.
She subconsciously turned her head to look at Gu Ran, who did not get along with Fu Yiran, hoping that Gu Ran would say a few words.
Gu Xizhou noticed Tang Jiajia's gaze and stiffly shifted his gaze away. It was not that he did not want to speak up for Tang Jiajia, but right now, Li Yan and Shen Bo were clearly mesmerized by Fu Yiran's pitiful appearance. No matter what he said, the two of them would not listen, so it was better not to say anything.
"Heh, it's just that Xiao Ran is too gentle. Anyway, I'm not the one who lost the painting, so I don't need to help find it." Li Yan seemed to want to brush up on Fu Yiran's good impression, and said another sentence.
Shen Bo did not continue speaking. After all, there were no paintings in his room. The paintings in his room were clearly not lost, but they were also gone.
Seeing this, Tang Xiaoshi, who was at the side, anxiously tried to smooth things over and said to Tang Jiajia: "Jiajia, just apologize. It's not a big deal anyway."
"I didn't do anything wrong, why should I apologize? You all know the legend of the snowman! She suddenly made a snowman. I was scared and pushed her hand away. What's wrong? "With that, Tang Jiajia started to cry.
"Stop talking, Sister Jiajia didn't mean it that way. I know, Sister Jiajia even spoke up for me yesterday. It's my fault." Fu Yiran clenched her teeth, her lips were slightly red, and her eyes were red like a little rabbit's.
They were both crying, but it was clear that Fu Yiran's lethality was much greater than Tang Jiajia's.
"I told you to apologize, and you …"
Li Yan seemed to want to say something, but was interrupted by Fang Zhi: "Brother Li, Xiao Ran already said that she doesn't blame Tang Jiajia, why are you still being so aggressive? In the mission world, the most important thing is to work together. Don't you understand this principle? "
Because of Fang Zhi's words, Li Yan did not continue speaking. She glared at Fang Zhi, clearly blaming him for talking too much. Tang Jiajia looked at Fang Zhi gratefully. At this moment, Tang Xiaoshi pointed in a direction and said, "Behind that tree … There seems to be something behind it."
Following the direction of Tang Xiaoshi's finger, Gu Xizhou looked over and vaguely saw an outline, but the heavy snow blocked most of their vision. The few of them hurriedly walked through the knee-deep snow, and behind the tree was a snowman.
When Gu Xizhou saw the snowman, he frowned slightly. The snowman's face was not facing his body, but to the side. Gu Xizhou took a step forward and followed the snowman's line of sight. The snowman's line of sight just happened to land on the spot where they were looking for the painting.
This snowman had been hiding here to observe them?
"Look at the scarf on the snowman's neck, it's his!" Shen Bo turned pale with fright, because the scarf on the snowman's body was exactly the same as the one on his missing companion!
Si Yu nodded slightly: "It's Liang Ke's, I remember that he was wearing this black and white checkered scarf around his neck."
Liang Ke was the missing companion.
"It, it's Liang Ke?" Tang Jiajia was shocked and asked with a trembling voice.
Li Yan pondered for a moment, then nodded: "It should be him."
"He turned into a snowman!"
"That legend … The legend is true."
The few of them did not look too good. Their missing companion had really turned into a snowman. The only thing they could be sure of was that it had something to do with the painting.
"Let's hurry up and find the painting. If we find it, we'll enter the hotel. I'm scared." Tang Jiajia did not care about being angry and said in fear.
"Let's go and find the painting."
Everyone continued to help the two Tang Jiajia and Tang Xiaoshi look for the painting, but the snow was getting heavier and heavier. They shoveled away all the snow, but they could not find the painting.
In the end, Li Yan had no choice but to say, "Forget it, we probably won't be able to find it. There are still three rooms with paintings, you guys can sleep in another room tonight. We have to find clues, we can't waste all our time here."
Just before everyone left, Gu Xizhou glanced at the snow that had already reached his waist, and said to Li Yan and the others, "You guys go back first, I'll go see if the snowman is still there."
Li Yan looked at Gu Xizhou strangely, and warned: "Be careful."
Si Yu was naturally with Gu Xizhou, and the two of them once again walked to the side of the tree.
The snowman was not submerged by the snow, and seemed to have moved up a little. Gu Xizhou frowned, he noticed that the snowman's face was straight, and did not continue to look in the direction they had just been.
Gu Xizhou noticed that the snowman's hand made of tree branches had obvious signs of breaking. After carefully observing the snowman, he decided to dig the snowman up.
"There's only snow inside, no corpses." Gu Xizhou said to Si Yu in a deep voice.
Si Yu saw all of this, and extended his hand towards Gu Xizhou, indicating for Gu Xizhou to grab him, "Let's go, the snow is getting heavier."
Gu Xizhou nodded: "En, alright."
After the two of them left, the snowman behind them suddenly moved. It kneaded the snow on the ground into lumps and filled the place where Gu Xizhou had just thrown away, looking a little wronged.
Si Yu and Gu Xizhou rushed to the dining room and found that the tour guide was also there. When the tour guide saw the two of them, he asked in surprise, "Where did you guys go? Why are you only at the dining room? "
The tour guide and six other companions were sitting at a table. In front of them was a steaming pot. Gu Xizhou glanced at it and guessed that it was mutton hotpot. It was just right to eat in this weather.
"I walked around outside and saw a snowman. It's quite interesting. I wonder who made it," Gu Xizhou said to the tour guide with his eyes slightly closed.
"Oh, come and eat." The tour guide wiped his mouth with a tissue 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 instinctively turned his head and saw that the tour guide was talking to the hotel staff and was not looking at him.
Gu Xizhou had deliberately said that to test this seemingly normal NPC, but the tour guide's expression did not change.
Everyone sat around the table, waving the chopsticks in their hands and wolfing down the food. Perhaps it was because they had not eaten breakfast this morning and had been looking for paintings in the snow, but everyone's stomachs were rumbling with hunger. They suddenly felt that the food was very delicious.
"It's too delicious." In the end, Li Yan touched his mouth and sighed.
After eating, everyone split into groups of two and asked about the situation in the hotel.
"Xiao Ran, let's be a group!" Li Yan gently said to Fu Yiran.
Gu Xizhou originally thought that Fu Yiran would still cling onto Fang Zhi, but what surprised him was that Fu Yiran actually agreed to Li Yan's invitation, "Thank you, Brother Li. Then I'll be in the same group as you, as long as you don't despise me for being stupid."
Li Yan hurriedly said, "How could that be? Of course I won't despise you! "
Li Yan was overjoyed. He thought that he had succeeded in gaining favorability and finally made the goddess interested.
In the end, Fang Zhi and Shen Bo were in the same group as Tang Xiaoshi and Tang Jiajia, while Gu Xizhou was in the same group as Si Yu.
After the other two groups left, Gu Xizhou asked Fang Zhi, "Did you bring the mirror?"
Fang Zhi lowered his voice to prevent Tang Jiajia from hearing: "I brought it!"
"Alright, be careful. If you discover anything, don't explore it alone. Wait for everyone to discuss it before going in." Gu Xizhou warned.
"I know!" Fang Zhi nodded.
Tang Xiaoshi followed Fang Zhi and left, but was suddenly stopped by someone: "Wait."
Si Yu strode forward with his long legs. Tang Xiaoshi, who was stopped by him, had a blank look on his face. He did not know why this handsome guy who did not speak much called her, "What's wrong?"
"There's something in your hat." Si Yu took out the thing from Tang Xiaoshi's hat.
Gu Xizhou saw the thing in Si Yu's hand clearly. It was a piece of wood the length of a pinky finger. Gu Xizhou took it and looked at the traces of the wood.
Tang Xiaoshi was startled for a moment, she touched her hat strangely and said: "When did I fall in? I don't even know."
"Maybe he fell in by accident." Gu Xizhou said casually. After Tang Xiaoshi left, he continued to speak to Si Yu, "It was the tree branch on that snowman's body. It was it that pushed Tang Xiaoshi, it wasn't an illusion that she was pushed."
It was obvious that Si Yu had also noticed this problem. He nodded his head, and the two of them prepared 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 go ask that waiter. I saw him chatting with the tour guide just now." Gu Xizhou grabbed Si Yu's wrist, who was about to leave, and walked straight in front of the waiter.
Si Yu, who was following behind Gu Xizhou, stared at his hand. His eyes were dark and unreadable, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Hello, I am a tourist here. I would like to ask you something." Gu Xizhou found the male waiter and asked.
The waiter smiled and said politely, "I wonder what I can help you with?"
"Have you heard of the legend of the snowman?"
The waiter revealed a faint smile and said, "Of course, there are many tourists who come to our hotel to verify this legend."
"You've worked here for so long. Is this legend true?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"About this …" The waiter looked around and whispered, "It's true. Ever since the first tour group disappeared here, there have been people disappearing in our hotel every year. Moreover, every time someone disappears, a snowman will appear near the hotel."
"What about before that tour group disappeared? Did something similar happen? "Gu Xizhou asked.
"If you count it carefully, there was one more time before the tour group disappeared …"
"The previous owner of this hotel was an old man. After the old man died in an accident, the hotel was inherited by his only granddaughter. Not long after his granddaughter inherited the hotel, she disappeared. At that time, someone said that they saw a snowman near the hotel … We don't know if it's true or not … In any case, she disappeared."
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then who is the owner of this hotel now?"
The old man was dead and his granddaughter was missing. However, the hotel was still running, so there must be a new owner.
Just as the waiter was about to answer, the three of them suddenly heard a cough. Gu Xizhou turned around and saw their tour guide standing behind them. He looked at them with a smile and asked, "What are you guys talking about?"
"Nothing … I still have something to do. I'll go back to work first!"
After being interrupted by the tour guide, the waiter hurriedly said and ran away.
Gu Xizhou looked strangely at the waiter's back and turned to look at the tour guide. When the waiter saw the tour guide, he looked like a mouse that had seen a cat. It was very suspicious.
"The snow is too heavy. Fortunately, it has been snowing for a few days. It seems like you paid for this trip in vain." The tour guide looked regretful and felt that it was not worth it for Gu Xizhou and the others.
Si Yu said calmly, "It doesn't matter if we can't climb the mountain. Compared to climbing the mountain, we are more interested in the legend of the snowman."
The tour guide said disdainfully, "What legend? It's just fake. How can a snowman eat people? That thing can't be touched."
The few of them chatted for a while. Gu Xizhou could hear the disdain the tour guide had for the legend of the snowman. It was obvious that he did not believe in the legend at all.
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