Gu Xizhou heard Si Yu's words and looked in the direction he was pointing. Indeed, there was a strange light outside the snow. Gu Xizhou was familiar with this kind of light. If he guessed correctly, it was a flashlight that had fallen there.
"It should be a flashlight. When I woke up in a daze last night, I felt a light on the window. It should be this flashlight." Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows as he spoke to Si Yu beside him.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! "
In the pitch-black snow, the snowman stood on the snowy ground and made snowballs one after another, smashing them against the windows of the room one after another.
Si Yu pointed at the clumsy snowman outside and said, "If we don't go out, it will keep smashing the window. It seems like it wants us to go out."
"What is this thing trying to do?" Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and glanced at the snowman. He opened the window and looked at the snowman in the snow.
"Bang!"
Another snowball flew directly towards Gu Xizhou's face. Gu Xizhou instinctively blocked it with his hand and then jumped out of the window.
Seeing Gu Xizhou jump out of the window, Si Yu helplessly followed Gu Xizhou and landed on the soft snow. Gu Xizhou wasn't wearing a jacket and the wind was a little cold. After he jumped down, the snowman stared at him for a while. Then, it silently turned its head and walked two steps forward. With its back facing Gu Xizhou … it pretended to be an ordinary snowman that couldn't move.
Gu Xizhou's breath instantly condensed into white mist in the air.
At this time, the snow outside had stopped. However, there was no other color on the snowy mountains except for white. There were no sounds of insects, birds, or beasts.
He picked up the black flashlight from the snow. This flashlight was very ordinary. The flashlight's casing was made of metal and was commonly used in mountaineering. It looked very ordinary.
Gu Xizhou heard a crisp tinkling sound. He took a look and saw that there was something hanging above the flashlight. It was a black recording pen. He held the black recording pen and looked at it. At this time, Si Yu rushed over and asked softly, "What did you find?"
Gu Xizhou directly handed the recording pen to him. "A recording pen."
Si Yu took it and carefully examined the recording pen he found in the snow. Before he could open it, at this moment —
"Who, who is there?" Gu Xizhou seemed to see a black shadow flash behind a car. He turned around and realized that the snowman had moved almost ten meters away from him.
Gu Xizhou frowned and said to Si Yu, "It was clearly beside me just now."
Si Yu nodded. He had seen it too. The two of them took two steps forward and circled around the snowman to its front. The snowman used a pair of wooden hands to block its face. It looked like a person using their hands to cover their eyes so that they couldn't see anything.
Gu Xizhou kicked the little snowman.
The snowman didn't move.
Gu Xizhou pulled the snowman's hands away and looked at it. Suddenly, the snowman turned its head and stared at Gu Xizhou and Si Yu with a pitiful expression. It looked a little pitiful.
Then, the little snowman angrily used its other hand to snatch the branch from Gu Xizhou's hand and stabbed it into itself. Then, it ran away happily. Gu Xizhou instinctively reached out to grab the snowman. However, this time, he grabbed nothing but cold snow.
"This thing can't be caught." Gu Xizhou's lips twitched. He felt a little defeated. Why were the ghosts in this mission world so strange? Not only were there perverts, there was also this stupid little snowman.
The two of them entered the hotel and turned on the recording pen that was placed next to the flashlight.
The owner of this pen was a traveler called 'Cheng Liang'. This person had the habit of recording his life through voice.
"Today is the first day of our trip here. The tour guide is very friendly and easy to talk to. The other members of the tour group are all nice people. There aren't many people in the group this time, only seven. Two of them are girls and two of them are couples. I'm the only one here. Actually, I wanted to find someone to travel with me, but none of my friends are free. I hope the trip goes smoothly and we can reach the summit successfully.
"Before we went up the mountain, I accidentally found out that the tour guide is not only a tour guide but also the owner of this hotel. The owner's wife is quite pretty. The tour guide is so lucky. Tomorrow, we'll be climbing the mountain. It'll take us four or five days before we return to the hotel. The hot spring at this hotel is amazing, especially after exercising. It feels so good to soak in it. "
When Gu Xizhou and Si Yu heard the second audio, they looked at each other. It looked like the tour guide was the husband of the previous hotel owner. After the old man died and the woman disappeared, he inherited the hotel. He hated the legend of the snowman because he refused to believe that his wife had disappeared.
These two audio clips were recorded inside a room because there was no other sound around the owner of the pen.
Gu Xizhou pressed the button on the pen, and the pen started to play the third audio clip.
"After climbing the mountain, I'm so tired. We finally reached the summit, and we saw the sunrise. On the mountain, everything around us was so white that it was glowing."
"The snow is getting heavier. Let's hurry down the mountain."
"Yes, the wind is like a knife. It hurts my face."
"Wait … Look, there's someone over there!"
As he said this, the owner of the pen seemed to have hurriedly put the pen into his pocket. Because the surrounding noise was much quieter, Gu Xizhou heard the sound of heavy breathing coming from the recording.
"Hey, tour guide, it's you. Why are you here?"
"I … I was climbing the mountain with my wife. We got into an argument and she suddenly disappeared. I'm looking for my wife. Oh yes, have you seen her?"
"No, we've been at the summit since this morning. We didn't see anyone else except you."
"Huff, huff, huff —"
"The snow is too heavy. Let's go back to the hotel."
The owner of the pen was suddenly interrupted and completely forgot that the pen was still on. Then, the few of them went down the mountain. Gu Xizhou pressed the fast forward button and quickly found the next conversation.
"Who built a snowman at the door?"
"Maybe it's a child who can't go out and built it out of boredom. The snow is too heavy …"
"The tour guide still hasn't found the owner's wife. It looks like she's really gone."
"How could she suddenly disappear? Forget it, I don't care about it. Brother Cheng, come and see the sunrise I took. I'll send each of you a copy later! "
"Wow, it's so beautiful. It's worthy of being called the northern scenery. Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow. Hey, there seem to be two people in this position … Are they fighting? "
"No, it's true … The woman seems to have lost her strength and was knocked to the ground … She didn't get up after she fell!"
"Don't you think that the man's clothes look a little like …"
"Like what?"
At this moment, a very abrupt voice suddenly interrupted. Gu Xizhou could tell that it was the tour guide's voice. Then, the person in the recording took a deep breath and shook his head. "No … Nothing."
After listening to the recording, Gu Xizhou and Si Yu combined the information they had obtained and figured out the general situation.
The tour guide killed the owner of the hotel and obtained the ownership of the hotel as her husband. However, what was in room 8002?
Gu Xizhou guessed that the female ghost who had secretly touched him was the dead owner. However, the female ghost was definitely not the key to this world because he didn't hear the sound of chains on her body. Strangely, he didn't hear the sound of chains sliding on the ground on the snowman's body either.
No … There was another possibility. The chains on the snowman's body made no sound when they fell on the snow.
When the two returned, they saw that their companions' faces were slightly pale. Gu Xizhou asked curiously, "What's wrong with you guys? Why are your faces as white as paper? "
"Why do I smell something?" Gu Xizhou asked with a frown. He was sensitive enough to smell something in the air.
Beside him, Shen Bo awkwardly covered his chest and explained with a pale face, "I was leaning against the chair to sleep when I felt someone touch my hair. I thought it was Li Yan, so I asked him about it. However, when I turned around, I saw that he was sitting on the edge of the bed, quite far away from me …"
Gu Xizhou knew that Shen Bo had met the female ghost. He asked in a low voice, "And then?"
"And then I heard another breathing sound in the room!" Shen Bo was obviously still very scared. He pointed at the room where he and Li Yan were in and said with a trembling voice.
Gu Xizhou took two steps forward and opened the door. Indeed, other than him, there was another breathing sound in the room. When the owner of the sound saw Gu Xizhou, she even sucked in a breath of cold air.
Hearing the sudden change in the breathing sound, Gu Xizhou was certain that the female ghost who had touched him yesterday was in the room. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
At this moment, the bedside table in the room made a 'dong dong dong' sound, as if there was a hand knocking on the cabinet door. Everyone was gathered at the door, and when they heard the sound, their eyes immediately stared at the cabinet door.
Tang Jiajia and Tang Xiaoshi were shocked, and asked with trepidation, "What's in the cabinet …"
As they spoke, they all swallowed their saliva at the same time. However, the thing in the cabinet only knocked on the door and did not come out.
Gu Xizhou frowned, he thought about how the female ghost had disappeared after turning on the lights yesterday, maybe this female ghost could not see the light, so he turned off the lights in the room.
Just as he turned off the lights, the knocking on the cabinet suddenly stopped, and the top drawer of the bedside table that could not fit a person suddenly opened.
"It's, it's a hand!" Shen Bo cried out in surprise. A hand came out of the cupboard in the room. It was a hand painted with red nail polish. This hand looked very well maintained.
"Run!" Someone shouted, and then everyone started to run.
Gu Xizhou was about to teach this female pervert a lesson when his wrist was suddenly grabbed tightly by someone.
Si Yu frowned and did not say a word. He was not afraid, but he was not relaxed either. Under the reflection of the night snow, his facial features were clearly defined. His eyebrows were slightly raised, and his light colored eyes were slightly restrained. His lips were pursed into a line, and he grabbed Gu Xizhou and ran wildly.
Gu Xizhou turned around to look at the hand that was already grabbing onto the door. The words that were about to come out of his mouth were swallowed back down. The man's grip on his wrist was very strong.
He could not tell that Si Yu had so much strength.
After being grabbed by Si Yu and running wildly, after confirming that the female ghost was not following them, Si Yu stopped and pulled at his collar, revealing his sexy jawline. He panted heavily and said, "She shouldn't have chased us."
Gu Xizhou looked at him and nodded, "Yes."
Seeing Si Yu staring at him, Gu Xizhou was stunned and added, "After running for so long, I'm so tired."
Si Yu: "…" You're too fake!
The two of them passed through the hotel corridor and were separated from the others. Gu Xizhou saw the elevator and turned to look at Si Yu. "Let's go and take a look at the 8th floor at night."
"Alright." Si Yu clenched his fist and coughed softly.
There was no one in the elevator at this time. Gu Xizhou casually pressed the number 8. The elevator first dipped, then quickly went up. With a ding, the elevator door opened. Gu Xizhou and Si Yu looked at each other and walked in one after the other.
"Si la — —"
"Si la — —"
"Si la, si la!"
The ear-piercing sound rang out again. Gu Xizhou and Si Yu rushed straight to the room where the sound came from. Before Gu Xizhou even entered, he saw a scarlet eye coldly staring at them through the gap in the door.
There was no one else around. It seemed like everyone else had run away. Gu Xizhou was about to enter when he suddenly heard a cry from afar. It was a cry of extreme fear.
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu looked at each other and ran towards the direction of the scream. Gu Xizhou ran over and saw Tang Xiaoshi curled up in a corner, trembling all over as she muttered, "Don't kill me …" Don't … "
"Tang Xiaoshi, are you alright? The ghost isn't here, calm down. " Gu Xizhou said softly. He took a step forward and patted Tang Xiaoshi's shoulder, but the girl's entire body trembled and she started crying.
"Don't look for me, don't …" Tang Xiaoshi seemed to have seen something and lost all reason.
Gu Xizhou grabbed onto Tang Xiaoshi's arms. Tang Xiaoshi was a woman after all, so her strength was not as great as Gu Xizhou's and was quickly subdued. After waiting for a few breaths of time, Tang Xiaoshi finally calmed down and saw Gu Xizhou and Si Yu clearly.
The moment Tang Xiaoshi saw her two companions, Gu Xizhou and Si Yu, she burst into tears and tightly grabbed onto Gu Xizhou's arm. Tears flowed down her cheeks as she said with a trembling voice, "It's, it's you guys, that's great …"
Gu Xizhou patted her shoulder lightly and asked, "What happened?"
"I, I kept hearing the sound of breathing. That sound of breathing kept ringing in my ears." Tang Xiaoshi sobbed, "I, I don't know what to say …"
"Then speak slowly." Si Yu looked at her and frowned.
"At that time, everyone was running, and I was running too. I ran all the way to the third floor, and that thing kept following me, it kept following me … Although I could only hear the sound of breathing, I could really feel that it was following me. It seemed to want me to get on the elevator, and it chased me to the elevator. I had a feeling that it wanted me to go in, and then I had no choice but to enter the elevator. After I entered the elevator, sure enough, the sound of breathing disappeared!"
"Originally, I thought that everything would be fine. As long as I went out later, everything would be fine."
"But I, I found out … Someone pressed the eighth floor … Maybe it wasn't a person, but it. After I came up, I heard that 'sizzling, sizzling' sound … It was like the sound of fingernails scratching something. You guys heard it during the day, I was alone, I was afraid … I slowly walked to the room where the sound came from, to see if anyone else had arrived."
Tang Xiaoshi bit her lower lip, and said with tears rolling down her face, "Then I saw a scarlet eye looking at me through the crack in the door. It was looking at me! At that time, I was scared, so I ran, and kept running! "
Gu Xizhou helped her up and comforted her, "Alright, don't be afraid."
"Let's go over and check the situation in the room. There is indeed a pair of eyes inside, but we have to go in. The ghost that chased you obviously wants you to go to the eighth floor. There must be something wrong with this room, we have to go in." Gu Xizhou muttered to himself for a moment before speaking to Si Yu.
Si Yu nodded and replied, "Alright."
"I, I don't dare."
When Gu Xizhou heard Tang Xiaoshi's words, he lowered his head and saw that Tang Xiaoshi's legs were trembling. It seemed that she was truly afraid. Gu Xizhou frowned, and said to Si Yu, "How about this, you stay here with her for a while, I'll open the door and take a look, then come back."
"Isn't that too risky?" Si Yu frowned and asked, "How about I go?"
"You're going?" Gu Xizhou shook his head, "Don't, don't worry, I'll be fine if I go in. If anything happens, I can still run, you know my stamina."
Leaving Si Yu to accompany Tang Xiaoshi for the time being, Gu Xizhou turned a corner, and after a while, he once again arrived in front of room 8002. The scarlet eye stared coldly at Gu Xizhou from inside, slightly curved, looking somewhat sinister and terrifying.
Gu Xizhou met that eye, the corner of his mouth curled up, he opened the door, and that eye instantly disappeared without a trace. The room was no different from during the day, and there was still a moist human figure on the bed. Gu Xizhou felt that there was nothing inside, was there something wrong with the conditions?
Just as Gu Xizhou was thinking, the door that was originally open suddenly closed. Gu Xizhou frowned, and subconsciously tried to open the door, but found that it could not be opened.
At the same time, Gu Xizhou felt a bone-piercing chill.
"Whooosh."
"Whooosh."
"Huff, huff, huff …"
Li Yan panted heavily as he walked down the corridor. His forehead was covered in sweat as he nervously looked behind him. It seemed that his luck was not bad that the ghost did not choose him.
Li Yan let out a long sigh of relief. He took out a cigarette from his bag, lit it, and started smoking. Finally, he slowly calmed down.
He was once a person who firmly rejected feudal superstitions and did not believe in ghosts or gods at all. Until he fell ill and was hospitalized. On the operating table, his consciousness entered the mission world in a daze.
At first, he thought that he had transmigrated to another world after dying. That was until he met his companions, who told him that this was a mission world, a supernatural world. He could also use this world as a life-extending world, and by going through one world after another, he would be able to continue living.
He once met a veteran in a mission world. He did not think that it was reasonable to use the number of mission worlds to measure the person's level because the person did not hide any information. Based on the person's accent and name, as well as some of the content of the conversation, he discovered that this person … was an 'old man' who was more than one hundred years old.
From then on, he realized that perhaps the mission world was not that simple. If a world could extend one's life or even grant one eternal life, then it would not be a scary world but a lucky world.
However, no one could guarantee that they would be fine forever. He kept a close eye on the veteran until some time ago when he heard the news of the veteran's death. Apparently, he had entered the legendary world on the forum where death was inevitable. Because of this, he was depressed for a long time.
What immortality? What immortality? Who could guarantee that they would not die and would be lucky enough to leave the mission world every time?
Even if that veteran still couldn't escape the fate of death, how could he possibly escape?
Even if he had a very special item … fate was still not within his control.
From that day on, he told himself to follow his heart. As long as he did not violate any taboos, he did not need to restrain himself. He could fight for whatever he wanted, whether it was lust or greed, as long as he liked it and was happy.
Everyone had to die.
Li Yan smoked as he walked. He first returned to the third floor where they lived and found that none of his companions had returned. He frowned slightly.
Today, they had discussed going up to the eighth floor together. Perhaps their companions were upstairs?
Li Yan thought for a while and walked to the elevator to take it up. He pressed the button and waited for a while, but the elevator did not come down.
"Why did it stop on the seventh floor after coming down from the eighth floor?" Li Yan raised his eyebrows slightly and impatiently pressed the elevator button again. He looked around to make sure that there was no one around.
Li Yan looked at the time. Five minutes had passed and the elevator was still on the seventh floor.
He extinguished the cigarette with his bare hands and was about to slowly climb the stairs when —
"Ding ding ding —"
"Ding ding ding —"
It was a phone ringing. Li Yan was startled and hurriedly took out the phone from his pocket.
Looking carefully, it was not the Apple phone in Li Yan's bag, but a Smart phone. This kind of phone was used more often in the 2000s.
"Hello! What's wrong? "
A frightened voice came from the other end of the phone, with hysterical despair and fear. "The eighth floor, go to the eighth floor, 8002. Save Gu Ran, save him! Save him! He's going to die! "
Li Yan heard his own voice on the other end of the phone and was stunned for a moment. He was about to ask questions in his mind when he realized that the person on the other end of the phone was crying. "Yesterday's me, hurry up and save Gu Ran. He's dead, he's dead. Everyone is going to die, everyone is going to die!"
"Save him, hurry —"
"Ah —"
Accompanied by a desperate scream, there was no more sound on the other end of the phone. Only the sound of "tick tock, tick tock, tick tock" could be heard.
It was blood.
Li Yan was so frightened by his own thoughts that he trembled all over. Although he didn't know what had happened, he had never heard himself make such a hysterical and desperate sound the next day. He felt that his feet no longer belonged to him.
This Smart phone was a tool that he had obtained from a world. Its function was very simple — to talk to his tomorrow self.
In fact, he did not tell the truth to everyone. This was not his eighth world. In fact, he could not remember which one it was, but it was not the eighth world.
He had used this tool to save people and break many rules. Because of this tool, he had always been in an invincible position. However, the sound he heard today … He subconsciously knew that this was the last sound of his tomorrow self before he died.
It was his last gasp before he died.
If Gu Ran died, why would everyone die?
Li Yan's mind was full of all kinds of questions, but his tomorrow self was already dead … No one could give him an answer. If he could not stop Gu Ran's death, it would really happen tomorrow.
He ran crazily up the stairs, using all his strength.
Faster, a little faster.
His heart was beating faster and faster. He was also speeding up!
He climbed to the seventh floor as fast as he could and rushed to the elevator. There was a chair in front of the elevator door, which happened to block the elevator door.
Who used the chair to block the elevator door? No … it was not the time to think about this.
Li Yan pushed the chair to the side and it hit the ground with a bang. He rushed into the elevator and pressed the number eight frantically!
"Faster! Faster! " Li Yan's hands were trembling as he pressed the numbers. Faster, faster. He could not die. He could not let anything happen to Gu Ran!
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