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For a hot spring hotel to be able to become a holiday resort, its environment naturally was the best. The sun outside the window spilled into the building, accompanied by the mountain breeze that blew in fresh and clean air from the mountain forest. If they were genuine guests, they wouldn’t be able to help going out to take a breath of fresh air at that moment.

Unfortunately, the players weren’t in such a mood; they were busy looking for a chance to survive. 4ILciO

The strange thing was that the other five who claimed to have come for a gathering also seemed to have no plans to enjoy nature. During the players’ discussion, Xiao Lan learnt that surprisingly, none of them saw any of those people go outside.

Gu Shengan even said that they returned to their rooms after breakfast, then didn’t come out again after that.

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What on earth were they doing?

The players split up to search for clues. fz4j9F

Xiao Lan carried Luo, planning to borrow his strength to scout out what these people were discussing. Unexpectedly, he had just gone upstairs, when he happened to meet the old form teacher Yang Degao coming out of the toilet; furthermore, he was alone.

Xiao Lan switched to the ‘good student’ smile that teachers loved the most. “Hello, Teacher Yang.”

When Yang Degao saw that it was a fair and handsome youth who was smiling brightly, his taut shoulders relaxed a little and he nodded at Xiao Lan. “Hello.”

Xiao Lan pointed outside the window. “Teacher Yang, the weather today is pretty good, and the fresh air is so nice; aren’t you going to go out for a walk?”

Yang Degao gave a fake smile. “Hehe, I haven’t seen my students in a long time. We’re reminiscing about the past.”

Xiao Lan: “Your student-teacher relationship is really good.”

“That’s right, quite – quite good ne.” Yang Degao still had a smile on his face, but his gaze constantly flitted to the room, showing his impatience to get away. “To still remember me after ten years, they’re all good children.”

Xiao Lan stared at the subtle changes in his expression. “Then, the schoolgirl in yesterday’s handphone must be Teacher Yang’s student as well, right?” YI5yNa

Once this sentence came out, Yang Degao’s complexion instantly changed. He suddenly shuddered as if he had gotten an electric shock, his body subconsciously preparing to adopt a defensive posture.

As if realising that his reaction was too drastic, Yang Degao forced himself to stand straight and clasp his hands behind his back with a frown to exhibit the demeanor of a form teacher. “Young man, sometimes it isn’t good to be too curious.”

Xiao Lan put on a very innocent appearance. “I saw that they all recognised that schoolgirl but didn’t invite her to the gathering. I assume that their relationship isn’t good ba; that schoolgirl seems very pitiful ah.”

Yang Degao, however, revealed an inscrutable expression. “Don’t judge a book by its cover; how would you know if a victim is really what they seem?” hF4ZRY

With that, he didn’t wait for Xiao Lan’s response, and went into his room without excusing himself first.

What did his words mean? Was he hinting that the issue was in fact with Gu Mo? Or maybe he was purposely misleading Xiao Lan?

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Xiao Lan was even more baffled. What were these guys doing? Yang Deguo said that they were reminiscing, but they were in separate rooms each; what sort of reminiscing method was this?

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At dinner time, the players went to the dining hall.

Today’s dinner was just as sumptuous, and the five people of the alumni gathering at the adjacent table had long arrived and were currently sitting in a neat and orderly manner. They had even opened a bottle of alcohol that looked to be pretty pricey, and the dishes in front of them looked much more high class than what the players had. OpnlTs

The players were halfway through their meal, when the table of people next to them suddenly came over enthusiastically for a toast.

Fu Wenbo was holding two glasses of alcohol, and passed one to Xiao Lan. “Come, come, come, we were brought together by fate, coming here for a holiday at the same time. Allow me to offer you a toast.”

Xiao Lan sized him up. The smile on Fu Wenbo’s face looked a little stiff, as if it was taking him a great deal of energy to maintain it.

Under Xiao Lan’s gaze, Fu Wenbo’s lips twitched as he forcibly kept smiling. Only after Xiao Lan finally reached out to accept his glass did he secretly sigh with relief. ZXqKD4

Xiao Lan passed the alcohol to Luo without batting an eyelid. After inspecting it, Luo nodded at him, indicating that no extra substance had been added to it. Nevertheless, Xiao Lan still merely feinted and didn’t drink.

This was a world filled with ghosts and monsters. There may not be anything else, but that didn’t mean that there wasn’t any invisible or untouchable trap.

When Xiao Lan drank the alcohol, Fu Wenbo stared at him unblinkingly until he saw him fake a swallow; only then did he reveal a delighted smile and sincerely say, “It’s really great that I got to know you!”

Xiao Lan gave him an inscrutable smile. “Same here.” TjzrfU

Each of the players were caught to have a toast; furthermore, it was all one on one and according to gender. Aside from Fu Wenbo and Xiao Lan, Cheng Lang proposed a toast to Gu Shengan, Yang Degao to Zhao Fan, and Du Yuhui and Zhang Jie to Liu Yiyi and Tong Qing respectively.

It looked like all the players drank, but it was hard to say whether they truly did do so.

Liu Yiyi, who had become very strange today, gave Du Yuhui a meaningful smile after drinking the alcohol she had been offered; her unblinking gaze was eerie.

Du Yuhui’s shoulders shuddered under that gaze, and she found an excuse to flee in defeat. bBC8ps

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Night.

Xiao Lan was sitting cross-legged on the bed as he pondered the information he had obtained today while also thinking of a way to trick Luo into exposing his furry stomach for him to rub.

Over ten minutes later. Q25itv

In the end, under Xiao Lan’s unrelenting efforts, his evil claws were about to reach for that furry and soft belly —

“Drip drip —”

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

The sound of water abruptly rang out.

Xiao Lan regretfully withdrew his claws and looked in the direction of the sound. lWAErK

The sound came from one corner above the door.

A water stain had appeared on the ceiling at some point, and it spread outwards unscientifically as it slowly got bigger. As the stain grew in size, water droplets gradually dripped from the very center to make a sound as they hit the wooden floor.

And as the stain on the ceiling expanded, its outline became clearer. The indistinct shape gradually lengthened to take on the form of a woman with extremely long hair that hung down, and even her ten fingers were about to appear.

Xiao Lan stared at the water stain with a frown. “It’s leaking. Given how fast it’s spreading, we won’t be able to sleep tonight ah…” 51SBKJ

He jumped off the bed right away, put on his slippers, and went out the door, leaving behind the water stain on the ceiling that had yet to completely take shape. Luo flicked his tail and briskly jumped out to follow in Xiao Lan’s footsteps.

The water stain left behind: …

You guys saw me ah! Am I not scary?! Give me five more minutes, I guarantee you’ll experience something you never ever have before!!

Xiao Lan went out and found a tool bag before he came back. QDm91s

He ignored the increasingly sinister water stain above his head, and went straight for the water pipe’s main valve in the room — and turned it off. He even repaired the ancient valve a little, after which he did some waterproofing on the old pipe on the side.

As a pauper who lived all year round in old houses that were waiting to be demolished, repairing water pipes was nothing out of the ordinary. Occasionally, when he truly didn’t have enough time, the simplest method was — turn off the main valve.

He went out to take a look. Mn, sure enough, the water wasn’t dripping anymore.

Luo tilted his head. “Sir, how did you know this would be effective?” noR0tv

Xiao Lan: “She wasted so much effort to create a water stain; she probably had to draw on this method in order to be able to come out, so I wondered what would happen if the water pipe was turned off.”

Luo: “What if it didn’t work?”

Xiao Lan was bold and confident. “Then just run ah. Look, she’s so slow in creating a water stain, she definitely can’t run fast.”

Luo: “…” OhwyGq

Amazing. So we just run if we can’t beat them huh?

Right at that moment, the phone which Xiao Lan had left next to the bed suddenly lit up. A blood-coloured app appeared on the taped-up screen. It was clear that no one had touched the handphone, yet the app started up on its own. Then —

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Five seconds passed…

Ten seconds passed… t2dRTD

Thirty seconds passed…

The app was doing its best to run, but the interface still couldn’t start up.

After that, the screen flickered, and this tattered handphone automatically shut down, unable to bear the heavy burden…

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Xiao Lan scratched his head. “Sorry ah, this handphone of mine is a counterfeit which I got from a supermarket lottery many years ago. I can’t even use WeChat usually, and only the phone, message, and torch functions can be used.”

The app turned itself off.

Yet this fellow even added, “How about waiting five minutes, and you try again when it restarts?”

App: … p6V Lw

Fuck!! Will you die if you buy a new phone?!!!

The author has something to say:

Counterfeit phone: Blame me lo.

Baobao Notes DPKz9o

I’m wheezing imagine such a shitty phone that ghosts can’t even turn on an app. How many horror novels would end at one chapter if the protagonist had such a phone lol