CHAPTER 17: He's married?

Opening the door, the five people entered and saw two paths ahead. They split up, three of them went to the back of the hotel, the other two turned to the right.

The rain had stopped, but the dark clouds kept gathering, obscuring the light, making the afternoon seem like evening. The hotel's backyard was damp, with a faint smell of grass and soil. Xie Ying stood in the middle of the open space and looked around. There was nothing but grass, flowers, and sand.

Liu Yu stepped on the grass and walked towards the corner of the dirty white wall. He saw something shining underneath the grass and picked it up.

"Gold!" Liang Zun exclaimed beside him.

"Gold?" Xie Ying also walked over.

He said, "Ha, this hotel is really rich, there's gold everywhere."

Liang Zun's eyes lit up as he pushed up his glasses: "Maybe the secret of this place is the burial place of gold and silver treasures. If we find them, we'll be rich."

"What can being rich do in this curse?" Liu Yu coldly glared at him.

"Well... Well..." He was embarrassed and forgot that he was in a curse.

He put the gold in his pocket, since entering Qing Fei Hotel he had picked up two gold pieces, there must be a lot of gold scattered around this hotel.

The three of them walked around, the front was blocked by large logs stacked on top of each other so they couldn't get to the backyard. They just wandered around the empty grassy area next to the hotel. They couldn't find anyone, there couldn't be anyone behind the logs because that miserable scream only echoed around here. The three of them turned back, just as they reached the door...

"Ah Ah Ah!!!". Li Xia Juan's scream rang out.

Liang Zun's face turned pale and he immediately ran in to see what happened to his girlfriend.

Li Xiao Juan sat on the floor in front of the room with a look of utter terror, her mouth gaping open and trembling, unable to speak, her eyes twitching repeatedly. Liang Zun immediately ran to support her, his eyes accidentally glanced inside, he was so shocked that he staggered back, his face pale, he was even more terrified than Li Xiao Juan.

The rope hanging from the neck of a corpse with missing limbs was not blowing a breath of wind but still swayed back and forth as if following the rhythm of the light and heavy shaking. Seeing the two people standing there dead, he and the boy walked over.

Xie Ying frowned and looked into the room: "Xiao Xin?!".

Liu Yu's expression did not change: "The initial scream was not from this little girl, from what I can see, her body has been dead for more than half a day."

Bai Hu stood next to Xiao Xin's corpse with his eyes closed, one hand holding a stick behind his back, the other hand praying, he was chanting something in his mouth and then walked around the corpse, then stood in front of the corpse, he folded his two fingers and pointed them straight at the corpse and opened his eyes wide. He flew out and turned to look at the others: "Go!".

The others standing outside the door: "?!".

A cold wind in the room slapped the group of people's faces, extremely stinging. The door automatically slammed shut, Liang Zun was startled and tried to regain his composure, grabbing Li Xiao Juan's hand: "You! You! Quyen Quyen! Let's go!".

Li Xiao Juan still couldn't calm down, he saw that and pulled her hand and ran.

The others ran back to the lobby, Liang Zun and Li Xiao Juan were panting. The horrifying image was still lingering in his mind, his face was as pale as a banana leaf: "I... What the hell did I just witness?!".

Li Xiao Juanbeside him trembled with fear: "Xin... Xin... She...".

Bai Hu leaned on his cane: "Calm down".

The two of them couldn't help but be scared, Xie Ying coldly looked at him: "What exactly did you do just now?".

Bai Hu glared at him, after a while he said: "Calling the soul".

"That's not her soul". He said, suddenly brushing it away.

Xie Ying didn't understand why he said this, while in his head these ideas and words didn't appear at all! It was clear that someone was controlling him to say it.

Bai Hu was surprised and immediately turned back to his cold expression, he didn't say anything, glanced at him then silently turned back and counted something with his fingers.

Li Xiao Juan grabbed Liang Zun's hand to make her feel safe, took a deep breath and exhaled, trying to calm down: "Everyone, let's go to the dining room, eat and drink to our heart's content, then do the mission".

The five of them returned to the dining room and sat down at the table.

"Huh? That waiter said he was going to bring out the food and didn't let us go, so why isn't there anything on the table yet?". Xie Ying was annoyed.

"First...Second...Three...Four...Five...Six...SEVEN!". Bai Hu opened his eyes wide and slammed his hand on the table, startling the people sitting there.

Liang Zun jumped up: "What's going on?!".

His trembling finger was raised and pointed towards the dining room door, saying: "Xiao Xin is there!!".

Everyone looked at his hand, Li Xiao Juan was shocked, her face pale, covering her mouth, unable to speak.

In front of the dining room door, Xiao Xin was completely intact, staring at the group of people. Suddenly, the lights went out for a moment, then turned on brightly.

"Ah ah!". Li Xiao Juan glanced over and saw Xiao Xin standing next to her.

She was so scared that she jumped out of her chair and ran to stand behind the Bai Hu's chair, Liang Zun couldn't help but jump over in fear.

Xiao Xin's face was bewildered: "Hey everyone? What did you do to scare everyone when you saw me?".

Liang Zun clasped his hands and bowed: "You're dead and you're still scaring us?! Go away!".

Li Xiao Juan was scared, but she wanted to hold her back, but also wanted her to disappear.

Xiao Xin looked at them and immediately understood something, she didn't say anything more and then walked over to the table five tables away from them and sat down alone.

Only then did Liang Zun and Li Xiao Juan calm down and sneakily sit down. Li Xiao Juan sat down while secretly looking at Xiao Xin sitting on the other side, feeling guilty but fear rising in her heart.

After listening to the story, Xie Cheng pondered and felt that there were a few suspicious points.

"The waiters acted like a pre-made programmer, and Manager Qin fell through the hole, and was that hole pre-made?". He said.

Liu Yu replied: "That hole must have been new because when he fell, the dirt and rocks on it fell all over him, so it couldn't have been pre-made."

"Maybe some monster attacked him and made him fall through the ceiling." Xie Ying spoke up.

Xie Cheng nodded: "It's possible, what about the waiters who could be ghosts?"

Liu Yu: "What you guys said makes sense, but there's one thing you guys haven't noticed yet."

The other three listened attentively, he said: "You guys must have heard the silver-haired guy talk about the piece of paper called the chicken's life, right?".

Liang Zun: "That's right, in each chicken's life of each new person, we only have one line that represents a life, and when we die, we can...".

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he slammed the table and clapped his hands: "Then it's possible to exchange for the life of the owner! If that's the case, then Xiao Xin exchanged a line to be resurrected!".

His expression was normal: "That's right, then you guys don't have to worry about that girl being a ghost anymore."

Liang Zun: "Then why didn't you tell us from the beginning so we wouldn't be so scared?".

Without saying anything, he shrugged and shook his head.

Xie Cheng had thought about this before, but he was not sure about the effects of the chicken life, so he was very worried. Now he understood.

"She lost her chicken life, so I gave her my chicken life. Does that have any effect?" Xie Ying said.

Liu Yu looked straight into his eyes: "Normally, in this curse, chicken network can be exchanged for each other."

The sharp amber phoenix eyes flashed with a golden light, pinning his eyes: "You gave your own life to someone else. Are you not afraid of death or are you not human?".

He emphasized the last sentence. Xie Ying glared at him, the red light inside his jet-black pupils flashed and then extinguished. He curled his lips: "Huh, am I not human or are you not human? Is there any human who lives to be eighty-something years old without changing their appearance? Only ghosts who live long enough to shed their skin."

Liu Yu twisted the ring on his ring finger, coldly: "This curse has no age or time limit, only survival and when to be killed".

The silver ring on his finger was noticed by Xie Cheng, he wondered if he was married? Where were his wife and children and why weren't they accompanying him?

It was just a guess, but he felt a little regretful in his heart, not understanding why it was like this, so he felt a little uncomfortable.

Could it be that he was going crazy?

He was nothing to him, just a new teammate.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yu asked.

Startled, he looked up and saw him asking him, he fiddled with his finger, not daring to look straight into his eyes: "It's nothing".

His eyes glanced down at his ring finger and then looked at him, his cold face relaxed slightly. He secretly looked at him, asking: "Are you married?".

Oh my god! What crazy question was he asking? Suddenly curious about other people's marriage, so nosy!

Liu Yu's lips curved into a smile, then returned to a cold state: "That's right, I had a wife and children."

I knew it, he not only had a wife but also children.

"But..." His phoenix eyes suddenly flashed with sadness: "My wife and children have been missing for decades, I'm still looking for her and my son, I'm sure that they are still alive."

"Hey, uncle!".

Xie Ying pulled Xie Cheng to sit close to him, wrapping his arms around his waist. He was extremely uncomfortable but had to hold back and glance at him: "Let's stop here, now we still have to eat and drink to regain strength for tonight."

Knock!

Xie Cheng hit his head: "This kid, what's wrong with you again?".

Xie Ying held his head and looked pitiful: "Why did you hit me? Don't you love me?".

Shaking his head helplessly, he really couldn't say anything to him.

Liu Yu: "....".

Liang Zun, who was not involved: "....".