Chapter 196: Eternal Life Pavilion
Your expression? Du Youlan looked at me curiously, then turned her eyes around, "What did you find here?" ”
"Well, the smell ......"
"The smell again?"
"Yes, but this time it's a little different." I told Du Youlan about the events of the day, and was about to ask her if she had found anything unusual in the hotel or around when she left before, but if you think about it carefully, she is not Yao Qianwen.
So, I stared at the door and continued, "The smell is now very faint again, almost gone. If so, perhaps the person who just smelled of it was passing by the outside of my door. ”
Du Youlan's gaze also shifted to the door, "Before, there seemed to be a voice. But this is a hotel, and no one cares if someone passes by outside the door. ”
At this point in the conversation, I rolled over and got out of bed, and then opened the door. Sure enough, the smell in the corridor was slightly stronger than in the room.
"This scene is familiar." Du Youlan said beside me.
"Déjà vu?" I asked.
She reminded: "That hotel in Vietnam the other day. ”
Mina flashed through my mind, and then shook my head, "This time it's different, it's definitely not the smell of worms, absolutely not." ”
"But why were you able to capture it?"
I stopped and looked at Du Youlan suspiciously, "What, do you think my sense of smell can't distinguish any other smells except the smell of insects?" ”
"Then why can't I smell it?" She asked.
I didn't respond to the question, looking at the door in front of me, "The smell is here, but it's like what I smell during the day, it's faint." ”
"You mean the same person?"
"Probably. But if it's really the girl during the day, it's interesting. ”
Du Youlan looked at the door and said lightly, "So, do you think she intends to follow you?" ”
That's it.
She was a hostage at that time, and there will be a series of troublesome things waiting for her in the future, so it is impossible to follow me to Yin Chuan. Moreover, since she was now staying in this little hotel, she had determined that I was staying here at least two hours ago, that is, she had followed me since I left.
It's just that when she entered the hotel, I was already asleep and didn't notice her smell at first.
Of course, it may be that these are all my thoughts, and everything is just a coincidence. However, the probability of this coincidence is very small, and I am a person who does not believe in coincidences.
So, I knocked lightly on the door.
Then I heard movement in the room, faintly, like a man tiptoeing towards the door. At that moment, I was sure that all my guesses were correct, and no normal person would be so nervous in the face of such a simple knock on the door.
She didn't mean to open the door for a long time, so I kept knocking.
Through the door, I heard as keenly as my sense of smell, and I could vaguely feel the heartbeat of the person on the inside of the door, faster and faster, as if I was very nervous and frightened.
So, I whispered, "Open the door." ”
Immediately after, I heard the sound of the doorknob being grabbed inside, but apparently it wasn't to open the door for me, but to grab the door to death and prevent me from entering.
"It's kind of interesting." In fact, I was also curious, so I looked around, and when I saw that there were no outsiders, I directly alienated my left hand, screwed the doorknob, and then pushed the door in. As I expected, the person inside was indeed the girl named Su Zi during the day. She was knocked to the ground by the sound of me pushing the door, and she was holding a glass ashtray in her hand.
Looks like they're ready to attack me when I break down the door.
I motioned for Du Youlan to close the door for me, and then crouched down to the girl's side alone, and held out her hand, "Need my help, little girl?" ”
She moved her body and stepped back, and she could tell from the look in her eyes that she was very afraid of me, "You, what are you going to do......"
"I should ask you this, if I remember correctly, I just saved you today. But now you're stalking me very strangely. You don't seem to be ready to repay me or anything, am I right? ”
"I, I...... When did I follow you, who you are, I don't know you at all. ”
"You forgot?"
"I didn't ...... Thank you, thank you for saving me today. What about you, can you get out of here now? ”
I laughed, and despite her resistance, I pulled her up from the ground, and by the way, I snatched the ashtray that was about to hit me, I put the ashtray on the shoe rack in the doorway, and looked the girl up and down, "You are indeed a little different, but the way you look doesn't seem to give me a clear answer." Tell me why you're following me. ”
"I said I wasn't following you!" She retreated to the middle of the room and looked around, as if looking for something to use as a weapon.
I fumbled into a pocket, and there was a small folding knife in it, and I threw it to her, "Need this?" ”
She immediately picked it up and placed the knife in front of her, the tip of which was pointed at me. But a few seconds later, another knife was still on the ground, his face was desperate, and his mouth muttered, "Forget it, it's useless, you monsters...... Can't die. ”
"You saw it." I smiled and continued to walk towards her.
"Don't come here!"
"I didn't mean to hurt you, I just wanted to find out why you were following me. If I heard me right, you just said 'you monsters,' and you know I'm a monster, but I don't seem to be the monster you've seen for the first time. ”
She didn't respond, just looked at me, and in addition to fear and despair, there was a slight doubt in her eyes.
"Little girl, since you know that I am a monster, you should understand that I am different from the robber during the day, and I want to kill you, and no one can stop me. So I ask you one last time, why the hell are you stalking me. This time, I don't want to hear superfluous answers. ”
I looked directly at her, her eyes continued to flicker, and she seemed to be resisting, but my words had some effect, her mouth was open, but the nonsense was not spoken.
After a moment, she looked at me with difficulty, "I, I want to know my dad and sister, they ...... Where are they now......"
"Huh?" I didn't quite understand what she said, so I asked, "Where are your father and sister?" Are they missing? And you, think I'll know where they are? ”
She nodded, then shook her head, "No, it's just...... Met you here, I think you might have something to do with that place. ”
"That place? Which place? ”
"Eternal Life Pavilion ......"
Eternal Life Hall, the first time I heard the name.
I don't know why, but the moment I heard it, my body felt like it was overpowered, and I became interested in these three words like a mystery.
So I asked, "Tell me your story, I'm a little interested." ”
At this time, Du Youlan walked in, and then I said, "Me too." ”
Maybe Su Zi didn't want to say it at first, but fortunately, I was ugly enough after alienation, and after a series of intimidations, she finally told her story.
Su Ziben was born in an ordinary family, with a sister and a brother, her father is patriarchal, and his love for his younger brother is far better than that of the two sisters. But fate never gives anyone face, and my father's favorite brother died of illness at the age of eighteen, and my father was so grief-stricken that he could not let go of it until many years later. But people are always lucky, Su Zi's father successfully invested and made a windfall, and then he met a woman, that is, the stepmother of Su Zi and her sister. But in fact, their mother did not pass away, but the appearance of the stepmother forced her to divorce Su Zi's father.
So Su Zi has always hated that woman, but in addition to hatred, there is also fear.
Hatred is understandable, but what about fear? Su Zi said that the reason for this fear was a serious illness born by his father. That disease, like Su Zi's younger brother, was a terminal illness and his life was short. At that time, the stepmother decided to let her father give up the treatment in the hospital, Su Zi thought that the woman was in a hurry to divide the family property, and the father was discharged from the hospital because of his sick love for the stepmother, completely ignoring the physical pain. But after that, my father's illness recovered in a short time.
However, Su Zi was not happy, she knew that her father's illness was incurable, and the reason why her father would recover was because her stepmother ate something for her.
“…… Like flesh, but not flesh, like plasma, but not plasma. ”
This is Su Zi's description of that kind of thing.
She said that since her father ate it, he quickly recovered. If it was just that the illness was cured, then Su Zi would naturally be happy, but since then, his father's temperament has changed greatly, he loves that woman even more, and he has become more and more estranged from the Su Zi sisters.
"It's nothing, but ...... But something very terrible happened......" Speaking of this, Su Zi's face became more and more pale, she turned her eyes to me, and suddenly asked, "You...... Will you eat me? ”
So, I asked rhetorically, "Did your father eat people?" ”
He shook his head realistically, nodded again, and then shook his head again, "I don't know...... But, but after that, my domestic servants disappeared twice, and one of them, who had been working in my house for a long time, after that, I found half a hand in the freezer where the food was stored, and it was ...... It has her ring on it...... I haven't actually seen my father eat people, but he fell in love with eating raw food, those flesh and blood, which didn't look like the pigs, beef and mutton we usually eat, and I don't know if I guessed right or wrong......"
Speaking of which, her words were a little out of sorts, no matter what her father was eating, the manpower in the freezer at least showed that the chances of the missing maid surviving were already very low.
"And then, you still haven't said anything about the connection between the Eternal Life Pavilion and this matter." I continued to ask.
"Relevant, because the woman is missing!"
"Your stepmother?" I asked.
Su Zi nodded, and then continued: "She once mentioned the Eternal Life Pavilion to my father, but I don't know what kind of place it is. My sister knows that, too. Later, the woman left, and for some reason, her father also left, saying that he was going to find her, to the Eternal Life Hall. Then my sister went to her father...... Before my sister left, I told me that the place called the Eternal Life Pavilion was in Yinchuan. ”
So, Su Ya came here.
At this point, her story is probably over.
But that's not all, there is also a very crucial question, "Why do you think that I am the person from the Eternal Life Pavilion?" At first, you probably didn't think so, it was all because you saw the wound in my abdomen. You think my self-healing is weird, don't you? But why do you see people who heal themselves very quickly, and you must think that they are from the Eternal Life Hall? If I'm right, have you ever seen your stepmother's wounds heal quickly? You don't seem to have mentioned this to me yet. ”