Chapter 47: Warm Resort (19)
Seeing that Jin Haiping stopped talking, Yun Lan sighed, and his tone softened slightly: "The resort will not give us any clues, if you want to know the clues, you have to contact the villagers outside...... I've asked, as long as you come back before dark, it's okay to wander the streets. ”
Jin Haiping raised his eyebrows, and Yun Lan continued, "I'm going to look for clues in a while." Call a few other people together, and we must find the clues to the source before tonight, and we can't delay it any longer! ”
"I don't know what tomorrow's travel plans will be...... But it doesn't matter, if you find the trace of the source, you can quickly destroy it. This tour guide and front desk ...... No, it should be said that the whole resort should be a puppet of the source. As long as it is destroyed, the resort will be safe, and the remaining days will naturally be able to survive with the survivors! ”
"You have a point." Jin Haiping pondered for a moment, nodded, and returned, "This mission unexpectedly did not lose the number of hunters, so it is indeed more than enough to deal with the things at the source." ”
and...... Tomorrow's attraction is the 'Qianhu Temple'. ”
"How do you know?" Yun Lan looked at him suspiciously and asked.
"Because I'm more social than you." Jin Haiping smiled, "I asked ordinary tourists, they will have a plan before signing up for a tour group, I went to see it, and I naturally knew." ”
Yun Lan stopped talking, and she suddenly felt a little silly.
Feeling that the name of this scenic spot was very familiar, Yun Lan read the word Qianhu several times in her heart: "Qianhu Temple...... Qianhu ...... Qianhu? Wait, if I'm not mistaken, the name of this playground is also called Qianhu, right? ”
"Hmm...... It seems like yes. Jin Haiping pondered for a moment and replied, "Since this is a tour group, the places to go should also be the most famous local attractions." And this 'Qianhu Lake' can be used as the name of an important local scenic spot, which shows that this Qianhu Lake is definitely not a simple word, but is likely to be an important place name. ”
"Is it possible that this district, or the name of this town?" Yun Lan put forward a hypothesis, and then Jin Haiping quickly rejected it: "No, it's not right. I already knew the local place names when I looked at the tour planner. ”
"Yun Lan, do you remember, where is the biggest source thing that we recognize?"
"It's ......in the water," Yun Lan replied, and then her eyes widened as if she had thought of something: "Wait, what do you mean...... Could it be that it is in this so-called 'Qianhu Lake'?! ”
Jin Haiping nodded, the meaning was self-evident.
"The temple represents faith, so the name is not taken randomly." Yun Lan straightened out her thoughts, and then said: "If you can use this lake as the name of a temple, it means that what is enshrined in this temple is very likely to be related to the things in Qianhu Lake, maybe ...... It's the source! ”
"Well, these villagers are cursed, and the reason is probably because of the source. And the reason why the Source Thing curses these villagers is probably because these villagers have done something that is sorry for the Source Thing. So much so that after its death, resentment enveloped the township, making the people of the town uneasy. ”
"No wonder...... They are going to build a temple to worship, no, to repent. No wonder they walked down the street with those sacrificial incense sticks...... Wait, these villagers seem to have started to prepare the items needed for the sacrifice! This illustrates...... In the near future, they are going to the Qianhu Temple to offer incense. ”
"Well, in the travel plan I saw, the tourism activities in the next few days are also related to this sacrifice." Jin Haiping replied, "But...... The planner talks about the festival, a festival that is very important to the locals, and that festival is called the 'Lantern Festival'.
Since I was writing about festivals at the beginning, and festivals are generally festive days, I didn't think about offering to the things of the source. Now it seems that this festival should also be created for this source thing. ”
Yun Lan nodded, and her eyes looked at the exit of the playground that was already close at hand: "The most important thing at the moment is to ask the villagers for the specific location of this Qianhu Lake." And with another night at the resort, no one knows what will happen that night. Yun Lan said as she stepped out of the small iron gate one step ahead of Jin Haiping.
"Wait......" At this moment, an old and hoarse old man's voice came from the direction of the ticket office. Before Yun Lan could look there, a thin, yellowed hand blocked her way in front of her.
Somewhat surprised, it looked like the ticket office, and the thin hand was sticking out of the window of the black hole. Even though the distance is so close, this transparent glass window seems to be shrouded by a barrier that cannot be seen through. Yun Lan could only see the hand sticking out of the glass window, and wanted to go a little further, but she couldn't see clearly at all.
The female guide stood not far away, with her arms folded, watching this scene very calmly.
"What's the matter with you?" Yun Lan squirmed her lips and asked a little stiffly at the half of her arm.
"Ticket...... Appearances...... You need to check the ticket......" said slowly, the old hoarse voice.
Yun Lan suddenly realized, and then took out the somewhat crumpled ticket that had been rolled up from his trouser pocket. Handed it to the old man's stretched palm, Yun Lan was about to withdraw his finger, but found that the old man's skinny finger under his hand actually understood quickly, and a hard thing was exchanged to Yun Lan's hand. Yun Lan's eyes narrowed, she pretended to be casual with an expressionless face, and calmly withdrew her fingers.
The small object rubbed between her fingers, and Yun Lan was probably sure it was a ring.
This detail naturally couldn't escape Jin Haiping's eyes, and he quietly handed over the tickets to the amusement park, and then followed Yun Lan's steps towards the tour guide.
The tour guide's expression was very calm, and he didn't seem to notice these small movements. Yun Lan breathed a sigh of relief, put it in her pocket, stood not far from the side of the guide, and looked back at the travelers who came out one after another behind her.
By the time all the rest of the people arrived, the bus had already driven to the door.
The car door opened, Yun Lan looked up, it had been three days, and the driver was still wearing the same clothes. Yun Lan looked at the kettle beside him, which was still the same as a few days ago, as if it had not been drunk at all.
The driver was not an important person, and Yun Lan just glanced at him, then turned around and walked to the last row to sit down.
The bus started slowly, and Xu Wenlong's small notebook simply wrote down the results of the discussion with Jin Haiping in the notebook for several other people to see. After sharing the information, Xu Wenlong raised a question:
"If you investigate clues today and go alone tomorrow, when should you go?"
"Tomorrow's sightseeing time is from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., so we can go in the evening. But...... If you don't return before 12 o'clock, the average tourist who stays in the resort will be dangerous. Jin Haiping returned.
"If you have to do it tomorrow, then you can directly tear your face with the tour guide at that time, right? Wouldn't it be nice to just ignore the tour guide during the day? Lin Zhixing said.
"No, no." Jin Haiping also wrote, "Once the rules are violated, these ghosts will directly appear in their original form." We don't know their level of supernatural beings, and if they are high, it will definitely be a problem that drains our strength. ”
"By the way, just now, at the ticket office, the old woman inside who didn't know if it was a person or a ghost gave me a ring." Yun Lan wrote, took out the ring and looked at it briefly. The ring appears to be made of silver material, with no patterns, and looks unremarkable. It's just that when Yun Lan's eyes looked at the inside of the ring, she saw the word "lamp" engraved on it.
Lamp? Yun Lan remembered what Jin Haiping said about the "Qianlantern Festival", the Qianhu Qian, the lantern ...... Is it just a word in the name of the source thing? What was the purpose of the old woman who sold the ticket and handed her this object?
Write down your guesses on a piece of paper, and hold the ring between the notebooks. Several hunters quickly checked and browsed it, but none of them found anything wrong with the ring.
At this point, the speed of the car slowly stopped. Yun Lan took back the ring and looked out the window. Outside the window was the familiar entrance to the resort, and Yun Lan and a few people got out of the car, but did not follow the guide into the resort.
A few ordinary tourists immediately became uneasy when they saw this, and Jin Haiping could only appease a few people first and go back to their respective rooms to rest first, don't move around, and wait for them to come back in the evening and get together again.
Hearing this, ordinary travelers relaxed a little and followed the female guide into the gate. The female tour guide took a deep look at a few people, and then led everyone inside without looking back.
Seeing that the team had gone far, several people hurriedly confirmed the direction of each other. The town is not big, and almost every time you pass by a market not far away on the bus. As long as a few people follow the route to find there, they can meet a relatively concentrated number of villagers.
At the end of the road, which lasted about half an hour, there was a vague outline of the market, and not far ahead, an old man walking slowly with a bundle of incense for worship appeared.
"Old, old man!" Lin Zhixing ran over quickly, shouting while running, jumping the old man, and the originally slow movements on the anxious old man's feet seemed to be a lot faster.
"Eh, don't run!" It's a pity that the old man is Lin Zhixing's opponent, and after a while, Lin Zhixing successfully caught up with him, and then patted the old man on the shoulder.
"Ahh The old man let out a frightened cry and nearly fell to the ground. But just as he immediately fell to the other side, he was yelled "not good", and then Xu Wenlong, who also caught up, supported his figure.
"You...... You ......" The old man was shocked, looking at these young people who were out of place in the village, his voice trembled, and he didn't know what to say.
"Oh, that's right, old man. A few of us are tourists who come to this village. I've heard that there will be a festival called the 'Lantern Festival' here recently, and I'm curious, so I wanted to ask you about the details of the festival. Xu Wenlong smiled kindly and politely, and asked in a gentle tone.
The old man's face, which had eased slightly, immediately turned a little whiter when he heard the words 'Qian Lantern Festival', and immediately waved his hand that could not be shaken fast because of the curse and said, "Uh...... What, what is the Lantern Festival...... I do not know...... I do not know...... Guys, go away......"