"Come over tomorrow morning, I'll talk to the person in charge of the soup pool, and you can pack your belongings too." Miss Ikuko said.

Qi Jiu: "Okay, then I'll go over and report early tomorrow morning." ”

After explaining, Miss Ikuko walked along the stone stacks towards the longhouse where the person in charge of "Yu-no-Yu" was.

The pale moonlight illuminated the white mist, and in the dead silence, the sound of clogs hitting the stone stacks was amplified exponentially, and the "cluck, cluck" struck Qi Yan's tense nerves again and again.

It wasn't until Miss Yuzi's figure disappeared into the thick fog that Qi Yan slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qi Zhen also noticed one thing, during this short meeting with Miss Yuzi, the ghost fire bamboo lamp in his hand burned very steadily, and the ghost lamp did not continue to provide him with the pleasure value of yin qi transformation.

This shows that the Yin Qi value around Miss Yuko did not increase when she appeared.

On the other hand, the current Miss Yuzi is not a ghost, and is likely to be just an ordinary human being.

But if that's the case, why would Ikuko-san, who is a human being, hurt the handyman who works in the hot pool? In the shrine illusion, she expresses that she wants to take a sip of her own blood, is that Miss Yuko's need to continue her energy after becoming an evil spirit, or is it her long-standing habit?

Qi Zhen recalled a dream about the male oiran not long ago, and the guy in the dream personally brewed a scarlet blood wine for him.

And the long knife that sits under the blood-stained screen, is it a hint that the guy gave himself?

In the illusion, Miss Ikuko's mouth cracked to the base of her ear, and thick and smelly blood continued to overflow from her crack......

- "Blood" seems to be a very important image.

Miss Yuzi's work efficiency is very high, and after about ten minutes, the middle-aged woman in charge of the recruitment and operation of the hot spring opened Qi Jiu's paper and pushed the door: "The people over there in Yuzhiwu have spoken, you can go over there directly tomorrow morning to work, and it will pass as soon as the morning dawns, don't delay." ”

Qi Zhen bowed his head: "Okay, I understand." ”

The middle-aged woman poked her head into the room, the room was too cramped, and she had no intention of entering the room.

At this time, Qi Yan had already taken off the "Wan Mei" mask on his face, and the lights in the room were dim, but he only had a brief glimpse, and the middle-aged woman who vaguely saw Qi Yan's face was stunned for a moment.

She didn't recognize the face, but that didn't stop her from being slightly shocked.

She didn't seem to expect this boy from the countryside to be so white and peugeot, which was not at all like the face of being exposed to the scorching sun all year round and doing heavy physical work.

The middle-aged woman narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at Qi Yan meaningfully for a while, and asked in an ambiguous tone, "I said, you didn't take off your employee mask in front of that Oiran lady, did you?" ”

Qi Yan shook his head: "Miss Yuzi is also our customer, I will abide by the rules, and I will never take off my mask in front of guests." ”

The middle-aged woman looked at his serious explanation, and couldn't hold back her giggles: "I didn't expect it, you kid really have some ability, that difficult Oiran rarely takes the initiative to ask for people, but it's ......"

She paused meaningfully, and looked at Qi Yan for a moment, "I advise you to be careful in everything, otherwise it would be a pity to have such a beautiful face." ”

"Thanks for the reminder." Qi Zhen replied quietly.

After speaking, she closed the paper and pushed the door again for Qi Jiu.

The clatter of clogs disappeared into the night.

When the lights go out, the white mist rising from the bath brightens the night.

Qi Jiu, who had just been lying on the tatami mat, suddenly heard a sound of footsteps coming from the stone stack road not far away, and he immediately sat up, squatted on the side of the broken paper pushing the door and looked out.

On the stone stack road leading to the female bath, Miss Ikuko led an aristocratic man wearing a teahouse-dyed yukata inside, and the sound of small laughter and unsettling clogs echoed in the thick fog.

Of course, Qi Ji has not forgotten Article 4 of the "Employee Code" - the soup pool is divided into male and female soups, but if you see a male guest entering the female bath, please choose to ignore it, and vice versa.

It seems that the women of the "Yu-no-yu" next door often bring the men to the women's bath.

Soon, the ambiguous laughter disappeared, and Qi Yan lay back on the cold tatami mat.

The white mist spilled into the house through the broken hole in the paper push door, and Qi Yan, who was lying under the quilt, suddenly had an idea for an experiment.

The spirit stone given by the witch was still lying in the inventory and never had a chance to use it.

Since there are many speculations about the missing employee in Yuike, it is better to test it with the spirit stone, if you can successfully summon the spirit of the Uesugi Yue, it means that the missing employee has encountered an accident, and by the way, you can ask who his murderer is.

After all, he is now lying in Uesugi Yue's room, and the energy field here is very deeply connected with Uesugi Yue, even if Qi Yan does not have a talent for soul conjuring, with the help of the spirit stone, it is not difficult to summon the original occupants.

Qi Yan hung the spirit stone on his finger, and shook the spirit stone in the mist like a witch.

The area around the longhouse was quiet, so quiet that you could hear the sound of the fog flowing.

Lying on the tatami mat, Qi Jiu felt that the air in the room was getting more and more humid and the temperature plummeted.

The ghost fire bamboo lamp he hung at the head of the bed began to rise with blue flames, and Qi Jiu's hand shaking the spirit stone suddenly stopped, it seemed that he had succeeded.

In the darkness, he suddenly heard the sound of small boxes and cabinets, like rats scurrying around in lockers in the middle of the night looking for food.

However, countless rat poisons were thrown near the hot pool, and no rats were allowed to disturb the guests in Yuzhiyu.

The ghost fire burned more and more, dyeing the white night mist blue.

The sound of squirming became clearer and clearer, and at the same time, Qi Jiu's pleasure value began to slowly decrease.

What the hell is -

"What about my portraits? I'm hiding here... What about Ikuko's portrait... Who took the portrait of Miss Ikuko...? ”

Suddenly, Qi Zhen heard a vague chattering voice, which seemed to ring in his ears, and seemed to come from a long distance.

Qi Yan opened his eyes in the darkness, and he saw in his peripheral vision that a translucent, very weak-looking spirit was floating in the night mist.

This is probably the missing handyman who has become a spirit state-Uesugi Koshi.

At this time, Uesugi in a spirit state bowed into a semi-circular arc, and was lying on the side of the storage box looking for the portrait of Miss Ikuko that had been thrown away by Qi Jiu.

Sure enough, the missing employee of the hot spring has already met with an accident, and running away with money may just be a cover-up.

"You're back," Qi Yan said to the former resident as if chatting with his arm on his back, "I'm sorry, I threw away those portraits, and the person in charge told me that you won't be coming back." ”

Qi Zheng had a plan, he used the spirit stone to test the survival of the missing employees, and once the returned spirit body went violent, he summoned the rampaging Rossetti to violently suppress it.

The rules only say that you can't hurt the aborigines, but they don't say that you can't hurt the aborigines and become ghosts.

The spirit remained prostrate for a few seconds, and then let out a low whimper: "Woo woo woo is obviously a portrait that I have collected for a long time... Woo woo my Miss Yuko... How can you do this... slept in my room and threw my baby..."

"I'm sorry, but that's true."

Qi Yan breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, it seemed that the same filth he encountered in the soup pool last time, the spirit in front of him was a wandering resentful spirit that would not take the initiative to attack people.

"Woo woo woo you also took away the salary I saved for a long time, right......"

Qi Yan looked at him quietly: "You tell me how you died, and I will burn those portraits for you tomorrow morning." ”

"Really?" The spirits craned their necks excitedly in the darkness.

Through the moonlight outside the window, Qi Yan vaguely saw the pitiful appearance of the spirit.

Uesugi seemed to have experienced some great pain and extreme fear before he died, his gray face was extremely distorted, a pair of violent eyes almost glared out of his sockets, his pupils were abnormally shrunk into a small black dot, his head was tilted to the right in a strange arc, his right hand was pressed against his neck, and the blood seeping from his fingers had turned black and clumped.

"Really, I promise," Qi Jiu sat up and said solemnly, "Uesugi Yue, how did you die?" ”

Suddenly called by name, the spirit trembled violently.

Then he suddenly convulsed violently like the filth in the soup pool, as if recalling the extreme fear and pain before he died, and his mouth let out a heart-rending whimper: "It's Miss Yuko... Miss Ikuko... Miss Ikuko! ”

"It was Miss Ikuko who bit you, right?" Qi Zhen asked, and said in a light tone, "She made you hurt a lot, didn't she?" ”

He remembered that the filth of the soup pool had said something similar.

The mist on the spirit body's face instantly dissipated, and he suddenly nodded fiercely: "Yes, it's Miss Yuko, she bit me so much... Woo woo... Help me... Woooooooo ”

It seems that the filth in the soup pool was also one of the handymen who disappeared that year, and Miss Ikuko was the culprit of the disappearance.

Qi Yan hurriedly asked: "Why did she bite you?" Has she always been like this? ”

"She'......"

At that moment, a muffled male scream came from the dense fog outside the house.

"Here we go again... She started again..."The poor Uesugi spirit was so weak that it was startled by the screams outside, and then the whole spirit was like a poorly touched TV screen, and after a few flashes, the power was completely lost and disappeared.

Qi Yan immediately put his ear to the window and listened carefully.

A rush of footsteps came from the stone stack, and disappeared into the depths of the soup pool, followed by a very low quarrel, something seemed to have happened in the direction of the female soup, Qi Zhen remembered that not long ago, Miss Yuzi held a noble male boy and walked towards the female soup.

Could it be that Miss Yuko has done it again?

But the footsteps and quarrels were soon silenced, and the whole pool returned to dead silence.

Qi Zhen couldn't hear any movement anymore, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, so he took a deep breath, and the fishy smell in the air seemed to be heavier.

But if his inference is correct, why does Miss Yuko, as a human being, bite people and drink blood?

It seems that there are more causes and effects and clues, and you can only enter the Yu Mansion to explore.

【Congratulations on successfully completing the side quest [The Truth About the Missing Employee] to unlock Survival Coins*200】

[Complete the side quest to unlock additional item rewards: "The Blessing of the Missing Employees of Yunoyu"]

Qi Ji clicked on the newly obtained props to view——

[Item Description: An auxiliary prop, condensed from the regret of the missing handyman in Yu's Soup, which can make the invisible resentful spirits in the vicinity appear in their bodies, so as to help the user attack more accurately]

It turned out to be a support item.

Qi Ji thought for a moment, and he thought that the use of props recommended by the system was a bit wasteful, and this prop might be of greater value.

Qi Yan regretted Uesugi who "said goodbye" to him.

He opened the paper and pushed the door, and took the garbage that had not had time to throw away outside the door back into the house, and in the garbage was the portrait of Miss Yuzi that had been thrown away by himself, and he turned the portrait out again, planning to burn it for the poor Yuzi fan before going to the Yuzhiya tomorrow morning to report.

However, Qi Yan is a little uncertain now, after recalling everything before his death, does Uesugi still want a portrait of his murderer?

*

The second half of the night was very calm, and Qi Jiu, who was lying on the tatami mat, fell asleep in a daze.

Perhaps because he was busy in the soup pool all night, Qi Yan was also in the white mist in the soup pool in his dream.

He stripped off his bathrobe and walked out into the milk-white water, which was just the right temperature, the rich smell of natural sulfur filled his nose, and a small oil lamp flickered in the night.

The moon rose to mid-heaven, and the pale moonlight silently illuminated the steaming white mist.

It was quiet, as if time had stopped flowing.

Until the surface of the thick white soup pool set off a small wave, through the thick fog, Qi Zhen felt a pair of eyes staring at him behind him.

The breath of danger is looming.

At this moment, Qi Yan couldn't move, as if he was shot the night he was shot, and he couldn't turn back when he was standing at the crossroads.

But Qi Zhen was not panicked, and he didn't need to look back, he knew who the guy who was quietly approaching.