Unexpectedly, he had completely forgotten about his younger brother Xie Ying! Only when he looked at Liu Yu did he remember.
With a cold expression, he withdrew his gaze from looking at him and said, "I don't know."
Although Xie Ying could survive on his own and not fear death, he was still very worried.
"She's with you, why do you say you don't know?".
He squeezed his hand tightly.
Liu Yu: ".....".
Suddenly realizing that he was holding the man's rough hand, he let go. A little embarrassed, he moved to the other side: "I... I'm sorry.",
Liu Yu looked at the fire, he said: "I'm the one who disappeared."
Xie Cheng frowned: "You disappeared?".
Him: "The thing is...".
A cold smoke suddenly appeared and drifted through the dark hallway, broken wooden limbs scattered all over the floor. Thirteen demon mannequins were smashed to pieces by Liu Yu and Xie Ying in a flash.
Xie Ying crushed one of the mannequin's arms, and curled his lips: "What do you think, just like that?".
Liu Yu picked up the wooden hand that only had three fingers left, and said: "I have a pretty scary thought."
Xie Ying raised his eyebrows, not caring about anything scary. For him, who had lost the sense of fear a long time ago, those ghosts and demons were just trivial.
Liang Zun pushed his glasses: "What's wrong?".
Breaking a finger on the wooden hand, he was about to open his mouth to speak when suddenly the hallway shook again. This time it was much more violent, the tiles on the floor cracked in one place and then spread out in many places. In the end, the tiles were shattered.
BOOM!
The floor collapsed, everything present in the hallway fell down. A black space appeared and covered the hallway, and the three people were suspended in mid-air.
Xie Ying caught his flying baseball bat, and looked around: "Where is that uncle?".
He had fallen into another dimension alone, the dazzling light passed and he appeared in this ruined room.
"That's the story." He said.
He was so worried that Xie Cheng bit his nails: "Ying is sometimes hot-tempered, sometimes cold, I'm afraid she will change her personality and get into danger!".
"She will be fine." He pinned the sweet potato and gave it to him.
He added the following sentence: "Eat more, the road is long."
He raised his head and refused to accept it: "I'm full."
He stood up and was about to leave when he was grabbed by the hand and pulled back to sit down, a low voice rang out in his ear: "Xie Cheng, have you ever suspected that your teammates are ghosts? Even your younger brother?".
"What..?". His warm breath blew out, causing the rim of his ear to suddenly turn red in the heat of his rising heart.
Pushing him away, he blushed slightly and stood up: "What ghost? How can we not trust each other as teammates?".
He immediately went over and sat next to Xiao Xin: "Look at this cute girl, where is there a ghost?".
Xiao Xin was concentrating on eating to be full so she could do her mission when he grabbed her and said something that made her confused, tilting her head: "What's wrong, Brother Xie?".
Xie Cheng: "See? She doesn't know anything yet".
Letting her go, he supported her head: "As for Xiao Ying... She has multiple personalities, so every now and then I often hear others scolding her for being crazy, possessed".
Sighing: "Don't worry, she only has fits once in a while so she's not a ghost".
She glanced up and saw him looking at her with a thoughtful gaze, suddenly remembering that Xie Ying had said he looked very suspicious before.
But really, thinking back now, this handsome man really had something that made people suspicious. Even though he had gone through dozens of years, hundreds of missions, and was considered a veteran, it was impossible for him to know everything.
The missions were different hundreds of times, they weren't all the same. So how could he guess everything?
The events that happened were so confusing that he was afraid that he would doubt himself in the future, let alone doubt him.
He took a deep breath and exhaled, and was about to open his mouth to speak to regain the atmosphere when Liu Yu spoke first: "Xie Cheng, did you find any clues along the way?".
That was what he was going to ask him!
He felt like he had read his mind, so he avoided his gaze. He took out a notebook from his pocket and said: "I found this notebook, inside there are two pieces of paper I picked up before."
He handed it to him.
Liu Yu frowned slightly as he opened the first pages, to the page with two pieces of paper.
He read and pondered, then suddenly said: "It's so vague, so the person who witnessed everything and wrote the diary from 1968 to 1988 was the same person. And...".
He flipped to the last page and said: "It was Qin Er".
Xie Cheng was surprised: "Qin Er?".
But how did he read the last page? It was already blacked out.
"You can see for yourself." He returned the notebook to him.
He took it and opened it to read. The last page was clearly blacked out, but now the blacked out traces had disappeared as if they had never existed, and lines of text appeared.
Read the contents inside:
"July 5, 1978.
She's really crazy!
Xing Xing... He... It's like he's no longer human!
Even I, Qin Er, who always confided in him, can't stop him anymore.
He doesn't listen to me like before!".
The only remaining lines have no content anymore, this page is not the last page. The notebook seems to have torn many pages at the back.
Do those torn pages have any connection to the secret of the Qing Fei Hotel?
"Qing Fei Hui, Xing Xing, Qin Er... What is the connection between these three people?". He tried to connect the three people together but still couldn't understand.
Especially this person named Xing Xing.
Liu Yu: "If it's Qing Fei Hui and Qin Er, then they can be considered the owner and manager."
Xie Cheng: "Then who is this Xing Xing?". Pausing for a moment, he said, "While in the black space, I met a young man who told me to tell Xing Xing to stop. I don't understand what he meant by stopping...".
While speaking, he suddenly remembered something and his face darkened: "That's right... I also found Qin Er's body in a chest."
"Do you remember where the chest is?". Xiao Xin also listened.
"I think...". He hesitated. It seemed like he had lost his way and could no longer remember where the room with the chest was.
Seeing that he had forgotten, he asked: "Do you remember any characteristics to identify the place where you found the chest?".
He pondered: "It seems like, after leaving that ruined room, there was a small corridor, at the end of the corridor leading to the outside yard...".
Realizing something, he immediately looked out into the garden and exclaimed: "That's right! The outside of that place looks quite similar to this garden!".
Liu Yu raised his eyebrows and took a sip of water: "So this is the place, right?"
"Eat and drink your fill and get ready." He handed the two of them two cups of warm water that had just been boiled.
Taking the cup of water, he wondered: "Wait, how are you sure this is the place?".
Expressionless, he said indifferently: "Experience".
It was experience again, every time he asked something, he always said experience. Wouldn't that make him even more suspicious of Xie Ying's previous words being correct?
He was extremely calm, not worried that anything would happen. He comfortably leaned his back against the wall of the cabinet, smoking a cigarette, took out an amethyst diamond ring from his pocket, and said: "This ring is yours, right?".
Xiao Xin raised her face, her eyes widening in surprise: "This, isn't mine."
She raised her hand, the silver of the ring and the purple of the diamond glittered on her ring finger: "I'm wearing it on my hand, that can't possibly be mine."
Liu Yu's expression didn't change, he coldly looked at the ring in his hand: "Is that so?".
Xie Cheng remembered something and moved closer to him: "Let me borrow the ring."
Taking the ring, he looked at the inside of the silver ring and said: "This is indeed Xiao Xin's."
He turned to give it to her: "Look, your name is on it."
"How can it have your name?" Xiao Xin took it in confusion, looking at her in shock: "Impossible, this engraving... is exactly like the ring you're wearing?!".
"?!".
Suddenly feeling something slippery crawling around her finger, she raised her hand and jumped in shock, throwing the thing on her finger away.
"Ah!".
The bright red little centipede flew into the red fire and was instantly roasted black.
Xiao Xin was so scared that she fell down. Xie Cheng grabbed the ring and supported her: "Hey, are you okay?".
Looking back at her finger, she couldn't see the ring but instead saw a deep bloody wound on her finger. Xiao Xin suddenly felt pain and squeezed her finger.
"Sob".
Xie Cheng immediately grabbed her hand: "Don't squeeze it, it'll swell up!".
"?!".
Liu Yu suddenly pulled him into his embrace: "Don't pinch it, the blood of that centipede is poisonous".
Saying that, he took out a small bottle of medicine without a label and a bandage from his pocket and gave it to her: "Wash the wound with this, then bandage it and go out there to catch some rainwater to wash your hands".
Xiao Xin immediately took it and walked to the side and did as he instructed.
He was still hugging him.
Xie Cheng: ".....".
I don't know why my heart was pounding, but I stayed still and let him hug me.
Had I gone crazy and no longer had the strength to resist?