Chapter 8: Resentment

Chapter 8: Grudge

When touching Li Yuejun's shoulder, Bai Yanliang felt her fear more clearly.

Her whole body was shaking like a sieve, her face was pale and bloodless, and her pupils were trembling violently.

However, after Li Yuejun blinked, she looked under Bai Yanliang's bed again...it was pitch black and there was nothing.

However, Li Yuejun, who had experienced two cursed journeys, knew very well that this was definitely not her eyes playing tricks on her, nor was it an illusion.

"No... I'm fine." Li Yuejun forced himself to suppress the fear in his heart, but his left hand tightly grasped Bai Yanliang's arm. The power that people subconsciously burst out when they are afraid is very great.

Bai Yanliang's right arm had been pinched by her sharp nails and was bleeding, but his expression remained unchanged.

Just said: "That's good, let's go find them."

Then, without looking back, he closed the door.

Li Yuejun finally breathed a sigh of relief. When she came to her senses, Bai Yanliang had already brought her to the elevator.

The elevator came down from the sixth floor and stopped in front of the two of them. There was no one inside.

Bai Yanliang entered the elevator with a normal expression, and Li Yuejun hurriedly followed him in.

It was not until then that she realized that she had scratched Bai Yanliang's right arm.

"You...why didn't you remind me?" Li Yuejun looked at Bai Yanliang with some embarrassment and a harsh tone.

But Bai Yanliang shook his head, without even looking at his scratched hand. He just wiped the blood with his clothes and said, "It doesn't hurt."

Li Yuejun was stunned and looked at him blankly.

She knew very well what kind of person she was. The three months since she came to Wuji had almost driven her crazy. Her emotions became more and more intense, and she made more and more enemies.

Although she was not ugly, people trapped in the curse were ultimately just a bunch of dying people.

No one would be interested in or tolerate a pile of meat that was about to have an emotional breakdown.

I have to say that Bai Yanliang was right. She was indeed very lonely, but because of this, fear and loneliness made her temperament more and more perverse and weird, forming a vicious cycle.

There was silence in the elevator.

Bai Yanliang glanced at the button and found that this hotel actually had six floors.

He couldn't be sure whether the "Xu Zhian" was still on the first floor, but the situation now was different from before. It was already daybreak.

Although it is impossible to say what has changed specifically, and it is not certain whether the brightening of the sky has any effect on "him", but... the atmosphere of this hotel has at least become a little more relaxed from the suffocating depression.

If the investigation is not carried out during the day, Bai Yanliang doesn't think night is a good time.

"Ding--"

The notification sound of reaching the first floor woke Li Yuejun up. The woman looked at Bai Yanliang with a strange expression, as if she wanted to say something.

But seeing that Bai Yanliang had already stepped out of the elevator, she hurriedly followed him, but in the end she didn't say a word.

The first floor is a pretty nice lobby, the decoration is already very good.

A waitress in her thirties came up and asked, "Sir, Miss, do you need breakfast?"

Her attitude was very professional and her smile was just right, but there was no trace of joy in her tone. Instead, there was a hint of malice.

Bai Yanliang is very sensitive to emotional reactions. Although his own emotional reactions are very mild, this does not prevent him from observing others.

Moreover, judging from the other party's address, it seemed that the two of them had just arrived here.

"Well, please prepare two breakfasts for us." Based on the principle of not eating too much, Bai Yanliang responded with a smile.

The waiter just nodded, and Bai Yanliang suddenly seemed to remember something and asked casually: "By the way, do you have anything here..."

Before he finished speaking, the waiter's expression changed completely.

"Sir, if you are a reporter, please leave immediately, otherwise I will call security immediately." Her face looked very ugly, and her slanted eyes stared at Bai Yanliang, as if she wanted to see through him.

Bai Yanliang's heart moved. This kind of attitude of trying to cover up one's own guilt was simply too contrived.

It seemed as if the other party deliberately wanted to tell him what had happened here.

But on the surface, Bai Yanliang shook his head and said, "No, I'm not a reporter. I'm just here to spend a vacation. By the way, what I wanted to ask just now was, can you help me change a pillow? In fact, I didn't sleep very well last night."

The waitress had a strange expression, and her eyes lingered strangely between Bai Yanliang and Li Yuejun, but one of them looked at her indifferently, while the other lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking.

After a moment, she said, "Okay, I'll change your pillow for you. I hope you can sleep well."

Her words seemed to have a hidden meaning, but Bai Yanliang looked as if he didn't understand. He looked around, and this time, he saw three people.

Xu Zhian, Feng Xinghan, Jiang Li.

Xu Zhian looked exactly the same as he had seen before, dressed like a clerk with his hair combed neatly. He was not very old, but his waist was a little hunched.

Feng Xinghan seemed to be a person who had been engaged in physical labor for a long time. He was not tall but very strong. He was about the same age as Yang Wanlong, but he looked better than Yang Wanlong, who worked as a criminal policeman.

But Jiang Li was a little surprised that Bai Yanliang couldn't tell his gender.

He had short hair, a white shirt and casual jeans. He was young, seemingly less than 20 years old, and his eyes were scanning Bai Yanliang unscrupulously.

Bai Yanliang and Li Yuejun came to the sofa by the window in the hall and finally met up with the three people.

"Please sit down." Xu Zhian's voice sounded a little tired as he looked at the two of them.

Bai Yanliang remained expressionless and sat on the sofa opposite them.

This experience was really novel. After all, not long ago, a "Xu Zhian" who looked exactly like him came knocking on his door.

Now that I think about it, if I had opened the door just now, this game of life and death might have ended immediately.

"I didn't expect that a newcomer like you would be the one causing the grudge this time." Xu Zhian seemed to have not had a good rest, and his voice was extremely hoarse.

The one who holds grudge?
Bai Yanliang looked at the four people with a puzzled look. This was indeed a new term he had just heard.

"Do you remember the three people whose names turned red first in Wu Ji?" Feng Xinghan suddenly spoke.

Fog gathering?

It seems that this is what they call the strange place behind the door.

Bai Yanliang nodded and turned his gaze to the sturdy middle-aged man.

"The so-called haunters, as the name suggests, are the people who are most likely to be haunted by evil spirits. For example, now, if the probability is 100, the probability of us being targeted by the evil spirit is 50%, and you are 90%. When we and you are discovered by it at the same time, the probability of you being targeted will become 100%."

Feng Xinghan did not mean to gloat over other people's misfortune. After all, whether it was 50% or 90%, the final result was only life or death. There was nothing to be thankful for.

"However, it's not completely without benefits. As long as the Complainant safely completes the current mission, he will definitely not be selected by Wu Ji for the next mission."

Bai Yanliang nodded in understanding. At this time, two waiters came over with breakfast.

"Gentlemen and ladies, this is your breakfast."

(End of this chapter)