I never expected that the troublemaker in Future Water World would be the soul of a yellow weasel.
It hid in the wardrobe in the guest room and pretended to be a ghost to scare us away.
Unexpectedly, it met a tough person like me who was not afraid of demons. I actually caught it out.
"Speak! Why are you doing bad things here again?"
I disliked its chatter. I grabbed its neck with one hand and held its mouth with the other, blocking all its curses and swear words in its throat.
"What about the girl living here? Did you catch and harm her again?"
I used a bit of strength in my hand. "Don't you like Lu Xiaojuan? Why are you still flirting outside?"
"Gu?!"
The weasel made a strange noise and suddenly stopped struggling. Its small black bean-like eyes blinked twice, as if it had something to say.
So I released my fingers from its mouth.
"...Ah...Ahh!!" Sure enough, as soon as I released my hand, the guy's sharp little mouth shouted like a machine gun, "I wondered who it was! So capable, it's actually Miss Xiaohe! Isn't this like the flood that washed away the Dragon King's temple? Family members don't recognize each other!"
This weasel was indeed my "old acquaintance", Huang Dabiao, who I had caught when dealing with the zombie Lu Dayong in Lu Village.
At that time, this guy said that he wanted to repay Lu Xiaojuan, the daughter of the village head, for saving his life. He hoped to be a family-protecting god in the village head's house and enjoy the incense of the world to cultivate himself.
No one expected that he would appear in a place like Future Water World and still do such things as bullying women.
"I'm asking you a question! Get to the point!"
I didn't have the leisure to listen to its chatter. "Did you catch Shao Lili, who originally lived in this room?"
"Shao...Lili?!"
Huang Dabiao's black bean eyes blinked again. "Miss Xiaohe, I'm wronged! I haven't seen any Shao Lili. I came here to work with my Xiaojuan!"
It turned out that this Future Water World was located behind the mountain of Lu Village. There was a reservoir in the middle, and there was a cement road connecting the villages.
After the zombie incident, Lu Xiaojuan lost her interest in getting married.
She simply broke off her engagement with her boyfriend in the city and stayed at home obediently to learn how to be a shaman from Huang Dabiao.
The village head and his wife saw that their good girl actually had the idea of remaining single. They urged their daughter to go out to work every day, hoping that she would meet more boys and not be with a weasel spirit all day.
Lu Xiaojuan was forced by her parents, so she came to this Future Water World to work.
Although it was not far from home, Lu Xiaojuan didn't want to go home either. She lived in the staff dormitory of Future Water World.
She brought out Huang Dabiao's red paper shrine and pasted it on the wall of her bunk bed. Usually, when the mosquito net was hung, outsiders couldn't see anything.
Huang Dabiao also liked this place.
The mountains were green and the water was beautiful, and there was his sweetheart with him. He felt that it was good not to be a god.
Yesterday, he heard that there would be a TV variety show here. With Huang Dabiao's curious personality towards all things, he naturally couldn't miss this opportunity to watch.
So, while Asa was carrying two sets of luggage by himself, he got into Shao Lili's room.
He waited for half the night, but no one came to shoot. Huang Dabiao felt bored and got into the cabinet to sleep until I found him and caught him out...
"...You haven't seen Shao Lili?" I stared at Huang Dabiao. For such a person who couldn't achieve anything, I really couldn't fully believe him.
"No! No!!"
Huang Dabiao shook his head and said firmly in his mouth, but his small eyes were looking around randomly. It was obvious that he hadn't finished speaking.
"Swear!"
I picked up one of his little paws and put it on his head. "If you lie to me, you'll be struck by lightning!"
"A, uh, um..."
Huang Dabiao's eyes were turning faster, but he still honestly put his little paw on his head. "If I caught Shao Lili, I'll be struck by lightning!"
"Hehe!"
After listening to his serious oath, I couldn't help laughing. "You didn't catch her...Then, do you know where she is? Have you seen her?"
"A, uh, um..."
Huang Dabiao thought for a long time this time before carefully asking, "Do I need to swear?"
"Yes!" I nodded firmly.
"I've seen her. She's in the Water World, but she's not in the Water World...Anyway...That's all I know! Miss Xiaohe, it's useless to force me anymore! I don't need to be struck by lightning, right?"
"In the Water World, but not in the Water World? What does that mean?!"
My heart suddenly moved. I quickly turned around and asked Ma Su, "Where are the photos that Shao Lili took for you? Let me see!"
Ma Su quickly took out her phone and found the photos for me to see.
The light in the photos was dim, but it could be seen that it was indeed in a place with a similar layout to this guest room.
"Do you see any problems?"
Ma Su saw me frowning and quickly asked, "Shao Lili won't be kidnapped, right? She took these photos reluctantly?"
The camera guy on the side laughed. "Boss Ma, you're joking. We've used a professional security company for this shooting plan. How could such a thing happen! Besides, Shao Lili isn't any big star. Kidnapping her has a too low cost-performance ratio!"
I ignored their idle chatter and just stared at Shao Lili's photos. Finally, I found something abnormal.
The chandelier on the ceiling in the photo was still an ordinary candle-shaped light bulb, while the room we were in now had already been replaced with a brighter and more energy-efficient LED light!
"Sister Susu...Shao Lili seems to be in an old hotel guest room!"
I pointed to the light bulb in the photo. "This kind of light has been eliminated for at least four or five years, right?"
"Hey?"
Ma Su only saw that the scene in the photo was almost the same as now, so she thought that Shao Lili lived in the arranged guest room. This was obviously a preconceived impression.
Our top priority now was to find the room she was in!!
On the table in that room, there was a room service book for Future Water World. Shao Lili should be somewhere in this hotel!!
"You said that the light was eliminated four or five years ago?"
Suddenly, the camera guy slapped his forehead and took out his phone from his pocket to press a few words...He flipped through his phone for a long time before looking up at us and saying, "This Future Water World was built five years ago, but there was a fire in the hotel two years ago. The entire nine-story building was renovated again. Although the style was the same, the consumables used were already more advanced!"
"Fire?!! Did anyone die?"
The string in my head suddenly tightened. Could it be that the souls of those who were burned to death didn't get a good salvation, so they would catch people in the world to be their substitutes?!!
"No!! This place has never been popular. There are basically no people living in the hotel!"
The camera guy rummaged through his phone for a while before shaking his head and saying, "There really isn't...".
My eyebrows frowned even tighter.
"Ring ring ring..." Suddenly, Ma Su's phone rang.
She picked it up and saw that it was actually Shao Lili's avatar.
"Hello?" Ma Su quickly answered, "Shao Lili, where are you?"
"I...I don't know!!" Shao Lili on the phone was panicked and scared. She had already left the room and seemed to be in a corridor.
However, the corridor was black all around, and there was still blue and blue smoke rising continuously!