Xia Jing turned the seed and observed it repeatedly.
The seed remained quietly in his hand without any abnormality.
——It's already evening.
The mustache manager said that the forest is dangerous at night because there will be "beasts" lurking around.
Xia Jing seemed to be lost in thought. At a certain moment, he exerted a little force with his fingertips and crushed the seed again as he did during the day. The latex in the seed was squeezed out on the spot, and one seed was scrapped.
"A mosquito net shouldn't be able to protect against any physical monsters, nor should it protect against ghosts or liquid monsters," Xia Jing said slowly. "It can only protect against creatures of mosquito-like size and strength."
However, despite the doubts, at this moment, the seed is still a seed, it will not move, and can be easily killed by Xia Jing.
He and Song Yang once again looked at the small glass jar and the time label on the outside of the jar, and both fell into deep thought.
Song Yang whispered, "We'll have to wait until we go to the vegetable and fruit field tomorrow."
Xia Jing nodded.
There was no point in staying by the window as they couldn't see anything outside, so they both returned to bed.
They couldn't fall asleep for a while, not to mention Xia Jing, who didn't have a physical condition that required sleep. So the two of them kept their eyes open, exchanging ideas from time to time, while paying attention to the movements outside the window.
Time passed minute by minute, gradually entering the night, and everything seemed peaceful.
It wasn't until 3:30 in the morning that the wind suddenly started blowing outside.
When the rustling sound continued for ten seconds, Song Yang and Xia Jing stopped talking tacitly, quietly got out of bed, and moved closer to the window.
Xia Jing quickly glanced around, but still couldn't see anything clearly outside. The monster outside the window seemed to have no intention of approaching them. Only the "rustling" sound could tell that it was still moving, but no one knew where it was moving to.
Will it break into hotel rooms?
If it could break in, which room would it choose?
Is it Cheng Hua who is alone, Lu Xiang who has an appetite exploded because of the strange vegetables in the hotel, or You Ye Zhou Yaqing who seems to be more fragile?
Who could it be?
The next second, a low scream came from their right.
The two of them turned their heads quickly - that was the room of Gu Chen and Gu Xing!
Xia Jing squinted his eyes and said, "The sound insulation inside this hotel is very good."
Song Yang frowned and nodded.
This is something they only realized at this moment.
Gu Xing and the others were only separated from them by a wall, but their screams were so weak that they seemed to be a million miles away.
At the same time, their mobile phones vibrated, and everyone popped up in the impromptu WeChat group, obviously none of them had slept much yet.
On the other side of Gu Chen and Gu Xing's room happened to be Lu Chenfei and Lu Xiang. Lu Xiang was the first to ask what happened on WeChat, and then Cheng Hua also pressed a "?".
After he was tied up, he asked them to keep the mobile phone close to him so that he could use it to send a signal in case of any situation.
Lu Chenfei also tagged Song Yang and asked if they were okay, and Song Yang gave a 1.
Soon, Gu Chen sent a message saying, "It's okay. A monster just crawled outside our window and Xiaoxing was scared."
Lu Xiang: "??? Are you okay? Is it still outside your window?"
Gu Xing: "I'm sorry to have worried everyone. I was just startled. The monster is gone. We are fine."
Lu Chenfei: "Did you see the monster clearly?"
Gu Chen: "Just now I wanted Xiaoxing to sleep for a while, so I turned off the lights, and only the monster's appearance could be seen."
Gu Chen: "It was like a small mountain. After Xiaoxing screamed, it fled down, and it seemed to change its shape as it fled."
Lu Chenfei: "
Why does it sound different from what you saw yesterday? @宋仰"
Before Song Yang could answer, Xia Jing suddenly popped up.
Xia Jing: "@You Ye@Zhou Yaqing"
Xia Jing: "?"
It was also at this moment that the people in the other three rooms suddenly realized that You Ye and Zhou Yaqing had never appeared in the group.
The group fell silent.
Everyone waited for a minute, and this minute seemed eerily quiet.
However, You Ye and Zhou Yaqing did not respond at all.
Lu Xiang hesitated and asked, "...Maybe I accidentally fell into a deep sleep?"
In the room.
Song Yang called You Ye's cell phone directly, but no one answered.
Song Yang put down his phone, frowning, and said in a serious tone: "No one had any clues last night. It was normal for You Ye to fall asleep, but tonight, given her personality, she probably won't sleep, at least not so soundly."
However, at this moment, Zhou Yaqing and You Ye's rooms seemed to be completely offline.
Xia Jing turned around, walked to the door, and listened to the noise outside by sticking his lips against the door.
As usual, I can't hear anything.
This hotel has strong soundproofing facilities and the corridors are carpeted. If someone moves carefully, they can completely hear nothing.
Did You Ye and Zhou Yaqing encounter any situation, or did they really just fall asleep?
In the group, Gu Chen suddenly said, "I have a tool that can spy on the other party through their phone. I'll ask Xiaoxing to check on Sister Zhou and the others' room."
Song Yang: "1."
Lu Chenfei: "1."
Chenghua: "1."
Lu Xiang: "1."
Half a minute later, Gu Xing spoke up: "Sister Zhou and Sister You are both sleeping, with the lights on and the mosquito nets drawn. They must have just fallen into a deep sleep."
Lu Chenfei asked directly: "Are you still breathing?"
Gu Xing: "Yes [laughing and crying]"
Xia Jing looked at the chat record and raised an eyebrow, "What do you think?"
Song Yang rubbed the corners of his eyes and looked at the darkness outside the window with deep eyes.
"We'll have to wait until tomorrow morning."
*
At five in the morning, Song Yang and Xia Jing tried to open the door.
The outer lock on the door had been removed silently.
The doors of the other two rooms also opened at the same time, and Lu Xiang, Lu Chenfei, Gu Chen, and Gu Xing all stuck their heads out.
The other room card for Chenghua's room was left with Song Yang last night.
Song Yang opened the door, went in and untied Cheng Hua.
After a night of lying there, Chenghua's limbs were stiff. After he was freed, he hurried to the toilet, obviously he was very anxious.
Song Yang and the others immediately went to Zhou Yaqing and You Ye's room and knocked on the door.
Still no response.
Lu Chenfei asked suspiciously, "...You Ye can't sleep so soundly."
Song Yang frowned and knocked twice more, intending to kick the door if there was no response. Unexpectedly, the door suddenly opened and You Ye appeared behind the door with a bad look on her face. She said, "Sister Zhou has disappeared."
Everyone was shocked: "What?!"
They rushed into the room and found Zhou Yaqing's bed empty, with only messy bedding and a mosquito net hanging alone around the bed.
Gu Chen said in disbelief: "Could it be that Sister Zhou also walked out the door on her own? But isn't it just five o'clock now? The door should have just been unlocked at five o'clock, right?"
Lu Chenfei immediately ran out the door. Five minutes later, he came back and said with a sullen face, "I didn't see her at all."
Gu Chen's expression changed: "What the hell is going on?"
This time, they all opened the door at the exact time, but Zhou Yaqing still disappeared without a trace. Could she fly?
Xia Jing circled around Zhou Yaqing's bed.
He thought, "We didn't hear any sound of the locks being unlocked. Maybe the unlocking time today is not five o'clock at all."
Everyone was stunned.
You Ye covered his forehead and said coldly: "This sleep was not right. I think I was drugged."
Everyone was stunned again.
Drugging?
Who gave the drug? Zhou Yaqing himself?
Song Yang was silent for a moment, then said, "Let's go find Xiao Huzi and check the surveillance footage again."
This time, they found Moustache in the hotel lobby.
He was supervising the staff to clean up. When he saw them, this NPC seemed to have completely forgotten the friction he and Song Yangxiajing had in the kitchen last night. He smiled politely and said good morning as usual.
After hearing their purpose, he was surprised and said, "Our locksmith did come early today, so we unlocked the room half an hour early. But not long after that, Miss Zhou walked out of the hotel on her own."
——Xia Jing was right!
The hotel really opened the door early today. Zhou Yaqing left the room half an hour before they opened the door!
Chenghua and the others' expressions turned ugly.
Song Yang insisted calmly: "Please show us the surveillance footage."
The man with the mustache smiled and said, "Sure, no problem. Our goal is to satisfy every customer."
Arriving at the same monitoring room as yesterday, the staff found the record of 4:38.
The door of You Ye and Zhou Yaqing's room was opened, and Zhou Yaqing walked out with his head lowered.
At 4:40, at the hotel gate, Zhou Yaqing walked towards the forest step by step, without hesitation, and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
At this moment, several people got goosebumps and felt that this situation was extremely weird.
Xia Jing suddenly asked, "Can you show us the surveillance footage of the fifth-floor corridor between 3:30 and 4:38?"
Chenghua and the others were stunned.
The man with the mustache said apologetically, "I'm sorry, but I can't show you any surveillance footage that's not related to the incident. It would affect the privacy of other guests in the hotel. Please understand."
Xia Jing's ambiguous gaze lingered on the mustache man's face for a while.
The man with a mustache remained calm and just smiled.
Xia Jing pursed her lips and whispered to Song Yang, "Let's go."
After leaving the monitoring room, the group walked out quickly.
Cheng Hua and Lu Xiang moved their lips, wanting to ask something, but they found that Song Yang, Xia Jing, Lu Chenfei and You Ye remained silent, and the atmosphere was very strange, so they did not dare to speak, but just looked at each other.
Suddenly, a hotel employee passed by them. Xia Jing stopped and reached out to grab the other person's arm.
It was a female employee. She was frightened by Xia Jing and asked in a panic, "Sir, what can I do for you?"
Xia Jing looked at her steadily for a moment, then let go and chuckled, "Sorry, I got the wrong person."
The female employee lowered her head and hurried away.
Song Yangyi withdrew his gaze from the female employee. He pushed open the side door of the hotel and the group walked out.
At this point, Lu Xiang swallowed hard and asked in a low voice, "What's going on? I don't understand. You look so weird, it's scary!"
Xia Jing put his hands in his trouser pockets.
He said gently, "The Cao Jun and Zhou Yaqing who appeared in the two surveillance videos yesterday and today are probably not themselves."
When these words were spoken, Cheng Hua and the others were stunned.
"It's likely that the hotel hired them, pretending to be their employee."