Zhao Yijiu Ran Back

The final room assignments were quickly announced. As the only couple present, Huang Bai, harboring resentment at being separated, reluctantly moved over to Yu Xing's side, trying to stay with Qu Xuanqing.

Qu Xuanqing glanced at Yu Xing.

Yu Xing chuckled, "If you're willing, then agree; if you're not, then refuse. Why are you looking at me like that?"

Qu Xuanqing muttered, "Wasn't this to prevent you from having any tactical plans?"

And that was the end of it.

With only five girls— Qu Xuanqing, Huang Bai, Sha, Fei Jing, Bai Xiaobing —it's impossible for them all to share a room in pairs. Huang Bai coming to find Qu Xuanqing means that Sha will be left alone.

Sha didn't care and quietly watched the scene. Xu Huan scratched his head in frustration and comforted her, "Looks like you'll have to have a room by yourself. Even without me, I believe you can manage on your own..."

Sha: "Hmm."

Xu Huan added, "If things really don't go well, I'll figure something out then..."

The gloomy voice unconsciously softened when facing the sand; this scene actually seemed quite endearing.

Yu Xing was paying attention to everyone's room assignments. Wen Qinghuai and Zeng Lai were staying together. The two of them had a good relationship to begin with, and it was clear from Alice's Park that they shared a tacit understanding as members of the Righteous Path. Zeng Lai seemed to prefer staying with Yu Xing, but considering that he had his own team, it was probably inconvenient for him to stay with an outsider.

Carlos thought for a moment. His purpose in pretending not to know Yu Xing others was simply to gather information about them, right? So he patted Xu Huan on the shoulder and, under the admiring gazes of the guide and Zhou Xing, successfully struck up a conversation. "Want to stay together? The other two in your guild don't seem too comfortable living with you~"

Xu Huan glanced at him, frowned, and asked, "Then why did you dare?"

"I'm daring! If I'm going to seek thrills, I'll go all the way!" Carlos grinned, seemingly unafraid of the legendary Xu family, who were as sinister as corpses.

Xu Huan hesitated for a moment. He didn't really have anything to say to others. Living together was the most cost-effective option, and it didn't matter who came, as long as they weren't annoying. He glanced at Sha without leaving a trace.

Sha nodded slightly.

Xu Huan said, "Okay, but you'd better be quiet."

Carlos shook his head like a rattle-drum. "No, no way. Actually, you're used to quiet because no one dares to chatter in your ear. Look at me, I'm different. I promise to give you a completely new experience. It will never come to the point where your roommate will come and kill me."

"Pfft." The extraditionist tried to suppress his laughter but failed, mainly because he found his vice president's restrained yet slightly bewildered expression too amusing.

Zhao Mou planned to live with Yu Xing so that they could have a private environment to discuss things. He was a little uneasy when registering, after all, A Jiu's shadow was in his shadow, and they were blood relatives. Daisy's daughter's words that blood relatives cannot live together were clearly telling him that this girl, whose strength of ability was not obvious, had obviously discovered the clues in his shadow.

If that doesn't work, the only option is to try to move A Jiu's shadow into Yu Xing's shadow, while he himself stays in a separate room.

Surprisingly, even though Daisy's daughter had subtly hinted at it, Daisy's daughter didn't say anything else when he registered. She just gave him a meaningful look and then handed him and Yu Xing each a key. "One double room, second floor, Emerald."

Zhao Mou took the key. He noticed the difference in Daisy's daughter's attitude towards him, and a guess formed in his mind.

Could it be...?

Is it because of his pagan identity?

The heretic who clearly wasn't a good person had always reminded Zhao Mou of the Wizard Cult. He just wasn't sure if the Wizard Cult was a heretic on Dead Silent Island, or if he was a member of the Wizard Cult, or if his identity made him a heretic to the Wizard Cult.

He put away the key, exchanged a glance with Yu Xing, and decided to go back to his room to tidy himself up.

It's worth mentioning that none of the rooms in this hotel are numbered; instead, they are distinguished by the names of various gemstones.

Their understanding of the hotel was limited at the moment. They didn't know whether the other hotel staff were more human like Daisy's daughter, or clearly ghosts like Daisy... or plague beings. Getting themselves back to a good condition became their top priority.

Those who had been assigned rooms had already gone up the spiral staircase. Yu Xing stretched and went upstairs with Zhao Mou. Before leaving, he bought two sets of Seven Ghost Warrior clothes from Daisy's daughter. From now on, he was no longer an ordinary A-level pollutant, but an A-level pollutant with 16 Ghost Warriors in debt!

Daisy's daughter said the clothes would be delivered to the room in twenty minutes.

The two stepped onto the second floor. The decoration style on the second floor was similar to that on the first floor, with warm colors as the main color, exuding an undisguised dark luxury. The corridor was arranged on only one side, with doors to different rooms. The other side was a complete wall, on which many artistic paintings were hung. The corridor was spacious, and there were also display racks for armor or long skirts in many places.

Every few meters, a crystal wall lamp is embedded in the wall, illuminating the intricate patterns on the wallpaper.

The crystal chandeliers were all lit, making the entire corridor bright. Yu Xing hadn't seen any other hotel staff. He and Zhao Mou walked along the left side, and luckily, the Emerald Room was indeed there. In fact, every deducer who went to the right side eventually returned to the left side, which led Yu Xing to guess that the right side should contain more expensive deluxe rooms and aristocratic suites.

"We live next door..."

Several deducers were now scattered in twos and threes in the corridor. Next to the Jade Room, in the Amethyst Room, lived Wu Kaiyun and Cui Hui. These two people, who had a rather unlucky start, were quite happy to see Yu Xing. Wu Kaiyun took the initiative to talk to Yu Xing and looked at Yu Xing expectantly with happy eyes.

It seems that after I saved them, they have different feelings for me and Xiao Ququ... Yu Xing thought to herself, a wicked grin spreading across her face. She felt that these two people thought she was some kind of good person... This misunderstanding is no small matter.

"Well, since we live next door, you can call me to fix the light bulb if it breaks." Yu Xing nodded to the two people in the amethyst room, used her key to open the door to the Jade Room, and went inside amidst their bewildered gazes.

Even a fool could tell that Yu Xing was talking nonsense, let alone them.

Wu Kaiyun sighed, "Cui Hui, Yu Xing, and Sister Qu seem to think we're too weak and don't intend to develop a close relationship with us."

"It seems we were always weak," Cui Hui shook his head, and the two of them went into the room. "In the past, we relied too much on sacrifices and experience, neglecting the essence of deduction. It's already lucky that we've survived until today."

"You're right, but could you please not let me hear such cruel words?" Wu Kaiyun closed the door, shutting out his voice from inside.

As Zhao Mou listened to the conversation next door come to an end, he closed the door behind him and remarked, "The soundproofing is pretty good."

"I really don't understand, if this hotel doesn't even allow couples to stay together, what's the point of having such good soundproofing?" Yu Xing said flirtatiously while looking around the Jade Room, and then she was very satisfied.

Although this is just a basic room, it has everything you need and is very clean. The overall layout is equally beautiful and luxurious. Two dark brown wooden single beds are placed side by side in the inner part, covered with warm-colored sheets and blankets, and each comes with a small but firm pillow.

It seems that on the Dead Silent Island, the hard pillows are a unique feature. They look like they are made of wood, and they feel cool to the touch. They are not heavy and are hollow. I don't know if there is anything inside, but Yu Xing could not hear any extra sound when she shook them. There are exquisite carvings on both sides of the wooden pillow, and a piece of emerald green jade is inlaid in the center.

... It's somewhat like the color of Carlos's eyes.

I wonder if sleeping on such a hard pillow will cause a stiff neck.

Besides the two beds, the room has its own toilet and bathroom, as well as two dark-colored desks side by side and a bookshelf in the corner with a few books scattered on it, filling about half of the bookshelf's space.

The wardrobe was on the side closest to the door. It was quite large. Zhao Mou reached out and opened it. It was empty inside. The upper part of the wardrobe had many empty hangers for hanging clothes. Below, there were spaces for shoes and pull-out drawers, presumably for storing personal items.

At the far end of the room was a small, unsealed window that appeared to be openable. Yu Xing quietly pushed it open and discovered that the window faced the city interior. He could see the cityscape behind the hotel. Behind the hotel was a street with the feel of a commercial street, lined with various shops on both sides, but the street was deserted and somewhat desolate.

"The environment is nice; surprisingly, this place isn't a rip-off," Yu Xing praised. After closing the window, he refrained from immediately sitting on the bed, not wanting his blood and grime to soil the place where he would sleep that night.

At the same time, he noticed a golden metal clock on the bedside table between the two beds, which brought back some memories for him, as he often saw this type of clock during the Republic of China era. The clock in the Jade Room had a round dial at the bottom and a box-like object at the top. He guessed that when the clock struck down, two metal birds with clear chirps would come out of it, or a few miniature drummers would "walk out," and if you got close, you could hear the sound of gears turning.

The clock shows 9:20. Yu Xing guessed it should be morning because the sky was quite nice, and the light seeping through the gray clouds was stronger than the moonlight. If it were night, Dead Silent Island would probably be completely dark.

"You're too naive. We've only seen the hotel so far, we haven't spent any money anywhere else in the city, so we have no idea about the price level. Maybe this price is really high." Zhao Mou maintained his usual caution, closing the cabinet door. "It's best not to have too much hope for that ghostly, faceless old woman... By the way, what exactly happened when she asked you to go up and get the business brochure? She couldn't have been so bored as to choose the most handsome one to get it, could she?"

Yu Xing: "You have good taste."

Zhao Mou narrowed his eyes and adjusted his glasses. "In this kind of matter, I think only Carlos would be so shameless as to argue with you... I don't care about this overly high-profile attribute, the point is what Daisy actually did, don't change the subject."

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow and told Zhao Mou about her feelings at that time, adding her own speculations based on Daisy's daughter's account.

"Tsk, then you're in trouble." Zhao Mou gloated. "Maybe Daisy wants you to be the next father to her child."

"And then eat me?" Yu Xing chuckled. "Forget it, I don't want to be a cuckold. If she comes, I'll cut her belly open."

"Wait a minute, the topic seems to have veered off to a rather dark direction..." Zhao Mou noticed his teammate's mental health issues. "Be gentle, we're not the villains."

Just as the two were joking around, planning to take a bath after Daisy's daughter brought in her clothes, Zhao Mou's shadow began to wriggle.

Yu Xing was the first to notice the change in Zhao Mou's shadow behind him. His eyes sharpened, and he wondered if Zhao Yijiu was about to return?

Sure enough, a human-shaped shadow separated from Zhao Mou's shadow and, under their watchful eyes, slowly wandered to the center of the room.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow seemed to have undergone a dimensional ascent and "stood up," gradually becoming fuller and more colorful from an image that was not flat. Zhao Yijiu quickly replaced the shadow, and a new, unremarkable shadow appeared at Zhao Yijiu's feet.

Zhao Yijiu looked no different than before, except that his clothes were more tattered than before, with a large pool of blood on his shoulder, and his eyes remained bloodshot. After appearing, he did not immediately look around warily, but seemed to know that he had already entered the hotel room, and even had the leisure to pat the wrinkled hem of his clothes.

Judging from his condition, the bloodstains on his shoulder did not seem to affect his movements at all, so perhaps the bloodstains were not his.

"Hey, Brother Jiu, where have you been all this time?"

Zhao Yijiu, who had just appeared, had no expression on his face. At first glance, Yu Xing couldn't tell whether this was the normal Zhao Yijiu or the Ghost Wine, so he had to provoke him to speak.

Zhao Mou stared intently at his increasingly wild younger brother, hoping to put pressure on him with his gaze.

"Nothing much, and it wasn't very fun either. Tsk, I even got into a little trouble." Zhao Yijiu laughed, and as soon as he spoke, Zhao Mou's expression darkened even more. This was Ghost Wine!

Yu Xing crossed his arms thoughtfully, sizing up the other person. He then noticed Zhao Yijiu Zhao Mou's gaze, a smirk playing on his lips as he said in a teasing tone, "Hey, brother, don't look at me like that. I'm still your brother, don't be so nervous."

"... Why?" Zhao Mou asked sternly, "Is it because you can't suppress it anymore?"

"No, not at all." Zhao Yijiu said, casually taking off her shirt and tossing the blood-stained garment into the room's trash can with a hint of disgust. "Tsk, it's filthy... Oh, this time I deliberately let this part of my personality take over. I have something to do, and it's not convenient for you to know, brother."

Yu Xing blinked. So, it was Zhao Yijiu in her normal state who, after careful consideration, deliberately allowed the vengeful ghost's personality to take the lead, leading to the current situation?

He said it was inconvenient for them to know, which suggests it pertains to the realm of vengeful ghosts.

"Has the new clothes not arrived yet?"

Zhao Yijiu, shirtless, tried to sit on the bed, but Yu Xing grabbed him with one hand. Yu Xing's narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes widened slightly, making it clear that there was no room for negotiation. "Don't you dare pollute my sleeping area!"

There was blood on his pants, I don't know whose it was!

"I'm tired. Even now, I get tired, A Xing." Zhao Yijiu symbolically struggled for a moment, then sighed, smiled, and resignedly squatted down on the spot, like a wolf that had tamed its ferocity.

"Oh my?" Yu Xing exclaimed in surprise, "Why did you call me that?"

"What, you're allowed to call me 'Big Brother' when I'm normal just to see my ears turn red, but I'm not allowed to call you... a title only Lingren would use?" A hint of interest flashed in Zhao Yijiu's bloodshot eyes. "I'll still call Qu Xuanqing' Little Ququ,' and Carlos... calling him 'Husky' might be better."

Zhao Mou's brow twitched slightly as he listened to these words that should never have come from his expressionless younger brother.

Alright... it seems that Ghost Wine is indeed still primarily governed by Zhao Yijiu's consciousness, only its personality has become somewhat... indescribable.

"Stop interrupting. How long will this state last?" Thinking about it this way, Zhao Mou found it much easier to accept. It was his brother, and his brother was quite capable; he hadn't reached the point of being possessed by a vengeful spirit. Instead, he had turned the tables and controlled the spirit's power, only his personality was affected. It was... acceptable. He convinced himself and asked, "Also, are the shadow abilities very limiting?"

"The shadow can only be used in my current state, so you could say I cheated, right?" Zhao Yijiu licked his lips, seemingly a little thirsty. "As for my state, going out did bring some benefits. In this simulation, I can switch at any time barring any unforeseen circumstances, but not now. I just said those things, and knowing myself, if I switch back now, I'll definitely want to dig a hole and hide."

He brazenly stated, "But this room doesn't seem like a place to hide, so I'll have to wait until I'm mentally prepared before switching back."

Yu Xing looked at the Ghost Wine and found it rather amusing.

It seems like we could trick each other.