Take Me Along Next Time

Soon, there was a regular knocking sound at the door. Zhao Yijiu stretched her wrists, glanced at the door, and then discreetly went to hide in the en-suite bathroom.

It was exactly twenty minutes later. Outside the door should be Daisy's daughter. Although Daisy's daughter seemed to have tacitly agreed that Zhao Mou had brought a "blood relative" into the room, they all thought it would be better not to be so arrogant as to appear in Daisy's daughter's sight directly.

Zhao Mou stepped forward and opened the door. Daisy's daughter carried a large, round wooden tray with two sets of clean, light-colored clothes on it. He thanked her, paused, and said, "Could you please give us one more set?"

Daisy's daughter smiled, "Would you two like three outfits?"

This is blatant mockery.

"Is that alright?" Zhao Mou asked.

"Of course, it's still the Seven Ghost Warriors. They'll be here in ten minutes." Daisy's daughter didn't say anything more, handing the wooden tray to Zhao Mou. She glanced meaningfully at the room and suddenly spoke, "You must stay in bed tonight and not wander around unless you're not at the inn."

Zhao Mou glanced at Daisy's daughter, who was providing information for free, in surprise. He thought to himself that the relationship between the heretics and the hotel was better than he had imagined, and wondered if anyone else had received this notification.

Because neither Daisy nor her Daisy's daughter mentioned this in the lobby, they only said that "the hotel rooms are safe."

He nodded sincerely and thanked them, saying, "Thank you for your trouble."

After closing the door, Zhao Mou placed the tray of clothes on the table to the side. Zhao Yijiu poked her head out of the bathroom and said, "Could you please pass me a set? I'll just take a shower."

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow, deliberately blocking the tray, and said arrogantly, "Your clothes will be delivered in ten minutes. Come out of the bathroom now and let me shower first. Whether you want to take a shower, lie in bed, or change clothes, I was supposed to go first..."

"No, unless you're planning to come with me." Zhao Yijiu's lips curled into a smile as she glanced at Zhao Mou, whose temples were throbbing beside her. "Brother~ if he won't let you wear the clothes, then you..."

"You should come out first." Zhao Mou didn't defer to his younger brother as Zhao Yijiu had expected, and Zhao Yijiu narrowed her eyes slightly.

Yu Xing gloated and gave Zhao Mou the answer. He picked up one of the outfits with his clean hands and looked at it, then examined the other one. "The clothes have sizes. They were probably measured by Daisy's daughter's eyes. Even if you wash them now, you won't be able to wear either of ours... I'm taller than you, and Zhao Mou is thinner than you."

"... Tsk, I'll be there by the time I finish washing my clothes." Zhao Yijiu wasn't fooled by this logic; instead, she simply closed the bathroom door, and soon the sound of water could be heard from inside.

"This younger brother is getting more and more troublesome. He wouldn't even let his older brother go first in something like this!" Zhao Mou lamented, covering his face in grievance. Then, as if remembering something, he turned and asked, "By the way, does your injury still hurt?"

"I'm all healed now." Yu Xing stretched out his arm at him. The moment he entered the room, he used his abilities to heal all the wounds on his body. Although it was somewhat of a waste of his mental energy, making him even more sleepy and tired than before, at least the excruciating pain that had been constantly on his mind had subsided.

"You?" Zhao Mou pushed up his glasses in surprise. "You even retained this ability? As expected, this isn't an ability you acquired after entering the deduction phase, so the system didn't take it away..."

"It's not so much that the system doesn't exist, but rather that the world rules of Dead Silent Island haven't taken it away. It can probably only recognize the power attached by the external system." Yu Xing moved his limbs, feeling a sense of relief, like an old man who had been bedridden for many years finally able to get out of bed and bask in the sun.

Zhao Yijiu deliberately dragged out her shower time to ten minutes. Daisy's daughter came to deliver clothes again. Yu Xing and Zhao Mou carefully observed the size of the newly delivered clothes, and sure enough, the clothes should be very suitable for Zhao Yijiu's figure.

Daisy's daughter seemed to know or have seen Zhao Yijiu before. Although it was hard to understand, Yu Xing and Zhao Mou had somewhat expected it.

"This inn holds many secrets. We've settled down here for now. Besides going into the city every day to kill the contaminated creatures, we can also stay and explore the inn's internal storylines at times." Zhao Mou used somewhat Yugi- like terms. "The storyline about what's in Grandma Daisy's belly, and the storyline about the grudges and love-hate relationship between Daisy and her Daisy's daughter... perhaps we can also dig out some other staff members. Come to think of it, we haven't seen a single one yet."

"Hmm, this is a bit better than I expected. At least we have a temporary base, and we have a clear path for what to do next. But what Daisy's daughter said just now proves that this hotel isn't as safe as they claimed. I wonder if there are any other restrictions besides not being able to get out of bed at night." Yu Xing smiled and suggested, "And what exactly happens if we get out of bed? How about we try it tonight?"

"You and Brother Jiu each get a bed, I'll sit in a chair, and then..."

"I object to this proposal, don't even think about it." Zhao Mou stopped Yu Xing expressionlessly. They had agreed beforehand that if Zhao Mou didn't agree with some of Yu Xing's ideas, then it couldn't be done.

"Fine," Yu Xing muttered disappointedly.

Just then, Zhao Yijiu opened the bathroom door, his bare upper body protruding out, his hair wet and swept back, with a few stray bangs obscuring his eyes.

Yu Xing noticed that when Zhao Yijiu swept his hair back, he could more clearly see the genes he shared with Zhao Mou, who was his brother. His deep-set features exuded a sharpness, but Zhao Mou usually concealed this sharpness with his glasses and his habitually smooth attitude.

Zhao Yijiu's gaze fell on the clothes, then she smiled and said to Zhao Mou, "Brother, give me the clothes."

Tsk, the smile makes it even more similar, yet there's a difference in temperament.

"Human genes are truly amazing things," Yu Xing exclaimed.

Zhao Mou handed over the clothes, and after Zhao Yijiu put them on, she dried her hair in front of the washbasin partitioned off outside the bathtub. The mirror with mediocre clarity was embedded in the wall above the washbasin. Yu Xing shouted, "Ah, it's finally my turn!" and successfully pushed Zhao Mou, who was a step behind, to the last spot.

Zhao Mou sighed deeply. He never imagined that at 28 years old, he would have to go through the same kind of agony of fighting for bathrooms as he did in his student days.

It was the kind of situation where people would fight over the bathrooms during military training.

He ended up rolling his eyes in a very unladylike manner.

Yu Xing placed his entire outfit on the wooden stool by the bathtub. He still felt that the hotel was quite reasonable in terms of pricing. The Seven Ghost Warriors' outfit included not only a shirt, trousers, and stylish boots for going out, but also underwear, finally resolving the problem that he had been feeling was unfair.

The bathtub was damp, showing signs of recent use. He refilled the tub. He wasn't surprised at all that such a "modern water heater" had appeared on Dead Silent Island. There was even a television, and a subway they hadn't seen before. It seemed that technology in this world existed in a chaotic way.

On the other side of the bathtub was a bulging garbage bag, which Yu Xing guessed Zhao Yijiu had put the torn clothes into.

He only glanced at it, and after the water was almost full, he took off his clothes and prepared to lie down. This scene was seen by Zhao Yijiu, who was drying her hair, in the mirror. Zhao Yijiu was a little surprised, turned around and teasingly looked at Yu Xing: "You're in neutral?"

"Do you think I wanted this? Still looking?" Yu Xing turned to the side and stepped into the bathtub with annoyance. "I had a terrible start. Do you think everyone is dressed like you? I don't even know who I stole this outfit from in the backstory."

"Oh dear, how pitiful." Zhao Yijiu revealed a wicked smile, but before Yu Xing curse, he stopped drying his half-finished hair and quickly left the bathroom.

He also closed the door.

"..." Yu Xing soaked in the water, washing away the bloodstains and traces left by the dried seawater, planning to study Zhao Yijiu's weaknesses in the form of a vengeful ghost when she had time, before sinking her head into the water.

He felt very safe in the water.

After everyone had rested in their rooms for three hours, Bai Xiaobing and the guide began knocking on doors one by one.

They had clearly obtained the names of all ten rooms and hadn't knocked on the doors of the others. Wen Qinghuai had asked Daisy's daughter if there were any other guests at the inn besides them, but Daisy's daughter didn't answer him; she just smiled.

Therefore, the strategist assumes that there are other things staying in the hotel, and it's best to avoid interacting with these things before figuring out the situation.

"Knock knock knock."

Yu Xing, who was already asleep in bed, heard a knock on the door of her Jade Room, followed by the sound of Zhao Mou walking over to open the door.

He had previously used the power of the curse to repair his wounds, and catching up on sleep would help his mental recovery. Although the negative effects of the curse on his body when he used the power of the curse to repair his wounds were irreversible, the mental fatigue could still be eliminated by letting his body rest.

So after he had roughly tidied himself up, he greeted the two people from the Zhao family and lay down on the bed to catch up on sleep. He didn't care what Zhao Mou and Zhao Yijiu were doing, since Zhao Mou would be keeping an eye on Zhao Yijiu anyway.

The faint sound of conversation reached Yu Xing's ears.

"You two came together, does that mean your two guilds are planning to cooperate?"

"Yes... after discussing it with the Mysterious Eye and the Hourglass, we plan to gather everyone to discuss our next move..."

"Well, our guild leader said that if it's inconvenient, one person per room is fine..."

"I understand... time..."

"Actually, it's better if we come together. We asked, and 12:30 is lunchtime. We can find an empty restaurant..."

Yu Xing turned over, sighed, and slightly opened her eyes, suddenly meeting Zhao Yijiu's red eyes who was sitting on the ground.

"Ha, what are you doing?"

The ghostly aura emanating from those eyes was so intense that Yu Xing's mind instinctively went on alert, and her sleepiness vanished instantly.

Fortunately, the other person's voice immediately lost its ghostly, eerie quality. Zhao Yijiu leaned back on the clean carpet, using the height of Yu Xing's bed to block the view of the person outside the door. He chuckled, "What? Do you really want others to discover that there are actually three people living in this double room, so that those untrustworthy forces will secretly remember you and my brother in every situation where a crisis of trust arises?"

He didn't try to suppress his voice, but strangely, it could only be heard in a very small area.

"You're right, this is troublesome." Yu Xing remained lying on her side on the bed, speaking quietly. "Judging from your expression, you're planning to leave using your shadow later."

Zhao Yijiu's red eyes narrowed for a moment, and in that instant, he had the illusion that a viscous river of blood was melting in his eyes. "Oh? How did you figure that out?"

"You're using this excuse to stay out of sight so we don't have to come up with another excuse when you disappear again, right?" Yu Xing smirked. "Instead of that, why not make it a permanent solution, so everyone thinks you haven't come back, or even... that you're dead? That way, it won't put any extra burden on Zhao Mou, is that what you're thinking?"

The sound of a door closing came from the other end. Before Zhao Yijiu could say anything, Yu Xing continued in a whisper, "It seems that what you did was indeed very dangerous, so dangerous that you dared not tell Zhao Mou the truth, because you were afraid that if you did, Zhao Mou would definitely not agree. But you still had to go, which would really cause you to quarrel with your brother and hurt him badly."

Zhao Yijiu's eyes turned dangerous, but then Zhao Mou walked over and said, "Yu Xing is awake. What were you two talking about?"

Yu Xing: "It's nothing. I just found it funny to see Brother Jiu sitting on the carpet looking so pitiful, and I wanted to see if I could make him angry."

Zhao Yijiu's lips moved, but she didn't say anything, "..."

Zhao Mou: "... Hey, stop bullying him, okay?"

"Hey, hey, get this straight, he's not in his normal state right now. With that arrogant and domineering protagonist from a web novel, do you think I could bully him? I'm just using the soul of a pitiful minor character to test how much health I can take off him!" Yu Xing, dissatisfied.

"You've been wondering about the aftereffects of that strange fish, and they're only starting to appear now." Zhao Mou calmed Yu Xing's restless, supporting character-like spirit. "Alright, stop joking around. How much of what Bai Xiaobing and the ferryman said just now did you hear?"

Zhao Yijiu said, "I didn't hear what those two people from other forces were saying. Their words weren't as interesting as Yu Xing's attempts to provoke me."

Yu Xing sat up in bed. "I fell asleep. Let's say it in half and half. Organize your thoughts and say it again."

Zhao Mou had anticipated this outcome. "The restaurant will be calling us in two minutes to discuss the next steps. Are you going or not?"

"We're not even close friends, is a get-together really necessary? I'm not going." Under Zhao Mou's gaze, Yu Xing got out of bed and poured herself a glass of water. "Fine, fine, I'll be serious. They're just dividing up the hunting grounds. Too many people make it harder to stay hidden, so they'll definitely assign who goes southeast and who goes northwest, and then pretend to suggest but actually half-force the sharing of certain intelligence. You can go, anyway, with you around, Broken Mirror won't suffer. Brother Jiu and I will eat in the room. Remember to tell Daisy's daughter for us."

"Perfect, we can see if it's another hotel employee bringing the food."

It is logical, well-founded, and convincing.

Before long, Zhao Mou left with the conviction of a diplomat, leaving only Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu in the room.

"Aren't you going to tell him?" Zhao Yijiu asked abruptly.

He was referring to the fact that Yu Xing had just guessed he would leave again.

"Tell him you'll be angry with me, and I'll be so heartbroken." Yu Xing chuckled, then, noticing that Zhao Yijiu didn't seem bothered by this level of teasing, she drawled out her words with boredom, "You're more fun when you're normal."

"Trying to play with me comes at a price, let me guess..." Zhao Yijiu's eyes revealed a Yu Xing. "You're helping me cover it up because you actually want to go out with me, right?"

Yu Xing has never been a person who follows the rules.

Therefore, when Yu Xing catches someone sneaking out to have fun, it's highly likely that she won't report them, but rather... try to find a way to go out and have fun together.

It has to be said that Yu Xing Xinglezi's mentality has been thoroughly understood by Ghost Wine.

"Not bad, a big improvement. Is this an intelligence boost from the vengeful ghost's personality?" Yu Xing's praise was veiled in criticism, making everyone feel uncomfortable no matter how they listened.

Fortunately, Zhao Yijiu didn't care about that. He clicked his tongue twice and said, "It's dangerous outside, especially before you've regained your abilities from the Absurd System. Are you sure? Also, if I'm gone, and then you're gone, my brother really won't want to kill someone?"

"You're wrong. If you go out alone, he'll already be tempted to kill you." Yu Xing smiled confidently. "But if I go out with you, he'll just think, 'Ah, you're safer now.'"

Zhao Yijiu: "Why does he trust you so much?"

Yu Xing: "Personal charisma."