"Xiaoxiang?"
"Who is Xiaoxiang?"
Xie Chen asked the woman in confusion.
But after the woman said these words, she became silent again, feeling confused and not angry at all.
Xie Chen frowned and continued to squat down and observe her clothes carefully.
The beige thin coat looks a bit old, and it must have been worn for a long time. In addition, there are faint red marks on the wrists.
Is this a wound?
Xie Chen squinted his eyes and moved closer, but the woman immediately retracted her hands into her cuffs.
Xie Chen looked at her in surprise.
"Are you conscious? Or are you just pretending to be stupid?"
These thoughts flashed through Xie Chen's mind, but there was no way to confirm them.
I originally thought that the difficulty of the second dungeon might be slightly lower, but now, it is definitely several times more difficult than expected.
In just such a short period of time after opening the business, there are already so many problems that need to be solved in front of me.
This does not include those hidden in the dark that I have not discovered yet.
Xie Chen continued to squat for the time being, hoping that the woman in front of him would reveal some flaws, but she just sat there blankly from beginning to end, motionless.
There is simply no room for progress.
Xie Chen sighed, glanced at her, then stood up and turned his attention to the swimming pool not far away where a group of people were laughing and laughing.
Maybe there might be some of her relatives inside.
Just as he made up his mind to go over and ask, Luo Xi's voice came from behind him.
"Xiechen?"
"Come here quickly."
Um?
After hearing her shout, Xie Chen immediately ran over.
Does Luo Xi know that woman?
It's also possible, maybe this woman is already a regular customer, and as long as she has an impression, she can find out some clues.
Even if it is pitifully small, it can still be considered a direction of speculation.
Luo Xi, who had just finished checking the swimming ring, put his hands on his hips. When he saw Xiechen trotting up to him with a smile on his face, he immediately tapped his head with his finger.
"Ouch."
Xie Chen immediately covered his head with his hands and glared at Luo Xi with resentment.
"Ouch, what are you doing?"
Luo Xi curled her lips, her tone rather unhappy.
"Why do you dare to ask me?"
"I'm not as lazy as you are. You've been squatting there by yourself and pretending since the beginning. What did you say you were doing?"
"ah?"
"What the hell?"
After hearing Luo Xi's words, Xie Chen's original train of thought was completely confused.
"Why are you still asking me? Is it because my words are not clear enough?"
Seeing Xie Chen in such a state of confusion, Luo Xi felt even angrier than before.
"I'm furious."
"I'll go talk to my sister tonight and take the application to the curator's office. What will you do next?"
Luo Xi's words also made Xie Chen speechless.
"Can you please be more reasonable?"
"The woman was sitting there in a daze. Was it wrong for me to go over and ask if she needed help?"
"If this counts as laziness, then what does busy work mean?"
Luo Xi blinked in confusion and looked in the direction pointed by Xie Chen's finger.
"What woman?"
"Where did that woman come from?"
Xie Chen felt unhappy for a while and turned back to point in the direction of his finger.
"Damn it, isn't it just..."
The empty space in front of the swimming pool was empty.
Not to mention people, not even a single figure was seen.
"Where...has this gone?"
Could this be another hallucination?
But this doesn’t look like it either.
Compared with the first copy, the appearance of this hallucination is less dangerous to one's own life.
Seeing Xie Chen's incomprehensible appearance, Luo Xi's attitude was not as strong as before. Instead, he asked softly.
"Could you have seen it wrong?"
Xie Chen squinted at the place where the woman disappeared, and murmured: "How could you see it wrong?"
"The woman is wearing a beige coat and has a high ponytail..."
"It just looks like it's demented."
Luo Xi's brows wrinkled as she listened to Xie Chen's description.
"By the way, she seems to be looking for someone or something, I don't know."
As Xie Chen finished speaking, Luo Xi also smiled and pushed his back.
"How can there be such a person? There are no such customers in our swimming pool today."
"If you are too tired, go to my sister and ask for a day off, otherwise you won't be able to work well like this."
Xie Chen shook his head slightly, turned back, picked up the broom, and walked towards the bathroom.
"Don't bother me. It's not like I can't do the job."
Luo Xi had a worried look on his face.
"You force yourself. If something happens, it will be a big loss."
"If you hallucinate again, remember to come to me."
After listening to Luo Xi's instructions, Xie Chen also nodded.
But as he walked towards the bathroom, the more Xie Chen thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Simply saying that this is like an illusion is simply impossible.
This is definitely a genuine manifestation of ghost stories, but compared to the danger that appeared in the first copy, this is more like some key information, being actively placed in front of you by this world of ghost stories.
Just like a joke, show it to yourself.
His attitude was more like a challenge to himself.
But this is always possible. After all, Xiechen, who can't find a reasonable explanation for the time being, has no choice but to classify these things into the most likely point.
Dragging the broom, rubbing the Jingming point.
Xie Chen walked into the large bathroom in the swimming pool with a headache on his face.
The fork that appears is the classified men's and women's toilets.
A strong and familiar smell of air freshener hit his face, which made Xie Chen shiver all over.
Two shirtless guests walked out of the men's room. When they saw Xie Chen again, they couldn't help but smile and say hello.
Xie Chen smiled and nodded in response, then turned around and walked in.
The smell here is not that strong, and it can be seen that it is usually cleaned quite cleanly.
The broom in Xie Chen's hand was useless. It was originally intended to clean up the paper scraps in the toilet.
After all, whether it is a company toilet or a school toilet, the strong smell is second, and the indispensable thing is a pile of paper scraps and cigarette butts.
Sometimes it feels uncomfortable to go to the toilet and have a bowel movement.
I understand.
Xie Chen put the broom in his hand at the door, then went in with bare hands to check the hygiene of the bathroom.
To be honest, the size of this bathroom is quite large. There are eight single toilets facing each other, the sink and a two-meter-wide mirror are all fully equipped, which makes Xie Chen feel comfortable.
There's nothing wrong with the four single rooms at the front, they're even so outrageous that they still have a brand new shine.
Until the fifth time, there were extremely small cracks on the toilet seat inside. If my eyes weren't so good, it would be really easy to miss it.
Although this is not a strange thing in normal times, in this kind of environment, it becomes a bit outstanding.
Xie Chen stroked the crack on the toilet seat with his fingers from top to bottom. After a set of movements, he didn't feel anything special.
It also failed to trigger any mechanism.
However, Xie Chen slowly recorded its existence in his own mind.
These little-known details are actually the key in many cases, and Xie Chen knows this better than anyone else.
Especially in today’s world of ghost stories, everything is hard to say.
Looking back at all the rules in the "Rules for Swimming Pool Employees", except for checking the hygiene after closing, there are no rules directly related to the bathroom.
But it actually involves inspection and hygiene, so there must be something related to it.
Except for the crack on the fifth toilet seat, there are no problems with the other seven.
The more perfect it becomes, the more awkward the existence of this fifth toilet becomes.
This is just a temporary harvest, and I haven't been able to find anything else of value.
But that doesn’t mean that I am doing useless work.
After checking these places at least during business hours, you can also compare them with those when they are closed for get off work.
Next there are saunas, bathing rooms and changing rooms.
Although there was not much space, I only rested for about an hour and a half under such intense thinking.
No one would be able to bear this...
Xie Chen leaned on the sink with one hand and looked at himself in the mirror in front of him, feeling a little haggard.
Crash.
The cold water from the faucet came out, and Xie Chen bent down and picked up a handful to rub his face.
Now that I can't go to bed to rest, I have no choice but to use this crude method to make myself suffer.
A pair of slightly hasty footsteps came in, followed closely by the sound of a heavy door closing.
At this time, Xie Chen was holding up a second handful of water and rubbing it towards his face.
I don't know why, but I feel my heart beating faster.
Don't dare to hesitate at all.
As Xie Chen turned off the faucet, he immediately picked up the clothes on his chest and wiped them off his face.
After regaining his sight, Xie Chen quickly walked towards the eight single rooms.
…………
There was no one at all.
The expression on Xie Chen's face was very dull. He had clearly heard footsteps just now, and there was no way he had heard them wrongly.
But who came in?
After looking at one single room after another, Xie Chen finally stopped in front of the fifth single room.
Just stop and watch.
Xie Chen couldn't help but squint his eyes, and the pocket watch in his pocket made a ticking sound.
This made Xie Chen feel uncomfortable all over, and even felt as if he was being targeted by something.
"Excuse me, is there anyone in the toilet?"
After thinking over and over again, Xie Chen asked softly to the fifth single room.
There was a long silence.
Just when Xie Chen held his breath and concentrated until he exhaled.
Boom, boom, boom.
There was a crisp knocking sound on the wall.
Right behind him.
