Tang Yiling stood not far from the corridor and turned her head back and forth until she saw a corner with few people. She slowly walked forward and sat down. The straw connecting the mouth to the soy milk was never disconnected for a moment.
The thermal bag was close to Tang Yiling's coat, and the pancakes and soy milk inside were still in the same state as when they were freshly baked.
While waiting, Tang Yiling reached out and groped inside the thermal bag, intending to take a bite of pancakes to fill it up. But just as he put his hand into the thermal bag, another cold white jade hand also reached into the thermal bag and kept groping.
"Drink a cup of soy milk to warm yourself first, your hands are almost frozen into ice cubes..."
Tang Yiling did not stop the owner of the other hand, but instead gave instructions in a helpless tone.
"Thanks, but compared to soy milk, brother, your face is warmer!"
The owner of the cold hands did not ask Tang Yiling if he agreed, and directly hugged Tang Yiling's warm face with his hands. Tang Yiling, who passively felt the cold air from his hands, could only roll his eyes at the red-haired woman with a smile in front of him.
However, after sighing, Tang Yiling put aside the remaining third of the soy milk, and slowly covered the red-haired woman's cold hands with her red palms.
"Hey, I didn't expect you to transform into a warm man."
"I just want your cold hands to be removed from my face as soon as possible."
"Tsundere has retired from the environment, brother!"
"as long as you are happy……"
"Hehe, you are still so considerate."
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Gently tearing open the brown paper wrapping the pancake, Tang Yiling took a bite of the pancake. My sister picked up the thermal bag with her fingers and sat down next to Tang Yiling.
The thermal bag was placed firmly on his legs. The moment he opened it, a burst of hot air mixed with the aroma of noodles and soy milk hit his face.
"Well...I feel a lot warmer inside."
Different from the aggressive voice in the chat, she now showed more sensibility as a woman in her early twenties.
Although she has always adhered to a rational attitude of doing business first and distinguishing public from private.
But if she encounters something related to her brother, she, who has always adhered to [rational thinking], will directly abandon all rational thinking and give priority to ensuring that Tang Yiling will not be harmed at all.
Looking at his sister who was sitting quietly beside him eating breakfast silently, Tang Yiling's eyes were full of tenderness, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl.
But when he reached for his cup of soy milk, he was stunned for a moment by an empty feeling. Then out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of his sister slowly standing up, holding a glass of soy milk in one hand, with only one-third of the glass left in her left hand.
"Gudong, Gudong... burp!"
Tang Yiling watched helplessly as her sister drank the two cups of soy milk and threw it into the trash can next to her along with the brown paper in her hand.
But when she looked at Tang Yiling's murderous eyes, she smiled and waved her hands indifferently.
"Oh, we are siblings, I won't dislike you..."
"Tang Linsu!!!"
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"Boss, have a glass of soy milk."
"okay!"
A few minutes later, Tang Linsu held a cup of freshly cooked soy milk in both hands and handed it to Tang Yiling, who was silently swallowing pancakes with a smile. "Okay, don't be angry with your sister. Here, don't choke."
Tang Yiling looked helplessly at Tang Linsu in front of her and silently took the cup of soy milk. Tang Linsu, who knew she had been forgiven, had a brighter smile on her face.
"Looking at how lazy you are now, there shouldn't have been any supernatural incidents during the night you stayed in the back room of the hotel."
"Apart from the obvious coldness in the room, there were no other supernatural phenomena."
"Although it's just an introductory curse-breaking task, you can't take it lightly..."
Listening quietly to the instructions from her elder sister, Tang Yiling did not refute anything.
After all, for ordinary people, let alone taking the initiative to contact the cursed nightmare, just hearing some [real events] related to folklore will cause a lot of panic among the people.
What Tang Yiling intervened this time was the widely circulated "History in the Hotel's Back Room".
But no matter in any era, human beings' curiosity has never weakened at all, and even caused a lot of "hotel tail room craze" in a certain period of time.
Thanks to the hype on the Internet and people who are interested, there is an endless stream of guests staying in the hotel's rear rooms.
While satisfying the curiosity of the public, hotel owners also made a lot of money. On the surface, it can be said to be a win-win situation of mutual benefit.
As for the gossip published in newspapers, it is regarded as a joke by the public and gradually forgotten.
Just like in Men in Black, K looks for clues about aliens from multiple pages of newspapers, with some reality in the weirdness.
"I have investigated in advance. On the surface, this hotel in the middle of the street is calm, but there are still some unidentified rumors leaking out." Tang Linsu said, and handed several A4 papers that had been bound in advance to Tang Yiling's hands.
Throwing the kraft paper and plastic cups into the trash can, Tang Yiling stared at the various news and gossip printed on A4 paper.
Various scattered and sparse tidbits have been reprocessed by Tang Linsu, which at least reduces a lot of obstacles in the reading experience!
But even so, there is still a lot of information that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
(...On April 5 last year, a couple died inexplicably in Room 414. On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month of the same year, the anchor of Soul Detective suddenly disconnected during a late-night live broadcast in Room 414, and disappeared the next day.
On April 5 this year, while traveling, the two sisters stayed in Room 414 out of curiosity. In the end, one of them set themselves on fire and the other became insane.
On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month of the same year, a backpacker checked into room 414 and disappeared like the ghost-hunting anchor last year...)
"On the Qingming Festival, two people died or were injured, and on the Hungry Ghost Festival, I disappeared from the world alone. The operation is very regular." Looking at the Qingming Festival and the Hungry Ghost Festival that occur so frequently, Tang Yiling thought for a while, raised his head and looked at the proud face. Sister.
"I am impatient this time..."
"Having said that, looking at the passenger flow of the Street Center Hotel in previous years, your quick action has saved us a lot of trouble."
Tang Linsu lightly twisted the paper with her two fingers and turned directly to the page that printed the average passenger flow of the Jiexin Hotel from January to December.
"You see, even though it is approaching the end of the year, the passenger flow rate from January to March every year still remains at the mid-to-upper level."
The two siblings had already returned to the promenade in the middle of the street. Then they found a quiet corner and sat down, continuing to review some of the details of the curse.
"... Combined with other fragments of information, except for Qingming and Zhongyuan, where strange events will inevitably occur, as long as someone stays at other times, they will still encounter unspeakable supernatural events within a week... But relatively speaking, death and The probability of disappearance is so low that it almost never happens.”
At this point, Tang Linsu looked back at Tang Yiling, who had been silent, and whispered: "If the situation really develops to the point where it is uncontrollable... you know what to do."
"I understand, sister...I will be careful."
Tang Yiling nodded in agreement, but her thoughts returned to the depressing cemetery maze.
Time passed quietly amidst the conversation between the two siblings. In addition to topics related to breaking the curse, the two siblings also talked about everything from national affairs to how many kilograms of potatoes the family would buy tomorrow.
However, as the time came to eleven o'clock at noon, the two siblings who had been having a lively chat were interrupted by the sound of grunts coming from both sides.
"Haha, it's time for lunch. Whatever you want to eat today, sister will treat you!" Tang Linsu patted her chest and assured her brother confidently.
"Well, it's been a long time since I had rice bowls. I remember there was a rice bowl restaurant on the way here." Tang Yiling thought seriously for a while, then looked at her sister with aftertaste in her eyes.
"Okay! Then let's have rice bowl for lunch today! And I have to let you know clearly that the rice bowl your sister makes is not much worse than those chefs!"
At this moment, Tang Linsu's face was filled with excitement and confidence from the heart, which also made Tang Yiling, who had been paying attention to her silently, smile with the same heartfelt smile.
(This... I already knew the answer ten years ago.)
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