Chapter 46 - Miss You (1/2)
Li Chi Yu felt that it was because he knew too little.
The vase sat to one side and next to it was an area that sunk in. It was just enough for half the vase to be in that and the other half of it to be outside of it.
Jiang Taozhi rubbed her nose and whispered: “It looks so expensive but it’s a little ugly. It looks a bit like the ones Qianlong likes…….” (KKnotes: an emperor of the Qing dynasty)
She searched for a photo on Weibo and showed it to the others.
Su Min also took a look. He felt that Jiang Taozhi was right.
He thinks the vase probably was a real one. After all, as long as the screenwriter and the director wants it to be real, it will be real in a horror movie.
Su Min touched it. “It feels very cold.”
Su Min’s hand stopped just below the opening in the vase. He asked: “Do you guys think there’s anything in this vase?”
The next second, Li Chi Yu jumped away.
He said: “Can you not say something so scary?!”
Su Min felt that this interaction was similar to the interaction between himself and Lin Yiri back then. This time, it was his turn to say it……..
He said: “Okay, I won’t say it anymore.”
Li Chi Yu suddenly jumped up but all he could see inside the mouth of the vase was darkness. He couldn’t look any deeper.
He naturally wouldn’t ask Le Ling to look.
Su Min warned him: “Be careful not to trip.”
Li Chi Yu didn’t take the warning seriously. He hesitated for a moment and then slowly reached in.
It was empty inside and he didn’t touch anything: “It seems to be empty. We might just be thinking too much.”
Just as he was about to take it out again, a hand suddenly grabbed him.
Li Chi Yu was startled. His hand was grabbed, and his entire body was about to fall onto the vase. Le Ling reacted quickly and reached in only to come into contact with a cold hand.
She applied some force and, seemingly in pain, the hand retreated.
Li Chi Yu was caught surprised by this. He took a few steps back and almost fell to the ground but the vase remained unmoving.
Su Min supported him. “I told you not to mess around.”
Li Chi Yu rubbed his hand. “I thought it was normal. I didn’t expect a hand to suddenly appear. Scared me to death.”
It was too scary. It was as if he was caught by the dead.
Su Min: “Now you’ve learnt your lesson.”
He looked around the lobby. He then went into the restaurant and came back out with a chair. The chair was placed next to the vase.
Su Min explained: “I’ll stand on it and take a look. Drag me out if anything happens.”
Li Chi Yu tried to stop him: “Don’t. Something’s not right with this vase. It’s best not to look at it. We should just call the police.”
Le Ling however said: “What are you going to say when you call the police? That there was a hand that grabbed you? You’ll probably end up getting locked up instead.”
She said this very calmly but it sounded very convincing.
Li Chi Yu was stunned.
Su Min had already stood up on the chair. He was originally about the same height as the vase so, with him standing on the chair, he could see everything.
It was dark inside the vase.
And in that darkness was a dead body.
The reason why he called it a dead body was because Su Min had seen this person before. It was the man that was eating the kelp at the restaurant today.
His face was very pale. It looked like he had been dead for a long time.
But it hasn’t been long since this morning. He didn’t know how long this person had been dead for, and he didn’t know how he ended up inside this vase.
The neck of the vase wasn’t very big. A human couldn’t fit through that, yet the dead body was found inside the body of the vase.
Su Min was afraid of the corpse doing something, so he quickly got off the chair.
Seeing his calm expression, Li Chi Yu couldn’t help but be curious: “There’s nothing inside?”
Su Min said: “There is. A dead body.”
Li Chi Yu: “Oh, then let——–”
Halfway through his words, he suddenly reacted, “What did you just say? A dead body? There’s a dead body in there?”
Su Min nodded, “It’s the man in the restaurant.”
Did he end up dying in here after eating kelp and pulling out strands of hair from it?
Jiang Taozhi said: “Let’s call the police.”
She pulled out her phone and called the police but even after ringing for several minutes, no one answered.
Jiang Taozhi’s face was pale, “I can’t reach them. What do we do now?”
Su Min expected this. He said: “Let’s stay away from here and act like we didn’t see anything. Don’t let the murderer find out.”
Li Chi Yu finally calmed back down. He said: “Let’s go. Let’s hurry and leave. Don’t worry about it. Act like we didn’t see anything.”
Su Min also agreed.
They moved the chair back and then returned to their rooms upstairs.
It was only until later in the afternoon that Su Min and the others came back out again. Together, they went to the restaurant downstairs and this time everyone they met was normal.
He carefully assessed them. There were some people that he wasn’t sure if they had already eaten or if they’re not eating. For example, the bald man and the people that he encountered this morning weren’t here.
Su Min wanted to find out what was going on with the bald man and the headless ghost.
The food was plentiful. Although he didn’t know where the kitchen was, there would always be waiters bringing food out.
The waiters, like the driver and front desk, were all expressionless. They don’t respond to questions and just stared at the others while mechanically serving food.
When the dishes are all served, the waiters also disappeared.
Su Min didn’t eat much but it was better than this morning.
When they were done with it, it was a little past two. They decided to go upstairs to have a look and was surprised to find that there was a top floor.
The top floor wasn’t very big but there were many things there including a small gym and swimming pool. There was even a deep-sea fish tank on the side.
There wasn’t anyone in the pool and the water was clear.
Su Min wasn’t interested in the gym so he walked around the pool: “Looks like no one came to swim.”
There were no traces of water beside the pool.