I Wasn't Born Lucky

Standing by the well, Xiao Li looked at the ghost at the bottom of the well, put his hands on the edge of the well, lowered his head towards the bottom of the well and asked, "Excuse me, where is the way out?"

His voice echoed down the well, but there was no response.

Xiao Li withdrew his head, glanced thoughtfully into the distance, and asked another way: "I should ask, how can I get out?"

The well ghost was lying on the bottom of the dry well, its hair was hanging down, and the specific expression could not be seen clearly, only a sinister voice with a lingering sound enough to linger for three days said: "Sherlock..."

Xiao Li: "Tsk, it's not over, is it?"

The next sentence of the well ghost was not to continue its call, but a whisper like a prophecy: "You can't get out..."

Xiao Li laughed: "Oh? What if I go out? You come with me and pay me back yourself?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he vetoed his own idea: "Forget it, you have to live in a well, it's not easy to raise."

The disgusted well ghost: "..."

Have you eaten your rice?

Xiao Li stood up and stretched his arms: "Then make a discussion, let us go out from your place? Look at the place where you live, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, don't trap us here deliberately."

The well ghost didn't speak. It lay at the bottom of the well, maintaining that position without moving, and let out a soul-stirring whimper from its throat.

Xiao Li said with a little guilt: "You are a ghost, you shouldn't have broken bones... right?"

The well ghost slowly raised its upper body—I don’t know if it was Xiao Li’s illusion, he seemed to hear the sound of bones breaking inch by inch—it stretched out its hand above its head, and said slowly: "You can leave here at any time, but I will be with you forever."

Xiao Li nodded, and he said "goodbye" to the well ghost again, got up and stepped across the small bridge, and walked towards the distance.

Zhou Ying didn't leave immediately, it followed Xiao Li and watched the well ghost.After Xiao Li left, the child bent down to pick up the fallen pebbles and threw them into the bottom of the well.

Jing Ghost stared blankly at the cobblestone in front of him, his long hair parted from his scalp, revealing those terrifying eyes, and it looked at Zhou Ying.

Zhou Ying made a face at it, and jumped back to Xiao Li's side.

"Ah—" There was a resentful roar from the dry well, so frightened that Brother Hao immediately grabbed Xiao Li and dragged him to the opposite direction of the small bridge.

This time, the hazy mist in the haunted house gradually receded, and they walked out of the enveloping range of the well ghost.

Brother Hao finally stopped, and he and Xiao Li stopped where they were panting.

He didn't see what Zhou Ying was doing. At that time, he and Xiao Li had already turned around and left. He said intermittently, "What's the matter at the bottom of the well?"

Xiao Li tapped Zhou Ying's forehead with his knuckles, and then said to Brother Hao, "I don't know, maybe I feel unwilling to see the fresh food reserves slipping away."

When the word "reserve food" was mentioned, Brother Hao thought of the plates of meat in "Ghost House". He didn't want to be the food of these ghosts: "Then let's go quickly and leave this haunted house as soon as possible."

They both raised their feet and walked forward, the puppet and Zhou Ying followed Xiao Li, looking at everything curiously.

Leaving from the dry well, the road in front of the haunted house was shrouded in darkness again.

There are no lights in the haunted house, only the candles on the wall for lighting. The white cloth in the blocking area at the intersection flutters with gusts of wind, blocking their sight.

The ceiling here is so high that when the reincarnated people raise their heads, they will have the illusion that it is open air.

The air is full of water vapor, almost to the illusion of condensing into water droplets.

When he passed a door again, Brother Hao stepped up his steps a little irritablely. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and wanted to check the time on it, but found that the mobile phone had turned off automatically.

He tried to press the button to restart, but it still couldn't start, maybe it was broken while running, Brother Hao cursed a curse word in a low voice.

Xiao Liyuan walked in front of him, he only heard Brother Hao say something, but he couldn't hear clearly, so he turned his head: "Did you speak just now?"

When he turned his head like this, the puppet sitting on his shoulder followed him and looked at Brother Hao.

The pair of emotionless ghostly eyes made Brother Hao take a step back immediately: "The phone is dead, so I just sigh."

Xiao Li responded and walked forward again.

Brother Hao remained silent for a while, but in the end he couldn't help but said to him: "We don't know how long we have been walking in this haunted house. I suspect it has been an hour and we haven't walked out yet. Where will the exit be?"

"98 minutes." Xiao Li corrected Brother Hao.

"what?"

"I remember, it's been 98 minutes since we came in, just now, 99 minutes." Xiao Li moved the flashlight away from the ribbon floating above his head, and said in a calm and authentic tone.

Brother Hao was stunned for a moment: "It's been so long... Well, does this haunted house really have an exit?!"

"There are," Xiao Li said, "but they probably won't exist in a regular form."

"You mean, the exit of the haunted house...won't let us see?" Brother Hao followed Xiao Li's train of thought, giving full play to his whimsy, "Could it be in that well? What about it? In fact, the well is the real exit, but in order to mislead us, the haunted house arranged the ghost of the well inside?"

Xiao Li: "...Then I don't mind if you go back and try jumping into the well. If yes, you will succeed in getting out. If not, you will stay with the well ghost."

As soon as Brother Hao heard his tone, he knew that he had guessed wrong. He laughed and said, "If not, what would it be?"

"I don't know." Xiao Li said bluntly, "Let's see again."

Brother Hao's original guess was choked back by Xiao Li's words. He felt that his physical strength and vigilance were passing by every minute, but he had no choice but to continue walking forward.

There was a wooden door around the corner through the long corridor they were walking on now.

The wooden door was obviously very old, and there were even cracks on it, and the sound of water flowed from the inside of the wooden door.

When Xiao Li walked to the wooden door, he pursed his lips and knocked on the door first.

Brother Hao said weakly: "Sherlock, what are you being a gentleman at this time, even if there is a ghost inside, it won't answer you when you knock on the door."

Just as Brother Hao finished speaking, there was some slight movement from the wooden door, as if someone snorted and then hit the ground.

Brother Hao: "..."

Xiao Li felt that muffled hum sound seemed familiar, he pushed open the wooden door and walked inside.

The world inside the wooden door is the same as the dry well, forming a world of its own.

The first thing Xiao Li felt was the sound of gurgling water and the sudden rise of water vapor in the air.

——The water vapor here is different from that of the dry well. The temperature here is higher, and the water source is wider, which sounds close at hand.

He bypassed the trees and bushes, walked forward along the passage in the rockery, and saw a quaint building through the clouds and mist.

The building looked like an old Japanese inn, about two stories high, with a small attic above it in a triangular shape.And there is a sign at the window, which reads: Hot Spring Hotel.

The sign was very shabby, and the doors and windows of the hotel were covered with cobwebs, obviously no one lived there.

In front of this hot spring hotel, there is a Wang hot spring.

The water is alive, warm, and crystal clear, but it is covered by the mist rising from the air due to the temperature difference.

But what can be seen is that a woman is soaking in the hot spring.

The woman only showed her head, and she had short, smooth hair.The end of the tail was already wet with mist and stuck to her neck.

At first, she turned her back to the reincarnators, but when she heard the noise, she turned her head in surprise, and exclaimed at Xiao Li, "Ah, who are you?"

This hot spring woman has a beautiful face, she can almost be a star directly, with beautiful features and bright red lips.

Xiao Li didn't answer her right away, he glanced around first, looking for the muffled hum that made him feel familiar before - finally in a flower bush behind the rockery, he found that figure, it was Zou Hanyi.

Zou Hanyi was pale, lying in the grass, reluctantly took out a prop pill from his cuff and stuffed it into his mouth.

Brother Hao rushed over and helped her up: "Miss Zou, this is?"

Zou Hanyi obviously came earlier than them, and he became like this again. Could it be that beauty from the hot spring did it?

"No, don't look at her," Zou Hanyi coughed and said, she fell hard enough just now, "I...I just had no way ahead, so I could only come in here, and she was with me like this in the beginning comminicate."

"But then, she invited me to go in and soak in the hot spring with her. Of course I couldn't agree, but as I communicated with her, I felt gradually unable to control my limbs. It was like someone was pushing me behind me, trying to push me into it. spa."

"Fortunately, I brought some props with me. Although I used it once, a wound would be transferred to my body, but I still avoided the bad luck of going into the water."

She spoke very quickly and explained everything that happened after she came in.

Xiao Li pondered for a moment, looked at the woman soaking in the hot spring, and guessed, could this be the drowned woman?

The Drowning Girl is a ghost in ancient legends, and she is in the same line as the Gap Girl. It is said that she often haunts the hot springs of hot spring hotels and invites others to join her in the hot springs. Once others enter the hot springs, she will reveal her body full of skeletons. Turn that person into a pile of skeletons too.

"Are you here to play?" The drowning girl in the hot spring didn't notice the hostility of the reincarnators. She raised a smile and warmly invited them, "Would you like to soak in the hot spring together? The water temperature in this hotel is very comfortable. I love it, and you will too."

Brother Hao supported Zou Hanyi, he looked back at the wooden door when they came, and tried to leave from there, but to his disappointment, the wooden door had disappeared and turned into a wall.

"Come down," said the Drowning Daughter, "I will make you feel less pain."