Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 273 A Quick Knock on the Door

After spending a whole day together, the newcomers in the team have gradually become familiar with each other and are no longer as silent as they were at the beginning.

So after hearing what the man in the suit said, the youngest member of the new team, Huang Ruzhi, is said to be a freshman this year.

"It's not simple yet."

"We don't need to be controlled by this hotel. We can all stay in the same bedroom."

"After all, it's just like what Brother Bing said before."

"In horror movies, ghosts often attack people who are alone first."

As soon as freshman Huang Ruzhi finished speaking, someone in the team immediately nodded, as if to express their agreement.

But there are also people who hold different opinions.

"I don't think it's wise for everyone to share a bedroom."

Peng Shuyue, the only girl in the new team, retorted, "If there really are ghosts in the Maple Grove Hotel and they appear at night and attack us, then when we fill all seven bedrooms, the probability of us being attacked by ghosts will drop to one in seven."

"On the contrary, if we all squeezed into the same bedroom."

"Then the probability of ghosts attacking our bedroom will naturally become 100%."

Not a bad idea.

The girl Peng Shuyue's idea is to directly sacrifice the people in a certain room, taking their lives as the price, in exchange for the safety of others at night.

But the problem is
Freshman Huang Ruzhi retorted: "You have a point, but what if the ghost kills the people in a room and doesn't leave immediately, but attacks the next room directly? Then won't we be defeated one by one because we are too scattered?"

He finally spread his hands and concluded.

"Since we all know that we are staying in a haunted hotel, why do we deliberately separate?"

"Isn't this the same as seeking death?"

At last.

Freshman Huang Ruzhi looked at Bing Changwen and asked for his opinion: "Brother Bing, what do you think about this?"

Bing Changwen didn't rush to reply.

He took a cigarette from his jacket pocket calmly, lit it, and took a long, deep puff.

Then he slowly said, "I believe you all know that there were only seven people in our team."

"And the hotel just happened to have only seven rooms for us."

"In my experience, it's a pretty clear hint."

"It's best if we each have our own bedroom when we stay overnight."

"If we don't do this, it's very likely that we'll violate some kind of taboo in the hotel, and something bad will happen."

"Do you understand?"

"I understand, but the problem is," Huang Ruzhi glanced at the others around him and said, "After triggering that side quest, the number of people in our team suddenly increased to 8 for no apparent reason."

"In this case, no matter how we divide it, won't it violate the hotel's taboos in the end?"

"What are we going to do about this?"

"It's very simple." In front of everyone present, Bing Changwen quickly took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket.

There are exactly eight cigarettes left in this pack.

Bing Changwen pinched two of the cigarettes with his hands to mark them.

He spoke to the crowd.

"see that?"

"Two of the cigarettes in my pack are marked."

"Any of us who smoke those two cigarettes will have to consider ourselves unlucky and have to share a bedroom tonight."

“As for the rest of the people who didn’t smoke the marked cigarettes, they can stay in a separate bedroom.”

"is that OK?"

Say it.

Bing Changwen shook the cigarette box in his hand and asked everyone, "Who will be the first to come?"

In order to see with his own eyes what kind of existence the so-called "ghosts" in this reincarnation world are, Xie Shen stepped forward decisively, and used his spiritual sense to cheat and directly pulled out one of the marked cigarettes.

Xie Shen, who had drawn the marked cigarette, smiled faintly and said, "My luck is really bad. I actually drew the marked cigarette on the first draw."

Bing Changwen looked at Xie Shen and said.

"Although you are not lucky, you are really strong mentally."

"Or, as a cultivator, you should have some means of dealing with ghosts and monsters."

"Because I could clearly sense that you didn't show even the slightest bit of fear after you smoked the marked cigarette."

As he spoke, Bing Changwen suddenly asked Xie Shen, "To be honest, are you sure you can kill the ghosts in this hotel?"

"No"

"You don't say you can destroy it, I just want to know, when facing ghosts, how confident are you that you can save your own life?"

After seeing Xie Shen draw the marked cigarette, he was just as Bing Changwen said, and he remained extremely calm and composed throughout.

In addition, there were all kinds of miraculous performances that Xie Shen had performed before.

So for a moment, everyone present looked at Xie Shen with curiosity.

The latter slowly said, "Although our souls will indeed leave our bodies after we die, our souls are too fragile. Once they leave the body, they will naturally dissipate between heaven and earth in a short time."

"So according to my understanding, it should be impossible for a person to become a ghost after death."

"There's too much to say."

"At least since I started practicing Taoism, I have never seen even a real ghost."

"So when you ask me how confident I am in facing ghosts."

“I can only say that I really don’t know.”

Xie Shen's words were truly true.

——As a cultivator in the fusion stage, although he has practiced for thousands of years, he has never seen any ghost.

It’s not even just ghosts.

He had never even seen any intelligent birds or animals, the so-called "demons".

Only humans
Currently, the only intelligent life known in the universe that possesses extremely complex emotions is human beings.

...

In the dim hotel lobby.

After chatting with Xie Shen for a while, seeing that it was getting later, Bing Changwen was worried that ghosts might appear at any time.

So he urged everyone, "Hurry up!"

"Let's not worry about whether there are ghosts in this world or not. Let's just finish drawing the lots first."

At Bing Changwen's urging, everyone stepped forward one after another and quickly took out all the cigarettes in the cigarette box.

In the end, the only girl in the new team, Peng Shuyue, also drew the marked cigarette like Xie Shen.

Peng Shuyue could only consider himself unlucky after drawing the marked cigarette.

At this moment, he could only look at Xie Shen helplessly and said with a wry smile: "Sorry to bother you tonight. If you can really deal with ghosts, please take care of me."

"Row"

Xie Shen nodded casually. The two of them were talking.

Seeing that all the reincarnations were about to return to their respective rooms, Bing Changwen hurriedly spoke up to remind them.

"Oh, right."

"I almost forgot to tell you."

"After you return to your room, no matter who you hear talking outside at night, don't open the door."

"Please remember this!"

After saying this, Bing Changwen no longer paid attention to everyone else and just pushed the door open and entered his room.

The others also returned to their respective rooms.
...

In room 3.

Peng Shuyue, who was in the same room with Xie Shen, seemed a little restrained.

To ease the awkward atmosphere, she took the initiative to find a topic to talk to Xie Shen, "Um, didn't you say before that you were a cultivator? Then can you teach me a few magic tricks? This way, if I really encounter ghosts, I can help a little, right?"

It was just a matter of teaching a few magic spells, which was no problem for Xie Shen.

In front of the girl Peng Shuyue, he placed his hand on the chest of the shell to communicate with the real body hidden in the heart.

He took out a jade slip from the storage bag he carried with him and threw it to Peng Shuyue, saying, "Put this jade slip on your forehead, and you will naturally be able to learn the exercises."

"what?"

Peng Shuyue, who came from a technological civilization, had obviously never seen such a magical thing.

He stood there in a daze, holding the jade slip in his hand.

Xie Shen repeated again: "Don't you want to learn magic? I've already given you the jade slip, why are you still standing there?"

"Just stick it on your forehead like this?" With a hint of surprise and curiosity, Peng Shuyue followed his instructions and stuck the jade slip on his forehead.

next second.

Countless methods of practicing "Honghuang Tuntian Jue" instantly flooded into Peng Shuyue's mind like a tide.

She was incredulous: "This is unexpected."

"Shut up!"

Xie Shen sat cross-legged on the bed with a calm look on his face.

He closed his eyes tightly and lectured Peng Shuyue in the tone of an elder: "Don't be startled all the time. Keep quiet."

Say it.

He no longer paid attention to Peng Shuyue and just practiced his skills on his own.

After learning the Dharma from Xie Shen, Peng Shuyue knew that Xie Shen was a man of real ability, so he obediently followed what Xie Shen said and did not dare to make a sound.

She followed Xie Shen's example and sat cross-legged on the other side of the bed, silently practicing the "Honghuang Swallowing Heaven Art".

time flies.
I don’t know how much time has passed.

Peng Shuyue was sitting cross-legged on the bed concentrating intently when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside the room.

The sudden sound made Peng Shuyue, who was already a little nervous and scared, widen her eyes and look towards Xie Shen instinctively.

She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something to Xie Shen.

But after hesitating for a moment, he still didn't dare to make a sound.

Nearly ten seconds passed like this.

The footsteps outside the room gradually became smaller and smaller, as if they were going far away.

Peng Shuyue, who had been holding his breath and not daring to even breathe, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

She relaxed completely.

However.
Just when Peng Shuyue thought the footsteps had faded away and everything was over
Suddenly, an extremely familiar voice sounded from outside the door without any warning: "Xie Shen, Peng Shuyue, can you hear me?"

This voice should be that of senior reincarnationist Bing Changwen.

As a teammate, Peng Shuyue wanted to speak out in response.

But just as she was about to say this, she suddenly remembered Bing Changwen's previous advice - no matter who you heard talking outside at night, you must not open the door.

Since these words were spoken by Bing Changwen himself, how could he actively violate them and run to knock on someone else's door in the middle of the night?

There is definitely something wrong with the person outside the door
Think so.

Only to hear 'Changwen' outside the room speak again: "Xie Shen, Peng Shuyue, can you hear me?"

Peng Shuyue still did not respond.

So 'Changwen Bing' shouted again: "Xie Shen, Peng Shuyue, can you hear me?"

And this time, when he shouted, a hint of impatience could be clearly heard in the tone of "Bing Changwen".

Maybe it’s because there has been no response for a long time.

'Bing Changwen' outside the door stopped shouting and began to knock frantically on the door of the room where Peng Shuyue and Xie Shen were.

And as time went by, the knocking on the door became faster and more urgent.

It was as if the door of the room would be smashed down in the next second.
at last.

Unable to bear such a huge pressure, Peng Shuyue couldn't help but ask Xie Shen for help: "Hey, you should be able to hear me, right?"

"Can you think of anything?"

"We can't let that person outside keep knocking on the door, right?"

"If he continues like this, I'm afraid our door will really be broken down by him."

On the bed.

Perhaps he heard Peng Shuyue's call for help, or perhaps Xie Shen himself was a little annoyed by the knocking on the door.

He suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards the door, interacting with the person outside the door who seemed to be 'Changwen Bing': "Is it Changwen Bing? I can hear you talking, just tell me what you want to say."

It would be better if Xie Shen didn't say anything.

As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, 'Bing Changwen' outside the door seemed to be stimulated by something. He immediately knocked on the door of the room frantically at an even more exaggerated frequency. While knocking, he did not make any sound from beginning to end.

This made the atmosphere on the scene even more weird.

Peng Shuyue is just an ordinary person after all.

Seeing that the knocking on the door suddenly became more and more intense, she was so scared that she started sobbing softly on the spot.

However, Xie Shen remained extremely calm and composed.

He seemed to be trying to comfort Peng Shuyue, or muttering to himself, and at this moment he said, "Interesting. In fact, as early as when I heard the sound outside the door, I had used my spiritual sense to repeatedly explore the outside countless times."

"But no matter how I probe, I can only get one result."

"That means there is really no one outside the door."

“This is interesting.”

talking.

Xie Shen suddenly got down from the bed.

He approached the door of the room little by little, and said as he walked: "The so-called 'ghosts' in this reincarnation world can actually avoid my spiritual sense detection while constantly making various sounds."

"I want to see what that 'ghost' outside the door that can avoid my spiritual sense detection is."

talking.

Xie Shen immediately unbolted the door and pushed it open.
(End of this chapter)