NOVEL SIMPLE Yin Shengyao glanced at me, while I immediately slipped into my room.
Tang Mingli asked, “What? Why do you look so nervous? Did you see a ghost?”
I wiped off the sweat on my forehead and said, “Nothing. Let’s eat some food.”
We were chatting while eating and drinking, but I was a little absent-minded. And it was not until 12 o’clock did I open my live stream channel.
[Camgirl, you are finally back. I’ve been waiting for so long that even the flowers faded away.]
[Camgirl, if you keep tantalizing me, I won’t give you any gifts.]
Although they were complaining, I got more and more viewers in my room, exceeding 10 thousand now. And my rewards were also increasing rapidly.
“Sorry to keep you waiting. Now it’s 12 in the morning.” I said, “Now let’s just wait for the ghost to show up.”
But it was a little different this time. We had waited for over ten minutes, but nothing weird happened. And the audiences were a little impatient.
[Has the camgirl’s inspiration dried up? I’ve been waiting the whole night, and you got me nothing?”
[Is there any ghost or not? I’m going to work next morning.]
[Camgirl, if the ghost doesn’t show up, how about you get Tyrant laid in your live stream room?]
The number of the audience kept reducing. We should figure it out. Tang Mingli said, “What about you sing a song?”
“Ah?”
Tang Mingli went on, “It’s said many people heard a woman sing in the bathroom. If you sing a song, maybe you can lure the ghost out.”
I didn’t believe it actually. Would that really work?
I took a look at the bullet screen. They all wanted me to sing. I had no choice now, “Then I will sing. Actually I’m not good at this. So please excuse me.”
Then I sang Waiting for You to Come back, an old song in the 1930s.
This song was a little decadent, with kind of horror taste. The female singer was like a ghost singing at midnight.
“I’m waiting for you to come back. I’m waiting for you to come back…waiting for you to come back, to open my heart. Why haven’t you come back? If you don’t come back, I’m getting old…”
My singing was desolate and remote, with no accompany. Every last word got extended, which seemed extremely horrible in such a lonely and quiet night.
Tang Mingli stared at me with astonishment, being totally rendered speechless.
My live streaming room was totally drowned with bullet screen.
[What a nice song! What silvery vocal!]
[Indeed a nice song, but a little creepy. I got goose bumps all over. Now it has that kind of atmosphere. Nicely done! You have my back. A fan for you.]
[Your song got me. Holy shit! I dare not watch it alone now, but I really want to. ]
[Camgirl, maybe you play a song when you have live stream next time.]
While I kept repeating this song, suddenly Tang Mingli grabbed my hand. I was startled and stopped singing.
But the singing was till on.
We were both startled and slowly looked to the bathroom.
The faint singing flew out of the gap of the bathroom, which was really creepy.
[Here it comes! Here it comes! Here comes the ghost! Camgirl, move! Use your turtle qi and plot armor to smash the female ghost!]
We took up our weapons and moved close to that door carefully. The door was left unlatched, with a tiny gap. And I tried to peep in through it.
I could see the mirror in the bathroom through the gap. There had been no one in the mirror. But the moment I peeped in, I saw a woman hanging in there, with a thumb-thick rope around her neck. Her head got raised up, her tongue was hanging out, and her eyes bulged out, like they were goggling at me.
I freaked out and immediately looked away. Tang Mingli pushed the door open. Nothing was in there, but the singing was continuing.
We looked at each other, and then turned the bathroom upside down. And when we put our ears against the wall, we found that the singing came from next door.
But it was Yin Shengyao’s room!
What was going on? Yin Shengyao brought a date with him?
I took out my phone and glanced at the bullet screen.
“In the wall! Camgirl, it wouldn’t come from next door, but from inside the wall!]
[Camgirl, break the wall open. I bet there’s a body inside.]
[Camgirl, crack the door open. If the hotel claims for compensation, I will pay. Are five crowns enough? If not, then ten!]
I asked for Tang Mingli’s opinion. After a moment’s silence, he said, “Let’s do this.”
Alas! The audience became harder and harder to please. We can only do it to satisfy them.
Tang Mingli took out a hammer out of his camping bag. I twitched my mouth. So he had already been prepared for this, hadn’t he?
“Out of my way!” He cried and then hit the wall with the hammer heavily, and the tiles fell into pieces.
He kept hitting the wall his hammer until spider web-like cracks emerged.
“Ha!” Another hammer and the wall fell down.
We looked through but both got stunned.
We saw a person.
And it was …Yin Shengyao!
He frowned, “What are you doing?”
[Told ya! Who would bury a body inside the wall of a hotel?]
[The guy who said the body is inside the wall? Explain yourself already.]
[Damn it! No body inside! My mistake. Don’t be afraid. I mean what I said. Ten crowns for the broken wall.]
Speaking of which, he really rewarded me ten crowns! Worthy of ten thousand!
[Wait! Don’t you think the guy next door is cute?]
[Indeed, as cute as Tyrant. Wow! He’s even got pecs!]
“I’m asking you.” Yin Shengyao was wearing a nightgown, with his strong chest exposed.
His voice was extremely cold, making me feel even colder in the room.
Tang Mingli narrowed his eyes and then held me in his arms, saying, “We are playing sex games. What? You wanna join us?”
With kind of dangerous expression flashing in his narrow and long eyes, Yin Shengyao said in a cold voice, “I don’t have special hobbies.”
Tang Mingli shrugged his shoulder and said, “Then you can change another room. Don’t worry. I’m on the house.”
Yin Shengyao pulled a long face, but instead of changing another room, he just shut the door of the bathroom.
Then we had to get back. But the moment we walked out of the bathroom, we were both startled again.
Over the beam in the guest room hung a person.
It was a woman wearing the hotel uniform. That woman had an hourglass figure, and looked quite beautiful, wearing heavy makeup. But now since she got hung in there, her face turned all pale, tongue bulged out, eyes popped out with blood streaks, like she had seen the most horrible scene in the world.
Both Tang Mingli and I were dumbfounded. He had got the nerve to walk forward to feel her feet.
It was not a ghost, but a real corpse!
Someone died!
[She died! Call 119! Call the police!]
[Hell no! It scared the shit out of me. Is it really a ghost who did this?]
[We’d better not call the police now. If it is really a ghost who did this, the police wouldn’t buy it. And the camgirl and Tyrant would become the suspects. At that time they wouldn’t be able to stand out of it.]
[Don’t be silly. Don’t forget this is live stream. Eighty thousand viewers are all their witnesses.]
[Right. The body wasn’t there. And the camgirl and Tyrant were in the bathroom. So it can’t be them.]
[Don’t panic. It may not be a ghost. Maybe it’s a person.]
Tang Mingli and I untied the corpse. She looked quite familiar. Then I remembered, “Isn’t she the front desk?”
Tang Mingli frowned, “We should call the police.”
After taking out his phone, he found there was no signal at all, so was mine.
“How come! There were bars of my phone.” I ran to the window and stuck it out for signals, but only found a dreadful thing.
There was not ever a tiny sound outside.
Heims Hotel was in the downtown area. It was quite lively with cars and pedestrians passing by now and then. But now when I looked down, there was not even a single car in the street, and no light in the building on the other side.
It was weird, like we entered into another world.
My scalp tingled when I thought of this. Then I turned to Tang Mingli, “It’s dangerous. Let’s get out of here.”
I had been worried that the door wouldn’t open. But we did it easily. The lights in the corridor became dimmer, and there was no one.
We ran to the elevator at the end of the corridor. Neither of us reminded each other of informing Yin Shengyao. Actually we wished he would have been killed by the ghost.
But then we found that the elevator didn’t work at all!