Chapter 246 Lucky Star (VII)
From Xiong Yingshan's words, Qiao Yuan realized that they didn't need to wait until the specified time to leave like Xiong Yingshan did. They were brought in by Zhou Ning's ceremony, so she just had to find a way to destroy the ceremony.
After all, if they followed Xiong Yingshan's words, they would have to hide forever.
Although Zhou Ning is dead, there is another person besides Xiong Yingshan who may know his whereabouts.
Qiao Yuan's gaze fell on Xiao Wu who was standing beside him.
I don’t know if it was because he didn’t believe in the existence of ghosts or because of his disgust for Xiong Yingshan, but Xiao Wu didn’t follow the other person away.
Before, Qiao Yuan had only roughly asked Zhou Ning about his movements and anomalies in the past few days. This time, her attention was focused on Zhou Ning's movements today, trying to infer the process of the ceremony from it.
Although Xiao Wu didn't know why Qiao Yuan asked this, he still racked his brains to think about it, and finally roughly restored Zhou Ning's actions until his death.
Qiao Yuan noticed an important point——
After arriving at the hotel and chatting with Xiong Yingshan, Zhou Ning had a piece of paper and a pen in his hand. But according to Zhou Ning, there were several of his fans in the hotel, so he brought them back to sign and give them to the fans later.
After writing for a while, Zhou Ning asked to go to the bathroom. Xiao Wu also wanted to go, so he went with him.
But Zhou Ning went to the cubicle and said that he would take longer and asked Xiao Wu to go first.
Xiao Wu went back first.
After he returned to the lounge, he checked the time several times because he was playing with his phone. After hearing the time Xiao Wu said, Qiao Yuan quickly realized that it was almost the time when Zhou Ning knocked on the wrong door.
In addition, Xiao Wu said that Zhou Ning never left since then, so Qiao Yuan quickly concluded that Zhou Ning could only hold the ceremony at that time.
Qiao Yuan quickly decided to go back to the floor where the lounge was located to take a look. After all, according to the time given by Xiao Wu, Zhou Ning could not walk too far.
Qiao Yuan set off quickly, and Sister Jiang and her assistant naturally chose to follow her.
Because of the departure of Xiong Yingshan and others, others were no longer surprised at the sudden departure of Qiao Yuan and the other two.
The experience gained in the copy made Qiao Yuan give up the elevator and choose the stairs instead, so that if something happened, she could react quickly.
Although the lights were on in the hotel, there was no one else in the corridor except Qiao Yuan and the others. The overly bright but quiet place made the assistant and Sister Jiang feel even more horrible than the power outage just now.
Because they had just heard Qiao Yuan's reasons for not taking the elevator, neither of them suggested taking the elevator.
The lounge was on the 23rd floor of the hotel. They were now on the first floor, but many of the stairs were spiral in shape, making it even more difficult to go upstairs.
Sister Jiang and her assistant were used to being picked up and dropped off by cars, but even so, they didn't dare to stop. The assistant even thought that if there were ghosts chasing her in college, she wouldn't have failed every time she ran the 800-meter race.
When turning around the stairwell, the assistant caught a glimpse of several figures walking out of the elevator and almost screamed out, but Qiao Yuan quickly covered his mouth and swallowed the scream. Then he realized that those figures were the people who had followed Xiong Yingshan before.
Those people looked nervous, and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that it was Qiao Yuan and others.
The leader was Luding, who just now did not believe in the existence of ghosts, but now he only had a look of fear on his face and blood on his body. It was from him that Qiao Yuan and others learned what happened after he left.
After Qiao Yuan left, Lu Ding and the others remained in the banquet hall. Although he showed disbelief, he was still more or less affected by what Xiong Yingshan said, so he looked down at his watch from time to time.
When he saw the hour hand pointing to the hour, indicating that three hours had passed, or even a few minutes later, Luding's slightly hanging heart was finally at ease. He even laughed at himself for being too nervous, and talked to the people around him about how Ming Jingjing and others would react when they found out that they had been deceived by Xiong Yingshan.
Just the next second, the person next to him suddenly covered his chest with a look of pain. Before Lu Ding could ask what happened, the person in front of him suddenly exploded.
The warm blood brought Ludin and the others back to their senses.
Unlike Zhou Ning's death, this time Lu Ning watched helplessly as a person who was originally chatting and laughing with him suddenly became like this, and the blow he received was even greater.
The other people in the banquet hall also saw this scene, and the remaining luck they had completely dissipated, and they fled in all directions. In order to run faster, Lu Ding and others took the elevator directly up and wanted to hide.
Luding: "But the only thing to be thankful for now is that we still have three hours to hide..."
After hearing Lu Ding's words, the assistant felt sad , but couldn't help but brighten his eyes. After all, according to Xiong Yingshan, they were safe in these three hours, so could they take the elevator...
As the assistant was thinking, she subconsciously turned her head and wanted to look at Qiao Yuan. But before she turned her head, she heard Lu Ding suddenly raise his hand to cover his heart, and then let out a painful groan.
Although the other party's voice was not loud, the others still heard it clearly, and a bad premonition spread in their hearts. But this time, before they could say anything, the Luding in front of them also exploded.
Although the other party was still standing, he looked as dead as Zhou Ding.
The assistant stared at him blankly, struggling to digest the situation. The situations of the others were similar to the assistant's.
It was not until Qiao Yuan said "run" that she and Sister Jiang subconsciously moved their bodies and stumbled to catch up with Qiao Yuan who was already running to the side.
Behind me, I heard footsteps fading away. They were the other people who reacted after hearing what Qiao Yuan said, but from the sound, they were coming from the opposite direction.
However, the assistant could no longer care about these things. Sister Jiang ran and said with difficulty: "What's going on..."
"Obviously...Obviously he shouldn't die now..."
The unusual situation made Jiang Jie's words unusually confusing, but Qiao Yuan still understood what she meant. That's right, even if Lu Ding was going to die, it should be three hours later.
However, Luding got into trouble again not long after the previous person died.
Sister Jiang paused for a moment, and quickly thought of a possibility: "Could it be that Xiong Yingshan lied to us?"
Qiao Yuan also thought about this possibility.
Of course, an even more terrifying possibility emerged in her mind regarding this matter——
Xiong Yingshan did not lie, it was just that Zhou Ning's ritual catalyzed the ghosts, so that the ghosts no longer had to act at a fixed time. Just like the person who died as Luding said, he did not die on time.
For Qiao Yuan, the situation was even worse.
She had to quicken her pace.
After walking for nearly half an hour, Qiao Yuan finally reached the floor where the lounge was located.
Just as I reached the stairs, a figure spoke up: "Miss Qiao."
Even without turning around, Qiao Yuan knew it was Xiongying Mountain.
The other party is also on this floor.
If Qiao Yuan had only guessed that there was something wrong with this floor before, then the appearance of Xiong Yingshan undoubtedly confirmed her idea.
She glanced behind Xiong Yingshan and saw that only his boss and a few other people were following him.
Noticing Qiao Yuan's gaze, Xiong Yingshan took the initiative to explain that because a group of people would make a large conspicuous appearance, he dispersed the other people as well, leaving only the boss and a few others with him.
Then Xiong Yingshan changed the subject and said that he and Qiao Yuan were really destined to meet and he didn't expect to meet them on this floor.
Xiong Yingshan: "And I found that this ghost no longer kills people according to the three-hour rule. We are in danger now..."
Xiong Yingshan's words reminded Sister Jiang of what had just happened, and she immediately said, "We also saw someone die just now."
After Sister Jiang finished speaking, Xiong Yingshan said, "We need to be extremely careful now..."
But before he could finish his words, he saw Qiao Yuan walking straight towards the men's bathroom.
