Chapter 71 Blue Ice Hotel (V)
Xiang Liangyu's intuition told him that the iceberg must contain what he wanted, or in other words, it must be related to what he wanted.
That night, the sky was filled with auroras, the outer lights of the Blue Ice Hotel were turned on, and the main gate was closed.
The hotel still broadcasts nighttime precautions, repeatedly emphasizing not to leave the hotel at night.
Xiang Liangyu stood in front of the window. In the distance was the gradual change of the aurora and the red light flashing like mechanical equipment. She tied her hair into a high ponytail, picked up the goggles on the table and left the room. When she opened the door, she saw Gu Ye leaning against the door.
He was wearing a down jacket of the same color as himself, and his eyes hidden behind the goggles were extremely bright: "I heard that you are going to that iceberg?"
Xiang Liangyu ignored him, closed the door and walked towards the private elevator. When the elevator door was closing in the last few seconds, Gu squeezed in and said, "Xiang Liangyu, why are you so aloof? Did I offend you in any way?"
Xiang Liangyu glanced at him, but still didn't answer. It didn't offend her, but she could personally feel some of the emotions of the people around her. If the mouth is the only part of the human body that can express, then the eyes are the organs that can most directly see the human heart.
When a person is lying, his eyes will look away guiltily; when a person wants to harm others, his eyes will reveal uncomfortable murderous intent; when a person wants to help others, his eyes will burst with kindness.
But there is something that cannot be seen from the eyes alone. Xiang Liangyu went to the Robot Museum when she was in high school. When she looked into the eyes of the humanoid machines inside, she saw only coldness.
Gu Ye's eyes were cold, not to say he was a robot, but people with such eyes had more evil than good in their hearts. Her intuition told her that Gu Ye's sudden appearance and approach were full of ill intentions and exploitation.
The elevator stopped on the first floor. The magnificent lobby was almost the same as it was during the day, except that a new painting had been replaced on the ceiling - "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden".
There was already a group of guests sitting in the lobby bar, including Quan Shengyan.
Xiang Liangyu was a little surprised and walked over: "Why are you here?"
The frog-faced man croaked twice: "The store manager is too straightforward. He was afraid that we might be in danger, so he came with the group to protect us."
Store manager? Xiang Liangyu raised his eyebrows and looked at Quan Shengyan who was wrapped tightly. Suddenly, he felt that it made sense. Most of Quan Shengyan's identities in each world were very powerful.
Gu also came over, pushed up his goggles, and smiled, showing his big white teeth: "The store manager is so nice."
"Hey? Two store managers?"
Gu Ye smiled and said, "No way, the store manager is really lucky. There are not many people in the world as handsome as me. It is an honor for the store manager to have someone who looks a bit like me."
Guest: “…”
Is this what humility is?
Quan Shengyan stood up, pulled down the goggles on his forehead, put them on and said softly, "The probability of avalanches will be much higher at night. If you don't want to be buried in the snow forever, just follow me."
The main gate opened and the wind and snow rushed in.
Jiang Cangshu and Chu Li, who were hiding under the front desk, looked at each other, and when the wind and snow poured into the hotel, they rushed to the back of the team. Jiang Cangshu took out his mobile phone, grabbed a person and looked at him: "My friend, you should be sleeping in your room at this time."
The fox-faced man's eyes became confused: "Sleep, sleep..."
Jiang Cangshu grabbed another person and hypnotized him to go back to the room to sleep.
At this point, the two successfully mixed into the team. After all, it is still very difficult to recognize a person under the cover of thick hats, masks and goggles.
"I'm going to make a wish on the floating iceberg and I'm never going to come to this hotel again."
"I made a wish last time, and it finally came."
Eagle Face and Snake Face seemed to be friends, talking together. Xiang Liangyu was a little surprised when he heard this: "Can this copy be repeated?"
"What copy? Strange human, always speaking something we can't understand."
Xiang Liangyu was stunned and said, "Aren't you NPCs?"
"Here we go again. Aren't you a guest? Why are you saying the same thing as those hotel employees?"
“We are just ordinary animals.”
Xiang Liangyu: "Ordinary animals have human bodies?"
"This is strange, but it's true. It's like this every time I come here. I remember when I first came here, it was difficult for me to crawl. The staff had to carry me in."
Xiang Liangyu thought they were too immersed in the play and just made a few perfunctory remarks.
After walking through the icebergs, we soon arrived at the iceberg mountain. From a distance, it looked like an ordinary hill, but when we got closer, we discovered that this mountain was truly a different world.
The entrance is not on the mountain surface, but inside the mountain.
The half-man-high cave was tightly blocked by hanging icicles. Quan Shengyan broke the icicles and the entrance was revealed. Everyone closed their eyes and made a pious wish at the door. Quan Shengyan put his hands together and slightly opened one eye. Next to him was Xiang Liangyu.
After Xiang Liangyu opened her eyes, Quan Shengyan held her hand and said, "Go in, don't talk, just nod and shake your head."
Xiang Liangyu nodded and went in first. Quan Shengyan followed closely behind him , intentionally or unintentionally separating Gu Ye and Xiang Liangyu.
Gu also found it funny and didn't force his way in. His eyes hidden behind his goggles took in both of them.
Eagle Face seemed to notice that Gu Ye was left out, and was very kind to let him join their team so that he would not be alone in the middle. Gu Ye smiled even more and went happily.
Xiang Liangyu and Quan Shengyan, who were leading the way, walked side by side. The cave was freezing cold, with a scene of severe winter made of ice and jade. The space was small, so it was already the limit for two people to walk side by side, not to mention that they had to be careful of sharp objects such as ice curtains and icicles around them.
The heavy down jacket could no longer withstand the increasing cold, and the goggles were covered with frost as soon as he entered the cave. Xiang Liangyu exhaled, and felt that he could hear the friction of his joints when he walked.
The ground was covered with ice and was very slippery. Xiang Liangyu walked very slowly. The further he went, the more he realized that the original straight ice road began to split into two branches, one going up and the other going down.
Gu also left the group of guests. The space here was much larger. Quan Shengyan couldn't stop him. He could only watch him put his arm around Xiang Liangyu's shoulders and said, "There are many scary legends about Floating Ice Mountain. The most famous one is the fork in the road. Going up leads to heaven, and going down leads to hell."
"What will you choose?" Gu also turned his head to look at Xiang Liangyu. The two were very close to each other. Xiang Liangyu was frozen and had no expression on his face. He reached out and grabbed the hand on his shoulder and threw it away, then walked towards the upward cave entrance without saying a word.
Quan Shengyan was annoyed with him, but he couldn't do anything to him. He could only grit his teeth and warn him again: "Stay away from her!"
Gu Ye shrugged, as if he didn't hear what Quan Shengyan said, and ran into the cave and shouted, "Xiang Liangyu, wait for me."
Snake Face came over with his tongue hanging out, smiling slyly: "This is not the way you chase people."
"Yes, yes, manager, you are not proactive at all."
They didn't know whether Quan Shengyan heard it or not. He didn't say anything, but just looked up and followed in.
The team chose to go up, and Chu Li, who was at the back of the team, felt a chill in her heart the moment she stepped onto the ice ladder. She grabbed Jiang Cangshu, shook her head, and then pointed to another cave entrance.
Jiang Cangshu glanced at Xiang Liangyu in front of the team, and without hesitation, followed Chu Li into the downward entrance of the cave.
Gu was also making noises in Xiang Liangyu's ears. The stairs going up were small and slippery. If one fell down without steadying his steps, it would cause a series of chain reactions. Xiang Liangyu suddenly felt that he needed to strengthen his shielding ability.
Gu Ye followed behind and kept chattering: "Xiang Liangyu, do you really not want to pay attention to me? Although it was wrong for me to break into your room, I broke in because I discovered the danger at that time."
"Xiang Liangyu, your time has stopped again. I really can repair watches. How about I help you fix it for free?"
"Do you still remember Zero Island..."
The more he talked, the more outrageous it became. He directly brought up the matter of Zero Island and said that he wanted to be friends with him at that time. Xiang Liangyu ignored him and couldn't help twitching his lips when he occasionally listened.
Only when he could see the black exit did Xiang Liangyu breathe a sigh of relief and quicken his pace to run upwards.
No one noticed that the higher they went, the thinner the ice stairs under their feet became, and even cracks had appeared. The only thing they could do now was to get out successfully before the ice cracked.
Xiang Liangyu had already noticed the changes in the ice stairs under her feet. She took six steps at a time and finally rushed out of the ice cave with cracking sounds.
"Ah! It's my wife! My wife is here! My wish has really come true!"
"My wings! My wings are back!"
“It’s amazing!”
Xiang Liangyu turned around when he heard the sound and found that another snake-faced man appeared from nowhere next to the snake-faced man. The eagle-faced man had strong wings growing on his back, which stirred up gusts of wind and snow when he waved them.
"It's so beautiful, Xiang Liangyu, don't you think it looks real?" Gu also took off his goggles and watched the aurora up close.
"You mean," she said, her voice sounding muffled because of the mask she was wearing, "the world in the game is real, right?"
She felt Quan Shengyan's figure beside her stiffen, while Gu's eyes widened slightly and a sound of crazy laughter and suppressed laughter came from his throat.
Xiang Liangyu took off his goggles and looked around, and sure enough, he saw a red dot flashing not far away.
Obviously, Quan Shengyan also saw it. He turned pale, grabbed Xiang Liangyu's hand and said, "Don't go."
"Xiang Liangyu, I know what you are thinking, but you don't want to know the truth here."
Gu Ye said dissatisfiedly: "Quan Shengyan, can you please stop pretending to be doing this for her good? Just let her do whatever she wants."
Xiang Liangyu glanced sideways, wanting to see what he was going to do, but her attention was attracted by the reflective object on his chest.
Gu Ye only wore a down jacket as an outer garment, and a dark vest underneath, with a pocket watch on the vest.
Xiang Liangyu raised his hand and looked at his watch. After waiting for twenty seconds, the three hands on the watch did not change and still pointed to six o'clock.
At this time... Xiang Liangyu suddenly had a bad feeling.
She turned around and said to Quan Shengyan: "If the hotel is the gaming area with systematic protection, then the area outside is..."
Quan Shengyan nodded: "The non-game area has dangers that you can't imagine."
Xiang Liangyu: "Then why didn't you say it earlier?"
Quan Shengyan pursed his lips and said, "I said that Gu Ye used his skills to block my words, so you didn't hear it."
Xiang Liangyu blinked, and the two of them moved in unison, turned around and ran towards the cave entrance, only to find that the snake face in front of the cave was sweetly snuggling with its wife who suddenly appeared.
However, the next moment, the so-called wife opened her bloody mouth and swallowed the snake-faced beast's head in one bite. The head and body were separated and blood splattered on the spot.
On the other side, Eagle Face's eyes were shining. He ran to the side of the mountain, cried like an eagle under the aurora sky, and then jumped down.
The wings behind it disappeared into thin air .
Xiang Liangyu frowned, remembered the wish he made at the foot of the mountain, suddenly stopped and turned around.
A bone-chilling cold wind blew towards her. In the snow and wind, Xiang Liangyu saw Gu Ye running towards her with a panicked look on his face.
She had excellent eyesight and could see the shadow approaching behind him. She could also see the time on the pocket watch on his chest: it was exactly six o'clock.
It's exactly the same time as the time on my watch.
