Well of Mystery

According to the situation Uncle Zong introduced to Huayang yesterday afternoon, this hot spring is indeed open-air, and it also has a strange name - Rose Fire Big Soup Pot.It sounds more like a signboard of a catering industry, but it is indeed a natural hot spring for tourists to bathe in.

When they reached the place filled with white mist, Bai Xiuqi finally understood what the so-called "soup pot" meant.

From a distance, this open-air hot spring presents a perfect pot-bottom shape with a low middle and high surroundings. There is a rock in the center straight out of the water. It really looks like the kind of chimney-shaped ears that Chongqing people love to use. Copper basin big hot pot.

But in this way, wouldn't the people who soak in the hot springs all be shabu-shabu slices in the hot pot?

Just as Bai Xiuqi thought it was a little funny, he found two hazy figures walking over from the other side of the white mist, they were Jian Tong and Luo Weilu.

Near the rose fire soup pot, there is a small bamboo room specially provided for tourists to change clothes. The two people should have changed their swimming trunks there and walked towards the hot spring.Bai Xiuqi immediately reminded everyone not to go there for the time being, the reason is very simple - if this hot spring is not what they are looking for, the two groups of people meet each other but turn around and leave, it will inevitably cause suspicion and misunderstanding.

But how to see the color of spring water clearly?

"You still have to rely on me!" Hua Yin looked at the three "useless" big men beside her with contempt.

As she spoke, she ran out of the hiding place carelessly like this, humming a song and walked to the edge of the hot spring, and then pretended to be unprepared to see two big men sitting on the bank of the hot spring to test the water temperature.

"ah--"

The frightened voice of the little girl hovered in the mid-air of Rose Fire Island, which startled Luo Weilu a lot, and looked up blankly to find the source of the voice.

Jian Tong frowned and looked at Huayin: "This is an open-air hot spring for mixed bathing, right?"

"I'm not mentally prepared." Hua Yin pouted her mouth and pretended to be innocent: "By the way, have you seen my elder brother and the others?"

Jian Tong shook his head.

Huayin took the opportunity to say a few more casual words, turned her head and left, and returned to Huayang safely after a while.

"How is it?" Jiang Chenglu asked nervously.

Huayin didn't say anything, just let out a long sigh.

White, the water in the rose fire big soup pot is cloudy white.This means that this place is also connected to yesterday's haunted hot spring.

More importantly, there is a road distance of 500 meters between the rose fire soup pot and the haunted house hot spring, and there are many small hot spring buried spots. Does it mean that they are all from the same hot spring water system?

It is useless to just think about it. In the absence of a definite theoretical basis, the only practical solution is to look for it on the ground.

"How many hot springs are there?" Bai Xiuqi asked Hua Yang.

Hua Yang took out the map drawn yesterday, looked down, and said in a low voice, "Fifteen."

"let me see."

Bai Xiuqi took out his mobile phone, took a picture of the map, and turned his head to look at Jiang Chenglu: "I'm with Huayin, you and Huayang, let's split up."

"why?!"

Huayin yelled again: "Why do you want me to be with you??!"

"..." Hua Yang also looked at Bai Xiuqi thoughtfully.

"I..." Jiang Chenglu just wanted to speak, but Bai Xiuqi gave him a hard look: "I've had enough of your overprotection. Don't let me see you again before lunch."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but dragged the flower shade with one hand and walked towards a small green street in front of him.

Hua Yang frowned as she watched her sister being dragged away by Bai Xiuqi, and seemed to want to catch up.But before he moved his feet, Jiang Chenglu grabbed his hand.

"Don't go, I think Xiaobai should have something to say to your sister."

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Huayin was dragged away by Bai Xiuqi for a long time, and it took more than 30 steps in one breath before she realized it.

"You let go!"

She finally screamed and shook off Bai Xiuqi's hand, took two steps back and looked at Bai Xiuqi viciously: "What the hell do you want to do?!"

Bai Xiuqi also changed from her gentleness in the past and looked at her coldly.

"Have you had enough trouble?"

"what?"

Huayin stared at him, her body receded, but her neck stretched out, like a aggressive turkey.

"What are you, saying I'm making trouble? Did I make trouble with you today? Have you?!"

Her voice was shrill and aggressive. Bai Xiuqi instinctively knew that he shouldn't argue with an angry woman, but he knew that he had no way out now.

"If you were my own sister, I'd beat you right now."

He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.But these words obviously add fuel to the fire for Huayin.

"How dare you!" Her eyes were a little red: she bared her two canine teeth ferociously: "Even my own brother dare not touch me, you try to touch me?!"

Of course, Bai Xiuqi couldn't really do anything, he just looked at Huayin condescendingly, as if looking at a vexatious child.

"You said, Huayang never hit you?" He asked.

Although he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, Huayin still puffed out her chest proudly, and then nodded.

"Then do you know why he never hits you?"

"..." The idiot already knew the answer to this question, but Huayin gritted her teeth and refused to say it because of face.

Bai Xiuqi didn't try to force her, and directly asked the next question: "Then do you know what Boss Shang said to me in Hutian today?"

Huayin was taken aback for a moment, she opened her small mouth slightly, her gaze flickered a few times, then she suddenly moved away from Bai Xiuqi's face.

"Actually, you should have already had a hunch, didn't you?!"

But Bai Xiuqi didn't let her go, "Huayang, your brother, his body may reach its limit anytime and anywhere, and Boss Shang also asked me to watch him. But in the case of group operations, I don't have the confidence It can protect him comprehensively, so I might as well ask Ah Jiang to help me."

"...Nonsense!" Hua Yinse sternly said, "My brother has something to do. Why didn't Brother Shang ask me?"

Bai Xiuqi smiled: "I think you understand this truth better than me."

"..." Huayin's expression was not as ferocious as before, but she still refused to admit her mistake: "So what? Anyway, the body can be rebuilt. Isn't he the one who brought you back?"

"It is precisely because I was rescued by him that I know the pain in the process. I have been beheaded before, but the pain in the few days of rebirth is no less than being beheaded."

Bai Xiuqi sighed: "This kind of pain...you would never want someone you love to go through. I know you are very dissatisfied with your current appearance, and even become eccentric because of it, but you have I never thought that the reason why your brother never let you become like him, maybe he didn't want you to suffer such pain."

Huayin has completely calmed down, like a child finally realizing his mistake.

Bai Xiuqi didn't intend to add insult to injury, so he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened the hot spring map.

"I know you are dissatisfied with me, but compared with your brother-sister relationship, this dissatisfaction with me should be nothing, right? So, complete what we should accomplish together with me, and give a share to your brother." Li, I won’t bother you with anything else.”

After saying this, he didn't wait for Huayin's response anymore, and went straight down a few steps.Not long after, there were soft footsteps behind him.

The two of them walked back and forth for a while, and finally came to the nearest hot spring mark on the map.It's really a coincidence, it's another spooky hut.A Chinese character horoscope is painted on the outer wall with red paint.

Just as Bai Xiuqi stood still at the door of the house, the footsteps behind her stopped abruptly.

He turned around and looked at the awkward little girl behind him: "Are you afraid of haunted houses?"

"Who, who is scared!" Hua Yin gritted her teeth, hesitated for a moment, and then took a step forward.

Bai Xiuqi smiled and watched her walking towards him, and waved to her: "Come on, big brother will protect you."

"The tone of your words sounds like Jiang Chenglu." Hua Yin was disgusted: "As expected, those who are close to vermilion are red and those who are close to ink are black."

Saying that, both of them stepped into the small courtyard of the haunted house.This place is much cleaner and tidy than the haunted house last night. There is not a single weed in the yard, and the soil is moist and black.Looking into the depths of the yard, there is a vague white water vapor gushing out.

Bai Xiuqi saw a wooden sign in front of the hut, with only four large characters on it - "Be careful of steam"

It is not surprising that there is steam when there is a hot spring.But no matter whether it was the haunted house yesterday or the wildfire soup pot this morning, the water temperature was not unbearably hot.But a warning sign has been erected here, and it seems that the high temperature inside is not trivial.However, this also seems to imply that the hot spring inside and the soup pot may not come from the same source.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi immediately gained motivation.He first asked Huayin to prepare the silk sac containing jade peaches, and then pushed the wooden door next to the warning sign.

At the same time as the door was pushed open, a ball of white mist that could not be seen was sprayed out from the crack of the door, and the hot and humid breath hit the person's face, as if he was forced to press a thick hot towel. There was an unpleasant sulphurous smell.Bai Xiuqi took a step back, and then felt Huayin's grip on the corner of her clothes.

Soon he also saw, in the depths of the white mist inside the door, sitting a ghost whose whole body was scorched black.And the hot spring was in a hole in the floor at its feet.

"Hand...hand..." Hua Yin called out, pointing at the hot spring.

There are five or six hands shaking in the tumbling and boiling spring water, the dark skin is split open, revealing the bright red muscles, which looks shocking.

Bai Xiuqi reached out and pressed Huayin's shoulder: "Wait here, I'll come as soon as I go."

Huayin was stunned: "Are you crazy? It's so hot in here! There's still so much water vapor, you'll be cooked!"

"Don't be afraid, I have these." Bai Xiuqi smiled, and took off the string of bracelets that Jiang Chenglu wore on his hand this morning.