Free Web Novel“You might not believe me, but I’ve been kidnapped by a Strange Tale!
It’s holding me hostage and forcing me to do things I don’t want to!
Danger!!!
If anyone sees this, please contact Jiang Li or An Qing for me!”
“Ugh—!”
Lu Yibei sighed, rubbing her forehead, after those almost neurotic lines flashed through her mind.
“I’m really going crazy; I’m even resorting to useless tricks like this!”
Standing at the intersection of Peony Street, Lu Yibei muttered to herself and then hailed a taxi.
“Driver, please take me to Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel.”
“Hua Yu Sunshine...” The taxi driver hesitated for a moment, then nodded, “Alright!”
...
The Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel is located near a high-plateau lake scenic area in the distant suburbs of Hua City. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing a lake on one, the scenery is truly pleasant.
Lu Yibei had long heard of this resort hotel, but only by reputation; she had never indulged in its luxurious offerings.
She was a homebody with little interest in scenic spots, especially since the cheapest room at Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel cost 988 yuan per night.
With that money, couldn’t I just spend two rounds on “love and magical girls”? What if I get a rare drop? The next one, I’ll definitely get a rare drop on the next one! I’ll just do another ten billion pulls!
Lu Yibei was privately calculating how to maximize her earnings if she had 988 yuan to spend on in-game purchases when the taxi she was in suddenly stopped.
“Driver, why aren’t we moving?”
“Can’t move!” The taxi driver spread his hands, pointing out the window, “Look, the road ahead is blocked!”
Lu Yibei had been engrossed in her calculations about in-game purchases and only snapped back to reality when the taxi stopped.
Now, she looked in the direction the taxi driver pointed and indeed saw several rows of conical road barriers blocking the way in the middle of the road.
“What’s going on?” Lu Yibei was startled. “They blocked the road? Isn’t the resort hotel open for business?”
“Business? It hasn’t been open for almost two months!” The taxi driver scoffed.
Lu Yibei frowned and pressed, “Not open? Why?”
The taxi driver glanced warily left and right, then lowered his voice mysteriously, “You don’t know? There’s a rumor that this hotel hides a pervert who specializes in luring young girls in their prime to a secret room in the hotel, drugging them, and then disemboweling them!”
Lu Yibei, “???”
Aside from the disembowelment part, how is this completely different from the version I know?
“Just half a year ago, a few young people accidentally broke into that secret room and found ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) three girls, like slaughtered pigs, hanging upside down by rusty iron hooks through their throats. Their eyes were wide and round, staring straight at them, and crimson blood dripped steadily from their swaying bodies...”
“Wait! Wait!” Lu Yibei listened and felt something was off, a chill running down her spine. She couldn’t help but interrupt the taxi driver, “I mean, how do you speak as if you saw it with your own eyes?”
As she spoke, she subtly pulled her guitar case closer to her front, ready to take out the mingwang statue and swing it at the driver at any moment.
Although she didn’t yet know how to use the mingwang statue against an intangible Strange Tale like Zhu Linglong, she already had some experience dealing with Weird tale that had physical forms.
“Hehe!” The taxi driver chuckled awkwardly, scratching the back of his head. “Actually, I drive during the day and moonlight as a horror radio host at night. That was a script I recently wrote! How is it? Exciting, right!?”
Lu Yibei, “...” Do you see my expression? That’s right, it’s speechless and expressionless!
“But seriously, though! Mine was adapted from a real event!”
Real event? Lu Yibei frowned slightly. If it was really as the taxi driver said, that the resort hotel was closed, besides Zhu Linglong, could there be another hidden reason?
In any case, it doesn’t hurt to be careful! If it really comes down to it...
I’ll find a way to escape!
“Now that Weird tale are rampant everywhere, once people hear that someone might have died here, no matter how beautiful the scenery, who would dare to stay? After several months of no business, the boss simply closed it temporarily a little over a month ago.”
As the taxi driver spoke, a faint, throbbing pain suddenly came from Lu Yibei’s stomach.
Lu Yibei gritted her teeth. This Miss Zhu seems quite money-grubbing? Hearing that her father’s business was affected, she couldn’t sit still.
As she pondered, she patted the back seat of the taxi driver’s car, her gaze sharpening, and said in a deep voice, “Since you knew it wasn’t open for business here, why didn’t you tell me when we were in Peony Street?”
The taxi driver seemed intimidated by Lu Yibei’s expressionless, piercing gaze. He shrank her neck and chuckled awkwardly, “I was just worried that if you knew, you wouldn’t come, and I’d lose a fare, wouldn’t I? Ha, haha!”
Lu Yibei, “...” I have an Ancestral An dialect phrase; I wonder if I should say it or not?
Looking into the distance, two towering white buildings were constructed in the shade of the mountain. From a certain angle, they looked somewhat like a tomb.
...
“Bang—!”
Lu Yibei got out of the car, slammed the door shut, tightened the strap of her guitar case, bypassed the road barriers, and walked along the road towards the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel.
The power of nature is always stronger than humans imagine. In less than two months, with no one maintaining the vegetation on both sides of the road, it had grown wildly, intertwined and half a person’s height, making it difficult to even see one or two people hiding behind it.
Branches from trees were scattered on the road, forming natural obstacles. Whenever Lu Yibei walked past, she carefully cleared them, opening up a path for easier passage.
Every few hundred meters she walked, she would pause briefly to observe the surroundings, then bend down, pick up a handful of pebbles, and stack them into unique shapes as markers.
Although she didn’t know what she would encounter inside the resort hotel, the probability of encountering trouble in such a place, if not 100%, was certainly 80 to 90 percent!
Planning an escape route in advance was very necessary!
As she continued, the buildings on both sides became fewer and fewer. Before long, she was surrounded by a lush forest. Such scenery, when there were many people, could be called tranquil and unique.
But in the current deserted situation, it could only be described as desolate. Looking at the dense, deep forest on both sides, a cool breeze swept by, and ethereal laughter seemed to echo in her ears, as if the past grandeur was reappearing.
Faced with this situation, Lu Yibei expressionlessly took down her guitar case, pulled out the mingwang statue, and held it in her hand. Feeling the slight coolness emanating from it, she felt a courage in her chest as if she could slay gods and ghosts.
It must be said that carrying the mingwang statue these past few days, Lu Yibei felt her physical strength and arm strength had increased somewhat. She had evolved from a weak homebody to a strange homebody who could swing a several-dozen-pound bronze statue multiple times.
Just as she was about to enter the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, Lu Yibei found a small building by the roadside. It looked like it should be a front station for receiving tourists.
The exterior of the small house still looked new, with caution tape pulled around it, but through the half-open window, one could see chaos inside. The room was littered with garbage, and the furniture was covered in a thick layer of dust. Occasionally, unknown insects could be seen scurrying across in a fleeting glimpse.
“There isn’t even anyone watching the hotel? Is it really as eerie as the taxi driver said?”
Lu Yibei mumbled softly and continued walking forward.
...
The main gate of the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel was tightly shut, its lock already showing some rust. Lu Yibei circled the large hotel several times before finding a smashed window in a corner.
Squatting on the ground, she carefully examined the scattered glass shards. Lu Yibei looked up at the hole large enough for one person to pass through, and her mood immediately became serious.
The broken edges of the glass shards were still fresh, without a speck of dust, indicating they had just been smashed open recently.
Someone has been here recently!?
And left behind...
And there are torn clothing fragments?
Upon discovering the scattered glass shards on the ground, Lu Yibei immediately abandoned the idea of smashing open a side door with the mingwang statue to enter the resort hotel if she couldn’t find a suitable entrance.
The person who entered the resort hotel for unknown reasons might not have left yet. If she made too much noise and was discovered, she would be at a disadvantage, with them hidden and her exposed!
Thinking this, she stood up, walked to the window, and took down a wisp of white fabric hanging on it, frowning.
She held the clothing fragment between two fingers, rubbing it for a moment, but couldn’t identify the fabric.
“Tsk!”
Lu Yibei, even though you’re the type of person where trouble follows you wherever you go, you can’t just act like Conan!
Lu Yibei inwardly chastised herself, then looked up into the hotel. Dust floated in the dimly lit lobby with its tightly shut doors and windows. A chill vaguely swept in, and a few broken caution tapes, pushed by an unknown wind, scraped across the floor with a soft “shush” sound.
The eerie lobby, Zhu Linglong’s crime scene, and the mysterious person who had infiltrated it and possibly hadn’t left yet...
“Suddenly, I don’t want to go in anymore! It’s getting late, and I still need to go back and cook. So, maybe... I’ll just leave now?”
Lu Yibei muttered to herself. The moment she turned around, a sharp pain shot through her abdomen, making her break out in a cold sweat.
“Damn it! I’m going in now, I’m going in now!” Lu Yibei cursed under her breath, casually stuffing the clothing fragment she had taken from the windowsill into her pocket. Then, she tiptoed inside.
I’ll keep that clothing fragment for now. If I encounter a strange person inside, maybe I can compare it...
No! Bah! I can’t set up this kind of flag! I definitely won’t encounter any strange people inside! Hmph!
Lu Yibei thought, then jumped down from the nearly two-meter-high windowsill. She steadied herself, and as she looked up, a searing pain shot through her eyes, and then she saw strange people. frёeωebɳovel.com
A large group of strange people!
