Chapter 19 The accident of the hot spring trip
"The hot springs here are great, and many locals come to soak every few days." In a dark cave, fog steeped out from the warm spring water, making the entire cave looming. Hot hot water flowed out of the spring eyes, gathered in more than a dozen large pools through the cold underground river, and then flowed downward along the exit of the pool. The mountains outside were barren and drought, and it was impossible to imagine that there was such an environment inside.
Because the hot springs are far away and are limited and remote, and the connection is not convenient, there are not many guests here. Only some lucky tourists come here with the local guide and enjoy the fun of the hot springs.
"Although there are hot springs in other places, the hot springs here are very special. If you often take a hot spring here, your skin will become white, delicate and tight, and it will also make your body look very light and fragrant." Amid the smoke, several girls sat in a small pool without others, soaking comfortably in the water with a scent of sulfur. The warm water covered the skin on the girls' chests, but could not cover their slender necks and delicate jaws.
"But, Sister Vivian, I'm sorry." Maggie soaked her mouth under water and sniffed a few bubbles: "I shouldn't have screamed just now, really, really sorry."
"Nothing." Vivian sat next to Catherine, her short blue hair spread out and was wet against her head. Catherine was holding a comb and carefully combing her hair. Hearing Maggie's apology, Vivian smiled calmly: "I look really scary. I don't blame you. Sometimes I'm afraid of looking in the mirror myself."
"No, my sisters are very nice to me, and I shouldn't be afraid no matter what." Maggie shook her head in a low voice: "It's so bad."
"It's really okay." Vivian scooped up a handful of water with his hands and splashed it on Maggie's face: "I know you have no malice. I don't care, haha, come and play with the water."
"Don't move around." Catherine patted Vivian's head, poked her red face steamed by hot water and said, "Are you just five years old? You're still playing with water, sit down for me. Stay alert."
"What are sisters who are you wary of? And why do you have to carry your weapons with you when you take a hot spring?" Maggie asked in confusion: "Are you worried about encountering monsters? It doesn't matter, there will be monsters here, and monsters cannot survive."
"No, that's a more terrifying existence than a monster." Catherine touched the assembled hand crossbow and looked around the cave through the mist. The more than ten pools that the hot spring passed by were distributed in three different caves, just to separate the male and female guests. The cave where the girls were located had five pools of different sizes, and more than twenty women were soaking in the pool water. Catherine said seriously: "In order to protect everyone here and to stop evil crimes, you must always be vigilant, because a beast in human skin will sneak in as long as you are not careful."
"Ha, heh, heh." Maggie said with a dry smile: "Sister, you don't mean Mr. Pennis."
"It's him." With a slam, Lina suddenly emerged from Maggie, shaking the water droplets on her silver hair and said, "You can never let go of your vigilance. Otherwise, he will turn into a beast and eat you."
"Mr. Panis would not do that." Freya was soaked in water, only her face was exposed, and she said in a beautiful voice that was inconsistent with her body shape: "Mr. Panis is so perfect and upright. How could he do something to peek at the lady's bath? This must be your prejudice. You have lived with him for almost a year. Has he ever peeked at you taking a shower and changing clothes? No, otherwise you wouldn't trust him so much."
"That's because he never shows his fangs to those familiar to those around him." Lina picked up her glasses from the shore and put them on: "But to a fresh and strange woman, hehe..."
"Ah~~~" A scream suddenly came from the entrance of the cave. The owner of the screaming was obviously a panicked woman.
"Here you come." The girls' faces changed. Catherine and Lina jumped up from the pool and jumped to the shore. While they were already wrapping their tempting bodies with bath towels. They carried long swords and hammers and rushed to the tunnel that entered the cave barefoot. They found a young woman who looked like she was squatting on the ground with her head in her hands, trembling all over, her face was pale, and her mouth kept muttering: "Ghost, there is ghost."
"Wake up, calm down." Catherine pressed her hands on the young woman's shoulders and whispered: "Open your eyes and see, there is nothing here, open your eyes."
The last command made the fearful woman subconsciously open her eyes. The first thing she saw was Catherine's eyes. Catherine's calm and firm eyes seemed to have a strong infectiousness, which quickly calmed the woman's heart. The woman looked at Catherine for a long time, then looked around for a while, and found that there was indeed nothing terrible. Then she sat down dejectedly and covered her face and started crying.
"It's okay, it's okay." Pulling the young woman back from the brink of mental breakdown, Catherine patted the woman's back and asked softly: "Come on, tell us what did you see to make you so scared?"
"I, I, I, I seem to see the dead." The woman shrank in Catherine's arms and said, "I just finished taking the hot spring and was walking out. Suddenly I saw a person wearing a local robe coming towards me. When I was away, I didn't care too much. I thought it was just an ordinary local to come in to take the hot spring, but after walking a few steps, I suddenly realized that he was wearing a man's robe. I was shocked at that time and happened to be facing each other. I looked up and wanted to ask him why he came to the lady's hot spring. As a result, when I looked up, I happened to see his face, his, his face... it was just a skeleton, without any flesh. I was frightened, but before I could do anything, the person suddenly disappeared from my eyes. It was so terrible, so terrible."
"Don't be afraid, many people are by your side now, there will be no trouble." Catherine stroked the young woman's hair like coaxing a child, comforted her briefly, and asked Vivian and Freya, who had already put on their clothes and walked out, "Did you pay attention when you came out? Are there anyone like the kind of person she said to take advantage of the chaos?"
"No." Vivian shook her head and pointed at Catherine and said, "Sister, the bath towel is about to fall off."
"Oh, thank you." Catherine tied her bath towel again and said in confusion: "It is still daytime now, and there is no death energy nearby. Where did the skeletons appear? Moreover, the skeletons are not ghosts, so they cannot disappear immediately."
"Yes. It's so strange."
"Huh?" Catherine and Lina stiffened, slowly turned their heads, and saw Panis standing aside with his arms crossed his chest, looking at the young woman with a serious face and thinking with great care.
"Why are you here?" Catherine said with her lips twitching, "Aren't you supposed to be in another cave?"
"Oh, I ran over when I heard the screams," said Penis. "I didn't come in for peeking."
"No one said you were just peeking." Catherine rolled her eyes: "You said it was so strange, what's strange?"
"Freya and Vivian didn't see anyone running in, either." Panis said, "But I didn't see anyone running out. There was no fork in the road here. As long as someone could see it, the most important thing was that I was not far from her. Before and after she screamed, I could see clearly that she was the only one around, nothing else. There was nothing."
"But I really saw it." The young woman shouted: "I didn't lie, I really saw it, and that feeling could not be an hallucination."
"But, lady, you look up now," said Penis. "Look at my face, can you see it?"
When the young woman looked up, she saw only the sunshine. The dazzling sunshine shone into the cave from the entrance of the cave and looked out against the light. Not to mention the person in white robe, the young woman's blurred vision could not even see the figure of Panis in black cloth.
"You saw it, too," said Penis. "In theory, you shouldn't be able to see it so clearly."
"But...but I really see." The young woman said with a confused look on her face and stammered: "I can swear. I really see it very clearly."
"The Wall of Memories." Maggie hurriedly put on her clothes and crawled out. At this time, she said calmly: "She should have seen the Wall of Memories. This area is dozens of kilometers nearby. This situation can often be encountered. Whether during the day or at night, she suddenly sees the scenes that were not long ago, just like it is true. These scenes may be tens of thousands of years ago. It may be yesterday, and there may not be one person. There may be a group of people, so everyone doesn't have to be so nervous. This is harmless, and the locals even regard seeing the phantoms of memories as a kind of luck."
"Well, this can be explained." Panis nodded, touching his chin, "so the skeleton disappeared suddenly."
"But there are three questions that cannot be explained." Catherine frowned and said, "First, have you seen skeletons wearing clothes? I have never seen them. If the skeleton was the newly dead person, the clothes were his clothes before his death, but even the people had rotted into skeletons, this lady could not have found the smell and decay of the clothes, and could not have regarded him as an ordinary local."
"Yeah, this is indeed suspicious." Panis nodded, "Maybe that's another sensible undead."
"But that doesn't make sense, because the second question is where the undead came from. If this lady read it correctly, the skeleton was wearing the robe of a native, which means it could not have happened tens of thousands of years ago, or at least after the Fourth Age. However, there is no record of the explosion of death energy nearby, and even the disaster of the return of the dead a hundred years ago did not disturb here. Then, the skeleton would not have emerged out of thin air."
"Maybe we should search the neighborhood carefully." Panis said: "Maybe we can find that skeleton, but unfortunately we don't have time."
"There is a third question." Catherine suddenly showed a smiley expression that made Panis frightened: "Dear Mr. Panis, you said just now that you came after hearing the sound. You definitely didn't want to peep, right? But I really want to hear someone say that when he screamed, he was not far away from the front. Which one is true? And I just calculated that the so-called not far away should be in a cave. Of course, some people have a high level of sneaking, and it is normal for this lady to find it, but can you explain it to me? What was the person who sneaked into the cave of the Lady's Hot Spring? "
"Hahahahahahahahahahaha." Panis sweated coldly and stepped back in panic: "That, there must be a reason, wait, there is a reason, there is a reason, wait, wait, wait, wait, let me make up."
"Go to die." The two pairs of fists fell to the target they should have chosen with the sound of the wind.
"Actually, he was just worried and kept his professional habits and was alert at the entrance of the cave." Freya did not express her love anymore, and asked Vivian beside her formally in a low voice: "You should be able to see it too."
"Well, we know." Vivian smiled: "That's just a daily interaction between two women who can't express their inner feelings and an idiot. Don't you think they are all very happy? Well, I just said it wrong, not two, but three."
"Wait, you won't..." Freya stretched out her hand in vain and did not hold Vivian back.
Chapter completed!