\nSheng Xing Ze put his chopsticks down in place when suddenly there was the sound of door locking. Other than that, the surroundings were a little too quiet.
"Camera brothers?" Sheng Xing Ze called tentatively.
No one answered in the empty room.
A gust of wind blew from behind Sheng Xing Ze's neck, and the cool air made all the hair on his neck stand up. He raised his right hand to cover the back of his neck, stiffly turning his head back a little bit.
It was also pitch black behind him, and nothing could be seen.
When his eyes adjusted to the dark room, Sheng Xing Ze could barely see his surroundings in the room.
The several cameramen who were sitting opposite from him had all disappeared, and he was the only one left in the room.
The bubbling sound in the hot pot had stopped and the whole place fell into a deafening silence, the red and white liquid in the pot mixed together, and there was red oil floating on the milky bone broth.
The hot pot was surrounded by red viscous liquid, and some of it splashed in front of Sheng Xing Ze.
A pair of green eyes suddenly appeared on the wall, staring at Sheng Xing Ze unblinkingly.
Two pairs, three pairs...
As if some mechanism was turned on, more and more eyes appeared on the wall, all looking at Sheng Xing Ze, and the walls were filled with them.
Sheng Xing Ze felt that his intensive phobia had occurred. He rubbed the goose bumps on his arm and suddenly felt a bit cold in the room.
The heater in the room got turned off some time ago, so he grabbed the jacket Yu Bai left on the chair next to him and put it on him.
Being warmed up by the familiar scent, the nauseating fear in Sheng Xing Ze's body dropped a little bit.
An extremely faint breathing could be faintly heard in the room. Sheng Xing Ze held his breath. The breathing sound was still there even though no one was in the room.
There were others here.
Sheng Xing Ze stood up slowly as holding onto the table, and looked around keenly.
A skinny hand quietly stretched out from under the table, and suddenly grasped Sheng Xing Ze's ankle, as if the hand was digging into his flesh.
Sheng Xing Ze knew he could not escape, and he did not dare to move; as if he had been subjected to a fixation technique. He looked down at the hand that was holding him, and he was waiting for the owner of the hand to crawl out from under the table.
"Don't move, my children are looking at you." An old lady's hoarse voice came from under the table. She slowly let go of her hand on Sheng Xing Ze's ankle, and slowly crawled out.
Sheng Xing Ze saw the static eyes on the wall blinking one after another when the old lady was talking, he swore he could even hear the children's crisp laughters in the room.
The children that the old lady mentioned were probably the owners of these pairs of inhumane eyes.
The old lady in the black cloak struggled to crawl out, she leaned closer to Sheng Xing Ze, stared at him with muddy eyes, and pointed at Sheng Xing Ze's nose with her slender fingers.
"How long has it been, I haven't seen a living human for so many years." The corner of the old lady's mouth split into an abnormal arc, revealing the empty alveolar inside.
Sheng Xing Ze did not answer.
The old lady hesitated for a while, and tremblingly took out a Rubik's Cube from her body and placed it in Sheng Xing Ze's hand.
"My son has been trapped in it for three hundred years. Today you can only get out of here if you rescue my son."
Sheng Xing Ze looked at the ordinary Rubik's Cube, "How can I rescue him?"
"This is an ancient spirit weapon. Only by trying to restore it to its original state can my son return."
"Is there a Rubik's Cube three hundred years ago?" Sheng Xing Ze directly revealed the flaw of the so-called ancient spirit weapon.
"This is an ancient magic weapon, not a Rubik's Cube!" The old lady suddenly got angry, and her thin and long nails had touched Sheng Xing Ze's neck.
By now, Sheng Xing Ze knew that there would not be an actual ghost in this room, and this was set up by the program. He felt somewhat relieved and the fear in his heart gradually disappeared.
He hid the Rubik's Cube behind him, then turned to look at the old lady with skeptical eyes as he asked playfully, "but, why should I rescue your son?"
"If you don't, you will die!" The old lady grabbed Sheng Xing Ze's neck, her eyes started cracking as some red liquid flowed out from the corners of her eyes. The blood was sticky, unlike tears, and was stuck on the old lady's cheeks.
The old lady's hand was really cold, it was a kind of coldness that only belonged to a dead person. The cold touch on his neck caused Sheng Xing Ze to have goose bumps, and he could not help but shiver.
"If I rescue your son, you promise to tell me how to destroy the undead soul."
"Of course," the old lady looked very impatient and sat on the stool with a cane in hand while staring back at the Rubik's Cube in Sheng Xing Ze's hand.
"Can you turn on the light? It's too dark in here." Sheng Xing Ze lowered his head and fiddled with the Rubik's Cube. The room was quite dim, so he could barely recognize the color on the cube.
The old lady's hand reached out to Sheng Xing Ze's neck again, "turn on the light? Are you trying to kill my son?"
Sheng Xing Ze frowned slightly and carefully observed the colors on each side. While the old lady was tapping her cane on the floor impatiently, he began to dexterously turn the Rubik's Cube with his fingers, turned up, turned down, and turned around.
A Rubik's Cube was quickly restored by him when he could barely see the colors as he tried to complete the six-sided Rubik's Cube.
"Are you done?" The old lady could not see Sheng Xing Ze's hand movements, and thought he was just messing around with the cube, she started to urge, "My son can't wait any longer."
Before she finished her words, the locked private room got unlocked with a click.
Restoring the Rubik's Cube is the key to open the locked room.
The old lady squinted her eyes at Sheng Xing Ze's hand, only to realize that the Rubik's Cube had been successfully restored by him. She had no chance to say anything after her questions. She ignored Sheng Xing Ze and angrily took the Rubik's Cube from him.
"My son, you're finally saved." She was holding the Rubik's Cube, the expression on her face was overjoyed with excitement, the blood and tears in the corners of her eyes began to flow down again, she seemed to have forgotten that there was Sheng Xing Ze in the room.
"Clues." Seeing that she still had a tendency to go on about her son's story, Sheng Xing Ze quickly reached out and grabbed the Rubik's Cube.
The old lady was caught off guard by his hand, and said in a huff: "I only know that the undead soul like rabbits, you can use rabbits as bait."
"What kind of rabbits?"
"Why do you ask so many questions, wouldn't you know after trying it out?" The old lady stopped talking after she said so, and no matter how many times Sheng Xing Ze tried to bait her, she did not say anything else.
Sheng Xing Ze had no choice but to give up then he opened the door to let the light from outside enter the private room.
He heard the sound of a chair being moved suddenly in the private room. Several cameramen all got out from under the table and saw Sheng Xing Ze standing at the door staring at them with a surprised expression.
"These brothers, you come out a bit too earlier ah, it's okay, I've now remembered you all," Sheng Xing Ze looked at them with a big bright smile, "Don't ever let me get my hands on you, or you will die miserably."
Sheng Xing Ze was joking with the cameramen on this side, while a figure was standing in the corner, gritted his teeth in Sheng Xing Ze's direction.
"Sheng Xing Ze, you bastard."
Sheng Xing Ze turned his head and keenly noticed Lin Mu's gaze.
Sheng Xing Ze had never heard of Lin Mu since Hui Cheng was being convicted, nor did he pay attention to this person anymore. It was indeed a surprise to see Lin Mu here in the hotpot restaurant uniform.
"Why are you here?" He was a little puzzled. Even though Lin Mu was not very popular, his situation would not be as bad as becoming a waiter at a hotpot restaurant, "Are you also recording a variety show here?"
Lin Mu sneered while said in a solemn tone, "Look at you, talking like a big star, don't forget, it was thanks to you that I've become like this now."
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, everyone in the filming crew gathered around Sheng Xing Ze and protected him behind them. Although they did not know the entanglement between Sheng Xing Ze and Lin Mu, based on Lin Mu's words, the protective-nature within the crew members could not stand still to watch.
Sheng Xing Ze could not help but sneer at Lin Mu's words. He turned to thank the cameraman who was in front of him, and walked straight to Lin Mu. He was not so good-natured as to not fight back when he was being bullied by others.
"I did promise you that if you testified against Hui Cheng, then I would not dig up whatever you did in the past. I do live up to my words."
"If you really do live up to your words, then why did my role get switched?" Lin Mu's voice was full of fragility, and the tears in his eyes came out just as he said those words: "Xing Ze, I'm not sad that you had them kicking me out of the filming crew, I'm sad that you lied to me. No one but you have conflicts with me these years."
"Lin Mu, you don't need to put on an act, do you really think that Hui Si Yong's parents would let you off for harming their son?" Sheng Xing Ze looked at him sternly.
"Hui Si Yong's parents?" A look of horror appeared on Lin Mu's face, and the hands holding the hot pot began to tremble, "Hui Cheng told me that he is a young newcomer, a nobody."
"Go and look it up yourself who Hui Hong Sheng is."
Lin Mu's face turned paler. Of course he knew who Hui Hong Sheng was, and obviously he now knew the identity of Hui Si Yong.
After Sheng Xing Ze finished speaking, he planned to move his feet to go around Lin Mu.
Lin Mu directly threw the hot pot on Sheng Xing Ze as if going crazy.
There was a crowd of onlookers and filming crew around him, Sheng Xing Ze could not dodge, so he could only cover his face with his elbow, the iron pot was knocked on his elbow, and his whole body was soaked in the soup as a result.
A few staff standing nearby also got affected by Lin Mu's action, and the scene was a little chaotic.
In order to save the waiting time for customers, Li Zi Hot Pot always boils the soup for their customers before serving it to them.
Due to the delay, the temperature of the soup in Lin Mu's hand was not at the boiling level, but the temperature in the pot was still hot, Sheng Xing Ze could feel a hot burning sensation on his body.
"You obviously know Hui Si Yong's identity, why didn't you tell me? If I had known..."
Sheng Xing Ze heard Lin Mu panting while questioning him, he raised his head and smiled at Lin Mu.