I was momentarily amazed by how things were going. I still haven't seen the yin qi, and I haven't seen the ghosts, but Honda's physical signs are gone, and I'm sure he's dead. is dead, but it is still strangely sunk in the water, and it doesn't move.

I waited a while before I got closer to the Honda.

My hand touched Honda's body, and I remembered Honda's violent struggle. His pain, fear, and desire to survive had been poured into my consciousness very strongly. But now, that consciousness is gone. Honda didn't even give birth to a ghost. He died with nothing but pain and helplessness.

I suddenly felt a change in my breath in the water.

The yin qi I had been looking for appeared at this time.

Yin Qi appears out of thin air and spreads in the water. I didn't see the ghost's form, but I felt the water temperature drop sharply, then rise again, and return to normal.

I floated out of the water. The cat had run away and was gone. The surroundings were empty, and the cold air made people want to shiver.

I looked up at the black sky.

Heavy dark clouds shrouded the mountain, giving people a sense of oppression that the mountain rain was about to come.

After a while, I felt something fall from the sky.

It's snow.

It's like yin qi again.

The wind howled, like the cries and wails of ghosts.

Gray snowflakes flutter and fall finely on the hot spring pools. It also falls only on the hot spring pool. As soon as I fell asleep, the snowflakes melted and disappeared.

Such snow drifted for a while, turned into a cold wind, and poured into the hotel. But the snow stopped.

Yin air seemed to fill the hotel with the cold air.

I heard the voices, but I couldn't hear them.

After a while, there were footsteps from far and near.

"Honda? Honda-kun? "Someone whispered Honda's name.

The visitor stopped in front of the large hot spring, and seemed to hesitate for a while before probing in.

"Honda-kun?"

I still remember this person's face, it was the staff member who was looking for someone with Honda just now.

"Isn't it, Honda-kun? Are you in the women's bathroom? Harrow? The man shouted twice before he walked in, pausing in front of the open locker room door and bathroom door.

He saw Honda's fitting in the locker room, and he also saw Honda's indoor slippers that he had changed out of at the door.

"Honda-kun?" The man walked in barefoot, "Are you in there?" Anyone? Hiss-it's so cold......"

I watched as the man walked to the edge of the hot spring pool, and when I looked down, I didn't see Honda's body float up.

But I turned my head to look at the entrance of the hot spring.

Honda's soul floated there in a daze.

He was like a lost child, not knowing where to go.

"Nobody......" the man muttered.

He was about to turn away.

Goodo......

The sound of the water stopped him.

My heart beat a little faster.

Blisters bubble up in the hot spring pools, and strings of bubbles explode on the surface of the water.

The man turned around in surprise.

"Honda ......"

Goodo...... Goo! Wow!

The corpse under the water floated up.

Honda's dead face poured out of the water first.

"Wow-" The man screamed in fright, falling straight to the ground as he fell backwards. He grinned in pain, but he didn't dare to stay, he got up directly with his hands and feet, slammed open the sliding door, and rushed out.

"Wow, ah, ah, ah, it's dead! Dead! ”

The man's screams echoed through the room.

The voices outside grew louder.

No......

I looked at Honda's corpse.

This is not the scene I see in my dreams.

Seeing a corpse in a dream is not like this.

What did Bai An see? Is it the past, or is it a vision of the future? Or is it a scene that has been retouched by the cartoonist's thinking?

I stood by the hot spring pool for a while.

Honda's soul is still here, and it has not become a ghost or reincarnated. He was still in a period of confusion, and after seeing his corpse, this chaotic consciousness became even more irrational. He seemed to have lost the ability to think.

After a while, someone came in from outside.

Several men came in and looked at each other, shouting and screaming. Finally, someone took the courage to take a closer look at Honda's situation. Reaching out and touching it, I knew that Honda's heartbeat and breathing had stopped.

"Dead. It's dead......" The bold man immediately withdrew his hand.

"Call the police."

"Director! What about the director! ”

"I should find a producer. Notify the producer. ”

"Let's call the police first."

Everyone didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, they were out of proportion.

I didn't see anyone from the Shimada family in the crowd.

After a while, the director was called, squeezed out of the crowd, and strode to the edge of the hot spring.

The director's face turned blue, and he personally touched Honda's body warmed by the hot spring, and confirmed that he was dead, before he shivered and stepped back.

"Did you call the police?"

"Call the police. Already called. ”

"Don't gather here. All back to the room. The leader of each group counts his own people. Count the number of good people. Mrs. Shimada...... The Shimada family, has anyone informed them? The director's voice was hoarse, trying to show his composure.

The son of the Shimada family raised his hand from the crowd in embarrassment at this time, "Director Otsuka." ”

"Oh, Mr. Shimada. I'm so sorry, I didn't expect this to happen to the crew. When the police come, let's see what happens. I'm sorry. I don't know exactly what's going on yet. The director said.

"It's nothing, it's fine." The son of the Shimada family wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his expression was very complicated.

The people at the door of the bathroom gradually dispersed, leaving only the director and the son of the Shimada family. The man who first found the body was later called.

I heard their conversation.

Among them, of course, there is Honda's "translation".

“…… It will take about an hour for the police to get here. ”

"Director, I don't know what's going on. Honda and I were looking for the Shimada family's kid together, and he ran away with the wild cat. We later separated. Honda said the wildcats went into the hot springs. I saw him in the men's bathroom before. He said he had fallen overboard and changed into a yukata. I asked him to go back and change his clothes, and I left first. He didn't show up, so I came to look for him. I didn't expect ...... I don't know why he ran into the women's bathroom. ”

"Our children? Big trees? The big tree was found by his mother before. Play in the back yard. The son of the Shimada family was surprised, "Is it because of this......

"Hmm. I knew the kid had found it. Can Honda ...... When I was separated from him, he shouldn't have known it, and he should have been about to go back and change his clothes. ”

"Then wait until the police come......"

A few people were talking.

Mrs. Shimada was helped by her grandson.

"Mother." The son of the Shimada family greeted him. He had his back to me, and I didn't see his expression. But looking at his son's appearance, he should be glaring at his own son.

"I'm coming." Mrs. Shimada waved her hand, "Are people still inside?" Could it be that it's still in there......"

The crowd was silent.

"Shouldn't we deal with it a little bit?" Mrs. Shimada said, "You can't just put it there like this, can you?" ”

"The police haven't come yet, Mother."

"Still waiting for the police?" Mrs. Shimada raised her voice, "What does this mean?" Didn't he stumble and fall into the hot spring pool? ”

Several people lowered their voices and said a few words.

I can feel that the soul of Honda is changing.

He seemed to want to leave.

The man at the door argued a few words.

Mrs. Shimada seemed to convince the others, and someone entered the room and walked towards the hot spring.

Honda's soul is slowly rising, and its appearance is becoming transparent.

Several men took a hand together and fished the Honda out of the pool.

Honda's body did not change in the slightest and was dragged up quite obediently.

His eyes were still open and his mouth was slightly open.

I thought about what I had seen in the water before, and my mind moved.

"What a poor child." Mrs. Shimada slowly knelt beside Honda's corpse, reached out to cover Honda's open eyes, and muttered scriptures in her mouth.

Snowflakes were falling from the sky overhead.

This time it's pure white snowflakes.

"It's snowing." Someone said something and looked up.

The others subconsciously looked up.

Only Mrs. Shimada still hung her head, and after brushing her hand over Honda's eyes, she paused slightly.

Her hands were old, wrinkled, with bulging veins and age spots. The nails of that hand were slightly yellowish and gray, but they were neatly trimmed.

I saw the fingers of that hand reach into Honda's mouth, and when I pulled it out, I was holding a red silk scarf between my fingers.

The wind blows.

Mrs. Shimada's hand shook, and the silk scarf was pulled out of Honda's mouth by the wind and flew into the nearby hot spring pool.

The fluttering silk scarf sank into the water, and in an instant, it disappeared.

(End of chapter)