Chapter 19: The Haunted Swimming Pool (Part 2)

  In a well-connected network, it's not difficult to find out what happened in a swimming pool accident. Drowning is no small matter and may be reported in the news.

  Arriving at the restaurant in the hot spring resort, Tianqi took out his mobile phone and searched for information about this place on the internet.

  This hot spring resort is very famous locally, and during peak season it will attract many people from outside the area. In addition, it has been open for more than eight years, and there is a large amount of information about this place online. There are over 30 pages of rumors about ghosts alone, so it seems that summarizing useful information will take some time.

  And Tian Qi, while they were having dinner at the restaurant, the lifeguard from the swimming pool who had already left came back to where Fatso was practicing his swimming and stood on the shore staring into the water, lost in thought.

  Just then his phone rang in his hand, and he was startled by the sudden sound, dropping the phone to the ground.

  After putting in the battery and restarting his phone, he saw a message from his wife: Husband, I found a beautiful jade bangle, I bought it!

  The man replied without hesitation: Good.

  This is already his wife's second time buying a bracelet this week, and today is Wednesday.

  Back at the company, Tian Qi's first task was to cook a bowl of pork rib soup for Pao Zi. Normally, people can't see ghosts; ghosts belong to yin and humans belong to yang, which clash with each other. Only when a person's yang energy is weak can they easily see ghosts. Drinking some nourishing soup would help Pao Zi recover his yang energy.

  The soup was a bit hot, so Fatso held it in his hands to cool it down first. Tian Qi and Qiu Shen went to sort out the information on the internet.

  Less than ten minutes.

  "Bang!" The sound of a bowl shattering came from the kitchen, and Fatso scurried into the living room in a state of panic.

  "There's a ghost! I saw that face again! Right in the bowl!" Fatso exclaimed breathlessly.

  It's just a bowl of ordinary spare ribs soup, Tian Qi knew that the problem was definitely not here.

  Originally, I wanted to investigate the secrets of this hot spring resort for professional reasons, but it seems that this time I have to get to the bottom of it, otherwise Fatso will eventually be scared into a mental illness.

  There is a saying: It's easy to invite the gods, but hard to send them away.

  The fat boy saw this time is likely to be a wrongly killed ghost. If the injustice cannot be resolved, it will entangle the fat boy for a lifetime.

  After spending two days, Tian Qi and Qiu Shen sorted out the information on the internet.

  There have been five accidental deaths at the hot spring resort over the past eight years: an elderly man died suddenly from a heart attack while swimming; a man drowned after suffering leg cramps and was rescued too late; two children also drowned; a woman committed suicide here.

  The result seems obvious, the fat man saw the male ghost was the man who died unexpectedly due to leg cramps.

  If Zhang Xin were here, it wouldn't be difficult to find the records of this dead man, but now that Zhang Xin is out of reach, Tian Qi and the others can only think of a way themselves.

  The fat man's previous company had some problems and was punished, he knew a deputy from the police bureau, they had dinner together several times, it was easier to get things done than expected, money can make the devil push the mill.

  But when they saw the photo of the man on record, they were disappointed. This was not the face that Fatso had seen.

  "Now the only way is to go to that hot spring resort to investigate," said Tian Qi.

  Tian Qi and his team were not police officers, so they couldn't openly go to investigate the place. Fortunately, after several years of continuous expansion, the hot spring resort had become a well-equipped vacation resort with rooms that could be rented for long-term stays.

  "Manager," Tian Qi and his companions were led by the service staff of the hotel to their room after completing the formalities, on the way they saw a man in a suit.

  "Who are you?" Tian Qi felt that the person looked a bit familiar, and suddenly remembered that he was the lifeguard by the swimming pool the other day. How did he become a manager so quickly?

  "Hello, I'm Yu Zhi, the manager of the marketing department. That day, haha, I was just out for a stroll. Are you okay?" Yu Zhi said with a smile, looking at Tian Qi and then glancing over at Pangzi.

  "He's fine, thanks for asking. I've already paid a month's rent here and plan to take it easy for a while. We should grab a drink together sometime," Tianqi hastily replied, afraid that Fatty would spill the beans.

  "Alright, I'll get busy first, feel free to find me if you need anything."

  Chou Shen didn't say a word, he watched Yu Zhi leave and thought back to the scene that day, feeling something wasn't quite right.

  He thought to himself that it's really true that people rely on their clothes and Buddhas rely on their golden decorations. That day, his outfit made him look like an ordinary lifeguard, but today, dressed in a suit and tie, he had a completely different air about him.

  "Do you know our manager?" The female waitress who sent Tian Qi and them to their room asked curiously in the elevator.

  "Met once, can't say familiar with him, is he still a part-time lifeguard?"

  "He is the son of our general manager, and when he's not busy, he goes to the swimming pool." Tian Qi said that she had only seen him once, but the young female staff member looked a little disappointed in her eyes, though she was still more enthusiastic than before meeting Yu Zhi.

  He was actually a rich second generation, but from the feeling of meeting twice, he didn't seem like that kind of young master.

  "This manager named Yu Zhi seems to be hiding something," Qiu Shen said as he entered the room.

  He didn't seem to notice anything unusual, but as the general manager's son and being in a management position, he must have been aware of what happened at the hot spring. Last time he asked, it was understandable that he said nothing, who would reveal such business-affecting information about their own family's industry to outsiders?

  Just as Tian Qi and they went upstairs, Yu Zhi, who had left, came back and arrived at the front desk to ask for the registration information of Tian Qi's three people.

  "Help me investigate these three people, what they do for work and what their purpose is for coming here, the more detailed the better," Yu Zhi called his subordinates back to the office, these three people made him feel somewhat uneasy in his heart.

  After tidying up, Tian Qi and Chou Shen went to the hot spring resort to take a look around and see if they could find anything unusual. They had also wanted to bring Pang Zi along, but he said that there was water everywhere here and he was afraid of seeing that face again.

  The clubhouse is very large, with a swimming pool, a large hot spring pool, a small hot spring pool, a massage room, a rest room, a gym, a multimedia playback room and so on.

  "It seems like someone is watching us." said Qiu Shen, walking alongside Tian Qi.

  But they turned back and didn't find anyone suspicious, and there were many guests in the hotel during this time period, even if someone was monitoring, it would be hard to notice.

  "Let's just slow down and pretend we didn't find anything," Tian Qi said, as he and Qiu Shen continued to stroll around the hot spring resort.

  That feeling of being watched didn't appear again, either it was his illusion just now or the other party was highly vigilant and proactively gave up surveillance for fear of being discovered if they continued to follow.

  That night, Yu Zhi took the initiative to find Tian Qi and others, saying that he wanted to fulfill his obligations and asked them to have dinner together.

  Both sides had their own thoughts, but they both wanted to get to know each other better, so Tian Qi happily agreed.

  "This brother is a local, you two don't seem like locals," Yu Zhi asked during dinner. In fact, he already knew the basic information of the three people and also knew that Tian Qi and Qiu Shen were returned overseas doctors with PhDs, but had not yet investigated the company they currently operated.

  "I and Ou Shen are returned overseas students, actually also local people, maybe many years not in domestic hometown dialect a little forget," Tian Qi on this point didn't need to lie, such a big hot spring resort general manager's son, wanting to investigate their information was just a matter of time.

  The gathering didn't last long, ending in less than two hours. Although Tian Qi didn't get any information of practical significance, he did find out that Yu Zhi hadn't told him the truth about one thing - the female waitress said that Manager Yu had been working here for over six years, but he himself claimed to have just arrived recently.

  "There's nothing surprising about this, people like them are either very high-profile or very low-key, and it's clear he belongs to the latter," said Fatso, disagreeing with Tianqi's guess.

  Actually, just this point alone is not a big deal, they have just met and are not familiar with each other, no one would reveal all their secrets. But combined with Qi Shen's suspicion and the possible surveillance today, it's very problematic.

  However, the top priority task at present is to determine the identity of this male ghost, otherwise, no matter how it is investigated, there will be no direction, which is also why Tian Qi decided to stay here for a month.

  The hot spring pool is open 24 hours, but after midnight there's no one around except the night watchman at the entrance. At 11:30 PM, Tian Qi and three others arrived, and the person on duty was dozing off. After being woken up, he still looked a bit dissatisfied and slowly opened the door for them.

  "You must be out of your mind, coming here for a swim at this late hour, you'll see ghosts!"

  The person on duty said that after Tian Qi and they entered, but it was really said by him, the three of them were coming to see a ghost.

  "Either way, you two try first, if it doesn't work I'll go in," Having had the experience last time, Fatso agreed to cooperate verbally, but when the time came, he was still afraid, people who drowned needed a scapegoat to be reincarnated, he'd rather believe that.

  Fatso has said his piece, Tian Qi doesn't know what else to say, can only do this, he goes down first.

  It's also possible because of the night, it's a bit cool, and I shivered when the sky was falling.

  "Be careful," Qiu Shen said.

  "Hmm," in order to restore the experience of the fat boy, Tian Qi relied on his memory and came to a position similar to that of the fat boy last time, a little distance from the shore, but very close, he was tall, and the water only reached his neck.

  But Tian Qi and Ou Sheng had tried several times separately, but there was no male ghost lying on the water bottom.

  Finally, having no choice, the fatty got into the water with a sad face. For safety reasons, Tian Qi and Qiu Shen also got into the water alongside him, just beside him, to prevent any accidents from happening. However, nothing still happened.

  The fat man had no choice but to try again himself. As soon as he did, the male ghost that was hiding at the bottom of the water appeared!

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