Chapter 20: The Haunted Swimming Pool (3)

  The fat boy couldn't help but run towards the shore, although he had been through it before, he was still scared to death.

  "He turned his face around, was there any other movement?" Tian Qi asked as he came back to himself.

  "It seems like... no," actually Fatso didn't see it very clearly, at that time in the water, how could he have the "energy" to look carefully.

  "It's so late, why aren't you guys sleeping yet?" A voice came from the swimming pool. Due to the emptiness of the pool and the effect of the water, the decibel level of the voice was increased a lot.

  Tian Qi and the others had their attention on Pangzi and the water just now, and didn't pay much attention. Unexpectedly, the person who came was Yu Zhi.

  "Can't sleep at night, come here to wait for a while, you haven't rested either. So late, are you coming to swim?" Tian Qi saw Yu Zhi wearing a pair of swimming trunks.

  "Uh... no, I also couldn't sleep and came out for a walk," Upon hearing Tian Qi mention swimming, Yu Zhi's expression seemed somewhat unnatural.

  All three of them noticed Yu Zhi's behavior. Tian Qi glanced at Qiu Shen, then at the fatty, who nodded and moved his "fat" body closer to Yu Zhi's back. "I'm a bit thirsty, I'll go get some water." "Ah, this floor is so slippery!" The fatty slipped and almost fell over, but fortunately, he grabbed onto Yu Zhi in front of him and used the momentum to steady himself. However, Yu Zhi was pushed by the fatty's plump arm and fell into the swimming pool.

  "Help! Save me! I'm sorry! I was wrong to you!" Yu Zhi struggled in the water after falling in, not looking like someone who knew how to swim at all.

  "It's okay, do you want to go to the hospital? I'm really sorry, I thought you were a good swimmer, but it turns out you're just like me, a poor swimmer," Yu Zhi was quickly rescued by Tian Qi and Qiu Shen and wasn't seriously hurt.

  "It's nothing, just an accident. I'll head back first, you all get some rest too," Yu Zhi hastily got up and left.

  This trial is indeed problematic. In the past few days, Fatso and the 'female' service staff who sent them to their room have become very familiar with each other, asking out a lot of information about their manager, such as he used to swim and was even trained in the provincial team for a period of time, but later got injured and quit, after which he has been working at the hot spring resort.

  It's incomprehensible that someone who has learned to swim is still afraid of water. And if he's really afraid, why does he keep coming here wearing a swimsuit? Also, what did he mean by the words he shouted out while struggling - who was he apologizing to?

  Normally a person with good 'water quality' is afraid of entering water, unless they have received some intense stimulation in the water.

  Of course, there is also another possibility, that he has a guilty conscience!

  Tian Qi made a bold guess that Fatso's encounter with the male ghost might have something to do with Yu Zhi, and even that this person's death was caused by him.

  But now everything is speculation, there is no evidence, and it's impossible to find any information about the cause of death online. The incident occurred in their own home, so it should be 'private', and didn't go through the police station.

  It's no coincidence that in a family business like Yu Zhi's, employees often discuss it on a daily basis.

  Just two days later, by chance, Pongzi heard some information about Yu Zhi Xin, saying that he not only treated his wife well and was filial to his parents, but also often went to visit the mother of a deceased classmate in a nursing home.

  Shun Teng 'felt' the melon, and also thanks to Baozi's daily 'mixing' with those waiters, finally found out the address. There, Baozi saw that photo, this mother's son, Jin Xiao, was the one he saw in the water, the face that couldn't be shaken off!

  Jin Xiao's mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease and was basically unable to communicate normally, but Tian Qi saw Jin Xiao and Yu Zhi in a graduation photo.

  In the dead of night, the hot spring pool was empty and deserted. Yu Zhi wore his swimsuit and came here, staring blankly at the water. It had been over three years since he last did this. In those three years, he couldn't remember how many times he'd come to this place in the middle of the night, torturing himself with guilt and nostalgia for his former classmates and good brothers.

  "It's so unjust that I... died," a faint voice echoed from the swimming pool, "the water is really cold, and those icy tiles made my heart freeze to the bone!"

  "Ah! Is that you? Jin Xiao, I'm sorry to you, it's all my fault that harmed you! For three years, I've been living in agony every moment, if you can do it, just kill me, I don't have the courage to commit suicide!"

  Too much repression, just need a trigger point can make a person collapse.

  "It's really you!" Tian Qi, Pang Zi and Chou Shen walked out from behind the inflatable swimming ring.

  "It was you guys! But it doesn't matter anymore! Nothing matters anymore, Jin Xiao is dead and can never come back to life."

  The truth of the matter is not as they thought.

  Yu Zhi and Jin Xiao are classmates, both studying swimming at the Physical Education Institute. Yu Zhi is doing it out of interest, while Jin Xiao is actually doing it to alleviate the burden on his family, as his father has been ill for a long time and the family relies on his mother's farming of a few acres of land. If he achieves good results in swimming, the school will provide various forms of assistance, and if he enters the provincial team, he will even receive a salary. Although Yu Zhi comes from a wealthy family, he is a very pleasant person to be around and often helps Jin Xiao out financially, and their relationship is extremely close.

  Later, Yu Zhi was injured and withdrew from the provincial team. Soon after, Jin Xiao also gave up this path under the coach's suggestion due to several losses in competition.

  Under the arrangement of Zhi, Jin Xiao came to the hot spring resort as a lifeguard and also taught people who came here to learn swimming to make extra money. After his father passed away, he sold the land at home and let his mother move into a nursing home. Also coming with him was Jin Xiao's "girlfriend" Xu Rou, who worked as a yoga instructor here.

  Because of their similar ages and good relationship, the three people's contact time increased day by day. Yu Zhì and Xǔ Róu's relationship became more and more ambiguous, and Xǔ Róu always contacted Yu Zhì for no reason.

  Yu Zhì and Xǔ Róu had an affair with Jīn Xiǎo after getting drunk one time.

  In the guilt of betraying Jin Xiao, Yu Zhi had tried to control himself time and again, unable to do such a thing behind his brother's back. However, under Xu Rou's repeated enthusiasm, Yu Zhi succumbed, and his feelings for Xu Rou finally became irrepressible.

  Paper cannot wrap fire, Jin Xiao finally knew it and he took the initiative to break up with Xu Rou.

  That night, Jin Xiao drank a lot of wine and had an accident in the swimming pool at midnight.

  It wasn't him who personally killed Jin Xiao, but Jin Xiao's death was still closely related to him.

  At that time, Xu Rou was already pregnant, but the child was not Jin Xiao's, but Yu Zhi's. Later, Yu Zhi and Xu Rou got married, and outsiders all thought he was taking care of Xu Rou for his brother's sake. Who would have thought that the actual situation was like this?

  But what Yu Zhi said was not the real truth, if it were, his three years of repentance would have dissipated Jin Xiao's resentment long ago, and Pangzi wouldn't still see Jin Xiao's face submerged in water.

  What is he hiding?

  The next day, Tian Qi found a small oxygen tank and had Bao Zi carry it with him into the water.

  "Watch his mouth shape," Tian Qi reminded Baozi before going downstairs.

  It's also possible that in his heart, he felt that Jin Xiao was really pitiful. His 'girlfriend' had been taken by his own brother, and even his own life was gone. The fatty sympathized with him, so today when he went into the water again, he wasn't as afraid as before.

  "Is it true?" "No!"

  "Xu Rou?" "No!"

  Fatso looked carefully this time, Jin Xiao's face kept moving as if saying someone's name, but Fatso couldn't hear any sound. Tian Qi and Qiu Shen were above saying the name to let Fatso mouth the shape.

  "Isn't it that we've got the wrong person's name?" said the fatty.

  "What's Yu Zhi's father's name?" Ou Shen asked suddenly.

  "Hmm... I wonder..." Chubby's thinking face.

  "Right, his name is Yu Guozhong, yes, that's it."

  "Yu Guozhong," Qiu Shen said.

  "Wait a minute, say that name again, his father's name," thought Fatty.

  Chou Shen and Tian Qi both said it twice, and then Fatso went down to check again.

  This is no small matter, Tian Qi let the fat man dive into the water several times, and the fat man patted his chest and said that it was definitely not wrong, the person's name that Jin Xiao wanted to say was Yu Zhi's father, the general manager of the hot spring resort Yu Guozhong.

  It seems that Jin Xiao's death was not an accident.

  Things have come to this, the water is getting deeper and deeper. If it weren't for solving the problem that Fatzi is facing, Tianqi's investigation would not have progressed to this point. This large hot spring group is not something he can contend with. It's too easy for the three of them to die in an apparent accident.

  Tian Qi and they left a letter for Yu Zhi before leaving here, telling the whole truth of the matter, also saying why this matter must be solved.

  The bell ringer must be the one to untie it. Although they didn't interact much, Tian Qi could sense that Yu Zhi wasn't a ruthless person, or else he wouldn't have been consumed by guilt all this time.

  Two days after returning from the hot spring resort, Tian Qi received a message from Yu Zhi, saying that although he concealed some things on that day, he did not know that this matter was actually related to his father. He thought it had something to do with his wife, Xu Rou, because since their marriage, she seemed to love his money rather than him as a person. Due to the fact that they had children, his father had always disagreed with their divorce.

  Yu Zhi promised Tian Qi that he would give him a week's time to resolve this matter.

  As for how to solve Tianqi's reluctance to intervene, Yu Zhi probably doesn't want him to intervene either. As long as Pangzi is fine, that's all that matters.

  Later, Hou Yu didn't know how Tian Qi did it, but a week later, Tian Qi received his message and the 100,000 yuan he had sent. The message was just two words: Thank you.

  Fatso can't see that face anymore, Tianqi doesn't want this money, taking it makes him feel like he's in cahoots with him, but Fatso disagrees, once the money is in his hands, don't think about getting it back, saying it's his "spiritual" loss fee.

  Tian Qi didn't dwell on this matter anymore, and Fatso was indeed frightened. Giving some compensation is normal, and they also spent a lot of money in their hot spring resort to investigate this matter.

  But because of this matter, Tian Qi offended someone and buried a time bomb for the future.