Chapter Eighteen, I've done all I can

  "What? How did someone die? How did they die?"

  "If only I knew how he died, didn't you see me just arriving? And yet I was squeezed at the staircase entrance." That tall and imposing figure said to me with a bad tone.

  "I heard that a girl drowned in the bathtub! I've lived for so many years and it's the first time I've heard that someone can drown in a bathtub!" Originally, I thought nothing could be asked anymore, but then a middle-aged man next to us also joined our conversation.

  "Drowned? How could he drown..."

  "I'm going, I've also just heard about it!"

  It seems these two have similar personalities. Looks like no one knows anything here, I was just about to leave and go back to the room to sleep...

  "But it seems like it's 419." The middle-aged man added this sentence, and I paused.

  Zhang Ting told me that the girls in their class live in rooms 410-423, so it must be someone from their class who had an accident!

  This time I squeezed in desperately, and everyone was scolding me, what's there to squeeze!

  Just as I was about to squeeze into the room, someone grabbed me from behind. I turned around to look.

  "Don't you know how to line up?" The person who pulled me said fiercely.

  Do we have to queue for this too?

  Alas, society is just like this, nothing unusual can be seen.

  I ignored him and squeezed in desperately, finally squeezing into the room and reaching the bathroom door, seeing the two janitors shaking their heads...

  I tiptoed and looked inside...

  A woman's head was submerged in the bathtub, while her body was outside, her hands desperately grasping the edge of the tub, her hair floating wildly in the water.

  "Has anyone called for help?" I asked the two people in front of me.

  "It's been reported."

  I saw this woman's death was too bizarre, it was obvious that there was someone in the bathtub pulling her down!

  I walked in and slowly approached the bathtub, those two people were still telling me not to come in.

  When I was about to approach her, I saw that the woman seemed to relax all at once, and both hands stopped supporting the bathtub. This sudden movement scared me.

  When I bent down to take a look at the bathtub, I saw her profile.

  It's Lü Chen!

  Just now from a distance I couldn't recognize her, because her face was already swollen! Seeing that it was her, my subconscious feeling is that this matter has something to do with the few fish they took away in the afternoon!

  I looked at the bathtub and found nothing inside.

  I was thinking about how this thing happened and slowly backed out.

  I called Zhang Ting...

  "Ting Ting, did Lv Xin and them eat that fish this afternoon?"

  "No, what's wrong... It's so noisy outside, I couldn't sleep at all." Hearing Zhang Ting say this to me, she didn't even eat the fish, how could she have died. A mind full of questions that can't be solved.

  "What's wrong? But I heard you mention that fish, and it turns out Zhang Ting brought back two in the evening. She said she wanted to raise them." Zhang Ting added another sentence after finishing that one.

  She brought two fish back to the room? What fish? I just didn't see anything. It seems that this matter is really related to that fish!

  "Uh, okay, I know then. If it's noisy, just watch TV or something. I'm going back to sleep now."

  I paid and followed Zhang Ting down the stairs towards the hotel lobby, I was thinking of going to take a look at the willow lake.

  When I reached the gate, I felt a surge of yin energy flowing past me...

  Covered in fur all over, red eyes and black face! Water ghost...

  I suddenly realized that Lü Xin's death and Shuǐ Guǐ are closely related!

  I thought Master told me before that water ghosts can transform in water! Maybe that fish is a transformed water ghost!

  I rushed up...

  "Ah! Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, three births and five elements...". I saw that water ghost was about to reach the Willow Lake, it entered the Willow Lake, and I couldn't catch it! Hurriedly, I pinched out the Golden Blade Seal.

  "Don't...don't move!" Hearing the Water Ghost say this sentence makes me feel particularly familiar!

  When it turned its head, I saw that it was actually the Water Ghost who sat among us telling stories that night!

  "Are you lonely again?" I stepped closer to it, speaking in a bad tone. My hands changed into various forms, ready to cast spells at any time.

  "No... no, you promise me not to move first..." I saw that the water ghost was extremely afraid. I put my hand into the pocket of my pants and took out a cigarette, lit it, and quietly watched it.

  "I won't move, but you tell me how did you end up at the hotel entrance?" I just quietly looked at it and waited for it to speak.

  "I'm too lonely by myself, come and take a walk..."

  Seeing it again, I directly took out the Golden Blade Technique.

  "Don't... don't... I'm saying... I'm saying." If you don't scare that water ghost a little, it won't know fear.

  "I was brought into the hotel by someone..."

  The water ghost finished speaking, and I asked it.

  "Who brought you in?"

  "I didn't know you, and there were a few kids around, and I saw you standing next to me at that time... I...I didn't even dare look at you..." The water ghost kept staring at my hand again, this water ghost is really timid...

  It said a few other kids were brought in, and I was still next to them? Wasn't that when they went fishing in the afternoon?!

  "Are there 3 boys and 4 girls?"

  "Uh-huh, you're still fighting with them over there..."

  It was actually one of those fish all along!

  "Is the woman in 419 the one you killed?" I reckon Lü Xīn's death is imminent.

  "It wasn't me who killed him... it was another water ghost that pulled him into the bathtub..."

  Another water ghost? I remembered that Lv Qing brought back two fish! And I only saw this water ghost downstairs!

  "Where's the other one?"

  "It... It's reincarnated..."

  Yes, the water ghost is going to find a substitute! The water ghost behind me seemed to want my sympathy and continued to speak to me.

  "There are too many water ghosts in the willow lake, and fewer people come to the lake every year. We can't find a way to reincarnate, so we put our hopes on those fishermen... We deliberately let them catch us, then on their way back, we... we drown them..."

  "At that time, we saw your appearance and were worried. Seeing you throwing them into the lake, they all hated you to death. After being taken back by them, I was brought back to the room by a girl, and she put me and another one who had been thrown into the bathtub with water..."

  So that's how it is. No wonder I saw them catch so many fish in the afternoon. They're all beginners, how could they possibly catch so much from the start? How stupid am I!

  "Why don't you make a move?" Two water ghosts, but this one didn't go to reincarnate, I'm quite curious too.

  "I... because I... am timid... they all bully me... by right, I should have died before them, but they never show respect for my age..." Timid? I've noticed that too...

  "You water ghosts still care about seniority?"

  "Uh... whoever dies first will be reincarnated first..."

  Does Shuǐ Guǐ still have this rule?

  "Go, you can go. Don't let me see you harming people." I let it go, after all this matter has nothing to do with it, I don't need to be involved in the cause and effect.

  I walked towards the room, I've done my best on this matter, I tried to stop them desperately in the afternoon, but they just wouldn't listen. What's destined by heaven can't be changed, although the way of reincarnation of water ghosts is a bit cruel, what can I do with thousands of water ghosts in Senki Lake?

  I sighed, after all it's a life. Although Lv Xin's words were unpleasant, I didn't wish for things to turn out this way either...

  After returning to the room, I fell asleep as soon as I lay down and was woken up by Zhang Ting's phone call early next morning.

  "Zi Jiang! Lv Xin has something wrong!" I heard Zhang Ting telling me this message with great anxiety, I knew it last night, but still woke up my spirit to comfort her.

  "Our teacher said she slipped and fell in the bathtub while taking a bath and died from shock..."

  Huh? Slipping in the bath is also a pretty convincing reason, after all, this kind of accident isn't rare either.

  "Zihe River, today our teacher is going to take us back, she said we have to leave today..."

  No wonder, when students get into trouble, teachers are the first ones who can't escape, this teacher is probably in big trouble.

  "Uh-huh, I'll go back with you too."

  I've been to Liuyuan Lake for so long, and I rarely hang out with people from my class because college is very relaxed and teachers don't care. I said hello to Zhang Ran and the others and then left with Zhang Ting first.

  "Zihe River... how could Lv Xin die? Lately, I don't know what's going on, three people in our class have died already..." Zhang Ting looked a bit scared when she was on the bus.

  Less than a month, three people died, two of them were still under her eyes, seeing Zhang Ting like this, I was also heartbroken, but I couldn't stop these things from happening.

  "Never mind, you know, it's all unexpected. No matter what happens, I'll be by your side." I held Zhang Ting in my arms and comforted her, letting her sleep for a while. When I woke her up later, seeing her murmuring to herself as she slept was incredibly moving.

  After returning to the dormitory, I tidied up and accompanied Zhang Ting for a stroll around the street. I bought her some snacks, she loves eating snacks the most.

  The rest of the semester passed quietly, and during this time, I also kept in touch with Zehong, asking him about his recent situation. He told me that it was still the same as before.

  "What's wrong with Jin Rang..." I asked Jin Rang when both of us fell silent.

  "I brought him back to Maoshan... His master buried him... We owe you for this lifetime, Ran."

  The day before the winter vacation, I and Zhang Ting were strolling outside.

  "Zi~ River. During the winter vacation, we won't be able to see each other for dozens of days, will you miss me?" When I heard Zhang Ting ask me this, I thought about it too, and it seemed that yes, Zhang Ting and I are both from Fujian Province, but across two cities, but not far, just over 50 kilometers.

  "Will! Definitely will! I'll even run to find you!"

  "Ah, you said so! If you don't come, I'll get angry!" I've experienced Zhang Ting's anger before, it's too scary, I definitely wouldn't dare to deceive her.

  "Hmm, I don't dare deceive you!" Seeing Zhang Ting smiling to herself...

  This semester has also come to an end...