The mascot of the wishing shop is a cat.

Chapter 158 Reason

"crunch-"

Ye Qingwan and Louis dismounted from their nest mounts and stood in front of the entrance.

They were about to knock when they heard the door creak open.

They stopped and cautiously looked ahead.

Inside the door, all was pitch black, like a gigantic beast with its jaws wide open, ready to devour everything that came near.

Although they knew it was just a standard suite, the unusually dark scene still filled them with fear.

Logically speaking, the layout of each standard suite should be almost identical.

Typically, upon gently pushing open the door, the first thing that catches the eye is the huge floor-to-ceiling window directly opposite the entrance. Sunlight streams through the glass, illuminating the entire space.

In front of the bright floor-to-ceiling windows, there is a comfortable sofa and a large-screen TV, perhaps with some exquisite decorative items nearby.

However, what they saw at that moment was a completely different scene.

That dark doorway seemed to connect to another unknown world; the endless darkness was like a deep abyss, greedily sucking up all the light around it.

Whether it was the faint light in the corridor outside the door or the light from the flashlights in their hands, once they touched this darkness, they vanished without a trace, as if they had been completely swallowed up by some mysterious force.

"Should we go in...? (⊙x⊙;)"

Louis looked at the doorway and shrank back somewhat.

The last time he saw Moros angry was when Lin Xiyue secretly ate a few popsicles on the shuttle bus and then had a stomachache, so Moros was very angry at the time.

However, at that time, it wasn't scary at all, because under Lin Xiyue's coaxing, he was like a paper tiger, and quickly calmed down a lot.

As for the remaining small portion, Louis had no idea. Because Lin Xiyue was carried directly into the room by Meros. Afterwards, the fact that Lin Xiyue didn't come out for two days was probably not so important anymore.

Louis was lost in thought about these things.

"Hey, what are you daydreaming about? Come on in."

Ye Qingwan's voice broke Louis's thoughts, and when he looked up, he saw a horrifying scene.

What appeared to be a chilling scene in what was once a pitch-black, bottomless doorway!

Ye Qingwan's head floated alone in the air, as if completely separated from her body, with no trace of her body to be found around her.

On that head, her lips were still opening and closing, as if she were saying something to Louis.

However, because it was too dark inside the doorway, it was impossible to see her expression clearly. All that could be heard was the intermittent sound. This eerie scene sent chills down one's spine, and fear instantly surged into one's heart like a tidal wave.

"A ghost! A ghost! ——————"

Louis let out a shriek like a duck whose neck had been stepped on, and was so frightened that he almost burrowed into the embrace of the tall nest next to him.

"What are you doing? Come in."

Ye Qingwan rolled her eyes, somewhat helpless.

Then she reached out a hand from the black mist and, with a forceful pull, dragged Louis inside.

"Aaaaaah—don't eat me! My flesh is sour—Aaaaaah, help me—"

Louis looked absolutely terrified!

He kept his eyes tightly shut, as if afraid that if he opened them he would see something horrifying.

The limbs that should have been flexible and free were now extremely stiff, as if they had been frozen in place and could not move.

He opened his mouth wide and screamed hysterically, his voice sharp and shrill, echoing throughout the room.

He appeared to be like a puppet, out of control and completely stiff, able to express his deepest fear and helplessness about the unknown through instinct.

"Stop barking."

Melos's voice suddenly came over and reached Louis's ears, who was in a state of fright. He was so startled that he quickly shut his mouth.

Then, he slowly opened his eyes and found himself being pulled into the room unharmed.

The room wasn't as scary as I'd imagined; instead, it was quite cozy, with warm sunlight streaming onto the floor, casting beautiful dappled patterns.

"Huh? (′⊙w⊙`)"

Louis got up, looked at Ye Qingwan sitting next to him, and then at Moros sitting on the bedside, holding her tightly. He was somewhat dazed and didn't know what had happened.

"Stop spacing out, didn't we say we discovered a problem?"

Meros's voice was cold and sharp; as he spoke, one could almost feel as if they were at the North Pole, with a fierce, icy wind blowing.

"Here's the thing, watch this video."

Louis was lost in thought, but Ye Qingwan was not. She knew perfectly well that if she couldn't come up with something useful, Melos, who was currently on edge, could go berserk at any moment.

Ye Qingwan showed the video she had processed to Molos, allowing him to see what had touched Lin Xiyue. Then, she took out a small cage from her bag, containing a living little monster that had split off from the previous monster.

"Huh?! Where did you catch this? I didn't see it before."

Louis was dumbfounded when he saw this scene. He had been with Ye Qingwan the whole way, so how did she catch him and secretly bring him along?

"None of your business! This is my superpower!"

Ye Qingwan rolled her eyes at Louis, not wanting to pay him any attention.

She then handed the monster to Meros.

Meros took the monster, focused his mind, and channeled his energy into its body.

Then, Meros forcibly extracted a tiny point of light from the monster's body. This point of light, except for its color, was exactly the same as the one that had touched Lin Xiyue.

[Host, I'm back~(￣▽￣)／ Huh? What happened?! Ahhhh, host, what's wrong with you?! Why did the spacetime power suddenly become disordered?! Ahhh, I just went to play mahjong! There was nothing I could do about it! You guys keep making my screen go black, it's so boring!]

As Meros was observing carefully, the system's voice suddenly rang out.

As soon as the system returned, it started wailing and crying uncontrollably.

Wait, what did you just say?

Meros astutely grasped the key points in the system's message.

[Huh? I mean, I just went to play some mahjong...]

Meros's tone was unusually serious, which startled the system.

[Not this, you said before that the power of spacetime was disordered?]

Meros asked again. He could see the system's unease, so he suppressed his emotions and softened his tone.

[yes……]

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