The little fox said to Ye Tiancheng, "Eighty percent fake, just ignore him."
Ye Tiancheng agreed with the little fox's assessment and remained silent. However, the presence outside the door was clearly unwilling to leave so easily.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox only heard the "fat man" outside the door speak again, "Brother, why aren't you opening the door? I really can't sleep at night, so I came to find you. Since you're not asleep, can you open the door and let me in so we can talk?"
There were too many points to critique, and Ye Tiancheng and the little fox didn't know where to start.
The fat man rarely called Ye Tiancheng "Brother." It wasn't that he didn't call him "Brother," but when he did, he usually included his surname. He was accustomed to calling him "Brother Ye" when he spoke. Only the little fox, after becoming close to Ye Tiancheng, would affectionately call him "Brother" as if they were family, like real brothers.
Moreover, if the fat man truly couldn't sleep at night, it was unlikely he would come looking for Ye Tiancheng to disturb his sleep. If the fat man said he had encountered something strange or dangerous and came to find Ye Tiancheng and the others, it would have been more normal.
There were other abnormal aspects, but it was already clear that the person outside was not right. Therefore, it was correct that things were abnormal; there was no need to analyze them one by one.
Without a second thought, Ye Tiancheng casually said to the person outside, "I'm not asleep, but isn't my younger brother asleep? If I let you in to talk, wouldn't that wake him up?"
The "fat man" outside: "..."
He probably hadn't expected Ye Tiancheng to be so good at making things up.
The little fox slept in the same room as Ye Tiancheng. If Ye Tiancheng really didn't want to wake him, why would he speak so loudly to him?
Even if the little fox was truly asleep, he should have been woken up by Ye Tiancheng by now.
As if that wasn't enough, Ye Tiancheng continued to deceive the "fat man" outside. He said to the "fat man" outside, "What time is it? If you can't sleep, just go back and force yourself to sleep. If you're a night owl in the middle of the night, are you going to be dozing in your room while we're all out playing tomorrow?"
The "fat man" outside was probably rendered speechless by Ye Tiancheng's words. After a few seconds of silence, he replied, "No, Brother, I feel like it's a bit strange here, and I'm a little scared to sleep alone, so I came to find you. Otherwise, why would I disturb your sleep? Just open the door and let me in, I'm scared to be alone."
Ye Tiancheng thought to himself, "You standing at my door like this also makes me quite scared."
Ye Tiancheng replied to the "fat man" outside, saying, "Oh, how old are you? And with your build, even if you can't sleep, will you be able to sleep here? Don't joke, you won't fit at all, okay? We're staying in single rooms!"
"Just make do. Think less about those strange supernatural things. There aren't that many strange things in the world. You're just imagining things. Hurry back, nothing will happen!"
The little fox whispered to Ye Tiancheng, "Fortunately, the person outside is probably not the real Brother Fatty. Otherwise, Brother, what you said would really hurt Brother Fatty's feelings, haha."
Ye Tiancheng also whispered to the little fox, "Don't I say that precisely because I know he's fake?"
The "fat man" outside probably didn't expect Ye Tiancheng to treat him that way and was a bit at a loss for words. Then, Ye Tiancheng heard the "fat man" outside repeatedly knocking on the door, knocking three times each time, and talking to Ye Tiancheng while knocking.
"Brother, open the door, quickly open the door and let me in, let me in! Brother!"
He just repeated this line over and over, his voice becoming increasingly strange and shrill. Ye Tiancheng increasingly felt that the voice outside didn't sound like the fat man's voice.
Ye Tiancheng couldn't help but say, "What's going on? This guesthouse didn't seem to have any problems before, so why are such things happening at night?"
The little fox also couldn't help but get a headache and complained to Ye Tiancheng, "How long is that thing outside going to be noisy? Since he's so reckless, why don't we just let him in and kill him directly? It's too noisy."
"If it were an ordinary person knocking on our door, what would they be thinking? Do we look like pushovers?"
Ye Tiancheng thought about it. The defenses in their room were actually not as strong as Brother Fatty's, because there were no pushovers here. Ye Tiancheng possessed profound and powerful cultivation, and the little fox had an extraordinary talent in Xuan術 (mystical arts). When it came to strange matters, he was basically fearless.
Thinking about it this way, it seemed no different from seeking death for an evil spirit to knock on their door.
"What you said makes some sense," Ye Tiancheng said.
The knocking outside suddenly stopped for a longer period. Ye Tiancheng glanced at the door, deep in thought, and then raised his voice slightly, "But it's also a bit troublesome. I'm too lazy to get up. Let's see if he's sensible. If he's really blind, then we'll kill him. Otherwise, if he's noisy all night, how can we rest."
As soon as Ye Tiancheng finished speaking, a long silence fell outside for some unknown reason.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox waited for a while, but they no longer heard any knocking.
The little fox asked Ye Tiancheng, "Did he leave?"
Ye Tiancheng raised an eyebrow, "He probably heard what we said."
The little fox was somewhat surprised but also found it reasonable, "Was he scared away by us?"
Ye Tiancheng said, "It seems so."
It was really hard to say what this evil spirit's intentions were. Did it really think they were pushovers and therefore approached them, only to find that they were not easy to deal with, and then, threatened, it gave up and left?
But what had they done to attract this unknown entity to their door?
It couldn't be that they were chosen for no reason, right?
There were so many tourists staying here, there was no reason it would directly target them.
The little fox rubbed his temples, feeling a headache and speechless, "After all that noise, I can't sleep anymore."
"Then let's try to get some sleep. We still have to go out tomorrow, and we probably won't have much opportunity to rest during the day. If we don't sleep well now, we'll suffer tomorrow," Ye Tiancheng shook his head and advised the little fox.
"Anyway, we have nothing to fear, so there's nothing to worry about. Just sleep peacefully."
The little fox thought about it and felt it was right. He couldn't possibly stay alone in the room sleeping all day tomorrow. "I'll try my best. I don't know if anything else will happen. If something like this happens a few more times at night, and we don't get enough rest, it will be too tormenting."
Ye Tiancheng said, "If it dares to come again, we'll kill it directly. There's no need to be polite anymore. After all, whoever comes is probably not here for anything good, so we are not in the wrong for killing it."
His words carried a very unreasonable, ruffian-like tone.
The little fox felt a great sense of security from his words and said, "Good idea. With that said, I think I can fall asleep."
Ye Tiancheng smiled and said, "That's great. Go back to sleep. It's already past midnight, and that thing might not dare to come again."
To some extent, evil spirits were indeed bullies who preyed on the weak. The more afraid people were, the easier it was for them to succeed. However, if people were not afraid, they would have little opportunity to take advantage. They could also sense people's emotional stability and fear. If the people they faced were unwavering, they wouldn't gain much.
Unless there was a deep-seated hatred, generally no one would be so foolish as to act in such a situation.
Of course, those whose reason was occupied by fierce energy were a different matter. Such beings could attack any existence indiscriminately and were very dangerous. They would not spare their own kind or others.
However, the entity knocking on the door in the middle of the night clearly wasn't this type of being.
After this incident, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, having nothing to fear and with things to do during the day, were able to sleep peacefully and did not toss and turn all night.
However, because of the incident of the midnight knocking, they completely forgot about the strange noises and the woman's crying that the little fox had heard earlier.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox slept soundly until dawn. Around eight o'clock, they agreed to go downstairs for breakfast. As they left their room, they went to knock on Brother Fatty's room door.
When Brother Fatty opened the door and saw Ye Tiancheng and the little fox standing outside, he greeted them, "Brother Ye, Little Fox, good morning. Are you going out?"
The little fox replied, "Good morning, Brother Fatty. Brother and I are going down for breakfast. We came to call you to join us. Are you coming down with us, or do you want to stay in the room and sleep a bit longer?"
Brother Fatty heard this and replied, "Oh, then wait for me. I'll go in and change my clothes and freshen up a bit."
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had no objections and waited patiently for a while. Brother Fatty quickly returned to his room, changed out of his robe, put on his outdoor clothes, and then went into the washroom to freshen up briefly. He was quite fast.
As he walked out and reached the door of his room, he heard Ye Tiancheng and the little fox talking in low voices.
Brother Fatty vaguely seemed to hear Ye Tiancheng say, "This seems to be the real Brother Fatty."
Then the little fox replied, "Brother Fatty is sleeping soundly in his room, and we were the ones who knocked on the door and called him out, so it can't be fake, right? I checked the protective measures in the room, and they all seem fine. Under normal circumstances, nothing should have happened."
Brother Fatty found it very strange and couldn't help but ask Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, "What are you talking about? What's real and what's fake? What happened?"
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox didn't expect Brother Fatty to suddenly overhear their conversation. They exchanged glances, but there was no need to hide this matter from Brother Fatty. Therefore, Ye Tiancheng explained to Brother Fatty.
"Last night, something strange impersonated you and knocked on our room door. First, it said it couldn't sleep at night and came to find me to talk. Later, when I realized something was wrong and refused to open the door, it said it had encountered something strange and was very scared, trying in every way to get in. It kept knocking, and its voice even broke, becoming increasingly unlike yours."
"Little Fox and I didn't let him in and threatened him that if he bothered us again, we would kill him. Only then did he leave."
"This shouldn't have been you, right? Little Fox and I shouldn't have made a mistake, right?"
Brother Fatty was stunned to hear such a bizarre story and shook his head. He had no memory of such a thing, and it was clearly not him. He had not knocked on Ye Tiancheng and the others' door in the middle of the night.
Therefore, the conclusion was very obvious: something strange had indeed knocked on Ye Tiancheng and the little fox's room door last night.