Chapter 276: The Haunted Museum on the 9th Floor
He signed the agreement and came to Macedonia Island for a very simple reason.
He treated it completely like leveling up in a game.
If he succeeded, the money he earned daily would double.
If he failed, he got nothing, and might even die.
But none of that mattered anymore.
At this moment, Hashimoto Kazuo slowly exhaled toward the sun in the sky.
Then, he continued walking step by step along the coastline.
As he walked, he suddenly spotted three small black dots ahead.
When the distance gradually closed,
he discovered they were three people. Taking a closer look, the three seemed to be in trouble.
One person was lying on the ground, while the other two were squatting beside them.
They had been continuously performing CPR on the person lying down.
As a doctor, Hashimoto Kazuo had a sense of professional ethics.
Therefore, he quickly ran over.
When he reached them, he said:
"Do you need help? I'm a doctor! (Japanese)"
Hearing the voice, a young male face filled with anxiety looked up and surprisingly also spoke Japanese: "That's great! My girlfriend accidentally drowned! Please, save her quickly! (Japanese)"
Hashimoto Kazuo looked down.
He saw the person lying down was a woman, completely soaked.
While the young man continuously performed CPR on her, the young woman lying down kept spitting out seawater from her mouth.
"Let me perform CPR on her. Your technique isn't standard—not only is it ineffective, but it could potentially make things worse! (Japanese)"
Hashimoto Kazuo took over and continued performing CPR and artificial respiration on the drowned young woman.
Hashimoto Kazuo truly lived up to being a doctor.
Soon, under his professional technique, the drowned young woman kept spitting out large amounts of seawater.
Her consciousness gradually returned.
Only then did Hashimoto Kazuo stop and say with a smile, "Your girlfriend is fine now. (Japanese)"
"Thank you! Thank you! (Japanese)"
The young man quickly expressed his gratitude.
Tears welled in his eyes, as if he had truly been terrified that something would happen to his girlfriend.
And after his girlfriend regained consciousness, he immediately hugged her tightly.
Tears fell as if they cost nothing.
"Ouch, you're hurting me..."
"Let me catch my breath first..."
Being tightly hugged right after waking up, the drowned woman couldn't quite handle it.
The young man smiled while wiping his tears: "I was just too nervous."
"By the way, Xiao Yan, what exactly happened to you underwater?"
"Your swimming skills are even better than mine, how could you have drowned?"
Hearing the name Xiao Yan, does it sound somewhat familiar?
That's right.
This drowned young woman was precisely Zhou Yan.
And the two beside her were her boyfriend Li Miguo, and Li Miguo's classmate Jimmy.
Hearing this question,
a look of extreme terror appeared on Zhou Yan's pretty face. She quickly looked down at her snow-white ankle, where there were two deep red marks.
They clearly looked like marks left by something grabbing her.
"There was someone! Or something else!"
"I was about to go up for air, but when I swam upward, something grabbed my foot!! It dragged me down desperately!!!"
Zhou Yan's voice trembled as she spoke, showing that she had been truly terrified.
So much so that after speaking, she threw herself into her boyfriend's arms, buried her head deeply, and actually began to cry.
Seeing his usually strong girlfriend like this, Li Miguo felt only heartache.
Originally, these three had arrived at Macedonia Island, checked into a nice hotel,
and then come out to play.
All three enjoyed diving.
But unlike Su Yang and the others, they didn't hire any diving instructors to join them.
Instead, they dove alone.
Since all three were confident in their swimming skills,
they acquired three pairs of fins
and three diving masks at Macedonia Island,
and went straight into diving.
Then this incident occurred during their dive.
Fortunately, although Zhou Yan had drowned, she was lucky to encounter a doctor.
So she was basically fine now.
Currently, the four of them were on this beach, with the sea on one side and dense green vegetation on the other.
Unknown to all four of them,
within the dense green vegetation, a pair of dangerous, dark eyes were secretly observing them from somewhere.
At this moment,
Hashimoto Kazuo, seeing that the person was fine, prepared to take his leave.
And just at that moment,
as he stood up,
his heart suddenly jolted.
He quickly crouched down.
Whoosh—an arrow flew over his head.
Because Hashimoto Kazuo crouched down in time, the arrow didn't hit him. Instead, it passed through the space where his head had been and landed in the golden sand.
The sound of the arrow startled the other three.
Following Hashimoto Kazuo's gaze, the three saw the arrow.
After avoiding being hit, Hashimoto Kazuo stood up, looked around, and finally fixed his gaze on the dense green vegetation ahead.
But at first glance, that area showed no apparent abnormalities.
"Who shot this arrow?!"
Li Miguo walked over to that part of the beach sand and pulled out the arrow.
He examined it carefully in his hand.
He found that the arrowhead was metal, very hard.
If it had actually hit someone, the person struck would definitely be either dead or seriously injured.
Great, his girlfriend had just nearly drowned, whether by human action or something else,
and now someone was shooting arrows here?
"This arrow was probably aimed at me, since it passed right over my head. (Japanese)"
Hashimoto Kazuo stepped forward and said.
Li Miguo was furious: "No matter who this arrow was aimed at! I will investigate this thoroughly!!!"
Since Hashimoto Kazuo had saved his girlfriend, and this incident happened right in front of him, Li Miguo certainly couldn't let it go either.
He absolutely had to find out who did this!
Seeing this, Hashimoto Kazuo remained silent.
Although he didn't know who was responsible,
he could roughly guess the purpose behind such an action.
"In Alice Apartment, I never encountered such direct methods."
Hashimoto Kazuo thought silently to himself.
...
Jiang Ran had originally planned to continue exploring the island, but the intense afternoon heat on Macedonia Island was unbearable, forcing him to give up.
With Xiao Q's trio, as well as Su Yang and Lin Baiyu leaving, he also lost interest in staying, so they all returned to the hotel together.
On their way back to the hotel,
Jiang Ran passed by the golden beach and noticed many people were still sunbathing.
Looking closer, they were all those white people.
White people seemed quite different from yellow people.
Not to mention other places, just in Hua Country, many considered pale skin beautiful.
The saying goes, "one white covers three ugliness."
Everyone hoped their skin could be whiter.
But those white people, since they were naturally pale,
often didn't cherish what came too easily.
Among those white people, tanned wheat-colored skin was very popular, considered beautiful.
After Jiang Ran and the others returned to the hotel,
Su Yang's international student friends and classmates went back to their own hotel rooms first.
Meanwhile, Xiao Q's trio decided to explore the hotel.
They also invited Jiang Ran to join them.
Jiang Ran couldn't refuse politely.
The hotel on Macedonia Island was simply called Macedonia Hotel.
It covered a vast area and had extremely high floors.
Jiang Ran and the others were on the 1st floor. Xiao Q was in the 1st-floor lobby, looking at the floor map.
They decided to go play on the 9th floor first.
The 9th floor was the Horror Museum.