Chapter 331 Abnormal Hotel
After ending the call with Lao Qi, Chen Chuan used his phone to check the area and found out from the relevant links that this incident was actually on the news yesterday, which is very rare.
You should know that Hongsheng District is the least concerned area in the central city. It is synonymous with old and backward. There are a large number of residents without citizenship living there, and it is full of gangs of all sizes. Even the city patrol rarely comes here.
Therefore, this is one of the areas with the most ghost stories. In the past, the Golden Shrimp Team's headquarters was located here. However, the street in question is located in the southeast of Hongsheng District, extending towards the city center. This may be the reason why it has attracted attention.
But according to his understanding, no matter how much attention this matter received, there was no hope of anyone solving it. Even suppressing the news directly would be easier than this.
If the mass disappearances are really ghost stories, it means that they are becoming more powerful. If they are not dealt with now, it will not be long before they cause even greater casualties.
He thought for a moment and decided to go and deal with it.
He prepared himself, put everything he might need, including ritual materials, into a bag, changed into casual clothes, went downstairs to get the car, and drove all the way to the place where the ghost story took place.
On the way, Lao Qi sent a photo of a missing colleague. She was a woman in her thirties with short hair, wearing glasses and a staff uniform. She looked very capable. The reason for her disappearance was that a client asked her to go to the hotel to find a list of guests who stayed there last year.
Since the price offered by the customer was very high, and based on past experience, there was basically no danger as long as they did not stay in the hotel, colleague Lao Qi accepted the commission.
But I didn't expect that this hotel was no longer like before where you could just not stay in the hotel, but now you could only enter but not leave, and now I was trapped inside.
However, it has been ten days or half a month since this incident, so he is not optimistic about his colleague Lao Qi.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, he drove along the avenue to this area and found that someone had placed a bunch of obstacles in the middle of the road, but they did not completely block the spacious intersection.
He slowed down and drove through a gap on the side. Without obstacles, his vision became much clearer. The street was empty and there were few people. He seemed to be able to see the end at a glance. Only some furtive figures could be seen in the corners of buildings and alleys.
They seemed to be some gang members, but he ignored them and drove straight inside and soon saw the hotel.
But he noticed that there was no parking space ahead, and the ground nearby was full of messy debris and garbage. Fortunately, there was an empty parking lot about a hundred meters away, so he parked the car there.
He got out of the car with the Xuejun Knife in his hand, pushed the door shut, and walked towards the hotel.
I didn't feel anything unusual at first, but when I was about thirty or forty meters away, I began to show faint signs of becoming weak.
"Hey, don't go in." A shout came from behind.
Chen Chuan stopped and turned to look at a certain place. He saw a dirty-faced child on a residential building on one side of the street. The child called out to him, but as he looked over, he retracted his head.
Lao Qi told him that there was no one here, but in fact when he came over, he could feel that many people were looking at him. Only when he walked around the hotel did the gazes gradually decrease.
It makes sense when you think about it. How could the ordinary people here give up their homes? The only ones who can afford to run away are probably those with a little wealth.
He turned around and said, "I'm here to deal with this matter."
He continued walking forward, but after a while, just as he was about to enter the hotel door, the boy shouted again: "Don't solve it!"
Chen Chuan thought for a moment and roughly understood the idea behind this. This anomaly was certainly dangerous here, but perhaps because of this, few people came to exploit and control them. But if it was really a strange story, the scope would continue to expand, and those hiding here would sooner or later be involved.
Or wait until those who deal with the problem come, but compared to dealing with the problem, dealing with people is actually simpler and has the lowest cost. Without people, the ghost stories will naturally disappear.
He replied: "Stay where you are and don't move around."
As he spoke, he stepped onto the hotel stairs, and after a few steps, he pushed open the glass door. Almost at the moment he stepped through the door, strong signs of blurring appeared on my second self.
After entering, he looked around and found that the hall was empty. The half-drawn curtains and the old chandelier were clean and dust-free, as if they had been carefully wiped, and the floor tiles were as smooth as a mirror.
The dining tables in the hall were neatly arranged, with guests' clothes on the backs of the chairs, and the bowls and chopsticks and the food on them seemed to have just been placed there. He also saw a half-cut cream cake, and he seemed to still be able to smell its sweet aroma.
But the problem is that the situation happened almost last month. In today's weather, it should have rotted after so many days, but it still looks fresh now.
He touched the lower realm, but under the strong influence of the void, this thing could no longer be used. This was expected.
He first walked around the lobby on the first floor. Apart from the traces left by the guests, there was nothing else, so he went upstairs to take a look.
At this time, he found that the elevator was still on and could still be used, but after thinking about it, he did not go in, but walked up the stairs.
Shortly after he entered the hotel, five cars drove into the street. The people in them had their hair dyed in a moss-like pattern in various colors. They were obviously members of the Moss Gang.
After driving a distance, the car stopped. The gang leader sitting in the front stood up and waved to the side of the alley. Two people immediately ran out. He put a cigarette in his mouth and the younger brother beside him immediately lit it for him. He took a puff and asked, "No movement these past two days, right?"
The man replied, "Boss, those scumbags are very honest. No one dares to cause trouble. It's just that a car went in just now, and it looks like it's heading for the hotel."
The gang leader was very surprised, "Someone really went in there looking for death?"
The younger brother next to him said, "Brother, it might be someone from the agency. Those guys are not afraid of death as long as they are paid enough."
The gang leader spat out of the car and sneered, "Who cares where he comes from? If he wants to die, let him go. We must follow the orders from above. No one who enters will be allowed to leave." He pointed with his hand, "You guys, set up the roadblock at the intersection."
"Yes, big brother."
Watching the younger brothers busy at work, a trusted gang member asked, "Brother, how long are we going to keep watching here?"
"At least two months."
The gang leader puffed out a cigarette leisurely and said, "There's going to be a boxing match in the city soon. A lot of people from other central cities have been pouring in lately. If there's a disturbance here, it'll be embarrassing for the city officials. The boss said that as long as we keep this place under control, we brothers will all get a bonus afterward."
The trusted younger brother looked at the twelve-story hotel in front of him. On this street, it was already considered one of the tallest buildings. He said, "Hey, brother, you said there's something wrong with that hotel. Can't we just blow up this building? Wouldn't that save a lot of trouble?"
The gang leader glanced at him and said, "Blow it up? Do you want to blow it up or should I? Didn't you hear others say that everyone who walks to the door goes in like they have lost their souls?"
"Is it really that weird?"
"It's just so weird!" The gang leader smoked a cigarette and seemed to have discovered something. He called a few of his brothers and asked them to come with him to take a look.
They arrived in front of the armored vehicle in the parking lot. The gang leader circled around it and said, "It's only been a few days, and there's a new car? Some of you come and get it."
At this time, a little brother suddenly saw a child opposite looking at him furtively, so he picked up the gun, aimed it, and fired a "bang" sound. The boy's head immediately retracted, and everyone laughed.
One of the younger brothers looked at the car and said, "Brother, this is the car of the person from the commissioning company. It seems that he is not an ordinary person to be able to take on such a job."
The gang leader said disdainfully, "Are you crazy? How can you survive in that hotel? Get them out of here quickly."
Several of the younger brothers went up to tinker with it for a long time but couldn't find a way to start. One of them looked up and said, "Brother, this is a modified armored vehicle. The glass is thick and bulletproof, and the lock is a heavy twist handle. We can't pry it open."
The gang leader didn't believe it and walked over to take a look at the car lock. He couldn't help but curse, because the car lock in front of him was actually a rotating disk only two millimeters thick.
Youxing's modified car does not have a normal lock, but is modified according to its own characteristics. If your finger strength and power do not reach a certain level, don't even think about twisting the lock open. Of course, it is no problem for Chen Chuan, he can open it with just a turn, but ordinary people cannot jam it without special tools.
"I still don't believe it. Damn it, find a car to tow it away."
Inside the hotel, Chen Chuan walked from the first floor to the twelfth floor and found that the rooms and corridors were all empty, and the scene inside seemed to be frozen in a certain moment, as if the owner had just left not long ago.
And from the moment he entered here, he had a feeling that he was being watched.
At this moment, he had been to almost all places, including the rooftop, but there was one place he had not checked, which was the basement floor of the entire building.
This is an old building and there is no underground garage. Judging from the schematic diagram, the basement should be the storage location for backup generators and cold storage.
He walked down from upstairs, pushed open two security doors, and went down to the basement.
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(End of this chapter)
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