The camera angle is from the ground, and the photographer is [name missing].
Xia Chuhe could only imagine that Mao Xiaotian had reached out to help when the robot butler fell down and cried out, "Help me, help me!"
Based on the other pictures in the folder, Mao Xiaotian's activities at the hotel suggest that she came to attend a gathering of ancient costume enthusiasts, helped the robot butler, and assisted other members of the gathering. She is a very kind young girl.
So kind-hearted... that he was deceived by a woman pretending to be an old lady.
The last photo shows Mao Xiaotian escorting an elderly woman back to her room, which is room 426.
After that, Mao Xiaotian never appeared at the hotel again.
If what the fake Mao Xiaotian said is true, the cannibalistic gang at the hotel didn't eat her immediately after capturing her, but instead tried to control her with drugs. However, Mao Xiaotian took advantage of this and escaped.
Mao Xiaotian escaped to the building across from the hotel. There are two possibilities: either she climbed in through a window, or the building across the street also belongs to the cannibalistic gang.
Thinking about the cell phone that Xia Chuhe found in the building across the street, he was more inclined to believe the first possibility.
In a flash, Xia Chuhe went through all the clues, immediately selected all the data, and manually cleared it.
A message pops up on the screen: "Clearing complete, formatting successful."
Just as Xia Chuhe was about to leave, Bao'er shouted from the monitoring room, "Sister! The monitor is broken!"
Xia Chuhe paused in his act of getting up, smiled slightly, and tapped a few lines on the keyboard, implanting the same command into all the robot assistants—
Enable monitoring
The entire voiceover was changed to "There's a cannibal in the hotel, everyone run!"
The promotional video on the lobby screen was changed to a gory image.
Finish.
Xia Chuhe laughed and said, "We're not leaving. We'll wait for them to come to us."
When the four fought their way to the basement, the nine who had escaped were no longer there. They had probably already left and were unaware of what had happened in the basement. Now that Xia Chuhe had thoughtfully informed them, how could they not come back?
Xia Bao'er watched from the monitoring room. After the robot butler was implanted with new commands, along with the images on the big screen and the room ransacked by the cannibal gang, a rumor—not quite a rumor—quickly spread throughout the hotel: Everyone run! A killer has entered the hotel and is eating people. Don't believe it? The hotel security is searching everyone!
Bao'er looked at it for a while and then laughed, "They're coming."
The cannibalistic gang cleared away the debris blocking the elevator and headed straight for the second basement level.
Xia Chuhe, Bu Yi, and Li Yue were at ease. The moment the elevator doors opened, they unleashed a flurry of fire, wiping out all the villains in one fell swoop.
Xia Chuhe reset the instructions, calling all the rooms and saying the same thing: "Mao Mao, gather in room 1026."
With rumors of a "serial killer" circulating, most of the hotel guests had fled. Only three people in the rooms answered the phone, one of which was Zhao Maomao's room.
Zhao Maomao had just heard the commotion outside the room and realized something was wrong, but she didn't expect her boss and the others to be so efficient.
Inside the room, the bound man was terrified, his mind racing with thoughts like, "Could this be the serial killer they're talking about? I'm still young, please don't eat me!!! I promise I'll be a good person from now on!!!"
Zhao Maomao hung up the phone, understanding that the fact that his boss was using this method to contact him meant that it was safe outside, and he could just go directly to 1026.
Soon, the five met again at 1026. This time, climbing through the window became their consensus.
The building has thirteen floors, with two rooms on each floor, all very spacious. The room layout is similar to the room opposite 1026, and it looks like a place where cannibals kill for fun.
During the search, the five men encountered several lone individuals, whom they killed without hesitation.
The entire building spanned thirteen floors and twenty-six rooms. The five of them searched for two hours but still couldn't find Mao Xiaotian.
Bao'er recalled the scene from her nightmare and hesitated before asking, "She wouldn't... be dead, would she?"
Xia Chuhe said, "I want to see the person alive or dead."
Bu Yi coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face ashen, and said in a weak voice, "It's up there."
above……
Above that, there's only the rooftop.
Given Bu Yi's condition, it was not advisable for him to move around too much. Xia Chuhe left the others behind and went up to the rooftop alone.
There are several old, dilapidated water tanks on the rooftop, which must have been abandoned for a long time.
Xia Chuhe opened each of the water tanks one by one, and found scattered pieces of bone in many of them. The bones were dirty and yellowish, with white dried marks on the surface, as if they had been left there for decades.
Xia Chuhe found Mao Xiaotian, who was on the verge of death, in one of the water tanks.
She's still alive, but she's unconscious.
Xia Chuhe fed her some sugar water.
Mao Xiaotian opened his eyes and the first thing he asked was, "Did you kill them?"
Xia Chuhe nodded, unsure how to tell Mao Xiaotian that they hadn't found her grandmother.
Mao Xiaotian smiled and handed Xia Chuhe a newspaper: "That's good."
After she finished speaking, her figure gradually became ethereal and then disappeared.
Xia Chuhe looked at the newspaper that Mao Xiaotian handed him, puzzled.
The newspaper headline reads: "Happy Five-Star Hotel is harboring a criminal gang."
On July 26, Mao Chunhua (pseudonym) from Hengwu Village went missing, and neighbors reported her missing. An official investigation into Mao Chunhua's whereabouts revealed that her granddaughter, Mao Xiaotian (pseudonym), had left home five days prior and had not returned.
An investigation revealed that Mao Xiaotian was last seen at the Happy Five-Star Hotel. During the investigation, a riot broke out among the hotel's robot butlers. In the process of suppressing the robot butlers, the authorities missed the best time for rescue and lost track of Mao Xiaotian and Mao Chunhua.
A month later, a concerned citizen found Mao Chunhua's cell phone in a building opposite the Happy Five-Star Hotel. The phone contained important clues, and the authorities quickly destroyed it, arresting the cannibalistic gang that had been lurking in Shenjiang City for decades.
...
...
The newspapers didn't mention the fates of Mao Chunhua and Mao Xiaotian; a month wasted, by which time they would have long since died.
Xia Chuhe felt a wave of fear. If they had been deceived by 23, would things have turned out the way they described in the newspapers—the robot butler causing a commotion and delaying the best rescue opportunity?
Even Mao Xiaotian's final question subtly indicated that if the cannibalistic gang hadn't been dealt with beforehand, simply finding Mao Xiaotian wouldn't have been of any use.
...
Xia Chuhe finished reading the newspaper. The words on the paper gradually blurred until only a few words remained.
Waiting for a lucky person.
Xia Chuhe brought the newspaper to the farm, where the farm's explanation became clearer—
Special items: Broken ones don't work, good ones do.
Specific function: Optimizes the user's special ability, depending on the ability.
Eligibility: Lucky individuals similar to Mao Xiaotian
Clearly, Xia Chuhe was not the lucky one chosen by the special props.
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