"That old Lu is pretty good. We brought his grandson back home, and he gave us a discount on the room rate."

It can be seen that my dad is a man who is used to living a hard life. People of his generation are basically like this, and they want to spend every penny carefully.

Lin Mo said that this money was "fake money" given by the General Administration and could only be used here, so there was no point in saving it.

Dad slapped his forehead.

"Oh, I'm used to it. I forgot about it. I'll go buy another bottle of wine. It would be a waste if I don't buy it."

Dad turned back and when he came back, he was holding a bottle of wine.

"Real Laobaigan. I didn't expect to be able to drink this in a place like this." Dad was very happy.

Lin Mo pulled his father over, pointed at the lost and found notice posted on the bulletin board, and said, "Dad, take a look, does this look like something I wrote?"

Dad took a look and said it looked like it.

"Your handwriting is very unique. Most people can't write so badly."

Lin Moxin asked, "Are you my biological father?"

How to talk.

As he read on, the old man frowned and said, "This is nonsense. Someone must have written it."

Lin Mo asked how you knew.

"It says here that if anyone finds the knife and sends it to Room 11, there will be a generous reward, right?" asked Dad.

Lin Mo said yes, that’s what it says.

At this time, Dad took out a key with a round plate attached to it.

"Look, our room is number 11. Don't you think this is nonsense?"

Lin Mo still felt something was wrong.

He asked Lu Xinghua, but the latter didn't know what was going on.

"Besides posting newspapers here every day, everything else is posted by tenants. The original intention is to make it convenient for everyone. I can't always be here to watch. Look at the ugly handwriting. It may be a prank by some child. Don't take it seriously."

After saying this, Old Lu walked over and tore down the lost and found notice.

Lin Mo was speechless.

When going upstairs, Lin Mo asked his father if the picture he wrote about himself was really that ugly.

"What do you think? I told you to practice calligraphy well when you were young, but you just wouldn't listen." Dad chuckled.

Although the journey was strange, it was a rare time for the father and son to be alone together.

If you think about it, when he was alive, we probably didn’t get along so well.

"Where's Lu Xiaoming?"

Lin Mo asked.

"Don't believe me when I tell you this. This kid is almost crying while being dragged by his grandfather to do his homework. But it's not a big deal. His grandfather really only remembers what his grandson looked like when he was a child. This means that the minibus we took us back to 20 years ago."

Lin Mo didn't quite agree with what his father said.

"I don't think so, but this scene was frozen on that day twenty years ago."

“It’s still the same.”

The two of them have already gone up to the second floor.

This hotel is a typical small hotel in the county town. The hardware facilities are not satisfactory, but it is quite clean.

An aunt in an apron is sweeping the floor in front.

I turned my back to the person and lowered my head. Because the corridor was dim, I felt that the other person might hide in the darkness around me at any time.

These are normal.

What's abnormal is that this auntie was standing on tiptoe when sweeping the floor, just like a freaking ballerina. It's really weird.

Anyway, Lin Mo had never seen such a fat ballet dancer.

There is no sound when walking.

To be honest, this scene was quite weird, but in the eyes of Lin Mo and his father, it was child's play.

The two of them did not disturb the aunt's work and found Room 11 and prepared to go in.

Dad opened the lock, and Lin Mo turned his head to take a look.

Good job.

The cleaning lady disappeared.

She was sweeping the floor there, and there was no sound when she left.

Lin Mo felt that the other party was floating away.

This is obviously a ghost.

The door opened and Dad pushed it open and walked in.

It's just a very ordinary standard room with two beds and no bathroom. You have to go to the public toilet in the corridor to use the toilet.

There was a table with two thermoses on it and the cups for drinking water were wiped clean.

There is also a clothes rack behind the door.

No one.

Apparently the lost and found notice was a prank, as no one had ever lived in Room 11 before.

Nothing strange was found.

Dad lay on the bed for a while and said it was okay and quite comfortable.

The two discussed it and decided to take action immediately.

"Xiao Mo, take the statue cursed by the Cat God. You don't have much time." At this time, the old man took out the strange cat statue from his stomach and handed it to Lin Mo.

"Normally, this thing needs to stay in a room for more than six hours to be cursed, but we have a faster way. We can directly use yellow paper to swallow the curse source and immediately obtain the curse. And the curse effect is the strongest."

Lin Mo nodded.

The Curse of the Cat God is his trump card. If he cannot find the Curse of the Undead, or encounters some difficult problems, then the action will be canceled and the Curse of the Cat God will be chosen immediately.

This is the only solution.

It's just bad, so let it be bad.

It's better than being torn apart.

The two of them each took one of the kettles in the room and went out, pretending to get some water, but actually they were investigating.

The target is the place where the cursed aura is emitted.

"There's a curse next door."

"Try knocking on the door."

The father and son worked in perfect harmony and knocked on the door of Room 12 next door.

There was a sleepy man inside. I guess he was sleeping and was woken up.

Looks very ordinary.

He was in a bad mood and swore a few words before closing the door forcefully.

Lin Mo looked at the small piece of yellow paper in his hand. He had just tested it on this man, and the curse detected by the yellow paper was 2-6 "cage".

"No wonder the smell of the curse seems familiar." Dad muttered.

Of course he was familiar with the cage curse.

It’s in the Second-Hand Alley and has been with him for many years.

Apparently there is also the 'cage' curse in this inn, it may be different, but it's essentially the same.

"Besides the curse, is there a hint of blood?" Dad asked.

Lin Mo nodded: "I thought I was the only one who smelled it."

"This man said he lived alone, but I noticed that the quilts on both beds in his room showed signs of use. In addition, I also saw two pairs of leather shoes." Dad was a very observant person.

Lin Mo said he saw it too, and also said there was a large suitcase under the bed.

"There was a faint smell of blood in the room. Two people were supposed to stay there, but they said there was only one person. There was a big box under the bed and a hint of panic in the other person's eyes. Could this person be a murderer? Did he kill his roommate? And he dismembered the body and stuffed it into the suitcase."

Lin Mo summarized.

Dad said it should be.

But this is not their goal. Their goal is to find the undead and curse them.

But from a side perspective, this hotel is indeed full of strange things. It looks normal, but it is actually very abnormal.

Another cursed aura is in room 6.

There was no response, but there seemed to be movement in the room.

I knocked again, and this time the door was opened, and a woman was standing at the door trembling.

The woman looked to be around thirty years old, charming and with long wavy hair. She must be a very attractive young woman.

But she looked very haggard, frightened, and seemed a little mentally unstable.

His eye sockets were dark and bloodshot, as if he hadn't rested for a long time.

There were still many claw marks on her arms.

Apparently, she caught it herself.

A mentally ill self-harmer.

This was Lin Mo’s first impression.

My second reaction was, damn, why is there so many ghosts about this woman?

What Lin Mo could see was that there was a man riding on the woman's neck, another lying under her legs, another standing behind her, and two little ghosts lying on her body. They were a boy and a girl, a dragon and a phoenix.

This is a son and a daughter.

These ghosts appeared and disappeared, haunting the woman.

In addition, the smell of the curse on the woman was extremely strong.

Just as Lin Mo was about to speak, his father came over and said, "Sorry, I knocked on the wrong door. Sorry to bother you, sorry to bother you."

After saying that, he took Lin Mo and left.

The woman's eyes moved, and she didn't close the door, but it closed automatically.

Lin Mo asked the woman what was going on.

"That woman is beyond saving." Dad said, "As soon as I opened the door just now, I remembered that I had seen the curse on her. It was a curse from a ghost."

Curse of evil spirits.

Lin Mo thought about it. He had also seen it before. The curse sequence was 3-9.

Yes, it’s on the unlucky ghost.

No wonder this woman looks a bit like a sad ghost, both of them look sad and depressed.

"The evil ghost curse means that one will be possessed by evil ghosts. Some people can control all the evil ghosts, such as the unlucky ghost you saw before, but some can't, such as this woman. She is possessed by so many evil ghosts that her consciousness is gone. She is now just a body occupied by various evil ghosts, a walking corpse."

Lin Mo nodded.

He also saw the malice and resentment in the woman's eyes just now.

It turned out that he was possessed by a ghost.

"If it had been discovered earlier, it might have been saved. Now, let's not waste time. Besides, there are a lot of ghosts in that room. In addition to the one on her body, there are at least 20 more in the room. Many of them are powerful. It's not that we can't afford to offend them, but there's no need to cause this trouble."

What dad said makes a lot of sense.

They came here to be cursed by the undead, and as for other things, they would avoid getting involved if possible.

But from what we know so far, the two doors that were knocked on, one was occupied by a sinister and cunning murderer, and the other was a young woman whose body was possessed by dozens of evil spirits.

The Xinghua Hotel is indeed not simple. It feels like opening a blind box, and there are always bigger surprises to come.

But no matter how weird it is, the degree of danger is very average.

Anyway, Lin Mo and his father haven't encountered any real danger so far, let alone the kind of danger that could threaten their lives.

This is not right.

"Professor Xie said before that the General Administration sent several groups of experts to investigate, but none of them returned. So where did these experts go? Were they killed, or are they trapped here?"

This question is not clear at the moment.

Continue exploring.

The two knocked on the door again, but there was no response from several rooms, probably no one was there.

But there is indeed some cursed atmosphere in it.

The entire Xinghua Hotel has only two floors, and all the rooms add up to no more than 18. It is very small. Except for Room 11 where they stayed, Room 12 where the murderer stayed, and Room 6 where the ghost-haunted young woman stayed, the other rooms were either impossible to open or might not be occupied at all.

Dad ran downstairs and started chatting with the boss, Lu Xinghua.

They are not much different in age and can chat with each other.

Lin Mo simply went back to his room and waited.

Suddenly, he thought of the lost and found notice again, and it seemed that it was not that simple.

Just like my dad said, my handwriting is so bad and unique, how could it be such a coincidence that someone else has the same handwriting as me, and also mentioned Room 11.

"What if that thing isn't a prank?"

Lin Mo jumped up from the bed.

Since I have nothing to do anyway, I might as well explore this room.

Lin Mo looked around and walked straight towards the wooden table in the room.

The wooden table has drawers.

Opened it, it was empty.

Lin Mo reached in and felt around inside, then felt around under the drawer.

His eyes lit up.

It’s really rewarding.

Lin Mo touched something and reached out to pull it off.

It was a piece of paper with a message on it.

Glue to the bottom of the drawer.

Why did Lin Mo look for this place first? That's because this is his subconscious thought. When people look for things, they usually look for the place they think is most suitable for hiding things.

If Lin Mo was asked to hide something, he would hide it here.

No one expected that this time the result would be so accurate.

There was a message on the paper. Lin Mo was a little confused after reading it.

The message is very simple, just one sentence.

"Take Dad with you and get into Room 8 before 3 a.m. Remember, otherwise we will all die."

Look at the font, it’s the same as the one on the lost and found notice.

This time must be the time of this scene in the hotel.

Lin Mo thought of this and opened the door to go downstairs, just in time to meet his father who was about to go upstairs.

"I've asked clearly. Including us, there are only four rooms occupied in this hotel. Not to mention Rooms 12 and 6, there is also Room 9. Hey, where are you going?"

Seeing Lin Mo rushing downstairs, Dad asked.

Lin Mo said he would go and check what time it was.

I reached the first floor and looked at the electronic clock on the wall.

The time now displayed is 10:45 pm.

There was still a lot of time until 3 a.m., so Lin Mo thought about it and unified the time on his watch with the electronic clock on the first floor.

This way, you don't have to run downstairs every time you want to check it.

"Xiao Mo, what's wrong?"

Dad saw that Lin Mo had a strange expression on his face and came over to ask.

Lin Mo glanced at Old Lu at the bar. He seemed to be doing some accounting, writing something with his head down. He looked very normal. But in the dim light, the old man looked very strange.

In the far corner, the lady sweeping the floor was almost standing on tiptoe while cleaning with her back to others.

Other than that, the entire hotel was eerily quiet.

Lin Mo pulled his father back into the house, closed the door, and took out the message paper.

"Did you write this?" Dad asked.

Lin Mo shook his head, thought about it, and nodded.

"What do you mean by shaking your head and nodding?" Dad didn't understand.

Lin Mo then told the story of how he discovered the message paper.

"Dad, after we came in, we found a lot of weird and strange things, but I think the weirdest ones are the lost and found notice and this message paper. I now suspect that these two things might have been written by me."

(End of this chapter)