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Chapter 509 [Domain - First Gate] A Hotel Built in a Graveyard
As if to confirm his idea, just as the elevator doors were halfway closed, a series of barely audible footsteps suddenly rang out outside the hotel.
The three of them stared intently as the elevator doors slowly closed, and at the last second, a figure flashed past outside the hotel.
"Have you felt... it's been following us?"
Liu Zi asked hesitantly.
He suspected that the bloodstain he found in the storage room last time was left by this ghost.
"Go down to the next floor and you'll find out." Bai Shaohua pressed the button for the second floor.
They've now gone through floors 231-31. The problem started in the second round.
It's as if the previous 2, 3, and 1 were just appetizers.
"After all, employees need to take the elevator," Xu Sandao said. "If they go to a different place in the first round, they won't be able to work."
He speculated that as long as he didn't follow the order given by Zhou Liang and randomly entered other floors, everything would end, and when he opened the elevator door, he would still be in the same hotel.
We've reached the second floor.
This time, they did not see the ghost, overturning Liu Zi's previous guess.
but.....
They seemed to be gradually leaving the hotel.
The corridor on the second floor has been blocked!
One half is a normal corridor with guest rooms and dark red carpets, while the other half is a long forest path.
It looks a lot like the outside of the hotel.
It's as if the roadside is covered with a withered yellow filter; there are two rows of old trees with no leaves, and several crows are perched on the trees, cawing loudly.
At the end of this forest path, the faint outline of a house could be seen.
house.....
Suddenly, an absurd guess popped into Xu Sandao's mind!
But he didn't say it immediately. He went straight to the final 1-2-3-4 floors, and as expected, there would be further changes.
1th floor.
The moment the elevator doors opened, Xu Sandao was completely certain of his guess.
There was no trace of the original hotel outside; it was just a small path in the rain that turned into another road at the end.
And by the roadside...
They were rows of graves.
"The hotel is built deep in the cemetery." Bai Shaohua held the door with both hands, preventing it from closing, and peered outside.
"I guess that building we just saw was a hotel."
"...Zhou Liang was actually telling the truth, and it really did mean exactly what he said: this is a [path]!"
Like jumping between nodes, or traversing through wormholes, they enter a specific area of the graveyard each time they open a door on a different level.
It is estimated that access to the fourth floor of the hotel will only be possible when the door on the fourth floor opens.
Bai Shaohua's palms were slightly sweaty. Sure enough, his intuition was correct; the danger was the same both inside and outside the hotel.
The area with bloodstains on the third floor was likely not the actual storage room, but rather outside the hotel.
There are ghosts outside, and there are ghosts inside the hotel. Could it be that the third shift of guards is a ghost invading the hotel?
That's very likely... after all, the previous ghost couple and the ghost in mourning clothes both appeared outside the inn.
“Before us, someone… or a ghost, used this method.” Liu Zi suddenly remembered something: “When we first entered the domain, the elevator was stopped on the 4th floor.”
Who is it?
As the three were pondering, a warning beep sounded from the elevator doors.
Bai Shaohua withdrew his hand.
Then it's the second floor.
The forest path, which I had seen once before, was now fully exposed.
It was still in the cemetery.
A few lonely mounds of earth sat not far away, with a broken red bowl placed in front of one of the graves.
3th floor.
Everyone's breathing quickened. What was the fourth floor like?
The phantom of the house seemed to be getting closer and closer.
This further confirmed their guess was correct; they only returned to the hotel after reaching the destination and then went directly to the 4th floor.
Just like the elevators in many hotels that lead directly to the top-floor executive suites.
The ghost that had appeared twice at the beginning was nowhere to be seen, which made the three of them feel a little relieved.
thump.
Ding--
The elevator door slowly opened.
What came into view was not the outdoors, but a small house, a small house without windows!
The room was filled with cold, white fluorescent lights; it was a mess, and there was no one inside.
The three of them stepped out of the elevator without sensing any danger.
"Someone lives here... It really is a penthouse suite?" Liu Zi looked at the cot in the corner.
However, the amenities and decorations are far inferior to those of executive rooms, and even worse than those of regular guest rooms.
It seems that the person who went up to the 4th floor earlier was the owner of this house.
"The check-in documents are all here." Bai Shaohua said thoughtfully, "The owner of this room is the hotel owner, or rather, the manager."
"Is it not available right now, so the tasks are being distributed that way?"
As for who the owner is, the three of them have already determined about 70-80% of the time.
The ghost that the maintenance department saw, the one that wandered in the stairwell!
It was the only one that wasn't the "key guest" Zhou Liang mentioned, nor was it an intern or an intern ghost, because interns would stay in guest rooms after death, just like the hanging female ghost and Zhou Liang.
"Just because it's trapped in the stairwell doesn't mean it can't get out."
After all, Zhou Liang's only instruction regarding the fourth floor was:
Don't stay on the 4th floor for too long.
Xu Sandao walked quickly, heading straight for the desk in the middle of the room. This desk had been used for who knows how many years, and it was covered with carvings.
Scattered on the table were sheets of paper, not printed words, but handwritten ones, bearing many unfamiliar names.
I picked up a random one.
[Name] Qi Yue
[Number] 2-021
[Gender] Male
[Ethnicity] Han
"..." Xu Sandao looked down and saw the ID number, religious belief, occupation, place of origin, address, contact person's phone number, relationship, etc., and couldn't help but frown.
"Is this for checking in, or checking household registration?"
The three of them put the paper in their pockets and began searching for Zhou Liang's files, but they weren't on the table.
"It must be in this room."
Xu Sandao said, taking a hair clip out of his pocket and poking open the cabinet on the desk.
Sure enough, there were several documents inside.
However, on top of it were three wooden sticks!
"three?"
Xu Sandao raised his eyebrows.
He picked up the piece of wood and examined it, but didn't find anything special about it.
Just as the three of them pulled away the documents below, suddenly...
There was a dull sound of footsteps.
It's like someone is walking inside a wall.
But they're so close...
"Which floor did Chen Ji go up in the stairwell?"
Bai Shaohua suddenly asked.
"......two."
Does the stairwell lead to the fourth floor?
"..."
No one answered him.
Only the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer came from inside the wall.
Very weird.
Neat and orderly, like a group of people, not one person, gradually approaching.