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Chapter 116: Deceased Wife (4)
"What are you laughing at again?" Sheh moved his eyes. Why did this man change every now and then?
"Nothing." Shi Jinzhe stood up, held Shehe's hand, and pulled her up: "Let's go, walk around the hotel before dawn, and be conservative on the first night, don't stay out of the room too late."
Back to the winding corridor, other players moved in one after another.
In the depressing dim light, Shi Jinzhe passed by room 409 again. The door was half open, and the people living inside were Liu Run and Cheng Youan.
Although he hated it, he still stood at the door and knocked.
Liu Run put the unconscious Cheng Youan on the bed and turned back when he heard a knock on the door.
Shi Jinzhe silently took a look at the layout of Room 409 and asked, "Was this door locked when you opened it?"
Liu Run hummed: "I used the room card to open it."
"Okay, sorry to bother you." After asking this question, Shi Jinzhe left with Shehe.
Liu Run was puzzled. "Shi Jinzhe came up earlier than everyone else. Did he find something wrong when he asked this? Was the door open before I came in?"
He looked around the layout of the room. There was a bathroom on the right hand side of the door and a dressing mirror on the left wall.
Two meters inside from the door are two beds placed side by side, one by the window and one by the wall. Cheng Youan was sleeping on the bed by the wall.
There is a wooden bedside table between the two beds, one meter apart, which is the most common hotel layout.
If there is a real problem, it is that the furniture is all reddish-brown, which is too dark and makes people feel suffocated after staying there for a long time.
After checking the room, Liu Run checked the door lock, but found no problems.
Because I didn't want to live in a room at the end of the corridor, I specially chose room 409.
He stroked his chin and said, "As for the question about Shi Jinzhe... the door was indeed locked when I opened it. He must have noticed something was wrong when he passed by from outside."
Thinking about this, Liu Run opened the door and prepared to simulate the movement path from the outside to see if he could find anything.
But just as he opened the door, he heard Shi Jinzhe say at the door of the next room next to his: "Excuse me."
"..."
He knocked on every door one by one. Some doors were closed, some were opened only a crack and looked very cautious, and some doors were wide open, inviting him to come in and take a look.
Liu Run, thinking that there was something special in his room, was speechless. It seemed that he was just asking routine questions.
He slammed the door shut, and Shi Jinzhe acted as if he didn't hear anything, and walked to the next room without looking back.
"Someone in the room said you are crazy." Sheh moved his ears and told her what he heard truthfully.
Shi Jinzheman didn't care: "Psychopaths are the most fortunate type of people. It's okay for them to be legally crazy."
When it comes to survival, there's nothing shameful about behaving a little strangely.
After asking all the players about the rooms they were staying in, he returned the same way, passed by room 403 where he was staying, and walked towards the next corner.
Unexpectedly, this corridor was shorter than the other corridors, with four rooms on each side wall and a closed wall at the end.
The continuous U-shaped room is cut off, so the room that gathers energy is missing a corner. The northwest corner of the house is missing, which is a very taboo room type.
Shi Jinzhe: "No wonder we only saw a one-way corridor when we came out of the elevator. It turns out that this is not connected."
Sheikh stared at it for a while and said, "It is accessible, but it has been built up. There is a road behind this wall."
"It works? Did you notice anything unusual?"
"No."
Sheh looked around. After a moment, she pulled her broken finger and pointed at something on a door and asked, "What is that? Why are there branches hanging on the door handle?"
Shi Jinzhe looked in the direction of her face.
The fourth room had "Operation Room" written on its door. Hanging on the door handle were a dozen yellow-brown round fruits that looked like longans, with only a few short and wide leaves left after drying up.
A red rope was tied to the dead branch and bound to the door handle. There was dust in the folds of the red cloth knot. This thing had been hanging there for a long time.
Shi Jinzhe replied, "It is the soapberry."
"What's the purpose of hanging it on the door?" Sheh approached, quite curious.
"Soapberry, commonly known as ghost-seeing sorrow, is said to be hung on the door to ward off evil spirits."
Sheh had never heard of using a plant to ward off evil spirits, so he stretched out his finger and touched the round soapberry fruit.
The peel was dried by the wind and became very brittle. It felt like a cracked eggshell when touched, with a small gap revealing the black fruit inside.
Shi Jinzhe told her, "Some people make the black kernels into bracelets to pray for blessings and safety. In addition, Buddhists also make them into Buddhist beads."
"Dead wife, death, avoiding evil, maybe someone died in this room." Sheh and Shi Jinzhe had been staying in the hotel every day for the past month, and he had some understanding of the situation:
"Humans are very averse to encountering such things while traveling, but the hotel is so generous in displaying them. Could it be that something strange has happened and can no longer be hidden?"
Sheh continued, "You even think that the room at the end of the corridor is unlucky and asked to switch rooms. If the residents see this thing, they will definitely think too much, right?"
"Of course, the needs of the residents are the top priority, and even if something happened in the hotel, it must be hidden."
Shi Jinzhe gently touched the soapberry on the door handle with his fingers and saw signs of being trimmed.
"There are 18 in total, which is the Buddhist -bead symbol, which means praying for blessings and good fortune."
The old wooden door was lighter in color than the other doors, with a fake gold doorplate pasted on it. The peephole below was pitch black and opaque, indicating that there was no light on inside.
Sheh had already learned the basic common characters, and seeing the three characters for the operating room, he said, "This is a place for employees to ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings. I don't know if the accident happened in this room by chance, or if it's because the employees work here for a long time, so there's an extra layer of protection. We have to see what's going on in the other floors."
Shi Jinzhe's attention was still on the soapberry on the door handle. In the windowless corridor, the round and small fruit trembled slightly.
He had already withdrawn his hand. He hadn't touched the thing for two minutes, so the fruit should be in a dormant state.
Shekh was still deep in thought. He could hear Shi Jinzhe's breathing behind his ears. He said in a very low voice, "Shekh, lower your head."
The soapberry on the door handle was still shaking, not swaying left and right, but a slight shake caused by the vibration of the door panel.
In the empty corridor, it was as if someone had bumped against the door, but there was no other sound except the two people's breathing.
It was not an illusion. For a full half minute, the string of soapberries was shaking for no reason.
Shi Jinzhe whispered in her ear, "Is it a ghost?"
Sheh shook her head. She had checked this corridor when she first entered it and found that there were no ghosts here.
Even though she saw with her own eyes the soapberry tree, which can drive away ghosts and evil spirits, moving, she still did not sense any breath of ghosts.
Closing his eyes, Sheh rechecked and confirmed that there were indeed no ghosts in these four rooms.
"Not only ghosts, but even people."
She tried her best to learn and kept her voice as low as possible. The two of them stared at the string of soapberries and communicated with each other through whispers.