novelno Chapter 258
Chapter 258
Midnight Hotel, strange footsteps
Zhang Wei nodded when he heard the words:
“There is a ghost. Although the ghost has been dealt with very well, there are still some residues.”
Cao Yu was about to respond when he heard that, at this moment, a voice came from the door of the hotel.
That was a young man.
Zhang Wei recognized the person who came. When Zhang Chao told him about the hotel, he subsequently sent him a photo of his friend. The person who came was none other than Zhang Chao’s hotel friend. When he came, Zhang Wei contacted him in advance.
“Are you Mr. Zhang Wei?”
Zhang Chao’s friend asked.
After Zhang Wei’s identity was confirmed, Zhang Chao’s friend hurriedly handed over his business card and said:
“Hello, I am Zhang Liangzhe, Zhang Chao’s friend. Zhang Chao must have mentioned me to you.”
Zhang Wei nodded politely. Shake hands with him:
“Yes, Mr. Zhang, Zhang Chao mentioned you to me before, but I didn’t expect you to open this big hotel at such a young age.” “No, no, no, no, it’s just
my family who takes care of me. I’m not that big.” I can start my own business so big.”
Zhang Liangzhe responded with a smile.
The two of them had a brief conversation, but Zhang Wei did not remove the ink. After being invited into the hotel by Zhang Liangzhe, he got to the point directly:
“Mr. Zhang, I heard from Zhang Chao, do you think something dirty has come into your hotel?”
“Yes.”
Zhang Liangzhe nodded:
“Actually, I didn’t believe it at first. After all, dirty things are not all over the streets, so how could we encounter such bad luck? Moreover, when my hotel was being built, I specially asked for Feng Shui. I’ll help you figure it out.”
“But something happened these days. I feel like there might be something dirty in my hotel.”
Listening to his words, Zhang Wei captured the key information and said,
“What happened these days? What does it mean? When did it start? Mr. Zhang, do you think there is something dirty?”
He didn’t finish his words.
Zhang Wei added:
“When I came just now, my friend Cao Yu next to me, he is from the Rongcheng City Health Department. He helped me investigate this hotel and said that there are records at the hospital. Your family Three hotel security guards entered the hospital. Is it related to this matter?”
Zhang Liangzhe raised his eyebrows after hearing this:
“Yes, it is related to this matter. It was the hospital where the three of them entered that made me think there was something dirty. It happened two days ago Before…”
asked Zhang Wei.
Zhang Liangzhe told everything he knew.
…
two days ago.
Li Gao, a disabled person with a disabled left hand, is 25 years old. When he was 20 years old, something happened that caused the disability of his left hand. Last year, he went out to work with people from the same village. As a disabled person, he was prepared to struggle to find a job. It’s hard to find a job these days, let alone a disabled person.
But Li Gao was lucky and met Zhang Liangzhe.
In addition to recruiting a fellow villager as a security guard, the other party not only did not dislike Li Gao when interviewing him, but later learned that Li Gao was disabled and wanted to work to earn money to support his family, so he made an exception and recruited him to work as a security guard in his hotel.
That night, when the hotel closed its business hours, Li Gao followed the security guard from the same village and closed the hotel door together on duty.
As usual.
Because he was grateful for Zhang Liangzhe’s recruitment, even though he had been employed for more than a year, Li Gao did not sleep around like a veteran security guard. He took a flashlight and patrolled the hotel on a routine basis.
In the quiet night, the hotel was silent. Except for Li Gao, everything was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Da da da.
Li Gao walked in the corridor of the hotel, scanning the wall with his flashlight, and glanced at the murals on the wall out of habit.
Zhang Liangzhe’s hotel is a star-rated hotel. In addition to his wealth, he put a lot of effort into the decoration during the construction. Walking in the corridor and looking at the murals on both sides of the wall, there is a feeling that you are not walking in a hotel, but rather walking in a hotel. Like a Paris museum.
Every mural is an imitation of a famous painting, and even at the end of the corridor on each floor are some famous calligraphy, paintings and portraits, which are valuable.
Li Gao’s daily patrol was to check whether these murals and porcelain bottles had been stolen.
at this time.
Li Gao patrolled to the second floor. He didn’t know if it was because he wore less clothes today. He felt that it was extremely cold today and couldn’t help shivering. However, he still planned to go to the security room to get dressed after the patrol.
He continued walking towards the third floor.
Along the way.
He held a flashlight, and the light could barely illuminate a small area. Every time the light was swept towards the wall murals, especially those realistic self-portraits, Li Gao always felt terrified, even if he had been working for a year.
You must know that the countryside itself is the place where most feudal customs still exist. He has lived in the countryside since he was a child, and he has often heard some customs from his elders. According to folk customs, self-portraits cannot be hung up and left randomly. There are rumors that self-portraits are so lifelike that they are It’s easy to get dirty.
Also for this reason.
Every time he sees a self-portrait and stares at it for a few seconds, Li Gao always feels as if the person in the painting will suddenly move at the next moment.
“It’s okay, they’re just paintings, what are you afraid of?”
Li Gao habitually emboldened himself and said,
“It’s been said on TV that feudal superstition is not trustworthy. What my uncle and the others are talking about is feudal. Don’t scare yourself. Li High.”
But the more he emboldened himself, and the fact that it was extra cold tonight, the more Li Gao began to think wildly.
Talking and talking.
Instead, he recalled a piece of folklore that his great-uncle told him when he was a child.
The uncle told him, do you know why in ancient times and even during the national period, there were sculptures and portraits of gods among the people, but there were few real people and portraits?
Because sculptures and portraits, including those lifelike paper figures, cannot be painted and made casually. Once they are made, they will attract dirty things. The more lifelike they are, the easier they are to attract.
For example, paper figures.
Most people who are beginners of folk papermaking know a common saying…The eyes of paper figures are not brightened, the paper horses stand without raising their temples, and they don’t listen to people’s laughter and horses’ cries. If you don’t remember it, please let me know.
Portraits also have similar taboos. Portraits are too lifelike and you must not stare at them for too long. It is easy for your soul to be sucked into the lifelike portraits.
Because people become ghosts after death, and when they first become ghosts, they are confused and confused. It is easy to mistake lifelike portraits for people, and use them to get in and try to resurrect the corpse. If someone stares, it is easy to be captured by the ghost in the self-portrait. soul.
Think of this.
Li Gao swallowed and glanced nervously at the several self-portraits on the walls on both sides. He was a little confused and felt that the portraits were looking at him.
Just when Li Gao was nervous.
Ta da…
“Who?!”
Li Gao suddenly looked towards the stairs leading to the hotel.
Li Gao was the only one in this quiet hotel corridor, but he heard footsteps, footsteps other than his own.
Li Gao’s breathing became heavy, he tried to calm himself down, and listened carefully with his ears raised.
Ta-ta-ta…
Li Gao’s pupils suddenly shrank with the sound of footsteps so subtle that they could not be detected from the fourth floor.
There is someone on the fourth floor!
It was now twelve o’clock in the evening, and there was no one else in the hotel except himself and two other security guards. However, he knew that his two fellow security guards did not patrol with him.
Whose footsteps are those on the fourth floor? Thief? Still…
Li Gao remained motionless and listened carefully to the sound to confirm that there were indeed footsteps. Li Gao confirmed that he had heard correctly.
It’s not an illusion!
There were real footsteps.
Although the sound was very soft, it was very clear in this corridor, which was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.
Same time.
Li Gao also dared to confirm with a high probability that this was not the voice of his companion. If it was really his companion who was patrolling, there would be no need to make such a soft sound that could only be made by tiptoeing.
but.
In order to ensure that nothing happened, Li Gao deliberately picked up the walkie-talkie and talked to his companions in the security room.
“Hey, Old Lin, are you two in the security room?”
“Ah? Yes, what’s going on?” The intercom came from the voice of another security guard besides Old Lin.
“I just want to ask. Let Lao Lin talk and let me see if you are really in the security room, or are you deliberately teasing me and following me secretly to scare me. I just heard it. It seemed like there was movement in the corridor on the fourth floor.”
“Li Gao, you are cowardly again, hahaha, Lao Lin and I are both here.”
“Are you sure there is something going on on the fourth floor? I just checked the surveillance, and there is no one in the corridor. I think you are scaring yourself again. Oh, you did the same thing on your first day on duty, haha.”
The laughter of the two companions came from the phone.
Although they laugh happily.
However, at this moment, Li Gao felt that his scalp was heating up and his breathing became heavy, as if a fire was burning in his throat, making his mouth dry.
Is there anyone monitoring the fourth floor?
How can this be.
He could hear clearly, even now, that there was movement on the fourth floor, and it was very close, near the stairs from the third floor to the fourth floor. That place was not a blind spot for surveillance, so how could he not see anyone.
this moment.
In the silent corridor on the third floor of the hotel, Li Gao could clearly hear the sound of his heart beating violently due to nervousness, and the… clattering footsteps coming from the fourth floor.
In the end, out of security duties, Li Gao walked towards the fourth floor.
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