Chapter 7 The truth?(1/2)
Tianyi walked to the door and was about to touch the door handle, but the phone by his bed rang. Good-looking machinery: The latest chapter of Super Restaurant
He rushed over and picked up the receiver: "Who?"
Just as the phone was connected, the second time Tianyi picked up the microphone, he heard the sound of hanging up the phone from the receiver, so when his word "Who" blurted out, the only response to him was the beeping sound of busy voice.
This is another strange thing. It seems that this "1408" room consciously prevents Tianyi from approaching the door.
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Tianyi's thoughts were pulled back again. He walked over and turned the door handle. The door opened successfully. It was still the same as the door boy Xu before, but his expression seemed quite strange.
"Well... sir, I'm really sorry to disturb you. There is one thing I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you. The latest chapter of the human-shaped universe." The door boy Xu looked at the room behind Tianyi with a strange look.
Tianyi replied: "Is what you are going to say related to this room?"
The expression of the door boy Xu changed, as if he had been called. His eyes rolled halfway, and Tianyi could see through the guy making up lies with his nostrils.
"That's right... Sir, when you checked in the room, Lucy at the front desk made some minor work omissions. She shouldn't have given you the key to this room. Because... well... there are some minor problems with this room, that is... You know, electrical lines, leaks, etc., all need to be repaired, so... this place should not be allowed to check in for the time being.
Sorry for causing you trouble. Can you please change a room? We can arrange a room on the ninth floor with the same location layout as here."
When Tianyi heard him finishing his words hesitantly, he smiled. This was not a sneer, but he really thought this kid was funny. Even if he didn't use the Book of Heart, such a lie he made up was too easy to expose.
Tianyi took a half step back, glanced into the room a few times, and replied, "Why didn't the Lucy at your front desk call me and tell me?"
The door boy Xu replied: "Ah... that's right. The manager thinks it's better to tell you in person. I'm really sorry."
"Was the lady at the front desk still there when you came up?"
"Of course, she is here, and the manager informed me in front of her."
"Is that..." Tian Yi paused: "It's strange. I just called the front desk and no one answered it. Could it be that it was a line problem?"
The doorman Xu was stunned and said, "Ah, yes! Look, there are indeed many problems in this room that need to be renovated, so please..."
Tian Yixin said: You are quite good at following my words and editing them down. Other book friends are reading: Zero's double blades.
On the surface, Tianyi still showed a standard decadent look, unable to see his joy or anger, and could not guess his thoughts: "Okay, I'll take my luggage and go down with you, you can wait here."
"Thank you, sir, please let me know!" The door boy Xuru received a general amnesty, so he stood at the door waiting, leaning against the door intentionally or unintentionally, as if he was afraid that the door would not be opened again if it was closed.
Tianyi said he was carrying luggage, but in fact his luggage consisted of: a wallet containing cash and fake documents, a set of undry clothes, and a dozen of just-buyed underwear.
After getting the "luck", Tianyi returned to the door: "I don't have to organize the used things, right?"
"Of course there is no need. We will be responsible for putting everything back into place." The door boy Xu replied.
"I've put this bathrobe downstairs." Tianyi said.
"Yes, please..." The doorman Xu didn't dare to refuse. If he said that the bathrobe had to be left behind, maybe Tian Yi would throw his clothes into the room and sway into the elevator in a swaggering manner in just a pair of shorts.
Ten minutes later, Tianyi stayed again on the ninth floor. The doorman Xu had a good attitude. He led Tianyi to the door and handed him the key to Room 908. He was extremely sorry, and he did not dare to do anything to wake up again. He took the key to 1408, closed the door and went downstairs.
Tianyi used his ability to track the boy's whereabouts. It seemed that he went to the front desk to return the keys, and then went to meet someone. Based on the perceived positioning of the people in the building and the preliminary observation of the appearance of the building, Tianyi could roughly build a floor plan of the building in his mind. The room where the door boy Xu went was on the first floor, which was not in the Zou area. Maybe he was going to find the manager to report it.
Tianyi didn't notice that the door boy Xu had been too long, so his attention quickly moved back to Room 1408. He could sense that about fifteen minutes after he left, two people entered the room and moved in it for about ten minutes. The two left, with a beautiful machine: Alien Zero. It was probably because of the cleaning lady doing the tidy work.
After these twists and turns, Tianyi couple became more and more concerned about the ending of the machine just now. He took out the e-book from Room 908, looked through the search function, and soon found the haunted hotel in those years. He jumped directly to the last article 1408, and then read the part he just read.
Because I had read a lot, and in less than twenty minutes, Tianyi carefully read the last story. The ending of the book was not unexpected. The protagonist, the author Mike Anselin, left the hotel safely the next day. Although many inexplicable events occurred, there were still no ghosts in the book, at least there was no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of ghosts.
All the strange events are ambiguously interpreted as wind outside the window, line failures in the room, hotel manager's mystery, and various psychological hints imposed by the author on the readers' minds, etc.
After reading it, Tianyi thought it was actually a boring story, but it was written quite well. The key is that its content is quite authentic, and it is difficult for readers to tell which plots were added to the author and which were strange coincidences that actually happened.
Putting down the e-book, Tianyi went to wash his face. At this time, it was midnight in Paris, but he was still energetic. When he was about to pick up the equipment and check it out, he had a sudden idea and used his ability to sense if there was anyone upstairs.
As a result, he found that at this moment, there was actually someone in Room 1408.
The people who cleaned the room should have already been in. So, the people inside are repairmen now? Tianyi thought: I have already driven out, why are I still in a hurry to repair it? There are still many empty rooms in this hotel now, and the rooms will never be in short supply. Is it necessary to ask the mechanic to go to an unused room in the early morning to renovate? Maybe they just simply don’t want the night shift staff to be idle?
Tianyi cannot rule out this possibility. Maybe the hotel management here is indeed strict, and problems will be solved immediately and prepared for 24 hours a day.
But there is another possibility that it cannot be ruled out, and another person is now living in that room...
Tianyi said to himself: "If the reason for the so-called 'small problems' in the room was fabricated, then... there is no need to repair it there, but why should I send me away and let another person live in? The chocolate just now, this room 908 has no, and there are those two phone calls..."
Thinking of this, Tianyi picked up the phone from Room 908 and pressed it. Soon someone at the front desk answered: "Hello, what do you need?" It was still the voice of the female staff member before, which is Lucy, the door boy Xu mentioned. Other book friends are reading: Spring breeze and autumn moon are free.
"Hello, I was a guest who lived at 1408 before." Tianyi originally wanted to try whether the phone could be connected normally, but since it was connected, he thought it would be better to say something.
The other party's voice rang out after a while, and his tone was obviously not normal: "Well... it's you, sir, I'm sorry for what happened before..."
Tianyi interrupted, "Ah, don't care, I'll ask, have you been on duty tonight, uh...Lucy?"
"Yes sir."
"Well, OK, nothing is wrong." Tianyi hung up the phone.
He pondered for a long time, was curious, and wanted to figure out what was happening in this hotel. He knew that there must be some hidden behind the things he had just experienced. Although it seemed not a very important event, the mystery game that revealed the truth at this moment was undoubtedly a good way to kill time.
Tianyi walked into the bathroom, picked up the hair dryer and started to dry clothes. He carefully worked for twenty minutes, so he could wear it for now. He put it on, then went to the freezer to get a bottle of strong wine and drank two drinks. Of course, he did not want to be brave, but to create the illusion of drunkenness.
He hid the key in the pocket on the inside of his clothes, took the wine bottle, and used his hands to pull his already messy hairstyle even more. Then he walked out of the room, took it to the door, and headed straight to the 14th floor.
When he arrived at the door of 1408, Tianyi specially dipped the wine on his hands and applied it to both sides of his neck like perfume. He then poured a sip of strong wine into his mouth, rinsed his mouth before swallowing it. He read it in full when the roses bloomed.
Slap the door hard.
I could only hear the sound of something falling to the ground in the room, and there was no sound for half a minute.
Tianyi knew that there was someone in the room, and the other party didn't say anything for some reason. Tianyi knocked on the door for the second time, and the people in the room walked slowly to the door step by step. After taking a look in the cat's eyes, he opened a crack in the door and said, "Who are you? Is there anything wrong?"
Tianyi took advantage of the situation and pushed the door with one hand, and pushed it open for most of the time, allowing him to see the man in front of him clearly. The white man in his forties has a little backward hairline and a beer belly. His face is not very good, pale, and he looks quite sweaty.
"Hey? Why are you in my room?" A burst of alcohol squirted on the other person's face: "Who are you?!" Tianyi widened his eyes: "What's your relationship with my wife?" As he said that, he stepped forward and grabbed the other person's collar.
"What are you doing?" The man blocked Tianyi with his hands, "Sir, have you been drunk and gone to the wrong room! I am the only one here!"
"Hehe...ah?!" Tianyi tilted his head and pretended to look at the house number, "Oh...ha...haha! Sorry, man, I'm sorry." He said while getting into the house.
As a result, the other party pushed it out: "Okay, sir, do you need me to ask a waiter to take you back to your room?"
"No...no need...hehe...I...I can find it myself." Tian swayed and took two steps back. The man decisively closed the door with an unhappy expression.
Tianyi knew that the other party must have peeked out from behind the door. He jogged a few steps and confirmed that he had left the visual range of the cat's eyes on the door, and then he returned to his normal gait.
"This man didn't even open his luggage and put it beside the bed. When I knocked on the door, he fell something on the ground. But just now I leaned in and didn't see the object, which means he had picked it up." Tian Yiming muttered: "This hotel has no ability or a transformed person who has been specially transformed through combat. There are only a group of ordinary people here. What's going on? Why did the hotel staff send me away and let this person stay in? Is there anyone in the hotel who wants to frame this man? Or did he take the initiative to ask to stay in 1408 no matter what? Is there any secret hidden in that room?"
Tianyi did not get much useful information during this investigation. He then took the elevator to the first floor lobby, headed straight to the front desk, and walked to Lucy: "Do you still remember me? Lucy, a miscellaneous savior."
"Oh! It's you, sir, what do you need help?" Lucy replied.
Tianyi said: "About that room, 1408, do you have anything to tell me?"
Lucy's expression became nervous and hesitated, "That...that room..."
"Hello, sir!" A tall and thin white man came over. He put on a lot of wax and dressed in a straight suit and intervened in the conversation: "I am the manager Todd, you should be..."
Tianyi interrupted and said, "Just call me Clauze." He used the name of the Tea Fairy on his fake ID, but he did not dare to copy the emperor's surname, but took some surnames casually.
"Sir, can you please come to my office to talk?" Todd said.
Two minutes later, Tianyi came to the manager's room and sat down without hesitation. As soon as the other party brought him to the door, Tianyi said, "In fact, Todd, I don't need any apology, and I'm not angry. I have no objection to the guy who is living in 1408 at the moment. I just want to know, what happened tonight?"
"Well... Actually, that's right, that gentleman is a fan of some craftsman," Todd said.
At this moment, Tianyi had basically known the answer to the mystery, and he smiled and said, "You're a brainless fan."
Todd shrugged and said tactfully: "From his current behavior, it is obviously far beyond the scope of ordinary fans, the sorrow of encounter." He paused: "Do you want to drink something?"
"No need, you can do it."
Todd poured himself a cup of coffee: "Did you know there is a book called my haunted hotel in those years?"
Tianyi said: "Yes, I've read it." He didn't say he had just finished reading it.
Todd said: "Then you should also know that the last article in the book is about 1408 evil rooms in a dolphin hotel in New York, right?"
"Oh, so that's it!" Tianyi pretended to be enlightened, as if he had just understood. He didn't want to be regarded as a fan of the writer.
Todd said: "But that story is fake. There was indeed a hotel in New York called the Dolphin Hotel, but it went bankrupt in the last century."
Tianyidao: "So what?"
Todd continued: "You know, Mike Anselin, the author of that book, always stayed in the hotel rooms written in the book for one night, and then created mechanical creations. But this story of 1408 is not a real experience, because it was not written by him."
At this moment, there was a thunder in the rainy sky outside the window...
Tianyidao; "Oh? Then why?" He was also interested.
Todd said: "You may not know that my haunted hotel in those years was the last piece of Mike Anseling's haunted hotel story series." He paused: "In fact, a few years ago, Mike Anseling did come to our hotel. At that time, I was a foreman. Our manager was wondering why the writer was visiting. You should know that there have never been any supernatural rumors in this hotel, nor did he invite the Mr. Writer. But he suddenly arrived on a rainy night and specified that he wanted to stay in Room 1408."
"Maybe he came to Paris just for private matters, or simply for a trip. Other book friends are reading: Redemption in the Kingdom of Maple." Tianyi continued.
"Yes, I thought so at that time," Todd replied, "But the next day, he died in that room, and his body temperature was hypothermia for unknown reasons." He took another sip of coffee: "You must know that the writer is only a middle-aged man, has no history of heart disease, does not even exceed the standard of blood sugar, and the heating system in the room has not detected any faults. His death itself became the kind of supernatural event he strongly denied during his lifetime."
"So...how did that book appear?"
"That was the editor of Mike Anselin who compiled all the original manuscripts he had not published before his lifetime and revised them into a book, but the length seemed to be too short. So the editor imitated Mike Anselin's writing style and spent a long time carefully creating a story, using 1408 as the last story of this writer who does not believe in ghosts and gods... his life and career."
Tianyidao: "But that editor is a little convinced by ghosts and gods, right?"
Todd said: "That's right, sir, so this story is the only one that intends to change the city where the hotel is in the book. The editor was worried that someone would come to our hotel after reading the machine and encounter an unexpected accident."
To be continued...