"Sorry, we don't have a room anymore. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "The other party bowed to us in a friendly manner.

"What?!"

"Sorry, we don't have any rooms anymore." At the reception, the neatly dressed counter lady repeated to us again with kindness. "It's the peak tourist season and our rooms are booked out early. If the gentleman only came to inquire now, I can only tell you that there are no rooms left. In the case of two double rooms, they will not be available until at least five days later. ”

In fact...... Isn't that also a matter of course? The supply point closest to Shennongjia naturally gathers travelers from all over the country, and there are not many eye-catching big hotels here, so it will naturally be crowded here. Even if it's a homestay, I don't know if there are any rooms left.

Damn it......

I couldn't help but curse myself secretly, I actually ignored such a simple truth. I thought I had the phones of several guesthouses in my hand. In addition, in the plan, we only stayed in Padang City for one night, and then we all had to go deep into Shennongjia to set up tents and spend the night. Just two rooms, one night, it should be very simple. However, I didn't care about how hot it was at all.

"What then?" Li Luosi sat on the sofa in the reception hall of the Seven Days Hotel, and it was estimated that no one would be able to pull her. "I don't want to go anymore, if we don't find a place, we might as well lie here for the night."

Xu Enhui threw all the backpacks to the ground dissatisfied: "Lin Ao, you should have booked it in advance." It's only decided now, how can there be a house? ”

Heh, now it's all my fault?

I looked at him angrily: "yes, then why don't you do all this work and throw everything on me?" You didn't want to go to what I had booked, and now I'm not done. What about you? What did you do? ”

"Alright, stop arguing!" Xu Weike's weak body stopped between me and Xu Enhui. "He spoke too much. Lin Ao, don't worry about ......"

"Yes." I glared at Xu Enhui again, but he was not convinced, and still worked hard with me. I suppressed my anger and lowered my voice a little: "Then wait until I make a call." ”

I picked up my phone and dialed the number that had already been saved: "Is there a room available...... Six people, a total of three rooms...... No, no! Two rooms are fine...... Ha? How could it be...... Feed?! Feed?! ”

"Hello, do you have a room to stay in?" …… Wait a minute...... I ......"

…………

Every time I called, I felt more helpless. Several of them looked at me, and they were even more desperate.

I made several phone calls but found nothing, and even the lady at the counter couldn't look at it: "Do you want to try to ask the grandmother over there." As far as I know, her family runs a homestay, but it's just ...... It's kind of weird. ”

The six of us followed the fingertips of the counter lady and looked together at the corner of the reception hall, where a seventy-year-old grandmother was sitting. The grandmother was dressed very ordinary, all the same kind of old clothes with patterns in solid colors, plus a pair of pure black hemp trousers. Although she was full of silver hair, she could see that her body was very tough, and her body was not rickety at all, and she kept staring at the tourists around her with a pair of bright eyes.

"Strange? What's so strange? ”

"How so...... Her family is very rich and doesn't care about rent at all, so she doesn't openly rent it. According to her words, she only entertains people who are destined. ”

"Someone who is destined? How do you think you are destined? ”

"Who knows...... She would come here every day to wait, sometimes taking the initiative to talk to others, but most of the time she would just sit there quietly. In a month, it is estimated that only one or two people will be brought back. The counter lady suddenly pretended to be mysterious, "It is said that ...... She'll kill the people she brought back and make them into human buns!! Hahahaha, just kidding, if that were the case, we would have called the police a long time ago. Don't say it, I still have something to do. ”

The counter lady was talking and laughing to herself, and in the blink of an eye she was back to her original post, leaving us all standing there in fear.

"What to do? Do you want to ask? Xu Weike's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, she instinctively pinched the corner of Xu Enhui's clothes and hid behind Xu Enhui. I think there's something wrong with that granny......"

"Questions? Don't scare yourself. Xu Enhui rubbed Xu Weike's head, "You always think about the problem too complicated." That's just an old grandmother, what's there to be afraid of? ”

"Yes...... But there is a ...... in her Ominous breath...... I always felt that she didn't look at people like people, like she was looking at prey......"

"I'll ask." I've had enough of these people, "If we can live, we'll stay, if not, we'll think of another way." We still have to buy tools today and rent a car to enter Shennongjia tomorrow, and we can't sleep on the streets with so many things on our backs. ”

With that, I didn't wait for them to say anything, and then walked over to the old woman.

From afar, she spotted me walking towards her and smiled at me. I walked up to her quickly and spoke to her in my friendliest tone. "Hello, grandma. I would like to ask, do you have a room for rent, it is one night, we are going to travel to Shennongjia. ”

"Hello." The old woman nodded politely at me and looked me down from top to bottom. "But let me be blunt. Sorry, you're not fit ......"

"What are the right conditions? My friend and I are in a hurry, because we are going to enter Shennongjia tomorrow. ”

"Inside? You're not traveling outside, you're going to stay inside? ”

"Yes."

"Let me see, where is your friend?" The old grandmother pointed to Yun Anqi and the others, "If I'm not mistaken, are those ones?" ”

"yes, haven't we been standing there for a long time? Grandma must have seen it, right? They are all my friends. ”

"I'll take a look. Good! Very good! The old lady was overjoyed, "Then I'll take you back to stay overnight." ”

"This ...... Just agreed? ”

"Or else?"

"I thought there were some difficult conditions."

"Seeing six young people with embarrassed faces, shouldn't I help them? What's more, there are a few cute little girls in it, who look a little similar to my daughter. ”

"I see...... "Looking at the kind eyes of the old woman, I took off all my defenses.

Old man...... It's normal to be a little weird, but most of them are warm-hearted. Maybe she's just receiving travelers who are in urgent need, so she's been observing the tourists coming and going, and she seems to be behaving a little strangely.

"Where is the old grandmother's home?"

"Not far away, just behind this square. If you go to see what is not appropriate, you can refuse. The old woman stood up, walked like a fly, and walked straight out of the city square.

I waved my hand and motioned for the others to take their bags and follow. In a panic, I heard a strange word in my ears out of nowhere. The voice was low and hoarse, not something that ordinary people could say.

The dying man is going to be delivered to the door again......

7.

As mentioned earlier, here in Patong City, there are two large commercial plazas built opposite each other. One of the buildings we entered was the City Square, where the Seven Days Hotel was also located. And the grandmother's home, that is, the B&B she runs, is actually behind the city square.

Nestled against the back of the city square is a whole area of residential houses. There was not much difference between the bungalows we saw outside, full of creepers, and they looked at least a dozen years old.

They were all ordinary bungalows, that's what I thought at the time.

It's just that in retrospect, there was one place that was so weird, so weird that I had to believe everything that followed......

There was no one in that civilian area except us. Clothes were drying on the balcony, and the lights were on in the bungalow rooms, but there was no one and no sound. It was like a dead city, just waiting for us to enter.

Rather than the strangeness in this calm, our attention is still focused on the old woman.

Walking on the mossy stone floor, Xu Enhui looked around at the low bungalows around him, and the dissatisfaction gradually emerged: "Grandma, I forgot to ask you just now, wouldn't your family be like this?" ”

"What? Ha ha. Can't young people stand this kind of old house? But don't worry, the decoration of my home can be described as luxurious, but it cost me a lot of money! I won't treat you children badly. ”

Although the words sounded good, Xu Enhui didn't believe it: "In that case, why don't you rent it out directly, grandma?" The decoration is so good, there must be no shortage of tenants, and the rent is not proper. ”

"Hey...... You little kids, you have too little to worry about. ”

A little sad and a little self-deprecating, I felt a little sad just listening to my grandmother.

"I'm not short of money at all. There is a son and a daughter in the family, and the two of them will send a large amount of money back to me every month to live. It's just that...... Living alone at home, it's a little lonely. That's why I'm going to filter the guests who come to stay with me. ”

"So it's not dangerous, and it's fun?" I couldn't help but interject.

"Haha, I didn't think you kid still had some knowledge." The old lady smiled happily and led us around the bend of two alleys, stopping at the end of a path. "This is my house, come in."

The house is very large, although it is not much different from the appearance of the surrounding buildings, but it can be seen as a small three-story villa. Pushing open the iron door, the interior decoration is very new, beige is the main color here, the furniture is no different from the mansion in the big city, it is indeed as the grandmother said: her family is indeed very rich.

"How? Still satisfied, right? The old woman smiled proudly. Sit down and drop off your luggage, your room is on the second floor and I live on the third floor. If you're satisfied, I'll cook the stew now, and we'll talk about it while we eat. Okay? ”

I looked at the others, and they had no expression on their faces except joy, so I asked my grandmother, "What about the rent for that night?" ”

"It's free." The old lady replied heartily, "You tell me about the interesting things in the city outside, and listen to me about the interesting things here in Shennongjia, and that's enough." ”

8.

Inside a psychiatric hospital

The mysterious grandmother, who predicted with great precision that the mansion was about to disappear. Shan Xin had already read the next thing several times, but at this moment he suddenly discovered a point that he had been ignoring.

Does this grandmother really exist?

Shan Xin hurriedly looked at Wang Fu beside him. At this moment, the short-tempered criminal police were losing his temper with the thoughtful young suspect opposite, and Lin Ao refused to reveal a word. Wang Fu also simply sat there quietly and closed his eyes to recuperate.

After all, Lin Ao confessed his guilt in disguise, and if Wang Fu didn't do anything, only Lin Ao himself would suffer.

"Hey, wake up, you're not asleep." Shan Xin was afraid of provoking any nerve of Wang Fu's lion, and his voice was too gentle.

"I'm annoyed, what's wrong?" Wang Fu opened his hazy eyes and looked at Shan Xin resentfully. "I've given up on this guy, he can do whatever he likes."

"No, I want to ask you, have you checked the old woman in these materials he wrote?"

"Chachacha...... What to look for? You believe the stories you made up. ”

"No, I mean to say that even if he made it up, it was based on some reality, right? If you can find out the grandmother who rents the house, won't you be able to crack Lin Ao's lies? ”

"Hey...... Doctor Shan, it's not for me to say, sometimes, it's good if you focus on diagnosing whether he is mentally ill, and our criminal police will do their best to solve the case. ”

"I'm just afraid you'll miss ......"

"Omission?!" Wang Fu sneered, "Do you know how much effort we spent trying to find this legendary grandmother? We have checked all the hotels, hostels, and even all the homestays that are willing to admit that they are illegally operated, and there is no information about Lin Ao and the six of them staying at all. ”

"They really entered Shennongjia later, they can't disappear out of thin air, right? Maybe...... Maybe it's another city? As far as I know, there are five or six tourist cities around the edge of Shennongjia. ”

"Big brother, you will also say five or six cities. How many people did you say about all of them, and how long did they take? This case has caused a national sensation, and we are a task force, and the police force sent down from above is comparable to arresting A-level fugitives. If you want to check all the accommodation records in six cities, do you think you can really check them completely in less than a year and a half? ”

"Then I still don't believe they'll disappear into thin air......"

"You didn't read the information carefully, did you?"

"What? I've watched it a few times. ”

"Tsk...... Then didn't you notice that before they found a foothold, Lin Ao, this kid set up a little cat? ”

"Greasy?" Shan Xin took a cursory look at the entire page he had just read, and there was nothing to doubt him.

"Tsk, ouch. Here and here! Wang Fu knocked the paper on Shan Xin's hand fiercely, "Didn't Xu Enhui say that he couldn't stand the dilapidated appearance of the homestay and wanted to find a regular hotel?" ”

"Well, so what?"

"What's the matter? Are you stupid? Wang Fu scolded Shan Xin with his head covered his face, "In other words, from here on, Xu Enhui and Xu Weike may go to the big hotel alone, while Lin Ao and the others continue to live in the homestay." (To be continued.) )