CHAPTER VII CHAPTER XV 56 Deaths
Under the darkness of the night, after Zhang Chen adjusted the lamp to the appropriate brightness, he sat upright in the office chair and put the police file copy bag given to him by Robert in front of him, and the thick and heavy white paper was pulled out of the file bag by Zhang Chen.
"56 deaths......" Zhang Chen muttered, turning the first page of the text.
Kevin. Europe. Mindray, male, 32 years old, was born in Mississippi. Sewing machine salesman, first week of hotel occupancy, cause of death: cut throat. And before bleeding to death, he tried to stitch up his freshly cut wound with an old-fashioned sewing machine......"
The photocopied text also contains a photograph of a man with eyes cut open in the middle of his throat, lying in a bathtub with no vitality, but suspiciously found on his body, except for the fatal cut on his neck, there are other parts of the body with different degrees of damage.
Immediately after the second deceased
"Abigail. Foyi. Female, 29 years old, New Zealander. One of the more famous clothing models of the early 19th century, the cause of death: excessive exposure to the cold. Because of the temporary postponement of New York Fashion Week, Abigail needed to stay in New York for two more days. Under the arrangement of the agent, I happened to come to room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel. The next morning, it was found that the whole person was stuffed into the freezer of the refrigerator in the room, and after the body was thawed, it was found that the cause of death was indeed frozen to death, but there were many cuts on the wrists of the body, and there were also strangulation marks on the neck with a rope. Apparently he tried to commit suicide by other means before entering the refrigerator. But for some reason it didn't work."
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Zhang Chen examines the information of the deceased and the photos of the death one by one. After all, Zhang Chen was the only one in the empty office, and the fear in his heart was also growing little by little, so he couldn't help but get up and turn on all the lights in the room. And double-check that the doors and windows are locked.
Then he returned to his desk and continued to examine Wen Jiàn carefully, trying to find a breakthrough. However, when the clock hanging on the wall pointed to 11:27, Zhang Chen pulled out a copy of the deceased text in front of him with a horizontal look.
The forty-fourth deceased
"Hubble. Pataky, male, 28 years old, native of New York. He died on August 21, 1987 and worked in finance on Wall Street. Cause of death: sudden death from myocardial infarction. Before his death with his mistress Anne. Daelins spent ** together at the Dolphin Hotel and enjoyed the joy of fish and water. In the early morning, he was found dead in bed. However, his mistress injected a large amount of heroin into her body to the point of falling into a deep coma."
"Without mentioning death, it could not be this Anne. Daelins survived." Zhang Chen immediately locked his eyes on the woman, "I don't know if this Officer Robert has collected information about Dalins."
Zhang Chen continued to scroll down through the data and finally found the information.
"Anne. Dalings, female, born in 1965, and the deceased Hubble Pataky in August 1987 and 1408 had an affair in a hotel and was injected with a large amount of psychotropic drugs to the point of deep coma, and after being resuscitated by the hospital, the undigested drugs in the stomach were removed from the body and out of danger."
"After the patient became conscious, he developed a number of psychiatric disorders such as auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, and schizophrenia, and then was admitted to the local psychiatric hospital, and to this day, there has been no recovery of any mental illness."
"A psychiatric hospital?"
Zhang Chen turned the chair under him and began to search for psychiatric hospitals near New York on the computer next to him, and immediately got the results. But Zhang Chen now looked at the clock on the wall, and the hour hand was almost pointing to 0:00 in the morning.
"Now past the words. If there's anything wrong with that mental hospital, it's going to be a problem. But according to the plot in the movie, early tomorrow morning, I need to go surfing on the beach and then be swept into the bottom of the sea by the wave and rescued. Go to the post office to get an invitation letter about 1408, and you need to go to the bar to meet Robert at noon, and then it is the fateful moment to enter 1408 at dusk, and the time is too crowded! "
Zhang Chen shook his head, it was naturally impossible for him to go to a mental hospital at such a late hour. Jia Xin once said that the yin qi is too heavy at night, especially at midnight. As a prison envoy, Zhang Chen is very clear. Anne who escaped by chance from 1408 without dying. Daelins, most likely, is still haunted by the evil spirits of 1408 or the hotel. Even possessed.
If Zhang Chen visits the other party at this point in time, it is very dangerous.
"Let's go tomorrow afternoon, and set off as soon as we get the text from Robert at noon, and just rush back in the evening."
After a brief wash, Zhang Chen fell asleep on the long sofa in the office, and the time to enter 1408 will be tomorrow night.
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There is no dream at night, and the time to sleep is fleeting
Early in the morning, as soon as the morning sun rose into the clouds, Zhang Chen drove his car and took his surfing equipment to the beach where the protagonist in the movie was going to surf. However, there is a key link here, when the protagonist sits on a surfboard to rest because he is tired in the middle of surfing, and when he looks at the advertising glider that crosses the sky, he is suffocated and comatose by the sudden huge waves.
The reason why it is important is that this scene of the protagonist is connected to the illusion during 1408, and Zhang Chen is not sure whether this is an illusion or not, or if there is really a connection with 1408. So I didn't dare to change the original plot in the slightest, according to the scene in the movie, Ren You was swept into the bottom of the sea by the high waves and passed out, but it was really uncomfortable to be choked and suffocated by the water.
"Dude, are you okay? Can you still breathe?" Zhang Chen choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and when he gradually woke up from his coma, he was already lying on the beach like in the movie, and a blonde lifeguard asked about his physical condition. [,! ] How.
After his health quickly recovered, Zhang Chen immediately drove to the local post office, and took out many letters from the mailbox he belonged to, including 1408, from the haunted hotel, but the sender did not know who it was.
Zhang Chen completely followed the routine in the movie, entered a small restaurant nearby, began to open the letters one by one, and found the letter of introduction with Dolphin Hotel 1408, the font is very smooth and beautiful, it should be written by a woman.
"The person who wrote the letter may also have a problem, but this is an anonymous letter, and it is not realistic to find it through guò font." Zhang Chen put the letter away first, and then made plans in the future.
"Okay, it's time to go and meet up with Officer Robert, I don't know if there's anything to be gained."
Zhang Chen immediately drove the car to the hotel where he met Robert yesterday, but this time the situation was very different, Robert was dressed very conservatively today, and even wore sunglasses to cover his eyes, and the location he chose to meet was not the front desk of the bar but in an extremely inconspicuous corner.
"Brother Anslin, the value of the essay you want is much more than $500. You're your cousin's best friend though, and it's not a matter of money. If I hadn't been in a position of office last month, I'm afraid this information wouldn't have been called up."
Robert kept his voice low as he spoke, and very carefully handed Zhang Chen a small envelope from under the table.
"There aren't many records, but the content is terrifying. I need you to assure me that the information in the letter will not be known to anyone other than you."
Zhang Chen nodded solemnly and drank the cocktail in front of him.
"Alright, Brother Anslin. I'll be at the police station for lunch, and I'll see you later when I have time." Robert quickly left the bar with his hands in his pockets.
Zhang Chen naturally won't waste time here, and he still dares to go to a mental hospital to investigate the situation.
After returning to his car, Zhang Chen curiously unwrapped Robert's so nervous letter. The inside is all about some unclear English handwriting, which is supposed to be some newspaper clips mixed with handwritten informational texts.
"Before the Dolphin Hotel was established, there was a man named Feng. In 1857 all the properties in the whole street were bought by the Negro when prices were at a low point, and sold them ten years later. Kuhlman saw an opportunity in the area, and within a decade the price of the land skyrocketed, and he made a fortune from a wealthy businessman to a wealthy man."
As the owner of the land, Kuhlman also settled his home here. However, although Kuhlman is already a person with a lot of money, he is indeed very modest in terms of money, and the quality of life is excellent, but he does not spend money."
Zhang Chen then shifted his gaze to the editing part of the newspaper.
In 1860, a total of 71 of the original residents of the Kuhlman property sold their houses for unknown reasons, and the other 23 residents appealed to the local court for a refund of part of the purchase price, but none of them were ruled by law. The specific reason for the appeal, because it is a non-public ** case, the media has no way to obtain information.
In 1875 all the buyers of the Kuhlman property left the lot, and one night in May of that year, Kuhlman disappeared. His wife, as well as their two children, were found dead in their home, and the reason is even more amazing.
The cause of death is the loss of nutrients and the loss of the basic functions of the body, which is simply three words: 'starvation'.
As the country prospered, the location was located in the heart of the New York City and was an extremely important location for business and trade. After the terra nullius was repossessed by the government, it was bought by an international tycoon to establish the 'Dolphin Hotel'
The information recorded on the next blank piece of paper in the envelope immediately after Zhang Chen flipped through it seemed to be some very old confession news, originating from the accounts of those who had moved out of the Kurman property. However, it is mentioned that many people are reluctant to mention this matter, so the information collected is only the confessions of some extremely bold or angry people, and the content is not the same, but has its own account. (To be continued)