Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ghost Hotel
"Oops, who told you to come up?" While the three of them were talking, the little fat man complained and walked up with Jin Guo.
"Do you know what you have here?" Li Bai shouted.
"What? I said, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you running around? Could it be ......" The little fat man suddenly became alert.
The four people saw him look flustered, as if they remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "Is it what?" ”
The little fat man took a step back and said, "Did you come in and steal?" No wonder I came here once a few days ago, it turned out to be a stepping point. ”
"Fuck off! Now I'm down to business. Lei Baoquan gave him a blank look.
"And what are you doing in the middle of the night?" The little fat man was napping downstairs, but he was grabbed by Jin Guoyi, and he was so frightened that he squirted saliva.
"You guys have ghosts here, you know?" Li Bai said.
The little fat man was stunned, looking at the four people in front of him, it was pitch black all around, only the mobile phones in the hands of Li Bai and Jin Guo were lit.
"What... Ghost? I said, "You... Don't... Don't make this kind of joke, we are all in business, if this kind of thing gets out, we can't open this store? "The little fat man was a little frightened.
"Just kidding, do you think I'm joking?" Li Bai pointed to his frightened face, which looked extremely gloomy under the illumination of the mobile phone screen.
The little fat man looked around and said, "The boss lady won't let me come up, so we'd better hurry down." After saying that, he turned around and went downstairs first.
"This fat man, he left first before he finished speaking." Li Bai was very angry.
"Let's go down first." Uncle Li said.
The other three had no choice but to follow downstairs.
"I said, everyone, let's stay well, and don't say those nonsensical words, okay? If our boss lady hears this, she will have to scold me. In the hall on the first floor, the little fat man made tea for a few people and said sincerely.
"It's not that we're talking nonsense, you do have a problem here." Uncle Li took a sip of tea and said seriously.
The little fat man saw Uncle Li so serious and asked, "What are you doing?" “
Li Bai pointed at Uncle Li and said, "This is Master Li, who is famous for Zhenyungang, deterring the rivers and lakes, stepping on the two worlds of yin and yang, and taking charge of the world!" ”
The little fat man was stunned for a moment, smiled embarrassedly, and said: "Although my brain is really not enough, but when you say this, does it obviously confirm that my IQ is not high?" ”
Lei Baoquan waved his hand: "He's too exaggerated, but this old man is indeed this in this regard, don't worry." Lei Baoquan gave a thumbs up.
The little fat man's expression suddenly became a little ugly, and he said in disbelief: "If you say that again, I'm angry." ”
Uncle Li looked at him, looked down at the pointer of the compass again, and smiled slightly: "Although I am not a master, I do know a little bit about this, I guess you have worked in this hotel for so long, you should know something, right?" ”
The little fat man waved his hand again and again: "I don't know, didn't you all ask me last time?" I'm still the same sentence, if there is anything I want to know, just ask the boss, I'm just a part-time worker, not a dictionary. ”
"I said you little fat man has a good temper." Jin Guo smiled and said, "In this case, we don't ask you, we can find out ourselves." ”
The four of them stood up and were about to go upstairs, but the little fat man saw that something was wrong and quickly said, "You... What are you going to do? ”
"Catch ghosts!" Li Bai spit out these two words faintly.
"I said don't mess around, if you let the boss know, you have to fire me. If this happens, I... I called the police. The little fat man was a little panicked.
"Don't worry, I won't touch your things here, if you don't believe it, you can come with us." Uncle Li said and took the lead upstairs.
When the little fat man looked at his watch, it was already more than five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was about to dawn, so he shook his head, sighed and followed.
Coming to the floor where Li Bai had just hit the ghost, Uncle Li began to take things from his satchel.
"Don't you have any lights here?" Li Bai asked the little fat man.
"The proprietress on this floor never lets people come up, how can there be a light?" The little fat man replied.
At this time, Uncle Li took something out of his satchel and made a "jingling" sound. A few people came up and used their mobile phones to help Uncle Li take a photo, and Uncle Li said while closing the satchel: "I didn't know until I came to help me take a picture after I took it, there is a fart?" With that, he held the two bells in his hands.
"Uncle, what is this?" Li Bai asked.
"You don't even know the bell, do you?" Uncle Li said with a smile.
"I know it's a bell, I'm asking what you're doing with it?" Li Bai asked again.
Uncle Li shook it, made a crisp "bell" sound, and said, "Haven't you seen this thing?" ”
The others felt strange, and Lei Baoquan suddenly remembered: "By the way, the old man we saw last night, didn't there be a bell on his wooden cane?" ”
Uncle Li nodded: "Yes, I'm the same as him." ”
"Uncle, do you want to use this to lead those... Those ghosts come out? Jin Guo guessed probably.
Uncle Li smiled slightly and said, "How is it?" Isn't this simple and effective? ”
Li Bai became nervous when he heard this: "Uncle, simple is simple, but in case... I mean, what if, if you shake the bell and all the ghosts here come out, what are we going to do? ”
Lei Baoquan's heart was also tense when he heard this, but he still comforted himself: "How is this possible? ”
Uncle Li laughed and said, "It's possible." ”
"Huh?" The other four were taken aback.
"Can you people not always make such a fuss?" Uncle Li said, shaking the bell in his hand vigorously, although the bell is small, but the sound is surprisingly loud, especially in such an environment, it is particularly harsh.
Except for Uncle Li, everyone else held their breath and carefully observed their surroundings, for fear that a seven-hole bleeding evil ghost would suddenly come out of nowhere.
After shaking for about a minute, Uncle Li stopped moving.
"Uncle, why don't you shake it?" Li Bai asked.
"Take a break." Uncle Li replied.
"Why is there nothing? Isn't this thing useless? The little fat man said.
Uncle Li glanced at him obliquely and ignored him.
"I saw that it was almost dawn just now, is it wrong for us at this time?" Jin Guo asked.
"There are two kinds of ghosts, one is like Xiaobai, who can see ghosts anytime and anywhere; The other is at a specific time, such as midnight and early morning dawn, because these two times are the most cloudy and people are extremely sleepy, so the probability of seeing ghosts is the greatest. Uncle Li explained.
"But... Don't I feel tired now? "Li Bai is very strange.
"Did you just wake up?" Lei Baoquan said angrily.
Uncle Li didn't say more, and continued to shake the bell again, and after shaking it a few times, several people suddenly heard a strange sound around them, "Squeak, squeak..."
Several people were very nervous, but their voices were getting closer and closer, as if they were right next to them.
"Uncle Lei, did you hear that?" Li Bai asked in a low voice.
"Well, it's like... I guess it's footsteps. ”
"Still, it sounds like... More than one..."Jin Guo leaned over and said.
Sure enough, there seemed to be more footsteps around, and the "squeak" sound was non-stop, which made people shudder.
The little fat man was also frightened, and said, "How... Why so many? ”
"Now you know you're scared? It was justified just now. Lei Baoquan glanced at him.
At this time, Uncle Li suddenly stopped his movements, squatted down, and said to the people next to him, "Everyone squat against the wall, don't speak." ”
Several people didn't dare to hesitate, and quickly lined up in a row and squatted down against the wall.
Uncle Li continued to dig in his satchel again, Li Bai just wanted to lean over to take a look, and suddenly felt that there was a foot in front of him, and then another foot appeared, Li Bai was startled, and just wanted to scream. Lei Baoquan, who was beside him, suddenly covered his mouth and said in his ear: "Don't make a sound, there are so many of these things." ”
Li Bai calmed down and took a look, and sure enough, there seemed to be a group of people walking around in front of him, because it was too dark, so he couldn't see the faces of those "people" when he looked up. He was secretly glad that he couldn't see it, and if he saw so much at once, he would have been scared crazy.
At this time, a flash of fire suddenly appeared in Uncle Li's hand, and it turned out that he took out a lighter out of nowhere and lit it.
Somehow, several others could only look at him silently.
Uncle Li turned around and motioned for everyone not to move, took a pile of burning paper and walked a little farther away with a lighter.
"What is he going to do? You won't light a fire, will you? The little fat man looked a little anxious.
Several people held him down, and Lei Baoquan said, "Don't worry, the old man knows it." ”
Uncle Li walked a few meters away from everyone and squatted down, lit a piece of burning paper with a lighter, the paper burned very slowly, and gradually, the fire went out. Then, Uncle Li lit the second ......
A few people in the back looked at him like this, and suddenly, they saw two "people" standing behind Uncle Li, with cyan faces and eyes looking straight at the fire in Uncle Li's hands.
"That's ......," Li Bai was startled.
At this time, the second piece of paper was also burned, and Uncle Li lit the third one, and Li Bai and the others were surprised to find that two "people" suddenly changed behind Uncle Li, with the same cyan face, looking straight at the fire in Uncle Li's hand.
"What's the situation?" Jin Guo was also surprised.
"Alas, you guys are so troublesome." Uncle Li in front suddenly whispered, grabbed a handful of burning paper, and lit it.
At the moment when the firelight flickered, there seemed to be four or five more "people" like that just now around Uncle Li, standing or squatting, surrounding Uncle Li and looking at the fire in the middle.
Li Bai looked at it for a while, and said to Lei Baoquan beside him: "Uncle Lei, this kind of scene seems familiar?" ”
"Really? Have you seen it before? Lei Baoquan was surprised.
Li Bai stared at Uncle Li who was squatting there burning paper and a few "people" around him and said, "It seems that a group of people are barbeconing in the wild..."