Chapter XVII

After Qin Yiheng finished speaking, he quickly flipped out of the window. I saw him fall smoothly after three strikes and two strokes. I didn't dare to delay the time, so I quickly put on my jacket and walked downstairs.

The hotel itself is not large, and the corridors are very narrow. I've been at a loss for the time being, and I don't even have room to dodge if someone comes to sneak attack.

Fortunately, I went down the stairs tremblingly, but nothing happened. It's just the creaking sound of the hotel's dilapidated wooden staircase, which sounds hairy.

The owner of the inn was still there, half-leaning on the front desk listening to the radio. I didn't dare to rush over, so I carefully observed whether there was an ambush until I confirmed that there was no one else hiding behind the front desk before I walked over to greet the boss.

The boss himself was enthusiastic, and he wanted to chat with me before, but when he saw that I took the initiative to find me, he immediately spoke a dialect to talk to me.

I really didn't have any interest, so I secretly glanced outside the door of the hotel and saw that Qin Yiheng was already secretly glancing at me. I went straight to the point and said, I am the Wan family, and this time I am here to pick up something.

I don't know if this sentence is a code, anyway, the boss was stunned for a moment after hearing it, and looked at me blankly for a long time, and the cat bent down from the cabinet under the front desk and began to rummage for things.

I couldn't help but take a step back, and it wasn't clear at the moment. In case the boss didn't look for anything for me for a long time, but took out a gun and pointed it at me, then he couldn't eat and walked away.

After waiting for a long time, the boss straightened up, but his hand was empty. He looked out the door warily, said only one word, please come with me, and turned and headed for the stairs.

Now I was a little hesitant, I didn't know whether to follow or not. With the boss's expression and eyes just now, I always felt that he had discovered Qin Yiheng who was ambushed outside the door. I'm afraid this is a trick to lure the snake out of the hole.

After exchanging glances with Qin Yiheng, I still decided to go upstairs. This boss is about fifty years old, and he is not very strong, if he comes hard, he may not be my opponent. Thinking about it this way, I still have some confidence.

The two of them quickly went up to the second floor, and the boss led me straight to the end of the hallway. I opened the innermost door and pointed to the inside of the house, it's all here, after so many years, someone finally came to pick it up.

Although the boss has an accent, I heard this sentence very true. I didn't answer, and I was a little stunned by what I saw in front of me. I saw that the room with this guest room layout was full of all kinds of packages or bags. At first glance, it looks like a storeroom. People don't know where to start.

I would never have imagined that there would be so many things in the text message asking me to pick up!

I looked at the innkeeper and tried to contain my look of astonishment. "Who sent these things?"

The boss frowned when I asked, this ......

I secretly screamed in my heart that it was not good, I asked a little carelessly, I am afraid that the boss has begun to doubt me. Hurriedly remedied and said, when did the friend I sent something leave?

After saying this, I saw that the boss's expression was even more strange. I didn't know what to do for a while. Just as I was in a hurry, I suddenly saw a dark figure flash out of the corridor, grabbed the innkeeper's shoulder, and pushed hard. The boss himself was standing next to me, and when he was stumbled, he instinctively dragged me. I didn't expect it to happen, but both of them were pushed into the room in a daze, and then the door slammed shut.

The guest rooms of the hotel were not big in the first place, but there were such things piled up in this room, and now there were three more people standing, and there was basically no place to put their feet. Luckily, I was able to react quickly and hold on to the wall without tripping over anything under my feet. The boss was not so lucky, and he was stunned and slapped into a pile of packages, only to hear the cry of ouch ouch.

When I looked up, my clenched fist unfolded. I saw that it was Qin Yiheng who glanced at me, took a step and helped the boss up and said, We have no malice, but if you don't tell the truth, I think it's difficult to be kind.

Although the boss said that the fall seemed to be quite heavy, after all, there was a package under his body as a buffer, so it stands to reason that it would not be a big problem. But Qin Yiheng was a little stunned for a while, and he didn't open his mouth for a while.

Qin Yiheng swept away a vacant space with his feet, let the boss sit on the ground, and asked, who sent these things? And when was it delivered?

The boss finally came out with a few words in a trembling voice, sparing his life.

"I won't hurt you, but you have to answer questions. I don't like to listen to nonsense. Qin Yiheng picked up a package casually, who sent this thing?

The boss nodded frantically and said, I... I can't remember! None of the things in this house were delivered by one person!

Oh? Qin Yiheng snorted, then you go on, what is the situation! Try to be clear!

Qin Yiheng pointed to the position beside him and asked me to sit down. What I had planned was that since someone was being tortured, it was best for me to go out on the fun. Seeing this, I had to keep my ears open to pay attention to the movement outside the door, while sitting down and listening to the ins and outs of the boss. This hearing surprised both me and Qin Yiheng.

The boss's Mandarin is very poor, and he was overly nervous by Qin Yiheng. The narrative is intermittent and there is a lot of worthless nonsense. But the whole thing is still roughly explained.

According to the owner, this hostel has been open for decades. As the only hotel in the town, although it is not enough to make a fortune, it is still possible to barely maintain food and clothing. The town is very remote and the prices are relatively low. but he was at ease. It's just that I can't remember the specific year it started, about twenty or thirty years ago, when suddenly a customer came to the store. The guest didn't like to talk, but he was very generous, and the boss couldn't help but pay a few more attention. According to the owner, the guest was also dressed unusually, as if he was going on a long trip, and brought all kinds of tools for survival in the wild. These tools were very new to the owners who had never seen the so-called trekking and trekking friends in those days. This makes me even more impressed.

But the most memorable thing for the boss was that after staying for two days, the guest was going to leave for another place. Before leaving, I handed the boss a package, put a lot of money, and told the boss that someone who claimed to be from the Wan family would come to pick it up in the future, and I hoped that the boss would keep it well.

Originally, the people of this town were simple, but now they have put money again. The boss naturally agreed, and the thing was kept intact. But for a long time after that, many guests came and went in the hotel, but they never waited for the Wan family.

And what surprised him even more was that not only did the Wan family wait. After that, more strange people began to live in the store, and everyone dressed similarly, as if they were going on a survival adventure. Moreover, these people are very generous, and they also left the package when they left. Even the words given to the boss are exactly the same, and there will be 10,000 families to pick them up in the future.

At first, the boss was also very strange about this time. At one point, it was thought that it might be a spy organization. For a long time, I have been hesitant to report to the police. But as this kind of person comes more and more often, he gradually becomes less vigilant, after all, no one has ever picked up the package saved by these people, not to mention that there is a storage fee in the middle, which is far more than what he makes by opening a hotel in a small town with poor income, and no one wants to get along with the money.

What's more, this boss thought that he could give such a large amount of money to save the package, which might be an astronomical amount if he really waited for the person who picked up the package one day. But what he didn't expect was that he had waited for many years for such a wait. Later, he gradually neglected to wait for someone to pick it up, and just kept the packages mechanically. Similarly, the strange number of guests who leave their parcels is decreasing year by year, and they have not come back at all in recent years.

Therefore, when I told him that I was from the Wan family, he was very surprised.

Dad talked a lot, and kept stating that he hadn't opened the package or had a bad idea. It is estimated that Qin Yiheng is afraid that he will attack him. I'm inclined to trust the boss, not because I'm guaranteeing his character, but because I took a cursory look at a few packages and found that the contents were very ordinary, ordinary belongings. Of course, this does not rule out that the valuable or valuable things in it have been swallowed by the boss.

Qin Yiheng asked emphatically about the appearance and physical characteristics of the guests who left the package, listening to the boss's description, this group of people does not seem to have too strong characteristics, if you want to say that there are, you can only say that all of them are men, most of them are between twenty and forty years old, and they are considered young adults.

I heard that this was not a clue, according to the boss, these people must have come to carry out some kind of action, and naturally only young adults are suitable. It's just that the only thing I'm curious about is what these people are here for.

I comforted the boss a few words and asked him to calm down first. Pulled Qin Yiheng aside and quietly asked him the purpose of these people's coming.

If they're here for an adventure, then there are two possibilities. One is that they came back from their expedition and passed by and lived here. One is that they are about to go on an expedition and stay here to rest. If this is the latter, if the result is the former, then I am afraid that these people will bring something after returning from the expedition, and those things, I am afraid that they have been left in the package, most of them have been swallowed by the boss.

Qin Yiheng thought for a while and said, this is the closest town to the besieged city, and the only possibility is that those people also went to the besieged city. The reason why they left the package may be that those people know that this is extremely dangerous, and they may never come back.

Qin Yiheng's words woke me up, since the package left behind is for the Wan family to pick it up. Co-authors, they themselves are ten thousand families? Going to the besieged city one after another, all to untie the locked things on the iron chains?

It makes perfect sense! To unravel the haze and curse that envelops the entire family. They had to!

I said, then why do you suddenly want us to accept these packages? Is it because the things on the chain have been released? Now the dust has settled?

"I don't know, we have to take it all apart and see it before we understand." Qin Yiheng said to the boss, I worked hard just now, now please help us unpack the package. We will give more money and will not break our promises.