Chapter 7: The Truth...... The truth?

Tianyi walked to the door and was about to touch the doorknob, but the phone next to his bed rang.

He swooped over and picked up the earpiece: "Who?"

At the moment when the phone was connected, that is, the second Tianyi picked up the microphone, he happened to hear the snap of hanging up the phone from the receiver, so when he blurted out the word "who", the only thing that responded to him was the beep of the busy tone.

This is another very strange thing, it seems that this "1408" room consciously did not let Tianyi go to the door.

There was a knock on the door.

Tianyi's thoughts were pulled back again, he walked over, turned the doorknob, and the door opened smoothly, it was still the doorman brother from before, but his expression looked quite strange.

"Hmm...... Sir, I'm really sorry to bother you, there is something I am afraid to trouble you. The doorman probed the room behind Tianyi with a strange gaze.

Tianyi replied: "What you want to say, is it related to this room?"

The doorman's expression changed, as if he was right, his eyes rolled half a circle, and Tianyi could see through this guy making up lies with his nostrils.

"That's right...... Sir, when you opened the room before, Lucy at the front desk had a little omission at work, and she shouldn't have given you the key to this room. Because...... Well...... There are some minor problems with this room, which is ...... You know, electrical wiring, and water leaks and things like that, they need to be repaired, so ...... It should not be available for guests for the time being.

We're sorry for the inconvenience, but could you please change your room, we can arrange a room on the 9th floor with the same layout as here. ”

Tianyi listened to him finish his words, and showed a smile, this is not a sneer, but I really think this kid is funny, even if he doesn't use the book of hearts, this kind of now-made lie is too easy to debunk.

Tianyi took a half step back, glanced around the room a few times, and replied, "Why didn't that Lucy at your front desk call me on the phone?"

The doorman replied, "Ah...... That's the case, the manager thinks it's better to tell you in person, I'm really sorry. ”

"Was the lady at the front desk there when you came up?"

"Of course, she is, and the manager told me to come up in front of her. ”

"Yes......" Tianpao paused: "Strange, I called the front desk once just now, but no one answered, is it a line problem?"

The doorman brother was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Ah, yes, yes, you see, this room really has a lot of problems that need to be repaired, so please ......."

Tianyi said: You are quite good at following my words.

On the surface, Tianyi still put on a standard decadent look, unable to see joy or anger, and couldn't guess his thoughts: "Okay, I'll take my luggage and go down with you, you wait here." ”

"Thank you, sir, for your please!" "When the doorman was pardoned, he stood at the door and waited, leaning against the door, consciously or unconsciously, as if he feared that if it was closed, it would never be opened.

Tianyi said that he was taking luggage, but in fact, his luggage consisted of: a wallet containing cash and fake documents, a set of clothes that had not yet dried, and a dozen of underwear that he had just bought.

After taking the "luggage", Tianyi returned to the door: "I don't have to sort out the things I have used, right?"

"Of course not, we'll take care of putting everything back in place. The doorman replied.

"I'm wearing this bathrobe downstairs. Tianyi said.

"Yes, please ......" The doorman brother didn't dare not agree, if he said that this bathrobe had to be kept, maybe he would throw his clothes into the room one day, and swagger into the elevator with only a pair of pants.

Ten minutes later, Tianyi returned to the ninth floor. The doorman's attitude was very good, Ling Tianyi came to the door of the room, handed him the key to room 908, he was very sorry, and he didn't dare to do anything like a dead face to ask for a tip, took the key to 1408, closed the door and went downstairs.

Tianyi used his ability to track the whereabouts of this kid, and it seemed that he went to the front desk to return the key, and then went to see someone. According to the perception and positioning of the people in this building, as well as the preliminary observation of the appearance of the building, Tianyi can roughly construct a floor plan of the building in his mind. The room where the doorman went was on the first floor, not a residential area, maybe he went to find the manager to get his life.

Tianyi didn't pay attention to the doorman for too long, and his attention quickly shifted back to room 1408, and he could sense that about fifteen minutes after he left, two people entered the room, and after about ten minutes of activity in it, the two left. It is not surprising that 80% of these cleaning ladies are doing the tidying work.

After all these twists and turns, Tianyi became more and more concerned about the ending just now, he took out room 908 again, looked through it, and soon found the "Haunted Hotel I Stayed in Those Years" through the search function, and jumped directly to the last "1408", and then read the part he had just read.

Because I've watched a lot, about less than twenty minutes, Tianyi finished reading the last story carefully. The ending of the book is not unexpected, the main character, the author Mike Anselling, left the hotel the next day, and despite many inexplicable events, there are still no ghosts in the book, at least there is no conclusive evidence of their existence.

All the bizarre events are ambiguously explained by the wind outside the window, the faulty wiring in the room, the trickery of the hotel manager, and the various psychological cues that the author imposes on the readers.

After reading it, Tianyi felt that this was actually a very boring story, but it was quite wonderfully written. The point is that the content is quite authentic, and it is difficult for the reader to distinguish which episodes were added by the author and which are the weird coincidences that actually happened.

Putting it down, Tianyi went to wash his face, at this time, it was past midnight in Paris, but he was still in good spirits, and when he was about to pick again, he had a whim, and used his ability to sense whether there was anyone upstairs.

As a result, he discovered that at this very moment, there was really someone in room 1408.

The person cleaning the room must have already gone in, so the person who is inside now is a repairman? Tianyi pondered: I have already been kicked out, why are I in a hurry to repair it? This hotel is still vacant, and the rooms will never be in short supply, is it necessary to ask the repairman to go to an unoccupied room in the early hours of the morning to renovate? Maybe they just don't want the night shift staff to be idle?

Tianyi can't rule out this possibility, maybe the hotel management here is really strict, and if there is a problem, it will be solved immediately, and it will be ready 24 hours a day.

But there is another possibility, which cannot be ruled out, that there is now another person living in that room......

Tianyi said to himself: "If the reason for the so-called 'various small problems' in the room is made up, then...... There is no need to repair it there, but why take me and let another person live in it? The chocolate just now, this room 908 doesn't have it, and those two phone calls......"

Thinking of this, Tianyi picked up the phone in room 908 and pressed it, and soon someone at the front desk picked it up and said, "Hello, what do you need?" or the voice of the female staff member before, that is, Lucy said by the doorman.

"Hello, I am a guest who stayed at 1408 before. Tianyi originally just wanted to see if the phone could be connected normally, but since it was connected, he felt that it was better to say something.

The other party's voice sounded after a while, and his tone was obviously not normal: "Hmm...... It's you, sir, I'm sorry for what happened before......"

Tianyi interrupted: "Ah, don't worry, let me ask, have you been on duty tonight, uh...... Lucy?"

"Yes sir. ”

"Well, okay, nothing's fine. Tianyi hung up the phone.

He pondered for a long time, his curiosity was great, and he wanted to find out what was going on in this hotel, and he knew that there must be some kind of hidden meaning behind what he had just experienced, and although it didn't seem to be a very important event, the reasoning 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 began to dry the clothes, carefully made it for twenty minutes, it was considered that he could wear it, he put it on, went to the freezer to get a bottle of spirits, and poured two sips, of course, he was not to be brave, but to create the illusion of drunkenness.

He hid the key in the inside pocket of his clothes, took the bottle, and used his hands to make his already messy hairstyle even more messy, and then walked out of the room, closed the door, and went straight to the fourteenth floor.

When he came to the door of 1408, Tianyi specially dipped the wine on his hands, applied it to the sides of his neck like perfume, poured a mouthful of strong wine into his mouth, and rinsed his mouth before swallowing it.

Bang bang bang the door.

I could only hear the sound of something falling to the ground in the room, and it didn't sound for half a minute.

Tianyi knew that there were people in the house, but the other party didn't say anything for some reason. Tianyi knocked on the door for the second time, and the people in the house walked slowly to the door step by step, and after glancing at the cat's eyes, he opened a crack in the door and said, "Who are you?

Tianyi took advantage of the situation and leaned on the door with one hand and pushed it open, so that he could see the man in front of him clearly. Caucasian in his forties, with a slightly receding hairline, a beer belly, a not very good face, pale, and a lot of sweating.

"Eh, why are you in my room?" A burst of wine sprayed on the other party's face: "Who are you?!" Tianyi's eyes widened: "What do you have to do with my wife?!" said and stepped forward and grabbed the other party's neckline.

"What are you doing?!" the man held Tianyi with his hand, "Sir, are you drunk and gone to the wrong room!

"Hiccup...... Ah?!" Tianyi tilted his head and pretended to look at the house number, "Oh...... Ha...... Sorry, man, sorry. He said as he leaned into the house.

As a result, he was pushed out by the other party: "Okay, sir, do you need me to call a waiter for you to take you back to your room?"

"No...... No need...... Hehe...... I...... I can find it myself. Tian flickered back two steps, and the man decisively closed the door with an unhappy look on his face.

Tianyi knew that the other party must be peeking out from behind the door, and he took a few bumpy steps to confirm that he had left the visual range of the cat's eye on the door before returning to his normal gait.

"This man didn't even open his luggage, he put it next to the bed, and when I knocked on the door, he dropped something on the ground, but just now I went in and didn't see anything, which means he had picked it up. Tian Yi muttered: "There are no capable people in this hotel or reformers who have been specially transformed by battle, there are only a group of ordinary people here, what is going on? Why did the hotel staff break me up and let this person stay? Is there someone in the hotel who wants to frame this man? Or did he take the initiative to live in 1408 no matter what? Is there any secret hidden in that room?"

Tianyi didn't get much useful information from this investigation, so he immediately took the elevator to the lobby on the first floor, went straight to the front desk, and walked to Lucy: "Remember me? ”

"Oh, sir, how can I help you?" replied Lucy.

Tianyi said, "Is there anything you can tell me about that room, 1408?"

Lucy's expression became tense and she hesitated, "That'...... That room ......"

"Hello, sir!" a tall, lanky white man, dressed in a crisp suit, intervened in the conversation: "I'm Manager Todd, you should be ......"

Tianyi interrupted: "Just call me Krause." On his fake ID, he used the name of the tea fairy, but he didn't dare to copy the emperor's surname, but took a different surname casually.

"Sir, could you please come to my office for a talk. Todd said.

Two minutes later, Tianyi came to the manager's room, and unceremoniously found a place to sit down, and as soon as the other party brought the door, Tianyi said: "Actually, Todd, I don't need any apologies, I'm not angry, I have no opinion on the guy who lives in 1408 at the moment, I just want to know, tonight, what happened?"

"Hmm...... Actually, yes, that gentleman was a fan of a certain family. Todd said.

At this moment, Tianyi basically knew the answer to the mystery, and he smiled: "Brainless powder." ”

Todd shrugged his shoulders and said tactfully: "Judging from his current behavior, it is obvious that he is far beyond the scope of ordinary fans." He paused, "Would you like something to drink?"

"No, you do it yourself. ”

Todd poured himself a cup of coffee: "Did you know that there is a book called 'The Haunted Inn I Stayed in Those Years'?"

Tianyi: "Yes, I have read it. He didn't say he had just finished reading it.

Todd said: "Then you should also know that the last article of the book is about the 1408 murder room of a dolphin hotel in New York, right?"

"Oh, I see!" Tianyi pretended to have a sudden realization, as if he had just understood. He didn't want to be a fan of the writer.

"But the story is false, there was a hotel in New York called the Dolphin Hotel, but it went out of business in the last century," Todd said. ”

Tianyi: "So what?"

Todd continued: "You know, the author of that book, Mike Anselling, used to go to the inn rooms written in the book for one night and then write it, but this 1408 story is not a real experience, because he didn't write the story himself. ”

At this moment, in the rainy sky outside the window, there was a timely thunderstorm......

"Oh, why is that?" he was also interested.

"You may not know that 'The Haunted Inn I Stayed In' in Those Years was Mike Anselling's last film and the end of his series of haunted hotel stories," Todd said. He paused: "Actually, Mike Anselling did come to our hotel a few years ago, when I was a maître d'hom, and our manager wondered why the writer was coming. You must know that there have never been any supernatural rumors in this hotel, and we have never taken the initiative to invite Mr. Writer. However, he suddenly came on a rainy night and specified that he would like to live in room 1408. ”

"Maybe he came to Paris for personal reasons, or simply for a trip. Tianyi continued.

"Yes, that's what I thought back then. Todd replied, "But the next day, he died in that room, with an unexplained hypothermia. He took another sip of his coffee: "You must know that the writer is only middle-aged, has no history of heart disease, does not even exceed the blood sugar standard, and the heating system in the room has not detected any malfunction, and his death itself has become the kind of supernatural event that he tried to deny before his death." ”

"So...... How did that happen?"

It was a revised book by Mike Anselling's editor, but it seemed too short. So the editor imitated Mike Anselling's style and spent a long time crafting a story about the unbelieving writer in 1408...... The last story of his life and career. ”

Tianyi: "And that editor is a little bit of a believer in ghosts, right?"

Todd said, "That's right, sir, so this is the only story that deliberately changed the city where the hotel is located in the book, and the editor was worried that someone would come to our hotel after reading it. ”

Tianyi smiled and said, "Hehe, what do you think, Mr. Todd?"

Todd said: "I don't have a personal opinion, objectively speaking, that room is normal, although it was empty for a period of time after the deceased was found, but in the following years, there were also people who moved in, and no strange incidents happened, and the guests who stayed there did not say anything." He sighed: "The gentleman today, I think he's really a crazy fan, he claims to have followed in the footsteps of Mike Anselling, to every hotel he wrote, I think he must have looked it up on the Internet, or read the editor's blog or something, anyway......"

Tianyi continued Todd's words: "Anyway, he was very tough and asked you to do everything you could to help him stay in 1408, so I was fooled into going to 908, right?"

"Yes, that's the truth you want. ”

Tianyi turned around and said, "What, so that's the case." ”

The two chatted a few more words, and Todd sent Tianyi out of the office.

"Oh, there's one more thing I'd like to confirm. Tianyi stopped as he passed the front desk, and he said to Lucy, "About eleven o'clock, will you leave for a while?"

Lucy thought for a moment, "Yes sir, I'm sorry, I'm the only one at the front desk tonight, did I miss your call?"

Tianyi said again: "Did you call my room later?"

Lucy replied, "Oh, the phone number, we wanted to use the phone to communicate with you about the situation here, but Mr. Todd said it would be better to have Wanda come up and talk to you in person." Did you pick it up at the time? I'm sorry, I thought it wasn't connected when I hung up. ”

Tianyi smiled and said, "It's nothing, I understand everything." ”

Solved the mystery, it turned out to be just such a painful thing, Tianyi returned to the room, fell on the bed and sneered: "What are you doing, it turned out to be such a boring thing......"

Before he knew it, he fell asleep, and said nothing for the night.

By noon the next day, police cars and ambulances were parked in front of the Dolphin Hotel.

A middle-aged man died mysteriously in room 1408, and the cause of death was myocardial infarction. The deceased was a freelancer who traveled self-help around the world, had no history of heart disease and showed no signs of violence. The body was lying on its back on the bed, his expression was horrified, his face was pale, the sheets were soaked with sweat, he had not even opened his luggage, and there was a paper book on the bedside table, and the only food that the coroner found in the stomach of the deceased afterwards was chocolate.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, when the investigation and evidence collection were over, the man lying on the bed in room 908 got up with a yawn and stretched his waist, and said listlessly: "I actually have nightmares, a nasty place." ”

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