Get on the highway and through the village.

The air is getting worse and worse, and in the night when it is impossible to tell whether it is fog or haze, a milk-colored SUV drives lonely on National Highway 318.

Qiao Shan had replaced Hu Sheng in the evening, carrying three people along the predetermined route.

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"I've lived in this city for six years, but I haven't had any friends. I have four cats, but everyone says I should have a dog. Well, I think dogs are animals that need company, and I love dogs, but I don't have the courage to raise them. ”

"But when the night comes, I look at the traffic outside the window, I think there are so many people in this world, but no one wants to listen to me, I ......"

On the car radio, a male listener is talking to the midnight anchor.

The sound of FM current sounded from time to time, making the male listener's voice a little ethereal, not very real.

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"I'm sorry listener, it's time for our live broadcast today."

With the arrival of twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the gentle voice of the female anchor sounded again from the FM, soft and delicate, as if she was like a bosom sister, which can soothe the wounds in your heart.

The male listener said eagerly: "But I ......"

"Dut...... Toot ......"

The program was shut down, and the newsletter was hung up as a matter of course.

What else did the male audience want to say, Qiao Shan and the four of them didn't know, Hu Sheng of the co-pilot lowered his head and stepped forward to tune in to other channels, Jiang He and Haohan in the back half opened the car window, each was silent, in the silent night, the boiling emotions had already been cooled by the cool lonely night.

Qiao Shan looked at the sign at the intersection, turned off the national highway, and entered a small town.

The black auto repair shop and the colorful bath city came in between, with a bit of chaos and loneliness, and at a glance saw the hotel booked in advance by the river next to the small town of Luoang Road, Qiao Shan slowed down and turned around.

"Here we are."

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"That's the hotel?"

"Hmm."

"What's so special about it?"

"It's cheap by the way, fate."

Haohan got out of the car, looked around, and saw a three-story building with a mottled red copper exterior wall located on the edge of the street, with four big characters on the door plate simply [Lecheng Hotel], glowing with orange warm light, which looked lonely and psychedelic in the mist of the night.

Qiao Shan put his hands in his pockets, squinted his eyes, and said slowly: "The businesses in this town revolve around the truck drivers passing by in the aisles, hotels + auto repair shops, and the must-have bathing city next to it, which should have been very prosperous before." But now, it seems that the recession is not very good. ”

It's so old!

The whole town is like a rickety old man forgotten by the world, revealing twilight everywhere.

The Golden Triangle bathing city next to the hotel, the neon tube has been completely damaged, and the following several "foot massage", "leisure", "chess and cards", and "Finland" are also lacking in horizontal and less pen, half bright and half off, and the old driver can only be identified by experience.

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They took out their respective backpacks in the trunk, locked the car, and the four of them walked towards the hotel gate.

Haohan was smoking a cigarette and walking in front, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a black dilapidated Santana parked next to the hotel, and frowned slightly.

Just now...... Like seeing sparks in the car?

He looked again, saw nothing, thought he was dazzled, and didn't care, turned back and opened the door of the hotel and entered.

Johnson walked last.

Before entering the hotel, he looked back at the black Santana and smiled imperceptibly.

When the four of them entered the hotel together, after two breaths, the driving position in the car lit up a little spark again, and if you looked closely, it was the fire of a cigarette.

A deep middle-aged male voice sounded in the car:

"Call your sister and ask her to come over, it's time for business."

"Good!"

The voice that replied was a little stiff, and it seemed to be a young man.

The young man dialed the phone, said a few words to the woman on the phone, and after hanging up, reported:

"Sister will come over soon."

There was silence again.

After two breaths, the young man couldn't help but say, "Dad, everyone is in, open the car window, don't you feel choked?" The eldest brother is about to suffocate to death. ”

"Ahem! Ahem! ”

There was a strange coughing sound from the black Santana, and a fat man with glasses who didn't look very smart opened the rear car door suddenly, took a deep breath with a flushed face, squatted on the ground to wipe his tears, and gestured dumbly with both hands to the two people in the car.

"Dumb Whisper: Third Uncle, I'll pick up my sister......"

The third uncle is good at everything, but he is too addicted to smoking!

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Enter the hotel gate and turn off the headlights.

On the sofa facing the sign of the welcome pine behind the door, a green military coat is spread out, the small sun heater next to the sofa is lit up in warm orange light, and the slight sound of sleeping snoring comes from the sofa.

Several people glanced at each other, Jiang He, who had booked this hotel, was in charge of communication, came to the collar of the military coat, squatted down and lifted the corner of the military coat, and greeted softly:

"Hello."

“…… Hello? ”

Syllable!

Qiao Shan patted Jiang He's shoulder, motioned for him to get up, smiled at the waitress who was sitting up at the end of the coat, and said in a low voice: "Get up, not at this end." ”

Don't peek in anymore, or you'll kiss your feet!

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"Mr. Jiang, is it?"

"Yes!"

The waitress held an old tin flashlight in her hand, swept it over the faces of several people, and finally fixed it on Jiang He's face, recalled the ID photos of the customers she booked today, yawned, rubbed her eyes lazily as if she was sleepwalking, and said in a hoarse voice:

"You have booked two of our unique couple's suites with a deposit of 600 yuan, one upstairs and one downstairs...... You guys, four men? ”

The waitress's eyes turned a little weird.

Four men came here in the middle of the night to open a couple's suite???

Jiang He wondered: "We booked a family suite on the website. ”

So that's it......

The waitress suddenly regained her listless appearance, and said weakly: "That hasn't been updated for seven years." ”

After quickly registering the information and giving the key, the waitress slipped back into the couch.

"Is it the corner room?" Haohan asked, looking at the house number on the key.

"Well, I met love around the corner." The waitress covered her head, and her voice came out muffled through the military coat: "I will talk about something tomorrow, you can rest first." ”

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Qiao Shan took another key from Jiang He's hand: "Hu Sheng and I will go upstairs, you and Haohan will be downstairs." ”

"Okay." Jiang He nodded.

The four of them were divided into two teams, Qiao Shan took Hu Sheng upstairs, and Jiang He followed Hao Han to the corner room.

Because there was no expectation, so when he opened the door, Qiao Shan unexpectedly found that the suite upstairs was not bad, except that the window was a little smaller, and the overall facilities were barely able to stay.

It's just that this room only has a large bed......

Qiao Shan would not sleep in the same bed with a man, even if it was Hu Sheng, so he put down his backpack, brought a cigarette and a lighter and was about to go downstairs.

"Hu Sheng, you can rest first, I'll go out and smoke a cigarette."

"Brother Qiao Shan, I'll go too!"

Hu Sheng hurriedly put down his salute, took out the snacks from his backpack, and went down with Qiao Shan.

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After a while, the waitress fell back asleep.

Qiao Shan didn't bother her, took Hu Sheng out of the hotel quietly, came to the driveway, leaned on the dim street lamp pole, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it, threw the cigarette case to Hu Sheng, and swallowed the clouds and smoked.

The smoke and the night fog merged, and it was quickly impossible to distinguish each other.

The fog is getting bigger and bigger, and at a distance of only a dozen meters, the light sign of the hotel has become blurred.

Hu Sheng wrapped his coat, shivered, lit a cigarette, and was about to take a deep breath, when a cold female voice suddenly came from behind him, so frightened that he almost dropped the cigarette to the ground.

"Can you give me a cigarette?"

A woman in a dark red coat and fashionable waves slowly walked out of the thick fog, looking at Hu Sheng with a faint sense of misanthropy.

The person who came was not Sumi.

Nor is it a waitress.

Hu Sheng glanced at the woman a few times, subconsciously handed over the cigarette case, didn't know which tendon was wrong, looked back at Qiao Shan, and said suspiciously:

"Brother, do female ghosts smoke too?"

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