Chapter 323: The Vanishing Eight
If there is an apostle of dreams who is outstanding, then the "asymmetric confrontation" that Liu Yu said may be realized.
"Can't you open the closet?" Xia Yanzhen walked over, chose the No. 1 wardrobe, reached out and grabbed the handle outside, and was about to open it violently.
"Wait!" Mrs. Jones immediately stopped, "Don't mess around! ”
There are many rules in the hotel, whether it is the check-in rules or the employee handbook, which is normal at first, and the more you look at it, the more wrong it becomes.
It gives people the feeling that if they are not careful, they will fall into the abyss.
An inexplicable sense of fear came over my face.
One has to be vigilant.
Forcibly opening this wardrobe will lead to what the consequences will be, no one can tell, let alone try it indiscriminately.
"Rules, follow the rules of the hotel." Richard emphasized, "What do you want to do? ”
"Aren't you going to deliberately sabotage?"
"Your mission won't be different from ours, will you?"
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Xia Yanzhen's actions immediately aroused all kinds of suspicions.
Only Douglas did not speak.
But he didn't speak not because Xia Yanzhen had saved him, but because his jaw hurt, so he tried not to say anything if he could.
"I want to open the clothes of the service staff, don't you think it can be used as a special need?" Xia Yanzhen said.
As you can see from the employee handbook, overalls are a very important thing.
Maybe a life can be saved at a critical moment.
"That's for later, don't you think it will lead to any consequences if you forcibly open the wardrobe now?" Liu Yu asked.
"yes, forget it." Xia Yanzhen took a step back and admonished, "Then follow what you want, be safe." ”
"My hope is simple, everyone follows the rules of the hotel." Liu Yu said, "Whoever messes around is our common enemy." ”
"That's right."
"I agree."
"I think so too."
A group of people looked at Xia Yanzhen.
"Okay." Xia Yanzhen smiled and nodded.
"What time is it?" Relatively speaking, Kazumi, who has been relatively quiet, asked, she is very concerned about time.
"It's eight o'clock before I came, and it's still early."
"There's no clock here."
There is no clock in the lounge, so there is no way to know the exact time.
Several people walked out of the lounge.
This lounge is just one of many rooms.
There are also various doors on both sides of the hallway, but there are no signs outside the doors, and it is not known what these rooms do.
The door to the room was locked and could not be opened.
After the consensus that had just been reached, no one came up with the idea of opening the door of the room to take a look.
The group returned to the front lobby.
"Eight-fifteen."
The floor clock in the corner of the lobby points to 8:15.
There are still more than three hours before the 12 o'clock of the red line, which is quite sufficient.
"Let's see." Qin Feng proposed.
Everyone acted collectively and thoroughly inspected the first floor.
Lobby, staircase, elevator aisle, fire staircase access (doors are locked).
The first half of the first floor is the same, and the second half is the work area for the staff, which is not usually visited by guests.
Unknown rooms with locked doors.
"Second floor."
Several people didn't mean to take the elevator and went up to the second floor from the spiral passage.
As written in the employee handbook.
On the second floor is the dining area.
After going up, it was like this, the hall, and all kinds of small private rooms.
There is also a "staff dining area" with the words "Guests Stop" placed outside the glass door.
The kitchen should be connected to the staff dining area, and if you have to comply with the rules of the hotel, there is no way to enter the kitchen.
Unless...... Like Douglas, wearing overalls, he can get in if he has a loophole.
Now, Douglas certainly wouldn't make such a dangerous move as solo exploration.
"There are no more stairs." Qin Feng said.
"Yes, there is only a fire escape, the door is still locked, and we can only take the elevator if we want to go up." Wang Defa also said.
"The Ancient God Emperor"
There is a spiral staircase on the first floor to the second floor.
On the second floor, there is only an elevator and a fire escape to the upper floor.
There are two elevators, parallel to each other on the same side, and there are no single or double floors.
The LED light bar on the elevator door shows that one elevator stops on the eighth floor and one elevator stops on the first floor.
"Eighth floor?"
"First floor?"
Everyone immediately realized that something was wrong.
After Eight and Douglas changed their clothes, they must have gone to stay in room 302 on the third floor.
Why are the elevators one on the first floor and one on the eighth floor?
Was it after him that someone used the elevator?
"To press or not to press?" Xia Yanzhen asked, putting his hand on the button between the two elevators.
"Let's go back to the first floor first." Liu Yu proposed.
"Well, let's go back to the first floor first." Mrs. Jones kept the same pace.
Everyone returned to the lobby on the first floor.
Xia Yanzhen walked behind the glass door leading to the outside and stretched out his hand to push the glass door open.
Everyone watched his actions and did not speak.
Xia Yanzhen slowly stretched out a hand out of the door, and said after a while: "No response......
With that, he stretched out another foot.
"It seems that you have to go out before you can leave the hotel area." Xia Yanzhen stepped back and did not continue the experiment.
Some people can't help but be disappointed.
"When, when, when......"
At this time, the floor clock sounds.
"It's nine?"
"So fast?"
"We're too late on the second floor?"
The crowd looked at the grandfather clock and felt that time was passing faster than they had imagined.
"This clock can't break, right?" Richard said, slightly worried.
All the places they had been to just now had no clocks or clocks.
The huge hotel, on the first floor and the second floor, has only such a grandfather clock.
Not good news for the Dream Apostles who need to watch their time.
If the bell is broken, it's even worse.
"Let's go to the room first." Liu Yu proposed.
The grandfather clock may be broken, so the time we know now is not accurate, and it is safest to go to the room first.
Come to the elevator hall and press the elevator button that is only up the only one up.
The elevator doors open and there is an area inside where you need to swipe your card.
After swiping the room card, press the floor button to light up and the elevator will operate.
If you don't swipe your room card, it's useless to press it 800 times.
Seven people entered the elevator, Douglas stayed outside, he didn't plan to go up, he had to play the role of a good service person here.
Swipe your card and press the button on the third floor.
The elevator door closed and went up, and soon, with a "ding" sound, it reached the third floor.
The structure of the third floor is simple.
The elevator hall, the door to the fire escape, and then a walkway, with rooms on either side.
A window at the end of the walkway.
"There are a lot of 'secret rooms' in this hotel." Qin Feng said.
It was clear that what they saw was only a portion of the entire floor of the third floor.
There are other parts that you can't see.
"Leave that alone, take a look at the room."
A softly carpeted walkway, with rooms on either side of the room following the principle of odd on one side and even on the other.
301 vs. 302, 303 vs. 304, so the two are opposite.
There is a sign on the door of the guest room.
Everyone came to the outside of room 306 and looked around.
"Do you have any problems monitoring this room at night?" Mrs. Jones asked, looking at Richard.
Richard nodded.
He is holding the room card of 305 and can observe room 306 through the cat's eye.
Richard had a task, and instead of rushing into their respective rooms, they chose to open all the rooms and visit them one by one.
All the rooms were pretty much the same, double bed, bathroom - and a small cubicle study with it.
The overall room is a bit larger than the average chain hotel.
There is no TV in the room, there is a phone on the bedside, you can contact the hotel front desk at any time, press the number 0.
In Xia Yanzhen's room 301, he tried to dial it.
After a while, the phone was connected.
"Douglas?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
"It's me......" Douglas's slightly laked voice sounded, "what's the matter?" ”
"Nothing, let's test if the phone works. Can you call into the room over there? Xia Yanzhen asked.
"I can't." Douglas said, "However, I can transfer you to other rooms here." ”
The front desk is a transit point.
If necessary, the two rooms can be connected through the front desk.
After hanging up the phone, Liu Yu frowned and said, "There is no clock in the room, have you seen it?" ”
Everyone shook their heads.
"Dangdangdang......"
Just then, another bell rang.
There were a total of 10 rings, which meant that the time had come to 10 o'clock.
"Impossible!"
If it was just a suspicion just now, but now the clock is ringing, you can be completely sure that the time is not right.
As far as everyone's experience goes, it's definitely not ten o'clock yet!
“…… Is that clock broken? Or is it our perception that is wrong. ”
"Shall we follow this bell?"
Liu Yu and the others spoke one after another.
"Ask?" Xia Yanzhen said.
"Ask whom?"
"Eight, of course." Xia Yanzhen walked out of his 301, came to the door of 302, and reached out to knock on the door.
I knocked for a while, but no one opened the door.
"Make a phone call." Xia Yanzhen said.
Mrs. Jones was still in 301, picked up the phone, and contacted Douglas at the front desk.
Douglas transferred to room 302.
But all that could be heard was the voice of Dudu, which rang for a full five minutes, and still no one answered.
"Did you hear the phone ringing?" Liu Yu put her ear to the door of the room and listened carefully.
"Nope."
"Nope."
"Yes."
Only Xia Yan really answered differently, he stood outside the door and could hear the phone ringing.
"Hang up." Xia Yanzhen said.
Mrs. Jones hesitated in the room, and explained to Douglas that it was broken.
The ringing from room 302 stops.
"Forget it, let's do it at night." Liu Yu rubbed her eyebrows, looking slightly tired.
So far, no one has encountered any danger.
But constant thinking and analysis is inevitable.
Physically, I am not tired, but mentally I am not relaxed.
302's number eight didn't respond, and I don't know if he had entered the room or not.
306 Everyone doesn't want to provoke for the time being.
A group of people returned to their rooms and closed the door.
The entire third floor fell silent.
Xia Yanzhen dragged the chair in the room, put it behind the door, and didn't close the door, sat on the chair, and just looked at 302.
Don't force the door open, it's always okay to see, right?
Not long after sitting on the chair, the sound of the floor clock on the first floor came.
A total of 11 strikes were made, and there was still an hour left before 12 o'clock on the red line.