Under the guidance of the head of Yangcun, several people returned to the first floor, and in one of the drawers at the hotel counter, an aluminum box was taken out.

"I found this box when I searched the hotel, and I saw that the decorations inside were quite special, so I brought one with me."

The head of Yangcun said truthfully.

He didn't expect that a brooch that looked so inconspicuous would almost cost him his life, "I originally planned to give it to others as a souvenir." ”

Song Lan looked at the box, the owner of the inn put it here, probably planning to use these "brooches" as gifts.

He opened another brooch in front of several people and removed the chip inside.

The technologically savvy design doesn't look like a religious prop used to curse or perform some kind of evil ritual, he explained to several people, "The reason why you are sleepwalking is because of the influence of the chip, and the virus in it will invade your prosthetic body and control your behavior in your sleep." ”

“…… Was it the hackers who attacked us? ”

"You can think so, the solution is very simple, as long as you don't carry this thing with you anymore, you won't have sleepwalking symptoms anymore."

The encounter of the three once again proves a philosophy of life - don't pick up things you haven't seen.

It may not only be the nameplate of the victims left over from the previous era, but it may also be cobalt 60, Song Lan remembers that in a medical drama she watched before, there were people who were curious and overly picked up radiation and wore it as a talisman on their bodies every day.

Perhaps this is a true portrayal of the reality that art comes from, but what happens in the town is even more scary.

It is not known whether the victims who fell off the cliff during sleepwalking also caused misfortune because they received this souvenir.

On the other hand, he had to thank the three for their deaths, and if they hadn't rummaged through the cabinets to find the "pins", they didn't know when they would have noticed what had happened in the hotel.

After receiving the baptism of science and going upstairs with a sudden realization, Feng Chime curiously picked up a "brooch" and asked, "Is there really a virus installed by hackers?" ”

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that the town's decades-long artificial disappearances were the culprits of these inconspicuous decorations.

"I don't know."

"Huh?"

"I just made it up."

Song Lan's straightforward tone and demeanor stunned the wind chimes, obviously a few minutes ago, this person was still popularizing science to the three of them with a sanctimonious appearance, but the content of his words turned out to be made up blindly?

"There's no doubt that this thing causes people to be sleepwalking, but I haven't figured out exactly how it works."

For a moment, he couldn't figure out why a will from decades ago was attached to these objects, but these items that looked like victims' identity plates gave him a new direction.

Perhaps Captain Kate also followed these objects that carried the consciousness of people in the previous era, and found the den of the Dream Thief she mentioned at the end of the post-it note step by step.

If you want to get closer to science, you need to step out of scientific thinking and return to the small town monster itself.

And this regression has been the case for decades.

That has to be traced back to decades ago, when the hotel was just renovated, Song Lan found a strange talk about the hotel from the collection of strange stories about the town that Lu Xiang found.

After the inn opened, there were frequent haunting incidents inside, with some residents claiming to have heard terrible noises in their sleep, some people waking up to find themselves under the bed, and others claiming that someone had touched their room in the middle of the night.

Rumors of the haunting of the inn were rampant, and for a time the people of the town panicked, believing that the inn had provoked something unclean.

In desperation, the innkeeper spent a lot of money to invite a master.

The unnamed man kicked everyone out of the hotel, where he stayed alone for three days and three nights, after which the haunting subsided and the inn has been in business ever since.

Even the boss didn't know what kind of magic the master had cast, but someone vaguely heard the sound of banging and banging coming from the basement of the hotel late every night.

In the countless programs that Song Lan has seen that approach science, or in bizarre events, there will be one or a few unknown masters, but I didn't expect that in the twenty-second century, this industry is still not extinct.

He followed the strange hint and went to the basement of the inn, which was full of discarded furniture and old electrical appliances, and it seemed that the boss had eliminated the inn and brought all the things that were difficult to deal with, and he searched in the basement for a long time before finally discovering a sealed entrance at the prompting of the Devourer.

In his opinion, the walls here were no different from the surroundings, and if it weren't for the reminder of the Devourer, he probably wouldn't have found this place for another night.

Breaking through the blocked entrance all the way down, Song Lan thought that she would see some bloody and terrifying pictures, but she didn't expect that under the entrance, there was still a space similar to a storage room, all kinds of daily necessities were thrown on the ground, and some "brooches" fell on the ground.

The place looked deserted, the ground was covered with ash, and the musty smell in the air had reached the point of choking, as if no one had come in for years.

He went all the way deeper and eventually found a few rooms deep in the storage room.

One of them looks like an abandoned surveillance room, which houses equipment that was obsolete decades ago, and next to it, a room that resembles an interrogation room.

As soon as he opened the door, a foul smell entered his nose.

A dry skeleton lay across the door, and the clothes on the body were so torn that they couldn't see the original shape clearly, but the pistol next to the skeleton made Song Lan think of the identity of the corpse for the first time.

It even immediately occurred to him that Captain Kate had found the place all the way, gun in hand, and walked into the room vigilantly.

Her body lay on the ground, and from the direction it appeared, it seemed to have been attacked from behind.

But because there were only white bones left in her corpse, Song Lan couldn't tell for a while whether she was shot or beaten with a stick.

Just as he wanted to take a closer look at the body, a deep voice came from inside the door.

"You're here."

Song Lan's heart tightened, there was still someone hiding inside?

But before entering, neither he nor the Devourer sensed any signs of life in the lower levels.

The voice seemed to mistake him for someone else, and continued to ask, "How's the work I asked you to do?" ”