Chapter 460: 'Strange'
Walking quickly down the narrow stairs and out of the apartment, Zhang Lisheng walked on the street and suddenly found that hundreds of people had gathered on the road in the dark, looking up at the night sky, staring at the shining shuttle-shaped spaceship, and making bumpy and uneasy discussions.
It's time for the Upper West Side of Manhattan to have a glamorous nightlife that hasn't started yet;
In some of Brooklyn's upscale neighborhoods, house parties should have just welcomed the last few guests;
But in a terrible place like 'Jasmine Street', the road should have been empty a long time ago, and now so many people pouring into the streets were clearly startled by the sudden and strange spaceship over New York.
Walking down the street, the young people listened to a few inconsequential remarks such as "I think it is a new type of fighter plane experimented by the military, or a civil aviation aircraft developed by those large companies...", and then they stopped paying attention to the self-comfort of the ordinary people on the street.
Covering his mouth and breathing in the filthy air, he strode a block to the left to a better neighborhood and got into a yellow taxi parked on the side of the road.
The black driver in the taxi was listening to the New York News Channel's broadcast of the "Spaceship Incident", and the hoarse but magnetic host's deep words echoed in the car, "... We don't know if they're visitors from the 'otherworldly' realm or travelers from an alien planet, but we hope that when the ship opens, it will fly out of the 'white dove' and not show its guns..."
Seeing a guest getting on the bus, the young driver with a mustache on his chin whispered and asked, "Good evening, sir, where are you going?"
"The best 5 star hotel nearby. Zhang Lisheng replied: "Excuse me, does the radio mention that the government has any official statement about the spaceship above us?"
"No sir," the driver said as he started the car and shrugged his shoulders, "but it is said that this glowing shuttle-shaped spaceship has been found not only in New York, but also in all parts of the world, such as Shencheng in China, Whiteshire in England... In short, they are all over the place. β
"yes, that's terrible. The young man sat in the back seat of the car and looked thoughtfully at the flashing neon lights outside the window, and then said no more until the taxi turned around the streets of New York for a while, and then turned a few corners and stopped in front of a brightly lit luxury hotel. Only then did he open his mouth to thank him. Paid for the car.
"Welcome to Green Palm Hotel Beate. Seeing that a taxi was parked in front of the hotel, the waiter in the hall stepped forward to help Zhang Lisheng open the door.
The young man got out of the car and said, "Xie Lu, thank you." He took out fifty meters and handed it over. Under the waiter's surprise and redoubling courtesy. Walked briskly into the hotel lobby. When he came to the front desk, a beautiful receptionist in a beige uniform showed eight teeth and politely asked, "Good evening sir." Do you have a reservation?"
"Nope. Zhang Lisheng shook his head and thought about it and said, "I don't know if there is still a vacant room in the basement of the road?"
The basement rooms of noble hotels are usually for those who want to enjoy the convenience of the hotel without paying for expensive accommodation, or for those who work in the hotel's 'special services' at a very low price.
Hearing Zhang Lisheng's words, as a professional five-star hotel receptionist, the girl did not show disgust or contempt, and still said very politely: "Yes, there is a double room of 80 meters in the basement room of our hotel, a 4 room of 55 meters and ...", but a pair of well-dressed young couples who were also opening the room next to them looked at each other strangely and smiled.
"Miss is like this, I want to rent the largest room type in the basement, exchange a large bed, full room service, stay for two days, and the price is whatever you want. Zhang Lisheng took out the credit card from his pocket and handed it over, interrupting the receptionist.
"I'm sorry sir, our hotel doesn't provide the kind of service you say, and the basement can't be turned into a royal suite on the top floor, I thinkβ"
"Miss, there are three spaceships floating over New York now, smart people should live far away from them, right," Zhang Lisheng interrupted the female receptionist again, "I'm Zhang Lisheng, Zhang Lisheng of LS, I know that the service I want is not, well, it's not 'conventional', but please talk to the manager of your hotel's public relations department on the phone, I believe there are always exceptions." β
As he spoke, the young man gently lifted the credit card placed on the marble counter, revealing a hundred-dollar bill pressed underneath.
"Okay sir, but I can't guarantee anything. The girl looked at the rather tempting tip in front of her, thought for a moment, and reached for the phone.
A few minutes later, when she whispered to end the call, her attitude towards Zhang Lisheng immediately changed from politeness to respect, "Let you wait for a long time, Mr. Zhang, 'Beate Green Brown' is very honored to have you here, please wait in the lobby, we will handle your request immediately." β
"Thank you. The young man thanked him, and turned around and walked to the rest area next to the fountain in the lobby under the surprised eyes of the young couple on the side, and just after walking a few steps, he heard that the couple was also communicating at the front desk and wanted to change the room to a renovated basement, but unfortunately they were politely refused.
After sitting on the couch and drinking the finest freshly ground Brazilian coffee, the young man was found in a spacious room with a difference, deep in the basement, on the second floor.
Walking into the room, although the floor, ceiling and walls could not be decorated in a short time, the gorgeous waterbed, expensive bedding, and the delicate leather sofa and solid wood table on the wall were full of flowers, but he could not help but smile with satisfaction.
"Very good, thank you for your excellent service, Mr. Hepps," Zhang Lisheng looked around and nodded, smiling at the hotel lobby manager who personally escorted him to the basement, "This really, really makes me feel at home." β
"It's good if you can be satisfied," Being able to work as a lobby manager in a five-star hotel in New York naturally has a very outstanding appearance temperament, approaching the middle of the year, the thick brown hair is meticulously combed and very neatly Heppes bowed politely, "It's an honor to serve you, don't disturb you to rest Mr. Zhang, see you again." He turned and left the room.
After Zhang Lisheng was the only one left in the room, the young man took a hot shower in the bathroom and changed into milk-soft pajamas.
After another feast of seafood and a whole bucket of ice cream, he turned off the light and hesitated for a while, he smiled and muttered to himself, "As the saying goes, 'you can be beaten to death, but you can't be scared to death', and it's not a good thing to be cautious too much...", sat cross-legged on the bed, and practiced with secret methods.
He said that there was no need to be too cautious, but this time Zhang Lisheng was still deliberately vigilant, doubly careful, and was ready to be attacked by a 'foreign civilization' spaceship in New York, or a battle between the Mi army and the spaceship, and the hotel woke up and fled when the pond fish was affected, but nothing abnormal happened until early in the morning.
After being woken up by the ringing of Maddie's phone, the young man and the girl set a time and place to meet in the lobby of the green-brown hotel in Beate.
The two spent a whole day in New York doing nothing, and in the evening, Zhang Lisheng returned to the hotel basement room and searched on the Internet, and was surprised to find that there was still no official statement from any country for the mysterious shuttle-type spaceship that spread to many cities on the earth.
It doesn't take too a smart mind to find that something is very wrong, very strange, close the computer, lean his back completely on the back of the office chair and shake it in contemplation for a while, the young man took out his mobile phone and called up Charlie's number on the screen.
He hesitated for a moment before dialing out, and finally muttered to himself: "I can meet Charlie tomorrow, and it is more convenient to ask him in person about some things...", canceling the number.
After that, Zhang Lisheng put away his mobile phone, climbed onto the waterbed, and still spent the night practicing secret methods, and rushed to JFK International Airport with Maddie at noon the next day, and embarked on a flight to New Mexico.
"Are you still used to the business class environment?" As soon as the flight took off smoothly, the flight attendants told the passengers that they could unbuckle their seat belts freely, and Maddie gently asked Zhang Lisheng, who was habitually looking out the window with a contemplative expression.
"Although there are no cooks, recliners, and bathrooms, the seats in the row for two people are much more spacious than in economy class," the young man replied casually, "and I don't have the heart to think about whether I am used to it now, and now we are flying in the sky, and if we are attacked by those mysterious shuttle-type spaceships, we will not even have a chance to escape..."
"Oh, Li Sheng, don't give such a terrible example, those shiny shuttle-type spaceships have no malicious intent," the girl interrupted Zhang Lisheng's terrifying prediction, "Didn't you watch the video this morning, they didn't have the slightest intention of fighting back after being attacked, I think those spaceships may be really..."
"Maddie, wait, you said those shuttle ships were attacked," Zhang Lisheng's eyes widened and asked, "Did the earthlings do it?"
"Of course," the girl replied with a nod, "it was the Middle Eastern extremist religious organization 'Mohammed Honors' that organized an attack on the shuttle ship with air-range missiles.
They believe that those spacecraft are suspended detectors launched by the United States and its allies against the Islamic world, and that they are contemptuous of the entire world's Muslims. β
"Suspended detectors..."Zhang Lisheng paused for a moment and said, "I really don't understand what the heads of these extremist religious elements are made of, such speculation is too outrageous." β
"Whether it's outrageous or not, they've attacked," Maddie said, taking out her phone from her pocket, swiping it on the screen a few times, handing it to the young man and saying, "I've just seen this video, and it hasn't been automatically deleted, do you want to see it?"
"Oh sure, that's great. Zhang Lisheng said and took the phone and pressed the player directly. (To be continued......)