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In the hall, except for me and Li Tian, there were only corpses left, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

"Eagle: I know that there is a secret passage under the pyramid, as the results of archaeologists' calculations, the pyramid is only a surface marker to indicate the geographical location, and it is the world below the tower that really deserves attention, not the pyramid itself. From Wang Shi's video, it can be seen that Leng Xin is in the tower, or in the secret passage of the tower, or in the secret passage at the bottom of the tower. Give me a little time, and I'll be able to get her back and deliver it to you personally. ”

Li Tian continued the topic just now, and his eyes glanced at the wooden box in my hand from time to time.

The deep well that Tang Mei and I fell into may be one of the secret passages of the pyramid. In the past two decades, archaeologists have written hundreds of books on the Great Pyramid, but they are limited to the superficial things such as stones and frescoes, which have not yet penetrated into the interior.

"I hope so, but for now, let's find the old class. "My heart hung in the air again.

"Eagle, if I find the master of the 'Feast of the Immortals', will you dare to meet him?" he continued to ask.

"Of course what's not to dare?" I don't believe that anyone who has seen "The Fire of Prometheus" must have met with bad luck.

Li Tian laughed: "Okay, let's make a promise, I'll help you find Leng Xin, and you help me get the baby." ”

This kind of transaction seems to be no stranger to me, and working with him is tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger, which is extremely dangerous.

The little lady of the lotus appeared on the stairs, her head bowed, and sighed worriedly.

"How is Mrs. Ban?" asked Li Tian with concern.

"The murderer is under the Moonlight Hotel - Eagle, I am completely sure of his location, but I can't awaken his inner subconscious through the 'Mandarin Duck Double Killing Insects', this strange phenomenon has never been seen before. He's not dead, but it's not like he's alive normally, I don't understand, can humans survive in another strange situation between life and death?"

She sat down gently on the stairs and clutched her head, deep in confusion.

I regret sending the letter to Lao Ban at that time, otherwise he and her are now happy parents of three children, and their parents have long forgotten the bloody past.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go to the Moonlight Hotel right away?" Li Tian showed a rare enthusiasm that made me suspicious. Lao Ban's life and death have nothing to do with him, why should he try his best to pry it out?

I picked up the little lady lotus and walked out the door together.

"Eagle, I'll drive you guys, and I hope your friend will be okay. Li Tian came out and soon moved a gray car.

Along the way, the little lady of the lotus always hung her head and said nothing, as if she was exhausted and couldn't bear it.

I took out the phone and called Charlotte, after all, she was the only one who could give the Moonlight Hotel to the house.

Her voice was as charming as ever: "Eagle, I've agreed to tear down that wall, what else do you want?"

The woman's sixth sense is very strong, and before I can say anything, she has already guessed my purpose.

"Miss Charlotte is having a bit of an accident at the moment, and I would like you to expand my search to explore every part of the mansion in detail. I smiled wryly, and if she knew I was trying to dig three feet into the ground to find the murderer, she would have refused.

Li Tian stared at me from the rearview mirror, listening intently to every word I said.

"Yes, I will be honored to help you with this, and I will inform the hotel later and fully cooperate with your search. Eagle, I have done what I can, and I hope you will also practice the preface and complete what you promised me. "She is worthy of being a shrewd businessman, who always closely links human affection with business and refuses to suffer.

For a wealthy man like her, tearing down a hotel is just an extra addition to the asset statistics table and a small addition.

I sighed, "Thank you." ”

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done one by one, since you have already waded through the troubled waters of Cairo this time, let's go on step by step. owes Charlotte this great favor, and must slowly pay it back. During the call, I noticed that Li Tian's spirit was in a state of high concentration, and his ears were erect, as if he wanted to put all the words I said into his memory.

Actually, even though we are in the same car, we are still not the same people, and if I am smart enough, I must always remember this.

Li Tian's car was parked on the corner of the street five hundred meters away from the hotel, and he turned his head to look at me apologetically: "I'm sorry, I can only send it here, I'm still wanted, I don't want to trouble you anymore." ”

With an American's eyes on every city in the world, his worries are not unfounded. The building was peaceful and tranquil at night, but I knew that the police had secretly deployed all directions on several nearby streets, ready to respond to emergencies.

"Take care!" Li Tian stretched out his hand to me again, his eyes shining with an incomprehensible light in the dimly lit car.

"Hopefully the next time we meet, we won't be enemies again. I was honest with myself, though I knew it was hard to do.

"Eagle, you are so careful, the Yueqing Gang and I have always been willing to welcome you with open arms, even every Asian Jianghu master. Next time, we will definitely be friends who fight side by side. He smiled incomprehensibly.

I got out of the car with the little lady lotus and walked slowly to the hotel.

"Eagle, I have a very strange feeling that the old Ben is dead, but his mind is still alive and alive in another person. She whispered to me with a wry smile. Li Tian was there just now, and we never had a chance to communicate.

"What does that mean, has someone snatched away the thoughts of the old class?" My heart was cold, and I immediately thought of Bai Xiaoxie, the godson of the Snake King. He was captured by the Indians, but all the Indians disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown. Bai Xiaoxie is good at capturing the other party's thoughts by sucking up other people's brains, if the hunch of the little lady lotus is correct, it should prove that Bai Xiaoxie has appeared again.

"I don't know, when the mandarin duck double insecticide signals, no matter how far apart they are, the old class will always notice it. In the underground drainage, we saw Ben's body, who was theoretically dead, but now I know that he was with the killer under the building. ”

She didn't know Bai Xiaoxie, so she couldn't imagine what it was.

I frowned, feeling a little headache about what was about to happen.

We walked through the revolving door into the empty hotel lobby, and a middle-aged man in a neat suit had already greeted me and bowed to me: "Mr. Chen, I am the hotel's executive vice president, Hammerson, and I am ordered to wait here for you to accept your dispatch at any time. ”

Charlotte's phone call was very effective, and the hotel immediately received a decree after a word of command.

I shook hands with him, and the little lady pointed to the elevator tiredly, and she didn't bother to speak.

The three of them entered the elevator, and Hammerson was just about to pull the button on the eighteenth floor, and the little lady Lotus shook her head: "Go to the third floor underground." ”

Hammerson was stunned: "I'm sorry, Miss, the third basement floor is the hotel's storage room, and there won't be anything you're interested in." ”

As a foreigner, he wouldn't understand what we were thinking, so there was no need to explain to him, I raised my hand and flicked the button.

The elevator stopped on the third basement floor, and as soon as the door opened, a cold and cold humidity rushed into the face. Hammerson shuddered, revealing a disapproving expression.

The little lady of the lotus perked up her spirits, took the lead out of the elevator, and walked northwest without hesitation. This floor has not undergone any decoration, hundreds of cement pillars are rough and exposed, and many unopened wooden boxes are placed randomly in rows east and west, looking crowded and cluttered.

We walked to the northwest corner together, and she stopped in front of a row of wooden boxes, carefully gazing at the dust marks on the wooden boxes: "Someone passed by here and disturbed the dust, and it was a woman as light as a swallow. Eagle: I think this is the entrance to the underground space, please remove the wooden box. ”

Hammerson rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "These boxes contain spare parts for the building's air conditioning system, and each box weighs more than 800 kilograms, and I have to move a forklift to move them." ”

Normally, he would have made people laugh, but now I wasn't in the mood to joke, and I walked around the box and looked at the ground carefully. A pair of tiny footprints were evident in the middle of the dust on the ground, no doubt from the shoes of a petite girl.

"There will definitely be no hotel waitress here, and those who set foot here must have ulterior motives. I immediately made up my mind, put my hands on the wooden boxes, and slowly pushed the three wooden boxes stacked together three meters away.

The junction of Gengxinjin in the west and Nonqishui in the north must be pregnant with a "negative" killing machine.

"The killer is a woman?" blurted out the little lady and I blurted out almost at the same time.

"My old class and I have faded out of the rivers and lakes for a long time, and we don't pay much attention to the latest movements of the people in the rivers and lakes. Has Eagle made a name for herself in Cairo lately?" she asked thoughtfully.

The first person who jumped into mind was Tang Mei, she was a famous bounty hunter and naturally deserved the title of "Famous Female Killer".

"There are a few, but none of them have anything to do with this. I thought about it for a few seconds before answering cautiously. Tang Mei is a big man who leads the group, and will never get involved in these strange and strange events.

The little lady of the lotus blossom cheered up and paced back and forth on the ground of nearly twenty square meters in front of her, carefully measuring.

Hammerson coughed lightly and asked, "Mr. Chen, can you tell me what you're looking for?"

He stamped his foot vigorously on the rough concrete floor, indicating that this was a solid edifice and that nothing could be said about it.

I made a "silence" gesture and asked him not to disturb the little lady Lotus's thoughts.

Hammerson shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands in mockery, slowly retreating and sitting down on a small wooden box at the side. He is a staff member of the hotel, and he can only listen to the boss's arrangement, otherwise he would have been impatient and would have been mixed with us two inexplicable Orientals.

The little lady of the lotus flower took out the mandarin duck double insecticide again, and the two insects lined up in a line, slowly wriggling on the ground, and finally stopped in the northwest corner.

"Right below, both Bugs and I could feel the old class's mind in action. She pressed her temples in pain and sat down against the wall, still in thought.

I walked to the corner, and at the foot of the wall was hard cement concrete, and if she was right, she would need to dig from here now.

"Can Hammerson do me a favor? Mobilize the workers to come and dig down from here. I commanded Hammerson.

He jumped up in shock and laughed sarcastically: "What? Mr. Chen, do you know what is underneath this? It is two meters thick of reinforced concrete, and under the concrete is a stone paved foundation platform. It will take at least ten days to dig up this place, and I believe that after you have done all this, you will only see the most ordinary material on the earth, that is, sand, which will never be bottomless!"

Anyone in their right mind would say that, so I don't think it's surprising. Buildings like the Moonlight Hotel were designed and constructed to meet the standard of earthquake resistance of level 8, and the requirements for the stability of the foundation were quite strict.

"Dig up here, or you'll probably lose your current position tomorrow, and there's no second option. I calmly repeated.

Hammerson raised his hands and made a loud roaring motion, but finally held back rationally: "Mr. Chen, I am a senior professional manager, with a professional higher education in Europe, and I have no interest in these strange things that you Oriental people do to pretend to be ghosts. You can ask your boss to fire me, but I will never compromise and waste investors' money with this kind of boring work. ”

I admire the tall, handsome American's ability to stand up to his own opinions, after all, right or wrong, he scrupulously follows his own rules of conduct, and has strict definitions of what can and cannot be done.

The little lady of the lotus flower suddenly flicked up, and her eyes flashed fiercely.

I pressed her shoulder in time and whispered to her: "Shao'an, don't be impatient, don't delay important work because of a momentary mood." ”

I've seen this kind of expression on her face countless times, and it's most normal for her daughter to kill people in a fit of anger as a Gu alchemist. If it weren't for the softness of the old class, she would have become Miao Jiang's murderous female demon long ago.

I pulled out my phone and prepared to call Meez. Such a solid foundation requires professional excavation to do more with less. It would be easier to do this with the power of Miz.

"Eagle, I just lost my temper, there are some strange directions of the five elements here, as if I can't control myself. She stared at her feet ashamedly, "Maybe it's the comfortable life of the past few years that has completely wasted my martial arts and alchemy." ”

In fact, what I really feel ashamed of should be the man who loves her and spoils her the most in my old class, but because of my drag, she died, and her world of thought turned into a desert again.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak," the two little insects suddenly screamed, and one of them flapped its wings and flew up, hovering in the air for a week, and then swooped into the corner of the wall. There were a few small anthill-like holes in that location that didn't catch our attention at first, but the two small insects squeezed into the holes in an instant and disappeared.

The little lady of the lotus flower was startled, and immediately sat down cross-legged, put her palms together, and closed her chest and eyes tightly.

Hammerson snorted coldly, got up and hid farther away, as if he was more disdainful of the Chinese's little tricks.

"Beneath the foundation is a vast dark space, and there is a little light in the distance. The light approached, and it was a square entrance, with a staircase spiraling downward. Yes, that's right, and I'm not wrong at all. I swooped down faster until I was blocked by a door. The walls, floors, and doors here were written in red, no doubt incantations, but they didn't belong to any sect I've seen. The metal door was so tight that I couldn't get through......," she whispered dreamily, her head drooping lower and lower, her chin resting on her middle finger.

I stopped pressing the number and listened intently to her business.

"Those spells were completely blood-smeared, and I felt the murder coming at me. It's a ...... The crisis of humanity as a whole is not directed at any one person, so we have to get there and see what is happening. Hawk, do you hear the slow grinding of thousands of snakes, the sizzling of snake letters......

She looked up suddenly, her eyes bloodshot red.

I didn't feel anything unusual, but there were already too many strange things going on in the building, and I would be mentally prepared for whatever happened next.

"Don't worry, I'll find someone to chisel this place right away—"

I started to press Miz's number, but she suddenly reached out and grabbed my wrist and shouted, "No, no, wait a minute, we'll have to talk about it." ”

More fear pervaded her entire face, so much so that her good-looking features began to distort, losing her former composure and composure.

"Eagle, I need to go back to your room and calm down, maybe...... Maybe we'll do something when reinforcements arrive. She slowly got up, pressed her temple hand harder, and her nails were digging deep into the flesh.

It can be imagined that everything she discovered with the power of the Gu worm was very terrifying, almost to the point where she couldn't control her thoughts, and she would be so out of shape and stuck.

"Okay, let's go back to our room first, and it's not too late to do something tomorrow. "In this situation, I have to be calm enough to stabilize the situation quickly.

We still have room to make choices before things get worse enough to fall apart. There is also an instructor who is also in Cairo at this time, and if something inevitably happens, he will not stand idly by. Limited him, my heart was immediately filled with warmth.

Hammerson stepped out of the elevator on the first floor, and the little lady and I continued upward, silent.

Her eyes had been staring at the flickering LCD numbers, and she suddenly muttered to herself: "Could it be that someone has long realized that something is just a secret? I and Lao Ban are not the smartest people, at least less intelligent than Li Tian." When a large number of masters gather in Cairo, they will definitely be able to show some strange things early, and they will not wait until now to be ignorant. ”

I thought about it for a moment and immediately followed her train of thought: "There are indeed some strange things in the building, and I thought at first that as long as I found the mechanism and secret passage inside the building, I could find the cause of the strange thing. Now it seems that it is wrong to judge the origin of this matter, and there is no necessary connection between strange things, secret passages, and murders, and everything is out of the scope of normal human thinking. ”

At first, the dragon elephant girl was not in the building, but it was Xiwei who was poisoned and Mai Ye assigned her to detoxify this line, and when she entered here, there was a confusing mutation. At this point, I couldn't figure out if the building was causing her problems or if she had caused the building to go wrong. It is impossible to distinguish between the two as to cause and which is to be the effect.

The elevator stopped on the eighteenth floor, and she went out first, and asked thoughtfully, "Eagle Hammerson's mind is very thoughtful, maybe he can be our pathfinder, right?"

I smiled wryly: "But he is innocent." ”

When Hammerson is away from us, he is secretly observing the terrain and gathering clues, not just whining. To be able to enter the international professional manager's profession, his ability to analyze problems must not be bad, so he accompanied us into the third basement floor while solving problems, rather than simply being a shadow of a few people.

Several vigorous searches by the police have driven all the guests away, causing heavy damage to the hotel. In this respect, it is also a necessary responsibility for Hammerson to give an account to the board of directors to find the cause of the strange incident. There is no doubt that he will go back to search alone while I and the little lady Lotus are leaving.

"There will be sacrifices to do anything, there will be no blood to water, where will the strange flowers bloom? Eagle listens to me this time, don't try to remind him, okay?" she smiled wryly, leaning limply against the wall, her face sallow and her gasping for more and more heavily.

I kept my hands in my trouser pockets and pinched the phone, and I wanted to call to remind Hammerson.

Indeed, the pathfinder will need a crisis at any time, and there must always be a victim who touches the invisible danger, and the person behind can see the trick.

"Hopefully he'll be fine. "In the face of her begging gaze, I had to give up for a while.

Americans are the most adventurous, and if they're lucky, Hammerson will change his mind.

The little lady with the lotus flower entered the room, her face gradually became calm, and she fell on the sand, tired and motionless.

"Would you like something to drink?" I pulled open the refrigerator and quietly scanned everything in the living room, making sure there was nothing unusual about it.

"I'm sorry for taking a nap, my spirit seems to be about to break. Her breath grew weaker and weaker, turning over and curling up inward.

I took a blanket and covered her, then opened a can of beer and drank it and walked briskly through all the rooms to search more closely. There have been so many strange things going on in this room, and I have to be vigilant lest something happen to the last helper around me.

The room service on the hotel side is impeccable, and not even the slightest fold on the bed linen is as smooth as new. The bedside table was also routinely filled with a bottle of lily a day, and the rich aroma spread silently through the room.

I walked to the balcony and stared at the lights of the thousands of houses that were singing and dancing again.

"Do you want to inform Miz immediately to dig the underground corner where the little lady of the lotus flower and the mandarin duck are killed? No matter who is the real culprit behind the killing of the old class, as long as you can reveal the secret under the mansion, you can finally solve part of the puzzle, let yourself have more confidence——"

Strangely, it seems that the little lady of the lotus flower is very terrified of her present and will stop me from calling Miz. It was she who dripped, fed insects, and risked death to track down, and it was she who stopped tracking at a critical time, what went wrong with this?

At this moment, she had already snored slightly, and put these troublesome trivial things aside for the time being.

"Let's hope she'll have a clearer plan of action when she's sober?" I could only raise my glass and pray.

The world of alchemy is complex and changeable, and I am not a person in this industry, so of course I can't understand the mysteries in depth. According to the convention, the daughter of Gu Alchemy cannot marry someone outside the industry, and the combination of the little lady of the lotus flower and the old class is a great example of rebellion. For this time, she was even expelled from Miao Jiang and became a homeless ranger.

After about three hours, the beer cans at my feet had been thrown away, and a dozen little lotus ladies still hadn't woken up.

"Maybe that's all there is to it tonight?" I was a little depressed, and I had gained very little today, and it didn't help things to unfold.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang sharply.