mtl008 Chapter 510 [Domain·1st Gate] Coffin
Chapter 510 [Domain·1st Gate] Coffin
Snapped.
Among the footsteps, the most noticeable was a muffled thud, like an old man with a hunched back, walking with heavy, dragging steps.
The three exchanged a glance, said nothing, and each found a place to hide!
In that brief instant, Xu Sandao sensed from Bai Shaohua's flickering gaze that the other party definitely possessed a powerful life-saving skill, but there was absolutely no way he would use it now.
moment
The footsteps stopped.
On the wall, the shape of a person slowly emerged, and soon the figure merged out of the wall and stepped into the room.
However, the small house is now empty.
The fourth floor isn't very big...
How long can it stay here?
Under the bed, Xu Sandao hid in front of Liu Zi, which made it easier for him to observe the situation outside and prevent Liu Zi from being captured immediately.
Three pairs of feet were visible through the gap under the bed.
They are arranged neatly and uniformly, in the order of front, middle, and back, with equal spacing between them.
Those were three ghosts.
Strangely, after they came in, they simply continued pacing at the same pace as before.
“The two behind are the ones who have entered the realm…” Xu Sandao narrowed his eyes. The feet of the two ghosts behind him were covered in blood, which had stained their white shoes dark red.
As you walk forward, you leave wet trails on the ground.
Dark red.
Chen Ji saw the three ghosts about an hour ago. The blood was fresh then, and it should have dried after an hour. Why is it dark red?
Furthermore, the footprints couldn't possibly be that wet unless the stairwell was extremely damp...
Xu Sandao wasn't sure if Chen Ji had mentioned this.
He noted down this suspicious detail and, glancing at the leading ghost at the front, his expression subtly changed.
“Liberation shoes… This is an old man,” Liu Zi whispered in his ear.
Xu Sandao nodded.
To be precise, the one we need to be most careful of in this group of ghosts is the leader, who is very likely the hotel manager.
"I have an idea," Liu Zi murmured hesitantly, his voice muffled by the sound of footsteps.
The fourth floor may not be the "end".
"Look, it goes up to a wall and then turns back, repeating the cycle. In other words, they are actually going in circles inside the room... Doesn't that look like climbing stairs?"
As he spoke, Liu Zi gestured to Xu Sandao to observe the pattern of the ghosts' movements outside.
"understood."
A glint of light flashed in Xu Sandao's eyes: "The fourth floor is also a zone; they just happened to be transmitted here."
"We're really unlucky."
"There's nothing we can do, Brother Du isn't here." Liu Zi's expression didn't relax at all: "The question now is, how long are they going to stay here?"
One interval has seven layers.
The three ghosts are moving forward at a steady pace, at their current speed...
"Five minutes," Xu Sandao said. "After these five minutes, we'll be fine."
But a new problem has arisen... The manager can clearly take the elevator to the 4th floor, so why has it been moved, as if it were bewitched, to that chaotic stairwell?
Xu Sandao frowned slightly; he had a guess.
That is, a staircase is just another form of an elevator.
But why is one a cemetery outside the hotel, and the other built entirely inside the hotel?
and many more.....
Is there a possibility.
Xu Sandao suddenly remembered the three wooden sticks.
There was adhesive on the back, as if it had been stuck there before.
Hotel sign?
Kiku Ryokan.
This is a very difficult name to pronounce.
There seems to be a large gap between "木" (wood) and "久" (long), as if there should have been another character or radical in between...
Cemetery.
坟。
coffin......
柩。
The three wooden sticks fell from the hotel sign.
So, it's not Kiku Ryokan, it's a coffin!
The hotel is a coffin.
Is it the literal meaning, or a metaphor?
And who does this coffin belong to?
manager.
Because it is the owner of the hotel.
Xu Sandao got goosebumps on his arms. Why could the manager's coffin contain other ghosts?
Unless the coffin represents something more than just a hotel room.
Thinking of the different decorations on the fourth floor compared to other places, the cemetery outside the elevator, that phantom... an answer is becoming clear.
It's not a hotel built in a cemetery, but a hotel = cemetery!
Each room is like a grave mound. Each floor is a part of the cemetery; they are not built together in gradual increments, but rather are separate units.
That's why, starting from the third round of elevators numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, the hotel completely transformed into a cemetery. They were walking through different cemetery areas, gradually approaching the nominal fourth floor.
That is, the building at the end of the road.
That shadowy building wasn't a hotel.
The staircase ghost is not a resident; its identity is outside the realm of the superfluous. If it can harbor other ghosts, then it can only be—
The gravedigger.
Therefore, it is the manager's role.
The manager of the cemetery.
The guests' check-in information was so detailed, but they didn't record their own contact information. Instead, they only wrote down the contact person's phone number and the guest's relationship to them. This was because it wasn't part of the check-in process.
It's the burial procedure.
so......
That shadowy building is a structure that inevitably appears in a graveyard:
The tomb keeper's house.
This explains why the fourth floor is dry, while the third floor leaks...
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Regarding the question asked by some readers, why were Liu Zi and the others allowed to go to the 4th floor even though they didn't have any front desk duties?
The reason why the front desk staff can use the walkie-talkie to move employees to different work areas is not because they are born with this authority, but because the hotel has granted them this authority, with the ultimate goal of meeting the hotel's needs.
For example, delivering fruit, cleaning different areas, etc.
The hotel's needs include meeting the guests' requirements.
Once the transaction was finalized, completing the transaction became Zhou Liang's requirement, so they were allowed to take the elevator to the 4th floor.
P.S
My eyes are sore from working so hard. I managed to write one chapter, I'll finish the rest once my eyesight improves a bit.