Chapter 4: Ghost ring

Grandpa Zhao shook his head and said to me with certainty, "The moment you write your name, you can't leave unless the ghost hotel disappears."
Not reconciled, I asked again, "What if I don't go?"
"It's useless. At the moment the clock strikes at 11 o'clock, you will automatically appear at the front desk of the hotel. Even if you die, your soul will continue to stay in the hotel for a full year before being reborn."
So evil? Even death can't get rid of this ghost hotel!
The cold sweat rolled down from my forehead until I was sent back to the city by Zhao Mingliang and I didn't get any relief.
In that case, I have to continue working. After all, the uncle did not die before, and I should be fine, as long as I do not violate the requirements.
Back in the city, it was already afternoon.
I found a beautiful hotel for a night's sleep, and then had a meal. When it was almost 11 in the evening, I sat on the hotel bed with dead eyes in my mouth and waited for that moment.
The surface is calm, but the palm of my hand is already sweaty. After all, I go to work where the ghost lives!
And there is more than one ghost there!
Thinking about it, I suddenly realized, why did ghost hotels appear? What is the purpose of appearance? Who is behind all this?
When I came back to my senses, I was already sitting on the chair at the front desk, and the clock just pointed at 11 o'clock.
The hotel door opened, and the old woman with a mask came in from the outside. Since she registered yesterday, she walked directly upstairs and stayed one night.
Then came a few new ghosts, both men and women of all ages.
It’s not hard to guess from the ‘names changed, people’s changed’ in their mouths, these ghosts often come.
I just don't know if they have lived here before, or if they come here from other places every day.
If this is the case, then the reputation of this ghost hotel should not be small in the ghost circle, otherwise how can you find it here?
Also, is there only one such ghost hotel in this city? Or more?
If there are more than one, where are the rest of the ghost hotels? Are the workers among them all the same as me?
As I had already experienced it once last night, and went to Grandpa Zhao's in the morning, I was not so afraid of these ghosts today. I just quickly registered their check-in procedures as required.
At this time, the pregnant woman led the little girl into the hotel door again.
The little girl walked forward while patting the ball, looking at me with white eyes without pupils, her little red mouth grinning, "Uncle, can you play the ball with me?"
I remembered what Grandpa Zhao said that physical contact is not allowed. It will be bad if you encounter it while playing with me. I just shook my head and refused.
Snapped!
The woman had already slapped the girl's face. The girl's head was knocked down to the side of her shoulder. Flesh and arteries and veins were connected between her neck and head. Scarlet blood flowed down, and her skirt was dyed red in a blink of an eye.
"Play, just know how to play." The woman scolded angrily.
"Woohoo..."
The girl's decapitated head was crying, tears streaming out, but all that came out was blood. What's even stranger was that the girl's hands were still slapping the ball.
Da da……
After two clicks, the rhythm is the same as when the head was not severed.
Such a horrible picture made my hairs stand up all over, so and hideous, even if it is a ghost, don't challenge my endurance like this, OK?
"Don't shut up honestly?"
The woman heard the crying, her face was violent, and she patted the girl's head. The girl's head was scared into the chest cavity. Although she was still crying, her hand still didn't stop playing with the ball.
"hiss--"
I took a breath, this girl is obsessed with playing! And this woman, does she have hatred against her child?
The woman suddenly smiled at me softly, "Sorry, let you see the joke."
Can I answer? I definitely won't. Grandpa Zhao and the former middle-aged man have said that they are not allowed to talk to them, otherwise they will be killed!
So I ignored her. I registered the ID to her. After she took it, she didn't leave directly like yesterday, but looked at where I was.
Didn’t the ghost here see me?
"Gluck... brother... hug!"
The son in the woman's belly suddenly crawled out of her belly, just like the last time, with a small scarlet mouth grinning and reaching out to me.
At this time, I saw the woman smile at me like never before, "My son wants you to hug him."
I was speechless in an instant. Didn't Grandpa Zhao who can catch ghosts say that the ghosts here can't see me! What is going on right now?
I was stiff in place, unable to move at all, but a cold sweat came out of my forehead. Has my condition changed? Or is it that the eyeballs of the walking dead are invalid?
"Woohoo!"
Without a response from me, the baby lying on the woman burst into tears, seeming to vent her anger, and bit her on the exposed arm of the woman.
"Puff!"
When the child looked up, a large piece of flesh was already in his mouth.
On the other hand, the woman saw a bone in her arm, blood was flowing, her painful facial features were wrinkled together, but she spoiled her other arm and let the baby take another bite.
The woman's expression is more painful, but her face is full of love.
The little girl stuffed her head into her chest, only showing her eyes outside. Her eyes were crescent-shaped looking at her brother and mother, showing a familiar expression, and she blinked at me.
Grass, can she really see me with her mother and brother?
After a short while, the woman had already cried out in pain, her blood and tears kept falling, her eyes looked at me pitifully, as if she was silently accusing me of being too cold and ruthless.
When I went to Nima, my compassion broke out, and I rushed out to take the baby off the woman.
"Hi...It's cold!"
I just felt that I was holding an ice cube in my arms, feeling cold all over, shaking it casually and then quickly returning it to the woman.
After all these actions were done, I realized what I did.
The baby, who had returned to the woman's arms, grinned at me again and again, with a sharp strange noise in his mouth, and his small face was about to pounce on me.
No, they must know that I am a human, and my horrified face is pale as paper.
"this is for you!"
The woman suddenly stuffed the baby from under the skirt back into her belly roughly, then removed a gold ring from her finger and slapped it on the table.
Ghost, give me a gold ring?
Is this grateful?
Should I accept it... Before I think about it, the three of them have left, but the gold ring is still on the table.