Chapter 7: The truth ... the truth?

As soon as Tian walked to the door and just asked for the door handle of mō, the phone beside his chuáng rang, a good-looking machine: the latest chapter of Super Restaurant
He rushed forward and picked up the receiver: "Who?"
The moment the call was connected, that is, the second when Tianyi picked up the microphone, he heard the pop of the phone from the handset, so when his "who" word blurted out, the only thing he responded to was busy. Beeping.
This is another weird thing. It seems that this "1408" room consciously prevented Tianyi from approaching the door.
Alas, the knock on the door suddenly sounded again.
Tianyi's thoughts were pulled back again. He walked over and turned the door handle, and the door opened smoothly. It was still the same doorman as before, but his expression seemed quite strange.
"Um ... sir, I'm really sorry to bother you. There is something I'm afraid to bother you, good-looking machine: the latest chapter of the humanoid universe." Men Tongyi peeked into the room behind Tianyi with a strange eye probe. .
Tianyi replied, "Is the thing you want to say related to this room?"
The doorman's look changed, and it seemed to be said that he rolled his eyes half a circle. Tianyi could see through the nostril that this guy was making up a lie.
"It's like that ... sir, when you opened the room, Lucy at the front desk made a little omission in work. She shouldn't give you the key to this room. Because ... um ... this room has some small The problem is ... you know, electrical wiring and leaks need to be repaired, so ... it should be temporarily unavailable for guests.
I'm sorry for the trouble. Could you please change to another room? We can arrange a room with the same layout as here on the ninth floor. "
As soon as Tian heard him finish his speech, he smiled. This was not a sneer, but he really thought the boy was funny. Even if he didn't use the book of the heart, this kind of lie was too easy to expose.
Tianyi took a step back, glanced into the room, and replied, "Why didn't the Lucy at your front desk call me and tell me?"
The door boy yelled back: "Ah ... yes, the manager thinks it's better to talk to you in person, I'm really sorry."
"Is the lady at the front desk still there when you came up?"
"Of course, she's here. The manager informed me in front of her."
"Is it ..." The heavens paused: "Strange, I just called the front desk one time and nobody answered. Is it a problem with the line?"
The doorman stunned, and then said, "Ah, yes! You see, this room really has a lot of máo disease that needs to be repaired, so please ask ..."
Tian Yixin said: You'd rather follow my words and edit it down, other book friends are watching: Zero make it double-edged.
On the surface, Tianyi still puts on a standard decadent look, can't see the mood and anger, can't guess the idea: "Well, I'll follow you with your luggage, and you wait here."
"Thank you, sir, I'm sorry to trouble you!" If the door boy was pardoned, he stood at the door and waited, intentionally or unintentionally, leaning on the door, as if he was afraid it would never open again.
Tianyi said he was taking luggage. In fact, his luggage consisted of a wallet with cash and fake documents, a set of clothes that had not yet dried up, and a dozen of newly bought inner bags.
After taking the "baggage", Tianyi returned to the door again and again: "I don't have to organize the used things, right?"
"Of course not, we will be responsible for putting everything back in place." The door boy shouted back.
"I'm wearing this bathrobe downstairs," Tianyi said.
"Yes, please ..." Mentongyu didn't dare not agree. If he said that the bathrobe had to be left, maybe he would throw his clothes into the room every day, and just wore a kù 摇 and swaggered into the elevator. .
Ten minutes later, Tianyi stayed again on the ninth floor. The doorman's attitude was very good. As soon as Lingtian came to the door of the room, he gave him the key of room 908. I'm so sorry, I didn't dare to do anything to wake up. I took the key of 1408 and closed the door. Went downstairs.
Tianyi used his ability to track the kid's whereabouts. It seemed that he went to the front desk to return the key, and then went to see someone. According to the perceptual positioning of the people in this building and the preliminary observation of the building's appearance, Tianyi can roughly construct a floor plan of the building. The room where the door boy went was on the first floor, in the non-Zou area. Maybe he went to find that manager to return to life.
Tianyi did not pay attention to the doorman for too long, and his attention quickly turned back to Room 1408. He could feel that about fifteen minutes after he left, two people entered the room and moved inside. After about ten minutes, the two left, and the good-looking weapon: Zero Spirit. It is not surprising that 80% of the cleaning women are doing the finishing work.
After these bō folds, Tian couple became more and more concerned about the ending of the machine just now. He took out the e-book in room 908 again, and it turned out that he quickly found that year of mine through the search function Haunted Hotel, skip directly to the last article 1408, then read the part just read.
Because I have watched a lot, probably less than twenty minutes, Tianyi can read the last story carefully. The ending of the book is not unexpected. The protagonist, author Mike Anselin, left the hotel safely the next day. Although there are many inexplicable incidents, there are still no ghosts in the book, at least there is no conclusive evidence. Prove the existence of a ghost.
All the weird events were ambiguously interpreted as the wind outside the window, the wiring failure in the room, the trickery of the hotel manager, and the various psychological cues imposed by the author on the readers' minds.
After reading it, Tianyi felt that this was actually a boring story, but it was not bad. The key is that its content is quite authentic, and it is difficult for readers to tell which bridges are the author's jealousy and which are strange coincidences that have actually occurred.
Putting down the e-book, I washed my face every day. At this time, it was past midnight in Paris time, but he was still trembling. When he was about to pick another machine, he had a whimsy and felt upstairs with his ability. Is there anyone else?
As a result, he found that at this moment, there was a real person in room 1408.
The person who cleaned the room should have gone in, so is the repairman now? Tian thinking for a while: I have been kicked out, why are you in a hurry to repair it? This hotel has a lot of vacancies now, and the room will never be in short supply. Is it necessary to ask the repairman to go to an unoccupied room for repair in the early morning? Maybe they just don't want to leave the night shift staff idle?
Tianyi can't rule out this possibility. Maybe the hotel management here is really strict. If there is a problem, it will be solved immediately. I will be ready 24 hours a day.
But there is another possibility, which cannot be ruled out. In that room, there is another person now ...
Tianyi said to himself: "If the reason for the so-called" small problems "in the room is made up, then ... there is no need to repair it, but why should you take me and let another person live in it? Chocolate, this room 908 doesn't have it, and those two phones ... "
With this in mind, Tianyi picked up the phone in room 908, pressed it, and soon someone at the front desk said, "Hello, what do you need?" The voice of the female staff member before, also This is what Lucy Gate said, and other book friends are watching: chūn Feng Qiu Yue Ruo.
"Hello, I was a guest who lived in 1408." Tianyi originally only wanted to try if the phone could connect normally, but since it was connected, he thought it would be better to say something.
The other party's voice sounded after a while, and the tone was obviously not normal: "Hmm ... it's you, sir, I'm sorry for the previous thing ..."
Tianyi interrupted: "Ah, don't worry, I'll ask, has you been on duty tonight, er ... Lucy?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, okay, it's fine." Tianyi hung up the phone.
He was pondering for a long time, he was curious, and he wanted to understand what was happening in the hotel. He knew that there must be some hidden feelings behind the things that he had just experienced. Although it seemed not a very important event, the reasoning that revealed the truth at this moment Games are undoubtedly a good way to kill time.
As soon as Tian entered the bathroom, he picked up the hair dryer and started to dry his clothes. He made it carefully for twenty minutes. He was ready to wear it. He got dressed and went to the freezer to get a bottle of spirits and drank two. Of course he was not In order to be bold, but to create the illusion of drunkenness.
He hid the key in the pocket on the inside of his clothes, took the wine bottle, and tore his luàn messy hairstyle more luàn by hand, then went out of the room, took the door, and went straight to the 14th floor.
At the door of 1408, Tianyi also drank the wine on his hands, put it on the sides of the neck like perfume, and drank a mouthful of hard liquor into his mouth, grunted, and swallowed his belly. Rose huā reads in full.
Slammed the door.
I could only hear the sound of something falling in the room, and then there was no sound for half a minute.
Tianyi knew someone in the room, and the other party didn't know why it was silent. Tian knocked on the door a second time, and the people in the house walked slowly to the door step by step. After looking at the cat's eyes, he opened a door and said, "Who are you? Is there anything wrong?"
As soon as Tian leaned against the door with one hand and pushed it, he pushed the door open more than half, letting him see the man in front of him. Caucasians in their forties are a little behind the hairline, beer belly, pale face, pale, and sweaty.
"Well? Why are you in my room?" A burst of wine squirted on the other person's face: "Who are you ?!" Tianyi opened his eyes wide and said, "What is your relationship with my wife?" Grabbed each other's neckline.
"What are you doing ?!" The man blocked Tianyi with his hand. "Sir, are you drunk and you have gone to the wrong room! Only me here!"
"Oh ... Ah?" Tian Yi tilted his head and pretended to look at the house number. "Oh ... ha ... haha! Sorry, man, I'm sorry." He said as he moved into the room.
The result was pushed out by the other party: "Okay, sir, do you need me to call a waiter to take you back to the room?"
"No ... no need ... huh ... I ... I can find it myself." The man stepped back two steps, and the man's unhappy expression closed the door decisively.
Tianyi knew that the other side must be peering out from behind the door. He bumped a few steps and confirmed that he had left the visible range of cat's eyes on the door before he recovered his normal gait.
"This guy didn't even open his luggage, and placed it next to chuáng. When I knocked on the door, he dropped something on the ground, but just when I probed in, I didn't see anything, which means he had picked it up." Written by: "There is no capable person in this hotel or a specially transformed person who has undergone combat transformation. There is only a group of ordinary people. What is going on? Why did the hotel staff release me to let this person stay? Does anyone in the hotel want to frame this man? Or is he asking to live in 1408 anyway? Is there a secret in that room? "
Tianyi did not get much useful information during the investigation. He then took the elevator to the lobby on the first floor, went straight to the front desk, and walked in front of Lucy: "Remember me? Lucy, a miscellaneous savior."
"Oh! It's you, sir. May I help you?" Lucy replied.
Tianyi said, "About that room, 1408, can you tell me anything?"
Lucy's expression grew tense, she was indifferent; "that ... that room ..."
"Hello sir!" A tall, thin white man came over, he smeared a lot of wax, and a well-dressed suit, and stepped into the conversation: "I'm the manager Todd, you should be ..."
Tian Yi interrupted: "Just call me Claus." On his fake id, he used the name of the tea fairy, but did not dare to copy the emperor's last name, but chose an individual surname.
"Sir, could you please come to my office to talk," Todd said.
Two minutes later, Tianyi came to the manager's room, and he politely found a place to sit down. The other party just brought the door and Tianyi said, "In fact, Todd, I don't need any apologies, and I also Not angry, I have no opinion about the guy who is living in 1408 at the moment, I just want to know, what is going on tonight? "
"Well ... in fact, that's the case, that gentleman is a fan of a certain robotist," Todd said.
At this moment, Tianyi basically knew the answer, and he smiled, "It's the brain residual powder."
Todd shrugged, euphemistically: "From his current behavior, it is obviously far beyond the average fan's category, hey." He paused: "Do you want something to drink?"
"No need, you do it yourself."
Todd poured himself a cup of coffee: "Do you know of a book called the Haunted Hotel in those years?"
Tian Yi said: "Yes, I have read." He never said that he had just finished reading.
Todd said: "Then the last part of the book, you know, is about 1408 Murder Room in a dolphin hotel in New York, right?"
"Oh, that's it!" Tianyi pretended to be a complete realization, as if he had just come to understand it. He didn't want to be a fan of the writer either.
Todd said: "But the story is false. Indeed, there was once a hotel in New York called the Dolphin Hotel, but it closed down in the last century."
Tian Yi said: "So what?"
Todd replied: "You know, the author of that book, Mike Anselin, always went to the hotel rooms written in the book for one night, and then worked on mechanical creations, but only this 1408 "The story is not a real experience, because it was not written by him."
At this moment, in the sky raining outside the window, there was a thunder in time ...
Together, "Oh? Why is that?" He was also interested.
Todd said: "You may not know that my haunted hotel in those years was Mike Anselin's last weapon and the end of his haunted hotel story series." He paused: "In fact, for several years Yesterday, Mike Anselin did come to our hotel. I was a foreman at the time, and our manager was very surprised why the writer came to visit. We must know that there have never been any strange rumors and no initiative in this hotel. The writer Mr. was invited, but he suddenly arrived on a rainy night and specified that he wanted to live in room 1408. "
"Maybe he only came to Paris out of sī, or simply came to travel. Other book friends are watching: Redemption of Maple Kingdom." Tianyi said.
"Yes, I thought so at the time." Todd replied, "But the next day, he died in that room, and his body temperature was unexplained too low." He took another sip of coffee: "To Knowing that the writer is only middle-aged, has no history of heart disease, does not even exceed blood sugar levels, and the heating system in the room has not detected any failures, his death itself has become a supernatural event that he strongly denied in his lifetime. "
"So ... how did that book appear?"
"That was Mike Anselin's editor who compiled all the manuscripts he hadn't published before, and revised it into a book, but it seemed too short. So the editor imitated the style of Mike Anselin. , Huā for a long time, carefully created a story, taking 1408 as the writer who does not believe in ghosts and gods ... the last story of his life and career. "
Tian Yi said, "But does the editor believe in ghosts?"
Todd said: "That's right, sir. Therefore, only this story intentionally changed the city where the hotel is located. The editor was worried that someone would come to our hotel after reading the instrument and encounter unexpected things."
Tian Tian smiled: "Oh, what do you think, Mr. Todd?"
Todd said: "I don't have any personal opinion. Objectively speaking, the room was normal. Although it was closed for a period of time after the deceased was found, in the following years, some people entered and no strange events occurred. , The guest did not say anything. "He sighed:" The gentleman today, I think he is really a crazy fan, he claims to have followed the footsteps of Mike Anselin, to his writing Every hotel room, I think he must have found it online, or watched the editor ’s blog, etc. Anyway ... "
Tian Yi continued Todd's words: "In short, his attitude is very strong and you make every effort to help him stay in 1408, so I was fooled to 908, right?"
"Yes, this is the truth you want."
Tian said together: "What, it turned out to be the latest chapter of the new police story."
The two chatted a few more times, and Todd sent Tianyi out of the office.
"Oh, there is one more thing I want to confirm." Tianyi stopped as he passed the front desk, and he said to Lucy, "About eleven o'clock, will you be away for a while?"
Lucy thought about it, "Yes sir, I'm sorry, but I'm the only one at the front desk tonight. Did you miss your call?"
Tian repeatedly said, "Have you ever called my room?"
Lucy replied, "Oh, that phone? We wanted to talk to you over the phone, but Mr. Todd said it would be better for Wanda to come and tell you face to face. Did you pick it up then? I'm sorry, UU reading www.uukanshu.com I thought it was not connected when I hung up. "
Tian smiled: "Nothing, I understand everything."
The mystery was solved, and it turned out to be just such a painful thing. As soon as he returned to the room, he fell on chuáng and sneered: "What the hell, the result is such a boring thing ..."
Before he knew it, he fell asleep, and had no words tonight.
By noon the next day, police cars and ambulances filled the entrance of the Dolphin Hotel.
A middle-aged man died bizarrely in Room 1408, due to a congestion. The deceased was a freelancer, travelling around the world on his own, had no history of heart disease, and showed no signs of violence. The corpse lay on his back on chuáng with a horrified expression, pale face, and sweat wet the chuáng slip. He did not even open his luggage. A paper machine was placed on the chuáng head cabinet. The only food the coroner found afterwards It's chocolate.
At 1 pm, when the investigation and evidence collection came to an end, the man lying on chuáng in Room 908 only yawned and got up and stretched out lazily, saying, "It's a nightmare, annoying place."