Chapter 1: Murder scene

My name is Li You, a recent graduate. I submitted multiple resumes online and received an offer from a hotel reception the next day.
The working hours of the hotel are from 11 o'clock in the evening to 4 o'clock in the morning. There is no monthly rest, and the monthly salary is 5,000. You must work for a full year after entering the job, and you must not leave for any reason.
Only this work hour is late at night, which is so strange!
Today’s job is not easy to find. I walked into the hotel’s door at 10:30 in the evening as stated in the employment notice.
When a middle-aged man sitting at the front desk saw me coming in, he seemed to be relieved and held my hand enthusiastically, "You are Li You, right? Congratulations, I was hired by our hotel!"
I saw "the excitement that I finally expected you" on the face of the middle-aged man. I didn't want to understand what was going on. The middle-aged man took me to the front desk.
"In addition to the requirements on the employment notice, there are two requirements during the work period. One is not to speak, and two, you must not leave the front desk."
Speaking of the second requirement, the middle-aged man pointed to the yellow line drawn on the edge of the front desk. There were a few special symbols on the yellow line that were not obvious, which looked like they were drawn by chicken paws.
In other words, this is a bit like a "ghost picture symbol"!
When I was in elementary school, my writing was terrible, and the teacher often said that my homework was a ghost drawing!
"Did you see this range clearly?" The middle-aged man saw me pondering, as if he was rejected because he was afraid that I wanted to understand something. He urged him to ask.
I nodded and understood that this is just like not leaving the post, and there is a separate toilet at the front desk, so there is no need to go out and find a solution.
"Why don't you let me talk?" I asked curiously, "Then how can I communicate with customers?"
The middle-aged man's face was pulled down in an instant, and he looked at me very seriously, with a tone of reprimand and warning, "Don't worry about why, just remember these two points!"
In 5 hours, I can get a monthly salary of 5000. This is so tempting for fresh graduates to come, so I didn't think much about it at the time, so I rushed to agree.
The middle-aged man handed me a piece of chalk and motioned me to write my name on the small blackboard hanging on the wall.
At the moment I finished writing the name, the middle-aged man trembled violently, and his voice was changing tones, "Today is your first day at work. Work hard. Remember the two requirements I said. Don't violate it!"
"I have something to do at home, so I'll leave first." The middle-aged man left the hotel door without looking back, as if fleeing in a hurry.
I sat down on the front desk chair and became curious about the customers here. After all, this is my first time working!
Unfortunately, no customers came in after waiting for a long time, only various cars rushed past the road outside.
So many people passing by, why don't they come in to stay?
After being bored for a while, I started playing mobile games. Just when I was about to break the enemy crystal, suddenly there was no network signal, and the characters of the card played drifting on the screen.
"Damn, what's up?"
I cursed in irritation, looked up inadvertently, and found that the clock was already pointing to 11 o'clock, so I held my fire and put the phone away.
After that, I turned on the computer on the front desk and found that there was no signal, which was really strange.
Does it mean that the hotel will be disconnected whenever this point is fixed?
Before I graduated from university, the university dormitory was at eleven o'clock in the evening. The power was cut off and the lights were turned off, and the students were forced to sleep.
However, this is a hotel, not a college dormitory. Is this necessary?
"Da da!"
At this moment, the hotel door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a seventy-year-old woman walked in with a cane. I quickly stood up and prepared to receive.
This was my first guest, and I had to give a better first impression, but just stood up and looked at her, and immediately froze.
The old woman's face was too white, and her skin was smooth without a trace of wrinkles, but her hair was gray again, which was obviously very old.
When I got closer, I found a mask on the face of the old woman!
Grass, and most of the night, she still puts on a facial mask to go out. Isn't this deliberately pretending to be a ghost to scare people, the good-natured people will be scared of her heart attack.
I can't wait for this old woman to meet a ghost by herself, and then frighten her pee. It's not that I'm so bad-minded, but that she scared me just now.
"It's changed? Haha, the name has changed!" The old woman stood still at the front desk, turned to look at the small blackboard on the wall, grinning.
I didn't care at first, until I registered her, I realized a serious problem.
She said, ‘name, changed? ’And she is looking at the position of the small blackboard, can't she...can't see me?
Otherwise, she would just say my face, after all, I am a young graduate, not the old uncle, can't even my face be distinguished?
Unless it is, face blindness!
Without giving me too much time to think, the old woman had already taken her room card and walked away, leaving only a back view of me.
"Hey, why doesn't she have a shadow under the lights of the corridor?"
I looked in the direction where she was leaving, and found it strange, could it be a shadowless lamp?
So I quickly looked at my feet, and a shadow was under my feet, which showed that I had a shadow.
"Da da!"
I was about to call the old woman to ask what was going on, but saw that the hotel door was opened again, and a couple of students came in. They walked together arm in arm, their facial expressions were very sweet.
"Hurry up and register. I'm still waiting for the room." The man threw a certificate on the table and ordered in an impatient tone.
This makes me very upset, I am a staff member here, not your servant!
Mad, you are so anxious to go to the room to do errands, you look like a hungry ghost, cursing your little brother to be unable to stand up later. Arrogant!
Haha, I am so talented that I thought of such a great idea!
I quickly finished registration, and they both took the room card and left. When going up the stairs, the girl turned her head back and threw a wink at me, and the boy knocked her head severely as punishment.
"puff!"
The girl's head immediately crooked, as if it was broken, at a right angle of ninety degrees to her neck!
Fuck, did this man kill this woman with one punch?
Because of this range, as long as a normal person is absolutely unable to live, the 90-degree right angle... I drew out the phone with a horror, and quickly called the police!
This is all killing, I have to let 110 come to deal with it, or I will definitely be held accountable tomorrow.
"Toot!"
But there was a clicking sound in the phone, and then quickly returned to the dialing page, prompting me that there was no signal and I could not dial the number.
"What should I do? The murder scene..."