Chapter 324 The Disappeared No. 8

If there is a dream apostle with outstanding strength, then the "asymmetric confrontation" mentioned by Liu Yu may be realized.

"Can't the closet be opened?" Xia Yanzhen walked over, chose the closet No. 1, reached out and grabbed the handle outside, and tried to open it violently.

"Wait!" Mrs. Jones immediately stopped, "Don't mess around!"

There are many rules in the hotel, whether it is the house rules or the employee handbook, they are normal at first, but the more you look at them, the more strange they become.

It gives people a feeling that if they are not careful, they will fall into the abyss.

An invisible and inexplicable feeling of fear came over my face.

People have to be vigilant.

No one can tell what the consequences of forcing the closet open will be, let alone try it randomly.

"Behave, follow the hotel's rules." Richard emphasized, "What do you want to do?"

"Aren't you going to cause damage on purpose?"

"Your mission won't be different from ours, right?"

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Xia Yanzhen's actions immediately aroused all kinds of suspicions.

Only Douglas remained silent.

But he didn't say anything not because Xia Yan really saved him, but because his jaw hurt and he tried not to say anything if he could.

"I want to open the clothes of the service staff. Don't you think we can use them as emergencies?" Xia Yanzhen said.

It can be seen from the employee handbook that work clothes are very important.

Maybe it can save a life at a critical moment.

"That will happen in the future. Do you think forcing the closet to open now will not cause any consequences?" Liu Yu asked.

"That's right, forget it." Xia Yanzhen took a step back and obeyed his advice, "Then just be more prudent as you want."

"My hope is very simple, that is, everyone will abide by the hotel's rules." Liu Yu said, "Whoever messes up is our common enemy."

"That's right."

"I agree."

"I think so."

A group of people looked at Xia Yanzhen.

"Okay." Xia Yanzhen smiled and nodded.

"What time is it now?" Relatively speaking, Kazumi, who has always been relatively quiet, asked, she was very concerned about time.

"It was eight o'clock before I came here, and it's still early now."

"There's no clock here."

There is no clock in the lounge, so there is no way to know the exact time.

Several people walked out of the lounge.

This lounge is just one of many rooms.

There are various doors on both sides of the corridor, but there are no signs outside the doors, so I don't know what these rooms are for.

The door to the room was locked and could not be opened.

After the consensus just reached, no one came up with the idea of ​​opening the door to the room and taking a look.

A group of people returned to the lobby at the front.

"Eight-fifteen."

The grandfather clock in the corner of the lobby pointed to eight fifteen.

There are still more than three hours before the red line is twelve o'clock, which is still plenty of time.

"Let's take a look again." Qin Feng suggested.

Everyone worked together and thoroughly checked the first floor.

Lobby, stairs, elevator aisles, fire stairways (doors are locked).

The front half of the first floor is like this, and the back half is the working area for employees, and ordinary guests will not come here.

Unknown rooms with locked doors.

"On the second floor."

None of them had any intention of taking the elevator and went up to the second floor from the spiral passage.

Follow what the employee handbook says.

The second floor is the dining area.

It was indeed the case after we went up, there was a lobby and various small private rooms.

There is also a "staff dining area" with the words "Guests Stopped" placed outside the glass door.

The kitchen should be connected to the staff dining area. If you must abide by hotel rules, there is no way to enter the kitchen.

Unless...like Douglas, he was wearing work clothes and had taken advantage of a loophole to get in.

Now, Douglas would definitely not engage in such a dangerous act of solo exploration.

"There are no stairs." Qin Feng said.

"Yes, there is only a fire escape, and the door is still locked. If we want to go up, we can only take the elevator." Wang Defa also said.

There is a spiral staircase from the first floor to the second floor.

There are only elevators and fire escapes leading to the upper floors on the second floor.

There are two elevators, running parallel to each other on the same side, regardless of single or double floors.

The LED light bar on the elevator door showed that one elevator stopped on the eighth floor and one elevator stopped on the first floor.

"Eighth floor?"

"First floor?"

Everyone immediately realized something was wrong.

After No. 8 and Douglas changed their clothes, they must have gone to room 302 on the third floor.

Why is there one elevator on the first floor and one on the eighth floor?

Did anyone use the elevator after him?

"Do you want to press it?" Xia Yanzhen asked, placing his hand on the button between the two elevators.

"Let's go back to the first floor first." Liu Yu suggested.

"Well, let's go back to the first floor first." Mrs. Jones kept a consistent pace.

Everyone returned to the lobby on the first floor.

Xia Yanzhen walked behind the glass door leading outside and reached out to push the glass door open.

Everyone looked at his actions and said nothing.

Xia Yanzhen slowly stretched out his hand outside the door and said after a while: "No response..."

After saying that, he stretched out one foot again.

"It seems that we have to leave the hotel before everyone leaves." Xia Yanzhen backed away and did not continue the experiment.

It makes some people feel disappointed.

"Dang, Dang, Dang..."

At this time, the grandfather clock rang.

"Nine o'clock?"

"So fast?"

"Did we spend too much time on the second floor?"

Everyone looked at the grandfather clock and felt that time passed faster than they imagined.

"Is this clock broken?" Richard said, slightly worried.

In all the places they visited just now, there were no clocks.

In such a large hotel, there is only one grandfather clock on the first and second floors.

Not good news for the Dream Apostles who need to pay attention to time.

It would be even worse if the clock was broken.

"Let's go to the room first." Liu Yu suggested.

The grandfather clock might be broken, so the time we know now would be inaccurate. It would be safest to go to the room first.

Come to the elevator room and press the only upward elevator button.

The elevator door opens, and there is an area where you need to swipe your card.

After swiping the room card, the floor button will light up and the elevator will operate when you press it.

If you don't swipe the room card, pressing it eight hundred times will have no effect.

The seven people entered the elevator, and Douglas stayed outside. He did not plan to go up, but wanted to play the role of a good service staff here.

Swipe your card and press the button on the third floor.

The elevator door closed and rose, and soon, with a "ding" sound, it reached the third floor.

The structure of the third floor is very simple.

The elevator room, the fire escape door, and then a walkway with rooms on both sides.

A window at the end of the corridor.

"There are a lot of 'secret rooms' in this hotel." Qin Feng said.

It was obvious that what they saw only occupied part of the entire third floor.

There is also a part that everyone cannot see.

"Never mind that, look at the room."

The corridor is paved with soft carpets, and the rooms on both sides follow the principle of odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other.

301 versus 302, 303 versus 304, two against each other.

There is a sign on the guest room door here.

Everyone came to the outside of Room 306 and took a look.

"Watch this room tonight. Is there any problem?" Mrs. Jones looked at Richard and asked.

Richard nodded.

He holds the room card for 305 and can observe room 306 through the peephole.

Richard had a mission, so instead of rushing into their respective rooms, everyone chose to open all the rooms and visit them one by one.

Everyone's room is similar, with a double bed, bathroom - and a small study room attached.

The overall room is larger than the average chain hotel room.

There is no TV in the room. There is a phone beside the bed. You can contact the hotel front desk at any time by pressing the number 0.

In Xia Yanzhen's room 301, he tried to make a call.

After a while, the call was connected.

"Douglas?" Xia Yanzhen asked.

"It's me..." Douglas' slightly vague voice sounded, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing, just test whether the phone works. Can you call the room?" Xia Yanzhen asked.

"No," Douglas said, "But I can help you transfer calls to other rooms."

The front desk phone is a relay station.

If necessary, calls between the two rooms can be made through the front desk.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Yu frowned and said, "There is no clock in the room, have you seen it?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"Dangdangdang..."

Just then, another bell rang.

It rang ten times in total, which meant that the time had reached 10 o'clock.

"impossible!"

If it was just a suspicion just now, but now that the bell is ringing, you can be completely sure that the time is wrong.

From what everyone feels, it’s definitely not even ten o’clock yet!

"...Is the clock broken? Or is our body sense wrong?"

"Should we go by the sound of this bell?"

Liu Yu and others spoke one after another.

"Ask a question?" Xia Yanzhen said.

"Ask who?"

"Of course it's No. 8." Xia Yanzhen walked out of his 301, came to the door of 302, and reached out to knock on the door.

After knocking for a while, no one opened the door.

"Call." Xia Yanzhen said.

Mrs. Jones, still in 301, picked up the phone and contacted Douglas at the front desk.

Douglas transferred to room 302.

But all I could hear was a beeping sound, which lasted for five minutes and still no one answered.

"Did you hear the phone ringing?" Liu Yu put her ear against the door of the room and listened carefully.

"without."

"without."

"have."

Only Xia Yanzhen answered differently. Standing outside the door, he could hear the phone ringing.

"Hang up." Xia Yanzhen said.

In the room, Mrs. Jones hesitated and explained to Douglas that it was broken over there.

The ringing from room 302 stopped.

"Forget it, let's do this for tonight." Liu Yu rubbed his eyebrows, looking slightly tired.

So far, no one has encountered any danger.

But constant thinking and analysis is inevitable.

Not tired physically, but not relaxed mentally.

No. 8 of 302 didn’t respond. I don’t know if he entered the room or not.

We don’t want to provoke 306 for the time being.

A group of people returned to their rooms and closed the door.

The entire third floor suddenly became quiet.

Xia Yanzhen dragged the chair in the room and put it behind the door. Without closing the door, he sat on the chair and just looked at 302.

If you don't force the door open, it's okay to take a look, right?

Not long after sitting on the chair, the sound of the grandfather clock on the first floor came.

There were 11 knocks in total, and there was still one hour left before the 12 o'clock red line.