Deep in the Living

Chapter 379 Little Boy

Tungsten filament light bulbs flickered unsteadily in the corridor.

The so-called Regent Hotel is located on the top floor of this old building. There is no elevator and it can only be reached via a narrow staircase.

tread!
Climb the last step.

At the same time, cold white light seeped in and fell on the team members.

The hotel lobby is right in front of you.

In front of the solid wood counter, there was also a wooden board with the words "Regent Hotel" written on it. The light bulbs on the ceiling kept making buzzing sounds due to the ballast.

The weird thing is,
The hotel owner seemed to know in advance that they were coming. He had walked out from behind the counter and stood upright in the middle of the lobby.

The black hair still falls in front of her.
When everyone appeared, his right arm was raised horizontally, perpendicular to his body, pointing towards the corridor of the hotel.

"I gonna go see."

Yu Ze was still walking at the front, approaching the strange-looking hotel owner.

The eyes behind the sunglasses were pressed against the Five Emperors' Coins, collecting all the information in the environment, even capturing the movement of the fearful entities.

When he moved closer to two meters,

Zizzi~
A burst of electromagnetic sound came from the boss' waist.

It was a tape recorder hanging around the waist. Although no one touched it, the play button was pressed and pre-recorded sounds came out of it.

"Comrade police, I just heard someone calling for help from a guest room! I was afraid so I didn't dare to go over and check. I'll leave this matter to you."

When the playback ends,
The hotel owner turned around with a stiff movement and pointed to a bunch of keys on the counter that could be used to open all the rooms in the hotel.

Yu Ze took a step forward and grabbed the key in his hand.

Then we came to the hotel entrance that the boss pointed to. There was still cold white light shining on the tile surface. There was no carpet and no suspicious substances related to red.

"Another incident has occurred. My friend, your Queque is really useful! Collect more corner coins, so that you won't feel bad when you really need to pay for the bus.

I haven't noticed any clown factor yet, are your quiffs reacting?"

"No."

“Then we can focus on the incident, but the incident at hand seems to have a certain timeliness, and we need to find the hiding murderer as soon as possible.

Considering where the note was found, we only need to search the rooms on the street side.

I'll open the door! Miss Zhen and the fellow villagers are ready to take action at any time in the back."

"receive."

Youzhen and Luo Di responded almost at the same time, and it seemed that the captain's authority of this exploration mission had been transferred to Yu Ze.

Arriving at the door of the first guest room,

Yu Ze did not knock on the door or give any verbal instructions, but opened the door quickly with his key. In his opinion, since the hotel owner regarded them as police, it was reasonable for him to force the door open.

No smell of blood, nothing unusual.

The "normal resident" covered his face with his hair and lay on the bed like a mannequin. He did nothing but turned his face towards the door.

Then the next guest room.

The same process is repeated until the door of the sixth guest room opens.

The lights in the house flickered.
There were clearly visible bloodstains on the ground, reflecting a bright red color under the cold white light.

Following the bloodstains, they found a body lying in a pool of blood, with the entire scalp torn off and a bloody mess. It seemed that they were a step too late.

but.

There was the sound of running water inside the bathroom door made of plastic and frosted glass, and the bathroom light inside remained on. It seemed that the murderer had not left the crime scene yet and was even washing the blood off his body.

Although the structure of the bathroom door looks simple, perception is impenetrable.

This was a corner incident, an event simulated by the omnipresent entity of fear. It seemed that this entity of fear was suppressing their senses and trying to recreate the original event of the police coming to catch the murderer as much as possible.

Yu Ze's palm had already landed on the bathroom door, and the two men behind him were ready to kill.

click!
Unlock the door.

The team squeezed in instantly.

The overflowing bathtub is leaking water.
The body of a drowned woman floats face down in the water.

At the same time, click!
The door closed and all the lights in the house went out.

Yu Ze immediately lit the talisman paper in his hand as a light source. When the pale yellow light dispelled the darkness, the female corpse was still floating on the surface of the bathtub, without any abnormality.

but……

Four people were reflected in the wash mirror beside the team.

The "resident" who had been lying in a pool of blood with his scalp completely peeled off was now standing at the back of them, holding a sharp knife high in his hand.

"Get down!"

Yu Ze shouted,
The two people behind him lowered their bodies at the same time.
He quickly turned around, used his fingers to make a shooting gesture, and imitated the sound of a gun with his mouth.

Bang!
A stone popped out from between his fingers and instantly pierced through the other person's forehead. This time he was truly dead, falling on the cold floor, blood spreading.

Yu Ze straightened his clothes with a relaxed look on his face. "Since the entity of fear wants to reconstruct the incident, we will cooperate in the play. Maybe we can get extra rewards for cooperation afterwards. By the way, this superficial incident is really simple."

Youzhen looked at the motionless corpse on the ground and found that not only was the head pierced, but there was also a talisman pasted on the forehead at some point to prevent any form of corpse transformation.

"The superficial level is indeed simple, otherwise we wouldn't feel comfortable arranging newcomers to participate in activities here. It is simple, and the rewards are also small.

It's not worth it to perform events here, and at most you will get a few dimes.

In deeper areas, the magnitude of a single event is ten or even a hundred times greater, which is completely on a different scale.

But... Yu Ze, your idea is right. Try to meet the needs of the incident as much as possible. If you put yourself in another's shoes, you may get additional clues."

During the conversation between the two,

Roddy squatted on the ground searching the body, but unfortunately he didn't find any useful clues.

"Fellow villager, let's go. Now that the incident is over, let's report to the hotel owner. Perhaps we can get unexpected information or clues to the deep area from him."

"Ah."

When leaving the bathroom, the team stepped on clean floor areas whenever possible to avoid being stained with blood.

After all, blood is also bright red in color. If you don't fully understand the clown's abilities, try not to let yourself be stained with the same color as the red balloon.

The guest room was closed as the lights were turned off just now.

When Yu Ze reached for the door handle and was about to leave the bedroom where the murder took place, he found that the door lock was completely stuck and could not be turned.

It seems that the internal lock structure is completely stuck and nothing I do will work.

Yu Ze looked at the problematic door lock in front of him and smelled something wrong. This wrongness had nothing to do with the incident itself, but was related to the "door" that suddenly closed in front of him.

Pinch fingers,
My nail almost cut my palm. I then realized that I forgot to polish my nails when I cut them last night, and there was a sharp protrusion on my nail.

An ominous omen.

Thinking of this,

Yu Ze didn't open the door anymore. He turned and walked towards the window of the guest room, ready to jump out and leave.

Wow! The curtains opened.

The expressions of both Yu Ze and the others became extremely ugly. Outside was no longer a street scene at night, but a pile of completely sealed cement bricks.

I had no choice but to go back to the door.

Reach out and gather strength.

Strike out with one palm.

The broken door lock flew out along with several screws.

Unfortunately, outside the door was no longer the Regent Hotel, but a dark, dusty corridor. They seemed to have arrived at a residential building.

This place is not empty.
At the corner at the end of the passage,

A little boy was scribbling on the ground with chalk, and the sound of the chalk scraping on the ground could be heard clearly.

As if feeling the gaze, the little boy raised his head, revealing the obvious cleft lip structure on his face.

When I saw this cleft lip,

Youzhen was stunned for a moment. The exploration state that she had just recovered was instantly disrupted. She fell into an inexplicable fear, her pores contracted, and her muscles twitched.

"Impossible... This is clearly the surface... Why would they come here..."

(End of this chapter)