This actor is full of tricks.

Lin Jue peeled a melon seed and asked, "Didn't your hotel ask the Audit Department to investigate?"

"Heh." The man in the jacket sneered dismissively, "You don't know the situation of our Jiuyuan Inspection Department. Forget it, it's better not to tell. It makes me angry when I tell you."

His tone was full of dissatisfaction, and it was obvious that the Jiuyuan Inspection Office was not very popular among the people.

The investigators from the Inspection Bureau are only able to clean up the pollution on their own, which does not mean that all of them have noble character. Moreover, repeated pollution will magnify people's negative emotions. The investigators from the Sanjiang Inspection Bureau are considered quite normal.

"What happened next?" The female college student's curiosity was aroused.

"Then the hotel closed for a while, and when it reopened, I found that the 17th floor was sealed off."

The man in the jacket poured himself another glass of water. "It's completely blocked off. Neither the elevator nor the stairs can reach the 17th floor."

He gave a bitter laugh, "But sealing off this strange place is like drinking poison to quench thirst. The situation will only get worse."

"One day, after I inspected the guest rooms on the 18th floor and was about to take the elevator down, the elevator suddenly broke down."

With every word he spoke, the man in the jacket's face trembled and the blood drained from his face bit by bit.

"The elevator stopped at the seventeenth floor."

"The elevator never stops on the 17th floor, but it stopped there steadily. I frantically pressed buttons for other floors, but the elevator didn't move at all. It even issued a shrill alarm."

"That was clearly a sound caused by being overweight, but I was the only one in the elevator at the time! Why was there an alarm?"

"Maybe there is something on top of the elevator." Lin Jue replied.

The expressions of the others suddenly became strange. How could someone say such a scary sentence so calmly?
"That's right." The man in the jacket nodded fearfully. "Xiao Zhao is right. There was indeed a sound coming from the top of the elevator, as if there were a lot of people walking on it."

"I was terrified and huddled in the corner, and the elevator door, which had been closed, opened at that moment."

"Outside the door is the pitch-black seventeenth floor."

"But I don't even dare to go out. That was the floor that was the most haunted before!"

"But the noises on top of the car became more frequent and louder. It seemed as if something was about to crawl down. They seemed to be urging me to leave the elevator."

"In the end, my fear of the top of the elevator overcame my fear of the seventeenth floor, and I practically crawled out of the elevator."

"As soon as I ran out of the elevator, I saw the door of the elevator, which had not moved, suddenly slammed shut and then fell directly to the next floor."

At this point, the man in the jacket showed a hint of embarrassment on his face: "I'm not afraid of being laughed at by you all, but when the elevator went down, I was really scared and peed myself. Half of my pants were wet."

He said his embarrassing story probably to lighten the atmosphere, but everyone in the room had a serious look on their faces, with no one smiling at all.

The man in the jacket choked and continued, "I regretted it a little after I got out. The main reason was that the seventeenth floor was so terrifying. There was no light at all. It felt like there were wronged souls standing in those rooms, staring at me viciously."

"Although I was very scared, I still kept my sanity because I was the housekeeping manager and was very familiar with the structure of every floor. I rushed to the fire escape in the dark."

"Didn't they say the stairs were also blocked?" Lin Jue noticed the problem in the jacket man's words.

"It's sealed with ordinary cement bricks. A few strong kicks would knock it down." The man in the jacket explained, "When I was looking for the fire escape, I felt that the structure of the seventeenth floor was completely different from before. I don't know if the owner renovated it during the closure, or if I had entered a different space." "Anyway, it felt very wrong. I was very familiar with the seventeenth floor, but at that time, it felt particularly unfamiliar."

"Because it was too dark, I had no choice but to walk by feeling the wall. But the more I walked, the weirder the sensations on my hands became."

"You know, the wall feels cold to the touch, but it feels a little soft."

"And the further I walked, the softer the wall became. It was sticky and wet. To this day, I don't know what I touched because after I realized something was wrong, I didn't dare to touch it anymore."

Soft, slimy and wet.

Lin Jue pondered for a moment. When he pulled out the pillar of flesh and blood from the throat of the man from the New World who was following him, he felt the same feeling in his hand.

He handed the man in the jacket a handful of melon seeds. "Brother, is it possible that what you felt were pieces of flesh and blood, and that those so-called walls were actually made of flesh and blood?"

There was one more thing he didn't say: Is it possible that the man in the jacket entered the body of some monster and touched the flesh and blood inside the monster?

The man in the jacket froze in his hand as he was about to take the melon seeds. His already pale face lost all color. He seemed to finally understand what he had touched.

To be able to say such words without any expression, this backpacker must have seen a lot of storms.

The man in the jacket swallowed and said, "I think so."

"It's okay, I'm just guessing, brother, please continue." Lin Jue gestured to the other party to continue, ignoring the strange looks from others.

"Then I realized I had reached a dead end and there was no road ahead. Just as I was about to turn around and walk in the other direction, my feet bumped into something hard."

The man in the jacket continued his story: "I bent down and took a closer look, and I realized it was a small shrine."

Lin Jue noticed that when the man in the jacket mentioned the shrine, the kind driver who had been fiddling with melon seeds with his head down finally raised his head and looked at the man in the jacket with a complicated expression.

"Why does the driver have that expression? Could it be that what he experienced is also related to the shrine?" Lin Jue shifted his gaze subtly and asked the man in the jacket, "Did you see what was enshrined in the shrine?"

"It was too dark to see clearly." The man in the jacket shook his head. "And when I saw the shrine, my head started to feel dizzy, and soon I passed out completely."

"When I woke up, I found myself lying in the hospital."

"Later, my boss told me that the security guard on duty heard my screams and went looking for me in the building with everyone else. They finally found me unconscious in the hallway on the 18th floor."

"But I don't remember screaming at all, and I don't know when I ran to the corridor on the 18th floor."

"And they said that when they found me, I still had the same smile on my face as those people who jumped from the building."

"Later, strange things kept happening at the hotel, and eventually it had to temporarily close."

"But the boss has always wanted to reopen the business. After asking around, he heard there's a talisman here that can ward off evil spirits. That's why he asked me to come here and ask for one."

(End of this chapter)