This actor is full of tricks.

Lin Jue's room was room number six on the 15th floor. No one else lived on that floor except for Lin Jue.

Qi Lin helped open the door. The suite was very spacious and had a wide view. Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, you could see the building under construction not far away.

"There is free bottled water and toiletries in the room." Qi Lin first gave Lin Jue a formal introduction to the things in the room, and then gently closed the door.

"Brother, have some water." Lin Jue handed him a bottle of mineral water.

"Thank you." Qi Lin sat down on the sofa, took a big gulp of water, and his expression, which had been so similar to a mold, relaxed a lot. "It's still more comfortable to stay in a place without surveillance cameras."

"Brother, can you tell me now? You know I'm very curious. If I only hear half of something, my whole body feels like it's crawling with ants."

Lin Jue behaved the same way he did in the Silent Village, when a group of outsiders sat together chatting, he was just as determined to find out the truth.

"The story begins when I returned from that village. It must have been the third day. That morning, a man in his thirties arrived, dressed like a business elite. He was probably here on a business trip. After he checked in at the front desk, I was the one who greeted him."

Qi Lin didn't waste any words and began to recount his memories.

“He behaved perfectly at the time, and his speech was very proper. He was clearly an elite white-collar worker with a higher education.”

“He lives downstairs from you, in room 1404. Everything was normal when he first checked in, but in the middle of the night, the housekeeping department suddenly received a call from him. He said he felt like there was something in the room.”

"Because of what happened on the seventeenth floor, the housekeeping department immediately sent several security guards up to check when they received the call. Although they didn't find anything in the room, we changed his room to another one floor down, just to be on the safe side."

"After we changed rooms, nothing else happened until the next morning."

"That morning, he called our front desk and said he wanted two breakfasts to be delivered upstairs. The front desk found it a bit strange because he was clearly living alone, so why would he want two breakfasts? But thinking that maybe he had a big appetite, they didn't think much of it and immediately arranged for two breakfasts to be delivered upstairs by the staff."

At this point, Qi Lin paused and swallowed: "Because I was on the day shift that day, not long after, the waiter in charge of delivering the food ran to my office with a look of horror and said that the customer seemed to have gone crazy."

He said that when he was delivering breakfast to the room, he saw the guest waving at the empty living room with a smile on his face, saying, "Grandma, come and eat."

"Grandma, come and eat!" Lin Jue's eyebrows twitched. Was this a sign of mental problems or was he hallucinating for some other reason?

"My first reaction was, 'That can't be!' That guest didn't seem like someone with mental problems. How could he say something like that in an empty room? So I went up to check." Qi Lin continued, taking a sip of water. "When I got to the room, I didn't find anything unusual. The guest was just eating two breakfasts by himself, and there were no signs of anything wrong with him." "I just thought maybe the guest was wearing a Bluetooth headset and making a phone call, and the waiter made a mistake, so I didn't think much of it."

"But things got weirder and weirder after that."

Qi Lin was still as meticulous as when he told stories in the village of Buming, and he liked to pause: "That noon, when I was greeting guests at the front desk, I saw that guest walk out of the elevator alone. As he walked, he turned his head and smiled and talked to the side, as if someone was with him, but there was clearly nothing with him."

"How should I put it, his smile was one of pure happiness, as if he had encountered the most joyful thing in the world."

“At that time, I felt something was wrong, because I told you the story of the seventeenth floor before. Every person who jumped had a happy smile on their face, so I immediately ran to ask that guest if he had encountered anything strange.”

"But the customer acted perfectly normal. However, I still felt something was off, so I told the boss about it."

At this point, Qi Lin's face showed a very dissatisfied and guilty expression: "My boss is focused on his business. He only thinks that I was too nervous after what happened on the seventeenth floor. He also said that the seventeenth floor has been sealed off for so long and nothing has happened. He told me not to cause trouble and bring bad influence to the hotel."

He sighed helplessly, "There's nothing we can do. We're just working like cattle. Even if we're unhappy, we can only listen to our boss. Besides, the Inspection Division of Jiuyuan is full of bloodsuckers and can't be relied on at all. But I still kept an eye on things and reminded my colleague to keep an eye on that customer during the shift change."

As Qi Lin finished speaking, his face darkened: "But when I came to work the next day, I found that the hotel was cordoned off and there were police everywhere."

“My first thought was that something had happened to the customer, so I rushed over to check. It turned out that the customer had jumped off the building. When I got there, the back of his head was completely smashed and he was still bleeding. But he had a happy smile on his face, just like the expressions on the faces of those who jumped from the seventeenth floor. The only difference was that his eyes were missing, as if they had been gouged out by something.”

"The guys from the Inspection Department came too, but they just collected some information, took two photos, and left. After the boss paid some compensation, the matter was dropped."

"It wasn't until people couldn't take it anymore and chose to resign that the boss had no choice but to spend a sum of money to have the audit department seal off all the floors above the sixteenth floor."

"Damn it!" Qi Lin got a little agitated and slammed the mineral water bottle onto the table, splashing water everywhere. His face stiffened, and he hurriedly pulled out some tissues to wipe the water off the table. "Sorry, sorry, but thinking about how these heartless capitalists treat human lives like a joke for money makes me feel so frustrated. If I hadn't not found another job yet, I would have quit long ago."

"They say you are what you eat, but I think that suffering won't make you a superior person. You can only become one by exploiting others. Look at these heartless guys, all of them acting high and mighty. The boss is like that, and so is the inspectorate. If they don't have a vested interest, they won't care about the lives of us beasts of burden."

"It's alright." Lin Jue expressed his understanding. He had seen both ruthless people and cunning individuals. Some things sounded outrageous, but they happened all the time.

If one day the world's order truly collapses completely, sometimes, more terrifying than the ruthlessness of killing is the humanity under such circumstances. (End of Chapter)