"Did you get anything out of that guy?"
After deciding not to dwell on whether Xu Shenxing was from the Physics Department or the Chemistry Department, Xiao Zhengyi wisely changed the topic.
"Something like that."
Originally, Xu Shenxing looked for the Earth Loli to ask her to help him sense what was wrong with Jiang Jin. After all, as the embodiment of the earth, the Earth God could be regarded as the most sensitive existence to changes in Jiang Jin.
However, the Earth Loli didn't try to sense it. Instead, she directly told Xu Shenxing where the other party might be hiding.
"There is an abandoned hotel in the south of the city. Originally, it was said that the investor wanted to build a new high-end office building, but because the construction permit for high-rise buildings in the city has not been issued, he could only build buildings with four floors or less. However, the value of the land will plummet, and there is no way to recover the funds, so in the end, that place can only be put on hold."
As they walked down the mountain, Xu Shenxing told Xiao Zhengyi the news he heard from the Earth Loli. "According to the Earth God of Jiang Jin, that place was originally one of the Earth Temples in Jiang Jin, and it is likely to be the oldest one. It was later destroyed during the Four Olds period, and was later rebuilt into a hotel. And because the previous owner of that man-eating monster had some relationship with the Earth God, every time it passed by Jiang Jin, it would rest there. "
"So … wait a minute." Xiao Zhengyi showed a thoughtful expression. He took out his phone and called his assistant, Fang Xiaoqing, who was staying in the Super Administrative Office. After a few instructions, he pretended to listen.
After a while, Xiao Zhengyi hung up the phone.
"Sure enough …" Xiao Zhengyi showed a somewhat dignified expression. He looked at Xu Shenxing. "You also know that I used to be a police officer, right?"
"Hey, weren't you a traffic police officer before?" Xu Shenxing looked surprised.
"That was an accident. Besides, I've only been a traffic police officer for less than a week!" Xiao Zhengyi defended himself with dissatisfaction, but then he returned to his previous serious mode. "For a rookie police officer like me, when I first entered the police station, I had to start by organizing documents. Actually, at that time, I noticed something very strange. However, after he was promoted and became a police officer, he was busy investigating cases every day. That's why I forgot about it. "
"How can you call that investigating a case? Mo Li and I helped you solve every case you have …" Xu Shenxing complained.
"There is! I single-handedly cracked the large-scale car theft case! "
"Is there such a case?"
"Of course, it's the one who stole the bicycle a year ago!"
"I say, can't you be more promising …" Xu Shenxing sighed and began to reflect on whether he had found the wrong person to work with.
Although he was complaining about Xiao Zhengyi, Xu Shenxing still waited for Xiao Zhengyi to tell him the 'strange thing' he thought of before.
"When I was organizing documents, I once organized the missing people's files in Jiang Jin."
"Is there a b * stard called Parra in there?" Xu Shenxing asked.
"No, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, you can continue …"
"Well, actually, when I was sorting it out, I found a very strange thing. Among the missing people, a small number of them were last seen in that hotel before they went missing. And the disappearances were very regular, about one every four years."
Xiao Zhengyi said in a low voice. "After that, I went there out of curiosity, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything. However, there seemed to be some kind of legend among the residents nearby. If I'm not wrong, that hotel closed down because of poor management, most likely because of this. "
"One every four years, that monster came to Jiang Jin to watch the Olympics …" Xu Shenxing was a bit speechless. "Then according to the pattern, the last time something like this happened should be four years ago."
"Even so, I still think it's a bit strange."
Xiao Zhengyi frowned and said, "Missing means that no one knows if the person is alive or dead. But if the person who went missing in that hotel was attacked by the monster that's causing trouble in Jiang Jin, at least a head should be left behind. But our criminal police team has searched there several times, but we haven't been able to find the body of the missing person … "
"Maybe the monster's taste has changed? Anyway, let's not worry about this for now, let's find the monster first. "
Finally, when they reached the police car at the foot of the mountain, Xu Shenxing made the final decision.
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Soon, they arrived at the abandoned hotel.
After easily climbing over the barbed wire fence that had lost its isolation function, Xu Shenxing and the others officially entered the hotel.
Even though it was already winter, there were still a lot of waist-high withered weeds in the hotel's wasteland.
The eerie and terrifying hotel ruins stood in the middle of it, the black hole without a door was like the mouth of a monster, making people want to retreat.
Of course, the people here were just normal people, Xu Shenxing didn't feel any pressure at all. There were many places in other worlds that were much more eerie and scary than this place.
Jasmine, on the other hand, took a branch from who knows where and squatted on the ground to poke at it for a while. Then, she picked out a Cauliflower Snake that was still hibernating from an unknown hole …
"Landlord, can this be eaten?"
Mo Li shook the branch and asked curiously.
"Yes."
"Is it tasty?" Mo Li continued to ask.
"Hmm, actually I haven't eaten it before, but it probably tastes the same as Hydra?" Xu Shenxing answered uncertainly.
Hydra: Noun, food ingredient, a snake with nine heads, tastes like chicken.
"Even though I haven't eaten Hydra before, I feel that your eating habits aren't very healthy …" Xiao Zhengyi's mouth twitched a little as he said softly.
"Whether it's healthy or not is another matter, but that guy's head grows really fast. At that time, I had a friend who had a big appetite, and every time he went on an expedition, he would find a place with Hydra and eat until it couldn't grow a head anymore, then he would chop it up and eat it …"
"This is already considered torture, hey, I suddenly feel so sorry for the Hydra!" Xiao Zhengyi said half-heartedly with his dead fish eyes. Even though he acknowledged Xu Shenxing's strength, he had always treated Xu Shenxing's fantastical adventures as Xu Shenxing's bragging.
Mo Li smacked his little mouth, probably thinking that the Hydra wasn't very tasty, so he threw the unlucky snake far away.
Although Xu Shenxing vaguely heard someone screaming in the distance, "Ahhhhhh, why is there a snake falling from the sky?", he decided to treat it as an illusion and walked into the abandoned hotel unconcernedly.
As soon as he walked into the hotel, he could feel that the temperature inside was slightly lower than outside, and the air was filled with a damp and rotten smell. Xu Shenxing couldn't help but frown.
In the middle of the hotel's lobby was a huge pool, but now that it was abandoned, no one cleaned the pool, so the water inside had turned into a disgusting green color and was covered by a thick moss-like substance.
The glass ceiling that was originally designed to allow light to pass through was almost broken, and rainwater would fall from above and flow into the pool. This was probably why the pool hadn't dried up even though the hotel had been abandoned for more than two years.
Xiao Zhengyi brought Xu Shenxing around the hotel, but they didn't find anything special.
Finally, they came to the hotel's main lobby. Usually, this lobby was used for weddings, but now, for some reason, the door was wrapped with an iron chain that was as thick as an adult's arm.
Xiao Zhengyi first took out a master key.
"The police now actually have this kind of equipment …" Xu Shenxing ridiculed.
"Sister Yu, our lockpicking is righteous!"
Xiao Zhengyi started to open the lock with a strong sense of righteousness.
About ten minutes later.
"F * ck, the inside of the lock is rusty, even the lock core is rusted, there's no way to open it!"
Our righteous police officer made an 'otz' action.
Xu Shenxing helplessly stepped forward and gently pulled it. Like pulling a noodle that had been soaked in hot water for too long, he easily broke the iron chain.
There wasn't much difference between the main lobby and the outside, but the smell of decay was stronger. Tables and chairs were randomly piled up everywhere, and the wooden tables and chairs had begun to rot because no one took care of them. It could be seen that the hotel was a bit chaotic when it was closed. Almost everything that was slightly valuable in the main lobby had been taken away, not even a cup was left behind.
"There's nothing here, is this considered as empty-handed?" Xiao Zhengyi sneezed because of the dust in the air, then he sniffed and said, "I've been running around for this case for the past two days, my nose is a bit stuffed."
"No, to be precise, we've hit the jackpot."
But Xu Shenxing said in a deep voice.
"What?"
"Your nose is stuffed not because of your body, but …" After hesitating for a moment, Xu Shenxing sighed and said, "Forget it, you'd better see for yourself."
After that, he stomped his feet slightly.
While the whole ground trembled, Xiao Zhengyi also found that the scene in front of him rippled like a water surface that had a pebble thrown into it!
After a while, the ripples disappeared, but what appeared in front of him was already a completely different scene.
The tables and chairs that were casually piled up didn't change much, but there were a few more things in this space.
Male corpses, female corpses, children's corpses, old people's corpses …
Many incomplete corpses were placed messily like pork in a slaughterhouse, and internal organs and congealed blood covered most of the ground.
"This is …" Even Xiao Zhengyi was shocked by this scene.
"This is the scene of a banquet," Xu Shenxing sneered and said, "But the guests don't seem to be human."
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