HHH Chapter 41

“Haunted?” Ningma’s mind didn’t quite process it at first. “What does this have to do with your fiancée? Don’t tell me that female ghost is your fiancée?”

“That’s how I analyze it,” Luo Zhe neither confirmed nor denied. “First, my fiancée disappeared two years ago, which caused quite a stir. The police came and went many times, and many local farmers participated in the search, so the hotel was very tense at that time.”

“Secondly, this kind of thing has never happened before. The bizarre disappearance case has not received the final official investigation result for a long time, so as an outlet for venting and some rumors are distorted into unnatural phenomena, forcibly explained and deformed. And ghosts and gods are relatively easy to fabricate, and at the same time, with horror colors, it is easier to spread.”

“However,” Luo Zhe’s eyes revealed a hint of coldness, “there is one thing in this ghost story that is easy to overlook but also the most fatal!”

“What?” Ningma hadn’t recovered from the tongue twister, and then heard the word “fatal.” Luo Zhe’s gaze was fixed on him, and he reluctantly, “Are you saying… uh… wearing a white nightgown? Does your girlfriend also have one?”

“Not a nightgown,” Luo Zhe shook his head. “Besides the front desk girl who was stuck on me, I also asked a lot of people around in a roundabout way. After I got familiar with them, do you know where all the common points of the descriptions are?”

Ningma paid great attention. “You say.”

“It’s the location. The locations where the haunting appears are all outside the hotel building. Seven or eight out of ten versions are in the open space behind the building, that is, the area directly outside the wall, between the central kitchen and the laundry room!”

Ningma opened his mouth to say something, but finally gave up.

You – I, big – small, more – less, up – down, left – right….

“You know what I want to say,” Luo Zhe pointed a direction towards the inner courtyard, “It’s over there. If you come over, you have to go around the commercial area. Of course, the hotel has no connecting passages on the top floor, but there is no access control.”

“This is not far-fetched,” Luo Zhe put down his arm. “Think about it, this hotel covers more than ten acres. Why are these rumors focused on the same location, and just across the wall is the location where my fiancée left her last mark? Based on this point alone, I dare to assert that she must have been controlled by someone in the hotel!”

“You probably understand what I mean,” Ningma tried to complete the conclusion. “It’s obvious that my fiancée can’t climb over the low wall by her own strength. There must be someone helping her. The person who helped her deliberately let her leave the hotel first, and then let my boyfriend return after having no relationship with the hotel. There is only one conclusion – it must be an internal employee of the hotel!”

Ningma continued in one breath, “In addition, her various abnormal behaviors the night before, including the man’s laughter I heard in the basement, is it likely to be the same person?”

“This person can let my fiancée take the initiative to enter the room. Besides being controlled, there is really no other explanation. After all, from the background surveillance video, my fiancée looks normal?” Ningma took a deep breath. “Am I right?”

“Not only that!” Luo Zhe said resentfully, “He can direct my fiancée to do so many things, and finally murder her. There must be an unspeakable secret. I tried to sort out the differences between my fiancée and other tourists, but there was no clue…”

While talking, he lowered his head, “I don’t know why, why her? She doesn’t seem pretty enough, nor is she very rich. Her behavior won’t make people feel disgusted or disgusted. If we speculate from the point of being alone, there shouldn’t be a few people who travel alone every year…”

“Yes,” Ningma felt that after going around in a circle, he had returned to the question he had asked half an hour ago, “Why her?”

“What about later?” Seeing Luo Zhe’s emotions dim, and he had been standing outside for almost two hours, the surroundings were dark and quiet except for the sound of rain.

“Later?” Luo Zhe raised his head again, “At least I know that the people in the hotel did it. The bastard who controlled my fiancée must think that he is hiding deep enough, and no one will pursue it after so long. He will slowly relax until he shows his feet!”

“As long as he is still lurking in the environment!” Luo Zhe’s eyes revealed forbearance, “no one will know what relationship you have with the man who disappeared two years ago. I secretly investigate each of them, and I believe that there will definitely be a second time after the first time. No matter what purpose the woman has, she will definitely repeat the same trick, only need time to choose the next victim.”

“You mean the target…” Ningma realized that the other party was referring to – “Is me? Am I also being controlled by something?”

“If I remember correctly,” Luo Zhe pointed to Ningma’s two injured legs and the wound on his forehead, “you weren’t like this when you first came.”

“This…” Ningma was speechless for a moment, thinking of the three accidents he had encountered in just three days of staying at this hotel. If he hadn’t been lucky enough, he would have been carried out horizontally. He also had speculations about whether someone was manipulating the accidents he had suffered. At this moment, he heard that someone had mysteriously disappeared two years ago. All kinds of direct or indirect evidence showed that at least this Molton Holiday Inn was not as perfect as advertised.

“I’m not alarmist,” Luo Zhe raised his voice. “And after so long of secret investigation, I am their next target, although I still can’t guess why me, just like I can’t guess why your fiancée.”

“They?” Ningma seized the keyword. “Not one person?”

“Not one person,” Luo Zhe repeated softly, “but I don’t know exactly how many people are involved, but I can be sure that it is a gang, conservatively estimated at least four people!”

“Why do you say there are four people?” Ningma asked.

“Because of the hotel’s departments,” Luo Zhe explained, “front office, housekeeping, catering, security, engineering… To make your fiancée go from a normal person to crazy to obedient will involve several related personnel. It is impossible for one person to create all this.”

“For example, the night my fiancée checked into the hotel, she felt that there was someone in the room. This person who appeared out of thin air must have the key to open the door. If he entered from outside, he would also need an access card from the engineering department or the security department to enter the roof. This has already involved people who know or participate in it, and it is impossible for it to be just one person.”

Ningma vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he still asked, “Is it possible that he, like me, copied the access card and the key?”

“I had this consideration at the beginning, but I ignored a very important thing!” Luo Zhe directly denied.

“What is it?”

Luo Zhe pointed to the surveillance camera under the eaves not far away. “Five-star hotels attach great importance to all video evidence. If something happens, they will retrieve the surveillance immediately.”

“Cameras are everywhere, especially in hotels. There are almost no blind spots. The staff sitting in the monitoring room with a whole wall of screens are responsible for the integrity and authenticity of all videos. They have signed confidentiality agreements when they joined the company. If any problems occur, they will be notified throughout the industry, and even sued by the hotel for dereliction of duty!”

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