Zhang Fanyu looked at the old man Zhou and said in a light voice, "You are getting old very quickly."

When Xiang Ya heard this sentence, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, why did this sentence sound like he was taunting the other party.

When Old Man Zhou heard it, he jumped in anger, trotted over, and patted Zhang Fanyu with his wrinkled hands quickly and accurately.

"You are old, you are old!"

"I haven't come back for more than 3 years, is it really so busy at work?!" He stopped and roared.

Zhang Fanyu didn't move, let the old man beat him, and when the other party finally calmed down, he said: "Someone is watching, you are serious."

Xiang Ya took a half step back silently, looking at the Buddha statue without a word.

'Ah, everyone is tired from playing, so you only said this. ’

Old Man Zhou's gaze shifted to Xiang Ya, and after looking at it for a while, his expression immediately changed to that of a kind old grandfather.

"Little girl, what's your name? Where are you from? How old are you?"

Zhang Fanyu frowned and interrupted: "Don't inquire about others, we are here to ask you something this time."

The old man Zhou let out a long sigh and walked towards the dark place where he was standing just now.

"Come with me."

Xiang Ya landed at the end, followed the two of them through the curtain and entered a large room with sundries.

All kinds of gongs and drums were piled up on both sides of the house. In front of the gongs and drums were colorful costumes. They were hung in a row on the iron bars, and the transparent bags were covered above. The dust accumulated and looked gray.

The colorful flags are beside the lanterns as high as one person, and the glaring Nuo opera masks stand in the corner, as if they are examining foreigners who have entered hastily...

The room was full of stale smell, and it could be seen that the things here were useless for a long time.

Old Man Zhou looked back and saw that the little girl was fascinated by these things used in the battle. He stopped and said with a smile: "Have you heard of Youshen?"

Xiang Ya shook his head blankly.

The old man Zhou smiled and said, "Every time it is the birthday of each god, people will carry the gods and parade through the streets. The scene of welcoming the gods and receiving the gods is very lively, the gongs and drums are loud, the smoke is filled, the gods and Buddhas travel, and people from ten miles and eight townships. They all ran out to the streets to watch the fun."

"At that time, it was really a day when God and man rejoiced together."

"This is the only place in the world that is the most lively."

After he sighed, he pointed to Zhang Fanyu and said, "He used to be the one who participated in the battle. After he left Pingchuan, few young people persisted, and he couldn't make it for two years."

"Pity."

He was still smiling, but there was something Xiang Ya couldn't understand in his smile.

Zhang Fanyu suddenly said, "Why didn't you go forward?"

The old man Zhou patted Zhang Fanyu's arm lightly, hunched his back, "What's the hurry, the old man's feet are slower."

Zhang Fanyu silently supported the opponent's hand and slowed down.

Xiang Ya stood behind to see this scene and blinked slowly.

'Officer Zhang doesn't seem to hate this old man as much as he imagined. ’

The three passed through the utility room and reached the rear of the temple.

There is a stone table in the center of the small hall, and there is a large banyan tree in the northwest corner. The branches and leaves are luxuriant. Each branch is tied with yellow cloth strips, which are densely packed and drooping quietly.

In front of the underground hall is an old house built in imitation of the old style, and an orange paper lantern is hung in front of the house.

The old man Zhou sat at the stone table and waved his hands, indicating that they would sit here.

"Tell me, what do you want to know about me?" He said with a smile, but his eyes kept looking at Xiang Ya.

Zhang Fanyu glanced at him, his sword eyebrows wrinkled slightly, this time he didn't stop him from looking at it.

"I'm going to the Evian Mountain Hotel tomorrow night. I remember that its predecessor was the Evian Mountain Sanatorium. Don't you know someone who used to recuperate there?"

Hearing the words "Evian Mountain", Old Man Zhou put away his smile and asked, "What are you doing there?"

"There's a lot of yin there?" Zhang Fanyu asked back.

"No, there is no yin there." The old man Zhou's voice gradually became serious, "Three years ago, the sanatorium was demolished and constructed, and the person in charge of the project invited me to go there to see the ground, but when I went there, I didn't notice a trace of yin and cold. gas."

"You should remember that that person is a pilgrim who often comes to the temple to seek the blessings of gods and Buddhas."

"That man took his own life very seriously. I tried to console him several times, but he couldn't solve the knot. Later, he rarely came to the temple, and the last time I heard about him was three years ago, in a nursing home. A few months before the demolition and renovation, he died of illness, and it is said that he suffered a great crime before his death.”

"It stands to reason that this kind of death has depression, and the elderly who died of illness stay in a place where there is very little anger, and it is easy to breed resentment..."

"But during that survey, I didn't feel any yin, and the whole sanatorium was clean, as if it had been deliberately cleaned up."

Zhang Fanyu and Xiang Ya looked at each other tacitly after hearing the words.

The strangeness of the nursing home may be related to Gui Chi.

"Although I doubted it, I couldn't stop it when the construction started immediately. After the hotel was built, I never heard of any supernatural incident. Gradually, I didn't care about it."

Old Man Zhou frowned, "Now that you talk about it, is something wrong over there?"

He patted his thigh, "No, even if nothing happened, the place is too clean, you better not go there."

Without thinking about it, he immediately rejected Zhang Fanyu's visit to the Evian Mountain Hotel.

Zhang Fanyu waited for him to finish speaking before opening his mouth: "You will give me the pilgrim information later..."

The old man Zhou frowned into the word "Chuan", and was about to open his mouth when he was interrupted by the other party.

"Have you ever heard of a murder in a nursing home here?"

The old man Zhou shook his head, "No, the whole handover process between the dean and the engineering director went smoothly."

Speaking of this, Old Man Zhou suddenly remembered a detail. At that time, the handover of the persons in charge of the two sides went smoothly, but the old people living below were the opposite.

"I remembered that the pilgrim once said that the people in the sanatorium don't like outsiders breaking into the sanatorium. Knowing that some real estate developers want to buy land to build a hotel, many elderly people are dissatisfied and worry that they will have nowhere to go in the future."

"I heard that there have been several symposiums, but it seems that there is no result. Anyway, in the end, the nursing home was demolished and turned into a hotel."

The old man Zhou's voice suddenly became a little sad: "I don't know where those who lost their homes are now..."

"People who go to sanatoriums to recuperate, basically have no home."

——I don’t have a home, so concentrated on living there and regarded the nursing home as home.

Just as Xiang Ya was about to speak to comfort the old man, old man Zhou regained his energy in an instant, sweeping away the slump just now.

"Yeah, I remembered I had a map of the sanitarium back then!"

"The nursing home is very large. The person in charge of the project gave me a map. Some buildings were in disrepair for a long time. The director did not advise me to go up. I only checked around those buildings and left after seeing nothing unusual. .”

"You wait for me." Old man Zhou walked into the mansion.

After a while, he came out with two pieces of paper.

"Here, here you are." He handed over a dark yellow map and pilgrim information.

The moment Zhang Fanyu took the map, old man Zhou suddenly asked: "A Yu, have you invited a god?"

"You asked me these things uncharacteristically, and the breath on your body changed again. Is it something bad? I need to ask God to solve it..."

"Hmm." Zhang Fanyu lowered his head to study the map, without denying the matter.

The old man Zhou was full of anxiety. He asked the reason one after another, but Zhang Fanyu was unwilling to speak.

Xiang Ya didn't dare to tell an old man in his 80s about the Ghost Hotel, fearing that what happened to Gui Chi would affect the old man, so he didn't reveal anything about the hotel.

The old man Zhou questioned to no avail, and waved his hands discouraged, "Forget it, anyway, I can't stop you since I was a child, so you can do whatever you want..."

"I'll tell you about other precautions later, try to listen to me in your heart!"

Zhang Fanyu suddenly raised his head and said, "I'll come back to you after this matter is settled."

"Grandpa, follow me to leave Pingchuan at that time."

Old man Zhou paused, he didn't respond to this matter, and turned around slowly.

"It's getting late, I'm going to tidy up your room."

...

Xiang Ya and Zhang Fanyu stood in front of the fountain statue, and the stone sculpture dressed as a Western beauty was holding a stone jug, and clear water gushed out from the small hole in the jug, splashing down into the pool.

Behind the fountain is a large and beautifully decorated glass door. Doormen in uniform stand on both sides of the tall glass door. When they see guests entering, they bend over to greet them.

Both sides of the hotel are green bushes that are built evenly, and the sweet fragrance of grass and trees wafts in the air.

About 40 floors high, the main body of the hotel extending to both sides stands there quietly, like a majestic and graceful lion.

The lion's tail extends all the way to the northwest. Along the mountain, a row of white buildings that are shorter than the main building are neatly arranged halfway up the mountain.

The arc is smooth, and the white buildings are the tail bones of the lion's tail.

Everything here is built so that it flows smoothly, as if it is integrated with the mountains.

This is the most beautiful hotel Xiang Ya has seen so far.

Although Pingchuan City is poor, its natural environment is among the top cities in the country.

Therefore, Evian Mountain Hotel is a well-known star-rated hotel in the country. Many celebrities, entertainers, high-government officials will come here to enjoy their vacations.

Just looking at the appearance, no one would have imagined that there is another weird world underneath.

The living sleep soundly in the world, while the dead are trapped in nightmares.

Xiang Ya was in a daze, until Zhang Fanyu said "Let's go" in a low voice, and she came back to catch up.

The hotel manager who came to pick them up this time was a lady surnamed Lu. She was tall and slender, except that her body was as white as pure white paint, which was a bit scary, and she didn't like to talk, but everything else was quite normal.

She didn't take them to the main building, but walked towards the "lion tail" complex that she saw just now.

Every building here is connected by a transparent corridor. If you look outside, you will find more and more evergreen trees on both sides.

There are fewer and fewer living people passing by them...

In the end, Manager Lu stopped in front of the last white building.

Although it is the shortest and last building in the complex, it is also 12 stories high.

Zhang Fanyu quickly typed a paragraph on the phone and handed it to Xiang Ya:

——"This is the location of one of the dangerous buildings marked on the map."

Xiang Ya nodded silently.

They walked slowly into the building, and at the front desk was a strong man dozing off.

Manager Lu coughed lightly, the man woke up and stood up in panic.

Displeasure flashed across Manager Lu's face, and he briefly introduced tonight's sleep testers.

"This is Xiang Ya, the sleep tester, and Zhang Fanyu, the security guard tonight." She paused, "Have the other three sleep testers arranged their rooms?"

"It's been arranged. It's next to and opposite to Miss Xiang's room. The four rooms are in the same area."

The male receptionist handed over the key, Manager Lu took it, and led the two of them to the old elevator at the end of the corridor.

Xiang Ya and Zhang Fanyu looked at each other, knowing that they had already discovered the abnormality here.

Xiang Ya asked, "Manager Lu, what does it mean to be divided into districts?"

Manager Lu is a serious person, she glanced over indifferently.

"Aren't all nursing homes like this? District management..."

"Tonight, all 4 of your sleep testers will be placed in the critically ill area."

"Please be sure to read the rules written in the room."

She pressed the elevator on the 10th floor and looked ahead.

"Yesterday, the hotel's notification system was damaged. This dream suggests that you guys should follow the rules."

"Because, if you're not careful—you will foul and die."

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Xiang Ya: Oh, it's another sleepless night where death is easy.