From dawn until noon, everyone was sleeping to prepare for tonight's mission. Liu Yu did not sleep at all, he walked around the hotel. He walked to the elevator and prepared to press the button to go up to the second floor so that the upper floors would not have to walk up the stairs.
Suddenly, a person came out and said that he was a waiter, enthusiastically and friendly: "Sir, our elevator is currently broken and temporarily out of service. Please understand."
At night, no waiter came to greet him, only the manager came, during the day the waiters were enthusiastic, this hotel could not do business like this. The waiter bowed to him and turned to leave.
Following the waiter's eyes, he saw him enter the large door below the stairs.
With his old experience, he saw something suspicious about the waiter, so he gave up the idea of going up the floors and turned to go towards the door below the stairs. Opening the door, the space inside was spacious and bright. There were three paths, in front, on the left and on the right. They were all long corridors leading deep inside, with windows on both sides of the corridor.
"Bang!".
There was a window that was blown open by the strong wind, and the rain was splashing down. He turned left, and outside the window, white raindrops like snow were falling, and he couldn't see what was inside the curtain of rain.
"Bang!".
He was about to close the window when he suddenly heard a sound like something heavy falling to the ground. He stopped moving and moved forward.
There were two forks ahead, one was to go straight and the other was to turn right. The sound came from ahead, and he groped his way along it. After walking a bit, there was another small staircase next to the corridor. The railing of the staircase was gold-plated, and the marble steps reflected the glitter. He looked around on the ground, and didn't see anything falling, but the sound he heard earlier must have been something heavy.
Lia looked up the stairs and suddenly saw a black shadow peeking its head down to look at him. Looking closely, he discovered that it was the employee from earlier. The face was pale and expressionless, not as friendly as when he was in the lobby. Liu Yu immediately rushed upstairs, and the employee immediately ran away.
Upstairs was a long hallway, different from downstairs, the dim lights created a cold, empty feeling. The strange thing was that the space here was quiet, and the sound of the heavy rain outside could not be heard.
" Thump thump". The shadow of the employee flashed past the right turn of the hallway. Liu Yu chased after him, and at the end of the hallway, there were three more turns.
Was this place a maze? So many turns?
Losing sight of the employee, he closed his eyes and focused on listening.
"Thump thump". His ears moved.
"It's this way!". He immediately turned to the right, the sound of footsteps getting closer. He stopped at a door. Immediately opened the door and walked in, the person in front almost bumped into him.
"Liu Yu?".
It was Bai Hu who was about to step out the door when he saw him, he frowned.
His expression did not change: "Why are you here?".
Bai Hu frowned and tapped his stick on the ground: "That's the right question, why are you here?".
Bai Hu was in this room leaning on his stick and walking out, the sound of the employee's footsteps disappeared here. Could it be that the guy entered without him knowing?
He asked him again: "Did you see anyone in here?".
The door closed, without saying anything he immediately used his stick to attack Liu Yu, he dodged and flew behind him, grabbing the back of his neck. Bai Hu nimbly jumped into the air and kicked him three hundred and sixty degrees, he blocked it. Bai Hu landed lightly on the ground, glaring at him: "Stop beating around the bush, tell me quickly!".
He said coldly: "I saw someone up here and entered this room".
"Help me!" Suddenly, someone's voice was heard, the voice was somewhat familiar.
The two of them stopped arguing and ran to the front corridor, a person was lying motionless and calling for help in the middle of the corridor.
It was Qin Er, the manager of the Qing Fei Hotel. Looking up from where he was lying, the ceiling was broken, and rubble was scattered on the ground. Did he fall from here?
He looked up at the hole, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. Suddenly, a glowing stone fell on his forehead, and when he caught it, he saw a small, sparkling gold ball.
Bai Hu walked over and used a stick to push the rubble away to see if there was anything suspicious, saying: "Put that gold ball away."
Without him reminding him, he put it in his pocket and placed Qin Er against the wall. He asked: "Manager Qin, did you fall down from there?".
"Yes... Yes." Qin Er's face was stern, it could be seen that his body was in great pain. He was old, so he was weak, and on top of that, he fell from a high place.
His trembling hand took out the medicine bottle from his pocket and said: "Open the lid of the box for me and give me the pill, thank you."
Liu Yu opened the bottle and took out a pill inside. The bottle label was normal, but this pill had a special color. The two ends of the pill were two different colors, the top end was purple, the bottom end was blue. He frowned slightly, because he had seen this pill once somewhere thirty years ago, but he had only seen it and had never known the uses or effects of this pill. It seemed that this pill was very rare, so why did Qin Er have it?
He didn't care about this matter anymore, and gave him the pill. Bai Hu had been standing there silently observing the pill, his eyes narrowed in a curious and suspicious manner.
Qin Er swallowed the pill then crouched down to stand up, Liu Yu supported him. Qin Er staggered against the wall, he said: "Thank you two, I have something to do now so I'll go first".
Two female employees came from somewhere to help him go inside, the hallway now had only two people left. No one asked why he fell into the hole and the suspicious employee also ran away.
Bai Hu suddenly spoke: "This Qin Er is definitely hiding something he doesn't want us to see".
Glancing at the hole, he leaned on his cane and turned away.
"Why are you here?" Liu Yu suddenly asked.
He didn't care about his question and just kept walking.
Liu Yu: "....".
The two walked out of the main door under the stairs, both of them were old but their physical and mental strength was extraordinary so the maze-like path was immediately imprinted in their memory.
Liang Zun yawned and walked downstairs behind Li Xiao Juan, when he saw Bai Hu and Liu Yu, she nodded and greeted them before entering the dining room. Liang Zun scratched his head: "Wow, old people always wake up early, huh?".
The four of them sat down at the same table, a staff member came out and handed them the menu: "You can choose the dishes you like, and here are the desserts."
Liang Zun took the menu, looked up at the staff member: "Huh? You guys only work in the morning?".
The staff member smiled friendly: "We work 24/7, we work in the evening and in the morning."
"Then why didn't anyone come out to serve last night, only Manager Qin?". Xie Ying stood outside the dining room door and stroked her hair.
The staff's expression did not change, still maintaining a friendly smile. But to Xie Ying, he looked like a robot, observing from beginning to end, he only had a "smiling" expression. The staff smiled and bowed: "We work 24/24, working in the evening and morning".
Liang Zun spoke up: "Okay, as long as there are staff serving now, it's good, here, get me this and this".
He turned to ask everyone: "Whatever you want to eat, I'll order it".
"Anything". Li Xiao Juan answered blankly.
"Whatever". Liu Yu replied.
"Tofu". Bai Hu tapped his stick. "I'm a vegetarian, if you don't have it, you have to make it for me".
The staff smiled: "Yes, so what about the person standing outside the door, what do you want to eat?".
He also sat down at the table, frowned as he looked at the menu and discovered that the words on it were not normal words, not in any language but special characters. But why could Liang Zun read it?!
Xie Ying glanced at Liang Zun suspiciously, then glanced at the waiter who was smiling friendly. Liu Yu beside him glanced at the menu and pointed at the fourth row. He whispered in his ear: "Chili lemongrass stir-fried fingers".
He closed the menu and slammed it on the table, glaring at him. The others were startled, but his face was cold and expressionless.
"Okay, eat whatever you want". He said.
"Yes". The waiter turned and went into the kitchen.
Xie Ying glanced at Liang Zun, cold sweat poured down his face. He didn't understand why he was glanced at like that, he started to change the subject: "Oh, by the way, Mr. Xie Ying, isn't Mr. Xie Cheng coming down to eat breakfast with us? Is it lunch time now?".
After glancing at him, he glanced at Liu Yu, because he could also read the strange words on the menu. Or was it just him who was strange and couldn't read it?
Without answering Liang Zun's question, he turned around and said, "Hey, Mr. Liang, have you ever studied any ancient characters?".
Liang Zun was surprised when asked, he scratched his head: "Actually...".
"AAAAAA!!!". Suddenly, there was a scream from outside, the five people looked at each other.
Xie Ying immediately stood up and walked out to see the situation, just as his feet were about to leave the door, a waiter suddenly appeared in front of him from nowhere. His face was friendly and he smiled: "Sir, the food is about to be served, so please return to your seat."
Look at the waiter.
He raised his eyebrows, his temples throbbing: "Hey, is that a waiter or my grandfather? I am a guest, wherever I want to go is my right!".
The waiter kept his smile and repeated the sentence from earlier: "Sir, the food is about to be served, so please return to your seat."
Bai Hu threw his stick at the waiter's head, and he collapsed on the spot. All five of them headed towards the direction of the sound. Standing in the middle of the hall, Liang Zun fearfully pushed up his glasses: "Is that the sound of Mr. Xie Cheng?".
Xie Ying left the room upstairs and ran down, shaking his head: "No, he is still sleeping."
"That scream is over here." Liu Yu stood at the left door leading to the back of the hotel.