Chapter 200 Missing Person Notice (Part 9)
[So? What do you want to say? ]
[It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who noticed this. At that time, I felt like Yan Shen was thinking about something.]
[Wow, I thought I was dazzled. Anyway, the comments are anonymous, can I say that I feel like I am watching Qiao Yuan?]
Once these words were spoken, they could cause a huge uproar.
[Ah this, ah this, even if you dare to say it, I dare not look at it]
[Before reading: Why do you have to be anonymous to say this? After reading: No wonder you have to be anonymous. I'm afraid that if you say this, you will be beaten by others in the dungeon.]
[I just want to know if this means that Yan Shen is paying attention to Sister Qiao]
[I usually like to stare at others in a daze. Does this mean that in the eyes of others, I have paid special attention to countless people?]
[But aren’t you just talking about issues of special concern? Maybe it’s just that the strong people appreciate each other and happened to notice Qiao Yuan.]
[Shouldn't we continue discussing the dungeon? Why did the topic turn to this?]
The players are all busy with their own things.
Qiao Yuan finally received a call from the resident of Room 312. While going upstairs to deliver water, he was able to get in touch with the resident of Room 312.
The resident of Room 312 is a middle-aged man who looks to be in his 40s or 50s. According to him, he came to this city on a business trip for two months, so he is still living here.
In order not to arouse the resident's suspicion, Qiao Yuan changed the approach: "We are sorry that we were unable to fully handle your complaint about Room 305 before."
Hearing Qiao Yuan's words, the middle-aged man's face changed: "She..."
Qiao Yuan: "Yes, we were handling it at the time, but we didn't expect you to suddenly withdraw the complaint..."
The middle-aged man's originally calm tone suddenly fluctuated, and his emotions became excited: "There's nothing I can do!"
"After all, Xu Lin is so weird. I think she has mental problems..."
Because he had complained about Xu Lin and had gone through negotiations with her, the middle-aged man knew her name.
Qiao Yuan noticed that the middle-aged man's pupils were trembling violently, which was obviously a sign of shock and fear.
Can make a grown man so scared...
Doubts arose in Qiao Yuan's mind.
Fortunately, this middle-aged man seemed to need a channel to vent, so he spoke out quickly.
The middle-aged man had a normal work and rest schedule. He went out for business negotiations every day and it was common for him to return to the hotel to rest at 10 or 11 o'clock in the evening. However, every time he finally wanted to lie down and rest, he was always awakened by the knock on the door, which naturally made him very irritable.
As mentioned in the complaint, the middle-aged man wanted to talk to Xu Lin after he chased her out and found that she was from room 305, but Xu Lin avoided him. It was not until he was furious and complained directly to the hotel that Xu Lin finally agreed to meet with him.
Middle-aged man: "But Xu Lin's condition is very wrong."
Qiao Yuan noticed that cold sweat had appeared on his forehead.
The middle-aged man's thoughts turned and he had returned to the afternoon when he had talked face to face with Xu Lin.
Because the middle-aged man himself has a daughter as old as Xu Lin, even though he was quite dissatisfied with Xu Lin's previous behavior of ringing the doorbell, he thought he spoke in a gentle tone during the conversation, and even sounded earnest and nagging.
However, after the middle-aged man said a lot of words with dry mouth, he still didn't get a response from Xu Lin, so he subconsciously looked over.
Xu Lin was biting her nails with her head down. Her delicately shaped manicure had been bitten into pits and her body was shaking violently.
Did you listen to this?
The middle-aged man thought hesitantly, but quickly stated his request. His request was simple, he just wanted to know why Xu Lin knocked on the door every night, and to stop knocking on the door.
It was just unknown what he mentioned that irritated Xu Lin. She suddenly jumped up from the sofa, her hair becoming increasingly messy and sticking to her cheeks. She stared at him fiercely with her black eyes, and the flesh on both sides of her cheeks trembled violently because she was clenching her teeth. Then, in the next second, with a flash of cold light, she pounced on him and shouted in an angry voice like a wild animal: "You are the one who wants to hurt me!"
"It's your child who wants to hurt me!"
Xu Lin actually picked up the fruit knife on the coffee table without him noticing!
If the middle-aged man had not dodged in time, he would have been stabbed with several holes.
He looked at Xu Lin in doubt and shouted, "What are you doing!"
At this time, Xu Lin finally seemed to come to his senses. He threw the knife in his hand to the ground with a "snap" sound, and then looked at the middle-aged man with tears in his eyes: "I... I don't want this either..."
"I can't leave the hotel...I can't leave here!"
The middle-aged man said tentatively: "If anything happens, I can help you call the police..."
But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Xu Lin.
Xu Lin stared at him intently, his hands groping on the ground: "Don't call the police! No, don't..."
Seeing Xu Lin becoming a little crazy again, the middle-aged man walked out in a cold sweat , and he realized that there was something wrong with Xu Lin. At the moment he went out, the middle-aged man saw through the shadow on the wall that Xu Lin stood up, but he was holding the knife in his hand again.
The middle-aged man then realized that Xu Lin's groping on the ground just now was not a performance without props, but he was looking for a knife.
At the same time, Xu Lin's footsteps sounded behind the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man was still some distance away from the door.
In order to survive, his brain was working rapidly at this moment. He immediately spoke out to say that he had heard it and would definitely not call the police or continue to complain.
In order to reassure Xu Lin, he even deleted the complaint message in front of the other party.
Xu Lin then stopped and watched him leave.
After listening to the middle-aged man's story, Qiao Yuan felt puzzled: "So why didn't you tell the hotel afterwards?"
The middle-aged man's breathing was rapid, and he barely recovered from the shock of the memories. He then whispered, "On the one hand, the company told me that I could go back in a few days, and I thought I would leave the hotel right away, but I didn't expect it to be delayed until now."
"On the other hand, the hotel will definitely choose to negotiate first. I am worried that during the negotiation period, I will anger her again. After all, there are many cases of mentally ill people killing people."
The middle-aged man in front of him also said that Xu Lin had mental problems. From his description, Xu Lin seemed to be afraid of something.
She quickly thought of something and looked at the middle-aged man: "What did she mean by your child wanting to harm her?"
"Did she know your child before?"
As soon as Qiao Yuan finished speaking, the middle-aged man waved his hand: "How is that possible? Not to mention that my child never accompanied me on the business trip. I asked her in the chat history, and she had never heard of Xu Lin's name, and she didn't even know such a person!"
"But fortunately she left..."
It seems that the middle-aged man doesn't know that Xu Lin is missing.
Seeing that he could not get any more out of the middle-aged man, Qiao Yuan finally chose to stop talking.
When the players reunited in the evening, Qiao Yuan was about to share the important news he had learned when he heard Andre speak first in a trembling voice: "Qin...Qin Taiyang is dead."
Chen Siyu's pupils trembled, and then she subconsciously looked at Andre who was standing beside her: "What on earth happened?!"
Of course, her excitement had nothing to do with the sorrow for Qin Taiyang's death. After all, she had only been with him for a few days. In addition, they had been scattered in the hotel before, and the few times they spent together were with other players, so naturally there was not much deep affection between them.
Chen Siyu just wanted to know why Qin Taiyang died. If the other party had violated any rules, she could avoid this.
At least the other party can't die unclearly...
After all, Qin Taiyang is not a newcomer without any experience, so he should not have fallen into the current situation no matter how he thought about it.
Brother Lou and Chen Siyu thought of the same thing, so they hurriedly asked: "Why don't you tell me?"
Andre's pupils trembled slightly, and his chest was still heaving violently. He didn't even have time to comfort Aning beside him like he did before.
He took a deep breath and finally spoke with difficulty: "I... I left at that time..."
Before the age of twelve, Andre was the son of a duke; after the age of twelve, his father died and he inherited the title, becoming the youngest duke of Belan, and then got engaged to the only princess of the royal family. Although his identity has been changing, what has not changed is that he has been living a life of luxury and surrounded by people since he was a child.
He seemed to be born with an aura of nobility, and even when he was later drawn into the game, he was not assigned any role that required him to do any heavy or strenuous work.
Until this instance, Andre was assigned to help in the kitchen.
In the real world, Andre loves delicious food, so his family invited famous chefs from all over the world. He had been to the kitchen once before on a whim, and the kitchen was clean and bright, the cooking table seemed to have never been used, and the tiles on the wall clearly reflected his satisfied expression and the chef behind him bowing respectfully, waiting for him to finish his visit to the kitchen. Therefore, Andre was not resistant to the kitchen at first.
It was not until he actually entered the kitchen that he finally realized that the clean and tidy stovetop had to be wiped countless times despite the grease on it. Even though it was not too hot now, he would still sweat profusely after staying in the kitchen where the fire was often turned on. The spatula that was previously used as a prop for some chefs to perform turned out to be much heavier than he had imagined. It took a long time to lift it, because the food in the hotel was also famous, so he could not easily put down the pot until he finished the dishes ordered by the guests.
Andre had never done this kind of work before, so he soon complained in his heart. Especially his arms and legs, which felt particularly sore every time he got off work, but he had to be on guard at night and couldn't rest well.
But Andre's self-esteem made him not want to show it in front of others, so he could only endure it while looking for a solution.
Fortunately, he quickly understood Qin Taiyang's temper and knew that he was straightforward, so he asked him to help him with things.
This was also the case with Andrei. It was the chef's rest period, so the helpers were responsible for cleaning the kitchen and preparing food. Unfortunately, the other two helpers asked for leave, so for a while, only Qin Taiyang and Andrei were left.
Andre wanted to ask for leave, but according to the hotel's leave policy, he had to move out of the hotel after asking for leave from Manager Tang, so he had to give up with regret. After all, he didn't care about the salary deduction, but he cared about his life.
Because his arms were too tired, he made an excuse to ask Qin Taiyang to help him clean the stove after cooking.
Qin Taiyang agreed immediately.
At that time, there was an old chef with Qin Taiyang, who was used to arriving a little earlier. Because Andre couldn't stand the other's hunched figure, he didn't get close to him before, but Qin Taiyang quickly became friends with him.
When Andre stepped out of the door and prepared to take a breath and rest for a while, he heard Qin Taiyang casually mention whether there were any children who died in the hotel, obviously trying to get information. At that time, he deliberately stayed for a while, wanting to eavesdrop on the old chef's reply.
The old chef spoke in a hoarse voice: "Ah, I have been in the hotel for nearly ten years, and I have never heard of any child death or disappearance in the hotel."
"But don't tell anyone else. A girl seems to have disappeared from our hotel recently. She's only about 18 or 20 years old..."
It seems that he is talking about Xu Lin.
Because his back was to the old chef and Qin Taiyang, Andre could express his disappointment without any scruples. It seemed that the old chef didn't know what was going on. After listening to a few more sentences and making sure that it was not useful information, he left the door.
Afraid of being seen by Manager Tang, Andre hid in a corner behind the kitchen door to rest, and took out his mobile phone to see if Aning had sent him a message.
Andre rested for nearly twenty minutes before he pushed the door and walked in. But before he could put on an apologetic expression, he found that Qin Taiyang and the old chef were not in the kitchen.
Did they go out through the front door?
Andre didn't think much about it, but just checked the kitchen stove, only to find that it was only half cleaned. He couldn't help but frown, secretly thinking that the other party was careless, and resigned himself to his fate and rolled up his sleeves to clean it again.
What Andre didn't expect was that even when everyone in the kitchen was busy, there was still no sign of Qin Taiyang.
Andre wanted to humble himself and ask the old chef, but he was too busy to do anything.
The head chef also noticed this. The afternoon was the busiest time, and his efforts doubled with the disappearance of Qin Taiyang. He said fiercely that the matter must be reported to Manager Tang, so that he would punish Qin Taiyang.
Andre stood aside, looking at the angry chef, and finally did not dare to speak for Qin Taiyang at this time. He thought that maybe the other party was just talking, and would forget about it after a while when his anger subsided.
I don’t know if it’s because of the uneasiness caused by the passage of time, but Andre gradually had a bad premonition about Qin Taiyang, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.
At this moment, someone suddenly said, "Hey, who cut the meat? Why didn't you cut it cleanly?"
The sound of complaints suddenly rang out in the bustling kitchen, instantly attracting the attention of many people.
Andre also turned his head to look over. The man was standing in front of the cooking table, pointing at the meat on the table with one hand and showing something to the chef with the other hand: "Chef, look..."
According to the process, they need to take out the meat from the cold storage in advance and set it aside. Yesterday, the chef even asked them to cut part of the meat into stuffing and leave the rest of the meat intact, waiting to be cooked.
When Andre came back from relaxing, he saw the neatly laid meat on the chopping board as soon as he entered the kitchen. He was still thinking that Qin Taiyang was very skillful in this regard .
But when his eyes fell on what the man was holding, his gaze paused and his heart sank.
Although it was stained with blood, Andre still recognized it as a finger bone. Most importantly, there was a circle of wounds on it that looked like it had been burned by fire.
Qin Taiyang also has it.
Andre remembered it so clearly because he had just been injured at school. Wounds in a dungeon can be healed by the system when leaving the dungeon, but wounds outside the dungeon cannot be healed, so this wound was also brought into the game. The wound cannot be exposed to water, so he also told the chef.
But how did this finger appear here now?
Andre already had some guesses in his mind, and he hoped that he was wrong.
The chef and the man who was raising his finger angrily finally recognized that the foreign object was a human finger bone. After a brief silence, it turned into even more shrill screams.
The chef realized something and rushed into the cold storage with his men, followed closely by Andre.
He saw Qin Taiyang’s head in the corner of the cold storage.
The other person opened his eyes with a twisted expression, frozen in the most painful moment forever, and next to him was a pile of neatly stacked bones. Even the most experienced chef couldn't help but show a look of astonishment after seeing these bones, after all, there was no trace of meat on them.
Someone called Manager Tang over.
After seeing all this, Manager Tang's face turned pale and he finally chose to call the police. In order not to affect other guests, Manager Tang asked the police to come over.
Plainclothes police arrived quickly. One group launched an investigation while the other group interrogated several people who were in the kitchen at the time, including Andre.
Through the police, he learned that in addition to the meat he had just seen, Qin Taiyang's human tissue was also detected in the previous meat filling, or to be more direct, human flesh.
Andre still remembered that the meat filling had already been made into food called buns and dumplings, put into steamers, and served to the guests.
Finally, after confirming that none of them were suspects, Andre was released. However, seeing the person he was with just a few minutes ago turned into minced meat in the next second still made him feel quite complicated. Coupled with the fear of the other party's unknown death, Andre felt suffocated even when recalling it.
Aning raised her hand with concern, wanting to comfort him like he had comforted her before.
Fei spoke up at this time: "So only the old chef and Qin Taiyang were left at that time. What was the old chef doing when Qin Taiyang died?"
Before Andrei could say anything, Aning's voice had already rang out: "Princess, Andrei is frightened now, you should give him some time to calm down..."
"He has just experienced this kind of thing, and now is the time for him to remember the details especially clearly." Qiao Yuan's voice also rang out.
Aning wanted to say something, but another cold voice sounded: "Speak."
It’s the God of Face.
The other person's eyes also fell on Andre, obviously waiting for his words.
Ah Ning thought of the stories about Yan Shen that Andre had told her before, and she pursed her lips subconsciously. Andre also noticed the gaze that was hard to ignore and quickly said, "I asked the old chef, and after he finished talking with Qin Taiyang, Qin Taiyang went to the cold storage."
"He had a craving for cigarettes, so he left the kitchen through another door to smoke..."
In other words, Qin Taiyang died when he was alone.
Qiao Yuan already knew the cause of Qin Taiyang's death: "He..."
Yan Shen: "He..."
They both spoke at the same time.
Yan Shen paused after noticing this, but Qiao Yuan seemed unaffected and said, "The conversation between Qin Taiyang and the chef is an important clue."
"I met the resident of room 312 before. He said Xu Lin's mental state was not good at the time, but he also mentioned the child, so I think the child ghost is real."
Qin Taiyang obviously touched an important clue just like she did yesterday, but the other party might not be aware of it, so she was caught off guard and encountered the ghost and died.
"Important clues?" Brother Lou and Chen Siyu subconsciously brainstormed when they heard Qiao Yuan's words.
After a few seconds, Chen Siyu hesitated and said, "But I remember Andre said that the old chef didn't provide any useful information..."
"He said that there has never been a case of a child going missing or dying in the hotel." Sheng Guiye analyzed, "Since the old chef knows about Xu Lin's disappearance, he is well-informed."
"This means that the child was not from the hotel."
Chen Siyu: "Could it be that Xu Lin had an abortion before?"
"There's a folk saying that unborn children are ghosts waiting to be reincarnated. They see the chance to be born right before their eyes, but their mothers abort the child, so they hold a grudge and will haunt their parents."
