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Atlas of Heaven and Earth-Chapter 331: Anomaly Hotel
After finishing the call with Old Qi, Chen Chuan checked that area on Boundary Token and discovered that this matter had actually made the news yesterday, which was rare.
You should know that Flourishing Victory District is the least noticed area in Central City. Old and backward are synonymous with it. It is inhabited by a large number of residents without citizen status and is full of gangs of all sizes. Even the City Patrol rarely comes here.
So this is one of the areas with the most Supernatural Entity appearances. In the past, the Golden Shrimp Team's Headquarters was located here. However, the street where the problem is now is in the southeast of Flourishing Victory District, extending towards the city center, which may be the reason why it attracted attention.
But according to what he knew, even if this matter received more attention, there was no hope of someone solving it. It would be easier to suppress the news directly.
The appearance of group disappearances, if it is really a Supernatural Entity, shows that it is becoming more powerful. If it is not dealt with now, it will soon cause larger-scale deaths and injuries.
He thought for a moment and decided to go and deal with it.
He prepared himself, put the things he might need, including ritual materials, into a bag, changed into casual clothes, went downstairs to get the car, and drove all the way to where the Supernatural Entity had appeared.
On the way, Old Qi sent him a photo of a missing colleague. She was a woman in her thirties with short hair, wearing glasses and a staff uniform, looking very capable. The reason for her disappearance was that a client commissioned her to go to the hotel to find a check-in list from last year.
Because the price offered by the client was very high, and based on past experience, there was basically no danger as long as you didn't stay at the hotel, Old Qi's colleague accepted the commission.
But unexpectedly, this hotel was no longer like before, where it was fine as long as you didn't stay there. Now, once you go in, you can't get out, and she was trapped inside.
However, since this matter had been going on for ten and a half months, he was not optimistic about Old Qi's colleague.
At a little after two in the afternoon, he drove along the main road to this area and found a pile of obstacles placed in the middle of the road, but they were not able to completely block the wide street entrance.
He slowed down and drove in from a gap on the side. Without the obstacles, the view became much clearer. The street was empty and there were not many people. It seemed like he could see to the end at a glance, only seeing some sneaky figures in the corners of buildings and alleys.
Those seemed to be some gang members. He ignored them and drove straight in, quickly seeing the hotel.
However, he noticed that there were no parking spaces in front and the surrounding ground was full of messy debris and garbage. Fortunately, there was an empty parking lot about a hundred meters away, so he parked the car there.
He got out of the car with the Snow Emperor Blade, pushed the car door shut, and walked towards the hotel.
At first, he didn't feel anything strange, but when he was about thirty or forty meters away, faint signs of fading began to appear on Second Self.
"Hey, don't go in." At this moment, a shout came from behind.
Chen Chuan stopped and turned his head to look in a certain direction. He saw a small, dirty-faced child shouting at him from a residential building on the side of the street. However, as he looked over, the child shrank his head back in.
Old Qi told him that there was no one here anymore, but in fact, when he came over, he could feel that many people were watching him. Only when he walked around this hotel did this gaze gradually decrease.
Thinking about it, it made sense. How could the ordinary people here give up their homes? Those who were capable of running outside were probably just those with a little wealth.
He turned his head and said, "I'm here to solve this matter."
Saying that, he continued to walk forward, but after a while, just as he was about to walk into the hotel door, the boy shouted loudly again, "Don't solve it!"
Chen Chuan turned his mind and could roughly understand the thoughts here. Although this Anomaly point was dangerous, perhaps because of this, few people came to exploit and control them. But if it was really a Supernatural Entity, then the scope would continue to expand, and those hiding here would eventually be swept in.
Or wait for those who deal with the problem to come, but compared to dealing with the problem, dealing with people is actually simpler and the cost is the lowest. And without people, the Supernatural Entity will naturally disappear.
He replied, "Stay where you are and don't move around."
As he spoke, he stepped onto the hotel steps. After a few steps, he pushed open the glass door. Almost the moment he crossed the door, strong signs of fading appeared on Second Self.
After entering, he glanced around and found the lobby empty. The half-drawn curtains and old chandeliers were clean and dust-free, as if they had been carefully wiped. The floor tiles were as smooth as a mirror.
The dining tables in the lobby were arranged neatly, and there were guests' clothes on the backs of the chairs. The bowls, chopsticks, and food on them seemed to have just been placed there. He also saw a half-cut cream cake, and the sweet taste seemed to still be smelled.
But the problem was that the situation had occurred about a month ago. With the current weather, it would have rotted long ago after so many days, but now it still looked as fresh as ever.
He touched the Boundary Token. At this moment, under the influence of strong fading, this thing could no longer be used, which was expected.
He first walked around the lobby on the first floor. Besides the traces left by the guests, there was nothing else, so he went upstairs to take a look.
At this time, he found that the elevator was still lit and could still be used, but after thinking about it, he did not go in, but walked up the stairs.
Not long after he entered the hotel, five cars drove into this street. The people sitting on them had their hair styled like moss and dyed in various colors. At first glance, they were from the Moss Gang.
After driving the cars into a section of the road, the vehicles stopped. The gang leader sitting in the front stood up and waved to an alley on the side. Two people immediately ran out. He put a cigarette in his mouth, and his younger brother immediately lit it for him. He took a puff and asked, "Has there been any movement in the past two days?"
The person replied, "Boss, those scum are very honest. No one dares to cause trouble. Just now, a car went in. It looked like it was heading for the hotel."
The gang leader was very surprised, "Someone really went in to find death?"
The younger brother next to him said, "Brother, maybe it's someone from a Commission Company. Those guys are not afraid of death as long as they are given enough money."
The gang leader spat on the ground outside the car and said with a sneer, "I don't care where they are from. If they want to die, let them go. We'll do as the higher-ups instructed. Don't let anyone who goes in come out." He pointed with his hand, "You guys, put the roadblocks at the intersection back in place for me."
"Yes, Brother."
Watching a group of younger brothers busy, a confidant asked, "Brother, are we just going to stare here like this? How long will we have to stare?"
"At least two months."
The gang leader leisurely puffed on his cigarette and said, "The Arena tournament will be held in the city soon. Recently, many people from other Central Cities have poured in. It wouldn't look good on the faces of those municipal officials if this place causes trouble. The boss said that as long as we watch this place, the brothers will all have some activity money afterward."
The confidant looked at the twelve-story hotel in front of him. It was already one of the tallest buildings on this street. He said, "Hey, Brother, you said there's something wrong with that hotel. Can't we just blow up this building? Wouldn't that be much easier?"
The gang leader glanced at him, "Blow it up? Are you going to blow it up or am I going to blow it up? Didn't you hear people say that those who walk to the door go in like they've lost their souls?"
"Is it that evil?"
"It's that evil!" The gang leader finished smoking a cigarette and seemed to have discovered something. He called out to a few more younger brothers, "Come with me and take a look."
They came to the armed vehicle in the parking lot. The gang leader walked around it, clicking his tongue, "There's a new car again in just a few days? Get a few people to take it back."
At this time, a younger brother suddenly saw a child across the street secretly looking at him. He picked up his gun, aimed, and made a bang sound. The boy's head immediately shrank back, and everyone laughed.
A younger brother looked at the car and said, "Brother, this is the car of someone from the Commission Company, right? They can take on this kind of job, so they must not be simple."
The gang leader said disdainfully, "Are you out of your mind? Can you survive in that hotel? Get it out of here quickly."
However, a few younger brothers went up and fiddled with it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. One of them looked up and said, "Brother, this is a modified armed vehicle. The glass is thickened and bulletproof, and the car lock is a Heavy-twisting handle. We can't pry it open."
The gang leader didn't believe it and walked over to take a look at the car lock. He couldn't help but curse because the car lock in front of him was actually a rotating disk with only a shallow two millimeters.
You Xing's modified car does not have a normal lock, but is modified according to its own characteristics. If the finger strength and Internal energy do not reach a certain level, don't even think about twisting this car lock open. Of course, for Chen Chuan, it is no problem at all. He can open it with a casual turn, but ordinary people can't get stuck without special tools.
"I don't believe it, damn it, get me a car to come over and tow it away with a rope."
Inside the hotel, Chen Chuan went from the first floor to the twelfth floor and found that the rooms and corridors were all empty, and the scenes inside seemed to be frozen at a certain moment. The owners inside seemed to have just left recently.
And from the moment he entered here, he had a feeling of being spied on.
At this moment, he had been to almost all the places, including the roof, but there was still one place he had not checked, and that was the basement floor of the entire building.
This is an old building and has no underground parking garage. According to the diagram, the basement should be the location of the backup generator and cold storage.
He walked down from the upper floor, pushed open the two security doors, and walked down to the first floor underground.