Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 112 The person in charge is Gao Ming

The hotel assigned Li Hui room '2023' on the 20th floor. The numbers were simple and clear: the first two digits indicated the floor number, and the last two digits indicated which room was on that floor.

For example, the first room on the second floor of the hotel is numbered '0201', and so on, with 28 rooms on each floor.

Led by a female hotel staff member, Li Hui quickly arrived at his room. Pushing open the door, he was greeted by an extremely luxurious decor style that leaned towards European influences.

The room was very large, and in addition to the normal rest area and bathroom, there was even a leisure area.

It was a separate lounge room, with a round wooden table in the center of the room, on which sat a tea set.

There is a bookshelf against the wall, filled with all kinds of books. In addition, on the other side of the lounge, there is a gaming computer that looks like it has very high specifications and is shaped like an airplane cabin.

Tatata!
Upon entering the room, Li Hui went straight to the rest area and casually pulled out a book from the bookshelf. On the cover of the book were nine large characters: "Even Ghost Tamers Must Abide by the Law."

Then Li Hui pulled out a few more books.

They are:
"The New Chinese Legal Code", "Criminal Law Theory", "The Demon Tamer is Not a Lawless Madman", "23 Effective Ways to Relieve Mental Stress", "A Normal Value Worldview"...

"It truly lives up to its reputation as a hotel that caters specifically to ghost tamers. Even the books on display are mostly about how ghost tamers should abide by the law or regulate their own psychology."

See this.

Li Hui, with a strange expression, put the books back on the shelf, showing no intention of even looking at them.

Then he went to the bathroom, where his reflection appeared in the mirror. His face looked tired, and his eyes were bloodshot, clearly a result of not having rested for a long time.

It's important to know that Li Hui was just an ordinary person at this time, not an anomaly, a fact that he himself subconsciously overlooked.

These past few days have been spent traveling between various cities with almost no rest, which is clearly a challenge for the body of an 'ordinary person'.

Thinking of this.

Li Hui had the hotel send him a light meal. After eating, he quickly showered and lay down on the bed in his room. He closed his eyes, cleared his mind, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Almost at the same time.

The 35th floor of the hotel.

The hallway lights flickered a few times before going out, plunging the entire floor into darkness.
This phenomenon was very strange. The lights in the corridors of other floors of the hotel were all on, making the area bright, but the lights on the 35th floor were all off, plunging the area into darkness and coldness, and the air was damp.

Water droplets kept bubbling up from the walls of the stairwell, emitting a faint musty smell. Then the water droplets fell down, making a "drip, drip" sound.

A puddle of water had formed in the corridor of the entire floor.

If you look closely, you'll find that the source of all this water is a room with the number "3513" in the middle of the corridor.

A foul-smelling stream of water kept seeping out from under the door of that guest room, flowing into other rooms in the hallway.

Soon, the 35th floor of the Wanting Hotel was filled with murky water, which gushed out and flowed into every room on the floor.

The rooms flooded by the floodwaters were all quiet, as if no guests were inside, just empty rooms. But it was also as if the guests in those rooms were all asleep and therefore did not notice that their rooms were being filled with murky water.

The weird thing is.

The entire floor fell into a deathly silence, with only the sound of water droplets dripping from the walls echoing in the air.

At this moment, lying on the bed in room 3513 was a strange and terrifying figure. It was a man whose age was hard to tell, and his body was severely swollen from being soaked in water.

The man seemed to be the source of everything!

Liquid emitting a pungent, putrid stench continuously oozed from his body. These liquids dripped onto the ground, forming a large puddle of water that seemed to possess a spirit of its own and flowed rapidly outwards.

"Ugh... It's so uncomfortable... My body feels like it's going to burst. What should I do? The evil spirit inside me is completely out of control. Am I going to die?"

"No, I don't want to die..."

suddenly.

The terrifying man lying on the bed suddenly spoke with difficulty. He was not dead yet, and his face was full of pain. As he muttered to himself, more murky water flowed from his body.

"Tick-tock", "tick-tock", "tick-tock"...

The sound of dripping water echoed throughout the floor, and even the air became unusually damp and cold, making one feel as if they were in a sealed container, with a feeling of being unable to breathe!

Over time.

The environment on this floor has been completely affected by supernatural forces.

Not only was there standing water on the ground, but the walls, ceiling and other places were also covered with water stains. The air was filled with a pungent odor that was a mixture of rotten, damp, and stench of corpses, making people want to vomit.

Furthermore, the area affected by this supernatural power continues to spread and expand.

The water on the ground flowed further outwards, seemingly trying to run down the hotel stairs and affect other floors of the Wanting Hotel.

But before the floodwaters had completely receded, the hotel staff noticed the anomaly on that floor and quickly identified the source of the paranormal activity by reviewing the records.

"Ring ring~!"

The landline phone in room 3513 suddenly rang, and the call was answered without anyone touching it.

soon.

A woman's voice rang out in the room through the speakerphone.

"Hello, is this Mr. Jiang Kun's room? Are you having any difficulties? Can you hear me? If so, please respond. Our staff will be on your floor soon."

silence.

The person lying in bed did not respond.

To be precise, he was no longer able to respond at this moment. He had fainted, and only murky water was flowing continuously from his body, spreading outwards into the corridor.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang? Are you listening? If so, please respond..."

The voice on the phone kept ringing.

The other party didn't actually want to talk to Jiang Kun, but rather wanted to ascertain Jiang Kun's current state.

To know.

Dealing with a ghost tamer is different from dealing with a vengeful ghost!

Both in terms of the handling method and the difficulty, the staff of Wanting Hotel were eager to determine whether Jiang Kun was still alive at this moment.

.........

"How about it?"

"Still can't reach you?"

In the hotel staff duty room, a woman in her early thirties, dressed in a manager's uniform, frowned and asked a staff member who was making a phone call.

"Yes, manager, there has been no response from room 3513, and the entire floor's surveillance system has been inexplicably interfered with, making it impossible to determine the current situation."

The staff members also looked grim, with a hint of panic in their eyes.

They were all specially trained staff members who knew exactly who was staying at the hotel, and that's why they were afraid.

"Manager, do you think this time it might be like six months ago, where hotel guests suddenly die and then that terrifying thing inside their bodies comes out?"

On the other side, a staff member said with a pale face, as if he had thought of something terrifying, and his whole body trembled.

Six months ago, a paranormal incident occurred at the Wanting Hotel, which killed many staff members. As a result, those who experienced the incident and survived it all have some psychological trauma.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

The woman in the manager's uniform snapped at him, though her expression was equally unpleasant.

Then the manager said to the communications staff member next to him, "Report it up. Everyone has their own expertise. We are only responsible for daily reception and management. Leave the rest to the professionals!"

"Good manager."

The waitress responded and then dialed the Ghost Rider headquarters to report the emergency at the hotel.

.........

"What did you say? The Wanting Hotel is suspected of experiencing a paranormal event? There's a high probability that a ghost-controlling person staying there has died, and the vengeful spirit they were controlling has begun to awaken. The paranormal event has now affected an entire floor?"

The Ghost Riders Headquarters.

While Zhao Jianguo was in Dachang City overseeing the rescue operation, Shen Liang temporarily took over the entire hotline. At this moment, he frowned after hearing the report from the operator next to him.

He then asked, "Do you have any information about that ghost tamer?"

"Have."

The operator quickly handed over the file folder.

Shen Liang took the file and quickly flipped through it.

Name: Jiang Kun.

Age: 29 years old.

Code name: Ghost Pool.

After reviewing the files, Shen Liang learned that this ghost tamer named Jiang Kun was from Xiaolang City and worked as a teacher. Two months ago, he accidentally fell into a pond behind the school and subsequently became a ghost tamer. During this time, the person in charge of Xiaolang City tried to recruit him, but Jiang Kun refused to join the headquarters.

"Wanting Hotel seems to be in Gaoming's jurisdiction, right? Have you notified him?" Shen Liang asked the staff while reviewing the files.

"Already notified."

Staff responded.

As the capital city of China, Dajing City has not just one, but three city officials, each with the same jurisdiction. The Wanting Grand Hotel is located within the jurisdiction of the official Gao Ming.

at the same time.

On the highway leading from the city center to Wanting Hotel.

Gao Ming was riding a motorcycle at high speed. He was wearing sunglasses and kept muttering things like, "I'm so unlucky. I can't even take a proper vacation. All sorts of stupid things happen to me."

soon.

The hotel's outline came into Gao Ming's "eyes." At this time, a long cordon had been set up outside the hotel, stretching all the way to the roadside. It was obviously done by the hotel staff, who had received some training. But in Gao Ming's opinion, this action was completely unnecessary.

Look around.

Within several kilometers, apart from the Wanting Hotel, there was no other human habitation or buildings; the hotel stood alone in the desert.

Gao Ming arrived at the hotel quickly. After parking his car, he walked into the lobby on the first floor, where the hotel manager greeted him.

"How is the situation now?"

Before the manager could even greet him, Gao Ming asked the question that concerned him.

"The situation is not optimistic."

The manager's face was extremely grim. He said, "The entire 35th floor is completely compromised. The surveillance equipment has been affected, and we don't know the specifics. The two staff members we sent up earlier haven't responded yet; they're probably already..."

"Is the situation unclear?"

Hear the words.

Gao Ming frowned slightly, then asked another question: "The incident happened on the 35th floor of the hotel, right? How many guests were on that floor in total?"

This is what Gao Ming cares about most.

Facing one vengeful ghost is a completely different concept from facing multiple vengeful ghosts, but fortunately, the information provided by the hotel manager was to his liking.

She said, "Because similar things have happened before, we try to reduce the number of ghost controllers on each floor when there are enough rooms. Currently, there is only one guest, Jiang Kun, on the 35th floor, but there are ghost controllers living on the 36th and 34th floors. If we don't deal with it soon, we don't know if the impact will expand further later."

"Notify all guests between the 30th and 40th floors to evacuate to avoid being affected. I will begin the operation in five minutes."

Gao Ming never took off his sunglasses. At this moment, he slightly raised his head and looked up at the hotel, as if the ceiling could not block his view.

The female manager on the other side quickly relayed the message. After she announced that a paranormal event had occurred on the 35th floor of the hotel, guests on several nearby floors rushed down. In less than two minutes, all the guests on the 30th to 40th floors had evacuated.

Fortunately, neither of the hotel's two elevators malfunctioned; otherwise, it would have taken much longer for the guests on those floors to evacuate.

five minutes later.

Gao Ming began to take action.

……

Ding!
As the elevator doors opened, Gao Ming arrived at the 35th floor of the Wanting Hotel.

At this moment, nearly 30 centimeters of murky water had accumulated in the corridor on this floor, and a figure was floating in the middle of the corridor.

It was a man's corpse.

Half of its body was floating on the surface of the water, and the other half was submerged. Its back was facing up and its face was facing down. Its body was slightly curled up and had been soaked for a long time. It was already highly decomposed and its skin was ulcerated. Only a hideous and terrifying broken body was floating motionless in the water, which looked very strange and terrifying.

"It's neither a vengeful ghost nor the source, but it bears traces of supernatural power. Is it some kind of ghost slave?"

Gao Ming's expression shifted slightly; his eyes behind his sunglasses had already seen through part of the truth.

He then stepped out of the elevator and walked down the corridor toward room 3513.

(End of this chapter)