I said, “Then you can get me a room first.”
“You’re not here to see someone?” The receptionist asked, confused.
Meng Meng panicked even more when he saw that our words were a little too round for him to say.
But I remained calm, took out the fake ID card I had prepared in advance, handed it to the receptionist and said, “I was going to go up first to check out the surroundings, but you caught me. We’ll get a room, but if the room isn’t good, I’ll have to mess with you, haha.”
If I had been before, I would have panicked like Meng Meng, but after being back in Tong City for a while, I had become more comfortable with this status as the young proprietor of Junran. I would now act like a rich kid too.
Originally, the receptionist was suspicious of us, her eyes kept sizing up Meng Meng and I like a scanner, and if we had switched sexes, that look in her eyes would have been enough for me to sue her for harassment.
When she saw how calm I was, she eased up a bit, took my ID card and compared it, then asked me to look into the camera again, to take a picture to compare my appearance with the one on my ID card.
“Hello, this ID card is yours. This is room 5317, would you like to go and see the room first?”
“Get me one on the sixth floor, is 6318 still vacant? I like this number, it’s a 6 and an 8.”
With a professional smile, the receptionist checked for me and said, “This room is still vacant, do you two share?”
“That’s right, one room.” I said.
We hadn’t come here to get a room, but to check things out, and although I wasn’t short of money, there was no need to waste it on two more rooms for fun.
I saw the look of confusion gradually draining from her eyes and couldn’t help but remember the countless times I’d been belittled by these service staff before, and I don’t know why, but these service staff were particularly fond of belittling people.
“Would you like to consider two rooms? Our room rates here aren’t too expensive.”
I said, “No, just one.” Then I laughed and said, “You don’t have to sell it like that, do you have business pressure at the front desk?”
Monk was a social wreck when faced with a pretty woman, blushing so much he didn’t dare lift his face. All the Snow Leopard men were like that, prim and proper on the battlefield, shyer than a cat in front of a woman, and I didn’t have the face to laugh at him, I was pretty much the same as him a few months ago.
The pretty girl at the front desk rolled her eyes at me with great restraint, “Here you go sir, here’s your room card, it’s a king room, have a nice day you two.”
I stumbled, my face going red up to my ankles as I took the room card.
As I waited for Meng Meng and I to turn around, I heard the receptionist say very quietly to her colleague, “Two psychos.”
“Captain, why do I feel like the women misunderstand me so much after spending a little time with you?”
I had to laugh and dryly cough along, hurriedly trying to muddle through the subject.
But Monk didn’t dwell on it for long, as he quickly pulled out his headphones, faced the direction of the lift’s camera, and then shoved one into my ear.
“The surveillance that was just installed at the front desk, I always thought there was something wrong with this place.”
“It can be!” I didn’t expect Meng Meng to be so quick with his hands, it was only worthy of being my Snow Leopard’s elite.
In fact, I also felt that there was something wrong with that front desk, if they didn’t allow visitors here, then why was Jiang Yunqing allowed to enter the hotel without registering or checking in? And the man I confronted last night, the hotel must have had special treatment for them.
I put my headphones back on and immediately heard the front desk’s hee-haw-so voice.
It wasn’t peak check-in time, so there were no voices of guests and the two receptionists were talking.
“You said they wouldn’t be ……”
“No way, it’s not like this person’s name is Zhang Chao.”
“Why do I get the feeling it’s a bit like that, and it’s obvious he was just giving us the slip. He’s not here to find Yah is he ……”
“Not so much, and I gave him room 5317 next to Yah, he didn’t want it and went up to the sixth floor by himself.”
“But he could have come down to the fifth floor even if he had gone up to the sixth.”
“His room card can only be swiped to open the lift on the sixth floor, and as for the stairs, they’re guarded.”
Sure enough, this Huilong Hotel and the gun trafficking company were in cahoots.
We entered the room, and Meng Meng quickly tried the jammer to make sure there was nothing listening in the room.
“I’ll climb down, you wait here for me.”
“Captain, be careful, this is the sixth floor.”
I nodded, “Indeed, the sixth floor is too short, it’s not even enjoyable.”
Monk ate out a laugh and said helplessly, “You fielders are all monsters, I’ll intercept the signals nearby.”
He finished and turned on the device he had brought on the bed, there was this device that could intercept all calls and texts from nearby mobile phones.
I, on the other hand, tied the rope to the balcony, then grabbed the rope, took a deep breath, let go of my hand and slid my whole body down.
Soon, I reached room 5318 where Liu Hui lived. The room was quiet and empty.
Since Meng Meng was upstairs intercepting the signal, I didn’t have to worry that there would be surveillance equipment in this room, and all the wireless signals of the surveillance equipment would also be hijacked by Meng Meng.
I walked into the living room and there was a bowl with water on the living room table. I glanced into the water and almost screamed in terror.
I had been quite surprised to see such a large sea bowl in the hotel. The bowl was typed like the bowl used for noodles at home, a large white porcelain bowl.
I glanced into the bowl without thinking and cursed the f*ck out of it, there was a human face in it.
To be precise, it was a human skin mask, so realistic that if it weren’t for the holes in the eyes and mouth, I would have suspected that it was a live human face they had cut off from somewhere.
I didn’t believe that human skin masks existed, but after Apricot painted it for me, I realised that not only did they exist, but they were even more realistic than the ones on TV.
But it was still different from the make-up that Apricot had drawn for me. Apricot’s make-up could not be torn off her face, and looking at this human skin mask, it could be torn off and kept in water.
I hurriedly took a photo. This technique is by no means a big deal, so maybe if I ask Apricot about it, I can find out who did it.
Unfortunately there was only one human skin mask in the room, and only one of the two men had used one.
I couldn’t see exactly what the mask looked like when it was spread out in the water, and I couldn’t tell if this man resembled the one I had fought last night.
I looked around the room again, nothing special, these two men didn’t even have a suitcase, a pair of smelly socks scattered on the floor, and a change of clothes in the dirty clothes basket, I took a look, the clothes were indeed stained with blood, no need to ask, this is definitely the one I wore when I fought last night.
There was nothing else special, I couldn’t really find anything, so I had to bump into the surveillance equipment and then climb up from the top of the rope.
When I got back upstairs, Mon Mon told me, “That’s strange, there’s no signal around here at all, not even anyone watching TV.”
“It looks like this hotel is not doing well, let’s go.”
I didn’t want to meet up with the two people who were going to follow me later, so I pulled Meng Meng to retreat now.
The room was now monitored anyway, and what they were doing could be monitored by Meng Meng.
What surprised me was that when I returned to the villa, He Bi was still there and hadn’t run away.
I called Cai Xiaobing over, “There’s nothing unusual about him, is there?”
Cai Xiaobing said cautiously, “Tried to run away, but I stopped him.”
He even shook his head at me smugly, with a face waiting for my praise. I squeezed my palm and thought about getting beaten up, this kid could really kill me alive.
“Holy sh*t, Cai what’s wrong with your brain lately, the captain is just deliberately trying to get him to run.”
“Huh?” Cai Xiaobing scratched his head, “I want to let him go too, but he’s an important lead for us now. So what should I do? I’ll let him go again.”
“You come back here.” I was so angry with Cai Xiaobing that I couldn’t say anything, “Alright, this opportunity is missed, I’ll think of something else later.”