The sun is high

After half a night of investigation and verification, Shuge's attitude towards the strange traces in the Ernst Manor Hotel has changed slightly.

Xiuge judged that the power entrenched in the manor hotel was most likely some kind of "dirty thing" similar to the descendants of An Yuan, or even much weaker than it.

On this basis, it is really difficult for him to have any fear.

"After all, I am a 'dirty thing' myself, and I'm probably much dirtier than that."

Shuge stood up from the chair, he snapped his fingers, and the running rat Snitch, who was curled up and sleeping, immediately appeared on the desk. It had been tossing all night, and now it used three Taiyi covered his eyes and looked like he didn't want to pay attention to Shuge at all.

"Wake up and help me do something else."

Seeing Snicki's appearance, Shuge helplessly knocked it on the head with his hand: "Next time if there are any benefits, I can give you priority."

After hearing these words, Snicki moved his tail slightly, revealing his sleepy eyes that were narrowed.

This messed up look was so familiar to Xiuge, it was almost like looking into a mirror.

So he no longer paid attention to Snitch's lies, stretched out his hand to pick it up, and came to the bedside.

There, there was a huge package tied with clean sheets, and there were several miscellaneous items inside. Without exception, they were all the abnormal objects that Xiuge had found in the room using detection magic before.

"Hide it, hurry up."

Shuge said as he let go of his hand.

Snicki twisted his body lightly in the air, and his three long tails were like springs, gently branching out among the debris, and then fell silently inside.

It turned its head and glanced at Shuge, flicked its tail twice in dissatisfaction, and neighed slightly, but then it got into one of the retro clockwork clocks under Shuge's unkind gaze - that The clock is shaped into the classic image of a night owl, with a somewhat narrow space underneath, barely enough for Snicket to squeeze in.

After making preparations, Shuge re-wrapped these unknown sundries, then he opened the door with the package and placed them heavily on the corridor outside.

He coughed twice hard.

Soon, a young waitress came over.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

The beautiful waiters wear crisp uniforms and their strict etiquette is very easy to make people feel good.

So Xiuge nodded to her, then raised his hand and pointed to the package next to the door: "I don't like these things in the room... Could you please help me deal with them, and I also need a new clock, please Send it to me as soon as possible."

"Yes sir!"

Probably because she had seen many tricky customers on weekdays, the waitress did not show any surprise. She smiled and asked: "So, which clock do you want sir? A magic clock or a classic clockwork clock?"

"A clockwork clock will do. Besides, my room doesn't need to be cleaned unless I inform you."

"Yes sir."

The waitress responded very neatly. She had no dissatisfaction with Shuge's behavior of wrapping the sundries in clean sheets. She immediately rolled out a trolley from the tool room next to it and put the entire package of sheets on it. .

"If you need anything else, please feel free to come to me."

After leaving a sentence that seemed to have some weird meaning, the beautiful waitress pushed the cart and left. There was no nonsense in the whole process and it was very neat and tidy.

Shuge closed the door and sat on the bed, and Snicki's senses were immediately connected to his consciousness. He could feel that his magical summon was now shrinking in that small space, and then He dozed off from time to time as the debris around him swayed.

Although he couldn't see what was happening outside, with the magical connection with Snitch, Shuge was able to accurately determine its current location.

The waitress didn't show anything unusual. She just went about her daily work and took away some other rubbish from the other two rooms, and then entered the old-fashioned room reserved for hotel waiters. Among the elevators.

It didn't take long for her to reach her destination.

And Xiuge felt the continuous and slight vibrations through Snicki - it seemed that the cart was pushed on a road paved with stone slabs. The source of those vibrations was the depressions and patterns on this stone road.

The shock didn't last long, and soon the waitress stopped somewhere.

Probably because there was no one around, the waitress did not maintain her usual dignified and serious appearance, but yawned lazily, and then seemed to stretch. After that, she Take the items off the cart and stack them together one by one.

After finishing these things, the waitress hummed happily and walked away quickly.

After her footsteps completely faded away and there was no more sound coming from the surroundings, the running rat immediately came out of its hiding place under Shuge's order, and its three powerful tails stabbed fiercely. He looked at the white sheet in front of him and easily tore a small hole in it.

Snitch was in a place he had never been before.

Through Snicki's eyes, Shuge quickly "sees" everything around him.

This is a closed utility room with many replaced sheets, beddings and some damaged sundries piled around. Magic crystal lamps that provide stable lighting are fixed on the walls. The style is very old, even if it is found on the market, It can be sent to a collectibles store, and maybe someone will buy it.

Probably because no one else usually came here, the door to the room was open, so Snitch carefully looked out from the door, and a straight corridor appeared in front of it.

"This is...the underground floor?"

Shuge observed his surroundings and immediately came to a conclusion.

In addition to the utility room, there were many rooms on both sides of the corridor. After confirming that no one was active here, Xiuge immediately controlled his summons to start a new round of exploration here.

The doors of most rooms are closed, and they use heavy metal door leaves. These locked doors are like walls painted with dark dye, even under the light of the magic wall lamp, They don't reflect any light.

Snicki tried to get close to one of the metal doors. Soon, Shuge felt the interference exerted on the magical level from these doors - apparently these metal doors either contained substances similar to the magic-killing silver, or It is a special ritual inscribed that can control and interfere with the flow of magic power to a certain extent.

No matter which one it is, it is enough to illustrate the specialness of this place.

"If this underground floor was there to support hotel operations, where would these things be needed?"

Snicki raised his head and looked upward, so Shuge saw a metal plate fixed on the door. It was not rusty and the words on it were clearly visible.

That's a number.

"203?"

The moment he saw the number clearly, Xiuge was slightly stunned.

Then he immediately ordered Snitch to continue moving along the corridor, and more rooms marked with numbers appeared in front of Shuge's "eyes".

"Start from 201...end at 220."

Shuge looked at the room numbers and seemed to think of something, so he immediately pulled out a piece of white paper, picked up the magic ink pen, and roughly drew the structure of the basement corridor on the paper, and based it on Snitch. The conditions discovered were marked with the numbers of these rooms on the simple structural diagram.

In the process, Snitch the Running Rat continued to move forward in the dark and quiet underground floor. When it ran around along the corridor and returned to the door of the original utility room, the corridor's From the other end, there was the sound of the elevator stopping.

There was no place to hide or hide in the corridor, so Snicki immediately sped into the utility room and quickly ran into a pile of old quilts in the corner. Through the gaps in the quilts, Peering cautiously out.

The sound of the cart moving forward and the sound of footsteps echoed in the corridor.

Soon, two figures appeared at the door of the utility room.

Shuge's vision at this time was connected with Snitch's, so he could clearly see the images of the two people - they were two male waiters. Like other waiters in the Ernst Manor Hotel, they all wore straight clothes. The hotel uniform and every move are in line with the standards of waiters in the Walter noble manor.

However, the strange thing is that these two male waiters actually...

Wearing a mask.

Yes, they all wear a pitch-black mask, which is enough to cover their entire face. Not only that, the mask seems to be embedded with small particles of magic crystals, which means that the mask plays a very important role. There may be more to it than just covering faces.

The two waiters were very silent. They didn't have any communication, but they seemed to have a high degree of tacit understanding and started their work directly.

They were counting and selecting the things in the utility room.

They ignored the pile of old bedding where Snicki was hiding, and a pile of relatively clean sheets placed on the shelf not far away were selected by them and moved to the trolley. Then, one of them A waiter opened the white package that Xiuge had packed himself and began to take out the items one by one.

It didn't take long for their selection to be completed.

The simple wood carving, the magic clock that Snitch had hidden before, and a hanging painting were all selected, and they were put on the cart together with some other items, and then the two of them left with these items. Utility room.

Throughout the entire process, there was no formal communication between the two.

They are like two puppets acting according to a predetermined program.

Just like the young female waiter before, these two weird male waiters pushed the cart towards the elevator.

Shuge originally wanted to manipulate Sniqi to get out from among the pile of quilts so that he could follow up and see the situation. However, a strong alertness and resistance from Sniqi's instinct made Shuge give up this idea.

Although sometimes it makes people feel uncomfortable to be "rejected" by their summons, Xiu Ge still understands that professional matters should be left to professional "people".

He chose to trust Snitch's instincts at this moment.

The long wait began.

However, as time passed, the running rat hiding among the bedding did not show any relaxation at all. On the contrary, its tension began to become more and more intense.

The elevator had already left, and there was no more noise in the corridor.

Just when Shugedu began to question his judgment on the summoned objects, Snitch's vigilance had already reached its peak.

The next moment, two hands suddenly stretched out from the right side and rested on the door frame of the utility room.

Immediately afterwards, through Snicki's eyes, Shuge saw a face covered by a black mask slowly peeking out from the door frame in the silence, with cold and sinister eyes from the eye holes of the black mask. Throw it out and quickly sweep through every corner of the utility room.

"..."

Even though he was in a bright hotel room, Xiuge still felt a strong sense of discomfort at this moment.

Because he had been warned by Snicki in advance, he was not frightened by the strange scene that happened on the underground floor. However, the behavior of the hotel waiter who left and returned made Shuge feel very awkward. , uncomfortable feeling.

Because his actions don't look like what a human should do at all.

Rather like... some kind of beast.

Through Snitch's reaction, Shuge made a rough judgment on the hotel waiter's situation. He knew that an existence that could make a running rat nervous about killing would not be too simple.

Coupled with this kind of snooping action that goes against human habits and this weird behavior of going and returning, Xiuge has every reason to believe that the other party is likely to be closely related to the "culprit" who caused last night's attack.

The waiter's prying continued for a long time.

He never found anything, but he still felt uneasy about the utility room, so he reached out his hand.

Shuge noticed that his arm seemed to be extendable, and it was strangely extended to the length that could touch the door handle. Then he pulled hard, causing the metal door of the utility room to slowly close.

During the whole process, the waiter's body did not appear at the door. He maintained the posture of "scratching" on the door frame, like a lizard or mouse with a special body structure.

As the utility room was closed, Sniqi's tension gradually disappeared. Seeing that it was no longer possible to continue exploring the hidden underground floor, Shuge disconnected the magical connection with Sniqi, and that's when At this time, the door of the hotel room rang. Xiuge stepped forward and opened the door.

The young and beautiful waitress from before appeared at the door again, holding a classic mechanical clock in her hand with a smile on her face: "Mr. Sugar, this is the clock you need... Do you need me to hang it up for you?"