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Published at 19th of December 2021 10:03:45 AM


Chapter 38

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Chapter 38…  The Hunger Hotel (6)

 

In the early morning of the fourth day, the surviving tenants walked out of the room nervously.

The red-haired girl immediately looked at the room where Shen Yu was.

The door of his room was quiet, no one came out, only a strong smell of blood wafted out.

Just like those who died before.

Suddenly, everyone present was a little desperate.

Especially the tall man, he covered his face with his only hand left, his eyes full of chagrin.

The wooden stairs “creaked” and the terrifying butcher chef came to the second floor again.

He was in a good mood, humming a vague nursery rhyme lightly, holding a bright kitchen knife in his hand, ready to recover the weapon crowbar he had dropped last night as usual, and cut off the dead by the way. The meat on the body is used for breakfast.

Everyone avoided, with great fear, watching the chef humming into Shen Yu’s room.

But the next second, the chef’s roar came.

“No! Wrong… Wrong…Where is he? It wasn’t him last night… my mother would scold me…” The angry and chaotic roar was almost silent.

The sturdy chef rushed out of the room again, with a shining kitchen knife in his hand, his bloodshot eyes rounded, panting heavily, and glanced at everyone present.

Everyone took a step back in horror.

Staring at the crowd for a long while, the chef’s kitchen knife in his hand tightened. After some time he finally turned around, cursing and walking away, “Mom will scold me…”

As the chef’s mumbles went away, everyone quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The red-haired girl took the courage and opened the door of Shen Yu’s room.

On the floor of the room, the blood-stained crowbar from last night had long since disappeared, and an unrecognizable corpse was lying on the bed.

This corpse was wearing Shen Yu’s coat, and the entire skull had been smashed into a mass of fleshy mud. The dark red plasma was splashed over the sheets, exuding an unpleasant stench.

After seeing the corpse, the glasses girl suddenly rounded her eyes, pointed to the bed and exclaimed in surprise, “Why is it him?”

Even though the corpse was completely different, but with years of experience in getting along, even with only a glance, she realized that the man lying on the bed was the black-faced man who had died a long time ago.

After hearing this, everyone hurried to examine the other bodies.

There were originally three corpses, but now there are only two left, and indeed, the man was not there.

“Did he not die?”

The red-haired girl muttered, “But no… We already checked the room, in addition to the bodies in bed, we could not find him”

“Where could he hide?”

Everyone search to no avail, the chef downstairs urged tightly, and finally went downstairs in panic.

Just before leaving, the red-haired girl glanced vaguely at the bottom of the bed.

The bottom of the bed was very clean, without a trace of dust. It’s just that there is a thin piece of paper pressed under the inconspicuous bed foot, and no one except her has noticed it.

The red-haired girl gently hooked her finger under the bed, and quietly swept the small piece of paper in her palm.

At this moment, everyone had reached the top of the stairs. She followed the back of the crowd, opened the paper at the fastest speed, read the text on it, and instantly her pupils shook.

No one noticed her little movement. After the red-haired girl finished reading, she immediately put away the paper, glanced at the people in front of her, her eyes darkened.

On the first floor, the chef is still losing his temper.

“There is no fresh meat today, it’s too bad…no breakfast, nothing…” He mumbled in his mouth, waving a kitchen knife in his hand, looking grim with blood stains on his hand.

The rest of the people all avoided silently, trying to stay as far away from him as possible, for fear that the chef would vent his anger on them.

Even the old couple, who had always been peaceful, couldn’t help speeding up the speed of turning the Buddhist beads at this time, and both hands trembled fiercely.

The gloomy and violent cook, after talking to himself for a while, suddenly turned his head and stared at everyone with bloodshot eyes, “You…”

All the people present suddenly trembled.

The chef continued to speak, with a hoarse voice, “Today’s room money, each person has a heart… Move faster, you need it at night!”

“Otherwise…”

He glared at everyone threateningly, and then dragged his awkward footsteps away.

Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the chef left, and everyone almost immediately rushed to the second floor, fighting for fear and letting no one else.

In order to pay the room fee in time, they can only go to dig the heart of the dead, but Shen Yu disappeared strangely last night, and now there are only three bodies upstairs.

And they still have seven living people!

It’s a matter of life, and there are no more moral codes at this time. Young and strong people squeeze the old, the weak, the sick and disabled behind them, desperately pursuing a ray of life.

Obviously, the elderly couple and the tall man who had lost a hand were squeezed out.

But no one knows why, the red-haired girl is late and is also behind.

The younger Luo’s brothers and sisters and glasses sisters ran to the second floor first with a kitchen knife in their hands.

“Where’s the corpse?” Then, three people screamed. “The corpses of the deceased are gone? Just now when we went downstairs, they was clearly still here!” The fat and thin man’s corpses, as well as the black-faced man. All the corpses lying in Shen Yu’s room disappeared, as if they had evaporated.

Everyone searched all the rooms and carefully searched every inch of the corner, but found nothing.

Where else can the dead go?

There is no deceased for them to dig their hearts, how can they still pay tonight’s room charge! Do they have to…

Everyone looked at each other, their faces were all the same ugly, and their eyes were faintly wary of each other.

The atmosphere became tense for a while.

Feeling the depression around, the red-haired girl slowly said, “The body must have been secretly dragged away by the chef.”

“The chef?” The old couple couldn’t help but be surprised.

The red-haired girl nodded affirmatively, “Yes, chef.”

“He may not want us to get the heart easily, so he moved the body ahead of time or…”

She sneered as she watched the gloomy expressions of the old couple gradually sink. She said, “Maybe he has no human flesh to eat today, so he is too hungry to bear, so he hid the three corpses and kept them secretly for himself to eat.”

“Now we are talking here, maybe the chef is hiding in the hotel somewhere, he was quietly roasting the three hearts to add meals for himself…” As soon as these words were said, the old couple’s faces became more and more gloomy, but the Luo brothers and sisters looked disgusted, as if they couldn’t bear it, said, ” Don’t say it, it’s disgusting!” The old lady was silent for a while, and finally sighed, as if helplessly said, “Forget it, I have lived for most of my life anyway. No regrets, I will die tonight!”

She shook her hands and turned around laboriously, “I don’t want to bother to find any heart, you, young people are free.” The old man helped her in a timely manner, “Forgive me, my wife is really tired today, we will go back to the room first. .”

These two old people are supporting each other, their rickety backs are trembling, and whoever sees them will feel sore in the nose and hot under the eyes.

The crowd was silent and watched the old pair leave.

Suddenly, a sneer came softly, “Good acting!”

The voice was too familiar, and the rest of the people were surprised. Following the voice, they saw a tall young man sitting in the room behind them. By the side of his bed, his legs were lifted leisurely.

It was Shen Yu!

Seeing the person who disappeared last night suddenly reappeared silently, everyone’s expressions were no less fearful than seeing ghosts in the day.

Among them, the less courageous Luo brothers and sisters, immediately fell on the ground with a weak leg, pointed at him with trembling fingers, and was so scared that they could not speak.

But the tall man was overjoyed when he saw Shen Yu, the guilt in his eyes disappeared, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The red-haired girl’s expression was calm, as if she had already known his existence.

She shook the piece of paper filled with text, and said to Shen Yu, “You are so courageous, how can you do something so dangerous!”

Shen Yu slightly raised the corner of his mouth, “You are the only novelist among them. Novelists who can live well in horror stories must be more careful than ordinary people.”

So the red-haired girl will definitely not miss the paper under the corner of the bed, and will definitely read the message left by Shen Yu.

What she said just now was all written in advance on the slip of paper.

Facing other people’s dumbfounded expressions, the red-haired girl pinched her eyebrows with a bit of headache, and said, “Although I don’t know how you made the three bodies disappear, after I said those words just now, you made an excuse to leave early…”

“Who is the chef’s accomplice!”

Shen Yu blinked, and then took it slowly.

As soon as this remark came out, the rest of the people were immediately stunned.

“You’re joking, right?” Luo siblings unbelievably, said, “This hotel having a killer chef was not enough, he also associates? Not just one, it could also be two people…”

Two elderly, weak and kind-looking old people ?

Luo Hong couldn’t bear to see the old couple who believed in Buddhism was forced to eat meat with her own eyes. She has been secretly comforting the old couple these days, so she has a good relationship with the old lady sitting next to her.

She naturally questioned at this time, “Those two have been eating vegetarian food while devoting to Buddhism, and their bodies are also very thin. They usually shake their hands and can’t hold their chopsticks securely. How could they be the chef’s accomplices?”

Shen Yu: “When did I say they were accomplices?”

Luo Hong let out a sigh of relief.

Shen Yu, “The two of them are obviously the main culprits, and it seems that the chef with low intelligence is the accomplice of the two of them.”

Luo Hong’s breath was halfway through her throat.

She seemed to still want to refute, but she opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say, she could only listen to Shen Yu in amazement.

And Shen Yu’s voice was as calm as ever, “The reason they keep shaking hands is because they eat too much human flesh.”

“Do you know about mad cow disease?”

“The UK used to add a lot of beef meal to cattle feed. As a result, long-term cannibalism has caused prions 1 to invade the cow’s nervous system, causing global mad cow disease.”

“One of the symptoms of this disease is uncontrolled muscle spasms and twitches.”

Looking at Luo Hong with rounded eyes, he smiled, and continued, “The so-called mad cow disease is Kuru disease.” 2

“Kuru disease usually appears in some primitive cannibal tribes, where people eat their dead relatives. Later, they would eat the brains of his relatives in accordance with the tradition, hoping to gain the wisdom of his relatives, so the symptoms of Kuru disease would often appear.” Luo Hong was completely shocked at this time, and asked with trembling lips, “You mean, the reason why the old couple keep shaking hands is because…”

Shen Yu nodded silently, “If there is occasional cannibalism, ordinary people will not suffer from Kuru disease, only long-term cannibalism, devouring a large amount of human flesh. Only then will the prions invade the nervous system.” Luo Hong was completely speechless, but swallowed nervously.

She suddenly remembered that the amiable old lady had always declared that she believed in the Buddha and often chanted the Buddha’s name.

“Amitabha…Amitabha…”

Looking back now, the old lady only recites the first three words of the Buddha’s name every time.

Amitabha, there is no Buddha!





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