Chapter 308 "Of Course I Will Wait for My Return"
The night of November 17, 2015.
The wind seemed to have received the signal of winter in advance and became more and more erratic. The dark sky was very low, and it was a bit suffocating.
The door of the seventh branch was opened by Xiao Qianduye. The whistling wind lifted her long hair and blew her backwards.
"Boom."
The girl who closed the door slapped her face that was instantly blown red with her hands, shrank her neck and got into the middle of the crowd.
"What a strong wind."
"Something big will happen tonight." Xie Zheng blinked at Xiao Qianduye, glanced at the window and said this in a low voice.
Xiao Qianduye nodded silently, inadvertently raised his eyes to look at the lonely figure sitting in the front, then lowered his head and put his hands together in front of his chest.
"Everyone is here, let's get down to business."
Tongguan was wearing a neat khaki work suit, and his boots made a dull sound on the floor tiles, attracting everyone's attention.
"The task has not been released yet, but the hotel has gathered all the staff in advance, and it should be tonight."
What made Tongguan strange was why the hotel had to wait so long before taking action.
As early as two days ago, the manager's email provoked everyone's inner desire, but it was delayed for two days.
At first, Tongguan and Changnian thought that maybe it was waiting for Ji Li's return.
Although this theory is a bit unrealistic, it is possible.
Until he received a new round of emails just now, Tongguan figured out the problem.
What the hotel is waiting for is the first snow of this year.
Time seems to be very important for the hotel, and this mission will also be carried out on a snowy day.
"The hotel didn't say much, but judging from the first half of the email, this mission seems to be closely related to the snowy day."
Tongguan said this, raised his wrist to check the time, and continued:
"It is now 11:46 pm on November 17th, and there are still a few hours before the early morning as the hotel said. We..."
However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a gentle female voice.
"Mr. Tong, please go to the first floor tile on the right side of the rest area and remove the mural on the front wall."
The sudden voice startled the staff present, and they all looked up at the loudspeaker above their heads.
Most of them were newcomers and didn't know that there was such a unique existence in the hotel.
Tongguan didn't care why the female voice spoke. He must have followed the hotel's arrangement. He walked towards the place where the female voice pointed, thinking about a question in his heart.
Why did the hotel do so many mysterious things for this mission...
Just a few steps away, Tongguan came to the rest area. The mural in front of him was a naked woman with a thin red silk skirt under her feet. It looked like a foreign art painting.
Following the female voice's instructions, Tongguan gently pressed his hands on both ends of the picture frame, shook it up and down slightly, and the picture frame immediately left the wall.
Everyone's eyes involuntarily gathered towards the rest area. They also wanted to see what the hotel was doing.
After seeing the mural, Tongguan's doubts became deeper and more intense.
After removing the mural, there was a hollowed-out medium-sized space inside, which was not very large, just like a refrigerator.
And there were three black handbags placed in parallel inside.
The handbags were similar to those used for travel or moving, and there was nothing special about them. The size was not small, and the fullness inside should be filled with unknown things.
"Mr. Tong, please take the three handbags to the center of the hall and place them neatly in one place. No one can steal or touch them deliberately."
The female voice spoke again, making Tongguan more interested in the three handbags, but the warning behind could only make him suppress his curiosity in his heart.
Tongguan held the handbag's strap with one hand. He thought he could just lift it casually, but he didn't expect that the weight inside seemed to be extremely heavy.
At least, it was not easy for him to lift one with one hand.
With the female voice's warning, Tongguan did not touch the outside of the handbag, but just grabbed the two straps and took one out.
Although he couldn't touch it, Tongguan carefully examined the appearance of the handbag.
This was a leather bag. When he held it in his hand, he could feel that the texture was very good. The things inside weighed more than 20 kilograms, and the texture of the handbag itself made it look very heavy.
But other than that, Tongguan could no longer find any information.
In this way, Tongguan placed all three handbags neatly on the ground in three consecutive trips.
At the same time, all the shop assistants focused their eyes on the three strange black bags, whispering and full of curiosity.
"What do you think it has to do with this mission?"
"How should I know? With the style of the hotel, there might be three ghosts in it!"
"Anyway, I don't dare to participate in this mission. You guys can go there on your own."
...
Just as the discussion gradually died down, the time had come to midnight on November 18.
This time, the female voice seemed to represent the will of the hotel to issue the mission, and there were many scenes.
"The staff who decided to participate in this mission stand in the meeting room, and the rest of the staff retreated to the lobby."
As soon as these words came out, several clerks immediately evacuated the conference room, but there were eleven people left behind!
Such a high number of participants is unprecedented in previous missions.
The most important thing is that this is a proactive mission.
These eleven people are:
Tongguan, Chang Nian, Yu Guo, Fang Shenyan, Mei Sheng, Xiaoqianduye, Jie Zheng, Gao Hongqian, Yang Shouyi, Dai Yingqi, Yu Xing.
Dai Yingqi and Yu Xing were the clerks who joined again after two days of thinking.
Dai Yingqi already had some experience in the previous Bamboo Horse Guild Hall mission, but the main reason why he would stay here was Mei Sheng.
Among them, Chang Nian finally left silently after communicating with Tongguan several times.
And after she left, no one left, and no one of the ten people present left.
After Tongguan glanced around, he nodded secretly, then raised his eyes and asked:
"Everyone is here, what are you waiting for?"
The answer to him was no longer a female voice, but the door of the seventh branch was slammed open from the outside, and the whimpering wind blew from the outside, making everyone unable to open their eyes for a while.
Fang Shenyan, who was closest to the gate, had the cigarette in his hand blown away by the wind. After a moment, he stretched out his hand to cover his eyebrows. He saw a familiar figure, but appeared in a strange way.
The man with his back to the strong wind pushed open the golden door, stepping on snowflakes that had grown in size at an unknown time, and had eighteen thick black chains wrapped around his body.
Behind him, a huge and terrifying ancient bronze coffin collided violently with the beam of the door.
The waist-length hair was dancing wildly in the wind and snow, and the face that was also carved by the wind and snow was coated with a layer of golden light.
He stretched out his hand to break a pendant around his neck and broke it into pieces in his hand. He spoke into the coldness of the wind and snow:
"Of course you are waiting for my return."