Chapter 78(1/3)
The room Zhou Ran got was 447.
The two of them took the room card and took the elevator to the fourth floor together.
The entire zoo is only one hotel, probably to meet the needs of tourists during peak season, so there are many rooms, the corridors are narrow, and each room is not large in size.
Zhou Ran found the room, swiped the room card and walked in.
This is a standard room with a TV, a small table about one meter and two chairs.
There are two beds in the center of the room, and a bedside table in the middle is a bedside table with a glass lamp on it. The bathroom is right next to the bed, and the frosted glass has a translucent hazy feeling.
This design is understandable. After all, those who have the leisure to visit the zoo are either lovers or parents with their children.
Xiang Jiangming opened the bathroom and looked at it. There was a large porcelain-white bathtub inside, and next to the bathtub was the hotel's toiletries.
Zhou Ran walked in, opened the window and looked at it, and could see the swimming pool outside the house.
The water in the swimming pool is very clear. It's afternoon now. The sun has not yet set. The pool under the sun is sparkling, which makes it really feel like a vacation.
Xiang Jiangming sat on the bed and breathed out: "I'm so hungry."
Zhou Ran: "There are instant noodles and biscuits on the cabinet where you enter the door, and President Xiang can cushion your belly."
Xiang Jiangming's eyes lit up and he stood up to get food: "Are you hungry?"
Zhou Ran: "Somewhat."
Xiang Jiangming: "Noodle instant noodles?"
Zhou Ran: "Okay."
Xiang Jiangming nodded, moved all the biscuits on the cabinet to the bedside table, then took apart two boxes of instant noodles and made a pot of hot water.
After a while, the unique fragrance of instant noodles wafted out.
Because the table was a little narrow, Xiang Jiangming pulled out the small table beside the corner of the wall, then moved one of the chairs, and the two of them sat down face to eat instant noodles.
Zhou Ran went around and sat down. When she saw in the corner of the wall, there were several newspapers sticking to the place blocked by the table. After Zhou Ran's comprehensive ability improved, her vision was very good compared to ordinary people. She grabbed the keyword "Paradise Zoo" at a glance.
Zhou Ran put down the instant noodles fork and bent down tore off the newspapers. After the newspaper was torn off, it brought down a lot of wall dust, and the mottled and cracked gray wall skin appeared behind the newspaper.
These newspapers seem to be used as wallpaper, and are posted in a very close position, covered by the table. If the table is not moved away, I am afraid that these newspapers will not be able to see them.
The newspaper page was a little yellow and stained with oil, which was in a strong contrast with Zhou Ran's white little hands. Xiang Jiangming frowned and stretched out his hand and said, "I'll do it."
Zhou Ran said it was okay, and then opened the newspaper without any hesitation, and his eyes quickly passed through it.
Soon, she saw a valuable report.
The report states that on the first day of the opening of Paradise Zoo, the wonderful animal performance attracted tourists from all directions, with more than 100,000 visitors in a single day, including exciting circus performances, dolphin performances, and personal entry into the pen to feed peacocks.
There are several photos at the back of the report, one of which is the dolphin performance hall they have been to. The audience seats on the photos are full, and people are all smiling, even standing up, raising their arms and cheering for the dolphins.
Xiang Jiangming: "Here, there are photos of circus here."
In the circus, a breeder opened the lion's big mouth, then put his head into the lion's mouth, and made a V gesture toward the camera. In the cage behind this photo, several lions with bright furs were scrambling to stand up, bowed with their hands, and asked the keeper for food.
Zhou Ran frowned gently and whispered: "It's hard to imagine that this is really a lion."
Xiang Jiangming shook the newspaper open and pointed to a man's photo: "Look, this is the principal of Paradise Zoo."
The man in the photo is wearing a suit and a decent hat, smiling and accepting an interview from a reporter. Ironically, the photo next to him happens to be a monkey in a circus. The monkey holds a magic hat on his head and makes a curtain call to the audience.
Xiang Jiangming: "Maybe this copy can be called animal revenge. We play the role of tourists, but after certain conditions are triggered, we will become animals and be hunted objects."
Zhou Ran nodded gently.
In this copy of the lack of suggestive NPC, quickly finding one's own position is an effective weapon to avoid death.
Xiang Jiangming: "Eat quickly, it will be cold in a while."
After the two of them finished instant noodles, they sat on the bed eating biscuits and watched TV. At about 5:30 pm, the landline on the bedside table rang.
Zhou Ran pressed the hands-free and a crisp female voice rang out: "Hello, dear tourist, this is Paradise Hotel. Do you need to have a meal?"
Xiang Jiangming said: "It's necessary."
The female voice respectfully said to Xiang Jiangming: "Then please move to the cafeteria on the fifth floor. Please get your room card when you go out."
When the phone hung up, Xiang Jiangming raised his eyebrows at Zhou Ran: "Go up and take a look."
Zhou Ran nodded and the two went to the restaurant upstairs together.
The fifth floor of the hotel is divided into two areas, one is a buffet restaurant and the other is a souvenir area. There are some animal dolls inside. It is supper time, and the aroma of food is floating on the entire floor.
Xiang Jiangming picked a seat and sat down, then took two glasses of juice.
When he came back, he saw Zhou Ran tilting his head to look at the southwest corner of the restaurant. Zhou Ran looked a little focused, so Xiang Jiangming also turned his head according to her gaze. He frowned slightly and found that the young boy had also come to the restaurant, sitting in the corner with his head down.
The boy was eating, eating very quietly, without talking, and even the sound of chewing was very weak. If he didn't look carefully, he was no different from a normal person, but Zhou Ran could see that his skin was constantly drying up.
He ate a sausage, and after he finished eating, a layer of translucent gel-like substance floated up his face. It was sticky and greasy, and looked soft and weird. The boy's arms were also very soft. He stretched out his forward and picked up a glass of water, and tilted his head and poured it in.
After the boy drank the water, his skin became more delicate, as if he was the teenage boy's face full of collagen, which looked less terrifying than just now.
Xiang Jiang looked at him with his eyes and found that the light purple light on his body was becoming more and more obvious, and even a dark red and dark blue light appeared.
Zhou Ran: "It should be aquatic creatures."
Xiang Jiangming: "What aquatic creatures shine?"
Zhou Ran thought for a moment: "Glowing fish, sea snails, jellyfish, squid, and red tides can also shine. They are some phytoplankton, protozoa or bacteria, and should not appear in the zoo."
Xiang Jiangming: "School girl is really, she is a living encyclopedia."
Zhou Ran: "Eacher."
Xiang Jiangming: "No, no, no, I mean, I couldn't think of the thing Chichao."
After the two of them said, they looked at each other and smiled.
As they were talking, the boy suddenly stood up and walked out from behind the table to get food. Zhou Ran and Xiang Jiangming looked back at the same time.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but when you look at it, your heart suddenly jumped. The boy's belly turned out to be a hole in the void.
It was not really a hole, but the belly became transparent, becoming a translucent film with a gluey feel. Through the belly, you can see the dining table behind him and the dark blue curtains floating in the wind.
He walked forward, his whole body twitching, as if everything was tied to push him forward. His muscles looked extremely soft, and they were regularly scattering, and colorful fluorescents flowed out of the gap in his belly.
Zhou Ran and Xiang Jiangming said at the same time: "Jellyfish."
The boy walked forward quietly, and with his movements, his arms gradually became transparent, as if this person did not exist in this world at all, quiet and weird and terrifying.
Xiang Jiangming lowered his voice: "Does he still have human consciousness?"
Zhou Ran: "It should be that he is taking sausages and cakes, and jellyfish don't eat these."
After a while, the couple also came and they sat very close to Zhou Ran.
The two of them sat down with the good stuff and then started talking without hesitation.
The woman's arms fell on the table, looking slender and weird, but she didn't know where the feeling of incongruity came from.
Her mouth was not very clear, as if saliva was constantly secreting, and she said vaguely: "I should discuss our marriage when I go out this time, right?"
The man was gnawing a bone, his mouth was a little clearer than that of a woman, but he was still very vague: "First of all, I don't want to marry you, but I really can't accept your mother's conditions."
The woman frowned and her mouth moved a few times: "In our village, we always ask for a dowry when marrying girls, and my mother also prepared a dowry for me, right? You are not short of that 200,000 yuan..."
As the man ate, he suddenly sneered: "This is our love? Can't I marry you without 200,000, right? Why are you so material?"
The woman cried and said, "I'm material? If you don't have that money, of course I will discuss it with my mother, but you obviously have... OK, okay, I'm material! This time I will abort this child if I publish the book!"
The man glared at his eyes, spit out a little white viscous substance from his mouth, and shouted: "Don't use children to threaten me, who knows whose bastard it is."
The woman choked and said, "You——"
Zhou Ran didn't want to listen to them anymore, so she got up and went to get the food.
Because I just ate instant noodles, Zhou Ran was not very hungry. She took a little bread and jam. When she was about to go back, she felt a salty smell coming from her side.
Zhou Ran turned around and saw the young boy just next to her.
Zhou Ran said, "Hello."
The boy raised his head, his two small eyes embedded in his eye sockets, and his neck was tilted softly. He confirmed that Zhou Ran was talking to him, and then replied to Zhou Ran: "Hello."
Zhou Ran: "You don't look old, who do you live in the same room with?"
The boy said, "A woman I don't know."
Zhou Ran: "Have she told you anything?"
The boy tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "She has been screaming since she entered the house, as if she was afraid of me, but I don't know why she was afraid of me."
Zhou Ran's spine was slightly chilled.
She suppressed the discomfort and continued to ask the boy: "Have she come to have a meal?"
The boy shook his head: "She fell asleep, and I couldn't wake her up."
Zhou Ran's voice became colder and colder: "Have you done anything to her?"
The boy was stunned for a moment, then said, "I didn't do anything, but she watched me retreat and tripped on the cabinet and fell down. I went over to help her, just like this." The boy said, stretching out his soft hand to grab Zhou Ran's arm.
To be continued...