Mr. Fu, please stop being abusive. Madam has already signed the divorce papers.

The small hotel elevator is right at the door, and there is no need to swipe a card to go up and down the stairs.

A handsome guy just came in and pressed the elevator to go upstairs as if he was familiar with the place. The receptionist took a closer look at him and thought to herself, this guest is so handsome, why hasn’t she seen him before?

At that time, she thought about whether she should call him.

But on second thought, what if he checked in yesterday when she was not on duty and went out at noon when she was having lunch?

The moment I hesitated, the elevator door closed.

"He may have gone directly to his friend's place. Let's go up too." The leading man looked at his companion and winked at him.

The men turned and headed for the elevator.

"There are too many of you. Come here and book a room before going upstairs! Otherwise I will call the police!"

That handsome guy who goes up there can be said to be joining his friends, but with so many people, how can they accommodate each other?

Seeing this, the leading man turned back and said, "Okay, two twin rooms."

"Give me your ID card."

The man pulled out his ID and the receptionist started working on the computer.

The leading man rolled his eyes and said to his companion, "Second brother, call Dongcheng and ask him which room his friend is in."

The second brother noticed the look and pretended to take out his cell phone and dial a number.

Half a minute later, the second brother said, "The call is not connected. No one answered."

The leading man said to the front desk, "Can you help us check the surveillance to see which room Dongcheng went to?"

The receptionist looked at him in surprise and asked, "What's his friend's name?"

"We didn't know. He said he had a friend here and invited us to come over and play, but he ended up leaving us behind and coming first."

The front desk clerk handed them the room card and said, "I'm sorry, our boss has to come to check the surveillance. You guys go to the room and rest first. Maybe he'll get back to you later."

The leading man looked at his companions and said, "Okay then."

Entering the elevator, the leading man said, "He is injured, so he is easy to deal with. The four of us will split up, each responsible for a floor. First search the empty rooms, public toilets, and stairwells. Keep in touch."

Most of these small hotels have a common problem: the doors of unoccupied rooms are left open.

Huo Dongcheng didn't book a room, so he could only find an empty room to rest in.

"Okay." The other three companions responded.

“Watch out for rooms with closed doors and no lights on.”

Unoccupied rooms can be entered at will, but there is no electricity available.

The door of a room like this can be opened with just a twist of the button.

"clear."

The four of them went to four floors respectively.

It was night and the doors of all occupied rooms were closed, with a faint light coming through the cracks at the bottom of the doors.

The room was unoccupied, the door was open and it was dark inside.

There are also some rooms with closed doors and lights off, so you can tell whether someone is staying there just by pressing the door handle.

The four searched from beginning to end, even the public toilets and fire escapes were not spared.

Finally, they gathered at the fire escape on the first floor.

"Did you find it?"

"No."

"Not a trace."

"There's no one in the empty rooms."

"I do not have either."

The four of them looked at each other, and they all realized that things were a little troublesome.

The bloodstains in the cracks of the stairs and the words at the front desk can prove that Huo Dongcheng is indeed in this hotel.

There was no unoccupied room, so he could only hide in an occupied room.

Did his people contact him and book a hotel here in advance, so Huo Dongcheng rushed all the way here?

Or did Huo Dongcheng meet a kind-hearted person who let him into the room to rest and maybe even helped him call the police?

"What should we do next?"

"I will report to Mr. Fu first and wait for his instructions."

……

In a hotel room.

Xue Jun opened the door, stuck his head out to look around, then retracted his head.

"They've left for now, and I don't know if they'll come back."

"um. Thank you."

Huo Dongcheng leaned against the single bed, his arms across his eyes, his voice weak.

"Your injury is too serious. It's not a good idea to go on like this. We have to find a way to go to the hospital to get stitches." Xue Jun looked at the wound on his shoulder. The surrounding cloth had already been soaked with blood.

"No, please go buy me some trauma medicine, gauze and anti-inflammatory drugs. The wound is not deep and does not need stitches." Huo Dongcheng took his arm away, looked at her dazedly and said.

"Is this really okay?" Xue Jun asked worriedly, "What if it can't be cured and the old injury remains?"

"It's not something you should worry about."

"...Okay." Xue Jun rolled his eyes silently.

Good intentions are regarded as the liver and lungs of a donkey.

"I'll go get you some medicine. You must be careful when you're in your room. Don't open the door no matter who knocks. Got it?"

"Yeah." Huo Dongcheng responded indifferently, closing his eyes, as if he was extremely tired.

Xue Jun left the room. Since Huo Dongcheng was still there, she did not bring the room card.

After coming out of the small hotel, Xue Jun looked around casually and saw a familiar figure in front of a fruit stall not far away.

They didn't go far, but were still moving around nearby, keeping an eye on the hotel.

If Xue Jun remembered correctly, there was a pharmacy a few hundred meters along this street.

But if she went in to buy the medicine and then returned to the hotel, it would inevitably arouse their suspicion.

So, Xue Jun walked to the bus stop not far away and pretended to go out for something.

A bus came and Xue Jun got on it directly. After three stops, she got off the bus when it was some distance away from the hotel and looked for a pharmacy nearby.

After purchasing various medicines, Xue Jun scanned the code to pay and left the pharmacy carrying a plastic bag.

In order to conceal her tracks, she went to the supermarket again, bought a large bag of snacks, and mixed the plastic bag containing medicine into the snacks.

After doing all this, Xue Jun took the bus back.

After getting off the bus, she looked around as if nothing had happened and found that those people were gone.

Did they withdraw?

Xue Jun quickened his pace, walked into the hotel, and took the elevator to the third floor.

After walking out of the elevator and turning the corner, she paused for a moment and walked forward calmly.

In the corridor, a man not far away was knocking on the door in front of him.

When the door opened, the man asked, "Excuse me, my hamster accidentally escaped. Did you see it?"

As he spoke, the man glanced around the room.

With the layout of this small hotel room, you can see the whole room from the door, except for the bathroom.

"Hamster? No, go ask in another room." The guest answered and closed the door.

"Okay, thank you."

The man took two steps forward, passed the empty rooms, and knocked on the door of the next room where there was a guest.

Xue Jun lowered his eyes.

The hamster was obviously an excuse, it was their way of finding someone.

And the next room is her room.

Xue Jun walked past the man calmly and knocked on the door, "Honey, I'm back."

After a few seconds, the door opened from the inside.

She walked in with the snacks, complained, and closed the door, "Why are you so slow to open the door? Help me carry it, it's so heavy."

Just as Huo Dongcheng was about to take over, Xue Jun immediately pushed him into the bathroom and lowered his voice, "Go in quickly, their people are knocking on the door one by one."