Chapter 4 Is the 8th floor very high?
Cai Gen put on his down jacket, manually closed the takeout software, carried the takeout bag, and picked up the key to the battery car.
When he reached the glass door of the restaurant, he hesitated.
Through the glass door, the store entrance is bright, but the edge of the light is like the dividing line between two worlds.
There is visible light on one side and unknown darkness on the other. When you open this door, you have to move from light to darkness.
After what happened just now, Cai Gen was a little confused.
I don’t want to think about it, but customers will definitely give negative reviews.
Also, the food has already been prepared, and if it is not delivered, it will be wasted, which will undoubtedly make things worse for this poor business.
If you go, it will be a pitch-black night outside, so dark that you can't even see your fingers.
Why didn't I think it was so dark at night? It was so dark that I felt nervous.
Cai Gen stared at the darkness outside the door. There seemed to be countless pairs of eyes in the darkness.
Staring at himself, like the blood-red eyes of the old man selling bean bags just now, there were complaints, greed, anger, and sadness.
"Your users have begun to urge orders. Your users have begun to urge orders. Your users have begun to urge orders."
The reminder sound sounded like a reminder, hitting Cai Gen's tense nerves time and time again.
He lit a cigarette and took out his mobile phone. He didn't dare to call his wife for fear of waking up his son.
Clicked on WeChat, found my wife, held down the phone,
"Wife, you have worked hard for so many years, and I love you."
He put away his cell phone, took a long puff of cigarette, opened the glass door forcefully, and walked out, resolutely walking out.
In the Northeast, in the second half of the winter, the temperature was very low, and a burst of coldness hit his face, which calmed Cai Gen's panic a little.
He locked the door with his backhand and quickly came to the battery car. After inserting it twice, he inserted the key to the battery car and turned on the lights.
Due to aging, the lights are very dim and can only illuminate one meter in front of the car.
There is only a distance of more than 30 meters from the entrance of the store to the entrance of the community. After leaving the community and reaching the road, there are bright street lights and cars passing by from time to time.
Cai Gen put away the takeout bag, rode on the electric bicycle, mustered up his courage, turned the handle of the electric bicycle with all his strength, and rushed into the darkness in front of him.
The darkness of more than 30 meters was not completely dark, and the dim car lights were working hard to shine yellow.
However, when Cai Gen looked at the car lights in front of him, they seemed to be getting further and further away from him.
I didn’t seem to ride 30 meters, but 300 meters, 3000 meters, 30000 meters. It seemed like I would ride forever.
Just when the car lights were almost out of sight, a bright light appeared in front of my eyes, and I finally left the community.
Cai Gen felt relieved, rode on the road, and rushed towards the Red Romantic Hotel.
Store entrance.
Not long after Cai Gen left.
Two half-figures appear.
Standing under the bright light, his face was also blurry.
One stood upright and was wearing a suit, holding a child in his hand.
"Is he scared?"
The man in the suit spoke first with a sharp voice.
"Sir, he is scared, very scared."
The man in the black cotton-padded jacket bent his body lower when he answered, and it turned out to be the voice of an old man selling bean bags.
"Did he listen to your complaints?"
"Listen, I told you all the bad things that happened over the years."
"Did he sympathize with you?"
"It seems not, but he took me to a place. It was very scary. It was the experience of a person dying. It seemed like a blink of an eye, and it seemed like a long time passed."
The man in the suit seemed very surprised, and his sharp voice was even sharper, very harsh, like scratching the glass with his claws,
"What? How did he do it?" The old man selling bean bags heard the other party's urgent tone. He knelt on the ground and said quickly,
"He just held my wrist, took me away at once, and then brought me back again. I don't understand what happened."
Due to his limited expressive ability, the old man still tried his best to describe that feeling.
Maybe you still didn’t understand, the man in the suit started to get impatient,
"Okay, let's go."
"Sir, what about going downstairs?"
"I know, get out of here."
The old man selling bean bags stood up and was about to disappear when the man in the suit quickly stretched out his hand and grabbed the shadow of the old man selling bean bags.
He stuffed it in his mouth and swallowed it without chewing at all.
The sharp voice of the man in the suit sounded again, muttering quietly, a little ethereal,
"I had some influence on cause and effect. I thought there would be a surprise. Oh, this old waste."
The child who was being pulled had an extremely resentful tone, raised his head and said,
"Xie An'an, why do you have to torture me? Can't you just let me die in peace?"
The man in the suit looked uneasy. He seemed to have heard the child's words many times and was already used to it. He tried to speak as gently as possible,
"Xiao Qi, being a father is all for your own good. The last few times failed, but this time I finally raised this meat substitute to be kind. Once he dies, you will never have to suffer."
Xiao Qi tried hard to break free from Xie An's hand, but in the end she couldn't succeed. She complained and said,
"Stop pretending, Xie An'an, wouldn't it be over if you just kill him? Is it worth going to this trouble?"
Not wanting to explain too much, Xie An pulled Xiao Qi, and the figure slowly retreated from the light of the store door into the darkness. The voice continued to come, but it was getting lower and lower,
"That won't work, absolutely not, but this time, it's not without gain. At least he is no longer an ordinary person."
The shadow disappeared completely into the darkness and the sound disappeared.
Only the light in front of the store shines quietly, so obvious and desirable in the dark night.
After 11 p.m., the red light at the traffic post will turn into a flashing yellow light.
People walking at night are reminded to pay attention to safety.
But without the constraints of red lights, empty roads are even more dangerous.
Cai Gen's battery car didn't stop at any traffic post. It only took 15 minutes to arrive at the Red Romantic Hotel on the other side of the city.
Get out of the car, grab the takeout bag, and walk to the hotel lobby without locking the car.
The lady at the reception desk had fallen asleep on the chair, and the security guard was also fast asleep on the sofa in the lobby.
Even the lights in the hotel lobby were not fully turned on. There were only a few spotlights, shining in the empty lobby with the words "Red Romantic Hotel" in big blood red letters.
Cai Gen has been to this hotel before. In order to show that there are many rooms and good luck, 8804 is the 8th floor.
I walked quickly to the elevator. Fortunately, the elevator stopped on the first floor. I pressed the button and the elevator door opened.
Cai Gen walked in eagerly, pressed the button with the figure 8 hard, and the elevator door closed.
Cai Gen's anxious face was reflected on the closed elevator door, and thousands of shrinking figures of Cai Gen appeared in response to the mirror opposite, until they were finally too small to be seen.
After waiting for a few seconds, the elevator did not move. Cai Gen pressed it several times in succession, but the elevator still did not move, and the button with the figure 8 did not turn on when pressed.
The customer has already requested the order, so why can’t I press the elevator? Cai Gen became even more anxious. He suddenly looked up and saw the instructions for swiping his card.
When was this pressed? It didn’t happen the last time I came here. Isn’t it allowed to take the elevator without a room card?
The Red Romance Hotel seems to be following in the footsteps of fast hotel chains, but it has become quite difficult for Cai Gen to deliver food.
He hurriedly opened the elevator and walked towards the security guard who was sleeping on the sofa.
If you just sit on a raft and think about leaving it behind, you will be a Taoist who has nothing to do; if you ride a donkey and look for donkeys again, you will never become a Zen master. Quoted from "Cai Gen Tan"
(End of chapter)