Chapter 436: After modification: Chapter 436 Worrying Needlessly
The busy little Li was stunned upon hearing Zhang Dadan say that Stone Town was haunted. Haunted? What ghosts? He had been in town all along and hadn’t heard anything about it.
"Mr. Zhang, who told you that? We’ve had so many customers in the shop today, yet I haven’t heard anyone talk about it," little Li asked back.
Jiji, being the town’s largest restaurant, had a daily flow of hundreds of people, serving as the nexus of various rumors.
If little Li hadn’t heard of the haunted rumor, it was either false, or it hadn’t spread in town yet.
If Stone Town really was haunted, could he handle it? Although he could now make simple talismans, he had never faced a real situation.
After hanging up on little Li, Zhang Dadan couldn’t help but laugh bitterly. Was he being a bit overly worried?
Regardless of the truth about the haunting, Zhang Dadan couldn’t go back tonight and didn’t want to cause Zhou Yong further trouble. So he decided to find a small hotel near the bus station for the night.
After wandering around the bus station, Zhang Dadan found a seemingly decent small hotel and walked in.
A plump middle-aged woman was leaning over the counter watching TV. When she heard someone approaching, she reluctantly looked up.
She glanced at Zhang Dadan and immediately changed her expression, smiling, "Oh my! Just you alone?"
Zhang Dadan took out his ID card and handed it to her, responding, "Yes, just me. Why? Is there a problem?"
The middle-aged woman, while taking Zhang Dadan’s ID, intentionally brushed his hand lightly and smiled, "No problem at all. Why would there be a problem?"
Zhang Dadan noticed her looking at him lasciviously, and couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy. Was this lady too desperate and planning to force herself on him?
"Fifty yuan for one night, plus a fifty-yuan deposit, a total of one hundred yuan," the middle-aged woman said seductively as she returned his ID.
Zhang Dadan took the ID and room key, threw her a hundred-yuan bill, and hurriedly went up to the second floor.
After he disappeared from sight, the middle-aged woman pulled out her phone, dialed, and said with a smile, "Fei, we have a guest. Hurry over!"
On the second floor, Zhang Dadan let out a long breath and thought, "Though I’ve had a stroke of luck in love lately, I don’t need an older lady sent my way, right?"
Zhang Dadan sent a message to his parents, informing them he wouldn’t be home tonight, then took off his coat and headed to the bathroom for a shower.
Although the small hotel wasn’t impressive, the bathroom’s water heater worked well, and the warm water washed away Zhang Dadan’s day’s fatigue.
However, while enjoying the warm shower, Zhang Dadan heard a loud knocking on his door. Was it the middle-aged woman?
He grabbed a towel, quickly dried himself, and rushed out to put on his pants.
"Who is it... who?" Zhang Dadan walked cautiously to the door and softly asked.
The person outside, upon hearing his voice, stopped knocking and hurriedly ran away.
When Zhang Dadan opened the door, the person had already disappeared, leaving a small card at the doorstep.
He picked up the card, closed the door, and glanced at the card’s content, shocked to find that it was advertising special services.
Though he had often heard that small hotels near train and bus stations offered such services, it was his first encounter, leaving him a bit taken aback.
More surprising was that the women on the card were all particularly beautiful, and upon closer inspection, he realized they were actually famous celebrities!
What? With the entertainment industry struggling, have these celebrities turned to part-time work? Do they take customers for fools? They couldn’t even use a few influencer photos?
Zhang Dadan threw the card onto the bedside table and turned on his phone to browse Weibo and WeChat.
About half an hour later, the room’s phone rang. After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Dadan picked it up.
"Hello~ Sir, are you alone? Don’t you think the night is long? Shouldn’t you do something?" a coquettish female voice said.
Upon hearing this voice reminiscent of Sister Zhilin, Zhang Dadan felt a bit creeped out and replied, "Of course, I’d like to do something! Like call the police..."
The girl on the other end cursed and hung up the phone upon hearing ’police.’
Holding the receiver, Zhang Dadan was speechless. Who are these people? They could easily be kept women, yet they choose this path... truly shameless!
He didn’t give much thought to the service call and continued playing on his phone.
However, just a few minutes later, there was another knock on the door, even more frantic than before.
The person outside this time wasn’t silent but loudly cried for help, "Please open the door! Let me in! I beg you..."
Indeed, the long night was boring, and Zhang Dadan wanted to find out what was going on. Pretending to be startled, he walked to the door and asked, "Who are you? What’s wrong? Why are you knocking on my door?"
The woman outside, upon hearing his response, cried even more and said, "Please save me... someone wants to beat me..."
"Someone wants to beat you? Then why don’t you call the police? Why knock on my door?" Zhang Dadan asked bluntly.
The woman seemed taken aback by his decisiveness, momentarily stunned, and her crying paused.
"Have you left? Do you still need help?" Zhang Dadan asked suddenly, pretending to have a change of heart, as if he had developed a conscience.
This sudden change in demeanor left the woman bewildered. What kind of person was he? Was he playing games with her?
After a moment of hesitation, the woman continued crying and said, "No, I haven’t left. I got tricked into a pyramid scheme but managed to escape."
"They’re searching for me now. Please open the door, let me in! I will repay you well!"
Pyramid scheme? How timely! It’s amazing how they leverage such fitting reasons to gain sympathy, clearly smarter than the card makers.
"A pyramid scheme, huh? Oh girl! I’m also involved in one. Are you trying to jump from the frying pan into the fire?" Zhang Dadan responded with a wicked grin in a nasty voice.
His continuous counter-feedback drove the woman outside mad. She kicked the door hard a few times and shouted, "I’m a police officer, open the door now!"
After all, staying alone in the room was boring. He might as well entertain himself with this woman.
Slowly opening the door, Zhang Dadan peeked out and saw a heavily made-up sister standing in front of him.
"Are you the police? I didn’t do anything wrong, please don’t arrest me!" Zhang Dadan pretended to be scared.
Though the heavily made-up woman hadn’t had much education and entered society early, she wasn’t a fool.
Seeing that Zhang Dadan was clearly messing with her with his repeated antics, she realized he was doing it on purpose!
"Oh! So you’re a cheeky one, huh? Are you trying to play some role-playing game?" she said with a flirtatious smile, wedging her foot in the door.