Chapter 9 Footsteps in the Wax Museum
There are no clerks in the bathing center, only automatic ticket machines.
The walls are the same as in restaurants and clothing stores, with wall clocks and LCD screen countdowns.
The cheapest bath ticket only provides hot water, bath towels and a small piece of soap, and is limited to ten minutes, requiring only one point.
After swiping his card, Li Teng got a coin engraved with strange patterns.
Li Teng entered the dressing room with the coins, took off his clothes and went to the bathroom inside.
The bathroom is a closed bathroom.
Put a coin into the coin-operated device of one of the bathrooms, and the door of that bathroom will open automatically.
The bathroom is a shower, only two square meters in size, and a ten-minute countdown is beating on the screen on the top of the wall.
After ten minutes, Li Teng will be forcibly evicted regardless of whether he has finished taking a shower or not.
Bathing is a very troublesome thing for women. Generally speaking, it doesn't take an hour without washing.
Men like Li Teng are different.
It can be done in five minutes.
Wet your body for half a minute, soap it for one minute, rub it for another minute, and rinse it off for half a minute.
You still have one minute to wipe yourself clean with a bath towel.
It only took Li Teng five minutes to finish the shower, and then another five minutes to soap up the dirty pajamas and rub them quickly, finishing everything in ten minutes.
Before the ten-minute countdown ended, Li Teng had returned to the dressing room and put on the clean clothes and shoes he had just bought from the clothing store.
After eating and drinking enough, taking a shower and changing into new clothes, Li Teng was now feeling refreshed and completely different from the extremely weak man who slumped on top of the stone pillar in the morning.
What the hell is this place?
The locker room provided free plastic bags. Li Teng put the pajamas he had just washed into the plastic bag before returning to the street.
There was still no one on the street.
It was extremely quiet everywhere, as quiet as a dead city.
However, restaurants, clothing stores and bathing centers are still operating normally, which makes Li Teng feel that this place cannot be a dead city.
It's a pity that he couldn't find a public phone and there was no place to borrow a mobile phone. Otherwise, Li Teng would definitely have called the police first, told the police everything that happened to him, and asked them to locate him and take him home.
Find out what organization abducted him to the top of the stone pillar.
For the current plan, let’s find a living person on this street first.
There is a public toilet opposite the bathing center. Li Teng drank a lot of drinks and ate a lot of food, so he needed to go and deal with it.
The toilet is very clean and well decorated.
Dryer and toilet paper are all available.
There was no one inside either.
While Li Teng was solving problems in the cubicle, he heard footsteps on the street outside.
Is there anyone alive passing by outside?
After Li Teng solved the problem, he quickly rushed out to the street.
But the streets outside were still deserted.
If anyone passed by just now, they should have gone to the corner in front.
Li Teng quickly chased after him.
Sure enough, after turning the corner, Li Teng saw two living people.
Two very beautiful reception ladies were standing at the door of a store with smiles on their face.
The store door behind them was large and ajar. There was no sign outside the store door, so it was unclear what kind of business was being conducted inside.
Li Teng walked over quickly, ready to ask the two reception ladies a few questions, or to borrow a mobile phone from them to make a call.
After arriving in front of the two welcoming ladies, Li Teng was stunned.
The two reception ladies looked exactly like real people, with rosy faces. However, they stood motionless.
If he looked carefully, Li Teng felt that they were not welcome ladies.
Although both of them wear red clothes, the specific styles are very different.
And it's not the kind of dress worn by reception ladies, it's more like the fashion worn by pedestrians on the street.
They were just smiling, not the kind of smile that a receptionist would have to welcome guests.
It feels very much like two passing women standing here posing for a photo.
"Two beauties, are you not playing the game of wooden figures?"
Li Teng tried to ask the two women.
The two of them remained motionless, but that weird smile continued to appear on their faces.
Seeing that they had no response to what he said and remained motionless, Li Teng tried to reach out and touch them.
"Is it a wax figure?" Li Teng frowned.
Is this a wax museum?
Li Teng took a few steps back and took a closer look at the exterior wall of the store.
There is no signboard or words like wax museum.
At this moment, there was another faint sound of very clear footsteps inside the store.
"Is there anyone there?" Li Teng quickly rushed forward and shouted into the store.
No one responded, but the footsteps stopped.
There are indeed people inside!
Without saying a word, Li Teng reached out and pushed open the ajar door behind the two women and rushed into the store.
After rushing in and seeing everything inside, Li Teng was stunned and froze in place.
Inside is a hall with an area of more than 200 square meters, where a cocktail party is being held.
In the hall of more than 200 square meters, there were at least five to sixty guests.
Everyone looked at Li Teng by the hall door with a smile on their faces, and some of them still had wine glasses in their hands.
However, it was very quiet in the hall.
It was so quiet that Li Teng could only hear his own breathing.
Everyone in the hall remained motionless in a certain posture.
It's like... a photo, or in other words, time suddenly froze at this moment.
"Is there anyone alive?"
After a while, Li Teng calmed down and asked in the hall.
He just heard footsteps, indicating that there was indeed a living person hiding inside.
If the living person could be found, many of his questions might be answered.
No one responded, everyone continued to look at Li Teng with a strange smile.
Of course, they were not looking at Li Teng, but in the direction of the entrance to the hall.
Because when Li Teng walked deeper into the hall, their eyes did not follow Li Teng.
This shows that all of them are just motionless wax figures.
The details of the wax figure were so realistic that they were almost indistinguishable from a real person standing still, which made it difficult for Li Teng to find the person who made the footsteps just now.
"I was just passing by, I didn't mean any harm."
"I don't know how I got here."
"I hope someone with knowledge of this incident can come forward and tell me what happened."
"If you don't come out, I will have to resort to some extraordinary measures."
Li Teng shouted a few more times in the hall, touched the wax figure next to him, and after hesitating for a moment, he picked up a fork from the dining table and thrust it into the eyes of the wax figure next to him.
If there is a living person who really wants to hide among these wax figures, this is the only way to force him to show up.
"Depend on!"
After the fork in Li Teng's hand came into contact with the wax figure, it made a sound of metal collision, and several fork tines bent instantly. Li Teng's arm holding the fork was shaken and numb for a while.
The wax figure was unscathed.
Is this a wax figure?
Are there any wax figures made of such hard material?
"You guys can continue with the party, I'm just passing by and I'll go look elsewhere."
Li Teng shook his head, turned around and prepared to leave through the door of the hall.
This place is too weird, and it also means unknown dangers.
Li Teng was not forced to do anything aggressive just now and did not want to do anything aggressive.
Once you make it, you must be prepared to be retaliated by these wax figures.
Li Teng no longer thinks that these wax statues are dead objects, and he doesn't know what they are.
But it feels like it's something he can't afford to offend.
Chapter completed!