Chapter 36: Which One Is True After All?
Seeing that the hotel entrance was already open and Chu Jiang was sitting on the sofa in the lobby, the female receptionist was stunned for a moment.
Then she asked cautiously, "Did you open the door? But where did you get the key?"
Chu Jiang was even more cautious than her. He stood up and quietly walked to the exit of the door before looking at the female receptionist. "Did you forget? You opened the door yourself just now."
"You said you would help me buy breakfast. What happened to the breakfast?"
As soon as she heard this, the female receptionist's face instantly turned pale, as if she had lost all strength in an instant. She retreated two steps and leaned against the wall.
Chu Jiang could tell that she was very scared. She lowered her head, her legs trembling with fear, but she didn't say anything.
After a while, the female receptionist finally looked up and forced a smile. "There will be a scheduled cleaning lady coming to clean your room later."
"I'll go out now to buy you breakfast. What do you want to eat? I forgot."
"Cheung fun with double eggs," said Chu Jiang, carefully observing the other person's expression.
However, the female receptionist's expression remained normal and didn't show any strange expression when Chu Jiang added the extra breakfast request.
She just nodded repeatedly and hurriedly walked out the door, afraid that Chu Jiang would inquire further about the matter.
Initially, Chu Jiang hesitated about whether or not to follow, but after some thought, he felt that he shouldn't take unnecessary risks.
It was inexplicable why there was suddenly another identical person, even their way of thinking, reactions to situations, and words spoken were mostly the same. This couldn't be easily explained by just being twins.
Moreover, if it were just twins, why would both female receptionists be so scared?
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Ten minutes later, the female receptionist returned with two bags in her hand. One contained her own steamed buns and deep-fried dough sticks, and the other contained the cheung fun she bought for Chu Jiang.
When the front desk girl saw Chu Jiang waiting at the door, she looked uncomfortable.
She forced a smile and said, "Come inside and have a meal."
"Wait, are you the one in front or the one behind?" Chu Jiang casually asked.
The front desk girl seemed a bit confused for a moment.
So Chu Jiang took the rice noodle roll in her hand, quickly stepped back, and opened it to take a look. Yes, it had a double egg filling, so it must be the one behind.
"Come in, let's chat casually. Relax, I won't harm you."
In theory, at this point, Chu Jiang should just leave quickly without talking about life with the other person. It's just a few hundred dollars for the room, if she doesn't want it, then forget it.
But now that he had already encountered it, Chu Jiang felt that before leaving, he should at least understand the basic situation to be prepared.
Sometimes running away doesn't solve any problems, like yesterday, thinking that everything would be fine once he separated from the ghost head.
As a result, Chu Jiang didn't even know when he fell under the curse of the ghost head and almost walked back to be replaced by a ghost.
Chu Jiang was terrified to think of this incident, but the only good news was that after such a long time, he still hadn't thought of losing things, which meant that Stretching Ghost might have already gone to find someone else.
The two of them walked into the hotel, one in front and one behind, and sat down facing each other on the sofa in the lobby.
The female receptionist sat down and remained silent, eating her buns without saying a word.
So, Chu Jiang asked while eating, "What should I call you?"
"Just call me Xiaoman. I'm the receptionist and boss of this hotel."
"This is the property my parents left me. When the business was good a few years ago, I even hired a few employees."
"But this year, there are hardly any customers, and I can't afford to keep them, so they all quit. I only hired some part-time cleaning aunties to help."
Chu Jiang nodded and got a general understanding of Xiaoman. "Have you encountered any difficulties recently? Last night, I heard you crying in the middle of the night."
The reason why I mention crying again is because it was the little girl, Xiao Man, who was crying. Xiao Man didn't know that Chu Jiang had already heard her crying.
But what surprised Chu Jiang was that Xiao Man didn't show any signs of panic. She just hesitated for a moment, looking unsure if she should speak or not.
This made Chu Jiang's heart skip a beat. He calmly stood up again, pretending to be ready to leave. "I say, which one of you is the real one??" he asked.
Chu Jiang's mind was completely confused by this. He had only mentioned the crying to the Xiao Man in front of him. Since this one in front of him wasn't surprised, it meant she was the one from before.
But it was the Xiao Man from behind who he had asked for the special breakfast request. Since she brought it back, she should be the one from behind, right??
"I'm the real one!" Unexpectedly, as soon as Xiao Man heard this question, she became very excited. She stood up, continuously pointing at herself with both hands.
"I'm the real Sun Xiaoman, believe me!" She looked like she was about to cry, she was so desperate.
Chu Jiang raised his hands. "Let's just calm down and sit down to talk, okay?"
Since Sun Xiaoman hadn't shown any obvious aggression yet, even though she might be a ghost, Chu Jiang was willing to have a good talk with her.
The most important thing is that Chu Jiang has a question: If one of the two little Manns is really a ghost, can it really communicate with people?
Yesterday, while Chu Jiang was surfing the internet, he posted some questions on a paranormal forum, and some bored people answered his doubts.
One of the key questions was: Is there any way to make ghosts listen to us? This way, we don't have to let ghosts possess us, but we can still use their powers.
It has to be said that as soon as this post was made, it immediately attracted a lot of "enthusiastic and kind" dudes.
Some said he lacked common sense, some bluntly said he was too naive, and others sarcastically commented, "Do you think you're the only one who thought of this method? Seriously? Seriously?"
Apart from these somewhat abnormal and irritable dudes, of course, there were also good people. Some netizens explained to Chu Jiang:
According to research on ghosts, it has been found that all the ghosts discovered so far are always opposed to the living and they all have the instinct to kill, without exception.
Moreover, they can hardly communicate. If you can make ghosts obey you, then you're amazing.
So Chu Jiang continued to ask this kind-hearted person: Can we find a way to help them fulfill their wishes or something like that?
This is Chu Jiang, he got inspiration from many ghost stories he has read.
Then the online friend on the other side immediately replied: Impossible, this is reality, not a ghost story. At least I haven't heard of any ghosts having wishes.
And even if they do, you can't communicate with ghosts, so how would you know if they have wishes?
Based on this newly gained knowledge, Chu Jiang started to feel confused about the situation in front of him, because he had communicated with both Sun Xiaomans and didn't notice which one seemed more stiff or rigid.
