Chapter 69 sixty eight

Vincent goes to Las Vegas (2) Vincent was awakened by the honk of the train approaching the station.When he stepped out of the platform, he had no idea at all.After leaving the station alone, he found himself in a small rural town.There is only one road in the town, and the road is sparsely dotted with shops and residents' houses. Because it is early in the morning, there is no one on the street.He thought, this is what the casino looks like. Where is the casino?He turned his eyes to the distant stone mountains outside the town, and saw that the tops of the mountains were covered with low-hanging fog.After standing for a while, a black female cleaner appeared in view, who was very similar to the cleaner in his own city.She waved the broom and gradually swept towards him.The closer he got to the front, the more Vincent felt that she looked like the beautiful cleaner he had often seen. He was stunned, and finally, she swept under his feet.

Vincent almost jumped when her broom touched Vincent's leather shoes. "Welcome to Las Vegas, Grandpa." The young woman smiled charmingly, showing her beautiful teeth. "Do you know me?" "I saw you on the street at my sister's house, and I knew you would come here." "why?" "Because everyone is coming to Las Vegas. Travelers' tracks are everywhere on this road. You see, they have worn away even the granite on the ground. Our place is very beautiful, isn't it? The city is full of roses...they say a white elephant is coming into the city."

There are few trees in this humble town, so you can't see the scene she mentioned at all, but the young woman's narration is indeed very charming. What kind of migratory bird is she?He asked her about a hotel, and she pointed him to a stone house, saying that was it, but she persuaded him not to live in it, saying that once he lived in it he would become a real gambler.After she said this, she suddenly became annoyed.Because the conversation delayed her work, she lowered her head to sweep the floor and stopped answering Vincent. Vincent walked towards the stone house. At first he rang an old-fashioned doorbell, but no one answered after a long time.Then he tried to push the door, but it opened unexpectedly.Inside is an empty living room, with some sofas, on which Vincent used to sit and wait for someone to come.However, after waiting and waiting, no one came. Is this a hotel?

Finally, someone came, but it was still a cleaner, probably she had finished sweeping the street. "Is this your home?" Vincent asked her in confusion. "No, this is my hotel, Grandpa. I'll show you to your room." She led him to the basement, Vincent felt a little unhappy, but she said: "In Las Vegas, we can only live in the basement, because there are earthquakes every day." Round and round they went down the stairs, and the room he was going to seemed to be buried deep in the ground. She turned her head and said lively: "There will never be an earthquake down here, it is proven. My name is Joyner too. I am my mother's good girl, and so is my sister. I didn't expect you to love me." Come to our place, everyone who comes here is out of love, isn't it? Why else?"

Joyner led Vincent into a large room, which was not like a hotel suite, but a bedroom at home.The room was untidy and smelled like tobacco, as if it had been lived in by an old bachelor.Georgina handed him the keys and told him that in case of an emergency he must not move in the room.She suddenly looked a little melancholy, and added: "It's nothing more than suffocation, we don't have physical pain here." She hurried out, closed the door, and ran upstairs with a "thumb bang". Vincent had a feeling of being in a murder trap. He stuck his head out of the door and saw that there were three more tightly closed doors in the corridor.He imagined the scene behind the door, suddenly felt frightened, quickly closed the door, bolted it from the inside, and went to take a shower.

After taking a shower and coming out of the bathroom, there was already a person sitting in the room.The man's back was turned to him, and he couldn't see his face, only his thick neck. "I'm your neighbor," he said, "don't be alarmed, and don't be alarmed when you get here." "How did you get in here?" He smiled slightly and said, "The locks here are all for show, and no room can be locked. You must think that there are not many people living in this small town? No, all the gamblers live underground. What we drink is spring water, Listen to Quan's voice."

What Vincent heard was the roar of the flood. The sound came from the bathroom. He ran to the bathroom out of instinct, feeling vaguely that some faucet should be turned off.But there was no movement in the bathroom. When I came out, the man had disappeared, and the door was well latched, as if he had never been here. He fell asleep as soon as he lay on the big bed because of fatigue, but he knew that he was not asleep but lethargic, because he was always worried about an emergency.For a moment, he heard the snoring of the entire basement floor, eight people in total, that is to say, eight people lived in the other three suites.Vincent thought, the gambler is so happy to sleep so soundly.Where is the casino?He struggled in a daze, trying to identify the street where Lisa lived through the black smoke, and also wanted to find the dwarf.As he walked, he asked loudly: "Who? Who?" He thought, someone would come out and answer.But no.

When he woke up, he saw Joyner sitting on the sofa with a sad face, thinking about something.