Warning of the 520 story
"Welcome to Hotel Stanley!"
No sooner had Downey walked past the two waiters than a middle-aged man in an expensive but ill-fitting suit walked briskly.
Downey glanced at it, and judging from the information derived from the general eye, this person was the male protagonist of the Stanley Hotel story, Jack Stanley.
The middle-aged man has just emerged from a series of failures, and as a writer, Jack is undoubtedly a loser, and his successive failures have forced him to give up his unrealistic illusions and take over the increasingly depressed hotel of his ancestors. At this time, he had just returned and was not aware of the horror of this hotel.
Jack seems to be polite, which is indeed more in line with the inherent impression that the writer gives to the world. But in fact, this is an unlucky guy who is about to be led into the abyss step by step by the demons.
Considering that Jack is not a real person, and is essentially an embodiment of the divine power of the God of Stories, Donnie has no intention of saving him at all.
"We have a dedicated bar and games room, as well as a new reading room, which will make your stay here very comfortable."
Despite the smile on Jack's face, Donnie could see his impatience. Obviously, he doesn't like his current job.
But like it or not, Jack doesn't really have the right to choose.
Maybe through verbal persuasion, this middle-aged man who has lost confidence in his profession but is unwilling to give up can return to the unreliable path of writing?
Almost instantly, Donnie gave up on such a plan.
Not to mention that this is not a bright road at all, even if he does convince Jack, the weirdos at the Stanley Hotel will not let him leave easily.
Just as Donnie and Jack were snorting and preparing to look around, especially the bar at the Stanley Hotel, his face suddenly changed.
There was no time to continue with Mr. Stanley, and Downey went straight to the door of the hotel.
Snowflakes are falling from the sky, and the distant mountains are dressed in silver-white clothing.
It looks pretty good, and it's very meaningful, but the problem is that the Stanley Hotel was obviously in Porkins before!
The God of Stories has a certain ability to manipulate space, which Downey understands and accepts, but now it's more than that.
At this time, the Stanley Hotel, including the mountains outside that resemble vista maps, are all made by the god of stories.
Outside, Lawrence was still in the impala, and he couldn't see Donnie anymore.
This is not just an illusion, but a more intelligent divine art.
Downey had a feeling that even if Lawrence and the agents did walk into the hotel, they might not see themselves. They walk into another Stanley Hotel, another story that belongs to another person.
Thinking of this, Donnie suddenly felt a little headache.
Although nine out of ten of the guests he found before were tricks from the story, they were weird and generated out of thin air. But there are also some people who actually walk in here. It's likely that they're also going through a story of the Stanley Hotel right now.
If any of them fail to change the ending of the story, doesn't that mean that the purpose of the god of stories has been achieved?
In this way, the sixty-six stories come to the end as they should be, not only not as a hindrance to the fallen gods, but as a help.
Downey suddenly felt like he wanted to flip the table, because he knew that no matter how weird the Stanley Hotel was, there was no way to stop him, and it was not difficult to get out.
Outside the Stanley Hotel, it was snowy, and there were snowmobiles parked in front of the door instead of cars.
Compared to the Stanley Hotel, which is closed every cold season in the story, it is not really closed at the moment, because every story needs a viewer, or rather an audience.
After much hesitation, Donnie turned back to the lobby of the hotel and found Jack with an inexplicable face and opened a room.
"Daddy!"
Just as Donnie was about to go upstairs, a little boy raced up to Jack.
"There's a monster here, let's go home!"
Obviously, the frightened-looking child was Jack's son, and the last person to survive.
"Danny! We've said it several times, this is a hotel built by your ancestors, there will be no monsters, don't worry! ”
Stanley was reassuring his son, but it seemed to Donnie that he was getting a little impatient.
Not only for Danny, who was always giving him trouble, but also for his increasingly neurotic wife, Stanley now felt a cloud of anger in his heart, and wanted to go up and punch everyone when he saw it.
It seems that the story is almost at the end of the story. Donnie thought to himself when he heard Danny's crying behind him, and Stanley's incessant reproach.
Downey made a beeline to his room on the fourth floor, downstairs at the Stanley Hotel bar, a gathering place for a group of ghosts and demons embodying the power of the god of stories.
Due to the limitations of the story itself, these weirdness can't leave the hotel, which makes them even angrier in the long run.
Just as Donnie was about to go to meet those weird people, he suddenly saw Danny with red eyes in the hallway.
"You don't belong here."
Downey didn't plan to have any communication with Danny, because he inevitably made a choice in the end, and he was likely to destroy the fictional child as well.
However, Danny is not as innocent as the protagonist in the story.
"What did you say?" Donnie paused, looking at the kid who kept rubbing his eyes.
"I said you shouldn't have walked into this hotel, don't you feel it? This is our territory, you are provoking! Danny lowered his hand, and golden dots of light appeared in his eyes.
At this moment, the words in front of Donnie kept changing, and finally came up with an answer.
The person in front of him obviously will not be Stanley's son Danny, but a close relative of Locks, the god of stories of darkness and fear, a storyteller.
This storywalker also has the strength of the fourth sequence, and in this space, it can also gain even more power.
Downey could see that its appearance was a warning in itself, and if he didn't have the identity of a divine creature, he might not be able to draw it out.
"Strange transcendent, you can leave now, or you will become an enemy of the great gods."
Danny looked at Donnie indifferently, as if he was sure of what choice he would make.
To be fair, Donnie doesn't want to fight any gods right now, but some things are inevitable, and judging by the current situation, the player's refinement is of little use to him, and he has to rely on precious universal points.
Therefore, Donnie will eventually have a conflict with these divine creatures and even the gods.