0p0 Chapter 514 [Domain - First Gate] Round 3!
Chapter 514 [Domain - First Gate] Round 3!
A bizarre check-in arrangement.
In that case, the paper figure is not the blind ghost's killing tool.
The rules of room 309 are mostly set by the blind man, who is the main resident. So what exactly is the paper doll...?
Chen Ji's gaze slowly shifted to the window, and suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, almost stopping abruptly!
The things hanging by the window were not the two small paper ornaments, nor were they the paper figures of a boy and a girl, more than a meter tall, that appeared after they came out.
That is...
Two real children.
The child who was hanged.
Pale-skinned, with a hemp rope around his neck, he was hanging in mid-air.
A boy and a girl, like twins, were dressed in paper children's clothes, which looked creepy.
Both corpses had their heads hanging down, and their four legs dangled in mid-air beneath their paper clothes.
Was it a problem with these eyes? Chen Ji immediately realized that this was the true nature of the two paper figures; they just couldn't see them before!
This scene was unsettling, especially when Chen Ji noticed that the two children were wearing children's watches.
...like most ordinary children their age.
Keeping this strange detail in mind, Chen Ji decided not to go forward to check for the time being, and instead left the bedroom with the others behind him.
The blind man was like a ghost following him everywhere.
In the middle of the reception room, the sliding door remained in place as the four people walked around it, their arms around each other's shoulders.
On the right-hand bedroom bookshelf is a door that looks like a mural.
It's unreal, blurry, and looks very unreal.
It's impossible to feel it with a white cane; there's no door frame, no protrusions, it fits perfectly against the surface of the bookshelf...
It's like covering a sheet of paper with a layer of canvas.
When the paper figures appeared, when there was still light, they didn't see the door at all.
It's still the power of those two dead man's eyes.
Just centimeters from the door, the blind ghost's figure appeared on the side of the bookshelf, his expression extremely ferocious.
Even though his eyes were dull and lifeless, Chen Ji could still see a trace of resentment in them.
It is still waiting for an opportunity.
But now there's no possibility of that anymore.
Once Chen Ji was able to "see" it, he would not allow Fei'er and the others to touch any objects.
He held his breath, and for the first time since the darkness, he touched the objects inside room 309 with his own hands—
The door that was concealed by the bookcase.
Squeak.
The door opened.
Outside was the familiar hotel corridor.
The three of them leaned against the wall opposite room 309, facing Chen Ji directly.
"Did you throw in those eyeballs?" Chen Ji was taken aback and looked at Liu Zi first.
Xu Sandao was on the mobile patrol post and not on the third floor. It must have been Liu Zi who realized something was wrong and called Xu Sandao up.
After a while.
In the storage room, the four people who escaped from 309 finally learned everything that had happened outside!
This includes Liu Zi and 310 making a deal, going to the 4th floor, meeting the tomb guardian, realizing the true nature of the hotel, and so on.
"Thanks, brother."
Huang Yue was overwhelmed with emotion and nodded gently to the three of them, Liu Zi.
309 isn't without a way out, but someone has to die to get out... and Liu Zi clearly made the deal with the ghost to avoid that happening.
"And one more thing."
Xu Sandao said, "Du Tingfeng just asked me to tell you that the system has been refreshed and the maintenance task is over."
His expression relaxed slightly, which meant that Chen Ji and the others no longer needed to search the entire third floor.
After all, there was another "key resident" in 3014, who always kept a still posture with his arms raised and never appeared in the outside world.
On the other hand, after learning that the hotel was actually a cemetery, Feng Yao's expression became complicated.
No wonder...
The restaurant gave her such a strange feeling.
In the first round, the restaurant staff needed to replace the food on the table, but no one was eating it. Wasn't that just like offerings placed in front of a grave?
Where is the gravedigger now?
Chen Ji is primarily concerned with this issue.
It's quite obvious that the core ghost of the first door is the tomb guardian ghost, and the key to getting out should also lie with it.
"After it went back to the first floor, it never used the elevator again... You can go back to the maintenance department to check."
Xu Sandao thought that the ghost must have returned to the stairwell and was pacing around again.
After all, according to the log, its daily work is to patrol the cemetery, and the stairwell is the reflection of the cemetery path.
Chen Ji nodded.
He turned to look at room 310, which was completely silent.
"That ghost is called Zhou Liang?" Chen Ji asked.
"Correct."
As he spoke, Liu Zi took out the documents.
"You haven't given Zhou Liang that information yet, have you?" Chen Ji asked, glancing through it briefly.
"No." Liu Zi shook his head.
Just then, two eyeballs slid down Chen Ji's face and rolled back to 310.
A few seconds later, a new sheet of paper was handed out.
My files?
“We don’t have your check-in paperwork.” Chen Ji squatted at the door and said to the room, “We only have funeral paperwork. That’s not what your transaction is about.”
The moment he said that, everyone behind him froze.
A few seconds later, a piece of paper was pushed out.
[You've played word games quite well, Chen Ji.]
May you live a long life.
【goodbye. 】
Chen Ji pushed the paper back.
Feng Yao frowned.
She winked at Chen Ji, and after the group had walked away from 310, Feng Yao reminded him, "You're making trouble for your friends."
“The deal is done, and the hotel’s rules require us to meet the guest’s needs. Once it leaves the room, you will definitely be the first targets to be hunted down.”
"I know."
Chen Ji said, "Then we'd better escape from the hotel before it comes out."
"The document cannot be given to him; Zhou Liang is one of the core villains."
"It's lying to you. The hotel doesn't only have five key guests, it has six."
He spread out the documents, counted them in front of everyone, and took out Zhou Liang's documents separately, only looking at the remaining few pages.
"Look at the area: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3; it's the cemetery area, and also the floor number."
"These are the floors of those five ghosts: 2013 is the floor with two ghosts, 2014 is the floor with a ghost in mourning clothes, 309 is the floor with a blind ghost, and there's also 3014."
"If this is a coincidence, the odds are too small."
Chen Ji frowned slightly as he placed the six papers together: "And Zhou Liang's documents are conveniently placed next to those of these five core ghosts... How could he possibly be an intern?"
It's not hard to guess, but everything happened so fast and so quickly that even if you had doubts, you didn't have much time to refuse.
Liu Zi had no other choice at the time, while Bai Shaohua, for personal reasons, readily accepted the deal.
Xu Sandao's expression shifted slightly. After searching the fourth floor, he had already had a similar idea in mind.
He opened the work log he had stolen and his eyes fell on the page for February 15th, where the gravedigger had made a note.
I opened my eyes, and vaguely saw a man's face close to my ear, his mouth opening and closing, but I couldn't hear anything.
"...A mute."
He murmured, completely confirming Chen Ji's guess.
Zhou Liang's identity was finally revealed, but not receiving the documents did not mean that everything was over.
"Whatever its reason for obtaining this document, it must have been for some malicious purpose. Perhaps it wanted to leave the cemetery, or perhaps for something else..."
"In short, at best we've avoided a future crisis," Bai Shaohua said with a mocking laugh.
"now what?"
"How long until the next shift?" Chen Ji thought for a moment and felt that something big was bound to happen on the last shift.
He glanced at his watch.
His face froze instantly, as if he couldn't believe his eyes.
"Du Tingfeng!" A few seconds later, he took the walkie-talkie, his expression changing rapidly: "Has the printer been issued a new shift?!"
"no, what happened?"
"...It's 5 PM now."
"Our time has been stolen... or accelerated..."
"In short, the third round started a long time ago, which is why the system refreshed!"