0p0 Chapter 508 [Domain - First Gate] Elevator
Chapter 508 [Domain - First Gate] Elevator
In the elevator.
"2313121234......"
Bai Shaohua stared at the elevator's display screen, where the number was still stuck at 3.
"Is this a road? Why does it sound like they're shouting commands? One, two, one, two, one, it feels like they're about to start marching in formation at any moment?"
"Stop talking nonsense."
Liu Zi picked up the walkie-talkie, kept a distance from Bai Shaohua, and whispered:
"Hey, Brother Du."
He told Du Tingfeng everything that had just happened, including the rules within 309 and the deal with Zhou Liang, the mute in 310.
"Nonsense is not to be believed."
Du Tingfeng said bluntly, "What document does that ghost in 310 want from you? It probably wants to find a way to leave the room."
"If it really comes out, what's the point of Chen Ji escaping 309?"
“That’s where the problem lies.” Liu Zi scratched his head in confusion: “Zhou Liang made it very clear that the documents it requires have nothing to do with anyone.”
"What it wants is... its own check-in information."
"what?"
"Yes," Liu Zi said. "I suspect it was one of the interns who died earlier, and it didn't personally handle the check-in process."
"Zhou Liang said that it was in the hotel as soon as it woke up. Apart from knowing some information about the hotel, it didn't remember anything else."
"The only thing we know is that his name is Zhou Liang. The people in the next room are the hotel's most important guests."
"A VIP guest? The ghost in room 309?"
"Yes, Zhou Liang said there were five key guests in the hotel, and briefly explained where they were located."
“309, the blind man. There is another pair of ghosts in the same room, but for some reason, Zhou Liang said that the other pair cannot be considered as VIP guests.”
"Its original words were... outsiders? They said they were brought in by a blind man and didn't count as hotel guests."
"3014, specific identity unknown, name unknown."
Liu Zi's gaze drifted into the depths of the corridor: "Zhou Liang said that the ghost in this room only does one thing. It sits on the bed with its arms raised."
To be honest, even though he already knew from Zhou Liang's information that the ghost of 3014 hardly moved, he still felt a chill run down his spine.
Nobody knows what this ghost is doing.
"Then there was the couple from 2013, and the ghost in mourning clothes in the next room."
There are five in total.
"Are you sure? There's nothing else?" Du Tingfeng's voice carried a hint of confusion.
He had already learned from Chen Ji about the special ghost in the stairwell. That ghost had killed two entrants to the domain, yet it wasn't even a VIP guest.
"At least that's what Zhou Liang wrote, but whether it's credible is still unknown."
Then Liu Zi added, "I think it's worth a try."
"Bai Shaohua used a strange object, which passively indicated that going to the 4th floor would be beneficial to all of us."
Their goal was to find the door. Chen Ji had previously explored the stairwell to find a way to get to the fourth floor, since that was the most likely place to lead to the second door.
But there is bound to be a crisis there.
Zhou Liang did not deny it.
You cannot stay on the 4th floor for too long. Leave immediately after you have collected the documents.
Even if Zhou Liang didn't say it, Liu Zi knew this in his heart.
“I see.” Du Tingfeng murmured, “You can’t go alone. Bai Shaohua, that person… um.”
He paused, then called out into the walkie-talkie, "Xu Sandao!"
A moment later, a lazy voice came from afar: "What's wrong?"
"It's your turn to act."
Du Tingfeng was unable to leave his post and could only wait in the lobby.
Putting down the walkie-talkie, Liu Zi breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Bai Shaohua, saying, "Let's go."
The two stepped into the elevator. The small car had very simple floor buttons.
Arranged vertically:
【4】
【3】
【2】
【1】
"Let's go downstairs first," Liu Zi said. "I'm going to pick up a companion."
"Ha, you don't trust me?" Bai Shaohua scoffed.
"Why are you so sensitive?" Liu Zi shrugged and let the elevator go down to the lobby. "But if that's how you think, there's nothing I can do."
The elevator door opens.
A red-haired man with his hands in his pockets stepped in.
"Hello." He greeted Bai Shaohua in a friendly manner: "Just call me Third Brother."
"2313121234." Bai Shaohua did not give any response.
He turned around and, with lightning speed, tapped the button 10 times.
"Beep beep beep-"
The elevator doors closed quickly, emitting an alarm. A few seconds later, as the red light [4] slowly faded, the elevator announced:
"Ding--"
The door slowly opened.
The sound of rain pattering down began.
Behind the front desk, Du Tingfeng looked at them with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
"Is there anything else?"
"That's not how it's done." Xu Sandao waved his hand outside to indicate that everything was alright, then turned to Bai Shaohua and said:
"This isn't Contra. What's the difference between what you're doing and pressing up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B?"
"Come here," Bai Shaohua said succinctly.
“There are only four floors in total,” Xu Sandao said, pressing the button for the second floor: “This string of numbers actually represents several cycles.”
“231-312-123-4。或者1234。”
"What was that ghost's name? Zhou Liang?"
When the elevator doors opened on the second floor, revealing a long corridor covered with a red carpet, he pressed the button for the third floor.
"The receptionist told me that it rejected the password and said it was the way. Since it's the way, we have to walk, which means we can only take the elevator one floor at a time."
However, I have my doubts...
After a few seconds of silence, Xu Sandao, unusually, put away his smile and said in a deep voice, "Perhaps when we reach a certain level, the scene outside will change."
Bai Shaohua stared at the elevator door without saying a word.
After his first failed attempt, he had a vague premonition.
They might not even wait until they actually press [4], but rather earlier.
Ding—Open the door.
*Thump.* The door closes.
Ding--
thump.
We returned to the lobby.
“The second round,” Xu Sandao said softly.
The elevator slowly ascended, returning to the 3rd floor where they had initially been.
The carpet was still the same dark color.
A dimly lit corridor.
But at that moment, Liu Zi's eyes narrowed, his gaze fixed on the deepest part of the corridor.
The doorway to the preparation room.
A long bloodstain had appeared on the carpet sometime during the night.
It meandered into the storage room.
No one spoke, and the elevator doors slowly closed.
Throughout the process, all three of them felt a strange sense of dread, as if a ghost was lurking in the dark storage room.
They were at one end of the corridor.
The ghost is on the other side.
The two faced each other across the long corridor.
Go down to the first floor.
This is the hotel lobby level.
After opening the door, all three of them took a step back in unison!
The damp rain, carrying the smell of earth, filled the elevator.
In just a few minutes, Du Tingfeng at the front desk and the concierge outside the revolving door... both disappeared.
The restrictions outside the door have also disappeared. Through the glass, you can see a hazy mist outside, but it's not the thick fog that made it impossible to see anything before.
It was more like an autumn morning, gray, desolate, and damp, with the shadows of a few bare trees faintly visible in the mist.
"There are other places outside...maybe it's the area around the second door?"
Bai Shaohua's eyes flickered slightly, and a fleeting impulse crossed his mind: to step out of the elevator and see what was outside.
But his intuition told him that it was dangerous outside the door.
Not outside the hotel.
Instead, it was outside the elevator door.
More importantly, he remembered that sentence in the guide:
Make sure you can clearly see what's behind the door.