0p0 Chapter 498 [Domain - First Gate] Round 2
Chapter 498 [Domain - First Gate] Round 2
The rest of the time was peaceful and uneventful.
As the clock struck seven in the morning, a light drizzle began to fall outside, the mist making the fog outside the hotel even thicker.
Some time passed.
It was raining heavily.
All that could be seen was a hazy gray expanse.
Chen Ji withdrew his gaze and waited for the first shift to end.
It's exactly eight o'clock.
The lobby became crowded again, but unlike at midnight, there were fewer people this time.
Feng Yao stood expressionless at the front of the crowd, having already put her uniform back on.
For the past few hours, she and the other interns had been cleaning up the bloodstains in the restaurant and putting out new food.
It can be said that she is one of the few people who actually have work to do.
"The next shift should ideally be a job in the lobby or restaurant."
Chen Ji said to the people around him, "The hotel is full, and the front desk and concierge don't have much work to do."
This also means that the possibility of encountering danger is greatly reduced.
Correspondingly, Chen Ji guessed that the next difficulty would be on the guest room floor.
Especially the cleaners.
Obviously, this is the position closest to the ghost.
The ghost guests didn't make any demands in the first round, but this time it might be different.
Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao are relatively safe. They have already taken turns in this position. Unless they are extremely unlucky and are transferred to the 3rd floor to clean, they will most likely be doing something else this time.
During the discussion, the speakers at the front desk emitted a buzzing electrical sound.
A new phase of the selection process has begun.
Looking at the speakers, Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought.
He had actually deduced from the previous selection phase that the hotel was intentionally or unintentionally arranging for the newcomers to work together.
Bai Shaohua has been proven to be a Domain Entrant, and he is in a group with Feng Yao.
Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao; Liu Zi and Fei'er... these are all pairs of people who have entered the domain.
Aside from the special position of receptionist, Chen Ji suspected that this position should not have originally belonged to an intern, but rather that the previous full-time employee had just died.
"Zizi..."
One group after another had their names called.
Soon, it was Du Tingfeng's turn.
Good fortune smiled upon him once again.
The receptionist is not assigned any staff, perhaps because the workload has been reduced.
In the first round, Chen Ji had already completed all the check-in procedures, leaving Du Tingfeng with almost nothing to do.
Then Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua were responsible for cleaning the third floor.
Chen Ji and Fei'er team up to enter the repair department.
Xu Sandao was last.
The paper he received contained only one simple line of text:
[To be determined, please wait in the lobby]
"Mobile post".
Xu Sandao understood and crumpled the paper into a ball: "It's for wiping people's butts."
"Simply put, I have to go over and help when there's something to do, otherwise I can just relax in the lobby."
Chen Ji's expression shifted slightly; this position hadn't appeared in the first round of interviews.
It's hard to say whether it's good or bad; it all depends on what the "key positions" will face, which is very passive.
They work eight-hour shifts, but there are only a few key and most dangerous positions; the rest are all peripheral.
These so-called "key positions" may be different in each round.
By this time, most of the people in the lobby had left, and Chen Ji did not see Bai Shaohua's figure. He must have already gone to the 3rd floor.
He briefly explained his observations of this person to Liu Zi, and then followed Fei Er to the repair department.
The environment inside is terrible.
Climb up a straight ladder, and the platform at the top is the maintenance department, which is enclosed on all sides.
It's called a maintenance department, but it's really just a warehouse. To be more precise, it's probably only a little bigger than Harry Potter's storage room.
Without saying anything more, the four of them squeezed into the cramped repair shop, each remaining silent.
half an hour.
Just as Chen Ji was looking around, the employee who was partnered with Feng Yao spoke first: "My name is Huang Yue."
He didn't hide anything and directly stated his identity: he was also an entrant to the domain and had previously been cleaning on the 3rd floor.
"What are your thoughts on the door that leads out?" Huang Yue asked. "Let me say this first: I didn't see any special 'door' on the third floor."
This is the ultimate goal of this phase, but now everyone is scattered, and there is very little time to discuss clues.
"The third floor?" Chen Ji's heart skipped a beat. "Is there anything unusual about room 309?"
Huang Yue gave him a strange look, as if wondering how he knew about it.
"There was a banging sound, but nothing else."
Chen Ji nodded; he already knew that it was two hanged corpses banging on the door.
There were no other problems, so it seems that after meeting 309's needs, the guests inside were quiet for a while.
“There are only a few doors on the first floor,” Chen Ji said. “They all connect to different work areas, so we can rule them out.”
“I think the most likely place is the fourth floor.” He thought for a moment before saying, “I’ve observed that the elevator has never gone up to the fourth floor, which proves that there are no interns there.”
At this point, he suddenly paused for a moment.
wrong.
To be precise, the elevator went up to the 4th floor!
In the beginning, when he first joined the company, the elevator was on the 4th floor. He was just called down to the 1st floor by a regular employee.
In other words, the elevator can reach the top, but they can't get in.
Chen Ji shared his thoughts with everyone, and after listening, everyone found it very suspicious.
As the ultimate mission, this exit door will definitely not be easy to find, which fits the characteristic of the 4th floor being "impossible to go up".
"We need to find a way to go up and take a look as soon as possible." Huang Yue frowned. He had been worried that after the three shifts changed, everyone might be trapped here forever.
To become like those NPCs.
Those people had no idea how they got to the hotel; they just worked there in a daze.
But that's what they say, how do you actually do it?
At this moment, Fei'er suddenly looked up at Chen Ji and asked, "Could you ask the front desk to assign a task to the fourth floor?"
"You can try, but the chances of success are not very high."
Chen Ji shook his head and looked up at the ceiling.
After all, the front desk walkie-talkie can only assign people to other work areas, but there are no interns on the 4th floor, so it's hard to say whether it belongs to the work area.
"However, perhaps there are other ways."
As he spoke, he pointed to the tops of everyone's heads.
There's a hidden door there.
"What?" Huang Yue was taken aback. He looked up and saw a dark mass.
"I've been wondering before, what kind of place is this area?" Chen Ji turned on his flashlight and shone it upwards.
"The maintenance department could have been located on the first floor, but we still have to go up a flight of stairs. Isn't that a bit redundant?"
"Or is it that its original function was as a maintenance passage, and it's just that it's locked up?"
The beam of light hit the sheet metal.
Feng Yao's eyes flickered slightly; as a car mechanic, she immediately realized something was wrong.
If there's nothing above it, or if it's connected to the guest rooms, the ceiling couldn't possibly be made of sheet metal.
It's more like it's been cut off in the middle.