Escape

“Gone?!”

Rong Jia was shocked and asked, "When did they leave? Didn't you stop them?"

He Lizhou felt guilty: "I can't stop them from leaving in front of so many customers. Wouldn't that make this a black shop?"

Ban Hefeng sighed and looked at He Lizhou with a look of disappointment. "Forget it, forget it. I knew that He Lizhou's character would never get things done. Next time you meet someone like him, tell me about it."

He Lizhou quickly stopped him: "Hey, you can't do this, or it will ruin our reputation."

Ban Hefeng opened his mouth in shock. "Damn it, you don't trust me at all. Well, even if I'm not a formal employee of your hotel, I've been a part-time worker for a long time. How could you not trust my feelings towards the hotel?"

He Lizhou snickered, and Ban Hefeng realized that he was being teased by He Lizhou again. He was immediately speechless: "Damn, I really admire you."

He Lizhou recently discovered a new hobby, which is teasing Ban Hefeng. Ban Hefeng was originally a very cold person. Although he was easy to talk to, he would not show his true emotions. Now He Lizhou has discovered the switch of a toy. He teases him from time to time, making Ban Hefeng more and more "optimistic".

Qin Tuo sat aside and looked at Ban Hefeng's current appearance with a hint of relief in his eyes. Ban Hefeng was rescued by Qin Tuo in a certain copy and brought into the organization. Qin Tuo originally trained Ban Hefeng as his successor, so Ban Hefeng's personality became like that. Now seeing him slowly becoming active, he has a feeling of making up for the regret.

Hou Yangze's eyes rolled around, and when he saw the tears in Qin Tuo's eyes, he moved closer to Ban Hefeng and said, "Brother Ban, Uncle Qin said he has something to tell you after dinner."

Hou Yangze was also brought up by Ban Hefeng. One can tell his little thoughts at a glance, which is also a bit funny. He knows that Qin Tuo has always been stricter with himself and more doting on Hou Yangze. This is as it should be. Uncle Qin is old, and he will have to take care of Hou Yangze and the others in the future, so his strength must be stronger.

Qin Tuo was still very alert and heard the whispers here. He simply called Ban Hefeng, "Hefeng, I do have something to talk to you about. Come to my room after dinner."

Ban Hefeng was a little flattered, nodded and agreed, and glanced at Hou Yangze, "You really didn't report false military intelligence this time?"

Hou Yangze touched his nose, responded vaguely a few times, and quickly stuffed a few mouthfuls of food to hide his guilty conscience.

Originally, I just wanted them to communicate more, but I didn't expect Uncle Qin to hear it and actually follow what I said.

…

The hotel uses the original time and makes a clock in the lobby. After 10 o'clock in the evening, it is time for everyone to rest. If it is not an urgent matter, guests will try to "call" the staff the next day.

However, today, just as He Lizhou fell asleep, he heard the sound of wind chimes. This sound was a reminder of the arrival of guests in the hotel and a call from the guests in the room.

He Lizhou stood up to check and found a dark figure standing outside the hotel. This familiar scene immediately reminded He Lizhou of Long Yao's last mysterious appearance.

He went downstairs to open the door and found that it was indeed Long Yao.

She was wearing the same outfit as last time, wrapping herself up tightly. When she looked up at He Lizhou, her eyes were bright. "Would you like me to come in and sit down?"

Such familiar words...

He Lizhou stepped aside to let Long Yao in and closed the door. "Why did you come so late?"

He guessed that Long Yao was probably here to ask about the scroll, so he took him upstairs and said, "Let's talk in the attic."

Long Yao followed He Lizhou's steps and climbed the stairs. "Come to think of it, I haven't really taken a close look at the decoration of your hotel."

He didn't pay attention to He Lizhou's answer and continued to ask, "I think you have figured out the scroll issue."

He Lizhou: “No.”

Long Yao snorted and laughed: "Don't lie to me. Your brain may not understand it at the beginning, but now you have a lot of guesses."

He Lizhou pinched the root of his nose and sobered up a little. "Okay, I do have a lot of ideas, but I don't have any evidence. Are you here just to supervise?"

Long Yao picked a comfortable rocking chair and rocked slightly, squinting at the swimming pool outside. "Your business is getting better and better. You are quite ambitious?"

He Lizhou: "Just go with the flow."

Long Yao shook his finger and looked at He Lizhou: "No."

He Lizhou frowned, "What on earth do you want to say? You're not going to throw something at me for no reason and ask me to decrypt it for free, right? Also, don't act like you know me so well."

Long Yao couldn't help but laugh quietly, with a look of curiosity in his eyes: "So you reveal your true nature late at night. For example, you actually don't welcome me?"

Who would be nice to someone who disturbs their sweet dreams? He Lizhou admitted straightforwardly, "Yes, I hate you using me as a knife."

Long Yao thought for a while, "Well, I was indeed a little irrational at the time because Sun Hanqi exposed the existence of the hotel, but you also got a lot of information from it, didn't you?"

He Lizhou folded his arms and looked down at him, "So?"

Long Yao sighed: "Okay, it seems that I can't fool you anymore. I'm telling you the truth. I'm here to cooperate with you."

He Lizhou is now very wary of these collaborations that come to his door. You know, Bai Qiuliang said the same thing before he was "caught", trying to get close to him and infiltrate the hotel.

He Lizhou did not hide his vigilance. Long Yao shrugged and said, "It seems that you really don't trust me. I will show you my sincerity - is the system monitoring us?"

He Lizhou examined him for a while, then lowered his head to open the hotel's control panel and saw that the status was normal, which meant that the hotel was not monitored by any system, so he shook his head: "No, you can say whatever you want."

Long Yao: "The dungeon NPC is escaping."

He Lizhou's eyes moved slightly. He did notice this. If it was half a month ago, He Lizhou would still consider cooperating with Long Yao, but now that he has discovered this, it is no longer a good token of his allegiance.

Seeing that He Lizhou's expression was calm, Long Yao knew that he was a step late, which was a pity. "Well, it's a pity."

After he finished speaking, he left in the cover of night. When He Lizhou looked out the window, his figure had disappeared outside the hotel.

Except He Lizhou, no one knew that he had been here tonight.

He Lizhou drew the curtains. Long Yao said "the NPC is escaping". At first glance, this sentence was similar to what he had discovered, but there were actually some differences. For example, the NPC who had awakened self-awareness in the copy was not satisfied with the current situation and wanted to leave the copy.

He Lizhou's breathing became slightly heavier. If that was the case, then was it really possible for his plan to be realized?

As for the two guests in Room 247, perhaps because they were unsure of He Lizhou's stance, they were cautious and did not reveal their identities to He Lizhou. After all, in the eyes of the public, He Lizhou, who was able to manage the transit hall, was a very distinctive image, and no one knew his stance.

He Lizhou's eyes moved slightly, but there was no other way to convey his rejection of the system to the NPCs. At least he couldn't let the other party think that he and the system were actually the same.

He raised his eyes and saw the simulated moon outside the window. It looked similar and shone like the real moon, but it was not the outside world after all. He suddenly felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart. The hotel was bustling with people coming and going. The average passenger flow in the past few days was five to six hundred people, which was enough to prove the huge crowd involved in the infinite flow game, and more and more people were constantly being drawn in.

He Lizhou was not sure whether the purpose of the system was the test mentioned by System 09. If it was a test, then more and more people were entering the system, which was not a good sign. This proved that the system was preparing to change a group of "observation subjects", and the last group of them who entered the system would only face death in a certain copy.

He Lizhou felt a pain between his teeth and a bloody smell filled his mouth. He Lizhou licked the inner wall of his mouth that he had bitten unconsciously, stood up, closed the window, and prepared to go back to sleep.

The moment he closed the window, he saw a figure flash by a window in the medical building and quickly hid beside the window.

He Lizhou's gaze slowly moved over. The medical building was just in front of the right side of the main building of the hotel. One was on the fourth floor and the other was on the attic. The heights were almost the same. It was indeed a good surveillance position.

He Lizhou had considered this before, but considering that he had basically been confirmed to be a critically ill patient and needed hospitalization, he had no energy for anything else; plus there were not many vacancies near the hotel, so he still chose that place.

The person who was monitoring me was probably a relatively experienced person. Everyone had been through life and death in the dungeon and was very sensitive to sight. And for such a long time, I hadn't noticed his presence. It was obvious that the person was using his peripheral vision to pay attention to the movements in the attic.

Not sure if He Lizhou had heard the conversation between him and Long Yao just now, but his eyes changed slightly. Such a sensitive matter must not be spread.

——

There were not many people living on the fourth floor of the medical building. He Lizhou instructed Yang Wanhe not to unlock the medical building for the time being, and he took Sheng Ju and Xu Zian into the medical building.

Although these two people were talkative, they never asked any extra questions at the critical moment. The three of them went up to the fourth floor in full readiness.

There are currently five people in hospital, and they have been arranged in adjacent rooms, which makes it convenient for them to check on them. However, all five are seriously injured and unconscious, and none of them is awake, so there is no one to ask about anything unusual.

"No?"

Sheng Ju and Xu Zi'an came out of the last room and shook their heads at He Lizhou, "We checked everything. No one is awake, and no one is hiding in the house."

He Lizhou looked towards the corridor. The rest of the rooms on the fourth floor were locked, and there was no one in these five wards. He lowered his eyes.

After seeing the incident of two dungeon characters secretly staying in the hotel two days ago, He Lizhou thought that other dungeon characters had sneaked in to observe the hotel and He Lizhou's position. These people's skills were much better than those of ordinary players. It might not be difficult for them to teleport into the hotel and then teleport away.

This also explains his sudden appearance and disappearance in the medical building.

He Lizhou took the two of them downstairs and said, "Forget it then. Just be careful in your daily life."

Sheng Ju muttered and prayed, "Don't let another little lunatic like Ming Luoluo come."

He Lizhou's eyes moved slightly, as if he had thought of something, and repeated: "Ming Luoluo?"