"It's that jar of sea marrow you just opened for us. It does contain genuine sea marrow, we know that."

But judging from the current situation, it's definitely been stolen from you.

To be honest, this Old Zhou is a pretty honest man.

Judging from his current state, he must have just been persecuted.

"yes."

I went along with what Yiyi said.

"You should know that there's a hidden room inside your storage room."

We encountered a series of footprints on the third floor…

Immediately afterwards, Yiyi and I told the boss everything about our experience on the third floor.

When the footprint was mentioned, suggesting it might belong to a child, Fatty Zhou's body visibly stiffened.

Then, as if he had just thought of something, he lowered his head even further, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

He gripped the bottle tightly in both hands, carefully examining the pattern on it.

This was given to us by Blue Armor at the time, to prevent us from running out of supplies.

That's how Fatty Zhou is; his knuckles are turning white from holding this cup.

This guy definitely knows something.

I stared at Fatty Zhou's reaction, and my belief in him grew even stronger.

This guy is definitely hiding something from us.

Otherwise, the reaction would never have been like this.

The most basic thing we saw before entering the building was the lit-up third floor.

After we got to the third floor, we didn't find any rooms with lights on.

The only thing we had was the secret room we went into from the storage room.

But I remember very clearly that the darkroom definitely had no windows!

"I...I don't know either..."

At this moment, Fatty Zhou's eyes darted around, but he gave this answer.

Holy crap!

You fatso, you're choosing to switch sides now, aren't you?

I was a little annoyed.

If you had been lying to us from the beginning, I could have taken action against you now. But his current reaction gives me the feeling that we could have obtained some information, but we lost it due to negligence.

This old rascal seems to be hiding something from us.

I discussed it with Lei Jijian in my mind: if this guy doesn't tell us, then there's no need to keep him around.

After all, he is on one side of the contracting parties, just like us.

If we let him get what he wants, wouldn't we have just wasted our lives here?

Although it might not be possible to kill him, after all, his true form is a ghost.

But it's important to make him feel pain, to let him know what a hard fist is.

"Mr. Zhou, please don't hide it from me anymore."

My tone was very firm.

"The sound of a child crying came from the third floor, and those footprints definitely didn't look like they were left by an adult..."

Judging from your expression, you probably don't want your aged sea marrow to be stolen.

"And with your current state, do you really want to go through this a second time?"

I spoke earnestly to this Fatty Zhou.

From the very beginning, he had the attitude of wanting to get rid of us.

Now, if he doesn't tell us, even if we do find the sea marrow, we probably won't be able to escape this hotel.

If that guy could create a ghost wall in this hotel, why couldn't he do it a second time?

I don't even know if this is the first or second floor. If I let Lei Jijian use his skills a few times in a row, it would indeed work.

But what if Lei Jijian becomes weak and we can't get out?

At this moment, the girl also nodded slightly.

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, I know you may not like us, but we are indeed in the same boat now. If you tell us the truth, we can also find a way to solve the problem together with you."

Honestly, after we adopted this attitude, Fatty Zhou remained silent for a long time before finally shaking his head slowly.

"No...no one can help..."

The weariness in his eyes deepened.

But as soon as Fatty Zhou opened his mouth, Yiyi quickly followed up with two more sentences.

"If you don't use our help, you'll really be helpless when this person or these people cause you trouble again."

Do you really want to watch all this sea marrow you have be looted and taken away?

To be honest, what Yiyi said makes a lot of sense.

If he doesn't believe us, then our ability to escape from that ghostly maze should already be proof enough.

That fat guy Zhou just now, his expression completely showed that he didn't believe we could come down from the 3rd floor.

It even felt like watching a dying rabbit.

I noticed she was still not speaking, but her whole body was shifting slightly.

His belly gradually grew bigger and then smaller, it felt like it was constantly recovering.

"Boss Zhou, please give me a word."

Is he part of management?

My words were very firm and unequivocal.

He wasn't even given any chance to react.

At this moment, Lao Zhou immediately raised his head, as if he had been struck by something.

Immediately afterwards, his brows furrowed again.

“It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it… This matter is too complicated, and you wouldn’t believe me even if I told you. What good would it do anyway? It wouldn’t help.”

Old Zhou's tone was full of helplessness at this moment.

"You go first!"

Yiyi replied immediately.

And I also had a little bit of anticipation in my heart.

At this moment, Fatty Zhou took another sip of water before slowly speaking.

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