I didn't want to put too much pressure on Fatty Zhou.

If I force him to say something at this point, it will backfire.

After all, this is his hotel. I think that the kind of maze that happened on the third floor just now, although it was impossible for Fatty Zhou to have created it, he certainly has the means to control us if he insists on doing so.

When he first met us, he was able to transform the hall from a mess into a brand new place.

And to be able to open such a large hotel on the outskirts of the city.

Based on these two points alone, I think that this boss is definitely not a simple person.

Otherwise, his signboard would have been smashed long ago.

With so many people coming here, and those who can go around the island, I think they must be extraordinary individuals.

Just like what Old Liu said before, those who made it this far have all survived by the skin of their teeth.

The roundabout alone, along with the intermittent thick fog, was enough to kill most people.

This Mr. Zhou looks incredibly fat. After dealing with so many strange and monstrous people, he's still able to stand here steadily. I think his friendliness towards me is purely out of politeness and a need for something.

Or perhaps it was like his attitude when he first met us—down-to-earth, unlike many people he'd met before, a mix of good and bad. For someone like me, he just wanted to get rid of us as quickly as possible.

However, when he mentioned that there were other guests in the room, the nature of the situation changed completely.

It's quite possible that things are indeed as he said, and that the thing wasn't done by his son, Xiao Yuan, but by that guest.

"Are there other people?"

"Shh..."

Fatty Zhou suddenly lowered his voice, as if afraid of being overheard.

"However, they are all isolated in special rooms and cannot come out normally."

It's not that I want to isolate them, but these things are terrifying.

In this weather, you must have seen that thick fog outside, right? Do you remember what was inside clearly?

I suddenly realized.

Holy crap, is this guy talking about the fake corpse we encountered inside the house before?

This fat guy is really knowledgeable.

I originally thought he was just a narrow-minded, ignorant innkeeper.

After all, that thick fog is quite a distance away, and there's a sparse patch of grass in between.

The fact that this boss could think of it so quickly means he must have been there before.

Or perhaps it was that thick fog that had once reached the vicinity of his hotel.

"What, I know what you're talking about."

I also spoke slightly.

At this point, Lei Jijian was already cursing me in my heart.

"That fat bastard, I bet he's the one who put up that fake corpse in the fog. Is he playing tricks here, trying to test our waters?"

I, however, refuted the theory of lightning strikes. If this boss could come up with such a hypothesis, he wouldn't need to keep talking to us about it.

Sending fake corpses to kill me would be better than anything else.

"The people living in my house are more terrifying than those things."

Moreover, they are all troublemakers you can't afford to mess with.

They were all isolated in special rooms and could not come out at all.

They only contact me directly when they need something.

At this point, Fatty Zhou was somewhat speechless.

"They're only contacting you through one channel? If your things are missing from your hotel, you should go in and ask them now."

Yiyi raised her eyebrows, clearly feeling that it was very unfair.

Fatty Zhou hesitated even more. He simply held his right hand with his left, and then angrily lit a cigarette.

"I...I can't even get into their rooms."

Even when we do contact each other, we just leave the things at the door.

I don't know when they took the things in; I can't even see it on the security camera footage.

This is a hotel, but very few people actually come to stay here.

They all had other things to do, so I simply removed the surveillance camera.

It's been demolished?

They can't even get into the house?

Which landlord is this?

I was absolutely stunned.

"And there are guests. You're the boss, how come you can't meet the guest requirements?"

"And we didn't sense anyone else's presence at all when we came in."

I couldn't help but speak up.

After all, when we arrived, Lei Jijian and I carefully checked the area and there was definitely no one else there.

Even when I encountered a ghost wall on the 3rd floor just now, I scanned it with my third eye and didn't see any malice or dark energy.

Everything was perfectly harmonious, except for the black aura emanating from the staircase, there was nothing else.

Even the staircase, including the few remaining black wisps on its handrail, was faintly visible.

I find it hard to believe what this fat Zhou is saying.

In other words, there were already far too many people living here when we arrived?

I thought about it for a moment, and then I figured something out.

When we were on the third floor, before the chefs came out, we heard the sound of knocking on the glass and the sizzling sound. That was probably made by other customers!

If we follow our initial line of thinking, then besides us, the only other people in the hotel are the owner and his child.

If that's the case, then that sound is completely impossible.

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