Chapter 3 Hotel These rules are for the only winner who can clear the game...
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The lights in the corridor flickered, and finally, after struggling to flicker a few times, they went out from sight.
There was a dead silence, the only sounds in the oppressive atmosphere being rapid breathing and heartbeats. Someone carefully walked around another corner, seeming to be avoiding something. She slipped sideways through the half-open door and entered the room.
She stuck half of her head out from behind the door and sure enough, she saw a broken shadow.
"His" neck was twisted to an incredible degree, almost flush with the body. His face had no facial features, only a mouth full of sharp teeth, and his limbs were long and thin. It was completely impossible to associate him with a normal human appearance.
A monster. Not long ago, she saw with her own eyes "him" devouring the hotel manager and his terrified colleagues while they were giving a lecture.
The bloody scene almost made her scream. The girl noticed the monster's blank face the moment it turned around. She tried hard to suppress her trembling, swallowed back the sound that was about to come out of her mouth, and held her breath waiting for it to leave.
Her guess was correct. It had no eyes and probably relied on hearing to move.
It wasn't safe here, so she was about to go downstairs and leave the hotel, but she suddenly realized that the corpse on the ground... moved.
The girl's expression suddenly turned horrified, and she hurried to the first floor. A number of people had already gathered at the lobby exit, and staff members, also eager to escape the hotel, took fire axes and smashed them directly on the door, but the closed door remained intact.
It was like an indestructible cage, trapping everyone and the monster at the same time.
What was even more terrifying was that she vaguely heard the roar of the monster. It was approaching here, but she had no time to warn it. The next second, blood had already splattered on the wall.
She couldn't even remember how she left that place. She waited until the noise outside gradually subsided before she dared to come out of her hiding place to check the situation.
The monster that caused the tragedy was still wandering around the hotel. She tried to call for help or send a message, even posting for help on social platforms, but all failed without exception. Now she could only pray that it didn't find her.
The shadow was approaching the room where she was. The sound of flowing liquid became clearer and clearer. The sticky liquid corroded the soft carpet. Sporadic and discordant hoarse voices repeated and chewed on a syllable: "F...Fe..."
Her heart was about to jump out of her chest. She had no intention of paying attention to anything else. She turned her gaze towards the room to force herself to calm down and think about what she could use as a weapon.
As she took a cautious step forward, a voice suddenly rang out from the room, scaring her so much that she almost revealed her position: "Don't move."
The sound came from the window. The man opened the curtain and emerged from his hiding place. His hat and mask covered his face tightly. He spoke in a deep, low voice, "It can see, but only by judging movement."
The girl realized belatedly that when she was so frightened that she didn't dare to make a sound at first, she also sat on the ground without moving.
She subconsciously thought that Bo Bei had been hiding in this room like her, but he seemed to know all this very well, so she couldn't help but ask, "There's no signal, and the doors and windows can't be opened. Do you know how to get out?"
Bai Bei calmly pulled his hat down and gave a reply that was equivalent to not saying anything: "Wait until it leaves and you can leave."
girl:"……"
Damn it! This guy is unreliable!
"If I had known I wouldn't have come to this hotel for internship. I didn't get the internship certificate and I even lost my life." She muttered sadly. Just as she was about to ask him if he knew more, Bai Bei raised his hand to signal for silence. Seeing this, the girl cooperated and covered her mouth.
The monster stopped in front of the room, less than twenty centimeters away from the two people inside.
"It's gone."
She waited for the man to give her a reminder before she came to her senses. The temperature had dropped in the past few days, but she broke out in a cold sweat, and her eardrums and heart palpitations were trembling for a long time.
"I'm going to go downstairs and see if there's anyone else." Bai Bei said slowly. He tilted his head to look at the girl, "Do you want to go to the hall and check? Maybe the door is open now."
She hesitated for a moment and then agreed. After successfully leading the people away, Bai Bei walked into the stairwell on the left.
Those barrages popped up again.
[Xiaoyu, you're so clever and you're pulling out your little notebook and starting to look up advanced vocabulary? Excuse me?]
[Oi Bao, you are indeed from a key university. You are so self-disciplined! I am really shocked.]
I don’t even understand what Xiaoyu wrote.
[Shibao! Oh…no!! Everyone, don't leave! There's another strange story in this hotel!!]
[Hotel: It seems a bit dead, please save it]
[Thank you, Captain! You're my god! Great! Thank you, Captain! You realized something was wrong and changed direction, heading straight to the hotel!]
【Here we go, here we go to the hotel! 】
Things have changed.
The sound of footsteps echoed in the dim corridor. When the slender white hands rested on the handrail, all attention was focused. He lowered his eyes and saw the monster below along the interlaced stairs.
The monster continued to mutter, imitating human pronunciation, with a strange and terrifying tone: "F...F..."
"Fei." Fei.
[It's calling you?] The system was puzzled. [Generally speaking, ghost stories don't remember players' names, right?]
"Well, maybe it's because I'm special. After all, I've cleared this dungeon seventeen times, so I killed it seventeen times."
[…?!]
The system sensed a pause in the background program, and asked blankly, "How many? Ten, seventeen times?!"
Others didn't even have time to hide in the ghost story copy, but he just cleared it almost twenty times!
No wonder it still remembered "Fei" after being reset. After being killed so many times, even if it was reset, there should be some residual impression. It would be strange if it didn't remember it so much.
"Because this dungeon contains an item I really need, and the chance of it dropping is so low, I had no choice but to force it through." Bai Bei smiled friendly, "It seems this will be an unforgettable experience for it, too."
system:【……】
To be precise, it should not be a pleasant experience.
A deep blue appeared in his eyes, like a corner of the ocean bottom. The strange color flowed by, but it was not so obvious under the cover of deep black all around.
blue.
Bai Bei involuntarily reached out to touch his eyes. He was not a mixed-race, and the game did not say that players would experience changes when using skills. But as long as he mobilized his abilities, the color of his eyes would turn to this dark blue that was almost black.
Although it is not that obvious, if you look at it long enough, you will notice the change sooner or later.
Just as bizarre as this ghost story game. Bo Bei inappropriately recalled that lost past. He only had memories of growing up with Shi Yu after being adopted by his adoptive parents.
...Is he really from this world?
Bai Bei withdrew his thoughts, put down his hands and placed them on the railing.
Players who return to reality retain their original personal skills and props, including improved physical stats. As the former number one in the game, Bai Bei's stats far exceed those of other players, including his senses.
Even in the dark, he could see the changes around him.
He could feel the handrail sinking and the wall squirming, as if he was inside some human organ. The soles of his feet felt sticky and damp, and Bai Bei walked down the uneven steps.
Players use rules, fear rules, and crave rules, and the ghost story itself is made up of rules. Its existence is equivalent to the rules themselves and is also subject to restrictions, but these rules open up all permissions to the only winner who can complete the game.
[Rules invalidated].
The strange stories shaped by rules cannot limit him in any way.
This was the reward that Bai Bei received after completing the game. He once thought it was just a useless joke.
I didn't expect that it would come in handy one day.
Bai Bei walked at a steady pace. He looked at the stiff monster with a slight smile on his face.
He looked at this "old friend" and greeted it, and this newly arrived strange game, for the first time in recent days: "Long time no see."
"But I really don't want to see you again."
Bai Bei stopped and stood on the bottom step. The shadow covered his expression. No player wanted to see the scene where the game and reality merged.
The sticky touch under my feet began to solidify, the wall trembled slightly, and the cement climbed up the monster's body, turning it into a silent sculpture. The sounds of words filled with anger and resentment were also sealed inside, and this secret would never see the light of day again.
Bai Bei turned around and walked out of the stairwell. Occasionally, a few words would pop up in the barrage. Although the number was not large, it provided enough information that the action department was about to arrive.
Bai Bei used an invisible concealing prop. He stood on the second floor of the hall and waited for a few minutes before he saw the people from the Operations Department. The team leader Xie Jianshan saw the relieved girl in the hall at a glance.
He left people behind to comfort the rescued people and conduct questioning, and then he led his team to search other places without stopping.
The detector screen displays the level and current status of the ghost story.
[B-level ghost story "Strange Laughter" - Death]
The operations department was divided into two teams under the arrangement of Xie Jianshan. One team was to look for survivors, and the other team was to go with him to confirm the status of the ghost story. People outside had blocked the hotel, and if any suspicious person escaped, they would be notified immediately.
Bai Bei walked slowly behind the team. Unlike the solemn atmosphere at the action section, he seemed particularly relaxed and at ease.
The system felt that he was here to play, and was not afraid of being suddenly exposed due to the failure of the props, so he was very relaxed.
Bai Bei looked at the busy operations department and then at the barrage of comments.
[Oh wow, the strange story has been solved by the boss again? ]
[Fei: A small A-level, a handy thing]
[I'm curious about who the boss is. Is it really Fei? Shouldn't Que be there too?]
[I don't know... Although Que and Fei are a famous duo in the game, they might not know each other in real life.]
The Operations Department also knows all the information that the barrage knows, after all, there are players within the Operations Department.
"Thanks, Captain. New news." The voice of the member who had been left behind to take care of the girl came through the communicator. He said hurriedly, "She said she heard the monster repeating a letter over and over again."
The other end of the communicator soon changed to a female voice. She knew the situation was urgent, so she said directly: "It's 'F'. It keeps repeating this letter."
"But I was so scared at the time that I didn't hear it clearly. It seemed to be a combination of 'Fe'. I was sure it was related to the letter 'F'."
F, Fe.
Fei, Fei.
The Operations Department also failed to see the player this time.
The speculation was completely confirmed. The person behind the scenes who always got the news about the ghost stories before them was indeed Fei.
...How did he know? Did Fei possess the ability to predict the future? Or was it because of Que's help?
But how could it be so precise!
As to why strange stories appear in reality, is all this related to "Fei", or perhaps he holds more information, they must communicate with him.
After all, before the ghost story came into reality, the number one player in the Infinite Game, "Fei", had disappeared for a while, but he did not die in the copy, because the system finally announced the news that "Fei" had passed the game in the second month after his name fell off the overall list.
Not long after that, the game was suddenly announced to be temporarily closed and began to merge with reality, and the strange story appeared in reality.
A few years ago, the emergence of ghost story games led to a large number of people disappearing for unknown reasons. The frequency gradually decreased, and a month ago the number of disappearances dropped to "0", which was originally a happy thing.
But they caught a monster in reality... a low-risk ghost story that only existed in the mouths of players. It shouldn't appear here, and such things only exist between "0" and infinity.
The situation has been completely reversed.
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