"Remove the firewood from under the cauldron?" Cai Lu raised his eyebrows and looked up from the bowl of vermicelli soup.
Yue Xiaoyan looked at her: "What's wrong?"
Cai Lu put down the chopsticks in her hand: "I want to break into the hotel front desk..." In fact, she wanted to find the administrative office, but after looking around, she didn't find any place similar to an office.
If nothing else, the front desk should have more information than other places.
"You'll be mistaken for a robber..." Shi Rukui just frowned, "But there shouldn't be any police officers in this place. After all, the gates are sealed."
Cai Lu took out the glutinous rice flour and handed it directly to Yue Xiaoyan: "Take this and have a good rest with Chen Yina in the room."
"Let's go together--" Yue Xiaoyan was very enthusiastic.
Lu Cai hesitated for a moment, then reminded him, "Ordinary guests probably can't enter these places. This hotel is relatively small, and the staff should know each other. It's impossible to pretend to be a staff member..."
The risk factor is very high.
Yue Xiaoyan understood what she meant and could only obey her arrangement: "Then you should be careful..." She remembered something, "I will give you my blessing——"
Lu Cai stopped her and said, "Save your energy for the boss fight, then build up your strength for a big one."
In fact, Yue Xiaoyan's "blessing" skill is really more suitable for use before the decisive battle, because the blessing's validity period is too short. It should be enough to fight a boss battle, but it is a bit insufficient to use it to investigate the enemy situation.
What's more, Lu Cai went to investigate the situation. If she encountered danger, her first choice would be to escape. For her, escaping should be no problem.
She opened her system friend interface, and the only two people in it - Qin Yu and Zhao Yan - both showed "out of service area".
Probably, they are all in the community area, or in the same dungeon world, which can be considered as being in the "same service area".
Shi Rukui and Yue Xiaoyan both received Lu Cai's friend request notification.
"If you're not offline, just contact me through the system." Cai Lu looked at the two people who were barely online in the friend interface, hoping that the system signal could perform exceptionally well for once.
"I'll meet you outside." Shi Rukui also made some preparations and planned to go together.
Lu Cai remembered how he handled Xiao Xiao and the cook, and nodded: "Okay..."
It is a good thing to have someone to support you outside. If you accidentally trigger a boss battle, you will have a backup.
......
The restaurant was on one side of the front hall. Yue Xiaoyan and Chen Yina went back to their room on the second floor together. Shi Rukui sat on the bench by the door of the restaurant and took out a thick-covered book and pretended to read it.
Lu Cai strolled over to the sofa in the hall and picked up a brochure. She flipped through two pages, which introduced nearby scenic spots. Perhaps it was her copy consciousness that was causing her trouble; the words on the brochure were crystal clear, but she couldn't make them out.
Holding the booklet, she glanced at the old man who was sorting things at the front desk.
The old man walked with a trembling voice. There were a lot of folders piled on the desk at the front desk, but no computer. I guess he didn't know how to use it.
They sat there for a long time. They were the only eight "high school students" in the entire hotel, so the chance of being seen by passers-by was very low.
As for the hotel staff, apart from the old man at the front desk and the cleaning lady, no one else made an official appearance. But Lu Cai guessed that there was at least a cook.
Logically, they wouldn't appear at the lobby front desk, but who knows, if a "player" enters the front desk, will it trigger a hunt mode...
The old man finally stood up and walked towards the door of the lounge at the back. Lu Cai closed the introduction page in his hand and, while the old man entered the room, rushed to the front desk, supported by the table and jumped in.
She landed silently, her hands were rummaging through the documents very carefully, and her ears were also paying attention to the movement inside the door behind her. She was really multitasking.
Finally, he found a stack of handwritten employee sign-in sheets on the clipboard in the corner. There were several duplicate sheets with only the dates being different. Cai Lu quickly pulled out one and heard footsteps coming from the door behind him.
She leaned on the table and was about to jump out when the young man's voice rang out, "You want to be lazy again! Go and bring Miss Yan some food!"
The light above my head flickered twice, and the light became brighter.
Lu Cai froze in place. She slowly turned around and saw a thin, short young man wearing a wrinkled black suit. He had a pointed face, thin eyebrows, small black eyes, and a shifty look, with a smug look on his face.
Perhaps because he saw Lu Cai still standing there, the man in the suit was a little annoyed. "What? Are you not happy? I told you when I applied that front desk work includes running errands! It's comfortable to just sit and collect money, but you don't want to run errands?"
Lu Cai frowned and listened carefully to the sounds in the back room to make sure that no one was inside.
So the old man disappeared.
But it's also possible that she's missing...
Is this another side storyline?
The hotel is too small and you will come across a branch line every few steps.
Lu Cai remained calm. Seeing the man in the suit in front of him about to lose his temper, he quickly smiled and said, "I understand. I'll go right away—"
Seeing that she was sensible, the other party softened and snorted coldly.
"I..." Lu Cai looked embarrassed, his eyes evasive, "I forgot which room Miss Yan is in..."
"You can't even remember this!" The man in the suit started cursing again, "205, 205! How many times do I have to tell you before you remember it?"
Lu Cai nodded: "I'll go right away—"
Just as she was about to leave, a slender figure approached. Lu Cai raised her eyes and saw that the face she was walking towards was familiar to her.
I still remember the image in the mirror, under the bright light, with her dark eyes, straight nose, red lips, long hair, and her eyes and eyebrows smiling so brightly that it was hard to look away.
"Xiaoxiao, you're back—" The man in the suit suddenly changed his face from glaring at me to smiling.
Lu Cai stopped and watched Xiao Xiao walk to the front desk. The girl looked at the man in the suit smiling and walked towards him, frowning and avoiding him: "Manager Liu, I may need to ask for leave--"
Manager Liu? Cai Lu met the man in the suit's gaze.
"Why don't you go to work!" Manager Liu shouted at her angrily.
Lu Cai withdrew his gaze and walked towards the restaurant. After she turned around, Xiao Xiao also turned to look at Lu Cai's back.
The girl was holding a name tag in her hand, with black letters on a gold background that read - Ling Xiaoxiao.
——
"Ling Xiaoxiao?" Cai Lu was holding a takeaway bag containing a bowl of ramen and two boxes of homemade stir-fries.
She stopped on the stairs and took out the employee list she had just picked up from the front desk.
(Manager) Liu Jianfei, (Security) Fu Kunyu, (Cook) Yao Guohua, (Cleaning) Zhao Ya, (Receptionist) Ling Xiaoxiao, (Receptionist) Chen Chunling...
There's really no suspense in the name of this dungeon system...
The manager and the security guard were not surprised, but Xiaoxiao's surname was Ling and Chunling's surname was Chen?
Suddenly, a cool breeze blew across his face. Lu Cai looked in the direction of the wind and saw a half-open window on the staircase. Beyond the window was a meadow, a towering gray wall obscuring his view, and the gloomy sky was inexplicably oppressive.
Lu Cai's eyes were drawn to the hunchbacked man standing on the grass, holding a large axe and smashing it down with all his might.
It's the hunchback security guard...
She moved a few steps closer to the window. The windowsill was higher than the grass. She lowered her eyes and looked over. There was a tall and slightly fat middle-aged man lying on the ground.
Tsk tsk, Lu Cai felt emotional. She had just heard Shi Rukui telling about what he saw in his dream, and here she witnessed the scene of the cook being silenced.
The man on the ground was chopped into several pieces by the axe, and blood flowed on the lush green grass, which seemed to have lost its vitality in an instant.
Lu Cai narrowed his eyes. The scene seemed like an ink painting reflected in a mirror. The axe ghost raised his axe, and an arm hung down on the ground at his feet.
The hunchbacked security guard paused, and the short hair on the back of his head swayed slightly in the wind.
Lu Cai's eyelids jumped and he quickly squatted against the wall.
The hunchbacked security guard outside the wall turned his head suddenly, only to see a half-open iron window. Still worried, he walked closer to the window sill.
The window was too high and he had a hunchback, so through the window he could only see the upper half of the stair railing and the dazzling white long-tube light on the second floor.
The hunchbacked man stood under the window and waited for a long time, but it was still quiet inside.
Lu Cai squatted by the window, his back against the cold wall, breathing slowly. She tucked her feet in, certain that the hunchbacked man was still standing outside the window.
As if to die, there was a sound of a door opening in the corridor on the second floor, and then the door was slammed, and a group of light footsteps gradually approached.
I originally wanted to avoid it, but now I have to fight? I wonder if the hunchbacked security guard outside will suddenly turn into a ghost...
"Old Fu!" A shout came from far outside the window, and the footsteps on the second floor stopped. "Hasn't it been handled yet?" The rest of the voice became softer and softer, and the hunchbacked security guard left the window.
Cai Lu didn't move. The male voice that had just called the hunchbacked security guard away sounded familiar.
As expected, this instance is truly a reincarnation. So that's the mechanic... Which of these characters is the mastermind behind creating this hotel prison?
Of the eight guests staying at the hotel, three were the main perpetrators, one was an accomplice, and two were suspected victims. So who were Lu Cai and Yue Xiaoyan?
Miss Yan? Cleaner?
Lu Cai bent down and quietly went up to the second floor, paying attention to the movements outside the window. She carefully turned around the corridor on the second floor, and after making sure that she could not be seen from the window, she looked deeper into the corridor.
No one? Lu Cai was sure he heard footsteps.
She looked around carefully before walking towards Room 205.
It’s a good opportunity to take a look at who Miss Yan is, the person who took the lead in setting up connections and abducting innocent girls.
There is sin and reincarnation. Some people who have been involved in it have returned to the place where the sin began. It’s nothing more than that some people still have resentment and want revenge.
Whose resentment is the deepest?
Both the victim and the cook are suspects, but the cook's counterpart is Shi Rukui. As a player, unless you're obsessed with the dungeon's power like Zheng Miao in the previous dungeon, you won't be the final boss.
Shi Rukui's numbers are still normal.
That can only be the victim, who wants to take revenge on the former perpetrator.
It seems that the roles she and Yue Xiaoyan play are also bastard accomplices.
After knocking on the door, Lu Cai said, "Deliver the food."
"How long has it been? You've only just delivered it!" The woman slowly approached from the door and said in a sharp voice, clearly displeased. "I'm going to give you a bad review!"
Cai Lu had seen this kind of grumpy customer many times, so he subconsciously gave a standard professional smile: "Because these dishes are all freshly washed and cooked, it took some time, and I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time-"
Click——
The door was slowly opened.
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