Chapter 45: A Nightmare at the Hotel [22]



None of the three spoke.

"Mom, I'm sleepy—" Finally, Tingting tugged at Lu Cai's sleeve.

Cai Lu looked down at her. This child was really carefree. Even though her father's body was still warm, she could pull the murderer of her father and call him "Mom" with an indifferent look on her face.

He is indeed the cruel man who tortured Miss Yan to death.

"Mom's memory is not good now. You and Little Sister need to talk to me more so that I can remember it--" Lu Cai stiffened his hand and touched Tingting's head.

She hadn't finished her question yet, and because she needed to get some useful information, she put on a good face.

Tingting pursed her lips, looking very unhappy and about to throw a tantrum.

"Dad has already made Mom very sad, so you have to be good—" Lu Cai said softly with a smile in his eyes.

The naughty ones are already lying inside.

Tingting took two breaths, but still didn't cry.

Yue Xiaoyan looked at Tingting's profile and saw that the little girl was looking down, looking a little angry. She narrowed her eyes and saw that she looked very familiar...

Tingting suddenly turned her head, met Yue Xiaoyan's eyes, and grinned.

Yue Xiaoyan dodged back in fear. She remembered the scene she had seen when she first entered this side storyline! Her neck was cut open, and there were wounds on her legs. She looked up and saw the little girl standing at the door!

That person is Tingting!

Yue Xiaoyan felt creepy because she had directly experienced the feeling of being killed by the other party, so the fear in her heart was even stronger.

"Xiaoxiao, do you want to leave here?" Lu Cai asked directly.

Xiaoxiao was a little dazed, looking at Lu Cai in confusion.

Seeing that she didn't answer, Lu Cai continued to ask her, "Did you stay because you wanted revenge, or did you start seeking revenge because you stayed?"

Xiaoxiao seemed to understand and started laughing.

No one interrupted her laughter, and finally she stopped herself and asked, "Is there any difference?"

"I need to know if I can save you." Lu Cai looked at Xiao Xiao with a serious look.

"Save me?" Xiaoxiao seemed puzzled, and then she felt resentful, "You could have saved me!" Her voice suddenly became sharp.

Everyone else covered their ears, except Lu Cai, who had a calm expression and looked gently at the girl whose features were distorted with anger.

"You could have saved me!" Xiao Xiao began to sob, "But when you found out that the man was your husband... for the sake of your face, you gave up on me who was about to be saved——"

She would always remember that day, the day she was closest to freedom since entering this devil's den.

The girl on the run, in despair, entrusted her safety to a complete stranger. At that time, she was already in despair, but the kind-hearted stranger extended a helping hand to her.

The stranger helped the girl out of the guest room and she moved to the stranger's car.

She saw the sky outside the hotel, so blue, and the wind so warm. She lay obediently on the edge of the back seat of the car, looking through the window glass at the leaves and branches gently blown by the wind under the blue sky.

The car was slowly backing out of the garage.

The stranger then slammed on the brakes and drove the car back into the garage.

"Hide well, Tingting is throwing a tantrum, and the waiter is about to send her over—"

......

"So, what you want most is to leave here." Lu Cai's tone was calm, almost indifferent.

Yes, what she wanted most was to leave this place.

If she had to be trapped here for the rest of her life just to seek revenge, she would rather not seek revenge.

"Who was the one who actually attacked them?" Cai Lu continued to ask.

Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at her: "You don't want to help me, you only want to help yourself!"

Lu Cai sighed: "Yes, I want to leave here, who doesn't want to?" She stared at Xiaoxiao and saw the sadness in Xiaoxiao's eyes.

"If you do something wrong, you should be punished!" Tingting suddenly interrupted, her little eyes suddenly becoming sharp and vicious.

Lu Cai grasped the dagger, pressing the sharp tip to the little girl's throat. Shi Rukui also moved quickly, extending his long stick and pushing the little girl against the seat.

A faint hymn sounded, and the resentment and anger in Xiaoxiao's body slowly dissipated.

In the light green fluorescent light, Yue Xiaoyan paused in her singing, opened her eyes and looked at Tingting - the little girl's madness was still as strong as ever.

Born bad.

These four words appeared in Yue Xiaoyan's mind.

The little girl in front of me didn't have any ghost or resentment at all. Everything she did was done rationally and according to her heart.

"It seems that you are of a higher level than Xiaoxiao." When Lu Cai saw Xiaoxiao fainted, he glanced at Tingting.

"We are all helping her." The little girl lowered her eyes to look at the long stick against her neck and answered with a smile.

Yue Xiaoyan stopped her gestures and chants. "Help her? Is trapping her in a hotel helping her?"

When Lu Cai asked Xiao Xiao a strange question, Yue Xiaoyan understood. It was not Xiao Xiao, the victim, who killed those evil people.

Xiaoxiao was forced to stay in the hotel after her death.

So is the boss of this copy the one who avenged Xiaoxiao and kept Xiaoxiaoqiang here?

Yue Xiaoyan couldn't help but look up at the big hole on the second floor, but she could no longer see the hunchbacked boy.

"You're so helpful, Mom is very happy—" Lu Cai looked at the little girl earnestly, "Tingting, help Mom too. Tell Mom, who gave you this doll?"

Tingting hugged the doll tightly, looking back at Lu Cai with a faint smile. Her eyebrows were curved, but her eyes were cold and grim.

The two looked at each other for a while, and the little girl curled her lips: "Mom, don't leave, I will tell you!"

"You've grown up, and children grow up, and parents always have to leave—" Lu Cai released the small dagger, picked up a black fountain pen from the table, and took out the selection card from his pocket.

(√) Five-star praise, signed by: Lu Cai——

Shi Rukui was suddenly dazed: "It's time."

"What?" Yue Xiaoyan's eyes widened, and she immediately understood what he was talking about. "We've been running in the corridor for three days?"

"Your task is to get a 'five-star rating'?" Shi Rukui's eyes fell on the evaluation card in Lu Cai's hand.

Cai Lu picked up the selection card: "I guess my mission is to become an outstanding employee..."

There was a flash of light in front of his eyes. Before Lu Cai exited the branch line, he turned to look at Tingting, but he saw a hole in the wall on the second floor. A blurry figure was standing quietly in the outline of the hole.

Lu Cai felt dizzy and staggered. A hunchbacked old man stood beside him.

“What are you doing!”

Cai Lu blinked his eyes and saw the gray-haired hotel owner glaring at him angrily.

She subconsciously said, "Boss, there are huge safety risks here!"

Perhaps it was because Lu Cai's tone was too righteous that the hotel owner was stunned.

"This fell outside—" Lu Cai raised his hand and pinched the sign-in sheet, "No one noticed me coming in. The front desk information is not safe—"

The hotel owner was frightened, and Cai Lu leaned on the table and flipped over.

"You!" The hotel owner realized it later and pointed at Lu Cai. Before he could say anything, he saw the figure in the black T-shirt suddenly disappeared.

The girl ran up the stairs, and when she could no longer see her back, the hotel owner did not chase her out, and even his initial anger disappeared.

His cloudy eyes stared blankly at the stairs, and it took him a long time to raise his hand to tidy up the folders on the table.

He sorted them out one by one, picked up the sign-in sheet that the girl had just "picked up", and put it into a tray of forms in order.

......

Running up the stairs, Lu Cai slowed down his pace. She had guessed right.

She came to room 204, searched her pockets, and found the room card. She was about to swipe the card to enter the room when the door opened with a click.

As soon as he looked up, he met Shi Rukui's surprised eyes: "You're back." He breathed a sigh of relief and stepped aside to make way.

Lu Cai lowered his head and walked into the room. He saw Yue Xiaoyan running towards him excitedly, but this time she did not rush over to hug him.

The door was locked. Lu Cai walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, glancing at Chen Yina on the other side.

"What happened just now?" Yue Xiaoyan asked hurriedly.

What tenants, what outstanding employees?

Cai Lu patted her shoulder. "I guess my mission is to get five-star reviews from customers, and your mission is to 'never give five-star reviews.' So this is a 'choose one out of three' mission. Choose one of the three to die."

Yue Xiaoyan's face was a little pale. She opened her mouth but didn't know what to say.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Shi Rukui sat down on a chair beside him.

Cai Lu shrugged. "When Tingting called me 'Mom,' I thought of a solution..." Seeing Yue Xiaoyan was about to speak, she quickly interrupted, "Besides, I'm not sure about my mission. What if it's not the 'Outstanding Employee Selection'? I might even drag you down."

She is Tingting's "mother". When traveling, the corresponding role in the copy world is a tenant. Even if the player's task is to get a "five-star review", it does not mean that you cannot give yourself a score.

Anyway, there is a bug in this side storyline. She herself is a copy bug, and it is normal to pass the level by relying on another bug.

Shi Rukui looked at her helplessly. "Because Xiaoxiao said in the memory fragment that a tenant betrayed her, you concluded that you correspond to the 'tenant'? What if you are not that tenant and do not have the authority to rate? You could be a cleaner, or a front desk cashier—"

"Tingting and I confirmed that we were here for tourism—" Lu Cai smiled, "and when I was being chased by the hunchback boy, I got stuck in a strange corridor..."

Lu Cai recounted the events in the misty corridor in detail.

Miss Yan was the culprit who abducted the victim girl and was killed by Tingting using a voodoo doll.

Duan Ce was the criminal who tricked, drugged and raped the victim girl. He was strangled to death by the cleaning staff, and there was the shadow of a hunchbacked boy in the corner.

The hotel manager and the hunchbacked security guard were accomplices who followed Duan Ce and harmed the victim girl. They watched over the hotel for Duan Ce and handled the traces and bodies. The former was beaten to death with a baseball bat, and the latter was crushed to death by an unknown force, also developing a hunchback.

The cook was an accomplice who helped them control the victim girl. Because his own daughter was murdered, he fell out with Duan Ce and was hacked to death to silence him.

In the end, it was Tingting's mother who was frightened to death and fell to her death.

"The judges here are Tingting, the hunchbacked boy... and an unknown force?" Yue Xiaoyan concluded.

Shi Rukui shook his head: "The judge is the hunchbacked boy."

This corridor appeared in the maze corridor of the hunchback boy, and after Lu Cai dealt with the ghosts in the corridor, the hunchback boy's ability was damaged.

These judgments originate from within the teenager.

"But there must be someone else behind the scenes," Cai Lu concluded.

Yue Xiaoyan was curious: "Tingting?" The memory of being killed by Tingting was so horrible that she shuddered.

"She?" Lu Cai shook his head. "She's just a troublemaker—"

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