Hanamura laughed maniacally, lunging forward and thrusting the broken bottle in his hand forward!
"How shameless! But does this guy really think he can succeed in the assassination?"
Hanamura was very confident, but when everyone compared the footage from the three live streams, Jiang Ran was still in her room and hadn't come downstairs at all!
On the other side, Wips had just left the room and hadn't even reached the stairwell yet.
Whose footsteps were those heard coming downstairs in Hanamura?
The bottle was firmly held in his hand. The black-clad staff member had a dark expression. In this inn, he was always the one who plotted against others, but now someone dared to plot against him!
A mere wine bottle couldn't possibly harm these strange creatures. Even a machete wouldn't break their defenses. If you could kill them so easily, what would be the point of having a storyteller? Just send in a squad of special forces.
The bottle was crushed into powder in the hands of the staff member in black. Hanamura was shocked and turned to run towards the lobby!
He has no chance of being revived now; if he gets infected, he will definitely die!
"The staff in black could have easily touched Hanamura Uchiya at that close range, yet they didn't infect him. It seems there really is some kind of restriction!"
Seeing that the staff in black hadn't chased after him, Hanamura finally breathed a sigh of relief and squatted down in the lobby, patting his forehead.
Some high-ranking officials in Japan didn't think there was anything wrong with Hanamura's actions, even though it would make their reputations even worse. But they were already bad enough, so it didn't matter.
But if you're planning to assassinate someone, at least target them! Why are you stabbing the big boss in the head with a bottle?!
Hanamura felt a slight itch in his ankle, as if something had crawled up on it.
Looking down, I was surprised to find a spider bigger than my palm!
"Aaaaaah!"
He performed a hot dance for everyone in the live stream, almost jumping into the air, and the spider was also thrown out by his violent shaking!
However, he seemed to have forgotten a certain rule—
Rule Twelve: You can let crows fly into the room; they won't harm you. But be extremely careful of spiders. When you see a spider, whatever you're doing, hold your breath and don't move until the spider leaves.
There is only one person in the entire inn who has the ability to infect others, and that is the staff member in black. The spider is just a product of being infected.
As long as you honestly follow the rules, hold your breath, and don't move, just like Smirre didn't get attacked by the spiders even though he broke into their stronghold.
Hanamura Uchika was undoubtedly in a panic, having completely forgotten about the rule. All he remembered now was that spiders were extremely dangerous and he had to stay away from them!
He fled, he was pursued, but he could not escape.
Sometimes, the more you try to escape, the less you can escape.
The spider's body suddenly grew to be enormous, about a meter tall, and the next moment it pounced on Hanamura Uchika, pinning him to the floor!
"Spider-san! I was wrong! Please don't eat me!"
It wasn't until the spider grew larger that everyone realized there was a human face on its abdomen, which sent chills down their spines!
"This is Smir!"
That's right, this spider is actually the one Smirre transformed into!
Hanamura Uchi was sold out by Smir at the beginning and then eaten by Smir in the end. What kind of sins did he commit?
[The ghost story teller Hanamura from the land of cherry blossoms dies a gruesome death...]
Since then, 28 of the 30 ghost story masters who entered the world of ghost stories have died, leaving only Jiang Ran and Weipus still alive.
Too many people got lost in the fog, and some didn't even see the inn from beginning to end. If everyone had come to the inn from the start, the death rate would not have been so high.
As one ghost story writer said, to survive in the world of ghost stories, luck and skill are both indispensable; you never know what awaits you ahead.
Jiang Ran sat on the bed in his room, pondering a certain question.
The mountain spirit still roams the inn—a fake.
While verifying the nineteenth rule, Jiang Ran also verified the first sentence, but to his utter surprise, it turned out to be wrong!
There are no mountain spirits in the inn, so what exactly is that staff member in black?
What are the meanings of the Chinese characters corresponding to the remaining three keys?
Jiang Ran looked out the window at the white mist in the forest. The hint from the second word was already quite obvious. After searching around, it seemed that the only thing related to fog was the white mist outside the window.
They had previously guessed that it might refer to the windowsill, but after searching all the windowsills in the entire inn, they couldn't find any trace of the second key. They said that the more impossible something seems, the more likely it is to be. Could the key really be hidden in the jungle?
Going out during the day will result in being burned to ashes by the sun, while going out at night will turn you into a lost soul. This seems to be an unsolvable problem...
No! There's a loophole!
The Lost Ones are transformed from lost people. The principle behind this is that the white mist exerts constant mental harassment on people, but there are actually ways to counter it!
As long as you drink some liquor every now and then to dispel the mental disturbance, and be careful not to linger in any one place in the jungle for even a minute, these white fogs are not as dangerous as they imagine!
Since there is a solution, the key is very likely hidden in the jungle, and it can't be far away!
As for the rule that staff members are immune to the white fog, this rule has not been proven to be true. So, to be on the safe side, it's best to bring some liquor.
It's noon now, and there's still some time before evening.
If fog truly represents the jungle, then what do "epidemic" and "moon" mean?
The four keys are likely in four completely different locations. Since the housing and jungle have been ruled out, the most likely remaining locations are probably the hall and the warehouse.
They've searched the lobby countless times, so the warehouse is probably the most likely place. But no matter what, the warehouse doesn't seem to be associated with those two words.
Does the moon represent mooncakes, and mooncakes then become a metaphor for food?
Come on, even Jiang Ran himself doesn't believe this outrageous guess. If there really is a word that can be used to refer to food, many words could be used, but it is definitely not the moon!
Jiang Ran quickly put his guess into action. After meeting up with Weipus, the two searched the warehouse thoroughly, leaving only the innermost room unexplored, but they still couldn't find the key.
"Do you think the key might be hidden in this deepest room? After all, we've never been inside."
"Probably not." Jiang Ran shook his head. "This should be a room that is completely forbidden to enter. Entering it means certain death, and a place where certain death is certain would never hide any key items."
Time flew by, the sun slowly set, and dusk arrived.
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