Chapter 143 Hotel Copy (I)
[Players, please note that the dungeon "Scorched Corpse Hotel" is about to open. Please be prepared, the countdown begins now...]
A few years ago, a wealthy businessman built a five-star hotel next to a scenic spot. However, due to various unforeseen circumstances, the hotel burned down one night, and only a few people escaped.
The fire broke out at 11:00 PM on July 16th, and you joined the company on July 11th. The fire on the 16th will engulf everything in the hotel. Do you want to survive? Then find the right way to leave the hotel before the fire breaks out.
[Hurry up! Otherwise, you too will become one of the charred corpses, emitting a burning aroma!]
Welcome to the Xiankelai Hotel! Our hotel is customer-centric and committed to providing the best experience for all our guests. We sincerely invite you to join our professional team and lead the hotel to greater heights...
As the saying goes, there is no order without rules. Employees are required to abide by the hotel's rules and regulations after joining the company. For safety reasons, please also keep in mind some precautions.
【1. Employees must strictly abide by working hours and are not allowed to be late or leave early or leave their posts without permission. If necessary, they can ask for leave from their supervisors.】
Xia Yingnuan actually doesn’t like the feeling of absorbing other things into her body.
After all, it was her first attempt, so she didn't go too far and only absorbed a wisp of black air. After finding that her guess was confirmed, she didn't try again.
However, her actions just now still effectively scared away the dark energy surrounding the bed curtains.
I watched helplessly as the person on the bed absorbed a wisp of black air without changing his expression. The other black air didn't dare to move forward.
Before Xia Yingnuan glanced over, they all retreated from the bed and hid in the corner of the dressing table, not daring to move forward.
You seem to have a good appetite!
Thinking of the system's evaluation of her personal data, Xia Yingnuan now understood the meaning of "good appetite".
Her health has always been poor. She has seen many doctors and gone to many hospitals. She even has many family doctors arranged at home.
Even her body was examined and all functions were found to be intact.
But Xia Yingnuan was very weak and couldn't bear walking faster.
All kinds of supplements had no effect on her body.
Xia Yingnuan realized very early on that her body was different from that of ordinary people. It was like a bottomless pit. The nutrients that ordinary people needed to absorb were far from enough for her.
She was able to recognize the feeling of unsatisfaction that lingered in her body.
It wasn't until she entered the game and saw the black air in the bedroom that a desire she had never felt before ignited in her heart. It was an instinct based on biological predation.
Xia Yingnuan rolled up the sleeves of her nightgown and saw that the bruises from the collision had faded a lot, while usually such marks would take more than ten days to disappear.
She checked her health value with the system again and found that the value of 0.1 had not changed significantly.
After confirming this, Xia Yingnuan leaned against the head of the bed and waited quietly for midnight to arrive.
As time draws closer, the light in the room becomes dimmer and dimmer, and the black air in the darkness seems to be stirring.
As the heavy bell rang from downstairs, the last bit of light in the bedroom completely disappeared.
Because the room was not very bright, Xia Yingnuan still found the red wine glass on the bedside table accurately. Before the clock struck twelve, she took a sip of the red wine and then quietly left the room.
The lights in the corridor and the bedrooms were all out, and the entire castle was plunged into darkness.
Fortunately, Xia Yingnuan's night vision was pretty good, and after adapting to the bedroom for a while, she could see everything clearly.
However, this situation of strictly restricted vision made Xia Yingnuan's other feelings more obvious.
For example, the carpet under her feet not only became softer but also stickier.
If Xia Yingnuan ignored the fact that she was walking on the corridor of the ancient castle, she would have thought she was walking on the hide of some giant creature.
And clearly all the players lived on the second floor, but at this moment, apart from the slight noise made by her own footsteps, Xia Yingnuan could not hear any sound coming from the room next door.
It was as if the entire copy had become an isolated island for her overnight.
Fortunately, the first floor was not completely dark. When Xia Yingnuan walked to the stairs, she stopped and rested for a while. Then she found that the only light on the first floor came from the direction of the kitchen.
Along with the light, she also discovered.
Those dark shadows were densely packed like a tide, sliding down the stairs, seemingly heading in the same direction as he was going.
However, perhaps because of Xia Yingnuan's actions in the room just now, they were all very far away from her.
A few shadows saw Xia Yingnuan stop and shrank towards the stairs on the other side, as if they were afraid that she might be tired and needed to replenish some energy.
After finding out that Xia Yingnuan had no such intention, he quickly slipped away.
The dark red silk from the kitchen was still blocking the doorway, but there was no more sound of chopping.
There was only the sound of burning matches and a faint gurgling sound like soup cooking.
The dark shadows had already climbed onto the silk and slipped into the kitchen.
Xia Yingnuan stood at the door for a while, secretly lifted the silk, took a look, and after confirming that the chef was no longer in the kitchen, she walked sideways into the kitchen and pulled the silk up again.
As soon as she entered, the fishy stench that hit her in the face made her cover her mouth and nose with her hands.
She didn't have much time left, so Xia Yingnuan didn't walk towards the copper pot that emitted a fishy smell, but walked towards the cupboard with a better view.
Then I successfully found a basket containing various vegetable ingredients.
She picked and chose among them and found a piece of dry bread that didn't smell special. She broke off a piece with her hands and put it in her mouth.
The task only prompts the player to eat midnight snacks, but does not restrict the types of snacks.
Xia Yingnuan would not be so stupid as to fall into a trap that was clearly hanging there, and it was obvious that this kind of task was behavior-based.
As long as the act of cheating is established, it doesn’t matter whether you eat more or less.
However, after she completely swallowed the dry bread, she did not hear the system's prompt sound announcing that the mission was successful, and her face did not react much.
But this didn't stop her from giving the game the middle finger and cursing in her heart.
She leaned against the cupboard bored, watching the dark shadows entering the kitchen in the light of the fire.
They seemed to be bewitched and gathered densely around the stove, as if they were very interested in the food in the bubbling copper pot.
But because of the fire, they couldn't get too close.
A slender black shadow peeled out from the shadow, slowly lengthened, and gradually took shape, trying to get closer to the copper pot through the gap.
But the next second.
Those dark shadows seemed to have sensed something and suddenly turned their heads to look towards Xia Yingnuan.
Feeling scared for a moment, Xia Yingnuan instinctively squatted down, and then she felt like a wind was sweeping over her head.
Clang——
The cabinet behind him seemed to have been chopped by something sharp, split in half from the middle, and fell straight down.
The red wine, plates, etc. inside all fell to the ground.
Xia Yingnuan took advantage of the time she had to hide to finally see the culprit who caused all this.
The tall chef had stood beside him quietly at some point, and without exception, the noise just now was made by him.
If Xia Yingnuan had squatted down a little later, her head and neck would probably have been separated by now.
【Kind tips--
The chef thinks you are a thief who visits the kitchen every night and will attack you for ten minutes. Please try your best to survive.
The system prompt sounded appropriately.
A ten-minute countdown appeared in front of her.
Xia Yingnuan was playing hide-and-seek with the chef who was walking with heavy steps in the narrow gap left by the collapsed cupboard.
While cursing in my heart.
This is a rubbish game, and she only knows the task of secretly eating midnight snacks. It can't be that simple.
It seems that only by finding a way to survive can the skill mission be considered completed.
Xia Yingnuan was already in poor health, and these two moves were an extraordinary performance under the dual effects of adrenaline and the axe. She could clearly feel her throat starting to tighten.
Under these circumstances, it was impossible for her to play hide-and-seek with the chef for ten minutes in such a small space.
Xia Yingnuan leaned against the wall and gasped for breath in panic. Finally, in a panic, she looked up and glanced at the chef, but found that he was still standing on the cupboard where she had leaned before.
Moreover, he was not holding an axe in his hand, and there was even a dazed look on the chef's face, and he didn't look like he was going to attack him.
At this distance, the opponent's axe shouldn't be able to hit me.
Before Xia Yingnuan had time to think further, she felt the sensation of the axe splitting the air from top to bottom.
She quickly dodged to the side, and finally saw clearly what was attacking her.
It was not the chef himself, but a dark shadow lingering out from the other person.
The black shadow was taller than the chef's body. It didn't even have a human shape, but more like the shadow of some beast. It held an axe in its hand and chopped at Xia Yingnuan indiscriminately.
Based on our previous experience, these dark shadows don't like bright places.
The moment the axe was about to brush against her head, Xia Yingnuan moved towards the stove.
It turned out that the attack behind him did not stop.
Shit, light doesn't work on it.
Xia Yingnuan had already started breathing heavily, and the tightness in her throat made her breathing even more difficult.
The dark shadow on the chef was about to attack again.
Xia Yingnuan had no choice but to try her luck and hooked her finger at the other party.
When she saw this black shadow, she felt the same primitive desire to devour it as when she saw the shadows in her room.
Although she herself has not yet adapted to this way of eating and does not want to eat such disgusting things, her life is at stake, so she has no choice but to give it a try.
As expected, the black shadow, like the other shadows, was uncontrollably hooked by Xia Yingnuan's fingers.
But just when Xia Yingnuan wanted to absorb it into her body, she found that the absorption process was stuck. The figure seemed to be stuck to the chef's body, and seemed to be imprisoned by something.
Xia Yingnuan couldn't absorb it at all.
The black shadow seemed not to have expected that he would be attracted. The hand holding the axe paused for a moment, then realized that the person in front of him seemed to be just bluffing, and prepared to attack again.
Seeing this, Xia Yingnuan quickly relaxed her fingers.
After going back and forth like this, Xia Yingnuan finally moved to the edge of the kitchen.
While the other person was stunned, he lifted the silk and ran out.
The candlelight on the road was lit again at some point.
Xia Yingnuan discovered that the dark shadows who had entered the kitchen with her and surrounded the copper pot and didn't want to leave were now running out in panic because of the arrival of the chef.
We come together when we come, and we run together when we run.
Xia Yingnuan didn't run fast, but her mind was working rapidly.
She remembered the system's prompt just now, 'The chef thinks you are a thief who comes every night.'
Well, Xia Yingnuan immediately understood that her feelings were the ones that took the blame for these dark shadows.
When the chef was in attack mode, he moved much faster than usual. As soon as Xia Yingnuan went up the stairs to the first floor, the chef had already caught up with her.
Xia Yingnuan had no choice but to run in a zigzag pattern for a while. While going up the stairs, she hooked her fingers onto several small black shadows that were sliding along the edges and crevices, and held their tails tightly.
You've screwed yourself and you still want to run away. How can that be possible?
"Hold the cook for me."
She was bossing people around, breathing heavily and giving orders, not caring whether the dark shadows in her hands could understand her or not.
The shadow held in her hand couldn't struggle free. It seemed to understand what the other party said, but it was so frightened that it trembled and wanted to slip away from Xia Yingnuan's hand. However, the prey had pinched its vital points and couldn't break free.
"Hurry up, or I'll eat you right now."
Xia Yingnuan finally reached the corner of the first floor, but was forced to take a few steps back by the chef's shadow and an axe.
It's only been five minutes, and there's still half the time left.
It seems I still have to go upstairs.
Xia Yingnuan quickly prepared to implement the second plan she had prepared in advance. After all, the space in her throat for breathing was getting smaller and smaller.
Fortunately, the little black shadows she held in her hands were forced to go around behind Xia Yingnuan's body due to the pressure of survival and took the axe for her.
It briefly slowed the chef down.
Xia Yingnuan used this method to finally get to the second floor, but the group of little black guys were no match for Chef Shadow. They were chopped apart by the other party in one go, and then no one knew where they hid and refused to show up again.
Taking advantage of this time difference, Xia Yingnuan almost risked her life and climbed to the third floor in one go.
The footsteps behind me grew heavier, and the sound of the axe cutting through the air grew closer.
Xia Yingnuan finally found the room on the easternmost side of the third floor.
There were still three minutes left in the countdown, and she knocked on the door desperately.
The dark shadow on the chef seemed to have not expected Xia Yingnuan to knock on the door. His footsteps of pursuit paused for a moment, and then he pounced on her even more angrily.
Xia Yingnuan no longer had the strength to run away, and could only watch helplessly as the chef's axe was about to fall.
The tightly closed door of the housekeeper's room was finally opened.
"I seem to have an allergic reaction to alcohol. I've got a rash and my throat is a bit sore. You said I could come to you if I needed help."
Although Xia Yingnuan was a little out of breath, she still finished the sentence quickly.
She ran so hard that she felt dizzy and could only see that the housekeeper's door was slightly open, and she couldn't even see the other person's face clearly.
The axe that was about to hit Xia Yingnuan stopped one centimeter away from the other's crown.
Realizing that the attack behind her had stopped, Xia Yingnuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, but her throat still felt uncomfortable.
Although she had thought of asking the housekeeper for help early in the morning, she also knew that in the middle of the night, especially when the other party was not going out, there must be a legitimate and reasonable reason to come to the other party.
And she was really allergic to alcohol, so she chose to drink only one sip of wine at the last moment before the mission started.
"I feel a little unwell, can you take me back to my room?"
After concentrating her attention for the last few seconds and confirming that the countdown was only a few seconds away, Xia Yingnuan finally couldn't bear it anymore. After she said this, she fell down uncontrollably.
Before she completely fainted, she only felt that the housekeeper's hand holding her was abnormally cold.
【2. Employees must not conflict with guests! Otherwise, the hotel will not be responsible for any accidents.】
3. Employees must remember the specific requirements of their respective positions and understand the underlying systems within them. (Note: There are enthusiastic and kind veteran employees willing to teach new employees.)
[4. The staff dormitory is located on the basement level of the hotel. When you return to the dormitory to rest, please make sure you are on the -1 floor. Do not enter the wrong room and occupy someone else's bed. I believe you do not want to meet a group of unfamiliar roommates.]
[5. If you encounter a lost guest, staff are obligated to escort them back to their room. However, please remember that none of the hotel's room numbers contain the number 4.]
6. Employees are not allowed to leave the hotel building after dark unless necessary. If it is necessary for work or a guest, employees must first obtain a "raincoat" from their supervisor.
[7. Each position has a corresponding work phone. All calls must be answered except for numbers with the caller ID shown as *******.]
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