What's going on?

Mu Yin zhi Gui's breath hitched, and the thoughts in his mind instantly exploded.

Who on earth activated the elevator?

A player? Unlikely. Opening the door during curfew is a major taboo for survival, unless someone received a special note or heard that "one less" voice, preparing to escape upwards.

An Aberrant? The hotel guide clearly stated that the hotel elevators would activate a safety protection system between 01:11 and 06:07, making it absolutely safe to enter the elevator during this time. In other words, Aberrants cannot enter the elevator.

Unless the rules are invalidated.

Then, is it the existence that made the "one less" voice?

Is it the "hotel staff" the woman in the kimono mentioned, or some kind of anomaly within the hotel?

Mu Yin zhi Gui's breath landed on the inside of the security door, causing some water droplets to accumulate on the door panel.

Through the peephole, he saw the pointer above the elevator shaft begin to rotate, and the corresponding grids lit up one by one.

First floor, second floor, third floor...

Mu Yin zhi Gui stared intently at the elevator shaft pointer, silently counting the number of floors,

While pressing the paper against the door panel, faithfully recording the scene he saw.

Logically speaking, he had already followed the instructions on the note, fallen asleep, entered a dream,

And vaguely killed an anomalous existence in the dream,

Completed the note's instructions, and should no longer have any trouble,

But now, even the elevator shaft might have been infiltrated by Aberrants, and the rationality of the hotel's rules was marked with a big question mark.

Even if he completed the note, it was not absolutely safe.

The pointer was still rotating.

The elevator ascended from the first floor until it stopped on the eighth floor.

The eighth floor is... where that player called 13mArk is!

Mu Yin zhi Gui felt a sense of relief. Better a dead Daoist than a dead me.

The elevator didn't linger on the 2nd to 7th floors along the way.

If what came up in the elevator was really a monster,

Then it targeting 13mArk was actually a good thing—at least Mu Yin zhi Gui or Hei Sheng Zi would be safe...

Da—

The elevator shaft pointer rotated again. In Mu Yin zhi Gui's eyes, which were wide with astonishment,

The light raster that started flowing again above the elevator shaft was reflected.

After a brief pause on the eighth floor, the elevator started ascending again.

Ninth floor...

Tenth floor...

Eleventh floor...

As the elevator shaft pointer continued to shift to the right,

Mu Yin zhi Gui's scalp tingled more and more.

He seemed to sense something, and the palm of his left hand, which was holding the pen, trembled slightly.

Around his demon-like gigantic body, the fierce baleful aura also subsided and lay dormant.

Ding—

The bell rang, and the elevator stopped on the twelfth floor.

Mu Yin zhi Gui's breathing stopped. He clenched the pen in his left hand, almost crushing the pen body,

His right hand gripped the naginata, ready to take half a step back at any moment and unleash a slash—according to the information left behind by Dan Fei,

The rooms are not absolutely safe,

And the anomalous existences in the hotel can probably open doors.

Click!

The elevator doors slowly opened, and through the peephole, Mu Yin zhi Gui saw the existence in the elevator.

It was an old woman wearing red clothes.

Her skin was pale, her figure was tall and thin, and her back was hunched.

Her silently, maniacally laughing mouth had unusually white teeth, and the corners of her upturned mouth were almost reaching her ears.

The old woman in the red robe stood alone in the elevator, holding the wall of the elevator with her right hand, and her left hand hanging down at her waist.

The robe on her body emitted a strange red light under the illumination of the elevator lights.

This is... the old woman in red that Dan Fei described earlier, whom he had seen on the tenth floor and who had killed his brother.

The shock in Mu Yin zhi Gui's heart was indescribable.

Why did the old woman in red appear in the elevator?

How did she avoid the elevator safety system mentioned in the hotel guide?

Why did she come to the twelfth floor?

Mu Yin zhi Gui tightly gripped the naginata, and black baleful aura swirled around him.

He had full confidence in his own strength.

Even a paranormal monster of Lv18 level would be cut in two with a single strike from his naginata filled with rage.

However, Mu Yin zhi Gui didn't move.

He just stood behind the door, facing the old woman in red through the peephole.

Fear itself is always the player's greatest enemy.

If Mu Yin zhi Gui wanted to harm the other party, he would have to push open the door,

But pushing open the door would cause the resident to violate the rules, which could result in punishment.

Conversely, if he just stood at the door and observed the situation, the risk would be much less.

The other party had just stopped on the eighth floor.

Considering the short amount of time it took for the elevator to start again, and the fact that there were no traces of battle on the other party,

Mu Yin zhi Gui had reason to believe that

The old woman in red didn't come with the determination to fight him to the death, and might not even make any attacks.

Acting blindly would only put him in an absolutely passive position.

Mu Yin zhi Gui figured all of this out in a very short period of time, holding his weapon, looking at the old woman in red in the elevator, and strongly suppressed the urge to attack.

Finally, the elevator doors closed.

The elevator drove upwards,

Leaving only the image of the old woman in red with a smile on her face, which still lingered in Mu Yin zhi Gui's mind.

“…”

What in the world is going on?

Mu Yin zhi Gui sighed in his heart, and slowly withdrew his gaze.

Everything that happened tonight was so inexplicable, bizarre, and strange.

"One less."

That ethereal and deep voice rang out once again.

This time it was very clear, coming from downstairs.

???

Mu Yin zhi Gui widened his eyes in shock,

He originally thought that the voice was made by the old woman in red,

But he didn't expect that the voice didn't belong to the old woman in the red robe.

Mu Yin zhi Gui hesitated, brought his eyes close to the peephole, and looked outside.

Squeak—

As the stairwell door on the left side of the twelfth floor was pushed open,

Several figures came into Mu Yin zhi Gui's view.

They, or rather, they, were six slender, tall humanoids, three meters tall, close to the corridor ceiling,

With bamboo hats on their heads, all of their limbs and torsos were shrouded in raincoats that were constantly dripping water,

And their specific faces could not be seen.

These six figures, who walked out of the stairwell slowly, looked so thin, as if a gust of wind could blow them all down,

But in Mu Yin zhi Gui's perception,

These six figures were like black holes, devouring all external energy.

Cold, indifferent, ignoring the outside world,

It was as if they were in another world.

"One less..."

They muttered to themselves, moving their footsteps forward along the corridor.

Along the way, the lights dimmed and the temperature dropped.

A thin layer of frost silently covered the carpets and the lampshades of the wall lamps.

Mu Yin zhi Gui didn't dare to breathe loudly. He took half a step back silently, and didn't even dare to write on the paper anymore.

He couldn't fight them, and he couldn't defeat them.

Mu Yin zhi Gui had never fought them, but a clear understanding emerged in his mind.

No matter what they were, or what they wanted,

He had already completed the content of the note, so it was unlikely that he would continue to be targeted...

"One less..."

The thin figure walking at the very front suddenly turned his head to look at room 1208, which he had just passed.

Underneath his face, which was mostly covered by the raincoat, he made a deep voice, "Found it."