Chapter 18 The Sixth Night

The next morning, the players gathered in room 1108, silent.

Everyone had already shared their experiences from the night before. Those who were idle last night, or possibly idle, were Hei Shengzi, 13mArk, Yuyi Xinzhong, Li Ang, and Mule.

Those who received notes were Bai Haozheng, Plague Doctor, Liu Wudai, and Wanli Fengdao.

The note Plague Doctor received was full of malice: [Don't get killed]. He was attacked again by the rotting elderly creature in room 0610,

Barely holding on,

Until Hei Shengzi and Yuyi Xinzhong came to his aid.

Then, the elevator safety time arrived. Hei Shengzi selflessly entered the stairwell to check the explosion situation upstairs.

Plague Doctor and Yuyi Xinzhong hid in the elevator, going up to find Hei Shengzi.

They saw Li Ang in the tenth-floor corridor, silently pounding the clown with his fists, and Hei Shengzi standing beside him, dumbfounded.

Li Ang first crushed the clown's limbs into powder, then used vines with divine power to bind it tightly, preventing it from escaping.

Then, he threw the clown to Hei Shengzi, telling him, Plague Doctor, and Yuyi Xinzhong to keep a close watch on it. He would take the opportunity to check on Bai Haozheng on the fourteenth floor—

Before leaving, he specifically instructed Plague Doctor and Yuyi Xinzhong to stay in the elevator, and Hei Shengzi to stay in room 1108, leaving the door open, to interrogate the clown (keeping the door open was to monitor the elevator. If a rotting elderly creature suddenly attacked, the people in the elevator and 1108 could support each other).

Li Ang himself, armed with a scythe, searched the hotel rooms on each floor, looking for 13mArk and the red-clothed old woman.

Whether 13mArk had already been killed and devoured, his traces erased by the corridor's reset,

Or the red-clothed old woman had special cleaning and concealment skills,

Li Ang searched every floor but found no special traces.

During this process, he even went to the sixth floor and encountered the rotting elderly creature hanging upside down from the corridor ceiling, holding a tattered bag—the former hotel residents only dared to refer to this strange being as the "Terror Elder" in private.

As soon as the Terror Elder saw Li Ang, it attacked him.

Fortunately, Li Ang had heard about their effective strategy for dealing with rotting elderly creatures from Hei Shengzi and others.

That is, to continuously bombard the opponent with uninterrupted, high-intensity attacks,

Preventing it from using black oil teleportation, or space-cutting abilities that required a certain pre-action—

The Terror Elder's body was extremely sturdy, and the black oily substance on its surface was corrosive, causing most materials to collapse within seconds of contact.

Li Ang used hard wooden spears created by Swamp Divine Power to continuously bombard the opponent, trying to knock it directly against the wall at the end of the corridor, and used constantly growing vines to bind the Terror Elder's hands and feet.

Perhaps sensing Li Ang's intention to bring it into the elevator,

After repeatedly trying to cut space without success,

The Terror Elder secreted more black oily substance from its body,

Corroding the entangled vines,

Then, it deeply looked at Li Ang with those rotten, dull eyes, ignored the wooden spear strikes, and disappeared into the ground.

After that, Li Ang, wandering on each floor, never encountered any more corridor monsters or hat-wearing figures.

He went to the second floor on the right side of the hotel, where Mule and Liu Wudai had successfully joined up with Wanli Fengdao—

Xiao Dao Ge (Little Knife Bro) received the note around 00:30. The content of the note was exactly the same as the one Plague Doctor received: [Don't get killed].

Soon after he saw the note, the door of room 0272 was knocked on. Through the peephole, he saw a white man wearing a Dolphin Hotel staff uniform,

Smiling, he politely asked Wanli Fengdao in German if he needed any assistance.

Xiao Dao Ge naturally knew that this white man should be one of the corridor monsters Judy Cecil had mentioned before. He politely refused in English, following the experience of the former hotel residents.

However, the other party did not leave quietly as rumored. Instead, he withdrew his smile and demanded that Wanli Fengdao open the door in a slightly harsher tone.

Wanli Fengdao braced the door, silent, and drew his saber.

The white man outside the door hammered the door more and more violently, his expression gradually turning ferocious and distorted, and his body also deformed drastically,

Turning into a deformed monster similar in shape to a mud eyeball.

When Mule and Liu Wudai arrived, the deformed monster had already broken through the door of 0272 and was fighting with Wanli Fengdao.

With the help of the Mechanical Golem, Liu Wudai, and Mule,

After a lot of effort, they finally killed the deformed monster—it could heal quickly, and each time it was injured, it would become more violent, and its size would skyrocket, filling most of the corridor.

Seeing that it was impossible to capture the opponent alive,

Wanli Fengdao had no choice but to consume a one-time-use skill scroll, releasing the eighth move of the Sacred Spirit Swordplay created by Sword Saint, the lord of Wushuang City in *Fung Wan* (lit. *Wind and Cloud*), [Sword Eight],

Using two intersecting sword energies, he tore the deformed monster apart, annihilating it, and earning reward points.

Strangely, after the deformed monster was killed, the fragments of its body quickly melted and were absorbed by the floor of the hotel corridor.

After Li Ang reunited with Xiao Dao Ge and the others, they discussed briefly,

Since Li Ang had already repelled the Terror Elder and had not seen any more corridor monsters,

They simply went down to the first floor and various parts of the hotel to continue the search.

Unfortunately, they still couldn't find the red-clothed old woman.

The four returned to the tenth floor and reunited with Hei Shengzi and the others—Hei Shengzi and the others had already been to the fourteenth floor and confirmed that Bai Haozheng was safe and sound.

For the first time during curfew, all the players gathered together,

On the tenth floor, they interrogated the mud eyeball in the glass bottle,

And the clown bound by vines.

On the sixth night, of the original fourteen players, only eight remained.

Li Ang and the others used various means to try to get information from the abnormalities.

Bai Haozheng even risked a great deal to use his Nen ability to perform memory side writing on the clown, but still did not obtain any useful information.

Seeing that the elevator safety time was about to end, Li Ang threw the clown into the elevator.