At night, Zero took a look at the clock and it was eleven o'clock.
There is still an hour left before the time for the confinement, so Zero decided to go on and take a walk.
There is a strange fragrance of flowers in the entire hotel, and Zero still likes this smell very much.
But I always feel like I smelled it somewhere.
Wearing a fox mask, Zero turned around on the next level of himself.
The rooms all seemed empty because Zero could not hear any sound inside.
Even the sound of breathing cannot be heard.
At this time, the sound of thunder came from outside. Zero walked to the window at the end of the corridor and found that it was raining heavily outside.
The rain fell suddenly and it started to fall almost instantly.
When I arrived at the hall, my grandfather was smoking with his pipe, but the door was locked.
"Is it because it rained and there were no guests so that the door was locked?" Zero thought to himself.
"What are you doing here? Go up and have a rest." Grandpa said while smoking.
"Why open the door if someone needs to shelter from the rain?" Zero said.
"You really burned your brain, my grandson." Grandpa laughed out loud and choked by the smoke. "There are no 'people's' coming here to shelter from the rain."
“Why……”
"This is a hotel for ghosts to stay in," said grandpa.
Ling was slightly surprised. This was quite beyond his expectations. He thought there were only ghosts here, but he didn't expect it to be for ghosts to live there.
"Those guys don't need the door to come in. Haha, there will probably be many ghosts coming today. If you don't want to be scared, you'd better go up." Grandpa said with a smile.
"No, it doesn't matter. I'd better take a breath. I'll go up after almost twelve o'clock." Zero shook his head and said.
Soon, a few transparent things walked through the wall and entered the hotel.
Those transparent things are ghosts, but in fact some ordinary people have become transparent, and all of them are old people.
It seems to be a normal ghost of death.
Needless to say, these ghosts entered one empty room after another.
"These are all normal. If it is the kind of guy who dies unexpectedly, it will be disgusting, haha." Grandpa said when he saw Ling Bolan's calm look.
It doesn't matter to Zero, I have seen enough ways to die in the game.
As soon as he finished speaking, a ghost walked in. His body was very ragged, his intestines and a large number of organs were hung outside, and one of his eyes fell off. He looked around and walked up to the second floor.
"How much does that guy have in a day?" asked Zero.
"Many, accidents often happen here." Grandpa said calmly.
Zero wanted to ask grandpa why he did this and why he specially built a hotel to house ghosts. Is there any reason?
However, it would be a bit too false to ask this straightforward question. You can indeed use a sick mind to fool some trivial matters, but it is hard to say such things.
Just as Zero was thinking, there was a sudden burst of knocks outside the door.
"What's going on? Are there anyone living here?" asked Zero.
"Maybe it's because someone from other places doesn't understand the rules. I'll drive them away." Grandpa said, getting up and opening the door.
Outside the door was a girl in a student uniform. She was gasping for breath and was wet all over her body.
"Well, uncle, do you have any free rooms?" she asked.
"Ah, child, you may not understand the rules here..." Seeing that he was still a child, grandpa hesitated a little.
"I'll give you all the money. Please, let me live there. I've lived there for several days." The female student begged.
Grandpa hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.
"You go to the room at the end of the top corridor. Don't go out after twelve o'clock, wait until the sun rises before coming out. Do you understand?"
The female student nodded repeatedly, picked up the key and ran to the room at the end of the corridor upstairs.
That room is next to Room Zero.
"Zero, go and give her a dry towel and some hot tea at the same time." Grandpa said.
"...I understand." Zero was not very happy to do such things. Compared to this, he would rather observe the ghost here for a while, but since grandpa asked him to do it, he would better go.
I took a cup of hot tea, took a dry towel, and went to the room ahead of Zero.
However, as soon as he opened the door, Zero saw the female student taking off her wet clothes.
“…….”
“…….”
"Um, um, go out and close the door!" The female student immediately covered her chest, grabbed an old magazine next to her and threw it over. Zero was too lazy to hide, so she let the magazine hit her in the face.
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"This is free for you." Zero said, putting the hot tea and dry towel on the floor and pulling the door.
Then, Zero returned to his room.
"Just let her go? This is not your style." The Lord of Ruins suddenly rang out.
"You, why are you......"
"I don't know either. In short, my consciousness has not been isolated. Just like you did in the last trial, my consciousness has also awakened at the last moment. I know why."
"Anyway, this is not a bad thing," Zero said, pulling a book from the bookshelf.
"Are you clueless about the trial?" The Lord of Ruins asked when he saw this.
"No."
"So, what clues are there in that book?"
“No, either.”
"Then what are you doing."
"I'm bored, just take a look."
"......... Then how do you pass the test?"
"Take a step, look a step."
At night, Zero got up from the bed.
"What are you going to do?" asked the Lord of the Ruins when he saw this.
“Go out and have a look.”
"Didn't that old man said he wouldn't let you go out?"
"How can I complete the game if I keep listening?" Zero said, gently opening the door of the room.
The entire corridor was very quiet, but now Zero knew that there were already travelers in these rooms.
Through the windows in the corridor, Zero saw grandpa placing bamboo and salt-like ghost-removing items outside the house. It seemed that grandpa would do this as long as the hotel was full of ghosts.
Suddenly, Zero heard a slight friction sound behind him, turned his head and saw that the deformed ghost was behind him.
The ghost looked at Zero, opened his mouth and showed a very terrifying smile, and some unknown liquid dripped down the corners of his mouth.
Zero looked at the ghost, ignored him directly, and then walked through his body to the next floor.
When he came to the next floor, Zero saw many ghosts wandering in the corridor. Zero avoided those ghosts and wanted to go to the next floor.
Suddenly, one hand grabbed his shoulder. Zero turned his head and saw that it turned out to be a ghost. Unlike other ghosts, this ghost could touch him.
"Help us..." The ghost made a hoarse voice.
"What......."
"We... can't get out..." the ghost continued, and the other ghosts gradually gathered towards Zero.
Zero felt something was wrong, so he pushed the ghost away and ran upstairs quickly, but the ghosts followed Zero tightly, and were about to throw Zero down.
At the critical moment, Zero grabbed a handful of salt and scattered it on the faces of the ghosts. The ghosts screamed and fled.
"This thing really works." Zero said in surprise, "I thought it was feudal superstition..."
Looking at the escaped ghosts, Zero began to recall what the ghost said to him just now.
"We can't get out."
Going out? Does it mean to leave this hotel? Grandpa just put various props for exorcism outside the house, and they really couldn't leave, but the next day, grandpa should take away all the things, and they can do it at that time.
The most important thing about leaving is that they are not here themselves, why are they so anxious to leave?
"What do you care about them, they will definitely disappear in some form the next day." said the Lord of Ruins, "When you woke up, there wasn't a ghost in the hotel."
"It's right..... Wait a minute, but when I woke up, those devil-exorcist things had not been taken away." Zero suddenly remembered that when he just entered the game, his grandfather asked him to go to the hall to clean it.
It was at that time that my grandfather took away the things that exorcized the ghosts, but at that time there were no ghosts in the hotel.
Just as I was thinking, footsteps came downstairs.
"That old man is back." said the Lord of Ruins.
Zero nodded and speeded up to return to his room.
Early the next morning, Zero lay down next to the window, and the ghost-removing items outside were still there, which means that the ghost could not leave the hotel.
Thinking of this, Zero immediately opened the door and walked out of the room, and opened the door to a room directly.
It was empty inside and there were no ghosts.
Zero spent a walk around the entire hotel, not only did he not see any ghosts, but even his grandfather didn't know where he went.
"What the hell is going on? Where have those ghosts gone?" Zero thought, and returned to the door of his room on the top floor.
My mission is probably inseparable from the disappearance of these ghosts. Do you want to ask grandpa? No, I don’t know if grandpa is an ordinary NPC now, and the possibility of setting him into a boss in the trial is not without.
Just as he was thinking, the girl walked out of the room.
When she saw Zero, her eyes were a little dodged, as if it was because of what happened last night.
Zero didn't know if she had anything to do with the main line of the game, so he didn't talk to him.
"Well, I'm sorry for what happened last night. I'm too impulsive." She said first.
"It's okay, I didn't knock on the door." Zero replied briefly.
She nodded and walked downstairs with a light pace.
Zero glanced at her room and it didn't close.
Although sneaking into a room of a strange woman is immoral, Zero can only do this in order to find clues to the game.
A bowl of salt is placed in every corner of the girl's room. It is logical that there should be no salt in other rooms except her own room. However, I thought that my grandfather asked me to send her hot tea and towels last night, so my grandfather later sent her salt.
It's not a strange thing.
When he arrived at the table, Zero saw many notebooks and painting books on the table, and there were many cartoons and sketches on the painting books. Is this guy a painter? I really can't tell.
From her notebook, Zero also knew her name, Liu Zhu.
It is not surprising that there are many backstory things written in the notebook. If she is a cartoonist, designing characters is essential.
Just when Zero wanted to continue investigating some things, the Lord of Ruins prompted him that Liu Zhu was back.
There was no choice but to leave the room.
But before leaving the room, Zero poked a small hole with his finger through the sliding door of her room.