Chapter 297: Locust Tree Hotel 15
Of the ten rules, only the first two were the same as last night; the remaining eight had all changed.
With these eight rules in place, tonight was clearly not going to be a pleasant night.
First, she had to find the yellow ribbon.
Chu Yian thought it would be difficult, but she found it in the wardrobe. She tied the yellow ribbon to her left wrist, then got into bed to rest.
After all, the rules she needed to complete wouldn’t start for several hours, so she just needed to set an alarm and conserve her energy.
She closed the curtains and turned on all the lights in the room.
Not long after, the sound of steady breathing filled the room.
However, this early part of the night wouldn’t allow her to rest well; the phone on the bedside table and the room door occasionally rang. Chu Yian, once woken, would only glance at the time, and if it wasn’t yet midnight, she would continue to sleep.
Until the alarm she set rang.
Day two of the game, 11:50.
Chu Yian got up, full of energy, checked the ribbon on her left wrist and the prayer beads on her right, and then reviewed the new game rules. As soon as 00:01 arrived, she opened her room door on time.
Unexpectedly, someone was already waiting outside the door.
Li Mingzhu leaned against the wall, her eyes dark and her face haggard. But when she saw Chu Yian, her eyes instantly lit up, “Da Ni, you’re finally out.”
She said it as if Yian was late coming out.
Had she been waiting at the door for a long time?
“Why are you standing there? Hurry up and do the task.”
Li Mingzhu enthusiastically approached, reaching out to link arms with Chu Yian, but her wrist was grabbed. Chu Yian looked at her empty left hand, “You wore the ribbon incorrectly; it should be tied to your left wrist.”
How could she make such a basic mistake?
Li Mingzhu heard this and glanced at the ribbon on Chu Yian’s wrist, her expression immediately changing, “Good thing Da Ni is here; I didn’t even notice.”
After saying that, she frantically swiped her card and returned to her room.
Because of her haste, her left leg had a slight limp as she walked.
Her foot was injured.
Chu Yian had noticed this during the day, but Li Mingzhu didn’t say how she got injured, and Chu Yian couldn’t be bothered to ask. She glanced at the closed 8806, feeling inexplicably that Li Mingzhu’s behavior was a bit strange.
However, rather than worrying about Li Mingzhu, Chu Yian was more concerned about whether she could clear the game.
She touched the ribbon on her hand and walked directly towards the elevator.
The entire Hotel was 16 stories high, with the residential area starting from the fifth floor. Chu Yian’s eighth floor was actually only in the middle. The original forty-plus test sleepers were allocated to each floor, and in Chu Yian’s pre-conception, the elevator would be very busy tonight.
However, the reality was somewhat different from what she imagined; none of the six elevators were in use.
The players were very cautious, all waiting for the first person to take the plunge.
When Chu Yian reached the elevator entrance, two players were already standing there. They didn’t dare to get on the elevator, holding their rule manuals, studying the content word by word. Seeing Chu Yian appear, they were both wary and eager to talk to her.
But Chu Yian bypassed them directly and pressed for Elevator No. 1.
Under their gaze, she walked straight in.
Don’t be fooled by the six elevators; there was a very important rule in the Hotel’s general manual:
The Hotel has a total of 6 passenger elevators. Between 6:00 and 20:00, all 6 elevators can be used freely. Between 20:01 and 5:59, only elevators with odd numbers can be used.
This meant that only three elevators could be used now.
And the entire Hotel had 16 floors, with all floors except 1-4 being residential areas. Players were evenly distributed among the remaining floors, and elevator congestion might occur later.
The first person to take the plunge faced unknown dangers, but there were also benefits.
Chu Yian entered the elevator and, seeing the two players standing outside, casually asked, “Are you coming in?”
The two shook their heads quickly, “No, you first.”
As the elevator doors closed, Chu Yian felt a bit nervous being alone in the elevator. She took two deep breaths and quickly pressed the buttons for floors 1-4.
Rule 7: Test sleepers need to experience the elevator’s operation to ensure it can run on floors 1-4.
The elevator descended slowly, its speed seeming much slower than during the day.
A cool breeze blew from above, and Chu Yian’s gaze darted between the elevator floor indicator and her wrist, so nervous that her palms were sweating. In the quiet, terrifying atmosphere, the elevator dinged and stopped, and the doors opened.
That sudden sound seemed to be on the verge of snapping Chu Yian’s fragile nerves.
It was the fifth floor, and the doors opened.
Outside stood two players, also wearing yellow ribbons on their wrists, who were startled when they saw someone inside.
“A player?”
The two asked Chu Yian’s identity.
Chu Yian’s face was somewhat pale at this moment, and her heart was beating abnormally fast. She nodded slightly, then looked at the elevator’s close-door button, “Are you coming in?”
The two players hesitated.
Logically speaking, they were on the fifth floor.
These were the lowest-level rooms, and the difficulty was much less than other rooms. But both of them were cowards and didn’t dare to take the elevator.
Seeing their hesitation, Chu Yian pressed the close-door button. However, the very next second before the elevator doors completely closed, one of them grabbed the closing doors.
With a mix of fear and a desperate resolve, the two walked into the elevator.
The elevator started moving again, finally stopping on the fourth floor, and the doors slowly opened on this floor.
It was pitch black outside, with only the emergency escape lights below emitting a faint green glow. A cold wind blew from the doorway, like it was clinging to their backs, making them shiver involuntarily.
It was as if something terrifying was hidden in the darkness.
Even without going out, this sense of fear lingered in their hearts.
The two big men huddled in the corner, trembling. Finally, after enough time had passed, the elevator doors slowly closed and it began to move again. They glanced at Chu Yian, who stood in the middle with an expressionless face, feeling that this girl was incredibly brave.
In reality, Chu Yian’s legs were shaking.
The third floor was equally dark.
Then the second floor,
and the first floor.
Seeing the lights on the first floor come on, the three in the elevator couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, the elevator didn’t stop on the first floor; instead, it continued to descend.
“What’s going on?”
“Why didn’t the elevator stop?”
The two people in the elevator nervously hid in the corner. Chu Yian, equally scared, kept pressing the 1st-floor button. However, it was useless; the text on the elevator button suddenly changed to “B1”.
What was B1?
Was there such a floor in the building?
Just as she began to doubt, the elevator doors opened. A cold, metallic wind rushed into the elevator, and the darkness ahead was absolute, without a single glimmer of light…
