Chapter 26: Inside Room 305
“Possibly.”
So far, no one has seen the extra floor.
So Bai Cha’s words are indeed very likely.
But this doesn’t allow everyone to confirm the new rule.
“Should we go take a look at 305 first?” the glasses man said.
Bai Cha didn’t say anything more.
Everyone went upstairs.
In front of the door of room 305, Zhong Man’s body was still there.
“Speaking of which, what about his body inside the room?” Bai Cha asked seemingly casually.
Zhong Man and Brother Cai were in the same room, room 308.
Several players immediately opened the door of room 308.
The room was empty.
Bai Cha looked thoughtful.
Everyone was also unsure whether the bodies of players who died outside would disappear, or if the two of them were special cases.
But when Bai Cha opened the door of room 307, the bodies that should have belonged to the Ponytail girl and the glasses man were also not there.
Bai Cha’s own body in room 306 was also gone.
Everyone’s hearts grew heavier. This kind of special situation usually only signifies bad things.
They might not be able to go back for the time being.
Thinking about the front desk asking them to play a board game at this moment felt even more subtle.
With a click,
Everyone looked over. Wang Xuming didn’t know what method he used, but he opened the door of room 305.
A faint and almost imperceptible scent of incense drifted out from inside, which was completely dark.
Wang Xuming pushed the door open completely. With a creaking sound, the inside remained dark, without a trace of light.
He looked back at everyone and said, “Go in?”
Everyone hesitated for a moment.
This place looked quite abnormal.
And the scent of incense meant there might be offerings.
In this kind of environment, one could imagine what was being offered.
But if there were really any clues inside, it would be a shame not to look.
Everyone wasn’t a team of mutually trusting members. Who knew if someone would monopolize the clues after finding them?
So in the end, everyone still walked towards the inside of room 305.
Xiao Xiao grabbed Bai Cha and stood slightly in front of her, shielding her.
Bai Cha only felt the scent of incense in the darkness, very strong, even making her want to cough.
Xiao Xiao, who was just holding her, was gone. It seemed like she was the only one in the entire darkness.
Bai Cha saw three points of fire.
Walking over to look, those three points of fire were actually three burning incense sticks.
On the table was an offering covered with a red cloth, most likely the same kind of Buddha statue as outside.
If this room had the same layout as the other rooms, this position should be at the head of the bed.
Bai Cha carefully groped in the darkness.
Everything around was blurry, only the scent of incense grew stronger.
Vaguely, she seemed to hear that call again.
Bai Cha knew that as the voice became clearer, she would only become more dangerous.
She felt the bathroom door.
The layout of the room was indeed the same unified style as the guesthouse.
Bai Cha opened the bathroom door and slipped inside.
A cold light flew over. Bai Cha leaned against the door, her pupils slightly dilated.
A feeling of pain came from her neck.
“It’s you…”
A faint light suddenly appeared in the bathroom. It was a lighter, the flame outlining Wang Xuming’s silhouette.
Bai Cha breathed a slight sigh of relief, while also moving closer to the wall beside her.
“Why are you here? Do you know where the others are?” She still looked harmless.
Wang Xuming chuckled softly, without answering her question. Instead, he asked her a question.
“You did that on purpose downstairs, didn’t you?”
Bai Cha blinked, looking like she didn’t understand what he was talking about.
“You guided them to deduce the rules. On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be any problem. But that’s on the premise that the two sets of rules contradict each other.”
Actually, Wang Xuming hadn’t expected Bai Cha to enter the bathroom.
It wasn’t convenient to chat with so many people around earlier, but now was a good opportunity. He wanted to see if this newbie was suitable to join their guild.
Bai Cha leaned against the wall, smiling without saying a word.
Yes, no one had ever said that the rules were contradictory. Following the guesthouse’s rules didn’t necessarily mean one couldn’t follow the front desk’s rules, and there was no rule stating that the guesthouse and the front desk were definitely opposed.
It was just that everyone would subconsciously assume so, and Bai Cha had taken advantage of this inertia of thinking, guiding them slightly.
To put it bluntly, Zhong Man might have actually triggered the rule after hearing the voice.
He went to the front desk and triggered the death condition.
Ponytail girl and the others woke up their companions, so they didn’t trigger the death rule on the guesthouse’s side. This only proved that the guesthouse’s rule was best not followed, but it couldn’t prove anything about the front desk’s rules.
And it also didn’t mean that the front desk’s rule conflicted with the guesthouse’s rule.
What if going downstairs to find the front desk could also avoid the death condition?
Zhong Man died at the door of room 305. He might not have gone downstairs to find the front desk.
Regardless of which rule he violated, he didn’t find the front desk by calling. That was his death condition, unrelated to other rules.
Moreover, Bai Cha and Xiao Xiao, who didn’t wake up their companions, also didn’t die.
They just almost died.
This was different.
If Bai Cha had faced the female ghost, she might have died too.
So in fact, no real rule had been deduced from beginning to end.
“So you know everyone is divided into factions?” The firelight from the lighter in Wang Xuming’s hand made his face flicker.
[What are they talking about?]
The viewers in both of their live streams were a bit confused.
[What does this guy mean? It can’t be that this newbie has something special that we haven’t seen, right?]
[Was that guiding earlier? I didn’t see it.]
