Chapter 35: Going Downstairs Backwards
[……]
[Um… yeah.]
[That’s right, he’s not human anymore, he’s a ghost, an enemy]
[No, why are you guys being so cowardly? She can’t do anything to us through the screen. She’s just a bit bolder, so what?]
[But… the way she kept apologizing while relentlessly attacking was quite scary.]
Bai Cha chuckled inwardly. Sure enough, these viewers were all players, probably also afraid of potentially encountering her in the future, even though the comments were anonymous.
“I actually wanted to ask if anyone knows any clues about where the front desk’s room is?”
[It’s not that we don’t want to tell you, but even if we did, you wouldn’t be able to see it. The system will block it.]
[Yeah, including things we see in other players’ live streams, we can’t directly tell you either. The system will block it to ensure game fairness.]
Bai Cha looked thoughtful.
She quickly smiled brightly.
“I see. No wonder Brother Cai was always unsure if I was a newbie.”
[I didn’t snitch, okay?]
“It’s okay, we don’t know each other anyway,” Bai Cha said with a smile, closing the comments.
She had regained some strength and certainly wouldn’t waste time here for long.
Where the front desk lived was a problem.
But… whether the front desk saw her task of drawing cards was another question.
Bai Cha could feel the location of the dodder.
It seemed to still be on the first floor.
It would be too difficult for her to search for the front desk’s location place by place. It was better to just let the front desk return to his room himself.
As for taking his key…
She couldn’t even find the room, so what key was she going to take?
So Bai Cha pushed open the door. When she reached the stairwell, she found that there was another floor above.
After pondering for a moment, Bai Cha held onto the handrail and began to go downstairs backwards.
When she reached the second floor, Bai Cha felt like she almost bumped into a “person.”
She didn’t dare to stop, just like when she went upstairs. But because she was going downstairs backwards, she saw many “people” gathered at the stairwell.
There were probably seven or eight of them.
Bai Cha felt herself being watched.
Fortunately, after turning a corner, she reached the first floor.
“Bai Cha!” Xiao Xiao’s somewhat surprised voice came over.
Bai Cha turned her head. She had indeed come to this side of the world.
The stairs were like a doorway.
She didn’t go over immediately but looked at the front desk, who was standing there, also staring at her.
The front desk had changed his attire. He was now dressed like a lobby manager, in a black tailcoat, and even wore white gloves in a very formal manner.
The plaster-like texture on his face had returned a bit, but it wasn’t as strong as at the beginning.
He gave Bai Cha a fake smile.
“Did you complete your task? If not, why did you come back?”
The air was filled with a dangerous atmosphere.
“I can’t find your room. Can you tell me where it is?” Bai Cha asked with an innocent expression, actually keeping her hand firmly on the railing, her feet never completely leaving the stairs.
And in the other hand behind her back, she held the dagger tightly.
The front desk’s dark pupils stared at her, revealing a sinister smile.
“Guest, are you sure you want me to tell you?”
Xiao Xiao on the other side swallowed nervously.
Bai Cha seemed oblivious, looking at him innocently.
“Will there be any consequences if you tell me?”
“You will naturally know once I tell you,” the front desk began to walk towards the stairs unhurriedly.
Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and suddenly threw a card towards Bai Cha.
Bai Cha subconsciously reached out and caught it.
[Congratulations, you have obtained a prop card (Lightning Strike), remaining uses: 2]
She looked at Xiao Xiao with some surprise.
Xiao Xiao looked at her with a hint of apology. This was all she could do.
Bai Cha smiled brightly.
“Thank you.”
The front desk had already approached, and a suffocatingly cold aura pressed down on her.
“Guest, come with me?”
Bai Cha licked her dry lips, her back already soaked in cold sweat.
The other party seemed capable of snapping her neck in the next moment.
And he didn’t show any intention of stopping Xiao Xiao from giving her the prop card.
Usually, in this situation, there was only one possibility: the other party had absolute confidence in killing her.
Of course, she might not necessarily die.
But should she take the gamble?
Excitement welled up in Bai Cha’s heart. She widened the smile she had just given Xiao Xiao, not yet having retracted it.
“If you’re willing to take me there yourself, that would be even better!”
The front desk took a step forward, the distance between him and Bai Cha only a fist’s length.
Bai Cha’s skin crawled with goosebumps, but there was no flaw in her expression.
The front desk reached out his hand.
Bai Cha stared intently at him, also ready to trigger the dodder at any moment to buy herself time.
Fortunately, he only gestured for her to go ahead.
“Follow me.”
He lifted his leg and went upstairs past Bai Cha.
Bai Cha let out a barely perceptible sigh of relief.
Because of the adrenaline rush just now, she had used up a lot of energy, and she was a bit hungry again.
Bai Cha took out the unfinished apple and took a bite.
A crisp cracking sound.
The front desk paused and looked back.
Bai Cha smiled sweetly.
“I was hungry. Please continue to lead the way.”
The front desk’s eyes became even more gloomy.
