Chapter 290: Locust Tree Hotel 8
However, there is a subjective condition here: smelling a strange odor in the room.
Chu Yian didn’t smell any strange odor in her room, but she could insist that she did, and then wait for someone to deal with it.
Rule 7 stated that all maintenance workers would stop working after 00:01, so she needed to get the maintenance work done in advance.
Staying in the bathroom, Chu Yian wasn’t idle.
She first glanced at the only mirror in the room, then found a bath towel to cover it.
After that, she sat on the toilet lid and flipped through the appendices that needed to be filled out at the back of the Test Sleeper Manual.
Appendix 1: Viewing Experience
Appendix 2: Mattress Experience
Appendix 3: Bathroom Experience
Appendix 4: Overall Impression of Hotel Room 8808.
She hadn’t watched TV yet, the bathroom experience had a time requirement, and the overall impression should be written last.
Chu Yian looked at Appendix 2, thinking about how to start writing after having lain on the bed today.
She shouldn’t just write randomly, right?
Should she write honestly, or praise it?
By the way, how exactly should one write a review for a mattress?
Chu Yian found writing reviews difficult; the maintenance personnel had come in to inspect the room and knocked three times at the door, yet she hadn’t managed to squeeze out a few proper sentences.
Forget it, she’d experience the mattress again and complete the TV-watching task at the same time.
Rule 4: You must watch at least 40 minutes of TV, and the TV does not have channels 4, 14, and 18.
Chu Yian thought of this requirement and was very cautious when turning on the TV.
Fearing that the TV might immediately be on one of those three channels, she even pressed other number buttons on the remote control in advance.
Then… “66666!”
Under Chu Yian’s persistent efforts, the TV finally stopped on channel 66.
“Raising cattle and growing sorghum, excellent ways to sell cattle.
Agricultural and Rural Channel’s ‘Road to Riches’ brings you the stories of cattle farmers…”
This standard news announcer’s voice, this down-to-earth, simple topic.
It instantly filled the room with a sense of everyday life.
Chu Yian hadn’t watched TV in a long time and didn’t expect a show about cattle farming for riches could be so engaging.
At the same time, Li Mingzhu had already gone upstairs.
She had been trying to curry favor with two powerful players during dinner, so she was a step slower than others in getting the Test Sleeper Manual.
By the time she arrived, only the yellow Test Sleeper Manuals were left, and she had to sweet-talk her way into copying a relatively complete set of rules from someone else.
“Really, I don’t know what Wang Da Ni is doing.”
As one of the strongest players, Li Mingzhu had no doubt that Wang Da Ni had already obtained the green manual.
She was just very angry that, despite their previously good relationship and now being neighbors, and despite her clear request to Wang Da Ni, Wang Da Ni hadn’t revealed any information to her.
It would only take a moment to give a reminder; it wouldn’t cost her much time.
The bumpkin only cared about herself; it was indeed correct for her to find another big shot.
Thinking this, Li Mingzhu angrily kicked the door of room 8808, then quickly entered her own room and closed the door.
A loud bang from the kicking of the door.
Chu Yian, lying on the bed, heard it instantly.
She sat up and turned to look towards the door, but the sound was just a single one.
As she turned her head back, the TV program suddenly changed.
The news about cattle farming for riches abruptly turned into a scene of a Hotel room, the TV sound was gone, and the protagonist inside silently walked around the room… Channel 14.
The TV channel automatically jumped to 14!
Chu Yian sprang up from the bed and rushed back into the bathroom.
The air grew cold.
As Chu Yian rushed into the bathroom, footsteps began to sound outside.
Initially, it was a distinct TV sound, which then transformed into the sound of walking outside.
The sound grew increasingly distinct and closer, making it feel as if it was right outside the door.
Tap, tap, tap.
That sound was really close.
Separated by a thin door, Chu Yian couldn’t help but imagine the situation behind the door at that moment—
A grotesque entity, having just climbed out of the TV, was pressing tightly against the floor, staring intently at her with eyes that were only whites!
Damn it.
It was really terrifying!
The thing hadn’t even entered the door, and Chu Yian was already close to peeing herself from the scene she imagined.
Until a distinct sound of pigeons taking flight rang out outside.
Rule 4: Come out when you hear the sound of pigeons flying outside, and switch the TV to a normal channel.
Even though she was scared, Chu Yian would prioritize fulfilling the requirements of the rules.
She once again switched the channel to 66, and the ‘Road to Riches’ program had moved from cattle farming to beekeeping.
Chu Yian sat on the bed, checked the time, took two deep breaths to calm herself, and began preparing to write the experiences for Appendix 1 and Appendix 2.
Meanwhile, Li Mingzhu in the next room was progressing too slowly.
She had slowly gone upstairs and was only now finishing clearing all the mirrors in her room.
However, by the time she called the Hotel management center to have them removed, it was already past 20:30.
“Apologies, the workers who handle mirrors have already left for the day.
If you have a need, please allow our staff to handle it tomorrow between 8:00 and 20:30.”
What?
Li Mingzhu didn’t expect that just two minutes late, they wouldn’t take these items.
“Then what should I do with these things now?”
She said, looking at the mirrors piled on the floor.
These mirrors were haphazardly placed, reflecting her shadow from various angles.
Li Mingzhu looked at these mirrors and suddenly saw the person inside smile maliciously at her.
“You need to handle it yourself.”
The voice from the other end of the phone and the momentary anomaly in the mirror made her tremble.
Li Mingzhu had no doubt that these things were deadly hot potatoes.
She tried to throw a mirror away, but before the mirror in her hand could be thrown, the gloomy shadow met her gaze.
Although it was her own reflection, Li Mingzhu inexplicably felt that if she dared to throw the mirror away, she would die.
These mirrors instantly became hot potatoes.
What to do?
Where to put them?
Li Mingzhu’s mind was a mess, and she nearly made the foolish mistake of stuffing all the mirrors under the bed.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered that a big shot lived next door.
Looking at the mirrors all over the floor, she finally couldn’t help but run outside.
The next moment, Chu Yian’s door was knocked.
The urgent knocking made Chu Yian pause, then she remembered game rule 7: [After 00:01, all maintenance personnel will no longer work.
Do not open the door to anyone outside, do not leave your room.]
Although it was still early before midnight, Chu Yian still chose not to open the door to anyone.
Until Li Mingzhu’s frightened plea came from outside, “Da Ni, open the door, I know you’re in there! Save me, please save me!”
