The cramped, crowded junk room fell into an eerie silence. Once so many things had been laid bare, what remained besides shock was lingering fear and unease.
Now that it had been spelled out, the inside story of the seven Ghost Messengers was basically clear.
The Ghost Messenger was an anomaly within the established order of Rose Hotel. Its appearance had been brought about entirely by Ruru, whose purpose was to create a few "interesting" ripples in stagnant water.
Nie Fanmeng and Fan Cheng were the first to take on the identity of Ghost Messengers. Their initial goal had been simple: to try to change their current desperate situation through this method. But they had gotten no further than that and achieved nothing.
Gao Bo was among the second group of guests to take on the identity of Ghost Messenger. His intellect and strategic skill far surpassed those of the first two, and it was he who proposed the second stage of the Ghost Messenger plan—using the Ghost Messenger identity to explore the hotel's rules and search for loopholes.
Then came the third group. According to all accounts, there were three people in it: Fang Shenyan, Xiao Qian Duyue, and Hou Guisheng.
With their understanding as Tianhai Hotel Staff, the three immediately realized that Rose Hotel harbored its greatest secret. With the appearance of the Ghost Messengers, they completely exposed the truth at midnight.
But because of that, different choices led to different factions.
Hou Guisheng and Xiao Qian became complete members of the third generation of Ghost Messengers, pushing the Ghost Messenger plan to its most refined third stage—borrowing the Ghost Messengers' power to challenge the rules and tear open the loopholes.
"But even now, we still can't find where the loophole is?"
The despair in Gao Bo's voice