Task Differences

In the spacious corridor, only the sounds of three sets of hurried footsteps echoed.

Ji Li followed the bloodstains on the ground, quickly making his way downstairs to escape.

"Cao Yuan's death won't buy us much time!"

Fang Shenyan, his posture upright, his warning voice softly reverberating in everyone's ears.

"Damn it, why is this ghost so ugly? I finally encounter a female ghost, and it turns out to be this kind of trash!"

Perhaps because the escape route was near, the Second Personality's temper had calmed considerably, and it even had the energy to make a joke.

"Judging by the ghost's behavior, the escape route must be correct. As long as we find the Raincoat Man, we'll definitely complete this mission!"

The Third Personality also spoke with rare surprise in its tone.

It was clear that the difficulty of missions after becoming a One-Star Hotel was incomparable.

This was nothing like the Mirror Ghost in the Coffin mission they had experienced before. The complexity and treacherousness of this mission were the highest Ji Li had ever seen!

Yu Guo occasionally looked up at the stairs above from the rear, his breathing somewhat ragged as he said, "The Raincoat Man can't have gone far. He's been out of Room 702 for over five minutes. If he really is the sixth person, he might have already started heading back!"

The bloodstains had already spread to the fourth floor, and Ji Li's expression was growing anxious.

Cao Yuan should be completely dead by now. With the escape route activated, the ghost would likely launch its next attack soon.

There were only three of them left. Especially now, he felt that both Fang and Yu possessed abilities far beyond those of ordinary newcomers.

Fang Shenyan's sharp intellect and Yu Guo's decisive execution skills were precious in this hellish existence.

Ji Li didn't care about their intentions or their quality, as long as they were useful...

He had to protect them if he could!

Ji Li hesitated. If the ghost arrived before the Raincoat Man, would he have to risk his life to protect someone...

But at that very moment, he suddenly heard a rapid sound of footsteps from the stairwell below, accompanied by groans!

Ji Li's body suddenly froze. After running down so many floors, he hadn't seen any other living people.

So, this hurried sound of footsteps ascending the stairs...

As expected, just as Ji Li and the others paused near the handrail on the third floor, a panicked figure of a man, wearing that distinctive raincoat, appeared!

"He's here, he's here! You f***ing finally showed up!" The Second Personality cursed. Although it didn't feel pressure or fatigue, it had still been sweating for Ji Li's life.

"Whoosh..."

A cold wind blew past. The Raincoat Man also realized that there were living people just a few steps above him. He suddenly looked up.

Ji Li finally got a clear look at the face of this actual victim.

It was a face so fair it was exquisite. Messy bangs covered his eyebrows. At a glance, it was obvious this person was exceptionally good-looking.

But this beauty was completely ruined by a scruffy beard. And the most shocking thing was the position of his right eye.

A black cloth was wrapped around his injured right eye, but blood still trickled down with his movements, staining the entire right half of his face crimson.

The overall impression was as if his face was split!

"It's you guys!"

As their eyes met, the Raincoat Man was the first to speak. His voice had become sharp, indicating his mental state had been pushed to the limit.

The first person he looked at was Yu Guo!

That injured right eye was the result of Yu Guo's sharp blade!

Sensing the Raincoat Man's anger, Yu Guo quickly waved his hands, "No, no, no! Brother, we're all on the same side. Everything before was just a misunderstanding!"

He thought the Raincoat Man would make a move first, but unexpectedly, after saying this, he directly turned and fled downwards!

Ji Li blinked. Now that the sixth person had appeared, he wasn't about to let him go.

The moment the Raincoat Man fled, Ji Li placed his hands on the handrail and nimbly flipped over the railing. He landed perfectly.

He happened to crash right into the Raincoat Man, who was trying to escape downstairs. Ji Li immediately wrapped his limbs around the man's body.

Feeling the violent struggle beneath him, Ji Li felt he was barely holding on.

Without him needing to say anything, Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo immediately rushed forward and restrained the Raincoat Man.

With the combined strength of three adult men, even the Raincoat Man, who had fallen into a frenzy, was no match for them.

"Who the hell are you people! Why do you keep harming me!" the Raincoat Man roared, looking up.

Ji Li, with his hands free, didn't reply. Instead, he began searching the man.

With almost no effort, he pulled two mobile phones from his pockets...

One of them was the phone Ji Li had seen before, the one with the cartoon stickers.

The other phone, after Ji Li and the others saw it, was very familiar.

Because it was the dedicated phone issued by Tianhai Hotel to its staff!

"The sixth person! It really is you!" Yu Guo grabbed the Raincoat Man from the ground and pinned him against the iron railing, preventing him from escaping.

"What sixth person! We're running out of time! Let me go!"

Ji Li ignored his noisy chatter, instead taking out the hotel phone and starting to check his emails. A look of "just as I expected" appeared on his face.

"Recipient: Tianhai Hotel, Shop No. 7 Staff Chen Yu.

Please survive until 8 AM the next morning in Building 2, Unit 4 of Sanhe Residential Area, and you will be permanently free from the ghost's entanglement.

During this period, you will have ten minutes each day to leave Room 702. Exceeding this time will result in elimination for violating the rules!

Sender: Tianhai."

Fang Shenyan leaned in to look. "His mission is indeed different from ours; it clearly states the mission location is within the entire Unit 4!"

Ji Li nodded. "Perhaps because he had already encountered the ghost in Room 701, he treated the hotel's mission as a last resort and has been following it."

"You guys..."

Even the Raincoat Man, as foolish as he was, now understood. The three people in front of him seemed to have a deep connection to the Tianhai Hotel mission he had received.

Ji Li glanced at the floors above, which were eerily quiet. The idea that staying near the Raincoat Man was a path to survival became increasingly certain.

He quietly explained everything, including his speculations about Rooms 701 and 702.

This was confirmed by the Raincoat Man. Yu Guo abandoned the idea of holding them hostage, and the Raincoat Man leaned dejectedly against the railing.

"I've been driven mad by that ghost. It stays in Room 702 almost all the time, and it never moves.

I don't know if the ten minutes the so-called hotel mentioned are cumulative, as I've never left.

I tried to kill it, but ghosts can't be killed...

Until today, when it suddenly vanished into thin air after I grabbed it!

I thought it had returned to Room 701, and I would finally be free from its torment.

But to my surprise, it came back again shortly after..."

Hearing this, Ji Li and the others nodded slightly. "It seems the Raincoat Man knocking on the door of Room 701 earlier was precisely to confirm if the ghost had left.

That smile was likely because he mistakenly believed he had successfully gotten rid of the ghost.

And the ghost's disappearance for a period was actually when it went to Room 701 to kill Ding Miaoxin..."