Task Differences

In the empty corridor, only three hurried sets of footsteps rose and fell.

Ji Li followed the bloodstains on the floor as he fled downward.

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

Fang Shenyan stood tall, his warning softly echoing in everyone's ears.

"Damn it, why is this ghost so ugly? I finally run into a female ghost, and she turns out to be this kind of thing!"

Perhaps because their way out was close at hand, the Second Personality had suppressed its temper somewhat and still had the mood to joke around.

"Judging by the ghost's behavior, the way out must be correct. As long as we find the Raincoat Man, we can complete this mission!"

Even the Third Personality sounded unusually delighted.

It was clear that missions after becoming a One-Star Hotel could no longer be compared to those from before.

This was utterly incomparable to the Mirror Ghost in Coffin mission they had experienced earlier. The complexity and strangeness of this mission were the greatest Ji Li had ever seen!

At the rear, Yu Guo occasionally looked up toward the stairs above and said, somewhat out of breath, "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 already be heading back!"

The bloodstains had already reached the Fourth Floor, and Ji Li's expression had grown somewhat anxious.

Cao Yuan should have died completely by now. With the way out appearing, the ghost would probably launch its next attack soon.

Only the three of them remained now. In particular, Ji Li felt that both Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo possessed abilities far beyond those of ordinary newcomers.

Fang Shenyan's exceptional mind and Yu Guo's decisive execution were truly rare qualities in this life of hell.

Ji Li did not care what their intentions were, nor did he care about the quality of their character. As long as they were useful...

If he could save them, he had to save them!

Ji Li hesitated slightly. If the ghost arrived before the Raincoat Man, should he risk his life to protect one of them...

But just then, he suddenly heard a burst of hurried footsteps from the staircase below, accompanied by groans!

Ji Li abruptly stopped. After running through so many floors, he had not seen any other living person.

Then these footsteps rushing upstairs now...

Sure enough, as Ji Li and the others paused near the railing by the Third Floor, a panicked man wearing that distinctive raincoat appeared!

"He's here, he's here! You fucking finally showed up!" The Second Personality cursed. Though it did not feel urgency or exhaustion, it had still been worried sick over Ji Li's life.

"Huff..."

A cold wind swept through. The Raincoat Man also realized that living people were just a few steps above him, and he suddenly looked up.

Ji Li finally saw the actual victim's face clearly.

It was a fair, exquisitely handsome face. Messy bangs covered his eyebrows, but one glance was enough to tell that he was exceptionally good-looking.

Yet that beauty was completely ruined by his scruffy stubble, and the most shocking part was his right eye.

A strip of 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.

His face seemed split in two.

"It's you!"

When their eyes met, the Raincoat Man was the first to speak. His voice was shrill, as though his mind had already been tortured to its limit.

The first person he looked at was Yu Guo!

That injured right eye had been caused by Yu Guo's fierce slash!

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

They had thought the Raincoat Man would attack first, but after hearing this, he immediately turned and fled downstairs!

Ji Li's eyes narrowed. Now that the sixth person had appeared, how could he let him go?

The instant the Raincoat Man fled, Ji Li braced both hands on the railing and nimbly flipped over it, choosing exactly the right position.

He landed squarely on the Raincoat Man, who had been about to flee downstairs, and Ji Li instantly wrapped all four limbs around his body.

Feeling the violent struggling beneath him, Ji Li found himself barely able to restrain him.

Without needing Ji Li to say anything, Fang Shenyan and Yu Guo immediately rushed over and subdued the Raincoat Man.

Even in his frenzied state, the Raincoat Man could not possibly contend against the strength of three adult men.

"Who the fuck are you people?! Why do you keep harming me again and again?!" The Raincoat Man howled as he lay on his back.

With his hands free, Ji Li did not answer. Instead, he began searching the man's body.

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

One of them was the phone Ji Li had seen before, the one with a cartoon sticker on it.

The other made Ji Li and the others all feel very familiar.

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

"The sixth person! It really was you!" Yu Guo yanked the Raincoat Man off the floor and pinned him against the iron railing to prevent him from escaping.

"What sixth person?! There's no time! Let me go!"

Ji Li ignored his noisy protests. He merely took out the Hotel Phone and began reading the email, his face soon taking on an expression of confirmation.

Recipient:

Tianhai Hotel, Shop No. 7 employee Chen Yu.

Please survive in Unit 4, Building 2, Sanhe Residential Complex until 8:00 a.m. the next morning. You will then permanently escape the ghost's entanglement.

During this period, you may leave Room 702 for ten minutes each day. Exceeding the time limit will result in erasure for violating the rules.

Sender: Heavenly Sea.

Fang Shenyan leaned over to look. "His mission really is different from ours. It explicitly states that his mission area is the entire Unit 4!"

Ji Li nodded. "Perhaps because he had already seen the ghost in Room 701, he had been treating the hotel's mission as a desperate gamble and obeying it all along."

"You..."

No matter how foolish the Raincoat Man was, he understood now that the three people before him were deeply connected to the mission from Tianhai Hotel that he had received.

Ji Li glanced toward the floors above. They were eerily quiet, and the idea that staying beside the Raincoat Man was the way out grew increasingly certain.

He quietly explained everything, including their speculation about Rooms 701 and 702.

This was also confirmed by the Raincoat Man. Yu Guo gave up on restraining him, and the Raincoat Man leaned despondently against the railing.

"I've been tortured insane by that ghost. It practically stays in Room 702 every moment of every day. It has never moved.

"And I didn't know whether those so-called ten minutes per day the hotel mentioned could accumulate, so I never left.

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

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

"I thought it had returned to Room 701, and that I could finally escape its entanglement.

"But unexpectedly, it came back almost immediately after a while..."

Hearing this, Ji Li and the others nodded slightly. "It seems the Raincoat Man went to knock on Room 701's door earlier because he wanted to confirm whether the ghost had left.

That smile was probably because he mistakenly believed he had truly sent the ghost away.

The period when the ghost disappeared was actually when it went to Room 701 to kill Ding Miaoxin..."