Room Owner Identity

"What do you mean by that?"

The Third Personality's words were strange, and Ji Li could roughly understand what it meant, but he still wanted to hear a more direct explanation.

"It means that the moment the door to Room 701 closed, another door also closed.

Two sounds, overlapping almost perfectly!"

Ji Li blinked, and the solid wood door in front of him seemed to deepen in his eyes.

Suddenly!

A large amount of bright red blood gushed out from the four seams of the door. It moved with incredible speed, covering the entire door panel in the blink of an eye and surging towards Ji Li!

It was as if something was about to swallow Ji Li into a sea of blood!

Just as Ji Li's pupils contracted to their limit, a hand landed on his shoulder!

"Hoo..."

Ji Li finally came back to his senses. The door hadn't moved an inch, and there wasn't a trace of blood. His feet were on the pristine floor tiles.

"What are you looking at?"

Fang Shenyan's gentle face appeared, but his voice sounded stiff and numb, his usual awkward self.

Ji Li shook his head, declaring that everything before was just an illusion.

"It's nothing... You guys check the room layout first."

Fang Shenyan glanced at Ji Li with suspicion before leading the bewildered Ding Miaoxin and Cao Yuan deeper into the room.

Yu Guo had already gone ahead with his phone, heading into the bathroom. His "Spirit Exploration Live" was still ongoing.

In the living room of 701, only Ji Li remained, facing the empty door.

"Can you be sure?" Ji Li walked towards the door expressionlessly, peering through the peephole.

"My five senses should be more sensitive than yours and Old Second's. I'm about 80% sure!" The Third Personality was telling the truth; it was evident from the previous coffin mission.

The existence of the Third Personality compensated for Ji Li's lack of insight.

"I don't believe it!" The Second Personality, as usual, liked to contradict the Third Personality, it spoke gruffly.

"You said two door closing sounds occurred simultaneously. Since they could be mixed together, they must have been very close to us!

But on the seventh floor, there are only two rooms, 701 and 702. I noticed that the door to Room 702 has always been tightly shut and never opened! This doesn't make any sense!"

Ji Li listened to their argument without interrupting, slowly pressing his face against the cold door.

His eyes met the blurry peephole.

The view in the hallway was slightly distorted, making it seem as if the world was blurred, but it was still relatively clean.

The area around 702 was deathly silent. The garish plush doll on the dark door hadn't even budged.

After a long while, Ji Li turned around and looked at the clean, seemingly uninhabited room in the living room, saying softly, "You both have a point. We'll see what happens next."

701 was a two-bedroom, one-living room layout.

Everything was very ordinary, with nothing particularly noteworthy. Ji Li wandered through the living room. If there was one abnormal point to pick out, it was that the room was too clean.

But this cleanliness didn't make it look new.

Instead, all the furnishings in the room were meticulously arranged!

Everything was placed in its proper position without any gaps, and there wasn't a speck of dust.

The curtains on the sofa were also free of any wrinkles.

However, the slight yellowing on the walls and ceiling indicated that a heavy smoker had lived here for quite some time.

Ji Li ran his hand over the top of the TV and rubbed his fingers, secretly wondering what kind of person the owner of this room could be.

At the same time, Yu Guo emerged from the bathroom, holding his phone.

"Don't be disappointed, my dear viewers!

Although this house doesn't look like a haunted place at all, I can guarantee with my reputation that something terrifying will definitely happen here soon!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't go! What are you looking at the female streamer next door for? Don't..."

Yu Guo's expression darkened. He turned off his phone and looked at Ji Li, sighing, "This place doesn't look haunted at all..."

"I searched the entire bathroom, and there was nothing related to ghosts. Now all my viewers have left!"

He slumped onto the sofa dejectedly. "If I hadn't seen the three ghosts on the second floor of the hotel with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed what you said."

Ji Li didn't reply. He took out his cigarette case, pulled out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth. He got up and walked towards the kitchen.

The kitchen environment felt even more devoid of life compared to the living room.

The cool-toned tiles illuminated Ji Li's face. His cold demeanor suggested that no one had cooked here for a long time.

Ji Li frowned, smoking a cigarette as he pushed open the kitchen window. The night wind blew through his long hair, making him look even more lost.

"The hotel email clearly stated..."

The sixth person to fill the gap will be waiting at the mission location, but here...

It's empty."

Ji Li emerged from the kitchen with nothing to show for it. The other three came out of the two bedrooms, and the five clerks gathered in the center of the living room.

Fang Shenyan, looking at Ji Li enveloped in smoke, felt a craving for a cigarette himself. As he lit one, he said, "The two bedrooms are perfectly intact. We searched every corner and didn't find anything particularly striking..."

"But, I think the owner of this house should be a couple living together, or a married couple!"

Ji Li, smoking, perked up at this statement. He tilted his head back and asked Fang Shenyan, "Explain."

"Within the two bedrooms, the secondary bedroom showed no signs of habitation. The empty wardrobe clearly indicates this.

However, in the master bedroom, one corner of the bedsheet had a slight sweat stain. The wardrobe also contained a mix of men's and women's clothing.

Generally speaking, men sweat more. Lying naked on the bedsheet, these marks would appear over time!"

Ji Li saw Ding Miaoxin nodding in agreement as Fang Shenyan spoke. With two people who had marriage experience confirming this, it was likely correct.

"But it looks like they were planning to move. The room's furnishings were clearly given a thorough cleaning."

"That's not right..."

At this point, Yu Guo, who had been silent, frowned and spoke up, "Your theory is incorrect!"

"Why?"

"Because, in the bathroom, I only found one set of toiletries, and they were distinctly for men!"

Yu Guo looked at Fang Shenyan, who was engrossed in smoking, and then pointed towards the door.

"There wasn't a single pair of shoes on the shoe rack. I checked the bathroom trash can, and even the packaging was thrown away. Everything that could identify the occupants was deliberately obscured."

A hint of confusion appeared on Fang Shenyan's fair face. He didn't quite understand.

"He means that everything in the room was cleaned, so why would anything remain in the bedroom, and why would the men's toiletries be in the bathroom?" Ji Li casually stubbed out his cigarette and straightened up from the sofa.

Everyone present was drawn into a vortex of silence by Ji Li's statement.

Ji Li glanced at Yu Guo with a half-smile. He hadn't expected this seemingly careless young man's mind to work so quickly.

"This room is the mission location. Everything we discover could be a clue for the mission.

What remains in the house now might be the hotel's hint to us!"

Fang Shenyan pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. After a moment of silence, he looked up and said, "To deduce the true identity of the house's owner!"