"Who?"
Everyone in the room immediately became alert.
Xu Li walked to the door and peered outside through the gap. She saw a middle-aged man with a face covered in pockmarks standing outside, knocking anxiously on the door.
"Open up. I have an emergency..."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang!
Seeing that it was a living person, Xu Li relaxed slightly, but she did not lower her guard completely. She did not open the door. Instead, she asked through the Door Panel, "Why aren't you asleep at this hour? What are you doing at the casino?"
"The place isn't open yet. If you want to gamble, come back tomorrow at noon."
Xu Li said this without telling him that something had happened inside the casino.
"I'm not here to gamble. I came looking for my friend. He never returned to the inn, and I was getting worried," the man outside said quietly.
"What's your name? And what's your friend's name?"
Xu Li glanced toward the back of the hall.
A pile of corpses lay there, all people who had died inside the casino. She did not know whether this man's friend was among them.
It was not impossible.
From his accent, the man outside was clearly not a local. So if he discovered that his friend had not returned, it made sense that he would come looking even after the fog had descended.
"My name is Ma San. My friend is Liu Wang. He came here looking for Lao Ba and never returned to the inn..."
As he spoke, the man outside raised his hand and began knocking on the door again.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
When Xu Li saw Ma San knocking on the door right in front of her, her brows shot up, and she was about