[Inn Rules] [Rule One: Do not leave your room after seven o'clock in the evening. However, if you hear a knock, it is an attendant delivering your meal. You may open the door to collect it.]
Through his own experiments, Jiang Qiao had confirmed that there was nothing wrong with this rule.
Not only could guests not leave their rooms, but even standing in the doorway for too long would expose them to a supernatural attack, killing them on the spot.
As for whether the attendant counted as a person...
That question had been neatly sidestepped by the fact that only the meal cart appeared, with no attendant in sight.
As for how the attendant delivered it to the door, there was no need to dwell on that for now.
"Rule Three is similar to Rule One. It says security guards patrol every night at midnight, and tells us not to worry about our safety."
"What does 'safety' mean here?"
"If we obey Rule One and stay in our rooms, where would the danger come from?"
"Inside the room?"
"The bathroom?"
Jiang Qiao returned to the sofa and began thinking through the other rules.
"Rule Six does mention that there might be noises from the bathroom, and says that's normal. If the noises persist, it even tells guests to check for damaged fixtures themselves."
"We've already established that the bathroom really can have problems."
"Like a pair of hands emerging and silently washing clothes, without the slightest regard for anyone else in the room."
"Suppose Rule Six is wrong."
"Then going into the bathroom to investigate would expose us to a supernatural attack."
"Is that what the guards protect us from?"
"But if Rule Three is right, and the guards can keep us safe, then I shouldn't