From Tang Wencai, Jiang Qiao learned a great deal about the situation on the Fifth Floor of the Inn.
This included some of the dangers deep within the Fifth Floor, the other group of people there, and the possibility that there was a way to reach the Sixth Floor.
Some of these details couldn't be learned by anyone who hadn't lived here for many years. They had to be discovered through the lives of countless people, with every attempt soaked in blood.
"By the way..."
Tang Wencai seemed to remember something and spoke up:
"Besides the few of us and Dong Qiwei's group, there seems to be another group of people on the Fifth Floor... but I'm not entirely sure. I've seen a few strangers from a distance before."
"But whenever they saw me, they would hurry away."
"I tried catching up with them a few times to make contact, but I lost them every time."
"Are you sure they were people? Not supernatural phenomena disguised as living humans?" Jiang Qiao asked.
"I'm sure they were people."
"But those few are very strange."
Tang Wencai continued.
"After entering the Fifth Floor, I met several predecessors who had arrived before me. The first time I encountered those people, I asked the predecessors about them."
"They told me they had encountered those people as well."
"And those who had entered the Fifth Floor even earlier had encountered them too."
"They're just like natives living on the Fifth Floor. They appear occasionally, but most of the time, no one knows where they're hiding."
"And whenever they appear, they never interact with anyone."
"Back then, one of the predecessors guessed that they might be Awakened who had been left behind on the Fifth Floor long ago and had completely given up on leaving."
"Hmm..."