According to Tang Wencai,
he had encountered some strangers deep in the corridors, but every time he chased after them to try to make contact, he lost them.
Whenever those people saw him, they hurried away.
They had no desire to deal with him at all.
What was more,
when he first arrived on the fifth floor, there were still some veterans there who had entered before him.
Those veterans had encountered the same strange people.
They also told him that the Awakened who had arrived even earlier had encountered them too. These people were mysterious, almost like natives of the fifth floor, and no one knew where they usually hid.
They appeared occasionally, but no matter how you followed them, you always ended up losing them.
According to those veterans,
these people might have been Awakened who had remained on the fifth floor for years and completely given up on leaving.
"Now it seems the dried corpse in this room was probably one of the mysterious people Tang Wencai encountered. They haven't simply given up. They're looking for a way out too, but they have their own ideas."
"And they don't consider outsiders like Tang Wencai trustworthy."
Jiang Qiao glanced at the bloody marks on the bed.
"The dried corpse thinks he's alive. Perhaps he believes he's under some kind of curse, which is why he loses his memories periodically and has to start over."
"That's why he took notes and kept records, so he wouldn't have to start from scratch every time he regained awareness."
"But..."
"Can someone really keep switching between a vicious ghost and a living person?"
"Most importantly, his memory wipes were clearly caused by the corridor's Time Rollback..."
"Tang Wencai and the others aren't affected by the rollback. Only parts of the inn enjoy