The lights in the corridor kept flickering on.
But the return of the light not only failed to make Jiang Qiao feel safe; it made his heart lurch violently.
Since the Little Boy had already left the Sixth Floor, there was a good chance he would appear in the corridor as well. Jiang Qiao had to leave the Fifth Floor before that happened and enter the wilderness.
He glanced at the booklet in his hand.
A line of red text that had never appeared before suddenly sprang into view.
"Don't leave. Come to the temple."
There were only seven words.
And they seemed to be affected by some kind of interference, appearing clear one moment and vanishing without a trace the next.
"The temple in the wilderness?"
Jiang Qiao's gaze deepened.
He had been trying to figure out the relationship between that dark wasteland and the hotel. Why did the end of the Fifth Floor connect to that area? And why was there a temple nearby?
Most importantly, on the Sixth Floor, he had seen four Vicious Ghosts carrying a chest into that temple.
Clearly, all of this concealed a huge secret.
However, because Dual Pupils had entered an upgrade state, he had chosen to leave the hotel out of caution, giving up on exploring that Unknown Land.
It was a pity.
He wanted to give up, but the hotel's unexpected awakening had brought him back onto this path.
As for the hotel's premature recovery after Dual Pupils absorbed Rewind and entered an upgrade state, which had left him in his current perilous situation, Jiang Qiao did not regret it in the slightest.
First.
No one had an omniscient perspective. It was impossible to know what kind of result lay behind every choice.
Second.
And this was the most important