"What could I possibly do?"
George spread his hands and said, "My dear Mr. Richard, this is an evil-entity city lockdown. Of the five that have occurred worldwide so far, have you ever seen anyone successfully fight one off?"
"Fewer than one in ten people survive."
"And the more they panic, the faster they die."
"So I need to calm these people down first, or things will be even more troublesome later."
Richard frowned. "I've never understood why your hotel voluntarily promises its guests shelter during supernatural events."
"I've been to plenty of hotels."
"None of them do this. The costs are too high, and the risks are too great."
"How should I know?" George shrugged. "I just do whatever the higher-ups tell me to. That's all."
"I'm going to turn on the Sacred Lamp now."
"At least everyone should be able to sleep soundly for the next few days."
"As for what happens when the lamp oil runs out..."
"We'll deal with that when the time comes."
"The hotel has a few other little things we can use."
"Whether they'll actually work then, I couldn't say. After all, I've heard that the supernatural phenomena in the middle and later stages of an evil-entity city lockdown go beyond anything you could imagine."
"All right." Richard knew George was right, too.
"Damn it."
"I came to Tanjung Sepat to conduct an investigation, and the first thing I ran into was a haunted village."
"An explorer visited it just last year."
"Nothing happened to him."
"But the moment I went there, I ran into something supernatural."
"I barely managed to escape back here. I thought I'd get a few quiet days in Tanjung Sepat, but instead I walked straight into an evil-entity city lockdown. My luck has really been terrible lately."
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