A Conversation Before Dinner

"Eyes grew a mouth,"

Little Rosie was buying bread, didn't say anything...

Mr. Calodi dragged a cloth bag.

"Dump the body at the rich man's house~"

That was the first lullaby Grandma Daisy hummed in her rocking chair, and it contained the names of these two residents.

Does this mean anything special?

Yu Xing took the opportunity to observe the two people more closely, but found nothing particularly suspicious so far. Little Rosie was very talkative, Mr. Calodi wasn't carrying a bag, and there were no wealthy men in the hotel.

Of the 10 rooms occupied, eight came down, including Daisy and herself.

The strange old lady living in room 09 didn't come down, and judging from the expressions of others, she didn't seem surprised at all.

The chef in room 03 was probably still busy in the kitchen.

Miss Mino in room 04 was a woman in her early twenties with striking white hair. Her serious, downturned lips made her seem unapproachable.

As soon as she came down, she didn't greet anyone and went straight to the dining table. The others also stopped looking at Yu Xing and went to sit down at the table.

There is one more dining table than rooms; it is a rectangular table with five chairs on each side and an extra head seat at the wide end of the table.

Without a doubt, that seat belonged to the hotel owner, Daisy.

There were no numbers marked on the chairs, but Yu Xing observed that everyone else was seated according to their room numbers, except for Xixi, who was sitting in seat number 01.

The chef's seat is empty.

Naturally, Yu Xing sat at the end of the room. The seat opposite him, which belonged to the grandmother in room 09, was also empty. Coincidentally, the fugitive number 08, who should have been sitting next to him, had just been dragged to the kitchen by Daisy with his body, so that seat was also empty.

He stood out as the only one at the table, a unique figure.

Other people's eyes kept drifting towards him, after all, he was a new resident who had just moved in today.

"The food hasn't arrived yet, so I'd like to take this time to meet some new friends." Dressed in a suit and looking somewhat serious, Calodi smiled kindly at Yu Xing. "What's your name?"

He didn't introduce himself, as if acknowledging that Yu Xing had already heard of him, and directly asked Yu Xing about him.

"Yuri." Yu Xing made up a name on the spot. He didn't want to use the name Luo Yin anymore. Whether it was the foreign-style deduction or the name he used in the Underground City, he was tired of it.

"Darling, you don't actually need to use your real name. You see, the reason we call this guy Mummy Yin is because he says his name is Mummy Yin." Daisy crossed her arms and rested her chin on them, watching Yu Xing with a leisurely air. "Being too honest here will get you bullied."

Yu Xing did indeed show a hint of fear.

Miss Mino chuckled, "Come on, Yuri might not even be this person's real name, just like me, everyone knows Mino isn't my real name."

"What's the point of worrying about names?" said Mumu Yin, whose entire body was wrapped in bandages.

His voice was as Yu Xing expected, hoarse with a piercing quality, like two rusty pieces of iron rubbing against each other.

"Mummy Yin is right. Knowing our real name or a fake name won't do us any harm. Everyone knows that in this hotel, the only things that can determine our fate are the beautiful Daisy and the dangerous night," the Mask Face said with a smile, adding a compliment to Daisy as he spoke.

Daisy clearly knew this was unnecessary flattery, but she accepted it nonetheless with pleasure.

"Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to say next, Yuri, the young and innocent new sweetheart, I have to remind you of something." She was the person furthest from Yu Xing at the table, but her voice still carried clearly to everyone's ears.

"Since you've chosen to stay at this hotel, you're entrusting your fate to me, understand?"

"What you need to do is please me, and then live as long as possible, right? Everyone wants to live as long as possible."

Yu Xing looked at her with a somewhat aggrieved expression. "I know."

"You don't know, you know nothing." The Mask Face laughed loudly. "Still haven't realized it? Newcomer, the danger of the night is the key point. You've already heard the curse, and next you'll hear something even more despairing."

"For example what?" Yu Xing tilted her head.

"Once the hotel lights are out, you must stay in your room and don't go out no matter what you hear outside." Daisy's smile faded slightly as she spoke about this, and she seemed more serious. "You know, curses... a cursed hotel can't be simple. For example, at night... there are terrifying things that wander in my hotel."

On the surface, Yu Xing remained calm and even seemed a little confused, but in private, he was in high spirits.

Here comes something interesting.

This is the proper direction for the dungeon. If it were just a murderous innkeeper with no other storyline, perhaps getting to know the other guests would be a side quest? In short, if it were just like that, then the dungeon in this inn building would be too boring.

Boredom is absolutely insufficient to support the energy of this inn standing atop the ruins of the Dead Silent Island.

There should be some other special manifestations, existing both as a challenge to death and as a path to survival, so that the entire process can be completed without the system issuing tasks and prompts.

"If I leave the room and go into the hallway after the lights are turned off, will I die?" Yu Xing asked the other seven people at the dining table.

"Yes, big brother, I think they're definitely going to die." Little Rosie swayed her slender legs. "A few big brothers didn't believe me. I heard them opening the door in the middle of the night. I didn't see them again the next day, but there was a lot of blood in the hallway. Hmm... it smelled terrible. Sister Xixi cleaned it for a long time."

Xixi, who was mentioned, remained silent, as if tacitly agreeing with this statement.

"In short, no one dares to let themselves fall into darkness, Yuri. You are the most pleasing to the eye among the recent new residents. I hope you won't be so curious. With more time, we might get to know each other better, don't you think?" Mino played with her hair listlessly. Her snow-white hair suddenly reminded Yu Xing the girl in that special class in the school building, who had a super low presence but could issue tasks.

"Just stay in your room," Daisy said. "Any room is fine, for example, you can come to my room and stay all night until sunrise."

Yu Xing smiled weakly.

The Mask Face immediately became displeased, staring at Yu Xing with the eyes of a murderer, as if he were already a corpse.