The Limping Butcher was certainly frightening, but the Raincoat Cleaner, who checked the area methodically and sometimes changed positions without warning, sent an even colder chill down one's spine. No matter where you hid, whenever the sound of a rubber bucket hitting the ground came from nearby, she could suddenly appear right in front of you...
Fortunately, after finding a Player hiding in a cargo crate, she didn't look for a second one. Instead, she carried her rubber bucket elsewhere.
Only then did the Player hiding in the cargo crate in front of Xu Huo finally breathe a sigh of relief. He made a threatening gesture, signaling for Xu Huo to get lost.
Xu Huo didn't linger. He continued onward, and when he found no passage in the corridor leading toward the restaurant, he made a complete circuit of the second hexagonal corridor, then returned to the large warehouse, intending to keep going.
But just as he was about to cross the second large warehouse, the sound of high heels suddenly came from not far ahead.
Unlike the faint, intermittent noises he'd heard before, the high heels could be heard almost anywhere in the hexagonal corridor, even in the large warehouse. The person wasn't hiding her movements; it was as if she were using her footsteps to alert the Players nearby.
Xu Huo withdrew his Spiritual World, but the vibrations in space still told him that several Players were moving through the corridor ahead. They were all avoiding the sound of the high heels.
Their actions didn't attract the attention of the person in heels. She didn't search the corridor or the warehouse, but instead stopped in front of room doors from time to time.
It seemed she lingered in front of a couple of rooms before the sound of