The two also noticed similar scratches by the doors of other rooms, and there was more than one set. They guessed, "Could the small compartments that appear each day be in the same locations?"
"If they're in the same locations, doesn't that mean the players who came in earlier were actually in the same rooms as us?"
They exchanged a glance, said nothing more, and headed to other small compartments.
They were probably going to meet up with their companions.
More people came out to move around as time went on. Sometimes strangers appeared when doors opened; other times it was people from the Zisheng Research Institute or the Bailin Association. Since they could be sensed after coming out, that meant that after midnight, the small compartments could become passageways connecting different spaces. They just hadn't figured out the pattern yet.
"It looks like the Dungeon Boss disappears for a while after midnight." Wang Xin waited a moment before saying, "The first players to come out weren't from the Zisheng Research Institute or the Bailin Association. They were probably the players who came in earlier and figured out the pattern. It should be safe to go out now."
Once the small compartments could be opened, Yue Yan'er connected to her devices and checked the footage they had captured earlier.
At first, the footage looked normal, but after the devices recorded footsteps, their screens went dark soon afterward. She had secretly set up around thirty devices in total, mainly inside the buildings on the west side and in the central courtyard. There had been some on the east side too, but the Bailin Association members had cleared them out.
From the footage they had managed to save, the Dungeon Boss began its rounds on the fifth basement level on the west