Chapter 678: The Locals' Strange Behavior
It was perfectly normal for players to go missing. Hadn't players disappeared from the hotel, too?
The difference was that at the hotel, players preyed on other players. Staying at a homestay meant you could use the locals as a buffer.
"You're staying at a homestay today?" Tian Kunwen came over and asked Xu Huo and Yi Pei.
Yi Pei hadn't told Tian Kunwen and the others about what had happened the night before. But since they were staying so close to each other, Tian Kunwen and Fu Danhong both knew Yi Pei had left Xu Huo's room very late.
Fu Danhong regarded Yi Pei with some disdain. Tian Kunwen showed no reaction, but Wei Xian, standing beside him, took another look at Xu Huo.
"Someone knocked on my door again last night. I'm probably being watched, so it'll be safer at a homestay," Xu Huo explained.
"Homestays aren't necessarily safe, either." Tian Kunwen added, "Someone went missing over there last night, too."
So far, the players didn't really know how many people had come to this county. They could check the hotel register, but it was hard to keep track of the homestays. There had to be several hundred households here. The players weren't going to go door to door investigating.
The two groups went their separate ways. Yi Pei asked Xu Huo where he planned to stay. "I'm going to the place where I chatted with Fu Danhong yesterday."
Xu Huo nodded. There was a man there with a shifty look, but to a player, he was just an ordinary person. Yi Pei had her reasons for choosing that place.
As they walked down the street, they ran into the player they'd encountered the day before. It wasn't the one who had