The bald, furry, enormous beast strolled leisurely down the dim hotel corridor, swishing its tail. Its eyes darted about, constantly surveying the doors on both sides. It swept past rooms with closed doors, but whenever it found an open one, it would go inside, circle around, or sniff at a bloodstained object and bite it, leaving tooth marks before moving on.
After finishing this floor, it was about to take the elevator to another, but just then, music came from the stairwell:
"Xiaoming had a secret. He told his friend Little Flower. Little Flower heard the secret and told her friend Xiaoliang. Xiaoliang heard the secret and told..."
The music sounded especially out of place in the silent hotel, and it clearly roused the beast, which had been calmly patrolling its territory. With a roar, it charged up the stairs at full speed, leaping up to the next floor in just a few bounds and racing toward the source of the sound!
A music player hung in midair not far from the stairwell. As the Monster lunged at the dangling source of the noise with all its might, Xu Huo and Lin Zhenhuai burst out of rooms on either side. Sword Qi swept toward the beast's hind legs before they left the ground, while a spring-loaded boxing glove that could shoot two or three meters slammed toward its head!
Neither of them had expected the enormous beast to be so nimble. It first swiped a claw and snapped Lin Zhenhuai's boxing glove, then sprang upward. The Sword Qi skimmed past its feet and struck the wall at the far end of the corridor.
They had known the odds of landing a successful hit were slim and had prepared accordingly, but before the arc of light from the Sword Qi had