While the distance between them and the Monster widened slightly, Xiao Ling, Sun Bo, and the others, who hadn't managed to escape yet, quickly withdrew from the eighth floor through different passageways. By the time the Monster broke free of the flying shield and reached the window, all the Players who had left were already hiding on other floors.
"Roar... roar..." The Monster's howls echoed throughout the hotel, occasionally accompanied by the sound of it tearing the place apart. It seemed that today, with its stomach empty, this Monster wouldn't merely pace the corridors like the one before it. It would charge into every room, whether the doors were open or shut, and take a look around.
Xu Huo was on the fifth floor. He used an item to inspect the area outside the hotel. It was still impossible to leave during the day, but the streets outside had been reversed, too. Decapitation Cemetery had shifted to the other side, and the skeletons he'd seen crawling out the night before were gone. The ground was pitted with numerous holes.
He went up to the top floor and carefully surveyed the rest of Museum City. Nothing seemed to have changed much, aside from a few more damaged spots than the day before. In the vast Museum City, he couldn't see a single other Player.
Seen from inside Mirror Hotel, the entire city seemed to have lost its warmth, like a desolate place where all life had vanished.
However, they couldn't get out of the hotel, so there was no guarantee that the scenery before them was real. The flow of time in the Museum City Dungeon was strange. It was possible that space was warped and changing, too.
"Sphinx's Riddle..." Xu Huo took a folding chair from the Storage Compartment, set