Spatial Rotation
Only after Peng Fengnian confirmed it did he nod. Then he asked, "What's wrong with this photo?"
Xu Huo went back and compared it with photos of the same place taken at other times. At last, he understood what felt off about this dungeon space.
Although they couldn't see any other players in Mirror Hotel, traces left by other players still appeared there. That was because the space containing Mirror Hotel and the real Museum City, where Corpse Hiding Hotel was located, took turns replacing each other.
When the Ticket players—the dozen or so players who had entered Museum City with Xu Huo—arrived, most of the place had been left untouched. Nothing about its appearance had changed noticeably. But on the first night, things changed.
It was hard to spot changes inside the other buildings, but Decapitation Cemetery was right there in plain sight. It was impossible not to notice.
For instance, he could now see traces of the cemetery having been dug up and its coffins opened. Under normal circumstances, then, those traces should have been visible on the second day, whether they were at Corpse Hiding Hotel or Mirror Hotel. But in the photos Peng Fengnian had taken that afternoon, Decapitation Cemetery was intact. The traces only appeared again during the day on the third day!
But this anomaly wasn't tied to time.
If time were looping every day, they should have seen a brand-new Museum City every morning. So the real cause of this illusion of distorted time was space.
He'd already found something strange about the hotel. There was clearly more than one Monster, and its comings and goings followed a pattern. Yet he hadn't been able to find a single clue. That was truly abnormal.
But now it all made sense. The Monster