Ticket Invalid
They had received their clear rewards, including Return Tickets. Xu Huo figured Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan had probably finished their remaining progress too. They hadn't mentioned the Doll Clothing Store when they compared progress earlier, but after hearing Teacher Pan's story, completing what remained would be easy.
Still, none of the three left.
"The footsteps have appeared." Gao Xiaoyue, keeping watch outside, sent word. "Stairwell on the sixth floor."
The players left the room and headed for the sixth floor. Xu Huo led the way. As soon as he reached the stairwell, he heard the familiar footsteps coming up. He checked the figure on "Chance of Escaping with Your Life," and it had dropped to just 5%!
He'd secretly tested the other parts of the hotel with his props before. The escape chances had all been in the single digits, but they'd still been higher than this.
There was only one explanation: there was no exit near the footsteps, contrary to what he'd expected. Nor were they the footsteps of a player coming in from outside. They were the same footsteps that had brought him into the Mirror Hotel!
The sound seemed to come from another space. The sound-dampening props they wore were completely useless, and the monsters wandering on other floors were drawn over. The players were immediately thrown into another melee.
During the fighting, Xu Huo noticed Lin Zhenhuai and Gao Xiaoyue helping Teacher Pan escape upstairs. He followed them, and soon heard the footsteps in the seventh-floor corridor. Following the three, he saw Teacher Pan throw the small picture-frame prop toward the source of the sound.
The prop landed on the floor, but the footsteps started up again somewhere else. Gao Xiaoyue immediately picked up the prop and threw it, only for the footsteps