Chapter 3251: (||￢▽￢) Bear on the Loose
For the next three days, nothing unusual happened at the eerie hotel. That troublesome little girl didn't rush out to look for fun or torment any more specters, and none of the hotel's less perceptive entities came looking for trouble with her. So, all in all, she had a fairly pleasant time.
The same went for a certain bear!
It had been having a pretty pleasant time these past three days, too...
Only, it was having fun without needing to wander outside!
Now that it had found a way to eat people openly, and the people it ate accepted what had happened as perfectly natural and even helped explain it afterward, all while instinctively blaming the specters and never considering any other possibility... It couldn't have asked for anything better.
And so!
Over the past three days, whenever its troublesome little master was asleep, it went out again and again, wreaking havoc. In just three short days, it had eaten its way through more than a dozen of the hotel's attendants, trying out all sorts of different ways!
The bear had certainly enjoyed itself, but the attendants who'd been terrified out of their wits weren't having it.
Afterward, one after another, they went to their manager in tears, looking utterly wronged. Before long, just like two attendants before them, they were all sent to the fifth floor, where they were granted an indefinite stretch of paid leave to recover from their trauma.
Yes, that was exactly what it said: "trauma leave"—as in, they'd been traumatized!
Then, with nearly twenty attendants gone all at once—one still holed up in the hospital, another staying on the thirty-third floor, and more than a dozen quarantined on the fifth floor—the pressure inevitably fell on Manager Liu.
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