(￣o￣) z Z It's dark; time to sleep
The night gradually deepened...
The nights in this world were dangerous—at least for ordinary people, that was certainly true!
Outside, the black mist of sinister energy hung over this strange, resurrected world like a huge, heavy, malicious curtain, looking down upon the trembling humans hiding inside the city buildings.
At this moment, unlike most buildings that simply turned off their lights at night, the thirty-three-story "Haunted Hotel" still had its exterior decorative lights and hallway lights on. The brightly lit building naturally stood out starkly in the dark fog.
For some unknown reason, the eternally broken rooftop sign still stubbornly displayed only the two characters "Hotel." They remained lit in red, flickering on and off in the night fog like a lighthouse, their glow piercing far into the distance.
However, if someone gazed at the hotel's front from far away at a time like this, they would easily notice that those two characters looked as though they had been dyed red with blood. The red halo was so thick that it was frightening enough on its own, yet it also seemed as if blood might drip from them at any moment, creating an eerie and horrifying illusion that made one's hair stand on end.
Inside the hotel lobby, the front desk attendant on duty that night, Lin Yinan, sat there bored out of her mind.
"..."
She was even wearing a white Bluetooth earbud in her left ear in violation of the rules, humming something under her breath while keeping her gaze fixed beneath the counter.
There was no need to guess. She was obviously sneaking a look at her phone.
Although the hotel rules prohibited using phones or listening to music while on duty, she was the only person