Qi Si followed the other players into the inn behind Yuna.
The inn looked small from the outside, but it was quite spacious inside. A dozen or so tables of various sizes had been arranged like a restaurant.
The walls, seasoned by the sea breeze, steadily gave off a fishy, salty stench. The wooden furnishings were speckled with wormholes like tooth marks.
Fish heads lay strewn across the slippery floor. Mottled fish blood and scattered innards had mixed together into stains that looked like dung.
Qi Si lowered his eyes and carefully picked his way across the clean patches. At last, he found a spot to stand beside a wooden table that looked like a counter.
Yuna smiled at him, then brushed past his shoulder and went behind the counter. She dragged a wooden board out of the shadows.
She set the board on the countertop, where all the players could see its strange, pictographic writing:
[Rooms are on the second floor. Each room costs 300 yuan per night.]
They hadn't expected to find somewhere to spend money so soon... Qi Si rubbed the banknotes in his pocket, silently doing the math.
The starting funds he had on hand would only cover three nights at the inn. Did they have to clear the instance within three days, or was there another way to earn money?
"Three hundred a night? What is this, a five-star hotel?" The speaker was a burly man with a large backpack. His voice was booming. "I'll pay a hundred and fifty a night, and not a yuan more!"
From his expression to his manner, the guy was a born haggler. He must have been good at bargaining in the real world. Haggling in the Eerie Game took either serious skill or impressive courage.
Yuna smiled as