The Strange Arrival 12

Why did Brother Qiao lie to her?

Brother Qiao had no reason to lie to her.

If Brother Qiao wouldn't lie to her, then who was this "Brother Qiao" who had lied to her?

Ye Zhao hadn't considered that possibility before, but the more she thought about it now, the more something felt wrong. When a certain possibility crossed her mind, she couldn't help but shudder.

God knew she was just a poor little thing who got scared watching suspense movies!

She had already reached the eighth floor, only a few steps away from the tenth.

Without hesitation, Ye Zhao turned and ran downstairs.

The eerie beings following behind her were suddenly struck by the light from the bronze mirror in her arms, and they all screamed as they retreated.

Ye Zhao raced downstairs without stopping. After only a few steps, her phone abruptly rang, echoing through the entire stairwell!

Ye Zhao hurriedly pulled out her phone. Seeing "Brother Qiao" on the caller ID, she immediately felt that this call was no different from a deadly harassing call. She didn't dare hang up, so she directly switched her phone to silent mode.

Yet at that moment, an extremely cold killing intent struck from behind. Ye Zhao threw herself forward, narrowly dodging the fatal blow.

A chilling voice sounded behind her. "You clearly heard it. Why didn't you answer? Why didn't you answer! Why didn't you answer—"

Unlike Brother Qiao's previous gentle politeness, this voice was now filled with malice.

How could Ye Zhao dare respond? She didn't even dare raise her head, clutching the bronze mirror as she fled for her life.

Yet the thing behind her followed like a shadow. "Why didn't you answer! Why didn't you answer—"

The voice was mournful and crazed. Ye Zhao felt that she was no longer a pitiful person fleeing for her life, but some damned heartless bastard!

And it really wasn't because she had been careless. Who could have expected the Brother Qiao she had placed such high hopes on to be gone just like that?!

With the bronze mirror clearing the way, she fled all the way to the fifth floor. But Little Ghost Qiao's cries drew more and more eerie beings over. The stairwell and hallways were packed with them. Ye Zhao was almost completely surrounded—whenever one batch was knocked back by the Exorcism Bronze Mirror, another would fill the gap.

So many—far too many. It was as though every eerie being in the entire hotel had been drawn to her!

Under the stares of those pairs of grayish-white, eerie eyes, Ye Zhao's Sanity Value plummeted. Seeing it was about to fall below sixty, she quickly injected herself with a Sedative.

And Ye Zhao realized that when she had ignored the eerie beings before, she could still pass right through them. But now, perhaps because Little Ghost Qiao had exposed her disguise, the eerie beings had become solid to her. Even worse, the bronze mirror's light was growing weaker and weaker...

She couldn't get trapped here!

Ye Zhao used two Lightning Strike - Elemental Cards, unleashing a stretch of heavenly lightning to clear a path. As the eerie beings shrieked and vanished, Ye Zhao ran into the third-floor hallway, randomly found a room, kicked the door open, and slipped inside.

Little Ghost Qiao arrived right on her heels!

Ye Zhao raised her machine gun and fired a barrage at Little Ghost Qiao. The bullets passed straight through Little Ghost Qiao's body. Ye Zhao cursed, "Fuck," as expected, it didn't work. She put the machine gun back into her storage space, and a handful of Exorcism Talismans appeared in her hand. She slapped them toward Little Ghost Qiao!

Little Ghost Qiao dodged aside. Taking the opportunity, Ye Zhao leaped to the window, kicked the glass out, and jumped straight down from the third floor!

Aahhh!

The intense sensation of weightlessness didn't make Ye Zhao scream, but her Sanity Value dropped by 10 directly.

[Sanity Value: 80.]

Thanks to the Survival Game, she got to experience what it felt like to jump off a building for free. After all, it was hard to experience something like that even once in a lifetime. :)

By the time Little Ghost Qiao dodged the Exorcism Talismans and reached the window, Ye Zhao had already vanished from below.

A group of eerie beings that had chased after her wandered around downstairs. After confirming that they had lost their target, they slowly dispersed.

At the same time, Nie Yun and Old Wang, hiding on the fourth floor, heard the gunfire and became extremely nervous. "Why is there even a gunfight? Did a Player start fighting the eerie beings?"

Fortunately, the gunfire didn't last long, and it soon became quiet outside.

The two of them actually wanted to pull back the curtains and look outside, but remembering that Ye Zhao had been noticed by the eerie beings even through binoculars, they could only temporarily abandon the idea.

Half an hour later, it was silent as a grave outside. Nie Yun said, "I wonder what's going on out there. Should I go take a look?"

Old Wang said, "Maybe don't?"

Nie Yun was terrified too, so he readily agreed.

It felt strange just sitting there doing nothing. With no way to explain themselves to the eerie beings, the two of them each shrank back under their blankets, trembling.

Nie Yun even opened his work group chat. Strange—this group had been pretty lively before, but wasn't it a little too quiet now? Even though he had been slacking off for so long, the shift supervisor hadn't called for him?

He was more than happy to have no work assigned to him, so naturally, he wasn't stupid enough to remind the shift supervisor to give him something to do.

He just wondered how Ye Zhao was doing.

He wanted to send Ye Zhao a message to ask about her situation, but worried that he might disturb her, so he could only give up.

Meanwhile, Ye Zhao was hiding in a storage room, drenched in cold sweat. The room was piled with sheets and duvet covers waiting to be changed and washed. Luckily, she had used her Teleportation skill in time. After landing, she had teleported directly from outside into the building, then used Teleportation twice more in succession to change directions. At last, she found a temporary place to take shelter.

Having narrowly escaped death, she sat on the floor without the slightest regard for her appearance, yet she still remembered to pull a milk candy from her pocket and pop it into her mouth.

The sweet taste made her feel that life still held a little hope, and her mind could finally start turning again as she considered what to do next. Unfortunately, hiding here forever wasn't an option. Since this was a storage room, someone might come in at any time.

If the Teleportation skill's range hadn't been limited to within one meter, she could have moved up several floors and found a guest room to hide in.

And the Teleportation skill couldn't be stacked. It was limited to only ten uses per day.

She sat there blankly for a while.

Hungry. Time to cook a self-heating hot pot.

Ye Zhao took a vegetable self-heating hot pot and a thermos from her Personal Space. The hot water had all been boiled that morning. Personal Space had no preservation function—things would still spoil if left too long.

The fragrance of hot pot spread through the air. She sniffed, then took out a bottle of vinegar from her Personal Space and glugged in a generous amount. In an instant, the air was filled with the aroma of hot pot and vinegar, making her mouth water.

Just as she was about to eat, she felt the air before her ripple. A foot abruptly appeared in her field of vision, followed by a crunch as it stepped straight into her self-heating hot pot!

Ye Zhao:?

She looked up and saw a familiar, punchable face. Almost on instinct, a military knife appeared in her hand, and she thrust it out, about to stab the other man in the thigh!

Tu'an was startled as well. He hurriedly pulled back his foot and jumped away. "Why are you here?"

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?"

Before Tu'an could make any excuses, his expression turned grim. "Not good. It caught up!"

Ye Zhao did not need to ask what had caught up, because she had already seen an enormous head poke through the wall. The head was covered in fleshy buds, its facial features nearly swallowed by them!