"Wow!" Jiang Miaoyi looked in amazement at the door slowly opening on its own, then at Bo Yi. "How did you do-oh my God!"
Before she could finish, she abruptly pinched her nose. "What is that smell?!"
The door had barely opened a crack when a pungent, overpowering odor surged out through the gap, as though baring its teeth and claws.
It was a suffocating stench, thick and cloying, as though all kinds of rotting matter had mingled together: damp wood that had long gone without sunlight had grown moldy in the darkness, its mustiness gradually intensifying in air that had not circulated for ages; beneath that oppressive mustiness lay a nauseating, sour stench that seemed to come from rotting meat, which time had transformed into a sickening smell beyond description; and within that disgusting odor, there was also a faint animal reek.
That animal reek, in particular, struck Bo Yi as strangely familiar... Unfortunately, the other smells were so overpowering that he could not concentrate enough to recall where he had smelled it before.
The door before them had opened completely.
By then, however, none of the players had any interest in asking how Bo Yi had opened it. The sight inside the room consumed all their attention.
"Good heavens! What... what even are all these things?!" Jiang Miaoyi stared wide-eyed, her mouth slowly falling open in shock.
They already knew that Room 404-or rather, the entire Tenement Building-had undergone certain changes for some reason, but those changes had only involved time. They had certainly been nothing like the room before them-
It had completely transformed into an entirely new room they had never seen before.
The rooms in the Tenement Building had poor lighting to begin with, and someone had deliberately covered the already tiny window tightly with