Night had fallen completely.
Outside the window, the shadowy trees stood rigidly in place. Thick darkness swallowed the moonlight, as though everything around them lay shrouded in darkness and deathly silence.
"Um..."
A hesitant voice broke the deathly silence inside Room 402.
Jiang Miaoyi glanced at the other four sitting in the living room and asked worriedly, "Will what we're looking for really be with an NPC?"
After Bo Yi visited the security office that afternoon, he hadn't let the others continue searching. Instead, he had told them to go back and rest, then take action late that night.
That was why everyone was now gathered here for such a "happy reunion."
Ning Ran answered, "I think Bo Yi's reasoning makes a lot of sense."
"If we haven't found it anywhere in the Instance, no matter how hard we've searched, that means the key clue is on an NPC." After all, she had encountered Instances like this before: an NPC carrying the key to a safe, an NPC taking the item they needed to clear the Instance everywhere they went... that sort of thing. "So the medical record is either with Xu Jingqi or her mother..."
"But what if... it still isn't there?"
"Then there's nothing we can do..." Ning Ran spread her hands and shrugged. "After all, that's the last 'place' we can think of where the clue could be." If it wasn't there either, all they could do was wait it out and see who lasted longer-them or the Instance...
Jiang Miaoyi had no desire to enter a contest they were guaranteed to lose. She turned an expectant gaze on Bo Yi, hoping to get some reassurance from him. "Will the little girl really come out at night?"
Bo Yi had told them that, too.
After Bo Yi