"Ding-dong-"
Hearing the doorbell outside his hotel room, Su Bai temporarily stopped "educating" the child and got up to answer the door.
Just after Su Bai stood up, the Blue Flame, which had been half a person's height, circled the little ghost meaningfully for a while before slowly dissolving into sparks. Little Fire was a Puzzle Piece that had been with Su Bai for a long time. Although it sometimes acted rashly, most of the time it knew what to do without any special instructions from him.
Even with his back to the little ghost calling itself "Xiao An," Su Bai knew what expression and gaze the Strange Creature would direct at him now. Although the game had only just begun, he could sense that almost all the "Family Members" appearing in it were evil ghosts beyond communication. Their eyes and words brimmed with murderous, bloodthirsty desire, filling the entire hotel with an ominous atmosphere.
By comparison, although his own "Family Member" was also full of malice, Su Bai felt that, for some reason, it always seemed rather dim. Beneath that malice, subtle traces of "humanity" kept flickering into view.
Besides, Little Fire, which loved feeding on filth, showed little interest in this little ghost. That was why Su Bai had chosen a relatively "gentle" approach to dealing with it.
After all, hadn't the little ghost sitting beside the bed, its entire body blue and purple from the cold, even felt "warmth" just now?
Su Bai reached the door in a few steps and looked through the peephole. The one ringing the bell was the Zombie Waiter he had seen several times before. Perhaps knowing that the guest inside would look through the peephole, the Zombie Waiter bent its arms and laboriously raised a stack of cards covered in writing