Based on the rules they had worked out so far, ghosts could not appear during the day on floors where players lived. They could only lure players out on other floors by exploiting the elevator's random stops.
Rooms like Snake Woman's, where the player had already been killed at night, were another matter.
Lu Mi looked down the tenth-floor corridor. It was no different from when they had left. According to the rules, Mirror Spirit should not have been on this floor at this hour.
Having confirmed that Huihui and Xiao Ru had been killed, he was about to press the close-door button and wait for the first-floor button to light up so they could regroup with everyone in the Hall.
"Wait."
Roman's hand covered his. "Look at the room numbers."
Lu Mi leaned out for a look-the room closest to the elevator was numbered 1001.
Nothing seemed wrong with that.
He stepped out of the elevator and walked to his own room.
He clearly remembered that its number had been 1004-but now it had become 4001.
Everything around him was just as quiet as before.
But he knew that Mirror Spirit had taken control of this floor.
In the first-floor Hall, the players turned toward the elevator at the chime announcing its arrival.
Lu Mi emerged with red-rimmed eyes, carrying the bloodstained wooden box.
There was no one beside him. What had happened seemed obvious.
Questions and profound shock rose in everyone's minds, especially among the veteran players who knew Lu Mi and Roman better.
Liang Mafeng was the first to ask, "Did something happen?"
At his concerned question, Lu Mi gritted his teeth. His slightly nasal voice confirmed everyone's suspicions:
"He's dead. Roman's dead."
Struggling to suppress his grief, he opened the wooden box. "We caught Skeleton