After I finished the soul-summoning ritual, Xu Hui didn't appear.
This was an end room. End rooms in hotels had fewer guests passing through, so there was less human presence, and that lack of human presence led to an excess of yin energy.
Heavy yin energy made it easier to see unclean things.
If Xu Hui really had died in this hotel, she should have appeared.
Why hadn't she?
I glanced at Song Xiaotian. He was already crouching on the floor, clutching a pillow.
"Didn't you say you weren't scared?"
"I'm not scared... I'm cold..."
"Xu Hui didn't appear. Maybe this wasn't the floor."
I pulled Song Xiaotian out of the room, planning to check every floor.
Actually, as long as Xu Hui had died in this hotel, we should have been able to summon her no matter which floor we were on.
But sometimes things weren't that clear-cut. She might appear, or she might not, so we had to try every floor. Perhaps our chances would be better on the floor where she'd breathed her last.
The hotel had eight floors in total. Song Xiaotian and I headed upstairs first.
Next, we tried summoning her on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth floors. All we had to do was stand at the end of the corridor and call Xu Hui's name.
But she still didn't appear.
Finally, we went to the second and third floors, but she still wouldn't appear.
I can't exactly summon her soul in the lobby, I thought. I'd summon the security guards before I summoned her.
With no other choice, we returned to our fourth-floor room to think everything through again.
Holding the key card, I swiped the door open. Song Xiaotian and I had just stepped inside and hadn't even turned on the lights