I got back to my room at exactly midnight.
As soon as Jiang Nuo entered the room, she heard the security guard conducting a second room check. However, unlike the security guard she had encountered downstairs, this one was wearing a black uniform.
"Ward rounds, cooperate immediately, or you'll miss your turn."
The security guard knocked on Jiang Nuo's door, and just as he was about to knock a second time, the door opened, along with those of the other players living on the same floor.
Zhao Si was initially impatient as he went out, but his expression changed instantly when he saw the person in the black uniform. He slammed the door shut and refused to open it again.
Hotel Rule #11: The hotel security guards wear dark blue uniforms, and the cleaning staff wear red uniforms. Please do not confuse them; this is very important.
There's definitely something wrong with the security guards outside!
Qiu Su and the little skull doll on her shoulder exchanged glances. Standing at the door, they turned to face the security guard in his dark uniform. Their eerie eyes were filled with inquiry, but not with fear.
Zhang Quan's attention was entirely focused on Jiang Nuo.
" Brother Nuo! What's wrong? And... where's Si Yan?"
Jiang Nuo leaned casually against the door frame, watching the security guard's strange movements as he peered into the door. Hearing this, she glanced at Zhang Quan, and a few seconds later, her scarlet eyes half-closed.
Zhang Quan heard it was a telepathic transmission.
" Si Yan fainted and was captured by the dog system to do a solo mission."
Zhang Quan frowned nervously, "What do you need me to do?"
Jiang Nuo glanced at her watch.
"We will contact you in 23 minutes. If Si Yan hasn't woken up..."
He raised his eyes, his gaze sharp and piercing.
"Blow this place up."
Zhang Quan nodded.
After a silent exchange, Qiu Su suddenly asked the security guard, "Why aren't you wearing a blue uniform?"
Zhang Quan and Jiang Nuo both looked at the security guard at the same time.
The security guard stared at Qiu Su with ill intent, his voice suddenly becoming mechanical and eerie, "Did you see the security guard in the blue uniform tonight?"
Qiu Su suddenly laughed, her voice like a silver bell. Her silvery arm gently stroked the skull on her shoulder, and the small bells on her wrists jingled crisply.
"I just want to confirm that I am colorblind."
The skeleton chuckled a few times, like the voice of a baby.
The security guard turned to look at Zhang Quan and Jiang Nuo again, "Did you see the security guard in the blue uniform last night?"
His response was two muffled sounds of the door closing.
security guard. "..."
After standing at the door for a few seconds, the security guard silently went downstairs without taking any substantial action to harm the player.
However, on Zhao Si's door, the words "No room check" appeared, and the color covering the room number began to fade, making the last digit faintly visible.
Inside the room.
After confirming that Si Yan's vital signs were stabilizing, but his soul had not yet returned to his body, Jiang Nuo took him out of the space and laid him flat on the bed, carefully wiping away all the dirt from his body.
Jiang Nuo remained completely silent throughout, the room was so quiet it was almost oppressive.
After finishing all this, Jiang Nuo sat quietly for a while, watching the stopwatch tick by.
A moment later, the Spiritual Power shield opened, and the live stream, controlled by 024, suddenly became blurry, intensifying the anxiety and tension in the chat.
Jiang Nuo took off her clothes and lay down in bed with Si Yan. She gently touched his cold, lifeless eyebrows and eyes, then his high nose and thin, tight lips with her fingertips.
024 forcibly puts Si Yan's soul into a single-player mission. Its power is greater than before, and it no longer hides its opposition to the player.
Because of Si Yan's mysterious identity, Boduo was willing to use rare items to lure players to kill him.
I want to take you away from me no matter what.
Jiang Nuo's voice was somewhat hoarse, and her eyes welled up with tears. The redness at the corners of her eyes made her look somewhat sickly against her pale skin.
He crawled into the blankets and hugged Si Yan's waist, feeling the bone-chilling cold.
"You'll be back safely in 13 minutes, right?"
In fact, Jiang Nuo had already prepared to confront 024 directly. The souls of all the players who were eliminated would be stored in the main system space.
Jiang Nuo had been there before.
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When Si Yan woke up, all she was surrounded by was a black void, with no sound and nothing else.
It was as if the only thing left in the world was this black cage that imprisoned him, and nothing else.
A 60-minute escape.
Even with Si Yan's excellent eyesight, it seemed useless here; there was nothing but blackness, and she couldn't even find the lock on the cage.
In such an environment, players can easily become anxious due to the lack of goals and extreme darkness, eventually trapping themselves inside the cage.
Si Yan tried several times but couldn't find the cage lock, so she simply went back to her original spot and sat down, gently stroking the necklace she was wearing.
After things quieted down, Si Yan heard the sound of wind.
He looked up, his sharp gaze fixed on the source of the wind, as if damp soil and withered branches were being trampled.
A few seconds later, everything around him began to change. Si Yan remained in the cage, watching the two men walking in the scene like an outsider.
"Dad..."
Si Yan frowned, as if her vivid memory of her father had come back to life; it was more like a recollection from a certain time.
Who is the other one? They look so familiar.
Si Yan wasn't sure if he had seen this person when he was a child, but the overwhelming sense of familiarity made him doubt his memory.
Her fingers were still fiddling with the necklace on her chest. Si Yan listened intently to their conversation, but the voices were muffled, as if coming from afar, and she could only make out fragments of their words.
"The odds aren't high... Regardless... we can't let him invade... the world."
The two walked and met up with the others. This time, Si Yan saw his mother, as well as a male and a female member. The five groups were the same as the one in the photo he had seen in room 406.
But beside that familiar man, there was now a stunningly beautiful young man, almost otherworldly, with a cinnabar mark between his brows.
Si Yan was completely absorbed in watching. It had been a very long time since he had seen his parents in person, instead of piecing together stories from his memories and his grandfather's narration.
Hearing his mother say hopefully that after the final battle, he could go back to be with her.
Hearing his father jokingly call a familiar man "Captain," and saying that the baby was born on the eve of the final battle, he thought, "No wonder he's Aberrant Monster's child."
Si Yan suddenly stood up, her phoenix eyes filled with surprise, staring intently at the stunningly handsome young man in red, " Gui Ci."
The familiar-looking man is Jiang Daoran, so the short-haired woman next to his mother is very likely Wang Qing, the director of the orphanage.
Before Si Yan could recover, the scene suddenly changed.
The world outside the cage began to descend into chaos, with everyone battling Aberrant Monster, blood flowing endlessly everywhere, and despair and fear spreading ever onward.