Jiang Nuo looked away, uninterested, and continued listening to the other players' chatter.
According to Xu Yin, who lives next door to the young man, "Last night he was making a huge fuss in his room, saying there was a monster. I had just come back from a mission and was scared too... so I just wrapped myself in a blanket and ignored everything."
"A few minutes later, I heard footsteps in the hallway. I realized it was the security guard when I heard him open the door and ask for help, so I secretly peeked through the crack in the door."
Someone immediately asked, "What color are the security guards' uniforms?"
"It's definitely dark blue, I can see it clearly!" Xu Yin said confidently. "I went to sleep peacefully because I saw the security guard, and then I woke up to find this thing."
An unspoken silence spread among the players, and soon they began discussing something else.
The coded markings on An Tang's face were even darker, almost blending into her dark skin. She listened quietly and concluded, "Last night at midnight, only players on the seventh, ninth, and third floors were checked. They were all in black uniforms. The room numbers of the players who didn't open their doors were leaked..."
"Rule number 11 of the hotel rules is wrong." After An Tang finished speaking, her doubts were resolved.
Wearing glasses and white gloves, Chen Rong sighed, "So black uniforms are the real security guards."
The discussion here was lively, and Jiang Nuo had observed much of it as well.
Of the fifteen players, two died last night, both from the Boduo faction.
There are thirteen players left. Six of them are in the temporary team, and the remaining seven are Boduo and Zhao Si and Chen Rong from his own faction.
Individual players An Tang, Yue Zhou, Xu Yin, and Qiu Su are all women with unique abilities.
Boduo also realized this, and his probing and scrutinizing gaze fell upon the four female players, pondering how to recruit them into his camp.
Or perhaps... if you can't kill Si Yan, killing the rest of Jiang Nuo's team is also an option.
Tuoba Hong suddenly turned around and sensed a murderous aura. He happened to meet Boduo's eyes and was so frightened by the terrifying big man that he hid behind Jiang Nuo and Si Yan.
"A brute can also be a strategist, quite adept at using others to do his dirty work. It's just a pity your knife isn't sharp enough."
Jiang Nuo slowly raised her eyes to look at Boduo, her eerie gaze fixed on his face with a playful glint, like a demon eyeing its prey, her smile cruel yet elegant.
" Boduo, you're really useless."
The corridor suddenly became quiet. Xu Yin had no desire to get involved in the struggle between the two big shots; she had already been terrified by Jiang Nuo last night.
She pretended not to notice Boduo's invitation and quickly looked for an opportunity to slip away.
Jiang Nuo traced a line across his neck with his long, slender fingers, and Chao Boduo a throat-slitting gesture, a gesture that was extremely provocative. However, at the height of the tension, he left with Si Yan and the others, leaving behind a single, casual remark.
I look forward to witnessing your death.
[Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Bullying Si Jiaojiao, kill!]
[Is it allowed for players to kill each other? Won't God Nuo be punished by the system?]
[Beat up the system too!]
Zhao Si and Chen Rong exchanged a glance, then looked at Boduo with some panic, "Boss, can we really beat Jiang Nuo?"
They were all starting to regret it, feeling that Jiang Nuo's strength would be far less than before after her sudden disappearance and return, but Liu Wei's death last night served as a warning.
Jiang Nuo remained as insane as ever.
After remaining silent Boduo finally spoke, "Of course."
At least, he still has a trump card that Jiang Nuo absolutely cannot defeat.
--
Unlike the other players, Jiang Nuo did not choose to leave the hotel during the day to search for a way out of the city.
Back in his room, he dialed the correct front desk hotline and successfully obtained the hotel staff handbook.
Besides Si Yan, the only other team member in the room was Zhang Quan, who had been called in.
Zhou Ling and his two companions went to explore other floors of the hotel, looking for any other clues related to the association's symbols.
Hotel Staff Code of Conduct:
1. Security guards will patrol outside the hotel at midnight and 8:00 AM. No other nighttime patrols are required.
2. Hotel staff uniforms are distinctive: security guards wear dark blue uniforms during the day and black uniforms at night. Cleaning staff wear white uniforms during the day and red uniforms at night.
(Other things will often wear strange uniforms; ignore them, they won't harm the employees.)
3. The kitchen injects hallucinogens into the fresh cakes at 7 PM. Please ensure the timing is precise so that every customer can enjoy their cake by 8 PM.
4. The hotel's garbage needs to be disposed of daily. The basement garbage storage is open from 5 PM. Processing time: 30 minutes. (Only cleaning staff are allowed to enter.)
5. Employees should not use the elevator at night; it's not for your use.
6. If you experience memory lapses, please remember: you are employees, and only employees.
After reading the six rules, Jiang Nuo stared at the last rule for a long time, vaguely feeling that it was revealing some kind of message.
What else could the hotel staff be? Could the NPCs in this instance have different identities?
Zhang Quan frowned. "The black-clad security guards from last night were the real security guards. It was just as I thought."
The employee handbook breaks several lines of the customer handbook.
Hotel Rule #9: Security guards patrol the hotel at night. Don't be afraid if you hear footsteps, and don't open the windows at night.
This is clearly designed to lure players into getting killed by monsters.