“Cough, cough, cough.”

Wanli Fengdao, who was sitting against the wall, coughed, his eyes gradually clearing.

“Where am I…”

Wanli Fengdao quickly recalled everything that had happened before he was hit by the [Soul Skewer],

While recalling the conversation between Li Ang and the old woman in red,

He stood up, shook his head, and looked at his newly grown right arm, "My sword..."

"The sword is in her hands."

Li Ang nodded toward the old woman in red and said lightly, "Stand here for a while. I hastily grew a right hand for you just now, and it hasn't been properly adjusted.

There might be a connection between your fingers and bladder, allowing you to drain water with your fingernails like you've practiced the Six Meridian Divine Sword.

It's best to let it air out and ventilate for a while."

???

Wanli Fengdao's eyes widened, and he subconsciously looked at his palm, hesitating whether to drink a bottle of healing potion.

Li Ang turned his head and continued to look at the old woman in red.

He recalled for a moment and slowly said, "To be precise, there are two possibilities for Bob's situation.

One, Bob's body remained in room 0908, and his spirit entered the dream world. At 3:30, his body had not died.

Two, both his body and spirit entered room 0908. At 3:30, he had not yet emerged from the dream world,

Until the gaunt, conical-hat figures climbed to the eighth floor, he detached from the dream world,

Because his body suffered extremely serious injuries in the dark space, he was already dead as soon as he came out,

Or, he came out, returned to room 0908, but was killed and devoured by you—which explains the phenomenon of Bob's corpse not being in the room.

On the fifth night, at 00:09 a.m., 13mArk in room 0808 sensed a hostile target. The old woman in red walked out of the stairwell on the right side of the eighth-floor corridor,

And discovered the mercury puppet in the corridor, using the Kage Moku Oni's naginata to attack it.

13mArk managed to escape and received assistance from Bai Haozheng.

The two later took the elevator to support the Plague Doctor, who was under attack by the terrifying old man.

Only they had moved through the various floors that night, and there were no gaunt, conical-hat figures.

Judging from the players' discovery of Ω's disappearance in the morning, the old woman in red, after failing to kill 13mArk, turned around and attacked Ω, successfully killing him.

Before the fifth night, the Kage Moku Oni on the twelfth floor, Dan Fei on the eleventh floor, Kafei on the tenth floor, and Bob on the ninth floor had all died,

And you climbed from the stairwell to the eighth floor where 13mArk was located.

At the time, we only thought that the old woman in red was a hotel anomaly and had been staying on the tenth floor from the beginning. Therefore, we did not suspect anything.

We thought that the appearance of the old woman in red before curfew might be because some of our actions violated the hotel rules, causing the old woman in red, who was a hotel anomaly, to mutate.

But now, after learning that the old woman in red who appeared for the third time and later was a player,

Things are different.

You are not wandering on the tenth floor, but staying on a floor where no one has really died.

To trigger the gaunt, conical-hat figures, the hotel floor must first not be fully occupied before curfew, and there must be no deaths on the vacant floor.

If the conditions are met, and no one dies before 3:30, the gaunt, conical-hat figures appear,

Otherwise, the gaunt, conical-hat figures will not appear.

Kage Moku Oni and the others all died on their own floors.

In other words, if you stay on your own floor—to be precise, the floor where you faked your death,

Then, the hotel can still be fully occupied,

But you didn't do that. Instead, you took the initiative to attack and began hunting other players—which is also one of the doubts I have, namely, your motive for killing."

Li Ang rubbed the beard on his dragon-head mask and said lightly, "Back to the point,

Knowing that you did not stay on the floor where you faked your death,

It can be deduced that you either stayed on a floor where someone had already died, like the later 13mArk,

Or, you stayed on a floor that had already been occupied,

That's how there would be a vacancy.

The former is fine,

But the latter...

Players have a wide range of skills and methods.

Given your previous extremely selfish behavior pattern, resembling paranoia, it's hard to imagine you staying on a floor with a stranger, risking being discovered, lurking—

If you are staying on a floor that has already been occupied, then that person most likely knows of your existence and is your companion, our mole."

Li Ang paused and said slowly, "Of course, this range is still too broad and hasn't narrowed down much.

On the fifth night,

You climbed down the stairwell before curfew, preparing to find an opportunity to kill a player,

But you didn't expect 13mArk's detection range to be so far,

Discovering you in the stairwell on the right side of the corridor,

That's why you wanted to kill to silence him,

After failing,

In order to avoid the appearance of the conical-hat figures, you randomly drew lots to kill yourself and your companion,

So you continued to act, went down to the first floor, and killed Ω.

Ω is probably really dead, otherwise the conical-hat figures wouldn't have failed to appear."

“…”

The old woman in red was silent for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice, "You're right, I did kill him.

Ω is much stronger than you think,

Unfortunately, that night he drew the note, and with great difficulty barely repelled the anomaly that attacked him.

When I arrived, he was taking off his fishbowl helmet to heal himself—all of his brain cells were in a separated state, contained in the blue liquid in the fishbowl helmet.

Those blue liquids acted like neurons, able to receive stimuli, generate excitement, and conduct excitement,

Faster than the human nervous system,

Giving Ω a much faster sense of time than ordinary people.

Under the circumstances of being ambushed, he was seriously injured, and his sulfur fire caused me great damage.

Although I was eventually killed by me and the shikigami, he still wanted to preserve the clues, including the note, to give you a hint before he died."

"So that's how it is."

Li Ang nodded. "Bai Haozheng, 13mArk, and the Plague Doctor were the main users of the elevator that night.

Everyone else claimed to have stayed in their rooms.

No one went to check on Ω's situation. You had plenty of time to heal your injuries, clean up the scene, and take away Ω's note."

"As for the sixth night..."

The old woman in red smiled sinisterly, "After my previous efforts, someone finally couldn't hold back and believed that there was a mole among the players,

And proposed the idea of two groups living separately.

13mArk even secretly moved into room 1108 behind everyone's backs, wanting to shift the risk to others,

Which conveniently allowed me to kill him."

"This is another thing I find strange,"

Li Ang nodded and said, "Since you appeared on the tenth floor, why didn't you go directly to the eleventh floor to kill 13mArk?

If you were worried about your identity being exposed and wanted to maintain your anomalous identity, then you should have killed 13mArk as quickly as possible,

Instead of slowly and leisurely eating his mercury blood amber on the 10th floor, and then using the mercury blood amber to go to 1108."

"I also find it strange."

Bai Haozheng, at the end of the corridor, also spoke, "The reason why Li Risheng thinks you are Dan Fei is because you chose to kill Wanli Fengdao on the eleventh floor tonight.

Through the previous deductions, we know that you are a player who escaped after faking your death—the evidence is the skill that Li Risheng possesses that can detect identities,

And your behavior of randomly taking the elevator during the elevator safety time on the third night.

From this, it can be seen that you, as a player, are also bound by the hotel rules,

And dare not break the rules at will,

Afraid of the gaunt, conical-hat figures who randomly draw lots to kill players, and wanting to appease them in advance—killing people on different floors is for this purpose.

You wanted to kill Wanli Fengdao on the eleventh floor just now, proving that no one had actually died on the eleventh floor.

It was Dan Fei, who originally lived in 1108, who pretended to be dead."

Bai Haozheng paused and continued, "But on the sixth night, you didn't directly kill 13mArk, but instead dragged it out until Li Risheng came to support him.

Why is that?"

“…”

The old woman in red was silent for a while before squinting her eyes and saying in a hoarse voice, "Because your answers are not complete.

I am not only Dan Fei,

I am Kafei, I am Kage Moku Oni, I am Bob, I am Ω,

I am the old woman in red, I am a part of the hotel.

I am human, and I am also an anomaly."