"We've already discussed this issue."

Bai Haozheng glanced at Li Ang, raised his hand, and opened his palm, revealing two wrinkled sticky notes:

[Don't leave me]

and

[Don't say I didn't give you a chance to say goodbye]

"The one on the left is from Dan Fei's room, 1108. It floated down from mid-air at the start of curfew.

The one on the right was found by Dan Fei after she went downstairs, on the window at the end of room 1008.

These two sticky notes differ from the others in two ways:

First, the subject is different.

Second, they are related."

Bai Haozheng explained as he walked up the stairs, "The sticky notes the others received are simple, clear, and the instructions are specific. The subject is always the hotel room.

But in these two sticky notes,

the 'me' in the first one is most likely Caffee, who lives on the tenth floor.

And the 'me' in the second sticky note is the red-clothed old woman who abducted Caffee, and 'you' refers to Dan Fei, who rushed downstairs.

It's unclear what this subject switch means."

Li Ang thought for a moment and asked, "Is it possible that the subject of the first sticky note isn't Caffee, but rather room 1108?"

"Hmm?"

Bai Haozheng frowned, his mind racing, and he immediately understood what Li Ang meant. "You're saying that the sticky note has a double meaning?

That the abnormal event occurred because Dan Fei left room 1108?"

"Yes."

Li Ang nodded. "The hotel guide repeatedly emphasizes not opening the door,

but it doesn't specify the priority between keeping the door closed and following the sticky notes. Which one should be followed first if they conflict?

Nor does it explain what consequences will result from opening the door.

Perhaps, because Dan Fei opened the door to 1108, Caffee downstairs was attacked.

The soundproofing on the hotel floors is excellent. Why would there be a hole that allows sound to penetrate so coincidentally? What if the sounds he heard were always created by the abnormal entity? Deliberately tricking him into violating the taboo, allowing the abnormality to take advantage of the situation."

"Enough!"

Dan Fei, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around, her bloodshot eyes staring straight at the loquacious Li Ang, her expression a mix of gloom, repression, and anger. "That's my brother! I would never deliberately hurt him!"

"Rest in peace, no offense, R.I.P."

Li Ang shrugged, completely unconcerned by Dan Fei's threatening gaze. "I'm just saying, hearing and seeing aren't necessarily believing. Don't forget what the accommodation guide says: ignore strange sounds."

"..."

Dan Fei gritted her teeth, her fists clenched so tightly that they creaked.

Seeing this, Bai Haozheng comforted Dan Fei, "Brother Li is just raising a possibility that concerns everyone's safety. There's no personal attack or accusation intended.

Maybe doing nothing is the wrong thing."

While the group was talking, the players had already climbed to the tenth floor.

The traces of Dan Fei's search from last night were still in the hallway.

The doors of all the rooms on both sides were open, and in some rooms, tables and chairs were scattered all over the floor.

The group entered room 1008, where the room was a mess, with dried blood and signs of fighting everywhere.

"The residual energy has negative attributes, which is in line with the Voodoo Black Wizard Group, but it has almost dissipated."

Mule closed his eyes and said slowly, "A short, intense battle did take place here last night,

but I only sensed one type of energy attribute."

"You can't sense the energy traces of the abnormal entity..."

Bai Haozheng nodded with some disappointment. As an intelligence analyst, he could also sense energy fluctuations, but he probably wasn't as professional as Mule.

"This is where the indentation is."

Dan Fei walked to the middle of the living room, pointed to the ceiling, and said in a low voice, "One of the weapons Caffee used was a spear.

The marks on it match the shape of a spearhead."

Bai Haozheng put on white gloves, activated his Nen ability, floated up, reached out and gently stroked the indentation on the ceiling, and with a little force, he dug off a small piece of plaster.

"Hmm?"

Bai Haozheng was a little surprised.

They had tested it before, and the material inside the hotel was extremely strong. A player's full-strength attack might not even leave a mark.

He dug for a while, until his fingers faintly touched the rebar, and then stopped.

"Strange..."

Bai Haozheng floated down from the air, frowned and thought for a while, and then dug in other places in the room.

Inside Ω's fishbowl helmet, the blue liquid sloshed back and forth. "Did you find anything?"

Bai Haozheng shook his head, his expression solemn. "For the time being, I only found that small area on the ceiling of room 1008 is particularly soft and can be peeled off."

He turned around and looked at Dan Fei, "You heard the tapping on the floor before 00:11 last night, right?"

"Yes."

Dan Fei nodded. "Around 00:09, tapping in Morse code started coming from the recessed floor in the living room of my room."

"...Rooms 1108 and 1008 may have already been invaded and are no longer safe. You'd better not continue living in 1108 tonight. Move to 1109 or 1107."

Bai Haozheng paused for a moment after speaking, then turned and walked out of room 1008, came to the end of the tenth-floor corridor, squatted down and reached out to touch the carpet under the painting.

This should be the last place the red-clothed old woman was seen.

"Unlike in the room, the bloodstains on the carpet have disappeared, and no traces can be found."

Bai Haozheng rubbed the fibers on the carpet with his white-gloved fingers and said in a low voice, "The physicochemical properties of the carpet have not changed, and the dust content inside is consistent with the carpets on other floors.

Hmm...does this mean that there is some kind of difference between the floor corridor and the room..."

He thought for a moment, then got up and went to room 1108 to search again, but unfortunately, he didn't find anything of value.

For the rest of the day, the players stayed together and searched the third to seventh floors of the Dolphin Hotel.

No one wanted to eat the food that refreshed in the dining area,

but for safety reasons, the players packed up all the food that refreshed in the dining area and burned it—this food could be destroyed.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the light outside the window darkened again.

The players finished their search, returned to the tenth floor, closed all the doors that Dan Fei had opened before,

and then reinforced every door in the corridor on all floors—Ω thought that Li Ang's theory that "opening the door is an induction mechanism" made sense.

They felt that the abnormal entities on the floor might open the doors of other rooms on the floor, triggering taboos.

By eleven o'clock in the evening, the players had reinforced all the doors and returned to their respective floors to wait for twelve o'clock to arrive.

I wonder what victims will appear tonight...