“If you think Dolphin Hotel isn't good, then you should improve it. If you think the hotel staff are unfriendly, then you should apply for a position. If you think the residents lack quality, then you should start being an ethical and cultured resident. The Dolphin Hotel is what you are.”

Li Ang frowned, staring at the mirror, and said seriously.

In the elevator, Mule glanced around and asked hesitantly, "...Are you talking to me?"

It was around 00:30 AM. Li Ang and Mule, who lived on the fifth and fourth floors on the right side, hadn't received a note, so they took the elevator down to check on Liu Wu-dai and Wan Li Feng Dao.

"No."

Li Ang turned around and waved his hand casually, "I'm just putting myself in the shoes of the hotel staff, thinking about their daily routines."

"Huh?"

Mule was stunned, "What do you mean?"

"Excluding the absurd possibility that this hotel is actually a large-scale reality show run by aliens, the hotel staff should all just be ordinary people,"

Li Ang said calmly, "According to Judy Cecil, they get old, they get injured, and besides being particularly tight-lipped, they have their own emotions and desires, just like normal people.

Older employees often retire, and new employees join.

During the day, they need to display the qualities of a five-star hotel employee to entertain the residents,

And at night, they must be ready at any time for the hotel to fall, for anomalies to invade, and for the entire team to be wiped out.

The difficulty of this job is probably more arduous than my previous part-time job as a mannequin in a shopping mall.”

"???"

Although Li Ang was seriously discussing the mission, Mule's attention was completely drawn to the second half of the sentence, "You worked part-time as what?"

"A mannequin. The shopping mall was doing so well that the mannequins were all bought by customers. The shop owner had no choice but to hire me to play a mannequin in the window."

Li Ang said casually, "That job paid quite well, but unfortunately, because I was too enthusiastic and dedicated, I often wore a faceless plastic mask and walked around the mall during lunch, asking customers if they needed any help.

The boss fired me.

But I really liked the atmosphere of that mall, and I would occasionally dress up as a plastic mannequin at night and wander around the mall, reminiscing about my old working days."

"..."

Mule smacked her lips and didn't make any comments. She felt that she was increasingly able to keep up with Li Ang's train of thought.

"In short, I'm very curious about the motivation that supports these employees in working hard at the hotel, and who is funding the hotel's operations."

Li Ang said indifferently, "To get ordinary people to make such great sacrifices, it's either a large enough benefit, a firm enough belief,

Or an inseparable emotion..."

Ding-dong.

While they were talking, the elevator reached the third floor, and the door opened.

————

Boom!

The heavy tank, equipped with densely packed cannons, fired violently.

Liu Wu-dai, surrounded by pale white light spots, flickered evasively, barely escaping the range of the armor-piercing shrapnel. She drew a crystal arrow from her quiver, and without looking, drew back her bow diagonally behind her and released her fingers sharply.

The crystal arrow tore through the air, carrying a crescent-shaped qi blade with a wingspan of nearly two meters, hitting the heavy tank hovering in mid-air.

In an instant, a fiery explosion soared into the sky, and broken Lego fragments flew everywhere.

This wasn't a modern battlefield, but Room 0372.

Minutes ago, Liu Wu-dai had received tonight's note: [Play with toys]

Before she could react, all the furniture in Room 0372 rapidly expanded and grew larger, and the entire space expanded tenfold or a hundredfold.

No, it wasn't that the surrounding environment had become larger, but that she herself had shrunk.

Like Alice, the girl who accidentally drank a magic potion in *Alice in Wonderland*,

Liu Wu-dai had been shrunk to the size of a mouse, the legs of the stools were like towering giant trees, and the crystal chandelier was like a high-hanging scorching sun.

In the originally flawless ceiling, giant scarlet eyes grew out of thin air.

Around those eyes grew brownish-black silt covered in bubbles. The silt twisted into a ball and divided into more than twenty octopus-like tentacles.

Each tentacle held a children's toy.

Toy trucks, toy tanks, toy guns, toy dinosaurs, toy soldiers...

These toys were made of Lego bricks, environmentally friendly wood, lightweight plastic, and other materials. At first, they were motionless,

But under the influence of some kind of force from the tentacles, all the toys further expanded and became larger, becoming more and more like real killing weapons.

In the muddy eyeballs, a naive and cruel emotion emerged.

More than twenty tentacles waved in unison,

The toys' firepower swept towards Liu Wu-dai below.

Liu Wu-dai's combat experience wasn't shallow, and her equipment was far more luxurious than that of ordinary players.

However, the shrinking effect of Room 0372 also affected all her skills and equipment effects.

The explosive arrow rain that could originally destroy a villa with one hit could only knock over wooden chairs or repel toy dinosaurs after being weakened.

The energy shield that could originally withstand the bombardment of modern main battle tank main guns collapsed on its own after only suffering one rubber bomb thrown by a toy airplane.

But Liu Wu-dai didn't fall into despair.

Skills:

[Lightning Arrow] – Fires an arrow with lightning attributes

[Archery] – Fires the arrow on the bowstring immediately without pulling the string

[Double Shot] – The next ranged weapon shot will trigger twice rapidly, the second shot does not have attack effects

[Multi-Shot] – The next ranged weapon shot will trigger three times rapidly, the last two shots do not have attack effects

[Arrow Recycling Technique] – Remotely recycles physical arrows that can be recycled

[M眉shan Six Steps – Suspension] – Qinggong, increases running speed, can run on vertical walls, can float briefly

[Xuanji Zhijiang: Concentrating Qi Resolution] – Enhances strength recovery speed

[Dot-Line Mystic Eyes] – Sees the "death" of things, transmits the flaws of all things to the mind in the form of dots and lines through visual information

[Holy Weapon Blessing] – Enchants weapons, adding holy attributes

[Undead Strike] – The next attack will deal extra damage to undead units

[Turbid Light Technique] – Releases turbid light, causing the enemy to be temporarily blinded

...

Equipment:

[Bloodbird Bow] – When used, there is a chance to summon undead creatures that obey commands, causing ordinary arrows to deal a random elemental damage. If you use arrows with elemental attributes, it will enhance the effect.

[Aimee May's Coarse Bag] – Quiver, extra arrows are loaded in exceeding the volume, speeding up the action of taking arrows, the seventh arrow taken each time will add an explosive effect

[Blind Eye Skull Helmet] – Provides 360° vision, enhances the effect of any kind of pupil technique, enhances the usage time of the pupil technique, and reduces the consumption of the pupil technique

[Thorny Shoulder Armor] – Fires a poisonous barb at enemies who attack you

[Demon Hunter Gloves] – Slightly increases hand movements, the effect is doubled when facing enemies of the chaotic evil alignment

[Boots of Phase] – Increases running speed, the body temporarily becomes ethereal

[Green Flower Ring] – Increases qi recovery speed

[Ring of Iron Blessing] – Increases physical damage reduction rate

[Magic Fangstone Ring] – Increases magic damage reduction rate

...

That's right, facing this kind of enemy with a huge body, that could be easily locked on, and with a simple attack method, Liu Wu-dai's luxurious skills and equipment finally had a use.

Helmet, hood, cloak, bow, arrows, quiver, boots...

If the muddy eyeballs entrenched on the ceiling had spiritual awareness,

They would have noticed that Liu Wu-dai's whole body was flashing with the dazzling light of extraordinary items.

Even more exaggerated was that Liu Wu-dai wore a shiny ring on each of her ten fingers.

Lightning Arrow, Crystal Demon-Breaking Arrow.

Arrows flashing with lightning, and crystal sharp arrows wrapped in crescent-shaped qi blades, flew out like twin lotus flowers,

Directly hitting the diving toy fighter plane, blasting it into a sky full of plastic fragments.

The [Dot-Line Mystic Eyes] skill that Liu Wu-dai possessed was a low-profile, weakened, youthful commemorative version of the [Mystic Eyes of Death Perception].

The prototype of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception came from the king of the Fomorians in Celtic mythology, the evil god Balor.

It could see the end of all things at their root, projecting them in sight in the form of death lines and death points.

As long as a sharp weapon was used to cut the death line of a thing, then the thing would separate along the death line.

If a sharp weapon was used to directly attack the death point of a thing, then the thing would immediately end, collapse, and be destroyed.

This skill originated from the Type-Moon world of literary works (including but not limited to games). From the setting alone, the mystery of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception was simply so high that it was appalling.

And its weakened version, [Dot-Line Mystic Eyes], although the dead lines and death points that could be seen were greatly reduced, and the line of sight would also become blurred, making it impossible to see other things,

But when used, it could still exert an effect close to "instant kill."

Room 0372 could only weaken the killing range of attack effects, but it couldn't weaken the instant-death effect of the Dot-Line Mystic Eyes.

As long as her arrows could successfully hit the target's weak point, she could still kill monsters as big as buildings.

The first tentacle,

The second tentacle,

The third, the fourth...

Arrows all over the sky,

Cutting off one limb after another of the muddy monster.

The eyeballs entrenched on the ceiling struggled desperately, making sharp and ear-piercing painful howls.

Tzz—

A dazzling scarlet beam of light ran across the entire house, hitting a tentacle that was trying to sneak attack Liu Wu-dai's back, burning it to ashes.

Liu Wu-dai didn't turn her head. Her [Blind Eye Skull Helmet] allowed her to directly see the things behind her.

The door to Room 0372 was open.

Li Ang, Mule, and a smooth metal golem more than two meters tall stood at the door.

The scarlet beam of light just now was emitted by the golem's right hand.

Tzz—

Another beam of light struck.

The Calamity Sun mechanical golem standing at the door wasn't affected by the shrinking effect in Room 0372. The fully damaged beam of light bombarded the base of the muddy eyeball's tentacles,

Blasting it with mud flying everywhere, screaming miserably.

Li Ang, who was standing next to the metal golem, also took out a sack filled with soil and refined metal flying knives,

Performing righteous sneak attacks from a distance,

From time to time, he would also perform the saucy operation of three flying knives colliding in the air, and then each going its own way, each hitting the target at the vertices of an equilateral triangle.

Under the combined force of the three players, the muddy eyeballs were soon cleaned up.

And Liu Wu-dai's body shape gradually returned to normal.

She jumped lightly, cut off the last eyeball on the ceiling with a short knife, and put it into a glass bottle covered with talismans.

This glass bottle could seal most types of life.

Any attack by the sealed person would be transformed into energy to strengthen the seal—as long as it didn't exceed the bottle's bearing limit.

“Caught it.”

Liu Wu-dai finally breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the slight sweat from her forehead.

In the glass bottle, the muddy eyeball suddenly jumped up and slammed into the bottle, its chaotic eyes full of irrational anger and hatred.

“Come in.”

Liu Wu-dai held the glass bottle, turned around to let Mule and Li Ang into the room, and closed the door,

Then she took out the note and showed it to her companions.

The three players surrounded the eyeball and quickly discussed what to do with it.

Based on the players' previous experience, the anomalies in the Dolphin Hotel rooms were very likely residents who died in the room.

These earthbound spirits, for some reason, couldn't be dispersed, and at night they would follow their spiritual instincts, appearing randomly and attacking living residents.

After the players subdued them, it might be possible to turn them into a rational state.

The question was, how to do it.

Liu Wu-dai released holy light through the glass bottle to baptize it, causing the eyeball to struggle painfully and emit green smoke.

Mule poured some kind of light blue liquid into the glass bottle, which was said to restore sanity, but the wide-open eyeball floated up and down in the water, and the muscles around the eyes bulged, as if to say, "I can't breathe!"

Causing Mule to have to somewhat hastily extract the sanity potion through a syringe.

Heaven knows why an eyeball needs to breathe.

Since Wan Li Feng Dao downstairs hadn't been checked yet,

Li Ang had to act quickly.

He picked up the glass bottle, like in the movies, shaking the cup containing the dice to subdue the dealer, shaking it back and forth desperately,

As a result, not only did the muddy eyeball not regain its sanity, but it also shed large streams of bloody tears, as if it was dizzy and vomiting, and also as if it was crying about Li Ang's domineering and cruelty.

Li Ang didn't give up, pouring various unknown substances into the glass bottle in turn,

While constantly threatening verbally,

Saying that he had already grasped all the information on the muddy eyeball's household registration, and if he didn't honestly confess, the muddy eyeball's entire family would be sent to his good brother Xing Tian.

In the end, Li Ang even began to chant scriptures, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, various scripture golden sentences were staged in turn, interspersed with some extremely concentrated, meaning-unclear statements,

"How heavy is the second dimension in your heart?"

"Three hundred grams."

"So it's so light, I thought you loved the second dimension that much."

"A person's heart is only three hundred grams."

"The electric light leaping at your fingertips is the faith of my life that will never be extinguished."

"Five Centimeters Per Second let me know what first love is, Clannad let me know what life is, Anohana let me know what childhood friends are..."

The concentration of these words, in the ears of Liu Wu-dai and Mule who could understand (Killing Game players must watch a lot of literary and artistic works, they are all old second-dimensional), was simply comparable to carcinogens,

But the muddy eyeball didn't react at all.

Seeing that all methods had failed, a murderous intention was revealed in Li Ang's eyes, and a steady stream of baleful qi spewed out of his body, causing the muddy eyeball in the glass jar to tremble.

Just as he was planning to take some more direct and rude persuasion methods,

Mule suddenly raised her head and looked outside of 0372,

"The phone is ringing."