Chapter 727: Devouring
As for the description of the monster, Judy Cecil, a girl who covered her face with a fan, only heard the members of the neighborhood committee mention it, and she didn't witness it with her own eyes.
As for the essence of the Dolphin Hotel and the purpose of the staff, there are also different opinions within the neighborhood committee.
Some people speculate that the Dolphin Hotel is actually an experimental base for aliens in outer space, and they want to study and analyze human beings.
The proof of this is that the Dolphin Hotel has guests from different eras, and only aliens can do this.
And the doors and windows of the hotel are closed so that guests do not see the outside scene - outside the window may be the outer space of the sea of stars.
Some people speculate that the Dolphin Hotel is a mezzanine between heaven and hell, and that the inhabitants are all dead people, whose merits are not enough to go to heaven, and their sins are not enough to go to hell.
Therefore, he was exiled to such a place, and while he was able to enjoy the treatment of a hotel, he also suffered from the fear of every day and night.
There is also a saying that the Dolphin Hotel is actually an experimental site secretly invested and established by the Pentagon or some other deepstate agency.
The purpose is to study and analyze those horrific supernatural events.
After all, there have been a large number of cases of using one's own people for prohibited experiments in the United States in history, such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, the MKUltra program, etc.
The credibility is really not high, and it is understandable to be considered the mastermind behind all this.
Beyond that, there are alien reality show theories, divine punishment theories, air crash theories (the occupants are all victims of a plane crash who fell into the same dream because they suffocated from a height), no one can say clearly.
Judy Cecil claims not to have seen Carter Murphy, and the Dolphin Hotel guests come and go, and the newcomers often ostensibly follow the advice of the elderly.
In fact, he was secretly thinking about it, and on the first or second night, he violated the rules and tried to escape from the Dolphin Hotel.
The old residents have long been surprised and too lazy to meet the new ones.
However, her description of how she died again was, like Carter Murphy, dying in the house at night.
She didn't fall asleep at the time, but lay in bed and read a book - the Dolphin Hotel staff would provide some paper books.
However, information such as the publisher, publication date, and reprint date will be torn out, and time-sensitive reading materials such as newspapers will not be provided.
At that time, she first heard what appeared to be a slight explosion from upstairs, which was quite strange, because the hotel was always well soundproofed.
She got up and picked up the shotgun placed next to the bed (hotel residents basically have self-defense weapons), walked barefoot to the door, and looked out through the cat's eye.
Seeing a few panicked hotel staff in the corridor, they rushed through the door.
She had a bad premonition, and just wanted to open the door and run away together, when she saw the left side of the corridor suddenly darkened.
From left to right, the lights on both sides went out one by one, and the hallway was swallowed up by darkness.
And then she didn't know anything.
What can barely be remembered is probably the sea water that was violently poured into the sea by Leon before - there are several dead residents floating in room 0508, not only Judy Cecil,
After witnessing Leon's actions that day, several other spirits who were also in the same mud seemed to shrink,
did not follow instinct and take the initiative to attack in the following night,
At this point, her tone sounded a little strange, probably regretting her rashness and fearlessness...
In short, that's all Judy Cecil knew, and after thinking about it, Leon didn't kill the other party and earn bonus points.
After trying to study the other party to no avail, Judy Cecil dissipated at the end of the curfew, appearing not dead, but reverting to a state of earthbinding.
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The note the mule received was "Don't be killed", and she was attacked by a large number of unintelligent spirits in her room.
However, with the help of the [Holy Light Bomb] and the [Mechanical Golem of the Remnant Sun], she still survived, and successfully killed two Earthbound Spirits and received a reward.
Originally, she also hoped to capture the other party and obtain information, but those earthbound spirits were not affected by any sealing formation, and their attack power was amazing, so she had to kill them.
And the Wanli Sealing Knife was also attacked by the Earth Binding Spirit,
The Earth Bound Spirit here is not a physical humanoid monster, but an entire room - traps are constantly popping up on the walls of room 0208 where he is.
Flames, throwing knives, sawtooth, poisoned arrows, quicksand, mercury...
Brother Knife tossed and turned in many traps, barely holding on through the night.
And the last 13MARK, his statement is that he noticed the sound in the floor at 00:09, and sent a puppet to the corridor to investigate, only to find that the old woman in red who touched the 8th floor,
After a period of fighting between the two sides, the puppet of 13MARK gradually gained the upper hand, and was cut to pieces by the naginata.
Seeing that the other party is about to completely destroy the puppet
13MARK, who stayed in the room with empty spiritual power, decisively used the concealment skill to release a light curtain with a masking function in the corridor.
He pushed open the door and rushed into the elevator (again, he had poked the button across the corridor with his mechanical fingers).
Press the rise key.
In this player group, the only one that 13MARK can trust is Bai Haozheng, who is an intelligence analyst of the Special Affairs Bureau.
He didn't believe any of the others,
If you encounter an abnormal situation, you will naturally have to go up to the 14th floor to ask for help.
I don't know if it's the effect of the shading light curtain,
Or the old woman in red has satisfied her desire to kill,
The other party did not tear up the light curtain and rushed over, nor did he follow the elevator all the way up.
In the end, 13MARK successfully ascended to the 14th floor, met Bai Haozheng, and asked for help.
After a brief discussion between the two, 13MARK temporarily stayed in the elevator hall on the 14th floor.
Wait until 01:11 and the two take the elevator all the way down to see if any other players need help.
(When I went down to check, the old woman in red on the eighth floor had disappeared)
Just arrived at 0608, helped the epidemic doctor who was attacked by the rotting old creatures, and the three of them returned to the fourteenth floor together to take refuge, without going downstairs.
Throughout the night, the players did not hear the sound of "one missing" in the Dolphin Hotel, nor did they see the hat.
Unexpectedly, Ω, who lived on the first floor, still died.
Or missing.
At this moment, the players gathered in room 0108, where Ω had been staying,
The door is open, and the furniture inside is scattered, and there are plenty of signs of battle that can be clearly seen.
Ω wasn't among them, and there weren't any sticky notes in the room.
"It's a burning sign of a brimstone fire."
The plague doctor who was squatting on the ground gently scraped the charred blood stains on the carpet with his white-gloved fingers,
With an ugly face, he said: "It is indeed a Ω method, he is good at smelting the souls of ordinary beings into energy liquids, and his attack power far exceeds that of players of the same level." ”
The plague doctor has already told other players that he and Ω are both members of the Demon Scientist Alliance, and both of them entered the script in a single row, and they pretended not to know each other after meeting by accident.
In order to gain an intelligence advantage,
It's just that I didn't expect Ω to suffer misfortune so early.
"There's a faint aura of spirits here, crazy, powerful, but orderly,
It's not as chaotic as the Groundbound Spirits who live in the hotel, and it's not as hateful as the Wraiths...
It's kind of like, Hijima's Shikigami? ”
From the mule's horse's head mask, there was a sound of inhalation, and she turned her head to look at the plague doctor, "Will Ω summon a god to assist in the battle?" ”
"Shikigami?"
The plague doctor frowned, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head hesitantly, "I've only heard of Ω such a person in the Demon Scientist Alliance who uses the soul currency power system,
And he is a nodding friend,
I don't know much more - digging into the power systems of other players in detail is a taboo option in a killing game, let alone in a guild like the Demon Scientist League, where there are more bad guys than good guys.
He might use Shikigami, I don't know. ”
"Is that so..."
The mule nodded slowly and muttered, "There are no sticky notes in the room, but the people have disappeared...
Either Ω swiped out the sticky notes, and as a result, the Earth Binding Spirit that appeared in room 0108 was too powerful, not only killing him, but destroying the corpse,
The aftermath of the battle also annihilated the sticky notes, which we had experimented with before, using ordinary paper and being easily shredded.
Or, Ω didn't swipe out the sticky notes, but he was attacked by something else..."
"You mean the old woman in red?"
Wanli Sealing Knife, who had a band-aid on his forehead, frowned and said, "It's really strange that you take the initiative to attack players before the curfew time...
That's right,"
Wanli Fengdao looked at Li Ang, "Is there an old woman in red in the corridor alien described by Judy?"
"Not really,"
Li Ang spread his hands, "But she hasn't stayed in the hotel for a long time, and many of the hotel's sighting records are omissions, contradictory,
It's not uncommon to have an undocumented anomaly.
What puzzled me was the attack of the old woman in red,
In the previous Dan Fei's sighting records, the old woman in red was empty-handed,
AND IN 13MARK'S RECORD, SHE HAS A RELATIVELY RARE NAGINATA IN HER HAND..."
“...”
THE BLACK SAINT TOOK A DEEP BREATH, TOOK OUT A PEN AND PAPER, SCRIBBLED A FEW STROKES ON THE PAPER, AND HANDED IT TO 13MARK, "ISN'T THE NAGINATA SHE USES LIKE THIS?" ”
"Huh?"
13MARK TOOK A LOOK, HIS EYES WIDENED INSTANTLY, AND HE TOOK OUT THE SKETCH OF THE OLD WOMAN IN RED FROM THE BACKPACK BAR, AND AFTER COMPARING THE TWO, HE SAID FIRMLY: "YES, THIS IS IT." ”
Last night, he was in Bai Hao's meeting and queen, and the latter used his telepathic ability to extract the corresponding memories from 13MARK's mind.
The picture is drawn on paper.
“.... Hidden Ghosts"
The Black Saint was silent for a moment, and slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, "This naginata knife is the one used by the hidden ghost,
The summoning god is also a move used by the hidden ghost. ”
"What?!"
Wanli Sealing Dao subconsciously clenched the hilt of the sword tied to his waist, and shouted in a deep voice: "Hasn't the hidden ghost been taken away by the hat aliens?"
You mean..."
"The old woman in red, most likely, has the ability to devour players."
The Black Saint pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "Dan Fei, Ka Fei, the Hidden Ghost, Bob, Ω...
The corpses of all players have disappeared.
I thought they were dead in the hallway, and their bodies were washed away.
Or they were taken away by the hat anomaly, and there were no bones left.
In this way, maybe it was the old woman in red who ate them and gained their full strength..."
"It can't be!"
Wanli Fengdao shook his head violently and said, "Danfei and Kafei are all good players above Lv15.
What is the concept of eating five players and getting their equipment, items, and skills?
The old woman in red can torture and kill us at will, there is no need to kill us one by one. ”
The Black Saint Son's expression was gloomy, and he said in a low voice: "Maybe the strength provided by Kafei and Dan Fei before is not enough to satisfy her,
And last night, 13MARK showed enough combat ability, which made the old woman in red feel tricky, so she went down to the first floor to attack Ω,
Ω had done enough damage to her that she had to lie dormant again and digest it slowly..."