After half a night of reconnaissance and verification, Schug's attitude towards the strange traces in the Ernst Manor Hotel has changed slightly.

Xiuge judged that the power entrenched in the manor hotel was most likely some kind of "dirty thing" similar to the Descendants of the Abyss, or even much weaker than it.

On this basis, it is really difficult for him to have any fear.

"After all, I'm a 'dirty' thing, and I'm probably much dirtier than that."

Shug got up from his chair, snapped his fingers, and Snick, the running rat who was curled up and asleep, appeared on the desk, having been tossed all night, and now covered his eyes with three tails, and seemed to pay no attention to Xiuge.

"Wake up, help me do something more."

Seeing Snicky's appearance, Xiuge reluctantly knocked its head with his hand: "Next time there is a benefit, I can give priority to you."

Hearing this, Snicky moved his tail slightly, revealing sleepy eyes that narrowed.

This sloppy appearance is so familiar that it's like looking in a mirror.

So he ignored Snicky's tricks, reached out and picked it up, and came to the bedside.

So Xiuge nodded at her, then raised his hand and pointed to the package next to the door: "I don't like these things in the room...... I'll take care of it, and I need a new clock, please send it to me as soon as possible."

Hug looked at the room numbers, as if he had thought of something, so he immediately pulled out a blank piece of paper, picked up the magic ink pen, and drew the structure of the basement corridor on the paper, and marked the numbers of the rooms in turn in the simple structure diagram according to what Snicky had detected.

During the whole process, the two did not have any formal communication.

Wearing a mask.

He chose to trust Snicky's instincts in this moment.

Soon, a young waitress approached.

"From 201...... By the end of 220."

Snikkey twisted his body lightly in the air, and his three long tails gently fell into the clutter like springs, and then landed silently inside.

Schugg's vision was in line with Snick's, so he could clearly see the two men - these were two male waiters, like the other waiters in the Ernst Manor Hotel, they were all dressed in crisp hotel uniforms, and their actions were in line with the waiters of the Wattle Noble Manor.

Just like the young waitress before them, the two eccentric male waitresses pushed the cart in the direction of the elevator.

Then, through Snick's eyes, Hug saw a face covered in a black mask slowly peeking out from the door frame in silence, and a cold, eerie gaze cast through the hole in the black mask, quickly sweeping every corner of the utility room.

He hadn't found anything, but he was still not comfortable with the utility room, so he reached out.

Just as Shugdu began to question his judgment about the summons, Snichy's vigilance had already reached its peak.

….

He then immediately ordered Snich to continue down the hallway, and more numbered rooms appeared in Hug's "eyes".

The two waiters were very silent, they didn't have any communication, but they seemed to have a high degree of tacit understanding, and they started their work directly.

When she had done all this, the waitress hummed happily and walked away quickly.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

He coughed vigorously twice.

The long wait began.

Yes, they all wore a pitch-black mask that was large enough to cover their entire face, and not only that, but it also seemed to have small crystals of magic embedded in it, which meant that it was most likely used to cover more than just a face.

Because I got a warning from Snicky in advance,

He was not frightened by the strange scene that took place in the basement floor, but the performance of the hotel waiter who had gone and returned gave Xiuge a very awkward and uncomfortable feeling.

However, as time passed, the Running Rat hiding in the pile of bedding did not show any relaxation at all, on the contrary, its tension began to become more and more intense.

It didn't take long for their selection to be completed.

The waitress didn't show anything out of the ordinary, she went about her daily work, took some of the other trash from the other two rooms, and entered the old-fashioned elevator for the hotel waiters.

Most of the rooms had closed doors, and they were made of heavy metal doors, locked, like walls coated in pitch-black dye, which did not reflect even the light of the magic sconces.

They skimmed over the worn-out pile of bedding where Snicky was hiding, and a stack of fairly clean sheets on a nearby shelf was selected and moved to a small cart, and one of the attendants opened the white package that Hug had packed with his own hands, and began to remove the items one by one.

Probably because she saw too many tricky guests on weekdays, the waitress did not show any surprise, she smiled and asked, "So clock, which one does the gentleman need?" Magic Clock or Classic Clockwork?"

Shogue, on the other hand, felt a continuous, slight vibration through Snikch—as if the cart had been pushed onto a road paved with stone slabs, and the source of those vibrations was the depressions and patterns on the stone pavement.

However, the strange thing is that the two male waiters actually ......

Once he had made his preparations, Hug rewrapped the unexplained clutter, which he then opened the door with and placed them heavily in the hallway outside.

「203？」

It didn't take long for her to reach her destination.

Although sometimes it is a little unpleasant to be "rejected" by one's own summons, it is still clear that professional things are left to professional "people" to do.

The elevator had long since left, and there was no sound in the hallway.

"Hide it, hurry up."

….

"Yes sir."

There, there was a large package made of clean sheets, containing several miscellaneous items, all of which were anomalous objects that Xiuge had previously found in his room using detection magic.

Snicky came to a place he had never been before.

After leaving a sentence that seemed to have something strange in mind, the beautiful waitress pushed the cart away, and the whole process was very clean and clean.

Snik tried to get close to one of the metal doors, and soon, Shog sensed the interference of the magic on the surface of the door—apparently the metal doors either contained a substance similar to the silver of the stranch, or were inscribed with special rituals that controlled and interfered with the flow of magic to a certain extent.

Obviously in a bright hotel room, Xiuge still felt a strong sense of discomfort at the moment.

"A clockwork will do, and my room doesn't need to be cleaned unless I tell you."

They were counting and selecting the contents of the utility room.

The sound of carts moving forward and footsteps rang out in the corridor.

It turned its head to look at Sorg, flicked its tail twice in dissatisfaction, and hissed slightly, but then slid into one of the retro-style clockwork clocks under Shuge's poor gaze—the clock had been fashioned in the form of a classic night stalker, with a somewhat narrow space underneath that barely enough for Snicky to squeeze into.

It's like ...... Some kind of beast.

Shug closed the door, and he sat down on the bed, and the senses belonging to Snich immediately connected with his consciousness, and he could feel that his magical summon was now shrinking into the small space, shaking with the clutter around him

I didn't take a nap all at once.

When the sound of her footsteps had died away, and there was no sound around her, the Rat of Madness emerged from its hiding place at the behest of Siug, its three powerful tails stabbing into the white sheet that had stopped in front of it, and easily tore a small hole in it.

Either way, it's enough to show the peculiarity here.

The living beings are like two puppets that act according to established procedures.

In the process, Snich the Rat continued its way through the dark and quiet underground level, and as it ran around the corridor and returned to the doorway to the original utility room, the sound of the elevator stopping could be heard at the other end of the corridor.

The snooping of the waiter went on for a long, long time.

Because his movements don't look like they're supposed to be human at all.

"Yes sir!"

Soon, two figures appeared at the door of the utility room.

It's an enclosed utility room, surrounded by a lot of replacement sheets, bedding, and some damaged miscellaneous items, and the walls are fixed with magic crystalline lamps that provide stable lighting.

Coupled with this kind of snooping that goes against human habits and this strange behavior of going back and forth, Xiuge has every reason to think that the other party is likely to be closely related to the "culprit" who caused last night's attack.

….

Through Snikki's eyes, Hug quickly "looked" at everything around him.

The shaking didn't last long, and soon, the waitress stopped somewhere.

The rudimentary wood carving, the magic clock that Snicky had hidden, and a hanging painting were all selected, and they were placed on top of the cart along with a few other items, and the two of them left the utility room with them.

The beautiful waiters wear straight uniforms, and the etiquette of a single glance is very easy to bring good impressions.

「……」

"If this basement floor exists to support the operation of the hotel, where would these things be needed?"

There was no place to hide or hide in the corridor, so Snicky immediately sped into the utility room, and quickly scurried into the pile of old bedding in the corner, and peeked out cautiously through the gap in the bedding.

In addition to the utility room, there were many rooms on both sides of the corridor, and after confirming that no one was moving here, Xiuge immediately manipulated his summons to start a new round of exploration of the place.

That's a number.

Snugg tried to manipulate Snicky into getting out of the pile of bedding so that he could follow him to see what was going on, but a strong instinctive vigilance and resistance from Snigg discouraged him.

Probably because no one else usually came here, the door to the room was open, so Snicky looked carefully out of the door, and a long straight corridor appeared in front of him.

At the moment when he saw the number clearly, Xiuge was slightly stunned.

"It's ...... Basement?"

Probably because there was no one around, the waitress did not maintain her usual dignified and serious appearance, but yawned lazily, and then seemed to stretch, after which she removed the objects from the cart and stacked them one after another.

Shug said as he let go of his hand.

The waitress responded very neatly, and she had no dissatisfaction with Shuge's behavior of wrapping the clutter with clean sheets, and immediately pushed out a small cart from the nearby tool room and put the entire sheet package on it.

Through Snicky's reaction, Shuge made a rough judgment about the hotelier's situation, and he knew that an existence that could make the Rat Running Run nervous in pursuit of killing would not be too simple.

"If you have any other needs, please feel free to contact me."

Snicky looked up, and Sugg saw a piece of solid

The metal plaque fixed on the gate is not rusty, and the text on it is clearly visible.

Shuge looked around for a moment, and then immediately came to a conclusion.

Although it was impossible to see what was happening outside, with its magical connection to Snicky, Shog was able to pinpoint where it was now.

In the next moment, two hands suddenly reached out from the right side and slammed into the door frame of the utility room.

Shug noticed that his arm seemed to stretch out strangely long enough to touch the doorknob, and then he tugged hard enough to slowly close the metal door to the utility room.

During the whole process, the waiter's body did not appear at the door, and he maintained the posture of "picking" on the door frame, like a lizard or mouse with a special body structure.

As the utility room was closed, Snick's tension gradually subsided, and seeing that he could no longer explore the hidden underground floor for a while, Snug disconnected the magical connection with Snicky, and at this moment, the door of the hotel room rang, and Snug stepped forward and opened the door.

The beautiful young waitress from before reappeared at the door, holding a classic mechanical clockspring clock in her hand and a smile on her face: "Mr. Schugg, this is the clockwork you need...... Do you need me to hang it up for you?"

(End of chapter)

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