si-mexico Chapter 515 [Domain - First Gate] The Intern's Mutation
Chapter 515 [Domain - First Gate] The Intern's Mutation
Time sped up, or perhaps it jumped, but in any case, the hotel gave no hints whatsoever.
Is this true for everyone, or only for those who enter the realm?
"Pat on the shoulder... The interns have already been called out." Bai Shaohua murmured.
Long before Chen Ji and his companions were trapped in room 309, the tomb guardian had already been searching for the NPC interns, carrying their intern paperwork, floor by floor.
These newcomers to the domain had no documents; they were outsiders forcibly placed in hotels by the domain, like "wandering ghosts" without graves in a cemetery.
When the hotel's "owner" personally intervenes, he naturally won't assign them any positions.
But not having to do anything did not make Chen Ji feel any more at ease.
There is not much time left for them.
Regarding the second door, the group still had few clues...
Furthermore, what tasks were those NPC trainees assigned?
Fortunately, it had only been an hour since the beginning of the third stage. With that in mind, Chen Ji tried to continue his conversation with Du Tingfeng.
There was no reply from the other end.
After saying only one sentence, Du Tingfeng's communication was cut off.
Just then, the elevator numbers suddenly started changing.
We stopped on the second floor.
A very bad premonition arose in everyone's hearts. The group exchanged glances and took a step back.
The third round has begun, and Du Tingfeng is unaware of it, so the hotel has not arranged a new front desk; without a new front desk, Du Tingfeng has no way and no reason to go to the second floor.
Therefore, there must be other people in the elevator.
The elevator seemed to have dropped off a group of people on the second floor, then returned to the first floor before continuing to go up.
It's obvious we should be on the third floor this time.
Meanwhile, Chen Ji and his companions were hiding in the storage room, spying on the commotion outside.
Ding.
The elevator door slowly opened.
When the figure inside came into view, even Chen Ji's gaze froze!
There were only two people.
Two NPC interns dressed in snow-white uniforms.
One of them, who had once worked in the protocol department with Liu Zi, was a woman in her forties with a very friendly personality, like the older sister next door.
However... she is different now, and they are different now than before.
The female intern's head was only half intact, with white brain matter spilling out from the flattened opening. The bones of her arms were exposed, connected to her shoulders only by a little flesh, and the joints of both legs were bent to a horrific degree.
It's like...
It looked like it had been run over by a large truck.
She didn't know how she walked with this twisted body; she looked numb, bewildered, like a ghost.
The woman slowly moved to room 302, the room without any guests, and pushed open the door to go inside.
"She checked into the room, and she was dead..."
Everyone felt a jolt in their hearts. To be precise, these interns were already dead and buried in the cemetery.
But at least it was normal before, but now it looks no different from a ghost!
Another intern was still walking slowly forward.
Compared to the woman, he looked much more normal, with no wounds.
But Chen Ji's eyelids still twitched. Among the people in the preparation room, he was the only one who felt a chill run down his spine after seeing this intern.
This ghost reminded him of the monk ghost.
Very similar.
His body was extremely thin, his muscles atrophied, and his eye sockets were sunken like black holes, as if a layer of grayish skin was pasted on his skeleton.
The intern is sick.
It looks like terminal cancer... but there are no ghosts here. The murder method is like this unless—
and many more.
"This is how they look when they died!"
In an instant, Chen Ji understood that the second intern might have actually had cancer before her death, and the female intern might have indeed been run over and killed in a car accident!
They have now become corpses, which is why they have been restored to their appearance when they died.
Their breathing quickened; the others present quickly deduced that he had entered a higher realm.
Is this the third round after the gravedigger personally called out names?
30 guest rooms.
Excluding the 6 key guests, this means that at least 24 interns will stay at the hotel.
The thing Chen Ji had suspected from the beginning still happened.
There are 30 ghosts in the entire inn.
If they could actually leave the room, then the intruders would have no chance of survival.
Zhou Liang's calm handwriting resurfaced in my mind:
May you live a long life, Chen Ji.
【goodbye. 】
goodbye.....
The two simple words made Chen Ji frown slightly.
At this point, the intern had already entered room 3012.
"Don't go out yet." Chen Ji waved to the others.
This should only be the beginning; the fact that there are still empty rooms proves that there are still ghosts yet to appear.
They waited a while longer in the storage room, watching helplessly as one intern after another turned into a corpse and entered the guest rooms.
Until almost all the rooms were occupied.
There were a few rooms where no ghosts went in, but considering that Zhang Xiaoshan, the man with the mole, and others might have already checked in, we'll leave them for now.
After a while.
After confirming that the elevator had stopped moving, Chen Ji glanced at his watch again.
His brow furrowed slightly, and his watch seemed to stop working, remaining stuck at exactly five o'clock.
If time is not accelerating, then it must be jumping; if it is jumping, it cannot be meaningless, and at the next point in time, other anomalies may occur.
It's even possible that, without anyone noticing, it will suddenly jump to 11 PM...
Then they're doomed.
"Let me check the log," Chen Ji said, taking the tomb keeper's log and turning to the page he remembered.
He had been deeply impressed by one of the sentences before.
【June 3】
However, with only one month left before the cemetery is to be demolished, it's finally coming to an end.
After I've dealt with these graves, I'll go home immediately.
After the graves here were dealt with, the cemetery was demolished.
That's practically an explicit statement.
Since the hotel is essentially another version of the cemetery, everything that happens in the hotel should be viewed in the same way that would happen in the cemetery.
The same principle applies to the opposite.
Today is the last day of my internship.
That is, the day the cemetery was demolished.
Only when the cemetery is demolished will the bodies be exposed?
That's why they said "after dealing with the tomb"... but the more important part is the second half of the sentence.
Three-wheeled vehicle. More than ten hours. Of all the clues, only this one sentence told them how to leave the hotel.
That's true...
It is so similar to 309.
They can't find the door, not because the door doesn't exist, but because they lack the opportunity!
This opportunity arises when the gravediggers return home, which is after the third shift ends and the graves are cleared out!
The gravedigger has now begun to deal with the "grave," which proves that it is indeed following its own wishes as recorded in the log, so it will inevitably return home.
Going home, however, inevitably requires leaving through the cemetery gate.
Chen Ji pulled himself out of his thoughts. In any case, he had to wait until time naturally jumped to the end. There were more important issues at hand right now.
They must now find the remaining intruders (if any) and gather them together.
because.....
The door to leaving is never always open.