Chapter 297 "Stay Overnight" (2)

Chapter 297 "Stay Overnight" (2)

"Dear citizens, please note that we are now interrupting with an urgent message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Due to a leak in the city's natural gas system, the city will now be temporarily isolated. Power outages may occur in some areas, which is normal. Experts are already working to solve the problem. Please stay at home and do not go out. Stay calm and continue to pay attention to official notifications. The situation is still under control."

It's not surprising that the CDC is broadcasting a city-wide news report, but what's strange is the reason for the report. A city-wide natural gas leak would only occur when the city is completely shut down. According to Todd's previous observations, there was neither abandonment nor signs of war in the city, so the so-called natural gas leak should refer to something else.

"Om~~~"

But just as Todd was thinking about what the so-called natural gas leak was actually causing, the ground suddenly began to shake. In fact, the entire hotel, including the city, was shaking.

"earthquake?"

Although the ground and the furniture in the house were shaking constantly, it did not reach the point where he needed to flee or hide immediately, especially for Todd, a player. He immediately steadied himself and walked to the window to look outside. As a result, just as he walked to the window, he saw and heard an explosion in a building not far away. Then, within sight of the window, many buildings exploded. The many explosions in the city dyed the clouds in the sky red.

“Is it really a natural gas leak?”

The scene he saw made Todd doubt whether his guess was correct. The CDC's news report did not convince him, but the continuous explosions on the street outside the window did seem like an accident caused by a natural gas leak.

And there was another point that made Todd unable to judge what had happened for the time being. That was, while the clouds on the horizon were dyed red, the moon in the sky suddenly moved a long distance, as if time had been accelerated. But the scenes he saw, the pedestrians fleeing in panic on the street, the empty vehicles whose alarms were triggered by the explosion, the vehicles that almost had traffic accidents due to sudden braking, and the drivers and passengers inside, although their movements were panic, the flow of time was normal, and there was no phenomenon of time acceleration.

Moreover, an explosion also occurred in the building across the street from Todd's room window, but there seemed to be no problems with the hotel. At least on the side where his room was, Todd did not hear any explosion.

But no matter what happened, there was no way to find out the truth by staying in the room. Of course, there was no way to trigger the next step of the task. So Todd stretched his muscles and prepared to leave the room and go out to take a look.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

"Crack!!!"

But just as Todd walked to the short corridor in front of the door, a woman's shrill scream came from outside the door. After the scream stopped, there was the equally shrill and loud sound of glass breaking.

The sudden scream aroused Todd's vigilance. It seemed that he had to go out and see what was going on, even though the system did not give any prompts.

After opening the door, Todd noticed that there was a broken vase on the floor of the corridor outside his door. It was originally a decoration located in the groove of the corridor wall. The hotel corridor was completely different from before he entered the room. It was pitch black and the emergency lights everywhere were constantly flashing. He didn't know if it was a malfunction caused by the explosion, or a power outage as mentioned in the emergency news on TV.

All the doors on both sides of the corridor were closed. It was unknown whether the residents were hiding in their rooms or whether there was no one living there at all. However, it was not important at the moment. Looking along the corridor to the left, Todd discovered that there seemed to be a purple light at the end of the corridor. Todd decided to walk through the dark corridor and take a look at the location where the light appeared.

Without any obstruction, Todd quickly arrived at the location where the light appeared. There was a room with a door ajar, and the light was coming from inside. Cautiously pushing the door open, Todd first glanced inside. The layout of the room was similar to his own, only the color tone and size were different. There was no sound in the room, so there should be no one there, so Todd walked in, ready to find the source of the light.

However, as soon as he entered the room, Todd found the source of the purple light. It was the working indicator light of the card reader at the door of the room, which was used to place the key card and obtain electricity. So Todd continued to go deeper into the room, and found a bloody corpse that had been cut into many pieces on the bed in the master bedroom. The blood soaked the entire bed and was still dripping to the floor below. It seemed that the person had just died. Todd reached out and touched the blood on the bed. It was still warm. It seemed that the scream he heard in the room just now was probably related to this corpse.

"No, this is a male corpse."

However, after his own examination, Todd discovered that this was not the body of a female victim, but a man. So the female scream he had just heard must have come from someone else.

There seemed to be nothing useful in the room except the corpse, so Todd decided to leave the room and look somewhere else. However, just as he reached the door, Todd found that a large black shadow flashed past the door, and perhaps it hit the open door, and the door was closed heavily.

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!"

Just as Todd was about to leave the room to look for the shadow, the landline phone on the wall at the door suddenly rang.

"Answer the phone."

Coincidentally, the system task also prompted the next step, so Todd picked up the phone. On the other end of the line was a person with a voice that had been changed, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.

"If you want to live, go back to your room and lock the door. Do you understand?"

"who are you?"

"No time for explanations kid! Do as I say. Go back to your room and lock the door. No matter what anyone says, don't open the door!"

After saying this, the phone was hung up. After thinking for a while, Todd seemed to guess who the person who called him was.

"He called me 'kid'. Could he be the priest I met before?"

“Squeak…”

The door of the room, which had been tightly closed just now, suddenly opened by itself. Todd walked to the door and looked at the corridor outside. There was no one on either side.

The task bar of the system did not give a prompt to return to 402, nor did it have a time limit, which meant that the underlying logic of the dungeon should be triggered, that is, as long as Todd did not go to a specific location, the next plot would not be triggered, so Todd was not going to leave here for the time being. Thinking that he might have missed something just now, Todd searched the entire room again, and he actually found something. Under the bedside table next to the bed where the body fragments were, Todd found a sticky note soaked in blood, but fortunately there was not much text on it, so the blood did not blur the words on it.

"My angel, I'll be waiting for you at the Ningxin Hotel today. My wife has gone back to visit her parents, and we have a whole weekend to waste!"

From the words on the note, Todd quickly thought of the adulterous couple he overheard talking when he was checking in. The man called the woman "my angel."

"It seems that this body should be that man. Why was he killed? Was it that woman who did it? But where did that woman go?"

This time, there was nothing else in the room except the note, so Todd returned to his room. When he opened the door, Todd seemed to feel something staring at him from behind, so he immediately turned around and looked back, but saw nothing.

Todd felt something was wrong, walked into the room and locked the door.

At present, it seems that this copy seems to contain monster elements, but it cannot be confirmed. So Todd thought of a way to judge whether the copy contains mysterious elements, that is to call the emergency center or the police station. If the call cannot be connected or is obstructed, then it can be confirmed whether there are mysterious elements here.

Todd walked to the landline on the wall of his room. Generally speaking, in addition to being able to call departments within the hotel, the number plate on the landline will also have emergency phone numbers (police, emergency center) written on it. Sure enough, the emergency phone number written on the landline was 72-911.

“Drip…drip…”

"Hello, you have dialed the emergency service hotline. Unfortunately, all operator lines are currently busy and you have been placed 55th. Please wait patiently or call again later."

According to the prompt tone on the other end, Todd had roughly understood that what was happening here was not normal, and it was impossible to get through the emergency hotline in such a place, so Todd hung up the phone.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk."

Someone seemed to be knocking on the door, but not his own. Through the peephole on the door, Todd discovered that the door of room 403 across the street was opened. It seemed that the door had just been opened. There were footsteps just entering the door, and there seemed to be someone talking inside. A man's voice sounded first. Todd did not recognize this voice. It should be another unfamiliar guest.

"you are pretty."

"I just like you to flatter me."

"woo woo woo woo!"

"Stab!"

The voice talking to the man was a woman. Todd remembered this voice very clearly. This voice was the woman of the cheating couple when he first checked in at the front desk. Their conversation stopped quickly, followed by a wailing sound with her mouth covered, and then the sound of a sharp blade cutting through flesh and blood. Finally, everything returned to calm.

It seems that the murderer who killed the cheating man at the beginning and the current male resident of 403 should be the woman among the cheating man and woman, but Todd still doesn't know why she did this.

"She seemed to have a sudden nosebleed at that time, and the man seemed to have mentioned something... nightmare? Maybe it is related to what is happening now?"

"sleep."

The next step of the main mission also popped up at this time: sleeping, an action that couldn't be simpler. This made Todd curious. After all, regardless of whether he could sleep or not, given the situation outside the corridor, sleeping at this time, even if it was very late, was not a good decision.

But remembering the nightmares that the cheating couple had mentioned at the beginning, Todd thought that maybe sleep was also a very important part of the current copy. Anyway, there was nothing else to do now. As for the enemies in the copy, although they had not appeared yet, if he acted rashly without figuring out the type of the enemy, he might not gain any advantage and might even kill himself.

"It seems that I can only sleep for now."

But sleeping is sleeping, and you can't just sleep like this. Todd checked the locked door, then walked into the living room, pulled the blinds, and moved one of the sofas in the living room over to block the door. Then he went back to the master bedroom, first pulled the bedroom curtains, then took off his clothes, and used it and a pillow to form a human figure, and stuffed it under the quilt. From the outside, it looked like someone was sleeping with his head covered.