Chapter 305 "Stay Overnight" (10)
Entering the swimming pool area, the first thing you see is a front desk. Behind the front desk is a key cabinet hanging on the wall. It was originally used to store the keys that could open the lockers in the lockers in the lockers rooms, but now they are all missing. Some have fallen to the ground, but because they are basically key cards, most of them have become waste after being soaked in the blood stains on the ground.
Although there was no corpse near the front desk, there was indeed a lot of blood stains, as if someone had spilled paint and smeared it all over the room.
The strange sound that was heard outside the swimming pool area door before has temporarily disappeared, but Todd believes that the messy environment and the bloodstains everywhere are probably related to that sound.
Not far from the front desk, there are two different doors. Judging from the signs on them, they should be the men's locker room and the women's locker room. Behind them, there are doors connected to the swimming pool. It is a common design. There are more bloodstains on the door of the women's locker room. Todd tried to push it, but it didn't move. There was something stuck behind the door, and it was not just one thing, but at least there were many. Looking at the bloodstains extending from the door, Todd knew what was blocking the door behind him without thinking.
Although there were a lot of bloodstains at the door of the men's locker room, the door was half open, and there was nothing blocking the door so that it could not be opened. Walking into the men's locker room, the furnishings inside were not damaged much, but the people inside, or those who were still alive, were not so lucky.
In each shower room, there was an unlucky guy who died almost every one or two. Todd checked some of their bodies and found that although many of them were mutilated, there were no signs of eating such as tooth marks on them. It seemed that no matter what was in the swimming pool area, it was just a simple killing without any other purpose.
After passing the changing area and shower area, Todd quickly entered the swimming pool area. This place is different from the ordinary swimming pool area. There are three swimming pools in the hotel, one is a baby pool, one is a children's pool, and the largest one is a normal swimming pool. The children's pool and the baby pool are relatively clean. Todd did not see any corpses of that size. Although there were some body parts soaked in it, they should be those of adults who were thrown there after being attacked.
A normal swimming pool is not so clean. The water surface has been dyed red and has even begun to become a little sticky. It seems that many unlucky people have died in it or nearby.
"Den!"
The pipe on the wall of the swimming pool area, used to transport steam, made some strange noises. Todd took a look and found that some parts were a bit loose, and there were also some small worn areas. It should be caused by someone or something being thrown up and hit. Todd thought about it and kept a distance from the pipe.
"Pfft~"
Sure enough, after just a few steps, some hot steam gushed out of the pipe. Fortunately, Todd was standing far away and was not affected.
It’s not that some steam will cause any serious harm to Todd, but if he is not prepared, he may accidentally lose his vision for a short period of time or be affected by some abnormal effects. If a big guy suddenly jumps out at this time, it will not be a good thing.
Fortunately, there are no monsters appearing now, but it is always better to be careful.
But Tod didn't have a map, and to be honest, the swimming pool area covered a large area. After searching for a while, Tod finally found the corridor leading to the boiler room. Following the corridor, Tod finally entered the boiler room.
It would be more appropriate to call it a water pump room rather than a boiler room. There is a large water pump inside, which is now in a shut-down state. There are three pipes on it, each of a different color, but they are all connected to the water pump in the end. There are three cranks on the water pump, and there is a pressure gauge next to each crank.
"It should be enough to adjust the pressure of each pipeline and then press the restart button, but what is the pressure?"
Todd remembered what the security guard said, that there was a list of instructions left by the plumber in the cabinet next to the water pump. He looked around but didn't find the cabinet. However, there were obvious traces of dragging on the ground. Following the dragging traces, Todd found the cabinet in the corner of the pump room. It was used to block a hole in the wall.
Todd found the instruction list in the drawer of the cabinet. According to the information provided on it, he turned the crank, adjusted the pressure, and pressed the restart button again. With a humming sound, the water pump started to run again, and the hotel's water supply system should be back online.
“Dong dong dong dong!!!!”
"Ahhhhh!!!"
Just as Todd left the pump room and was about to leave the swimming pool area through another exit of the maintenance area, he suddenly heard someone shouting, followed by heavy and hurried footsteps, as if someone was avoiding something.
"This voice... sounds like Robin?"
The voice was that of a young girl screaming, and it sounded very much like Robin's voice. Todd quickly followed the voice and saw a skinless, muscular monster who was frantically smashing a security door.
"Attention: Deadly combat unit detected."
Just when Todd walked behind the monster, his system suddenly popped up a warning prompt. Todd was stunned and quickly checked the monster's data. As a result, except for the movement speed, the other data were not values that he could deal with. It appeared in front of Todd.
"Grrrrrrr..."
"Roar!!!!!"
Just when Todd was stunned for a moment, the monster suddenly turned its head. Todd saw that the monster's head was a beating heart protected by a pair of fleshy tentacles.
Due to the characteristics of his profession, Todd is not suitable for instantaneous attacks, which is obviously his weakness. Moreover, it is obviously impossible for him to kill this monster with his own attack power. This should be a monster generated by the system to advance the plot. It can only disappear when it reaches a specific position or a requirement. So Todd made the most correct decision.
run.
Todd turned and ran without stopping for a moment, sprinting wildly in the maze-like corridor of the maintenance area. Although the speed of the monster behind him was not outrageous, it was not very slow either. Because the corridor was winding and had many corners, Todd could not run at his fastest speed. Fortunately, the corridor was relatively narrow for the monster behind, so it could not catch up with Todd, and they were still able to leave two or three body lengths between them.
Soon, Todd ran into a long corridor and began to accelerate as fast as he could, but he soon discovered that there was a dead end ahead and the monster behind him was chasing him relentlessly. Sweat broke out on Todd's forehead.
"!"
At this moment, Todd saw clearly that on the wall at the end of the corridor, there was a ventilation duct opening without an iron gate. The opening was just big enough for him to crawl in. So Todd immediately took out a high-explosive grenade, threw it to the ground in front of him, and then jumped suddenly and stepped on the high-explosive grenade.
"boom!!"
The shock wave generated by the explosion just blew Todd up. Due to the characteristics of his profession, Todd would not be harmed by his own explosives. So with the thrust of the shock wave, Todd quickly adjusted his body in mid-air, protected his head with both arms, and flew accurately into the ventilation duct. After the impact force sent Todd into the ventilation duct, Todd continued to slide rapidly inside, and finally broke open the iron door on the other side and came to the room opposite.
After rushing out of the ventilation duct, Todd rolled over and stood up, then continued to run. According to the prompts on the battle map, the guy behind him did not give up.
"boom!"
Sure enough, the guy broke through the wall and chased after him. The corridor here was much wider, which made the monster chasing behind him increase its speed a lot.
Todd threw a high-explosive grenade in front of him again, but this time he used the impact force generated by the explosion to drift in the corridor. The gorgeous movements and smooth behavior made the audience and players outside exclaim in amazement.
“This is a path I never imagined!”
"Awesome Todd! You can even drift?!"
But Todd was not as relaxed as them. After all, from his perspective, the threat from the monster behind him had changed from "extremely dangerous" to "immediate death".
As the distance between the two was getting closer, Todd saw a room at the end of the corridor. There seemed to be someone inside who was talking to him, and waving his hands wildly, as if he wanted to tell him something.
"Valve! Turn the valve! Turn the valve!"
Todd saw that there were many pipes outside the room, which made the corridor quite crowded. Todd rushed in and the monster behind him followed. However, due to its size, it was stuck in the pipes in the corridor.
"Todd, on your right! Valve!"
Todd looked up suddenly and saw a pipe on the wall on the right. There was a rotating valve. He grabbed the valve and turned it sharply. A large amount of hot steam gushed out and sprayed on the monster.
"Roar!!!"
The monster felt pain, but it was not enough to stop it. Instead, it made it even angrier. Todd hurriedly looked around and found an exposed, broken electric wire with sparks coming out of the broken part. Todd immediately took off his clothes, wrapped the intact part of the wire, and then threw it at the monster.
"Crack!!"
The gushing steam formed a conductive medium, and a powerful high-voltage current instantly passed through the monster's body. With the appearance of a barbecue aroma, the monster twitched and stopped moving.
"boom!"
"Crack!"
"laugh!"
Todd stood up and came to the cabinet on the wall where a fire axe was placed. He broke the glass, took out the fire axe, and chopped the thing on the monster's head that looked like a heart with one axe, killing the monster completely.
"Todd! How are you? Are you okay?"
Todd turned around and saw that it was Robin. Robin should have entered the swimming pool area before, and then was discovered by this monster and hid. She should be trapped in another area. Now they were talking through a security door.
"It's okay, how are you?"
"I'm fine too. I just heard your voice when I was walking along the corridor in another area, so I wanted to follow you and see what was going on. Then I found that thing. Can you open this security door? I seem to be locked in. The corridor I came from was collapsed by this monster, and I can't get out."
"Back off a bit."
"boom!"
Todd used the fire axe to split the bolt of the emergency door and took two breaths. The fire axe was not strong enough and had broken. He threw away the fire axe, opened the emergency door and met Robin.
"Thank God..."
“Sizzle…”
The power in the maintenance area suddenly failed and the emergency lights came on.
"It seems that I have short-circuited this place just now."
"Let's go find the security guard, maybe he knows what to do."
Robin kept mumbling something as he made his way out of the pits to find security.
"Oops, first there was no water, now there was no electricity and it was pitch black. It felt like I was back home... At least the water pump is fixed now..."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing... Go talk to the security guard, I'll keep watch for you."
Arriving at the door of the security room, Todd knocked on the door, and this time the security guard responded quickly.
"Did you cut off the power?"
Robin kept mumbling behind Todd's back, and she looked a little scared, so she unconsciously moved a little closer to Todd.
"Without the light, this place looks even more eerie, like someone is watching me in the dark..."
But it's more important to talk to the security guard now.
"Something attacked me, and this was a helpless move."
"You destroyed our only link to the outside world, and I hope it was worth it. I was so close to getting the signal out, but now all hell breaks loose."
"If you want to put the blame on me, I can break down your door and let you see what I just saw. Or, you can talk to me in a different way. You know, I don't have any good temper left in this situation."
"..Okay, okay, I need to check the manual to see if I can fix the power. You go back to the room first. Now that there is no power, those guys will be more dangerous. The camera can't be used now."
"Goodbye."
After arguing with the security guard, Todd returned to the room with Robin, who was almost hanging on him. For some reason, perhaps because the previous chase had consumed a lot of energy, Todd was so sleepy that he fell asleep as soon as he returned to the bedroom. And this time, he reached the bottom of the sea again. He saw the woman made of sea water again.
However, this time the surrounding environment seemed a little different. A large reef wrapped something. Todd observed it and found that it was a faucet about the same size as a submarine, and the shape was exactly the same as the faucet in the bathroom in his room.
"You tried to help them and nearly lost your life, and what happened? You might as well not have helped. They treated you like garbage."
"I fixed the pump for myself, not for anyone else."
"Okay, but you're also helping them, and they don't even say thank you. Before you know it, you're the one cleaning up their mess again, and you're the only one cleaning up their mess. They can count on you, but you can't count on them."
"I'm always going to need someone to help me."
"Do you still think so? If it were someone else, they would have given up long ago, or died a long time ago. Only you have overcome adversity, but at the same time, you are the only one who has to shoulder all the responsibilities!"
"Click."
"I have a question for you."
"You..what? What's the problem?"
"Who the hell are you?!"
"boom!"
Todd broke off a coral from the seabed next to him, and then slapped it hard on the face of the woman made of sea water. The water shape was broken up, and Todd woke up from his dream.
"You're crazy. You can't even sleep peacefully."
Toudow turned over, pulled the quilt, and fell asleep again. This time, no annoying dreams disturbed him.