Mountain Villa, Fourth Floor.
Lin Ye stood at the staircase landing, looking at the rooms on the left and right. Finally, he turned left and walked toward the room on that side. On the gray-toned walls lining the corridor hung landscape paintings, and a faint fragrance permeated the air.
It was sweet, mixed with the scent of fresh flowers.
Chrysanthemums?
Lin Ye wasn't entirely sure.
Tap, tap...
After taking two steps, Lin Ye arrived at the nearest bedroom. Since there was no doorplate, he didn't know whose bedroom this was.
Click, click...
Unexpectedly, the door was locked and could not be opened.
Lin Ye immediately proceeded to the next room.
Click...
The bedroom wasn't locked; the door opened.
The setting sun shone in, scattering red light across the room. A warm breeze blew in, causing the thin gauze curtains to flutter.
"The Blond Eldest Miss's room."
The slim, gorgeous outfit hanging on the clothing rack was precisely the clothes Aiqi Carter had worn yesterday.
Lin Ye stepped inside.
Although the Blond Eldest Miss wasn't here right now, the fourth floor was a special area. Lin Ye was concerned about sudden situations arising—for instance, after entering the bedroom, the bedroom door might immediately close, forming a sealed area from which escape was impossible.
This was a situation that appeared in many works.
However, this time, after Lin Ye entered, the bedroom door did not close automatically. He realized he had overthought it.
Lin Ye immediately focused his gaze on the items in the room. The desk, the wardrobe, and the bed were the key places he searched.
Several books were stacked on the desk. Lin Ye flipped through them but didn't find any papers containing clues tucked inside, nor did he find items like a diary.
Click...
Lin Ye opened the wardrobe. All sorts of clothes were arranged neatly, filling the closet. Apart from clothes, there was nothing else here.
On the bed, however, Lin Ye unexpectedly found a pair of panties. He immediately put them back in their original spot, ensuring the position hadn't changed at all. The space under the bed was empty; there was nothing there.
Considering time was limited, Lin Ye didn't continue to linger in the Eldest Miss's room for a more detailed search. Instead, he left the room and walked toward the two rooms on the right side of the staircase.
The first room on the right was still locked and couldn't be entered.
Lin Ye walked to the second room on the right, turned the handle, and the door slowly opened. Under the caress of the breeze, a black and white maid uniform hanging on a rack and swaying with the wind entered his field of vision.
Upon entering, Lin Ye also smelled the faint fragrance unique to the maid.
The next second, keys hanging above the desk immediately attracted Lin Ye's attention.
The keys were hung neatly, totaling five rows from top to bottom. The first row had four hooks. The second to fourth rows had eight hooks each. In the third row, several hooks held one fewer key compared to the other hooks in the same row.
"Keys for the first to fourth floors, as well as the basement?"
Lin Ye immediately looked at the single key in the last row.
This was likely the key to the basement.
The basement key had come too easily. He had a surreal feeling about it.
Without hesitation, Lin Ye took down the key. After carefully observing and comparing to confirm that the key's shape didn't differ much from the key to Guest Room 204, he hung the guest room key on that sole hook in the fifth row to prevent the maid from noticing the loss of the basement key.
Lin Ye took down a key for the fourth floor from the first row; he wanted to check the other two rooms on the fourth floor.
But right now, he still needed to see if the maid's room had other important clues or items.
Half a minute later,
Having no other gains, Lin Ye immediately left the maid's room and headed to the adjacent bedroom. Inserting the third key from the left taken from the first row, Lin Ye successfully opened this bedroom.
The room's windows were tightly shut, and the air was somewhat stuffy.
Lin Ye looked around and noticed the bedding on the bed; the bright red was very conspicuous. This should be a bedroom used by a female, but judging by the current situation, it hadn't been used for some time.
Lin Ye looked around the circle but found no further clues, so he withdrew from the room, locked the door, and headed to the innermost room on the left side.
Unsurprisingly, that room belonged to 'Master Carter.'
There should be important clues there.
But just then, a burst of footsteps sounded from the staircase.
Facing the sudden rising of the Blond Eldest Miss, Aiqi Carter, Asuna and the others were startled. They immediately realized this Eldest Miss had thought of something.
"Miss Carter, what's wrong?"
"Where is the other guest!"
Aiqi spoke with a somewhat calm tone.
"He should be out for a walk!"
The Blond Eldest Miss immediately turned and walked away without the slightest hesitation.
This made Asuna anxious. She had just spent ages telling a story about 'my relationship with my father is bad' to try and stall the Blond Eldest Miss, but now it seemed it was going to fail.
"Miss Carter, actually, we hope you and your father can handle your conflict well and establish a good relationship."
Asuna went all out. She had been avoiding violating the rules in the Reminders, avoiding mentioning 'Master,' but now, to fight for more time for Zero, she would do so even if it meant risking danger.
Aiqi stopped her steps. She glanced sideways. "This is not something you should be concerned with, even if you are guests invited by Father."
After speaking, Aiqi immediately moved.
Cold Frost blocked Aiqi's path, but failed.
The Blond Eldest Miss, with a vigorous posture, immediately walked to the stairs and headed straight for the fourth floor.
Behind her, Asuna, Cold Frost, and the others followed. Of course, the maid also followed closely.
"Guests, please do not go up to the fourth floor."
At the staircase of the third floor, the maid stopped Asuna and the other two who attempted to follow upstairs. The three had no choice but to stop.
Thump...
At this moment, a noise came from the fourth floor, causing the maid's expression to change slightly. The Blond Eldest Miss ran straight up, and the maid hurriedly followed.
"Eldest Miss, do you suspect..."
"I suspect someone came to the fourth floor."
Lisa pointed to the room on the right side of the staircase, nodding to indicate the direction.
The maid first tried to open the tightly shut door of the first bedroom on the right. The door was closed. She then went to her own room. Soon she came out; she didn't find anyone.
Meanwhile, Aiqi, who had been guarding the staircase, moved toward the rooms on the left. Father's room was tightly shut, and her own room remained unchanged.
She searched place by place, finally standing in front of her own wardrobe.
At this moment, she stared at the wardrobe, her right hand gripping the handle, and slowly opened it.
Only clothes entered her view.
She reached in to rummage but found nothing.
No one?
Impossible. How could there be no one?
She had clearly heard a noise just now.
"Asuna, what are you guys doing here?"
A faint voice drifted over. Aiqi immediately left her room and went downstairs, where she saw Lin Ye meeting up with Asuna and the others at the third-floor staircase.
She looked at Lin Ye.
"Where is that guest who was walking with you!"
"I was walking alone. What's wrong, Miss Carter?"
"..."
The Blond Eldest Miss swept her gaze around, seeming at a loss for words.
The silver-haired maid trotted down. "The guests are all here!"
She looked at the newly appeared Lin Ye, as well as Asuna and the other four, and couldn't help but speak, "Eldest Miss, is it possible that the sound just now was the wind blowing?"
"Maybe!"
She replied with a phrase, then signaled to everyone with her eyes before going up to the fourth floor.
The silver-haired maid apologized to everyone in embarrassment. "I am sorry. Our Eldest Miss really dislikes people going up to the fourth floor. In the past, a guest went to the fourth floor without permission and was driven out of the villa by the Eldest Miss, so..."
"Understood. We also don't wish for strangers to come into our bedrooms."
"Thank you for understanding. I will go to the first floor to continue preparing dinner."
The silver-haired maid left respectfully, heading to the first floor.
Only Lin Ye and the other five players remained at the third-floor staircase. At this moment, Lin Ye became the center of focused attention.
Asuna was certain there was a sound on the fourth floor, but why did Lin Ye suddenly appear on the third floor?
Climbed out the window? Could one climb out the window from the fourth floor?
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
Asuna shook her head. They all knew this wasn't a suitable place for exchange.
"I plan to go out for a walk before the meal. You guys plan to..."
"Let's go together."
Asuna spoke up.
They wanted to understand the situation on the fourth floor.
The group walked out of the villa and arrived at the garden. The garden under the twilight was dyed with a layer of thin red flush.
"There are four rooms on the fourth floor. From left to right, they are the Eldest Miss, the Master, an unoccupied bedroom, and the maid Lisa's bedroom."
"And in the maid's bedroom, I discovered keys. The keys to each room were neatly hung on the wall on the side of the desk."
At the mention of keys, the others instantly became interested.
"Is there a key to the basement?"
"Yes, I've already brought it down."
"Wha..."
After the exclamation, Passerby couldn't help but praise, "As expected of Brother Zero, fetching the key directly."
If it were him, he at least wouldn't have taken the key immediately.
"The key shapes are basically identical. I used the guest room key to temporarily impersonate the basement key."
"So that's how it is."
Cold Frost realized that the loss of the basement key wouldn't be exposed in the short term. "We need to confirm the situation in the basement as soon as possible and return the key."
Once the maid or the Eldest Miss sensed something, it was entirely possible they would verify the basement key. If the theft was confirmed, it could then be confirmed that a guest had been to the fourth floor. What would happen after that?
The scene was completely unpredictable.
"Currently, the maid is busy in the kitchen. There are still twenty-something minutes until five-thirty. And the Blond Eldest Miss is on the fourth floor. Now is the best time for us to investigate the basement."
Lin Ye's statement caused another shock among everyone.
Fast. Too fast. Absolutely no time to breathe.
"How do we arrange it?" Cold Frost said.
"Passerby and Miss Linlin, go to the kitchen and keep an eye on the maid. Miss Cold, you guard the second-floor staircase; if the Eldest Miss comes downstairs, make a sound to remind us. Asuna, you come with me to the basement."
Actually, Cold Frost felt she and Lin Ye should go to the basement together. The basement sounded perilous; she, with the strongest strength, should be the one accompanying Lin Ye.
"How about... I go with you!"
She was a Level 4 player, much stronger than the Level 1 Asuna.
But Lin Ye looked at Asuna. If Asuna accepted, he could accept it too.
"Leave it to me! I'll go to the basement with Zero. If there really is danger, I think there shouldn't be any problem with the two of us running away."
Asuna agreed.
Risk-wise, she should have refused, but Lin Ye chose her to accompany him, and she didn't want to fail that trust.
Cold Frost looked at the two and didn't say anything more.
The five strolled in the courtyard for a while longer, then left one by one, dispersing back into the villa.
On the fourth floor of the villa, a pair of eyes stared constantly at the players in the garden. After the players disappeared from view, she slowly retracted her gaze.
She took out a key from her pocket. Looking at this key, she slowly revealed a smile.
She pushed open the window, her tall body squeezing out of it.
She was going to give those guests a little surprise.
After the five met up inside the villa, the operation began immediately.
Passerby and the Office Lady headed to the kitchen first to ensure the girl was there, while Cold Frost went to the second-floor staircase. If the Blond Eldest Miss came down, she would smash a ceramic cup to warn Lin Ye and Asuna.
Once everyone was in position, Lin Ye and Asuna walked down the stairs leading to the basement, one after the other.
Compared to the height of the stairs reaching the second floor, the depth of this staircase going down to the basement entrance was greater.
Both unconsciously lightened their footsteps.
Finally, they arrived at the entrance of the basement.
Asuna nodded toward Lin Ye, indicating she was fully prepared.
Lin Ye took out the key obtained from the maid's room and slowly inserted it into the lock.
Click...
After inserting the key, Lin Ye turned it, but found the lock wouldn't turn at all.
This key was fake. Indeed, it was fake. When he got it, he had felt that obtaining such an important item was too easy.
This was bait placed in plain sight.
Lin Ye pondered whether it was the maid or the Blond Eldest Miss, or if both knew. With insufficient information, he couldn't make an accurate judgment.
Asuna cast a confused look.
Lin Ye shook his head.
Asuna took over and turned it, finding the lock didn't budge.
What was the situation?
The key was wrong?
But just then, slight footsteps appeared on the stairs connecting the basement and the first floor.
Very light, but for players, this footstep sound was already very obvious.
At this time point, it absolutely couldn't be other players.
So...
Asuna felt a chill down her spine and sent an inquiry to Lin Ye with her eyes.
What to do?
What should we do next?
Asuna saw Lin Ye smile slightly and make a gesture signaling 'close eyes.'
Asuna was puzzled, but at this critical juncture, she chose to trust Lin Ye and closed her eyes. The two had established a foundation of trust; under the current circumstances where their interests didn't conflict, he wouldn't turn hostile and pit her.
The next instant, Asuna felt her hand being held by Lin Ye.
The first time having physical contact with the opposite sex.
So a man's hand feels like this?
Asuna's heart palpitated, but she didn't struggle.
"Open your eyes!" Lin Ye's voice came.
"Hmm?"
It was over?
Asuna opened her eyes, and the scenery in her vision startled her. She didn't know when, but they had actually arrived in the parlor.
She subconsciously wanted to ask, but was met with Lin Ye's slight smile. She swallowed the impulse to ask.
Asking about a player's skills was a great taboo and could easily cause resentment.
Asuna knew well that her relationship with Lin Ye hadn't reached the level of heart-to-heart confidentiality, so the act of inquiring about skill privacy was inappropriate.
But she already had a guess. A skill similar to teleportation.
No wonder Lin Ye could appear on the third floor from the fourth floor in the blink of an eye.
This skill... was enviable!
If one had this teleportation skill, the survival probability would at least double.
At the same time, she realized why Lin Ye preferred to bring her, a Level 1 player, rather than the high-level Level 4 player Cold Frost. On one hand, Lin Ye had the ability to protect himself; on the other hand, Lin Ye didn't want to expose this precious skill to Cold Frost's vision.
Lin Ye trusted her more.
While this touched Asuna and made her sigh at Lin Ye's good judgment, she also wondered why Lin Ye held such high trust in her?
It couldn't just be because of this one day's contact!
Could it be... he liked her?
"Do you know who it is?" Asuna put aside her chaotic thoughts and asked.
"We'll know if we go look."
Lin Ye pointed in the direction of the basement.
The two walked out of the parlor one after the other. Before long, they saw the Blond Eldest Miss, Aiqi Carter, walking into the main hall with a gloomy face.
When she saw the two, a look of astonishment flashed past her eyes.
"Miss Carter, just coming up from the basement?" Lin Ye asked in a puzzled tone.
"Yes."
The Blond Eldest Miss stared at Lin Ye, seeming to want to read something from his expression.
"Need help?"
"Help?"
"Generally speaking, isn't the basement a place where wealthy families store fine wine? Didn't Miss Carter want to move wine out of the basement?"
"No."
"Regrettable. I thought I could taste the fine wine collected by Miss Carter."
"..."
She looked at Lin Ye and continued, "Mr. Zero seems very interested in the basement?"
"Since Miss Carter puts it that way, I really am interested. I wonder if you could take me to the basement for a look? To satisfy my curiosity."
"Apologies. Entering the basement without Father's permission is forbidden. If the gentleman wishes to go to the basement, please wait for Father's return to speak of it."
"What a pity."
Lin Ye shrugged. "Looks like I can't go to the basement."
"If Father returns and expresses permission," Aiqi said calmly.
"Sigh!"
The Blond Eldest Miss walked up to Lin Ye and extended her hand toward him. "Give it to me!"
"Hmm?"
Lin Ye hesitatingly placed his hand into the Blond Eldest Miss's hand.
The scene fell silent.
Not to mention Asuna was stunned, even the party involved, Aiqi Carter, was stunned.
"You didn't want my hand?"
"The key."
"What key?"
"The key to Guest Room 204 where the gentleman is staying overnight."
"This... isn't appropriate, right!"
"Hmm?"
"I am sharing a room with Miss Asuna. It's actually not quite appropriate for Miss Carter to come visit at night."
Aiqi: ???
Asuna listened, dumbfounded, but she knew even better that the Blond Eldest Miss already suspected Lin Ye and was directly starting to test and verify. They were just short of tearing off all pretenses.
"Give it to me!"
"Alright then!"
Lin Ye took out the key from his pocket and placed it in the Blond Eldest Miss's hand.
Asuna maintained her composure, but her heart began to feel uneasy, and her heartbeat involuntarily accelerated.
She knew Lin Ye had swapped the guest room key with the basement key. This key was the wrong basement key Lin Ye had exchanged for.
Receiving the key, the Blond Eldest Miss immediately walked up the stairs to the second floor, coincidentally meeting Cold Frost who was coming downstairs. Cold Frost had realized something was wrong upon hearing the commotion at the second-floor staircase.
The Blond Eldest Miss hadn't appeared on the first floor via the staircase passage.
This clearly meant she had sensed something and suspected something.
"What's wrong?"
"Miss Carter seems to have... towards me..."
But Aiqi Carter shot a cold glance at Lin Ye, causing him to stop speaking.
She arrived in front of Guest Room 204 on the second floor and inserted the key received from Lin Ye into the door lock.
Click...
Guest Room 204 opened.
The Blond Eldest Miss froze, her expression shifting slightly.
It wasn't Lin Ye; it was someone else's key.
She asked Cold Frost and opened Guest Room 202. She then went directly to the kitchen to ask for the key to Guest Room 203, but the result was the same. Three keys opened three guest rooms.
She realized the problem.
The keys had been swapped.
But when exactly?
The Blond Eldest Miss thought of the moment Lin Ye held her hand when she asked for the key.
Only at that moment was it possible for Lin Ye to have tampered with it.
Aiqi Carter stared at Lin Ye for a good while, unable to get the words out.
"Guests, dinner time is approaching. Go eat dinner early!"
Aiqi Carter found a new topic.
"Of course. But I would hope to dine with Miss Carter even more."
"There will be opportunities."
Leaving behind one sentence, the Blond Eldest Miss departed.
Quite a while after she left, Cold Frost closed the room door. "What happened?"
"That Eldest Miss suspected we stole the basement key, but she didn't confirm the evidence of our theft."
According to what the maid said earlier, if evidence of their theft was grasped, they could be driven away.
This was likely another hidden rule of this villa.
"Why was the key you gave her the key to Room 204? Didn't you say you swapped the basement key with your own key? You... lied to us?"
This was Cold Frost's first thought.
These words reminded Asuna, instantly making her understand that if Lin Ye had lied to them from the start, then there was an explanation for why that key couldn't open the basement lock.
He didn't trust them? Thought there was a traitor among them?
"I didn't lie to you. Why would I lie to you? I found an opportunity to swap it back."
Fifteen seconds of time stop. Rushing from the first floor to the fourth floor and back was actually a bit barely manageable, but if he went all out, he could still do it.
But just as Lin Ye prepared to act, he suddenly thought of a point—since the Blond Eldest Miss suspected he had swapped the keys, would that key placed in the maid's room still be in the maid's room on the fourth floor?
Thinking of this, he immediately used perspective and saw the key carried on the Eldest Miss's person.
The rest was simple.
When Aiqi Carter arrived on the second floor preparing to open the door to Room 204, he immediately used time stop, took out the key she was carrying, unlocked it first to confirm there was no problem, and then swapped the positions of the two keys.
If the key the Eldest Miss carried wasn't the key to Room 204, he would have sprinted to the fourth floor with all his might to fetch the spare key for Room 204 from the maid's room to swap.
This was his coping method.
"It involves a skill."
This sentence from Lin Ye silenced both women; neither took the initiative to question further.
"Asuna, take out your rapier!"
"Uh! Okay."
At Lin Ye's request, Asuna took out her weapon.
"I need to hold your left hand. Please pay attention."
"Mm."
Lin Ye extended his left hand and held the girl's left hand.
But the next second, a rapier appeared in Lin Ye's right hand. It was precisely the rapier Asuna had been holding.
Asuna watched with open eyes, not yet recovering from the scene. As the experiencer, she had absolutely no idea when her weapon was snatched away.
"Steal skill..."
"Mm."
Lin Ye responded.
"How were you sure the key would be on the Eldest Miss?"
"She suspected us already; wouldn't she carry the key with her? If it were me, I'd definitely carry it with me. That's safer."
Both women nodded, accepting this explanation.
"Any discoveries in the basement?"
"The key was fake. The real basement key was hidden."
Lin Ye pursed his lips and continued, "That Eldest Miss has problems. She is targeting us."
Wasn't it normal for Aiqi Carter to target them?
As a key character in this instance, shouldn't she be targeting these players?
Lin Ye thought about it and decided to tell them when he grasped crucial evidence!
"Let's go eat!"
Time was up.
It was time to eat.
At dinner on the second day,
Passerby completely changed his attitude from the first night, eating voraciously, deeply afraid that if he ate too little, he would go hungry again tonight.
"Brother Zero, no, Brother Zero, tonight..."
"I have no interest in men."
"Don't be like that! It's not good for a man and a woman to sleep in one room. How about joining me?"
Passerby issued pleas to Lin Ye without regard for his dignity, but Lin Ye remained unmoved. Even if Passerby wore his lips out, he absolutely wouldn't agree to sleep in the same room as Passerby.
Cold Frost spoke up, "Don't worry about the number of people. Since the maid considers you to be alone now, you sleeping alone in a room tonight won't count as violating her reminder."
Words were one thing, but Passerby wasn't reassured.
"Speaking of this point, I need to mention something."
Lin Ye's words attracted everyone's attention.
"Remember when the Eldest Miss went to the fourth floor to block me, and I met up with you on the third floor? Remember that sentence she said to me?"
Asuna and the others began to recall.
"What she said was, 'Where is that guest who was walking with you'."
Lin Ye initially thought it was the Office Lady Linlin, but when he went downstairs, he found the Office Lady was also present. Based on the Blond Eldest Miss's standing position, she could observe the five of them, so...
"She... knows about the High School Student."
Asuna said slowly.
"The maid lied," Cold Frost stated.
"There's another possibility..."
Lin Ye smiled faintly.
The one with the problem wasn't the maid, but that Blond Eldest Miss.
Night fell.
The hands of time turned to 22:00.
At this moment, the corridor was completely silent. A figure was standing there.
It was Lin Ye.
He hadn't entered the bedroom before 22:00.
At the instant the hour struck,
Standing in the hallway, Lin Ye clearly felt the change in aura. The air was filled with an oppressive atmosphere, even affecting his breathing somewhat.
He used the perspective skill, confirming that the walls and doors could no longer be seen through, obscured by a thin layer of black fog. He then took out the key to Guest Room 204 and inserted it into the door lock.
Click...
The door opened.
He saw Asuna at the door, holding her rapier vigilantly.
"The key can open it."
He did this to test if the door key could successfully open the bedroom room after 22:00.
Why the Strange entity didn't enter the bedroom last night was definitely not because 'the door is in a state where it can only be opened from the inside.'
The door closed.
Having given one piece of gum to each of the other three players, Lin Ye had also agreed with them that if the door key could open the door after 22:00, he wouldn't knock three times on their respective bedroom doors.
If the key couldn't be used to open the door after 22:00, he would have knocked three times to remind them of this information.
"Next..."
Lin Ye pointed to the cabinet. "Let's block it first!"
With the experience of the Strange entity's visit last night, they could use more measures.
One point considered for not choosing to block the door with the cabinet yesterday was that it would affect the escape of the people inside.
But with yesterday's experience, they decisively chose to block the door.
Cold Frost had previously suggested that they could not only block the door but even bind people's hands and feet.
Naturally, no one accepted this suggestion.
The risk was too high. Losing mobility meant that once they faced a Strange entity, they wouldn't even have the strength to resist.
A few minutes later,
Lin Ye and Asuna lay on the bed.
Asuna lay on her side looking at Lin Ye. "If I uncontrollably try to open the door, stop me no matter what method you use."
"I will. You too—stop me."
"Mm."
However, Asuna didn't feel Lin Ye would be bewitched.
The room returned to silence, with only the bright moon outside the window bringing cold light.
Time passed second by second.
In the three rooms, five players remained awake, waiting for the Strange entity to visit.
However, midnight had already passed, yet no sound came from outside the door.
Was the Strange entity not coming tonight?
Lin Ye wrote words on the girl's palm, telling her to sleep first.
Asuna gave an 'mm' and closed her eyes; she would take over the shift later.
Tap...
Tap...
Footsteps suddenly rang out.
Lin Ye actually relaxed.
The Dazzle Chewing Gum was ready.
He wanted to see what degree the 'influence' of today's Strange entity could reach.
Thump, thump, thump...
Thump, thump, thump...
"Brother Zero, it's me, Ueno!"
Not the maid, but the High School Student?
"Open the door!"
"Brother Zero, Miss Asuna is beside you, right!"
"Quick, open the door. If you don't open the door, I... I'm coming in."
Click...
That was the sound of a room key inserting into the door lock.
With a jolt, Lin Ye grabbed Asuna. Disregarding whether the girl was awake or not, he immediately pulled her to the doorway and dead-blocked the cabinet, using the cabinet's weight and his own strength to fully brace against the bedroom door.
Preventing the door from opening.
"The Strange entity's entry method has changed."
Asuna had already been startled awake. Her momentary daze was quickly replaced by shock. She immediately helped Lin Ye block the door. On the other side, she took out her rapier and slashed at the black, rotting body squeezing in through the gap formed during the collision.
"Let me in..."
"Brother Zero, I miss you so much!"
"Asuna, so pretty!"
"Be a maid, come be a maid..."
...
Thump, thump...
Boom...
Both sides were deadlocked; the sounds of collision rang out continuously.
Finally,
This stalemate lasted for about ten minutes.
The Strange entity outside the door retreated, abandoning Guest Room 204 as an invasion target.
But Lin Ye and Asuna dared not relax in the slightest.
Taking advantage of the crashing sounds rising from next door, the two moved the bed frame over to block the door as well.
As for Passerby in the adjacent Room 203,
Lin Ye expressed that all he could do was silently offer a blessing.
"Hope the person is okay."
Hearing this, Asuna felt that although these words seemed like a complete prayer, there was an inexplicable sense of irony.
Meanwhile, in Room 203,
Passerby wanted to cry.
The commotion coming from next door allowed him to guess the change in the Strange invasion method tonight.
"Just picking on me, huh."
That damn High School Student, you're already dead, don't come back for me!
The knocking sounded.
He knew that for the ensuing battle, he could only rely on himself.
Morning of the third day.
Lin Ye and Asuna moved the bed frame and cabinet away and opened the door.
The struggle for the door last night was intense, yet this door didn't have even a scratch on it.
Lin Ye looked toward the other two rooms.
Wonder if the three of them are okay!
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