031 Dangerous Water Source
Hearing this, and seeing the trembling appearance of the Red-Clothed... no, now White-Clothed Female Ghost, Yuuki Asuna was dumbfounded.
Something like this exists?
Is the passive skill of the Diplomat profession actually that powerful? It can directly turn a hateful Banshee originally wearing blood-stained clothes into this meek, docile appearance like a kitten? Even the red clothes symbolizing a malevolent ghost are gone?
No, that's not right.
Yuuki Asuna glanced at Asagiri's profile and thought that if she had the passive of the special profession Diplomat, she definitely couldn't have broken the female ghost's defenses in just a few minutes like he did.
Passive skills are passive skills, but how much effect they can exert still depends on the user.
Although Yuuki Asuna said she wouldn't have any pity for non-human Banshees, there was one thing about Asagiri that she could never do.
This guy genuinely found it fun.
The more the female ghost feared and struggled, the more pleasure he felt. He was purely a chaotic evil "fun-seeker". Let alone the female ghost, even Yuuki Asuna, who was watching from the side, felt a chill in her heart.
"Can talk? That's good."
Asagiri smiled with satisfaction, without any pleasantries, and immediately asked.
"How many Banshees are there in this Hotel? How were the Banshees formed? Is there a weapon in a certain part of this Hotel that can eliminate Banshees? Is there any notable information in the lobby on the first floor? Under what conditions will Banshees attack humans? Is there any way to completely avoid Banshees?"
Hearing this long string of questions, the female ghost couldn't help but be stunned, but facing this human who had just wanted to immerse her in the bathtub, who was more demonic than a demon, she didn't dare to hesitate at all and immediately replied meekly.
"I don't know exactly how many Banshees there are, and I don't know how I was born...."
"Heh, playing stubborn resistance with me here, are you?"
Asagiri grabbed the female ghost's long hair again, lifted her from the ground, and held her above the bathtub filled with water again, saying in a flat tone.
"Since that's the case, I'll send you on your way."
"Don't... don't!"
Seeing Asagiri intending to throw herself into the water, the female ghost quickly replied in a hoarse voice, shouting.
"I don't know those things because I can't leave the seventh floor! But I know the answers to the last two questions! If you enter the area of the seventh floor of the Hotel, I can attack you, but because I cannot leave the seventh floor, as long as you don't actively enter my floor, I can't do anything to you!"
"It's lying."
Hearing the female ghost's answer, Yuuki Asuna frowned, took two steps forward, looked directly into her eyes, and slowly said.
"If it's really as you say, that you can't attack us if we don't enter your floor, why did you make crying sounds and scratch the wall with your nails at that time? Shouldn't you have remained quiet and then launched a surprise attack on us?"
"I... I..."
Facing Yuuki Asuna's questioning, the female ghost opened her mouth, confusion appearing in her eyes.
"I don't know why, I just felt... you absolutely couldn't go down any further..."
After hearing this answer, Yuuki Asuna pondered for a moment, then looked at Asagiri and said.
"Assuming it's telling the truth, then it should belong to the type of 'Earth-bound Spirit' from legends, and... its duty is not to attack humans entering this Hotel, but to prevent anyone from going down. Combined with the special hint you received, it can basically be confirmed that the first floor of this Hotel is the core key point of this instance."
Yuuki Asuna knew why Asagiri had just asked if there was a weapon in this Hotel that could completely eliminate Banshees. Because only if such a weapon existed in the Hotel and she had the ability to obtain it, would the special hint she received upon entering the instance be valuable.
The APP with the eye icon couldn't give completely worthless information.
"Going down is dangerous... Then is the condition for clearing the instance to stay put or try to go to the upper floors? No, this isn't a beginner instance, the clear condition shouldn't be that simple..."
Yuuki Asuna muttered to herself, took out her phone and glanced at the time displayed on the screen, finding that there were less than ten minutes left until the agreed meeting time. Then she looked up at the female ghost Asagiri was holding and asked a crucial question.
"Why are you so afraid of water? Is it because your cause of death was drowning, or is it... that the water in this Hotel is strange?"
"Water..."
Just as the female ghost was about to say something, her pupils suddenly widened, and her body suddenly inflated.
"Look out!"
Yuuki Asuna, who had never relaxed her vigilance, reacted extremely quickly. She immediately opened the bathroom door, first pushed Asagiri out, then followed him out herself, and immediately closed the door.
Two seconds later, a muffled sound, like a water balloon bursting, suddenly came from the bathroom.
"Bang!"
Yuuki Asuna could feel something hitting the bathroom door, and the entire room's floor shook slightly.
Then, there was dead silence, only the sound of what seemed like water dripping onto the floor, tap-tapping.
"Did it... explode?"
Before closing the bathroom door, Yuuki Asuna took a look. After seeing the female ghost's body inflate, she instantly remembered a term she had seen online before called "Giant Corpse", which refers to a phenomenon where after a person dies, putrefactive bacteria grow rapidly in the body, producing gas, causing the corpse to swell excessively.
To be honest, she was indeed disgusted by the scene just now, but that wasn't the point.
The point was...
Asagiri stared at the bathroom door and said softly.
"It didn't want to answer that question, so it directly self-destructed... It seems there is indeed something wrong with the water in this Hotel, and there is a powerful Banshee in this Hotel that is even stronger than this female ghost, capable of controlling it at will."
.......
A few minutes later, Asagiri and Yuuki Asuna returned to the door of the suite on the twenty-second floor, which was the top floor of the Hotel.
When the two arrived, they saw Iwanaga Kotoko already standing at the door, waiting.
Seeing that the other party was still alive, and that the white dress she was wearing was not stained in the slightest, Yuuki Asuna secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that sure enough, Asagiri's guess was correct.
Iwanaga Kotoko must possess extremely powerful talent, or a profession.