Showbiz Escape

Chapter 53
The only remaining light in the corridor became even darker, so dark that it was reddened, and only the vague outlines of passing creatures could be seen clearly.

Jiang Zhou peeped out through the small hole in the door, holding his breath. He vaguely heard the footsteps getting closer and closer, as dull as wooden drumsticks hitting the drumhead.

Hey, hey, hey.

After all, it was the first time he entered the game, so he was somewhat inexperienced, and his heartbeat flustered for no reason. He adjusted his breathing slightly, and squinted one eye, trying to see more clearly.

Until the man in medieval aristocratic costume dragged into his sight.

The opponent was tall and tall, and the expensive clothes were stained with dried blood, and he was holding a human head in each of his left and right hands. The head dangled with its walking posture, which was extremely impactful.

...Could this be the "evil god" mentioned in the reminder?
Jiang Zhou was thinking, when he suddenly felt the sound of footsteps stop, with a sudden sense of ominous premonition, he looked again——

It turned out that the aristocratic man had turned around at some point and moved his face closer to the door of room 312.

Its unkempt brown curly hair, the ends of which were glued together by dirty blood, and the pair of scarlet eyes under the messy hair, with very little white, just stared straight into the room.

For a moment, Jiang Zhou felt that he was almost staring at it.

Indeed, if it wasn't because of the reminder to hide in the guest room in advance, I am afraid that the other party would be chopped into pieces in the corridor at this time.

Jiang Zhou didn't dare to move, and just quietly confronted it across a door panel, until the god lost his patience, looked away, and walked back to the depths of the corridor.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and he was convinced that as long as the player hid in the guest room, the other party would not be able to break in and commit murder.

After the sound of footsteps disappeared completely, he raised his hand to try the doorknob, and found that the door, which had been automatically locked just now, could now be opened.

This shows that the system allows the player to go out and proceed to the next task.

Just in case, he returned to the room again, carefully checked all the corners, and finally came to the conclusion that there were really no extra clues.

Just as he was about to go out, his eyes suddenly went dark, and suddenly someone approached him, pushing him back into the house with his chest pressed against his chest.

He was startled, and subconsciously wanted to fight back, but just as his hand touched the opponent's neck, before he pinched it, the warm touch woke him up in an instant.

The light in the guest room shone on the visitor's face. Tang Chunen was standing in front of him, looking up at him slightly.

...Looking at the way she is holding an ax in her left hand and a cauldron in her right hand, if he really dares to choke her neck, she will probably hit him too.

"What are you doing, your wings are stiff, and you plan to kill your teammates first to prove the Tao?" Tang Chunen glanced at him, "It's a pity that I ran to find you at the risk."

Jiang Zhou quickly withdrew his hand. Although his expression looked flat, his tone was inexplicably apologetic: "I didn't expect it to be you, I thought it was another monster."

"Oh, it's that expensively dressed male monster with two human heads?"

"Yes, I also passed by your house?"

"No, what passed in front of my room was a female monster crawling like a spider. I saw the male monster at the other end of the corridor just now. I was so startled that he almost saw me."

It can be seen that there is more than one evil god.

Jiang Zhou thought about this sentence carefully, and he became serious: "Are you too anxious to go out? You know that these monsters haven't left completely, why take the risk?"

Tang Chunen was surprised by his question: "Are you questioning my professional ethics as a bounty hunter? Of course I came out to look for you as soon as I found out that the door of the guest room was unlocked. What if you go out and run around? , What if something happens to you halfway? You are a customer, and the safety of the customer is much higher than my personal safety, no matter how dangerous it is, I must rush."

"..."

"What kind of expression do you have? I never saw you looking forward and backward like this when I was assigned to work before." Tang Chunen said, "Don't say it's me, Ah Ju will definitely arrive within half a minute. Do you try your best to be as plausible as you can?"

Before the words were finished, Ye Lingchuan's calm voice came from outside the door.

"It's really outrageous, but Wen Zhuo hasn't come yet, please let me in first."

"oh oh!"

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Wen Zhuo arrived 10 minutes later than Ye Lingchuan. When she came, she was carrying a curved bow in her hand, and several ribs that seemed to be hard-cut. She also had a saw and a file pinned to her waist, like a carpenter at work.

"I'm sorry." While she was talking, her hands were not idle, "My side quest is a bit troublesome, I have to sharpen a few arrows now."

Seeing this, Ye Lingchuan took the two ribs casually, and took out the antique knife from her pocket.

"I'll help you."

The tone was relaxed, as if he was not processing the bones of the corpse, but rather sharpening a whistle with wood.

"Okay, thank you, the sharper the sharper the better." Wen Zhuo thought for a while, but he didn't forget to remind everyone, "When you leave this door, the guest room will be automatically locked, and the key we got before will become invalid. Come in."

Tang Chunen was stunned: "Ah? Doesn't that mean we can only stroll outside? Whenever we encounter monsters, don't we have to be tough?"

"Not all, if you find a new key, you can enter the room again."

The question is when will new keys be found?

It's hard to say.

Taking advantage of getting together, the four of them also shared what they saw and heard just now, and found that there were indeed four guest rooms, and four monsters wandered in the corridor.

These four monsters corresponded to the four paintings they saw in the mirror earlier, they were the curly-haired man in noble costumes who slaughtered slaves; the black-haired spider woman who dismembered a girl; And guarding the gold, silver and jewels, the old man who looks like a skeleton.

Tang Chun'en raised the pot in his hand: "Is this pot the one in the painting? What does it mean to say 'invitation from the gods'? I guess it might tell us how to kill them."

"It's indeed the way to kill them." Wen Zhuo concentrated on sharpening the bone arrow without raising his head, "But before we kill them, we must first determine their origin."

"What kind of history?"

"For example, what do you think the sinful gods represent?"

Tang Chunen glanced at Jiang Zhou next to him. Obviously, Jiang Zhou was also thinking and had some clues.

"This hotel has a total of seven floors, if each floor corresponds to an evil god..."

She suddenly realized: "The seven deadly sins?"

Wen Zhuo smiled: "Smart, at least for now, the content of the painting we have learned can be compared with the seven deadly sins."

Ye Lingchuan also nodded, and added softly: "The monster in Wenzhuo's room who slaughtered slaves corresponds to 'rage'; the spider woman in my room who tortured and killed young girls corresponds to 'jealousy'."

"Chun En and Mr. Jiang's rooms are even simpler, representing 'gluttony' and 'greed'."

Looking at it this way, the remaining three sinful gods are arrogance, laziness and lust.

The reminder in the courtyard fountain reads [Passing through this place, let the evil sleep forever].

So the player's task here is to kill all the alienated monsters of the Seven Deadly Sins.

(End of this chapter)