The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

The window faces the back of the hotel. Apart from an empty backyard, a square table and a few benches stacked in the corner, there is nothing else to attract attention.

Outside the backyard fence is a dense forest with leaves so dense that you can't see any further.

The black rain outside the window is still falling, and it seems there will be no end.

After pulling the faded, old curtains and checking that there were no problems in the room for the time being, the two went upstairs and checked Xu Huang's room 202 as usual, but there was no obvious abnormality.

After the two of them walked out of the room, they heard the cough of an elderly man from 201 next to Xu Huang. The wooden door panel was not soundproof, so they paused and listened carefully, convinced that it was coming from 201.

The dancer who was sitting next to them happened to come out, and when she heard the heart-wrenching cough, she crossed her arms and looked at the two of them nervously.

"Guest, breakfast is ready!"

The loud voice of the proprietress downstairs penetrated the floors, and the violent coughing sound from 201 disappeared immediately.

The three of them said nothing and walked downstairs.

An interactive prompt appeared above the proprietress's head again, and several people went over to ask.

"Boss, is there anyone living next door to me? Sorry, I don't sleep well and I seemed to hear a cough just now." Xu Huang sat in a corner of the sofa and tentatively guided the NPC to tell useful information.

"I'm sorry, that's my father-in-law. He's old and has a bad cough. But don't worry, guests. I won't let him disturb your rest!" The proprietress wiped her hands with her apron, apologized apologetically, turned her head and looked through the floor in the direction of 201, and assured with a smile.

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay!" This smile was a bit creepy. Xu Huang sat back and waved his hands to indicate that it was nothing.

"You have come from far away. Although the conditions of our shop are not good, the food is delicious. Would you like to try it?" The proprietress pushed a basket of buns on the table over.

Theoretically speaking, there was a high probability that there was something wrong with the food in the copy, so everyone hesitated and did not raise their hands immediately.

But the proprietress just looked at it so eagerly.

"bump!"

Suddenly, a loud bang on the door from the left side drew the proprietress's attention.

"You bitch! Where's the wine? You hid it again? Fuck you, where's my wine!" The drunken man, with a red face and strong reek of alcohol, threw the bottle in his hand to the ground, shards of glass scattered everywhere, one or two of them splashed and cut the proprietress's cheek.

She put her hand over her bleeding cheek and apologized to them with an apologetic look, saying, "Sorry, guests, I have something else to do here. Please make yourselves at ease. If you have any questions, please come to 101 and find me directly."

After saying that, she turned around, supported her alcoholic husband, and pulled him back to the room amid his verbal abuse.

During this time, everyone could hear the crisp sound of the man slapping someone.

"Trash." The dancer frowned, as if she hated this kind of bully. However, because of the playground, she did not dare to act rashly. She just cursed in a low voice unwillingly.

"Now the boss lady is in room 106, so room 101 is empty..." The white-collar man looked at the closed door of room 106, hinting other players to complete the side quest.

"I just want the basic reward. This kind of difficult task should be left to capable people." Xu Huang was not fooled and shrugged indifferently.

Although he is not smart, he is not a fool either. This guy is obviously asking others to take the lead for him!

"Let's go to the backyard and take a look." Qin Jue picked up the umbrella beside him and walked towards the door behind the stairs with Xu Huang.

Of the remaining three people, the dancer returned to the room with her arms folded, and the remaining yellow-haired man followed the white-collar man with a troubled look on his face, and finally accompanied him to 101.

Huangmao's room is in 102, which is right next to 101. If anything unexpected happens, he can quickly return to his room to hide. Also, because he is too close to the boss lady, he needs to rely on a big brother to provide him with some help when necessary.

Qin Jue held an umbrella and walked to the backyard with Xu Huang. It was hard to see clearly through the window, but when you see it with your own eyes, you will feel that it is extremely desolate. The fences are overgrown with weeds, and the land under your feet is soaked by rain and muddy.

"Are there any clues here?" Xu Huang huddled under the umbrella, feeling quite intimidated by the overly lonely environment around him.

He always felt that something would break through the fence from the dense forest and attack him.

"I don't know, let's walk around." Qin Jue was not sure whether there would be any clues, but he felt that since the game had opened up this space in the backyard, it would not be a useless place.

Some of the fallen leaves piled underfoot have already rotted, and a few broken bricks and stones are scattered in the corners. The ground is not flat and has a bumpy feel.

The single-story room in a small area on the left should be an L-shaped area including the kitchen on the right side of the hotel, connected to the rear window of Room 101.

The windows of other rooms could be seen, but the curtains inside were tightly covered and Qin Jue could not see anything unusual.

"We can't find any useful clues. How about we go back? Didn't the system say that we need to accept and complete the tasks assigned by the NPC? Perhaps these tasks are the clues."

It was raining heavily, some of it splashing on his skin, stinging like needles. Xu Huang rubbed the back of his hand, feeling lucky that he had an umbrella thanks to his good friend.

"Ouch!" Walking in the mud, Xu Huang didn't pay attention to his feet. It seemed that he kicked something hard through the mud, and he cried out in pain.

Qin Jue moved his eyes downwards, paused, handed the umbrella to Xu Huang, squatted down and dug out a pottery jar wrapped with ropes.

Although covered in mud, one could still barely make out the red color of the rope and the yellow symbol on the seal of the pottery jar.

Xu Huang bent down to take a look, and had a feeling that there was something bad in the pottery jar: "This thing looks evil..."

"Or let it go back, in case it attracts something." It would be a great loss if he lost his life.

"...put it back first." Qin Jue knew that Xu Huang valued his life, and he didn't know what was inside. Everything in the hotel was still unclear, so there was no need to act rashly.

After burying the jar and remembering its location, the two returned and washed the mud off their hands and shoes.

"What did you find?"

The white-collar man and the yellow-haired man were waiting at the stairs. When they saw the two men coming back from the backyard, they immediately asked.

"What about you?" Qin Jue wiped the water stains on his hands, did not deny it, raised his eyes and asked back.

"101 is very clean, and the layout is that of a normal single room. The boss's wife's clothes and bag are hung at the door, and the bedside table is locked. I don't know what's inside." The white-collar man erased his findings and talked about irrelevant topics.

This ambiguous rhetoric naturally couldn't fool Qin Jue. He picked up his umbrella and walked past the two of them: "The backyard is also very clean, with only dirt on the ground."

"What else?" Huangmao knew that the other party must be hiding something. He clearly saw through the window that two people were squatting in the mud doing something in the rain.

"Gone."

"Don't you understand? Since you are not interested in exchanging information, we naturally have nothing to say to you!" Xu Huang pushed the yellow-haired man away and went upstairs to his room.