The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

"Okay, according to the plan we discussed last night, you go find the proprietress, and I need to go to the kitchen to verify some guesses and the other party's motives." There is not much time left, and we must hurry to figure out the ins and outs and help Xu Huang complete the task before nightfall.

The dancer listened for a while, still a little confused, and when she saw the two were about to leave, she hurriedly asked: "Then... what about me?"

"Be careful that the landlady may ask you to open your heart to her. The outside world is not safe. You'd better spend the night in your room and don't open the door." Qin Jue paused and gave a rare suggestion with kindness.

Although most of the people who enter the game are not good people, it is not ruled out that innocent people may be framed.

Qin Jue didn't want to interfere too much in other people's lives out of good intentions, but it was nothing to just give a casual warning.

"Thank you." The dancer listened and whispered thanks while stroking her pendant with her fingertips.

Qin Jue and Xu Huang acted separately, with Xu Huang leading the proprietress away on the pretext that the old man in Room 201 was making a noise. Qin Jue took advantage of this brief break to go to the kitchen to check.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, sir. My father-in-law is always so stubborn and turns a blind eye to other people's difficulties. Don't worry, sir. I will go talk to him right away."

When the proprietress heard Xu Huang's opinion, she immediately apologized and walked upstairs. Before leaving, she even locked the kitchen door.

The old lock core didn't offer much resistance. Qin Jue took two steps back to gather strength, then kicked the iron door open.

The corridor leading to the kitchen was long and dark, and the air was filled with the smell of alcohol. The strong smell of liquor made it even more obvious.

It should be to cover up the smell of blood.

The kitchen was not big, except for the necessary cooking table and storage freezer. What came into view was a body that could not be called human, pieced together with red thread in a hexagram painted with blood.

These limbs were all taken from adults, wrapping the kidneys in the hollow abdomen that had not yet been sewn shut.

The proprietress used adult limbs to piece together the appearance of a child.

The obviously enlarged hands, feet and head of an adult make this doll-like body so weird and terrifying that it makes people's palms numb.

In addition to the body that was about to be completed, there was an empty wooden table on the counter on one side of the kitchen, with incense offerings in front of it.

Four wisps of cigarette smoke became ethereal but seemed to have their own direction, passing through the wall and converging somewhere in the outside world.

There are two little men made of cotton cloth placed on both sides of the incense burner. The red thread goes around the incense burner and wraps the two little men around a red rope.

The one on the left had his eyes gouged out by scissors and his limbs were wrapped with red thread; the one on the right had more than twenty sharp embroidery needles pierced into his abdomen.

After a little thought, Qin Jue took away the blinded man. Knowing what was in the locker, he did not check the meat in the sink or the things in the freezer.

Everything that happened in the hotel was clear to him. He was in a hurry, so he turned around and walked out, breaking open the door of Room 106.

The man was still drinking, as if drinking was the only thing he knew.

The sound of wooden boards hitting the wall woke him from his daze. He lifted his wrinkled eyelids to take a look at the person who came, then continued to drink from the bottle.

Qin Jue kicked the wine bottle in the man's hand, and the green bottle broke into pieces. The wine inside all poured out. Pushed by the wine, a pair of elastic eyeballs rolled to Qin Jue's feet.

Without the wine, the man's face suddenly turned into pain. He held his stomach and rolled off the bed, struggling to move and reach out to grab the eyeball back.

"Give it to me! Give it back to me! Give it back to me now!" He was very anxious, and there was obvious pain in his voice.

Qin Jue bent down to pick up the eyeball, held it in his palm, and met the man's pleading gaze, remaining indifferent.

"If you betray someone who is sincere to you, you will have to swallow a thousand needles. The curse you were given is a thousand needles piercing your stomach. I want to save my friend, so I must get this thing. As for the dispute between you two, I will not interfere."

Qin Jue stood up, turned around and left, summoning the system that would serve as the referee for the clearance on the way.

"System, I want to submit the answer."

[Intermediate Dungeon <Rainy Night Inn> Side Quest (Score-Adding Item): Please find out the secret of the innkeeper.]

[Please provide the answer——]

"The son of the innkeeper died, and she made a deal with the ghosts, using the inn as a venue and the travelers as offerings, feeding the ghosts so that they could summon the soul of her son back to life."

"She hated her alcoholic husband and her father-in-law who didn't care about it. She cursed her husband to suffer from thousands of needles every day and cursed her father-in-law to lose his eyesight and deafen his ears to live in pain."

Qin Jue remembered that the boss lady used an adjective when she mentioned the old man in 201. Not listening to advice and turning a blind eye, what she was paying attention to must be the thing she hated the most.

This also addresses the current situation where the elderly have lost their eyes and cannot hear.

This is the boss lady's punishment for the old man.

As for the drunken man, the boss lady may still not be able to give up easily, so she used a more psychological way of revenge. Even after doing all this, she felt guilty and was willing to endure the beatings and scoldings from the man.

The alcoholic husband seemed to be able to temporarily forget the pain brought by the curse only after drinking the wine soaked with his father's eyeballs.

[…The answer is correct. Congratulations to the player for completing the exploration side quest. ]

The answer was expected, and Qin Jue quickened his pace and went upstairs.

When I returned to the second floor, the proprietress was apologizing for the death of the white-collar man, just like what happened yesterday when the yellow-haired man died.

"Still can't you call the police? We can't just leave their two bodies like this, right?" Qin Jue approached, stood to one side with his arms folded, and suddenly spoke to the proprietress who was repeating "I'm sorry" in a crying voice.

The proprietress paused for a moment, her pupils swaying, and she spoke hesitantly: "But...it's raining too hard, the police car can't come to this remote little place."

"If corpses are left for too long, they will start to stink. Isn't there a freezer in the boss lady's kitchen? Can't we just throw them in and freeze them? Or, we can feed their bodies to the diners in Room 204." Now that everything was clear, Qin Jue no longer concealed anything and confronted the boss lady in an effort to buy time for the task assigned by Xu Huang.

He told Xu Huang a possible way to complete the task through the team information, and used the cursed villain to force the old man to reach an "agreement". When they passed by each other, he handed the villain and the eyeball to Xu Huang.

Hearing this, the proprietress's originally apologetic expression froze, and her eyes changed from gentle to vigilant as she looked at the young man in front of her.

"...How much do you know?" She wiped away the tears from her eyes, her face gloomy, no longer kind and friendly, and asked in a deep voice.

"Not much, but not a small amount either. I know my father-in-law whose eyes were dug out by you, and my husband who was cursed." Qin Jue leaned casually against the wall, lowered his head and wiped the weapon he carried with him.

"They deserved it! My son died, but they didn't care. The child was so young! He was clearly their blood relative! One was an alcoholic, and the other pretended to be deaf and dumb. They deserved to be cursed!"

Qin Jue's words stimulated the proprietress. She grabbed the corners of her clothes with both hands and squeezed them into clear wrinkles, as if only in this way could she have the strength to support herself.

There was a roar in her voice as she spoke, trying to express all the grievances and unwillingness in her heart.

"You hate them, but you don't kill them." Qin Jue said casually, keeping an eye on Xu Huang's progress.

"I just want them to live! I want them to live to atone for their sins! He only knows how to drink, so just keep drinking! Apart from drinking, he can't do anything else. Only by drinking the wine mixed with his father's eyeballs and flesh and blood can he stop feeling the pain and survive...Haha...They all have to live! Live well!"