The male protagonist survives in the infinite game by supporting his wife

Shekh did not touch the snake slough, but just stood aside and said, "This thing has been there for a long time, several years, but the dust is not as much as on the ground. Someone must clean it regularly."

Shi Jinzhe half-crouched down, holding a lighter and shining it on the ground. After lowering his sight, he could indeed see some traces of footprints on the light grey marble tiles.

"Copper coins are used to ward off evil spirits, and with the snake skin, Lu Xiaohui wanted to drive away the dirt and protect the people in the hotel. As for who did this, I suspect it was Manager Zhang."

Sheh: "Manager Zhang knows everything about Lu Xiaohui and trusts her so much, so they must have a very close relationship."

"Intimacy?" A word came to Shi Jinzhe's mind.

"Could it be that these two are close lovers?"

"You mean same-sex love?"

Shi Jinzhe was surprised: "You don't watch porn movies, but you understand this?"

Sheikh said calmly, "Love is natural. I have seen two lions. One was injured and died. The other stayed by its side for a long time, driving away scavengers for the other half. Finally, it died of exhaustion and starvation.

I also saw two female waterbucks, one was being chased by a predator, and the other broke away from the main group, took the initiative to come back and attack, attracted the predator's attention, and voluntarily sacrificed herself. "

Afraid that Shi Jinzhe would not believe her, she added, "They are not brothers, nor are they mother and daughter. I have seen their intimate behavior."

"That's good. Their feelings are pure."

In nature, animals' innate instinct is to survive.

Going against instinct and sacrificing one's life, this is probably the bond between them until death.

While sighing, Shi Jinzhe also felt a sense of worry in his heart.

After hesitating for a while, he asked Sheh, "Have you ever seen one between the opposite sex?"

"There was one case of a pair of swan geese. After the partner died, the other one was unwilling to follow the group to a warmer place. It eventually froze to death in the cold winter. When I found it, it was still holding the body of its partner."

Sheh turned and walked towards the room, "But what I said are just individual cases. Most people change partners every day. Just listen to me."

"It's okay. Individual cases are also very informative."

Shi Jinzhe felt a little relieved and didn't say anything more.

He left the seventh room with Shekh and went on to check the next one.

Walking in the corridor, he whispered, "If they are really same-sex lovers, then considering the time Manager Zhang has been in the hotel, this relationship must have lasted for quite a while."

Shehe always felt that there was something wrong with the speculation about homosexuality: "If Lu Xiaohui and Manager Zhang were a couple, Zhang Anguo's death could be said to be to clear the obstacles for the two to be together, but what about the bridesmaid? What was her cause of death?"

Shi Jinzhe speculated: "Could it be that Zhang Anguo killed the bridesmaid? Maybe Lu Xiaohui loved the bridesmaid, but Zhang Anguo accidentally intervened between them, so Lu Xiaohui killed Zhang Anguo in a rage to avenge her love."

"What about Manager Zhang? How will she explain it? The bridesmaid was in her forties when she died, which is not many years ago. Would Lu Xiaohui fall in love with another person so quickly?"

“It’s hard to say, but since Lu Xiaohui and the bridesmaid both chose to get married, it’s possible that they are not a same-sex couple at all. They are really just good friends, and we guessed wrong.

Sheh sighed, thinking that humans were really complicated. "You're right. We don't have to keep guessing about love."

She opened the door of the next room with corrosive liquid in her hand: "Let's keep this speculation as a backup plan for now, to be determined."

After checking the eighth room, the two continued to move down.

Rooms 8 to 13 were still empty.

When they reached the fourteenth guest room, Shi Jinzhe and Shehe saw the red rope, copper coins and snake skin again.

Shi Jinzhe stared at the house numbers: "They are all multiples of seven. If nothing unexpected happens, we can see this thing in the 21st, 28th, and 35th rooms."

Two hours later, just as Shi Jinzhe had said, they found a total of five strings of copper coins and five snake skins in the first thirty-five rooms.

The door of room 42.

Shekh placed her hand on the door lock, and before pushing the door open, she announced, "We're going to make a new discovery."

As the door was pushed open, Shi Jinzhe walked into the 42nd room.

The flickering firelight illuminated the messy footprints on the ground. The position of the sole was clear, and the area left by the heel was a bit small. The shoe size was not large, so it was most likely a female's.

Lowering the lighter, Shi Jinzhe noticed drag marks on the ground. He followed the marks and saw a long-haired woman covered in blood tied to a chair.

She was sitting in the middle of the room, unconscious, with a large pool of blood under her feet and her body also covered in blood.

The dried blood made the woman's hair tangled, and the scene was a bit scary.

Shehe sniffed, "It's the possessed Xiao Wan, but the ghost has left her body. She's not injured, and the blood flowing in her body is not human blood."

"If it's not human, then it must be splashed with the blood of some other animal. Can you smell what kind of blood it is?"

Shi Jinzhe could vaguely guess the answer in his heart, probably either a chicken or a dog.

"Chicken." Sheh loves eating chicken and is very familiar with the taste of this creature, so he wouldn't make a mistake.

"That's Manager Zhang bringing the possessed person here and splashing him with chicken blood."

Shi Jinzhe tapped his fingers lightly: "She put soapberries and splashed chicken blood. She is trying to find a way to prevent the ghosts from harming the residents here."

"She and Lu Xiaohui are both trying to find a way to prevent the ghosts from harming the residents here. Don't forget those snake sloughs."

Shehe ignored Xiao Wan who was tied up, and pulled Shi Jinzhe to search for something along the wall in this luxurious single room.

The footprints on the ground were only found inside the house, so Manager Zhang must have had other ways to get in.

She took Xiao Ye upstairs at night instead of taking the elevator or going through the front door, so there must be other doors in the house for her to enter and exit.

Suddenly, a small narrow door that was only wide enough for one person to pass through appeared within the lighting range of the lighter.

Shi Jinzhe gestured and said that the door was as wide as his shoulder: "One room, two doors at the front and back. This is designed as a transfer station."

"Transit station..." Sheh thought of the sealed corridor at the end of the fourth floor.

The wall divides the room into two parts from the corridor, and the residents can only see the door on the outside, but they don’t know that there is another door inside the room that can reach the back of the wall from inside the room.

"I don't know if the structure of the fourth floor is different from here."

Shehe's words were filled with displeasure. If it was the same, then Liu Run was playing tricks on her again.

Shi Jinzhe turned off the lighter and said, "Just open the door and you'll know."

The room returned to darkness, and Shekh pressed the door lock: "Hold me tight."

She pushed the door gently, and a musty smell immediately filled the air, like socks that had been soaked in water for three days and not washed, damp and smelly.

The two held hands tightly and walked out of the small door one after the other.

Sheh looked around and said, "No one is here. Light the lighter."

His eyes emerged from the darkness, and the shabby and faded walls allowed Shi Jinzhe to confirm that this was indeed behind the wall.