Infinite: Dawn Game

No one knew the extent of Xu Han's inner turmoil. He kept telling himself not to be afraid, not to be afraid, not to be afraid... and over time, he actually calmed down quite a bit.

The elderly cleaning lady slowly walked out of the storage room, seemingly listening intently to the sounds of running in the corridor.

Xu Han peeked through the crack in the door at the squinting cleaning lady, and slowly, very slowly, moved to the side.

He cautiously glanced at the spot where He Lingling was hiding.

Then Xu Han stopped breathing instantly.

From the gap in the wardrobe not far away, a hand was seen quickly retracting behind it.

It's He Lingling.

Xu Han: "..."

If the cleaning lady hadn't turned around, wouldn't she have caught He Lingling red-handed?

Xu Han felt that he was showing signs of high blood pressure.

At that moment, the elderly cleaning lady seemed to turn her attention back to the wall of towels behind her.

"……well……"

The elderly cleaning lady sighed, then slowly moved into the room and began putting towels and other items on her cleaning cart.

"The guests will be leaving the room soon..."

Jingle Bell! ! !

The sudden, urgent ringing of the bell abruptly stopped the elderly cleaning lady from talking to herself. She then bent down to retrieve the walkie-talkie hanging from her waist.

"manager?"

A familiar male voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie, "Aunt Lin, the guests will be coming out soon. Remember to clean every room carefully and put all the aromatherapy diffusers back in place..."

What follows are some of the things superiors habitually say.

Xu Han carefully wrote down everything on the walkie-talkie and kept urging the elderly cleaning lady to leave quickly.

He was absolutely terrified...

"Okay, okay," the elderly cleaning lady nodded repeatedly. "I know, I know, I'll go right now, right now. By the way, manager, I wanted to ask, when can you come out to see us?"

"..."

The manager on the other end of the walkie-talkie was silent for several seconds before responding:

"Soon. I will come out to meet everyone after all the guests have left."

The elderly cleaning lady seemed very happy. "Okay, okay, I'll go clean the guest rooms now. Manager, if you have something to do, please go ahead and do your work..."

"..."

The call lasted for about five minutes, and ended with the manager saying, "Aunt Lin, you go ahead and do your work, I have something else to do."

The elderly cleaning lady stared blankly at the walkie-talkie in her hand, which was no longer making any sound, for a long while.

It took the elderly cleaning lady quite a while to put the walkie-talkie into the bag around her waist, close the door, and slowly push the cleaning cart away.

Only when the sound of the wheels faded into the distance and could no longer be heard did Xu Han cautiously walk from behind the door toward the towel cabinet.

Behind the towel cabinet, He Lingling tightly gripped the thing in her hand. Her vision was completely dark, but the sounds around her were unusually clear.

"...Xu Han?"

Xu Han quickly replied, "Yes, yes, I'm coming right now."

He Lingling took several short, careful breaths:

"I just touched something here..."

As He Lingling spoke, she stretched out the object in her palm:

"Look at what this is."

Xu Han rubbed his cold hands, squinting at the thing He Lingling handed him, "What is this? Where did you get it from—"

"Is this... a videotape?"

Xu Han looked at the long, dark videotape in his hand with some surprise, and hesitated before saying:

"It should be a videotape. I saw it in my mom's study before..."

"video tape?"

He Lingling fumbled around in her hands for a moment, then asked, "Is there anywhere in the hotel where I can put the videotapes?"

"……do not know."

Xu Han scratched his head. "Let's take them back first. We can talk about this after we meet with Brother Chen and Shi Jiu tomorrow."

As for why this thing that looks like a videotape is here... He Lingling pursed her lips slightly.

She could roughly guess some of the images.

It's very possible that a long time ago, someone else was hiding in this storage room just like them. It's possible that the situation was urgent at the time, which is why that person left the videotape here...

He Lingling felt another pang of pain in her eyes.

She lowered her head and hummed in response, rubbing her eyes hard with a headache. "Xu Han, do you think that old lady will come back?"

"Probably not for now," Xu Han glanced back at the tightly closed door. "Didn't the manager on the walkie-talkie say she was going to clean every room?"

There are so many rooms in the Fuling Hotel, and it seems that the old lady is the only cleaner. There's no way she could clean so quickly by herself...

"...Okay, let's stay a little longer. If no NPC finds us, we'll stay until tomorrow."

Xu Han wholeheartedly agreed: "Great! I think it's a perfect idea! Don't wander around aimlessly; other places might not be as safe as this..."

The storage room was filled with Xu Han's incessant chatter. He Lingling silently turned her head to look in Xu Han's direction, and her chaotic and noisy thoughts gradually calmed down.

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Fourth floor.

When Yu Shijiu turned back again and severed the head of a monster, Chen Yi beside him was already covered in sweat.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Fatty, who had already run to the elevator door and was guarding it. "Shall we take the elevator too?"

"What else?"

Yu Shijiu glanced back briefly and said with a grin, "Actually, I could take the stairs, but I don't seem to see any of them yet..."

Chen Yi's gaze quickly shifted to the endless stream of strange staff members at the end of the corridor—he now suspected that the stairs were likely behind those staff members.

This answer is enough to plunge everyone into despair.

It's impossible that no one among the fleeing players would have guessed this way, but there's nothing they can do. If the stairs really were behind the staff, they simply couldn't get through the monster horde... unless they all wanted to die.

"Made!"

A male player next to Chen Yi cursed out, "How come there are so many of these freaks? Is this really fair?!"

How could they possibly escape from being surrounded by so many monsters when there were only a few of them?

As they were talking, a male player next to him was dragged to the ground by the leg by a staff member. The male player, clutching the black cat in his arms, screamed shrilly and frantically scratched at the thick layer of blood glue on the floor tiles, howling loudly.

"Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me! I'm willing, I'm willing to give you all my props! Who can save me? Who can save me?! Ahhhhh!!!"

Chen Yi looked in the direction where the male player was being dragged away. He wanted to help, but he was still worried about Yu Shijiu, who was happily killing people beside him.

Yu Shijiu's gaze was also drawn to the male player who was screaming in agony.