Chapter 3 : Open the Door
Yu Su opened the refrigerator and found some pork on the upper layer, various vegetables and fruits on the bottom, also a dozen eggs.
It looked very normal, nothing unusual at all.
She closed the refrigerator door and was about to leave the kitchen, but as soon as she turned around, she b.u.mped into someone.
It was the Proprietress.
Yu Su didn"t know how long the Proprietress had been standing behind herself.
The Proprietress" bright flowery ap.r.o.n was in contrast with her expressionless face. She stared straight at Yu Su, her gaze felt sinister, like a viper staring at its prey.
Yu Su was shocked by her but soon calmed down. She laughed and explained, “Proprietress, I was a little hungry, so I wanted to find something to eat. I came to find the food myself because I was unable to find you. You are not angry, right?”
The Proprietress blinked and instantly restored her previous gentle look.
She laughed like nothing had happened just now, and spoke enthusiastically, “Of course not. What do you want to eat? I"ll prepare it for you.”
Yu Su answered casually, “No need to bother, just give me two apples.”
The Proprietress bypa.s.sed Yu Su and opened the refrigerator, then took out two red apples. She responded while smiling, “I"ll send them to you after I washed them!”
Yu Su quickly thanked her and left the kitchen.
As soon as she left, she noticed three people standing in the hall, looking her way.
Li Yi asked her without sound, her mouth motioned, "Are you alright?"
Yu Su didn"t know whether to nod or shake her head, so she shrugged and pointed upstairs.
When she pa.s.sed Xue Mei"s room, Yu Su glanced inside and saw that the corpse was still lying there.
Li Yi took the lead and entered her and Zhuang Han"s room. As soon as she entered, she said helplessly, “When the Proprietress came out from my room, I said a few words loudly, but none of you seemed to hear it.”
Seeing the Proprietress heading back, she ran downstairs before the other party, but only in time to remind w.a.n.g San in the left room.
Unexpectedly, the Proprietress didn"t go downstairs immediately but found Zhuang Han on the second floor.
Zhuang Han gasped in horror and told them, “I was walking into a room on the second floor that was noticeably different than the other rooms. I was just starting to look for clues, but when I turned around, I saw her behind me and was almost scared to death!”
After he was seen by the Proprietress, naturally he didn"t dare to search for clues again. He followed her downstairs and saw Li Yi and w.a.n.g San preparing to enter the kitchen.
When they saw the Proprietress coming down, they could only stop their actions and watched her walked into the kitchen.
Zhuang Han and Li Yi deliberately talked loudly outside, but it"s apparent that Yu Su didn"t hear a single word.
Fortunately, nothing happened. Yu Su grabbed the key point and questioned Zhuang Han, “How is that room different? Did you find anything?”
“It"s not a guest room.” Zhuang Han answered. “It"s the room of the Proprietress" daughter and son-in-law. It"s a shame that before I could take a closer look, the Proprietress appeared.”
Li Yi spoke next, “I asked the Proprietress a lot of questions. When I asked about her daughter and son-in-law, her face changed a little, but she didn"t tell me anything in the end.”
Yu Su looked at w.a.n.g San, w.a.n.g San shrugged his shoulders, he seemed to not find anything.
Yu Su was the last one to report, “I found that the decoration on the kitchen was relatively new, a bit out of place compared to other rooms. Other than that, I found nothing else.”
When she left the kitchen, she wanted to ask the Proprietress but reconsidered it.
Originally, she thought that the existence of the Proprietress was to provide clues to the players, but the other party"s sinister eyes told her that this wasn"t the case.
At this time, w.a.n.g San asked Li Yi, “When you found the body this morning, did you open the door yourself?”
Li Yi shook her head, “No, the door was already open when I arrived."
w.a.n.g San nodded, he stood up and said as he walked out, “That"s all then. Since we can"t find any clues during the day, we can only wait for the evening.”
Yu Su immediately followed him and whispered, “Did senior found something?” (Yu Su actually called him old man/grandpa/something used to show respect to old people, basically sucking up to w.a.n.g San)
w.a.n.g San stumbled a little, he smiled at Yu Su, “I found that you wanted to die.”
“…Well, Big Brother, I was wrong.” She agreed it was a little disgusting.
Back in their room, Yu Su opened the curtains and looked outside. There was still the silent downpour, and it was strange that she was unable to see the distant view at all.
It was as if nothing else existed except this small hotel.
The Proprietress soon delivered the fruit and Yu Su thanked her at the door. After the previous encounter, she felt chilled at the Proprietress" warm and gentle smile.
A moment later, there was some movement at Xue Mei"s room next door.
Yu Su turned her head and asked w.a.n.g San in a low voice, “Is it safe to look at the room next door?”
w.a.n.g San was reading a book from his suitcase to kill time, he returned a “hmm” without raising his head.
Yu Su opened the door lightly, slowed down her breathing while gradually approaching the next room, she looked inside probingly.
The door wasn"t closed and Yu Su could see the Proprietress" back.
Xue Mei"s body disappeared. She didn"t know where the Proprietress put it. Now there was only a translucent plastic bag on the ground, filled with turbid red water.
The cloth mop the Proprietress was holding in her hand was also covered in blood. Yet the light-colored floor wasn"t clean, instead, strips of red remained on the floor.
Yu Su didn"t dare to watch longer and sneaked back into her room.
The Proprietress was obviously a big problem. From the beginning to the end, she didn"t show any reaction to Xue Mei"s death. She was even calmly dealing with the murder scene.
She now suspected that the Proprietress was the big BOSS. How do players complete the mission? By killing the Proprietress?
But Big Brother said that it"s a supernatural mission, that means the Proprietress was a ghost. How can people kill a ghost? Or can ghosts be killed?
Yu Su thought for a while, but didn"t have any progress, she simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, there"s the seemingly powerful Big Brother beside her, she just needed to be careful not to be used as fodder by him.
That night, Yu Su still slept on the hard floor.
In the darkness, as soon as she closed her eyes, she would recall the horror of Xue Mei"s death.
It wasn"t just fear of death that came with it, but also a growing excitementー
As long as she didn"t die, all of this was the most wonderful experience in her life.
Yu Su was a person who liked stimulating adventures. From childhood to adulthood, even her dreams were always a variety of killing or escaping ghosts.
Sometimes, she even wished not to be born in such a peaceful world.
Real life was contrary to her preference. Whether it was school or work, she was always in the middle, being the most ordinary one.
She had been living on a static trajectory, graduating, then work at the right age. She also had to start dating again and again under the urging of her parentsーShe might be only 23 years old, but she could see her future at a glance.
She might find a suitable man that she didn"t love, get married, have children, raise children, worrying about her children"s study and life, little by little rubbing away her youth and enthusiasm.
Some people wished for this kind of peaceful life and Yu Su didn"t think there was anything wrong with that, but not her. She didn"t want to let herself lived like that.
She was afraid that when she had gotten white hair, she would recall her life and found nothing worth mentioning.
Now, this strange game had created a diverged path from her original life.
Perhaps this APP came out to save people like her.
Of course, she would work hard to survive. After all, she still had her parents and younger brother.
Yu Su rolled over and fell asleep in contemplation.
She didn"t get to sleep deeply. It wasn"t long before she was woken up by a thunderous bang from the door.
The sound was so loud, as if the door was right beside her.
Yu Su sat up in the darkness and whispered, “Big Brother?”
The lamp on the nightstand quickly lit up, the dim light illuminated the room. Yu Su saw w.a.n.g San got up and stood by the edge of the bed, buckling his shirt"s b.u.t.tons one by one.
When he b.u.t.toned the fifth b.u.t.ton, there was a cry of help, similar to what they heard last night.
The difference was, the voice got louder and louder.
Yu Su was a little anxious, yet w.a.n.g San still moved slowly. Just when she wanted to open her mouth and urged him, he suddenly turned to look at Yu Su and asked, “Do you know what to do?”
Yu Su was stunned, amidst the louder knocks and calls for help, she had to raise her voice, “I think we should open the door.”
“Let"s do that. You go and do it.” w.a.n.g San glanced at the door, then lowered his head to tidy up his cuffs.
Yu Su blinked, thinking that this man was using her as a fodder?
But now, one of them must act, it was either she or him. She didn"t understand anything as this was her first time doing the mission. She needed to hold the thigh tightly.
Now that she"s going to open the door, if she"s unlucky, she"s will be dead, but if her bet was right, the thigh will be firmly held.
After hesitating for a moment, Yu Su walked to the door. When she was about to turn the doork.n.o.b, w.a.n.g San"s voice came from behind.
“Aren"t you afraid to die just like the girl?”
Yu Su stopped her action, looked back at him and answered, “I"m afraid. But I still need to do it, right?”
Across the door panel, the sound of distress coming from outside was getting harsher. Who knows how big the strength used to knock, the whole door panel was shaking.
w.a.n.g San smiled and asked her, “Why do you think you need to open the door?”
Yu Su stared back at him, and quickly explained, “From my instinct. I felt like Xue Mei wasn"t the kind of person to open the door on the first night. At that time, we just entered the game. No one knows whether the Proprietress was an NPC or a big BOSS, and she warned us not to open the door in the middle of the night.
Xue Mei was the first person who heard the knock at the door. She had no clue at all, so she would rather follow the Proprietress" words. But we"re different. We know Xue Mei had died and seen the strangeness of the Proprietress during the day.
Of course, it"s also possible that Xue Mei did open the door. After all, Li Yi said the door was open before she arrived. She wouldn"t lie at that point, because if the door was closed, she wouldn"t be able to open it without the room key.
Human beings couldn"t open the door, but ghosts could open it. Not to mention that the Proprietress had the keys, so this hypothesis wasn"t a decisive answer to prove whether Xue Mei opened the door or not. Personally, I believed she didn"t open the door."
w.a.n.g San flashed a smile, not saying whether her answer was right or wrong, he just said, “Open the door.”
As his voice fell, the first scream came from outside.