Chapter 114
Chapter 114
Jiang Li crossed the balcony, climbing from Room 318 to the neighboring Room 320.
Only then did she feel safe enough to walk out of Room 320.
Recalling the moment she encountered the Curly-Haired Woman inside Room 320, she remembered that the door leading out to the hallway had clearly been locked from the outside.
This meant the Curly-Haired Woman must have slipped into the room by climbing across the balconies, just like Jiang Li.
Was this Curly-Haired Woman… the real “Ms. Song”?
As Jiang Li pondered this, she stepped out into the corridor.
The Note in her pocket began to feel faintly warm.
Jiang Li realized that a hidden rule had appeared!
She immediately pulled out the Note to check the new rule.
[Clear Spring Hotel – 3rd Floor Rules] Rule 2:
[If you have not been caught by ‘it’ and do not wish to turn into a small animal, please go to Room 3## within 10 minutes after the game ends and drink the honey beverage marked with the ‘Little Yellow Bee’ logo.]
The part of the rule containing the room number, 3##, had been coincidentally damaged by the Mirror Person, making it impossible to identify.
Jiang Li looked up at the electronic screen in the corridor.
It displayed a ten-minute countdown-the time limit for the adventurer to obtain the honey drink.
The remaining time was… 1 minute!
With only one minute left, the hidden rule finally appeared to tell Jiang Li she needed to drink something!
This was clearly a death trap.
If the Note hadn’t been damaged, it wouldn’t have been so bad.
Without the damage, Jiang Li could have used her Universal Room Card.
Entering a room to grab a bottle of water would have been no problem at all.
But the room number was ruined.
Thinking of that damned Aberration, Jiang Li’s gaze turned cold.
That Aberration wasn’t particularly powerful; she just had to find its weakness!
Otherwise, with it wearing Jiang Li’s face, it might provoke a guest and ruin everything.
Fortunately, her Name Tag hadn’t fallen into that Aberration’s hands.
If it had, destroying Jiang Li and making her fail the mission would have been as easy as turning over a hand!
Jiang Li cleared her mind and quickly ran a lap around the corridor.
There were twenty rooms in total on the 3rd Floor.
Jiang Li had noticed earlier that the drinking water in Room 320 and Room 318 was normal-it didn’t have the “Little Yellow Bee” logo, nor was it a “honey-based beverage.”
Excluding those two, eighteen rooms remained.
How could she quickly find the special one among eighteen rooms…
Standing in the middle of the corridor, watching the seconds tick away, Jiang Li’s heart rate involuntarily accelerated.
She began to organize her thoughts.
In this Aberration World, two logos appeared most frequently. One was the Death Skull.
The Death Skull was found across various Instances, representing an organization with a massive network.
Before Jiang Li even entered the Aberration World, she had heard of this organization-code-named “Ghost Face.”
Huaguo’s Intelligence Department generally referred to it as the “Ghost Face Organization.”
The other organization was the “Little Yellow Bee Foundation.”
The Little Yellow Bee Foundation was always in opposition to the Ghost Face Organization.
Since the Little Yellow Bee Foundation was providing honey drinks in this Instance under the guise of helping adventurers, it meant the people from the Foundation would have considered how an adventurer could “easily obtain the drink.”
Not every adventurer possessed a Universal Room Card gifted by someone like Uncle Zhao.
To ensure accessibility, the people from the Foundation would likely do one thing-
Tamper with the door lock!
By the time Jiang Li figured this out, very little time remained.
Only 20 seconds left.
White fur began to struggle to sprout from Jiang Li’s skin.
She sprinted down the corridor.
With only ten seconds remaining, she finally discovered a piece of transparent tape stuck over the door lock of Room 309.
The tape was covering the latch, making the door to Room 309 easy to push open!
Jiang Li rushed inside and headed straight for the two bottles of Honey Drink sitting beneath the television.
In the final few seconds, Jiang Li quickly twisted off a cap and tilted her head back to drink.
At the very last second, the final drop of Honey Drink slid down her throat.
The white fur on Jiang Li’s body… stopped growing.
Over the next few minutes, Jiang Li felt her skin itch.
The white fur that had already sprouted began to recede at a slow pace.
After finishing the Honey Drink, Jiang Li glanced at the ingredient list.
Aside from water and honey, the drink contained several ingredients written in garbled characters that Jiang Li couldn’t decipher.
There were only two bottles of Honey Drink in the room. Since Jiang Li had finished one, only one remained.
Unsure when the Yellow Wasp Organization would restock, Jiang Li took the other bottle with her when she left.
As for that Aberration that looked exactly like her…
Jiang Li wasn’t worried.
Aberrations shouldn’t be able to mutate, as evidenced by Red Infant.
Besides, this Honey Drink wasn’t meant for an Aberration to drink in the first place.
She exited Room 309.
Just as Jiang Li stepped out of the room, she ran straight into the Mirror Person who was impersonating her.
The Mirror Person was pushing a food delivery cart from the Kitchen toward the door of Room 318, raising its hand to knock.
It seemed to have a strange obsession with “impersonating Jiang Li.”
To Jiang Li’s shock, the Mirror Person had already knocked on the door.
*Knock, knock, knock-*
“Hello, room service.”
Worried the Mirror Person would ruin everything, Jiang Li immediately sprinted forward. The moment the door to Room 318 was about to open, she kicked the Mirror Person away.
Taking advantage of the momentum, Jiang Li took the Mirror Person’s place behind the Service Cart.
However, after clearly seeing the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door of Room 318, Jiang Li’s brain buzzed for a second.
This Aberration was trying to get her killed on purpose!
If Jiang Li hadn’t arrived in time, a “negative review” would have been inevitable.
Under the current circumstances, Jiang Li had to find a way to resolve this deadlock!
“Didn’t I say not to disturb me? Don’t disturb me! Can’t you see the giant sign hanging on the door?!”
Ms. Song, still wearing a facial mask, removed the Doorstop Alarm and sluggishly opened the door.
Jiang Li’s palms instantly clenched.
Ms. Song’s face was full of displeasure. “What’s your employee ID? I’m going to report you! I’m giving you a negative review!!”
The situation was even more severe than imagined.
It was an indisputable fact that Jiang Li had been caught by Ms. Song.
The guest had requested “Do Not Disturb,” yet someone had knocked anyway.
Whether it was the Mirror Person or Jiang Li herself, this situation seemed impossible to resolve.
The Mirror Person hid to the side, gloating.
Though it was angry about being kicked by Jiang Li, seeing her get scolded now made it so happy it practically wanted to beat drums and gongs in celebration.
The Mirror Person stayed hidden; it wouldn’t appear in front of a guest at the same time as Jiang Li.
It still hoped to replace Jiang Li and live her life one day.
Naturally, it wouldn’t let any small slip-ups reveal that it was a duplicate.
At the entrance of Room 318, cold sweat beaded on Jiang Li’s temples, and her hands tightened involuntarily.
Things had reached this point; how could she turn it around…
She absolutely could not let Ms. Song give her a negative review!
Otherwise, Jiang Li would never be able to leave this Instance.
Ms. Song pulled out a notebook and began transcribing the employee ID on Jiang Li’s chest.
“I’m giving you a 1-star rating! A negative review!! Just you wait!”