Chapter 121
Chapter 121
The Mirror Person dashed out of the Dressing Mirror the moment it exited the elevator, frolicking back and forth by the doors. “Woo-hoo! Down another floor!”
Behind it, the Bangs Elevator Attendant’s pupils dilated in shock at the sudden appearance of two Jiang Lis.
“You… you two…” Her gaze flickered between them before finally settling on the Dressing Mirror.
Only then did she realize she had been played by these two!
The Elevator Attendant instantly flew into a rage.
She crumpled the “human ear” in her hand into a ball and hurled it at the Mirror Person outside the elevator to vent her fury.
The Mirror Person sidestepped. “Ha! Missed me!”
The “human ear” landed on the floor.
The Mirror Person glanced down and saw that it was actually its own right ear that had been bitten off!
Its eyes immediately lit up.
“Wow, thank you so much! You’re such a good person!” The Mirror Person bent down to pick up the ear, blew off the dust, and popped it back into place.
Watching the Mirror Person’s smug, irritating smile, the Elevator Attendant’s expression grew increasingly grim.
It wasn’t until the elevator doors closed that her resentful gaze finally vanished.
The Elevator Attendant’s hatred for the Mirror Person was, in fact, hatred for Jiang Li.
She had only targeted the Mirror Person as a scapegoat because Jiang Li herself was difficult to deal with.
Watching the Elevator Attendant’s behavior, Jiang Li felt her doubts deepening.
Just what had happened to make the Elevator Attendant hate her so much?
Jiang Li clearly remembered that when they first met, the Elevator Attendant had been perfectly fine.
During their subsequent encounters, they hadn’t developed any real animosity either.
Had Jiang Li missed some detail?
Unable to recall anything for the moment, Jiang Li simply let it go and stopped thinking about it.
She turned her attention to the Mirror Person beside her.
At that moment, the Mirror Person had snatched the Dressing Mirror from Jiang Li’s hand and was intently admiring its own right ear.
“You shouldn’t have been so impulsive. You’ve exposed the Dressing Mirror now. How are you going to take the elevator next time?” Jiang Li scolded.
The Mirror Person’s joyful expression stiffened slightly.
It looked up, meeting Jiang Li’s eyes guiltily for half a second before quickly looking away.
The Mirror Person pursed its lips.
A long silence followed.
Then, a voice interrupted them.
“Hello, could you help me open the elevator?”
It was a girl speaking.
Jiang Li turned her head.
Beside her was a corridor shimmering with a cold, ghostly blue light.
The corridor was empty; there was nothing there.
“Hello? I can’t open the elevator.”
The voice rang out again.
Jiang Li still couldn’t find the source.
Her gaze gradually shifted downward, landing on a Note on the floor.
The Note was folded and propped up on the ground.
However, one end of the standing paper seemed to be pinned down by some weight, causing the other end to tilt upward.
Jiang Li didn’t rush to answer the voice.
Instead, she bent down and reached out to pick up the Note.
As she tried to lift it, she found it stuck and had to give it a forceful tug.
“Ah, sorry, I was stepping on your thing.”
The girl who had just spoken seemed to take half a step back.
Jiang Li picked up the Note and unfolded it to take a look.
Written on it were the rules for this floor.
“Welcome to your employment at the Clear Spring Hotel. You have been assigned to work on this floor.
During your working hours, please be aware of the following rules:
[Clear Spring Hotel – 2nd Floor Rules]
[Floor 2 Rules]
[1. There is only one guest staying on this floor, located in Room 206. All other rooms are vacant.]
[2. Whenever the guest in 206 makes a request, you must respond, even if you cannot see them at all.]
[3. Not all ‘invisible things’ are guests. Please be careful to distinguish between them.]
[4. You must not respond to requests from a ‘Non-guest.’ Please keep this in mind.]”
After reading all the rules, Jiang Li’s mood became somewhat complicated.
The difficulty of this floor lay in distinguishing the guests.
According to the rules, there were two types of entities on this floor: “Guests” and “Non-guests.”
Both were invisible, and Jiang Li could not see them.
What made this floor particularly challenging was that Guests “must be responded to,” while Non-guests “must never be responded to.”
Inferring from the rules, a “Non-guest” would certainly disguise itself as a “Guest” to strike up a conversation with Jiang Li and make requests.
Once Jiang Li confused the two and responded to the wrong one, it would trigger corruption or a Death Ending.
“Waiter, can you help me open the elevator door?”
In the air in front of Jiang Li, the Girl continued to make her request.
This was already the third time she had asked Jiang Li for help.
Things shouldn’t happen more than three times.
If the Girl in front of her really was the guest from Room 206, then Jiang Li continuing to ignore her might provoke the guest’s anger right now.
Not only would she violate the second rule of the Floor 2 Rules, but she would likely violate the Waiter Rules as well.
If she violated two sets of rules simultaneously, Jiang Li would also fail to get a “Positive Review” because she had angered the guest. In that case, Jiang Li would undoubtedly die in this round.
During the standoff.
Jiang Li felt the thing in front of her move.
The sound of its footsteps headed toward the Guest Elevator entrance nearby.
Jiang Li glanced over there.
The Guest Elevator on this floor was somewhat different from the ones on other floors.
Outside the doors of this Guest Elevator, there were no “Up” or “Down” buttons; there was only a pitch-black Electronic Display.
Above the screen, a small note was pasted:
“This floor provides a Smart Access Control System. After Facial Recognition is successful, the Guest Elevator doors will automatically open for you.”
The invisible Girl seemed to press the electronic screen.
The originally dark screen lit up.
“Please place your face within the frame! Please place your face within the frame! …”
The screen’s speaker repeatedly broadcasted this sentence.
Jiang Li listened to the footsteps.
The invisible Girl should have taken a step back and stood in the designated spot.
Ten seconds later, the cold voice changed its script:
“Error! Error! No face detected. The screen will automatically turn off.”
As soon as the voice finished, the Guest Elevator doors let out a loud “clack.”
The invisible Girl seemed to have kicked the elevator door.
“Broken machine! What kind of ‘Smart’ Access Control is this? I’d say it’s more like a ‘Stupid’ Access Control!”
“I’m clearly standing right here, so why can’t it recognize me!”
“Hey, waiter, come over and try it. Help me open the door. I’ve called you so many times.”
The invisible Girl began to direct her frustration at Jiang Li.
The Girl had also changed from being polite at the beginning to becoming increasingly irritable.
Jiang Li still couldn’t distinguish whether she was a real guest of this floor.
Being unable to distinguish meant she could only make a “blind choice” now.
Regardless of whether she responded or not, Jiang Li had a fifty-fifty chance of dying.
The netizens watching the livestream all broke into a cold sweat for Jiang Li.
– “I can see it now; this is a death trap.”
– “There’s simply no solution, is there? Even if you could see them, you might not be able to tell if they’re a guest, let alone now when you can’t see anything at all.”
– “That damn Ghost Face Organization, I really want to go and fight them!”
– “I think if Jiang Li dies at this stage, I would completely understand.”
The experts in the Intelligence Department were also currently indecisive, unable to make an accurate judgment.
“Hey, waiter, did you hear me or not? Come do the Facial Recognition and help me open the door.”
The Girl became more and more overbearing.
Jiang Li’s hand, clutching the Note, tightened unconsciously.
There was too little information. To judge whether the Girl in front of her was a guest, she had no starting point at all!
Was it really… a dead end?