Chapter 129
Chapter 129
“We’re here.”
The Girl reached out and pushed open the door to the Female Hot Spring Pool.
Jiang Li quickly tucked away the rule Note, hiding the strange expression on her face.
“Jiang Li, that Little Boy on your shoulder shouldn’t come inside with us, don’t you think?”
The Girl suggested in a sweet, clear voice.
Jiang Li didn’t rush to respond.
Instead, her gaze passed through the Girl’s transparent body and landed on the Full-Length Mirror behind her.
In that massive Full-Length Mirror at the entrance of the Hot Spring Pool, the Girl was clearly reflected.
Every inch of Girl 206’s skin was broken and rotting.
In many places, the skin appeared to have been clawed and scratched by the Girl herself, constantly oozing pus.
This version of Girl 206 even had a rotting scalp.
Hardly any hair remained; her head was mostly bald, revealing the raw flesh beneath. It was a gruesome sight.
With such an ugly and terrifying appearance, it was no wonder the Girl had said that if Jiang Li could see her, she would hide in her room for half a month.
“What’s wrong, Jiang Li? Why have you gone quiet?”
The Girl’s voice remained that of a sweet, coquettish young woman.
It bore absolutely no resemblance to the hideous image reflected in the mirror.
“I…” Jiang Li was momentarily at a loss for words.
She recalled the second rule of the Floor 2 Rules:
[Whenever the Guest 206 makes a request, you must provide a response.]
It said to “provide a response,” not that she “must agree.”
If she agreed to the request of Guest 206 and rashly entered the Hot Spring Pool, there might truly be danger…
“Jiang Li, you promised me just now that you’d soak in the hot springs with me. You aren’t… playing me, are you?”
Girl 206’s coquettish voice now carried a hint of seduction.
She turned her head, stretching her neck to sniff at Jiang Li’s cheek.
At the same time, a drop of viscous saliva trailed down and landed on Jiang Li’s shoulder.
If Jiang Li made a fool of her, she would be violating the Waiter Rules.
[Remember, the customer is God. Do not anger the customer at any time.]
If she broke the rules, the Girl could kill her on the spot.
However, if Jiang Li really followed the Girl into the Hot Spring Pool, no one knew whether her situation would be auspicious or ill-fated.
First, there was the warning from the Red-clothed Man.
Now, the Red-clothed Man was actively pulling at her.
These hints forced Jiang Li to abandon the idea of entering the Hot Spring Pool.
If she didn’t go in, she was safe.
If she did go in and couldn’t bring Red Infant with her, her safety would be even less guaranteed.
“So, are you really lying to me, Jiang Li?”
Girl 206’s voice gradually became shrill.
What should she do…
Jiang Li had to come up with a reasonable explanation immediately.
She couldn’t let the Girl feel deceived, but she also had to avoid entering the Hot Spring Pool alone with her.
Jiang Li’s heart raced, and her fingers instinctively clenched together.
The more abnormal the Girl became, the more determined Jiang Li was not to enter.
At this moment, two more drops of saliva trailed down from Girl 206.
She bared her fangs, lightly grazing Jiang Li’s neck with her sharp teeth.
With just a little force, she could tear Jiang Li’s throat open at any second.
Jiang Li’s mind raced at high speed.
As long as it wasn’t the very last moment, she still had a chance to turn things around.
An explanation… she just needed one reasonable explanation!
The Stalker behind her was still death-gripping the hem of her clothes.
And in front of her, the Girl’s fangs had already broken the skin on her neck.
That was it.
Jiang Li suddenly looked up.
…The Stalker!
Just as the Girl’s fangs began to exert pressure, right before they pierced through Jiang Li’s skin-
Jiang Li’s urgent voice interrupted her: “It’s the Stalker!”
The girl’s biting motion against Jiang Li’s neck froze.
Jiang Li continued, “The stalker grabbed my clothes! He’s holding me back, I can’t go in.”
As soon as she said this, Girl 206’s sharp teeth slowly retracted.
The girl tilted her head, glancing behind Jiang Li.
Behind Jiang Li, the Red-clothed Man was indeed reaching out with his right hand, death-gripping the hem of Jiang Li’s clothes.
However, the man’s hand looked exceptionally strange…
Jiang Li could feel two resentful gazes meeting at the crook of her neck.
Girl 206 was secretly glaring at the Red-clothed Man.
Her eyes warned him: “Let go!”
Meanwhile, the Red-clothed Man glared back fiercely at Girl 206.
His eyes responded: “Never!”
The two of them gritted their teeth, locked in a silent struggle.
The girl’s usually gentle face was now faintly turning hideous.
Through the Full-Length Mirror at the entrance of the Hot Spring Pool, Jiang Li saw that the girl was on the verge of losing control.
On the girl’s neck, blue veins bulged one by one, the black blood within them pulsing violently.
The nails on her hands were also lengthening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Girl 206 was not human at all.
Jiang Li should have anticipated this scene long ago.
A detail had appeared much earlier-a detail that had long hinted at the fact that the girl was not human.
Fearing she might have remembered it wrong, Jiang Li had specifically pulled out the Rule Note to confirm it on her way here.
Clear Spring Hotel, Floor 2 Rules, Article 2:
[Whenever the Guest of Room 206 makes a request, you must respond, even if you cannot see it.]
In that rule… the pronoun used was “it”!
From the moment Jiang Li entered the second floor, the rules had quietly reminded her that the Guest of Room 206 was not human.
One could only say that Girl 206’s voice was too deceptive.
It used a frail, weak persona to mask the fact that it was an Evil Ghost.
Girl 206 and that family were mortal enemies.
Jiang Li began to form a hypothesis.
Perhaps that family had originally been killed by the “girl who was an Evil Ghost.”
When the family died, they might have lost part of their memories, forgetting the terrifying experience of their murder as a self-protection mechanism.
However, the family’s hostility toward the girl remained in their subconscious.
That was why, after the family became Aberrations, they clashed with the girl at every turn.
The girl, being outnumbered, had grown tired of the family’s constant harassment.
Therefore, the girl intended to use Jiang Li’s hand to get rid of that family of Aberrations.
The reason Girl 206 couldn’t restrain herself today and was so desperate to strike at Jiang Li likely had something to do with her current “skin disease.”
Jiang Li glanced at the Full-Length Mirror.
In the mirror, all of the girl’s skin was in a state of imminent, total ulceration.
Her skin was about to fall apart!
Jiang Li watched the mirror and shifted slightly to the side.
After moving, Jiang Li was able to see the Red-clothed Man behind her clearly in the reflection.
The second she saw the man’s face-
Jiang Li’s scalp instantly went numb!
For the Red-clothed Man, the “red” wasn’t his clothes.
It was… flesh and blood.
From head to toe, the man didn’t possess a single shred of human skin.
It was as if his human skin had been flayed off while he was still alive; his entire body was a gruesome sight.
The man was a literal “man of blood”!
At first glance, one would think he was wearing red clothes.
But in reality, every streak of red was fresh blood seeping out from his muscles and tendons.