Chapter 134

Chapter 134

The “Old Granny’s” gaze fell upon Jiang Li’s soaking wet uniform.

A meaningful smile spread across that aged face.

“Hurry up, stop dawdling,” Ms. Jiang said, her tone unfriendly.

She smoothed her hair, covering her wrinkled face.

Then, leaning against the wall, she trudged laboriously into Room B101.

She truly looked like a frail, elderly woman.

Jiang Li withdrew her gaze and headed straight for the Storage Room.

There should be spare staff uniforms in the Storage Room.

Since Ms. Jiang was willing to wear a staff uniform, she would give her one.

As long as the clothing was dry, it would satisfy the rules.

Jiang Li entered the Storage Room and rummaged through all the lockers.

Inside, whether it was bedsheets, duvet covers, or staff uniforms-anything made of fabric was, without exception, completely soaked in water.

It was as if someone were deliberately making things difficult for her.

“Mommy, the water on these clothes is so dirty. It’s just as filthy as the water on that old lady’s head earlier. That old lady must be doing this on purpose!”

Red Infant puffed out his cheeks, pouting crossly.

Jiang Li glanced at a white shirt from the staff uniforms.

Stuck to the white shirt were some foul-smelling “mop strands.”

They were indeed identical to the debris found in the dirty water dripping from Ms. Jiang’s head.

Ms. Jiang was intentionally messing with her.

Jiang Li checked the “Supply Log” for the Storage Room.

The last time the hotel’s logistics staff delivered items to the Storage Room was twenty minutes ago.

They had delivered thirty bathrobes and ten staff uniforms.

“The count is wrong.” Jiang Li frowned.

In this locker, the bathrobes and staff uniforms combined didn’t even total five sets.

But according to the Supply Log, there should have been forty items of clothing.

The remaining thirty-five sets of clothes… were gone!

“Mommy, do you think that old lady hid the clothes?”

Red Infant felt that, given the old lady’s temperament, she was very likely to do such a thing.

Jiang Li’s expression hardened.

“On this floor, no one else wants me dead but her. It must be her who hid them,” Jiang Li agreed with Red Infant’s assessment.

Ms. Jiang had to change into dry clothes on time, so naturally, she wouldn’t soak all the clothes.

She would hide a portion for her own use.

At the same time, this ensured Jiang Li couldn’t produce any dry clothes, causing her to violate the rules and leading to her death.

This Ms. Jiang was not a good person at all!

Jiang Li quickly exited the Storage Room.

She stood at one end of the corridor and looked out-

There were twenty guest rooms along the entire corridor, plus two Hot Spring Pools, two Staff Lounges, one Kitchen, and a Buffet Area-twenty-five rooms in total.

With so many rooms, finding a set of dry clothes within ten minutes was an incredibly daunting task.

Watching the image of Jiang Li standing frozen in the corridor, the experts of the Intelligence Department sat around the conference room, engaged in a heated discussion.

“If the guest hid the clothes in her own room, wouldn’t that mean Jiang Li can never get them?” Xia Guofeng offered his insight.

A woman wearing a red Chinese dress with bloody, mangled eye sockets was perched on Xia Guofeng’s shoulders.

This was because Xia Guofeng had accidentally wandered into a “Wedding Car Rule-Based Strange Tale” on his way to work at the Intelligence Department.

To avoid violating the rules of the Strange Tale, Xia Guofeng had carried the Bride all the way to the office on his back.

“I think that’s a possibility,” a subordinate agreed with Xia Guofeng’s view.

“If Ms. Jiang is determined to harm her, then hiding the clothes in her own room is the safest choice.”
Other subordinates also offered their own speculations.

In the meeting room, only the young man wearing glasses remained silent.

He sat with his arms crossed, staring at the screen of the Live Streaming Room.

Recalling a detail that had flashed by just moments ago, a certain “conjecture” vaguely formed in his mind.

However, he couldn’t be certain whether that “conjecture” was actually true.

The young man stared intently at the large broadcast screen.

If it were Jiang Li, she would definitely have noticed that detail.

Could that detail… be the key to breaking the deadlock?

On the live broadcast screen.

Jiang Li stood in the corridor for a full thirty seconds.

After thirty seconds of deliberation and analysis.

Jiang Li grabbed something from the Cleaning Cart, passed by Room B101, and ran quickly toward the Female Hot Spring Pool.

Xia Guofeng was shocked. “Looking at Jiang Li’s direction, she’s going to the Hot Spring Pool?”

The other experts also looked puzzled.

“According to our deductions, Jiang Li should have sneakily entered Room B101 and stolen a set of dry clothes without being discovered by Ms. Jiang.”

Watching Jiang Li’s actions, a faint smile appeared on the lips of the young man in glasses.

It seemed… Jiang Li had noticed it too.

“The clothes couldn’t possibly be hidden in Room B101,” the young man said with calm composure.

He coolly laid out his reasoning:

“Not every member of the Service Staff has a Universal Room Card. If the dry clothes were hidden inside those twenty guest rooms, it would be a dead end for the Chosen One.”

Jiang Li could enter those twenty rooms.

But that didn’t mean other adventurers could enter those rooms.

The Instance would take the feasibility of completion into account, restricting Ms. Jiang from hiding the clothes inside a guest room.

The young man in glasses continued his analysis:

“Excluding those twenty rooms, there are two Hot Spring Pools, two Staff Lounges, and one Kitchen connected to the Buffet Area.

Out of these remaining five locations, there is only one that is truly special.”

Everyone looked at the live broadcast.

In the stream, Jiang Li took out the ring of keys she had taken from the Cleaning Cart, picked one out, and inserted it into the keyhole of the Chain Lock on the door.

“The lock!” Xia Guofeng’s pupils contracted in shock as he slammed his hand down on the conference table with a loud thud.

“Of these five locations, only the Female Hot Spring Pool had a Chain Lock added to it!” Xia Guofeng suddenly realized.

There was only one reason to specifically add a lock to this place.

This place… was hiding something important!

This Chain Lock served as Ms. Jiang’s “protective lock” to prevent Jiang Li from finding the dry clothes, but at the same time, it provided Jiang Li with a hint.

And the reason she had to leave the keys to the lock on the Cleaning Cart was that she couldn’t completely block the Chosen One’s path.

Ms. Jiang also had her own rules to follow.

Jiang Li stood at the entrance of the Hot Spring Room, holding the ring of keys and trying them one by one.

Aside from the different bittings, these keys were identical in appearance.

If Jiang Li had only realized this later and then rushed over to grab the keys and open the door, there definitely wouldn’t have been enough time.

While Jiang Li was busy clinking the keys together as she sorted through them, the door to Room B101 was pulled open from the inside.

That wrinkled, weather-beaten old face peeked out from the crack in the door.

The “Old Granny” watched Jiang Li testing the keys, her eyes flashing with a hint of resentment.

She glared at Jiang Li with a sinister, cold gaze for a while.

It wasn’t until Jiang Li found the correct key and opened the door to enter the Hot Spring Room that the “Old Granny” withdrew her gaze with a look of displeasure.

“Hmph, it’s useless even if you go in! I don’t believe you’ll be able to find it.”

After cursing Jiang Li, the “Old Granny” slowly retracted her face and slammed the door shut with a bang.