sbdcsierra Chapter 488 [Domain - First Gate] Room 9
Chapter 488 [Domain - First Gate] Room 9
When Chen Ji opened his eyes, it was very quiet around him.
As he regained consciousness, he found himself standing in the middle of a long corridor.
There was no one else around him.
This means that, like the Blind Men and the Elephant analogy, each entrant may be separated, and it is temporarily impossible to determine exactly how many people there are.
Without moving, Chen Ji remained in place, trying his best to gather clues and understand the surrounding environment.
The wall clock showed that it was a little past 11 p.m.
There were more than a dozen black wooden doors on both sides of the corridor. One of the doors, not far in front of Chen Ji, was half open, and it was dark inside.
Apart from that, all the other doors were tightly closed.
"09......"
Chen Ji glanced at the half-open door and memorized the room number.
The corridor was dimly lit, and the carpet underfoot was a dark red patterned carpet. After a quick glance, Chen Ji roughly judged that this was a hotel.
And his identity....
Looking at his white uniform, Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought.
There was a "Intern" label hanging on the uniform.
He was a hotel employee.
But what exactly does it do?
Soon, he found a card in his pocket with two simple lines of text on it:
One door, one world.
Make sure you see clearly what's behind the door.
Find the first door inside the inn and leave. After leaving, you will enter the second door.
This time, the domain isn't playing the riddle game anymore. It's quite obvious that the first two points are guidance, and the third point is a task; the direction is very clear.
But this task...
Given the "one door, one world" concept in the guide, is the hotel just the first world?
Chen Ji's heart stirred slightly. He didn't know how many doors the domain wanted them to find this time, but in any case, since a domain was divided into several small worlds, the overall difficulty should also be distributed.
Keep the card safe; the quest should update again after you leave the inn.
"Find the door to leave the hotel..."
Chen Ji turned around and glanced at room 09. The door had been half-open since he woke up, and there had been no sound from inside, nor had anyone come out.
He certainly didn't think it would happen to be this door, and even if it were, he wouldn't go in right now.
The guidelines clearly state:
Make sure you can see clearly what's behind the door.
This means that opening the wrong door could be extremely dangerous.
Moreover... Chen Ji was still some distance from room 09 when he already felt a vague discomfort.
This doesn't mean there's anything truly strange inside, but rather that his sixth sense, honed from his numerous visits to the realm, told him it was best to stay away from here.
Turn around and leave.
The most urgent task is to rejoin the other teammates.
This is a hotel, so there will be a lobby. Chen Ji glanced at the elevator at the end of the corridor and walked towards it.
The corridor was silent.
Only the dull sound of his footsteps on the carpet could be heard.
But just then, a strange sound came from behind Chen Ji.
"Bang......"
"Bang..."
It sounded like someone was knocking on the door.
But Chen Ji was the only one in the corridor.
He stopped abruptly, thought for a moment, took out his phone from his pocket, opened the camera and pointed it at himself.
The camera slightly shifted its direction, revealing the long corridor behind Chen Ji in the viewfinder.
really.
It was completely empty; there was no one there. It was impossible for anyone to be knocking on the door from the outside.
So... it came from inside the house.
"Bang..."
Chen Ji quickly identified the source of the sound: room 09!
The half-open door was swaying slightly, being pushed outwards little by little.
His eyelids twitched involuntarily, and he felt a chill run down his spine.
There are people in that room.
Or it could be a ghost.
It remained silent until it left, at which point it made a sound.
In other words, within the one or two minutes that Chen Ji entered the domain, from waking up to leaving, all his actions were being watched by the thing in room 09!
If it were a ghost, then Chen Ji would surely be dead by now.
Considering that we are only in the early stages of entering the domain, he tends to believe that the things in Room 9 cannot come out yet.
While pondering, Chen Ji's expression suddenly shifted slightly.
A flash of white seemed to have just passed through the half-open door, but it was too fast for him to see clearly!
He immediately pressed the camera button to see what it was.
After a few seconds.
That flash of white disappeared again.
Chen Ji immediately paused the recording and went back to review each frame.
His fingers flew across the screen, and soon his gaze settled on the screen, his breath catching in his throat.
That is......
One foot.
A foot that is several tens of centimeters off the ground.
It lingered behind the door of room number 9 for half a second.
The sound of knocking on the door came from that foot hitting the back of the door!
In an instant, Chen Ji immediately conjured up a picture of what would happen after he went out the door.
A dark figure hung from the roof beam, its body swaying as it repeatedly banged its feet against the door.
Bang.
Bang.
"There's a corpse inside, or maybe a hanged ghost."
After confirming what was behind the door, Chen Ji didn't hesitate any longer. He immediately put away his phone and headed towards the elevator.
There is a problem with room 09.
He couldn't be sure what would happen if he stayed in the corridor any longer; it was very possible that the next second, he would hear the heavy thud of a corpse falling to the ground behind him.
We're getting closer to the elevator.
Chen Ji suddenly noticed that the numbers on the display screen next to the elevator were jumping around.
The elevator was previously stopped on the 4th floor, but it is now slowly descending, proving that someone called for the elevator from below.
Are they entrants to the realm?
Or... a ghost?
Chen Ji sighed softly. He had nowhere to hide. It was a long, straight corridor with only doors on all sides. Considering what had just happened, he couldn't get too close to any of the doors.
The only way out is the elevator.
He had no choice but to stare directly at the elevator.
After stopping on the first floor, the numbers changed again after about ten seconds.
It started to rise.
When the number jumps to [3]...
"Ding."
The door slowly opened.
A man wearing the exact same white uniform as Chen Ji shifted his gaze from his wristwatch to Chen Ji.
He had a mole on his face, his brow was furrowed, and he looked very impatient.
"Chen Ji, what exactly are you doing?"
This statement is enough to show that he is an NPC in the hotel, because Chen Ji does not know this person, but this person knows his name.
At the same time, Chen Ji noticed that the man did not have an intern badge on his chest.
He was a full-time employee of the hotel.
Judging from this person's appearance, it's obvious that he's here to find me, and he might explain his background.
"Feel sorry."
We don't know anything right now, but whatever we do, we should apologize first.
After saying that, Chen Ji shut his mouth and silently stepped aside.
The man waved his hand and clicked his tongue: "The guest in room 9 just called again."
"They said the gifts weren't complete."
He took two bottles of water from the cart behind him before asking, "Where's your partner?"
"partner?"
Chen Ji was taken aback. He had been alone in the corridor since he woke up. Where did this partner come from?
suddenly.
He realized something.
According to the man, there were two people who came to deliver the items: Chen Ji and another intern, who was his so-called "partner".
But his partner was nowhere to be found.
"They called again," "The delivery wasn't complete"...
This means that they had already delivered something to the guest in room 9 before Chen Ji woke up.
That's why the door was half open.
Who is that hanged corpse behind the door?