Chapter 39: Chaos, we are here [2nd update]

Hoshino Ai was almost scared silly.

The sudden change caught her off guard.

Even the hallway passage could mutate!

306, where did Room 306 go?

She turned her head to look at the hallway behind her, but it was a deep, black-red expanse, with no end in sight; she couldn't see the distorted doors and room numbers on either side of the hallway at all.

"Lin, Lin Ye-kun……"

"Rest assured, nothing will happen."

The calm, lake-like words soothed Hoshino Ai's heart like gentle sunshine, and the tension and panic dissipated by more than half in an instant.

That's right!

With Lin Ye here, with Lin Ye, this time-stopping superpower user here, she would be fine; she would absolutely be fine.

'Tap……'

'Tap-tap……'

The sound of high heels hitting the floor was crisp, the sound continuously echoing in the distorted hallway.

The female front desk staff 'click-clicked' as she walked toward Lin Ye and Hoshino Ai.

She didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, nor was she worried that Lin Ye and Hoshino Ai would escape; she just walked steadily step by step, her hoarse, tearing voice ringing out from time to time.

"Noisy…… guest,"

"Expulsion……"

Time Stop,

activated once again.

Hoshino Ai realized this and even saw Lin Ye take the initiative to walk toward the female front desk staff.

Facing the ugly, eerie female front desk staff, Lin Ye had no abnormal reaction; instead, he observed her further.

"No big changes from what I saw on the first floor."

The top priority was to return to Room 306.

Time Stop could ensure he would be fine, but the flow of time was necessary.

Otherwise, they would never reach the six o'clock checkout time.

He grabbed the back of the female front desk staff's suit collar and dragged her toward the furthest end of the hallway, looking left and right along the way, searching for the Room 306 doorplate.

None.

None.

There wasn't one on this side at all.

Just in case,

Lin Ye helped the female front desk staff's hands and feet.

"Best if it's effective; if not, it can still delay some time."

He didn't count on these to restrict the actions of the eerie female front desk staff.

The moment he finished,

Lin Ye turned and walked to the other side; he walked around the third floor once, but still didn't find Room 306.

He even discovered 207, 408, and other rooms that should have been on the second or third floors.

It was a mess, a complete mess.

"The whole hotel is distorted; the room locations are completely messed up."

Room 306, unsurprisingly, was on another floor.

But how was he supposed to get there?

Let alone the emergency stairwell, even the elevator entrance was gone.

"There must be a way to deal with it; otherwise, this lethal change would leave no path for the participants to survive."

Lin Ye, who had returned to Hoshino Ai's side, deactivated the Time Stop state.

"Lin, Lin Ye-kun……"

Her consciousness existed, and she also estimated what Lin Ye had done during the Time Stop.

"Room 306 is not on this floor; we need to wait for the floor to change. Follow me closely, don't get lost."

"Mm."

Hoshino Ai nodded heavily, grabbing Lin Ye's hem tightly with one hand, as if she wouldn't let go even in death.

"Ow-ow……"

A sharp roar suddenly rang out.

The female front desk staff's struggle sounded at the end of the hallway.

'Swish-swish……'

A short while later, the ear-piercing sound of cloth tearing came.

Lin Ye realized his binding effect wasn't very effective.

At this moment, he had already arrived in front of Room 307 and helped up the fainted Kuroda Hikari.

"Knock, knock, knock……"

Under Lin Ye's signal, Hoshino Ai knocked on the door, but there was no reaction from inside the room at all.

"Sawayanagi-kun, open the door, Kuroda-san is still outside."

But there was no movement from the door.

'Tap-tap……'

Footsteps rang out once again, and compared to before, the speed of the footsteps this time was clearly faster; the female front desk staff's hoarse whispers seemed to have an extra touch of magic, continuously stimulating their nerves.

"Lin Ye-kun, what should we do?"

They couldn't return to Room 306!

"You wake her up……"

Seeing Kuroda Hikari pushed toward Hoshino Ai's side, Lin Ye found a broken wooden stick and took the initiative to walk toward the female front desk staff.

"This time…… let's try breaking your feet and legs."

He didn't know if it could be broken, but he would try first.

In the silent, stopped space,

Lin Ye dragged the female front desk staff to the end of the hallway and unleashed a flurry of attacks with the wooden stick. That wasn't all; remembering that this female front desk staff could still make sounds, Lin Ye focused his full firepower on the female front desk staff's mouth, finally stuffing a piece of cloth in for good measure.

After finishing these things, Lin Ye returned to Hoshino Ai's side.

'Click……'

The moment time flowed,

The eerie female front desk staff was also bewildered; how did she come here again, and her body felt as if it had been subjected to violent abuse.

"Noisy…… guest, expulsion……"

A moment later,

The tattered body recovered again.

She stood up, her dead-gray eyes staring fixedly at the three living people in the hallway, and she stepped forward once again.

It was endless.

It repeated several times.

The eerie female front desk staff even wanted to give up.

She had no idea what was happening.

At this time,

Kuroda Hikari had already woken up and, under Hoshino Ai's explanation, roughly understood the current situation.

Every time she faced the approaching, ugly, and terrifying female front desk staff, she would tremble with fear, but she didn't know why, after the blink of an eye, the female front desk staff would disappear, and then come rushing over again.

By now,

She had gradually gotten used to it and felt that nothing would happen to her.

The most at ease was Hoshino Ai; knowing the ins and outs, she felt that continuing like this until six o'clock wasn't impossible. ===== CHAPTER 40 =====