Chapter 3440

Xia De hurriedly refused the black-haired huntress's dagger:

"No, no, there's no need. I can't take this thing away. But can a real unicorn horn break through the walls of the 【House of Falsehood】? I actually have acquaintances who are unicorns. Although they are not by my side, they should be able to help when I take my revenge."

But Miss Kearns' knowledge only came from the inheritance of her predecessors, and the 【House of Falsehood】 was not something that could be encountered just like that.

In the description of the various rooms on the nineteenth floor of the hotel in that undead scholar's notebook, there was indeed information related to "Room 1908". When searching the entire floor for test subjects, the other party had tried to explore there:

【The door is refusing my touch; this is not a room I can enter right now.】

So Xia De was almost certain that there was something he wanted in that room.

There was not much time left, and he still had to return to the first floor to turn in the task. After continuing forward for two more rooms without seeing the "1908" doorplate, Xia De returned with Miss Kearns toward the direction of the elevator room.

On the way back, apart from igniting the matches again, nothing else happened. Then they explored to the right starting from Room "1900", and the first room on the right was actually the "Safe Room" that Miss Kearns had been to before.

There must be supplies in here, but Xia De really didn't have enough time, so they didn't enter.

They agreed that after passing a total of ten rooms, if there was still no result, they would go directly to the first floor. Although they didn't get the holy relic, they had an extra "Beholder" key in their hands, and perhaps they could use it to propose an exchange to the god.

Fortunately, Xia De's luck had always been good. The "1908" label finally appeared on the doorplate of the 8th room on the right. Xia De reached out and touched the door, opened it, and walked in quickly.

The room still had the layout of a normal suite, but in the center of the living room directly facing the door, a long-dead skeleton was sitting cross-legged there.

After Xia De confirmed that the skeleton would not move, he went to look behind the door, and sure enough, he saw a holy emblem of the Old God 【Lord of the Walls】 hanging there. He breathed a long sigh of relief and even whispered a thank you to the holy emblem.

Miss Kearns walked toward the skeleton, and after examining its clothing, she picked up the notebook placed in front of the skeleton:

"The mark on this... he was a witcher during his lifetime. I am not the first hunter to arrive here."

She flipped through the notebook and browsed it quickly:

"This is this predecessor's own witcher notebook. The second half spent a lot of space recording the situation of this hotel. No, he wasn't trapped here; he stayed here voluntarily to guard the things in this room."

"What things?"

Xia De asked vigilantly while holding the holy emblem. In this way, it made sense that the holy emblem was placed behind the door; this was to prevent the things in the room from running out.

Miss Kearns stood up with the notebook:

"He successfully made that unspeakable thing sign a life contract with him. Neither side can actively give up their life, but if one side dies, the other will also die... His task is completed."

She handed the notebook to Xia De again, but Xia De just recorded it in his library and returned it:

"Let's search the room briefly and then leave. I don't have much time left."

"Okay."

The origin of the supplies and matches in the various rooms of the hotel is currently unclear, but even in this room that hadn't been opened for a long time, there were things that everyone could use. The dead witcher's personal belongings were all placed in the corner of the wall. Although most of the materials had rotted, the remaining materials were still very useful to Miss Kearns.

7 new matches were found, and the 【Witcher Seal】 was of course standard equipment. After confirming that Xia De would not take this ring away, Miss Kearns decided to leave it behind as a gift for her future apprentice:

"There are only five people left in our school's inheritance, and there are seven seals left. This is a symbol of identity and is very important to hunters."

Xia De even found a water bottle in the cupboard that the hunter might have used, and when he opened it, the smell of strong liquor rushed out.

Miss Kearns explained again:

"Hunters in the Third Era liked to use strong liquor as a solvent for potions. It is said that this can better exert the medicinal effect, and drinking alcohol can also make them more excited and energetic when acting. However, in the potion revolution era of the late Fourth Era, many inexpensive potion solvents were invented, so we don't use strong liquor anymore."

However, she still took the water bottle, but since this was something a man had used, she just treated it as a souvenir and would definitely not use it herself.

There were only five minutes left out of the fifty minutes. After a brief search, the two returned to the elevator room from the corridor. The ancient hunter's corpse remained where it was, which was also his own wish.

With insufficient time, they did not return to the tenth floor, but took the elevator directly back to the bottom floor. This was with Miss Kearns' consent, and she was quite nervous about it, after all, there was a real god on the first floor.

Just now, when they went to the first floor for the first time, except for the door connecting the inside and outside of the hotel, the first floor did not leave a room for the elevator. But this time, after Xia De said "go to the first floor" in the elevator, it still rumbled into operation.

After another half minute of descent, a door appeared outside the elevator's fence door. And after opening that door, the "Divine Radiance" state on Xia De's body immediately manifested.

The counter was located on the left hand side of the hotel's main entrance, and the door he walked out of this time was located on the right hand side of the hotel's main entrance. Xia De was very sure that this was just a wall last time.

"So, there are actually other rooms on the first floor, but they are all hidden?"

Xia De was not clear about the current relationship between the Dream-Eating Demon and Miss Kearns, but she was still able to follow Xia De tremblingly and came to the counter with him.

The lantern was carried by the huntress, and the candle was placed on the counter. The two greeted the kind-looking bald "middle-aged man" behind the counter one by one, and then Xia De took out the harvest this time, which was two keys and a holy emblem.

The god first put away the key from the nineteenth floor, tapped the holy emblem with his finger, and then pushed it to Xia De.

Xia De then took the holy emblem. It almost immediately turned into pure miracle elements and entered Xia De's body, and "She" gently reminded him:

【Outlander, you have obtained a one-time blessing from the Old God "Lord of the Walls": No matter where you are, if you throw the crystal shoe, you can return home.】

"Thank you very much, you saved my life."

Xia De thanked him again, but the god shook his head:

"At most, I just provided you with a way to leave; it doesn't count as saving your life. You have at least three ways to leave the 【House of Falsehood】 by yourself, but it's not the time yet—the story of fate has not yet ended. If you are really at your wit's end, try to open the door in the deepest part of the 【House of Falsehood】, letting the story of creation begin ahead of schedule..."

He did not continue, and Xia De did not pursue it. He did indeed have at least three ways, which were burning divinity, trying to open the door of the 【Creation Room】, and actively jumping into the blood pool to see if the other party assimilated him or if he could absorb the other party.

But he didn't want to use any of these three methods. Of course, it would be best to be able to go home safely and directly.

The god pointed to the key from the third floor again:

"Then what kind of goods do you want to exchange from me with this key?"

Maps, resident directories, matches, and "lost items"—strictly speaking, these things were useful to everyone. But since they were a whole, Xia De did not make the decision himself:

"Can I use this key to exchange for goods next time I come back?"

The god agreed:

"Of course you can. Then please listen carefully to your second task: The walls of Room 2547 and Room 2548 on the 25th floor are damaged, causing the two rooms to be connected to each other and form the same space. This is a serious violation in this hotel. You need to go to the 25th floor to find these two rooms and then repair the damaged wall."

The witches had only reached the 23rd floor at the highest, and the 25th floor was also an unfamiliar floor to them, so they might even have to climb the stairs next time. However, the room mentioned by Miss Novare where the werewolf girl came into contact with the "Moon Beast" was on the 25th floor, and Xia De might have a chance to see it next time.

"May I ask how the wall should be repaired?"

Xia De asked. In his view, this hotel itself was not a mundane object, and repairing the wall must require a very special method and materials.

"Just like a mortal mason, fill in the bricks, and then apply lime mortar or cement. As long as the wall is restored to integrity, the specific material does not matter. When you reach the 25th floor, you will know the location of the rooms. Note that the original residents of these two rooms are still present somewhere on the 25th floor."

The god pointed out, and Xia De nodded to show that he understood. So after he went back, he had to learn the craft of a bricklayer and bring some building materials next time he came.

Of course, the difficulty of this task was not how to build a wall, but how to deal with the residents in these two rooms. Being able to break through the hotel walls must require extraordinary power, and they were very likely in the room.

Miss Kearns did not say a word during the time Xia De was talking to the god behind the counter. When the two returned to the elevator and the elevator began to rumble into operation, she whispered:

"If you hadn't appeared, I really find it hard to imagine how the three of us could have left here."

Xia De then reminded her:

"Perhaps what is preventing you from leaving is not this hotel, but yourselves. You all have other things to do here, don't you?"

The huntress with the sword on her back pursed her lips and nodded:

"But those are all things that must be done. I know you want to persuade me to give up chasing the enemy, but after seeing the remains of the hunter predecessor just now, I am even more determined in my thinking. We have long been prepared to sacrifice, and it is precisely because of the sacrifices of generations of hunters that we have the era we have today. If it is my turn to sacrifice this time, I will embrace death calmly."