Chapter 716: Chapter 716: Tomorrow’s Inn
Bai Youwei stared at the pair, a plain bun still in her hand.
Su Man and Zhu Shu were wide-eyed too, matching her gaze.
After a long silence, Su Man, all of a sudden, hugged Bai Youwei, exclaiming with glee, “My God! The prop is a godsend! It actually managed to bring someone over!”
Bai Youwei was rocked back and forth in her embrace, nearly dropping her bun. “…What’s going on?” she inquired.
Su Man let go of Bai Youwei, exchanged a glance with Zhu Shu, and their happiness visibly subsided.
“Where’s Yan Qingwen?” asked Bai Youwei, looking around the room. Except for Su Man and Zhu Shu, there was nobody else. “Why on earth is it just the two of you?”
Zhu Shu signaled something with her eyes to Su Man.
Su Man seemed to understand, tiptoed quietly to the door, gently opened it to check both sides of the room, then returned and shook her head at Zhu Shu.
—Nobody was outside, all clear.
Both women relaxed their taut nerves a bit.
Zhu Shu whispered to Bai Youwei, “Something has happened to Yan and Lu Yuwen, let’s move to another room.”
With her eyebrows knotted, Bai Youwei repressed her confusion and followed the two to another room.
Outside the room, there was a dimly lit corridor.
Rooms were on the right side, a wall cut off the outside world on the left. Raindrops thrashed against the glass windows, water stains trickled from the corner of the wall leaving behind brown marks, the damp, musty scent filled in the air…
The place resembled an ancient European-style hotel.
After they passed two rooms, Su Man and Zhu Shu stopped.
Bai Youwei took a glance and noticed the room number in gilded letters on the door: 304.
“There are four floors in total. The first floor is the lobby and kitchen, the rest, from the second to the fourth floor, there’re five rooms on each,” Zhu Shu twisted the doorknob, gently pushed the door open and added, “Lu Yuwen stays in this room.”
Bai Youwei entered with them.
The room was much brighter than the corridor.
The walls were covered with rose-patterned wallpaper, the floor carpeted in red. The orange glow of the light illuminated European-style furniture, half a seam was torn in the arm of the leather sofa. Everything in the room carried the essence of the 19th-century Europe — old but exquisitely so.
Lu Yuwen lay on a large bed, his eyes tightly closed, as if asleep.
“What happened to him?” Bai Youwei asked in surprise. “Where is he hurt?”
“He is not injured.” Zhu Shu slightly opened the collar of Lu Yuwen’s shirt to reveal a puncture wound on his neck, her voice serious, “He was injected with a potent anesthetic. It’s not fatal, but it would knock him unconscious. He woke up once, stayed lucid for less than 5 minutes and then passed out again.”
Bai Youwei asked, “How do you know it’s an anesthetic?”
“The doctor downstairs said so,” Su Man replied quickly, “There are a few NPCs downstairs, a doctor, a chef, and a detective.”
“Wait a minute, wait…,” Bai Youwei was a bit dizzy, “why is there a doctor? What role do the chef and detective play? If Lu Yuwen is unconscious, what about Yan Qingwen? Is he unconscious, too?”
Zhu Shu said, “Let me explain everything from the beginning.”
This is how it happened —
Yan Qingwen selected Campaign Five, five people in total.
He brought Su Man, Lu Yuwen, Zhu Shu, and a young man from the base evaluation group into the campaign.
The theme of the campaign was “Motel Tomorrow”.
Event Introduction: Five ruthless murderers lurk in the Motel Tomorrow. They can kill stealthily. Detective is utterly vexed over this. Will the kind-hearted guests help the detective unearth the five murderers?
First, have meals promptly at 9 o’clock in the morning and 6 o’clock in the evening;
Second, do not leave your room between midnight and 6 am;
Third, if you get caught by the detective, you’re out of the game.