Chapter 45

Chapter 45

This was an inn that looked quite old. The aged gray-white walls were peeling in places, and the half-open door had started to lose its paint. A warm yellow light seeped through the door crack, blending with the midday sunlight.

In what should have been a remote and narrow alley, this abruptly appearing inn was “wedged” into the wall in an unnatural way, like an elephant stuffed into a snake’s belly without bursting it open, presenting a visually absurd and eerie sense of spatial disorder.

When the Special Case Investigation Team arrived at their destination after a nearly three-hour flight, this was the scene that defied reality and common sense that presented itself before their eyes.

“Yes! It’s here! It’s this hotel!”

Before they could react, someone had already cried out. He pointed a trembling finger at the half-open door of the hotel in front of them, his expression a mixture of excitement, agitation, unease, fear, and shock.

His gaze towards this door was like that of a mortal seeing the gates of heaven or hell thrown open!

Finally, he swung his fist and cursed loudly: “—I told you I wasn’t mistaken, I’ll never forget this place in my entire f***ing life! It’s here! That night, that demon terrified me right here!”

This overly emotional man was named Han Shan. For over thirty years of his life, he had always played the role of an insignificant person. He was the wastrel in the eyes of his friends and family, a drunkard, a gambler, and above all, a coward.

Without any unexpected events, he would have continued to play this role.

The only unexpected event in his life occurred on that rainy night three months ago, when he stepped into this alley in the pouring rain and pushed open the door of a hotel.

This allowed him to experience unprecedented fear for the first time.

It was the first time he had contact with the police not as a suspect, the first time he met visitors from another world, and now he was creating another first for the Special Case Investigation Team since its establishment.

— This was the first time they had invited an ordinary person who wasn’t a member of the Special Case Investigation Team to face a supernatural event as a witness from the very beginning.

However, they got the answer they already knew from Han han’s reaction — this wasn’t the first time K had appeared here.

Li Fufeng, standing nearby, further corroborated his statement. “What he said is correct, this is indeed the inn I saw with my own eyes at that time, even if it was just for a fleeting moment.”

“Hiss—”

Except for Han Shan, who was still confused, everyone else inevitably drew in a sharp breath, making an unintentional contribution to global warming on Blue Star.

If they weren’t mistaken, this ancient inn was likely a part of another world. At the moment when that space-time experienced a distortion and an anomalous node appeared, not only K himself, but the entire hotel had come to this space-time.

As for why the inn disappeared and reappeared later, they didn’t have a completely correct answer, only referring to explanations like “space-time instability”.

Compared to the last time when Li Fufeng came and it only appeared for an instant, today this inn had been visible for over three hours since its discovery, which could be considered quite long.

But as for whether it might disappear again, one only needed to recall the situation from that rainy night when it first appeared and disappeared without a trace the next day to see that this was clearly possible.

After all, it was “space-time instability”. No one could guarantee that this magical inn would stay here permanently from now on.

Therefore, they needed to make the most of their time and explore this magical inn thoroughly before it disappeared again.

And this obviously involved taking certain risks.

— If another space-time fluctuation occurred just as they were exploring, the explorers might disappear along with the hotel.

After this analysis, the members of the Special Case Investigation Team finally understood the risks involved, but they were even clearer that this was a rare opportunity to understand supernatural beings and the otherworld.

Li Fufeng was the first to push open that door.Nêww chapters will be fully updated at novelhall.com

Even though he didn’t know what dangers might be hidden inside, he truly couldn’t resist the curiosity welling up from deep within him.

The mysterious Shadow Council President had directly stated that he possessed “qualifications”, which made Li Fufeng even more eager, unwilling to miss any opportunity to glimpse supernatural phenomena.

The others felt the same way.

They pushed open the half-closed door, and everything on the first floor of the inn was instantly exposed to everyone’s eyes without reservation.

The brilliant midday sunlight shone directly in, illuminating the blood-stained floor and the two corpses lying in the blood.

They were more careful than at a protected crime scene, not causing even the slightest damage as they entered the inn.

Outdated decor, an old TV of an unknown brand, an old-fashioned sofa of a style never seen before, wooden floors leading directly to the second floor, along with guest rooms on the second floor decorated in a style vastly different from Blue Star, and beyond that, the owner’s rooms and various living items... The elite investigators sent out didn’t miss a single detail, not even an old newspaper in the bathroom.

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Name: Bai Yi

Age: 17

Talent: Rhythm of All Things’ lv10 (10% awakened)

Life Skills (lv1 and below not shown):

Bewitch lv3;

Dark Cuisine lv3;

Iron Stomach lv3;

Personality Mask lv2

Transcendental Skills:

Blind Man’s Praise lv1

Web of Thoughts lv10

[Note: Special skill related to the Rhythm of All Things’ talent, which level increases as the talent awakens.]

Points: 135

Card Slots: [Ghost in the Rainy Night★] [Flower Speaker★☆] [Puppet Master★★] [???★★☆]

Inventory: Nightmare Crystal (Green) ×5, Nightmare Crystal (White) ×10, Puppet Master’s Diary

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He was surprised to see that among his life skills, except for the Bewitch skill which had already reached its limit and couldn’t be improved further, the other skills had all imperceptibly increased by one level.

As for game points and nightmare crystals...

Let’s put it this way, since the nightmare game system opened, Bai Yi hadn’t counted how many instances he had cleared.

Apart from those special ones that awarded card rewards, most were ordinary instances that only symbolically rewarded a few points or nightmare crystals after clearing. Plus, creating alternate identities had also consumed quite a few nightmare crystals. What was shown on the status panel was the current balance.

And game points? Hmm... it seemed they hadn’t had any use so far, always just being a decoration on the status panel?

— This was practically a criminal waste!

Realizing this, Bai Yi quickly poked the system, and the system’s explanation was —

[Game points have two uses.]

[One, to purchase certain special items produced in instances.]

[Two, when game points accumulate to a certain level, players can choose to upgrade versions. Reaching a certain level completes the game entirely.]

“Version upgrade?” Bai Yi’s interest was piqued, “Does this mean upgrading from beta mode to public test mode?”

Before the system could answer, an unexpected change occurred.

In the card slot, a card suddenly emitted a faint glow, rapidly materializing before Bai Yi’s eyes.

— [Flower Speaker★☆] [Legend Degree 100%]

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