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Chapter 64: The Invisible Monster
Chapter 64: The Invisible Monster
Pei Youguang returned to the small group in a daze, his spirit seemingly shattered.
Seeing his state, Pei Tiancheng furrowed his brows. "Youguang, where's your senior? Why didn't he come with you?"
The others also turned curious gazes toward him.
Pei Youguang hesitated, then scratched his head as if thinking it over. "Hehe, we were chatting so happily that I forgot to mention it to my senior." A silly grin spread across his plump face.
Upon hearing this, the group fell silent, their faces filled with displeasure and surprise.
"Pei Er Shao, how could you be so forgetful?" One of the girls spoke up, her expression discontent.
Pei Youguang offered an awkward laugh. "Sorry, sorry..."
Pei Tiancheng, deep in thought, nodded after a moment. "Alright then... Let's forget about it. He probably has his duties to attend to, and we shouldn't disturb him."
He seemed to hold a high position within the group, and with his words, the others, though still displeased, remained silent. However, they became even more aloof toward Pei Youguang, who had never really fit in with them.
Noticing the awkward silence, Ye Chenlin clapped his hands to regain everyone's attention. "Alright, we have another program for tonight. Later, when it's a bit darker, let's go on an adventure to the suite where someone died. We might encounter something exciting!"
...
On the other hand, Zhao Dequan, the driver who had brought Xue Jing to the Rui Pearl Hotel, was pushing a cart toward the elevator. On the cart was a towering seven- or eight-layer cream cake.
As the hotel manager, he didn't usually need to do this himself. But the guest on the 22nd floor was no ordinary customer.
To prevent any mistakes by the staff and to build a connection with these second-generation rich kids, he decided to deliver the cake himself.
"Ding—"
The elevator doors opened, and Zhao Dequan carefully pushed the cake cart inside.
"Hmm?"
Upon entering the elevator, Zhao Dequan looked at the person beside him with a puzzled expression.
The man was tall and wore a black tracksuit. He had a black baseball cap on his head, his eyes were completely hidden behind dark sunglasses, and the lower half of his face was covered by a mask. Even his hands were gloved, as if he were going to a construction site.
In his hand, he held a pushcart with a large rectangular object wrapped tightly in black tape, its contents indiscernible.
"Er... Hello," Zhao Dequan greeted him subconsciously.
Due to the death of a guest the previous day, most of the guests at the Rui Pearl Hotel had checked out. Aside from the 22nd-floor banquet hall, the entire hotel was almost deserted.
He never expected to run into another guest in the elevator... Zhao Dequan felt a sense of unease.
The man's attire was suspicious. He didn't recognize him as hotel staff...
However, being middle-aged and experienced, Zhao Dequan understood that it was best to mind his own business.
It's none of my concern who he is or what he's up to. Investigating crimes is the duty of the peace officers, and security is handled by the guards. I'm just a small-time manager...
Many guests are eccentric... It's quite common.
He tried to reassure himself.
The elevator doors slowly closed.
The strange man remained silent.
Zhao Dequan fidgeted, feeling like the man's gaze, hidden behind the sunglasses, was fixed on his neck.
"It's so hot today, even though it's almost November, hehe," Zhao Dequan said nervously, wiping the cold sweat from his face with a handkerchief he took from his pocket.
"... " The man remained silent.
Zhao Dequan's palms grew sweaty as he anxiously fiddled with the cart's handle. He watched the elevator floor indicator crawl upward, wishing it would go faster.
17th floor... 18th floor... 19th floor...
Just as the elevator was about to reach the 22nd floor—
"Rustle, rustle—"
The rectangular object on the man's cart suddenly shook, emitting a strange rustling sound.
Zhao Dequan was suddenly reminded of his youth, when he lived in a run-down rental apartment. In the quiet of the night, cockroaches would crawl on his wooden bed, scurrying back and forth by his ears...
"... "
The strange man turned his head toward Zhao Dequan.
Even through the sunglasses, it was obvious that the man was staring at him. Zhao Dequan's heart pounded with fear, his eyes widening with terror.
"Ding—"
The elevator doors opened.
"Sav–"
Zhao Dequan only had time to utter a single syllable before his head slid off his neck.
Blood gushed forth, turning the towering cream cake into a 'strawberry cake'.
"Tsk." Duan Kaiping scowled and wiped his bloodstained hand on the corpse.
The long, rectangular object wrapped in black tape began to shake violently.
Duan Kaiping's expression changed drastically. "Damn, it smelled the blood and hasn't been fed for a day. It's going berserk!"
He quickly pushed the cart and kicked Zhao Dequan's corpse and the cake to the side. Then, he rushed out of the elevator with the rectangular object and sprinted down the corridor.
Soon, he reached the banquet hall doors, but the object's tremors became even more violent, and the black tape covering it began to tear with a crackling sound.
Duan Kaiping's face paled, and he immediately shoved the cart towards the banquet hall doors. At the same time, he took out a remote-like device from his pocket.
There was a red button on the device, and without hesitation, Duan Kaiping turned and sprinted towards the emergency exit stairs, pressing the button as he ran.
In a hidden area on the 22nd floor, a small, black, cylindrical box began to flash a red light.
"Beep—Beep—Beep—"
...
"Sorry, I don't use a phone, so I don't have WeChat."
In the grand hall, Xue Jing was smiling and shaking his head, politely declining the advances of a sexy, bare-shouldered dress-clad young woman.
"Hey~ Don't lie to me, cutie. Just add me, I won't eat you~"
The woman persisted, coquettishly wrapping her arms around Xue Jing's arm and intentionally burying his hand in her soft cleavage.
Xue Jing remained calm and unmoved, inwardly sighing at the skilled seductress before him.
At that moment, he frowned and reached into his pocket to pull out his phone.
The young woman's eyes lit up, thinking she had the handsome young man right where she wanted him, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction.
"That's more like it. Come on, add me, and I'll tell you a lot of things~"
As she spoke, her tone became increasingly seductive and alluring, drawing out each syllable to entice him.
However, Xue Jing ignored her and silently stared at his phone, his brows furrowed.
A subtle tingling sensation crept up his palm where he held the phone, and if not for the fact that he had been practicing the Vibrating Armor technique for many days, enhancing his skin's sensitivity, he might not have noticed it at all.
Before he could think further, his phone screen suddenly dimmed.
Immediately after, all the lights in the banquet hall went out simultaneously, plunging the entire place into darkness.
"Hey? What's going on?"
Someone in the room exclaimed in surprise.
"A power outage?"
"Wait, let me turn on my phone's flashlight... Hmm? My phone's also out of battery?"
The room filled with confused and anxious voices.
Xue Jing tapped his phone, his eyes narrowing slightly.
- He was certain that his phone had been fully charged.
Moreover, not a single person in the room took out their phone to provide light, indicating that everyone's phones were affected.
Coupled with the fact that all the lights in the banquet hall had gone out as well, it seemed that all electrically powered devices had malfunctioned.
These phenomena led him to think of one possibility.
"EMP..." he muttered to himself.
Electromagnetic Pulse, a high-tech means of instantly disabling all electronic devices.
"Ya! I'm so scared of the dark, handsome. You have to protect me." The young woman tightened her hold on Xue Jing's arm, burying his hand even deeper into her soft bosom.
She giggled, seemingly unbothered by the sudden darkness.
"It's just a power outage, no big deal."
Just then, a loud crash came from the direction of the banquet hall's entrance.
"Bang!!!"
The sound of shattering glass mixed with something heavy falling to the ground echoed eerily in the darkness, startling everyone.
"What the hell?!"
"Damn, that scared the crap out of me!"
"Ahhh!!!"
The young woman in the dress screamed as well, startled by the sudden noise.
Xue Jing took the opportunity to free himself from her grasp and took a few steps forward, his deep eyes quietly scanning the darkness.
In the darkness, an invisible monster seemed to lurk.
...
(End of Chapter)
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