This actor is full of tricks.

"Boss, it seems there's more than one."

Upon entering the room, Lin Jue had just closed the door when Bi Zheng spoke again from inside his backpack.

More than one?
In other words, besides the owner, there are other Children of the Mist in this guesthouse?

"Can you sense where I am?" Lin Jue asked, releasing Bi Zheng.

Bi Zheng stood there, sensing carefully for a while: "On this floor, at the deepest point on the right, there should also be a living person, without any strange aura."

Is it also a living person?

Lin Jue left the eerie atmosphere in the room and walked out alone.

At the far end of the right side of the corridor is a separate room with a "福" (good fortune) character pasted on the door and a shoe rack placed outside. It seems to be the owner's room.

In other words, the Child of the Mist is a relative or lover of the boss.

Lin Jue stood at the door for a while. He still didn't have any strange habit of trespassing. Just as he was about to leave, he ran into the boss who was coming upstairs.

When the boss saw Lin Jue, his expression was clearly flustered and wary.

Lin Jue hurriedly took out his phone and explained that he was just wandering around and noticed that the door to this room was different from the other guest rooms, so he stayed here for a while.

The boss's expression showed no sign of softening. She took out a stylus and quickly wrote a line of text.

Night falls quickly in the mountains, and there are many snakes, rats, insects, and ants, so try not to leave your room at night.

This statement sounds a bit like protesting too much; they just don't want Lin Jue to go out at night, because maybe something strange will happen at this guesthouse at night.

Although Lin Jue saw through his boss's forced explanation, he still pretended to be scared and quickly typed a line on his phone.

There were snakes too! I'm terrified of snakes. Boss, do you have any realgar or something similar that you could get me some?

Upon seeing this message, the shop owner relaxed a bit. She said she would get some for Lin Jue later, but the snakes in the mountains were indeed very rampant at night, so it was best to stay in the room.

Lin Jue nodded and slowly moved back to the room. He was very slow, but the boss did not rush to open the door. Instead, he waited until Lin Jue was back in the room before carefully opening the door and quickly slipping inside.

boom!
Hearing the door close in the corridor, Lin Jue frowned slightly. The boss looked very nervous; she seemed worried that the person in the room would be exposed.

Is it because the person in the room has a physical defect that might frighten people? And what is the reason for not leaving the room at night?

He planned to secretly observe as soon as it got dark.

"Boss, the noodles are ready." Lie Zeng called Lin Jue over to eat the noodles. While eating, he asked curiously, "Boss, although the owner is a Child of the Mist, she is still an ordinary person now. What secrets can she keep from you? If you give the order, I will tear this inn down."

Lin Jue shook his head: "I have no grudge against this person. I just want to know some things. Why would I want to hurt someone? Your weird thinking hasn't changed at all. This is the real world, not the fog."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Jue felt that Liezeng's way of thinking was a hidden danger, so he said seriously, "In the real world, there is a saying: 'I will not offend others unless they offend me.' 'In simpler terms, it means that if others don't provoke us, we should try not to go looking for trouble, but if others come looking for trouble…'"

"Just choke him down," Blood Shadow said to Lin Jue.

Lie Zeng listened with a vague understanding. In the dense fog zone, there was no such thing as provoking or not provoking. The reason for the successive battles was simply that they couldn't stand each other.

However, he still nodded solemnly and kept Lin Jue's words in mind.

That evening, Lin Jue took his first shower in over ten days, scrubbing off the mud and changing into dry clothes.

He walked to the door and quietly opened it. Only the ceiling light on the ceiling emitted a faint glow in the corridor. Lin Jue was the only guesthouse guesthouse owner today, so the whole floor was unusually quiet.

There wasn't even a chirping sound of insects outside, unlike what the boss had described as being teeming with snakes, rats, insects, and ants.

He glanced at the time; it was exactly nine o'clock. Apart from being a little quiet, there seemed to be nothing unusual outside the door.

However, Lin Jue was good at waiting. He pushed the door open slightly, then leaned over the door and peered through the crack.

Black Cat Spirit yawned, lay down at Lin Jue's feet, and fell fast asleep.

"Boss, this pose looks like you're a pervert." Blood Shadow leaned closer: "Boss, you just want to know who's in the boss's room, right? I'll turn into a pool of blood and crawl through the crack to find out, won't I?"

As he spoke, he looked eager and excited. If we're talking about being truly perverted, who can compare to this guy?

"Get out of here, don't scare people." Lin Jue simply sat down on the ground. He was determined to spend the whole night here and see what kind of extraordinary things were going to happen in the guesthouse that night.

As it approached 10 p.m., something unusual happened outside the door. An elderly man with white hair came up from the stairwell, carrying a vegetable basket filled with fruits and vegetables.

Is this the person in the boss's room? Could he be the boss's father?
But who would go out to buy groceries in the middle of the night? And from dusk until night, Lin Jue didn't see anyone leave the guesthouse. This old man couldn't have gone down the mountain to buy groceries in the afternoon and then spent three or four hours buying them, could he?

Moreover, there was no sound of cars coming from downstairs. Would an old man with white hair really walk down the mountain for several hours just to buy a basket of vegetables?
No matter how I think about it, it doesn't seem right.

Moreover, the old man was wearing a thick cotton-padded coat. Although the temperature on the mountain was very low, it was not so low that he needed to wear layers of cotton-padded coats.

"Perhaps the elderly person is sensitive to the cold, or perhaps they have some kind of physical ailment, which may explain why they wear so many clothes."

Lin Jue forced himself to come up with a barely plausible explanation and continued to peek.

The old man walked very slowly, step by step, toward the boss's room. Strangely enough, despite wearing a thick cotton-padded coat and carrying a basket of vegetables, he made no sound as he walked.

"That's unlikely. Someone with that kind of weight shouldn't walk on a wooden floor without making a sound." Lin Jue had great confidence in his hearing. He was certain that the old man walked without making a sound. He hadn't heard any noise when the old man went up the stairs either. It was as if the old man had appeared out of nowhere.

His gaze shifted downwards, settling on the old man's feet. In the dim light, he was astonished to discover that the old man cast no shadow. (End of Chapter)