I started on a rocking horse and relied on watching ads to dominate the highway survival charts.

The head chef was the first to react.

He pulled out a chair with great enthusiasm: "No, no, you've come at just the right time, please have a seat."

As Huo Yunzhi walked over and sat down, she asked, "Am I the last one?"

"Yes," the head chef replied quietly.

"Alright, you can start marking and hunting me down now."

"Okay!"

The head chef shouted twice into the restaurant, and the other waiter, Li Gui, stopped what he was doing and quickly stood in two rows next to Huo Yunzhi.

One of the vengeful ghosts brought a red carpet and laid it out with a radius of one meter, centered on Huo Yunzhi's feet.

The head chef also led his team in chanting slogans to enhance the restaurant's atmosphere.

"Delicious and inexpensive!"

The vengeful spirits then shouted in unison, "Healthy and delicious!"

"What a kind-hearted ghost!"

"Authentic flavor!"

"Welcome to Lijing Hotel! Enjoy your meal!"

Huo Yunzhi stopped in her tracks as she was about to pick up her chopsticks.

"Is this your plan to hunt me down?"

"Huh?" The head chef paused in surprise for a moment, then quickly waved his hand: "Yes, this is a slogan I carefully designed. Don't you like it? If you don't like it, I'll change it again."

Do we have to do it again?

Huo Yunzhi immediately refused: "No need! This is fine, one chase is enough."

This scene was witnessed by all the players in the restaurant.

Qin Yuanshan was so shocked he couldn't close his mouth: "Holy crap, Sister Huo has such a big presence?"

"Could my sister be the owner behind the Lijing Hotel?"

"Looks like we don't have to worry about being marked and hunted down by the head chef for now."

Huo Yunzhi sat in her seat as the ghostly waiter handed her the menu.

"Spring-stewed chicken soup, jade pine nut embroidered buns, steamed deep-sea tiger grouper, abalone and wild rice with black abalone, steamed lobster with garlic and vermicelli, stir-fried Wagyu beef cubes with black truffle sauce... more than twenty dishes in total?"

The head chef wrung his hands nervously: "If you think it's not enough, we'll add more right away!"

"There are only four of us, so this is a bit too much food." Huo Yunzhi looked at the other players: "What are they eating?"

"The one who seeks to boil a swan in plain water."

...Boiled toads?

"Let's change their approach to the normal way."

"Okay, I'll switch to charcoal grilling."

The head chef led the waiters back to their respective posts to get busy.

Huo Yunzhi, Xu Xiu, and the other two chatted while eating.

"After the mealtime is over, you should all go back to your rooms and not go out casually, so as not to trigger any hidden rules that may exist. In particular, none of you should go near the elevator."

Tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM, bring your room key to the lobby to check out, and you will be able to leave the service area.

"Don't worry, Sister Huo, we understand."

Qin Yuanshan chewed as he nodded vigorously.

"Aren't you going back?" Xu Xiu sensed the hidden meaning in Huo Yunzhi's words.

"I still need to find something." Huo Yunzhi took a bite of abalone. "By the way, besides the elevator, have you noticed anything else strange about this hotel?"

"No." Xu Xiu shook her head and looked at Miao Miao.

"I couldn't see it either."

Huo Yunzhi nodded, not intending to continue the topic.

"I've found something." Qin Yuanshan finally swallowed the food in his mouth.

"Where?" Huo Yunzhi was surprised that there were actually still clues.

"I have a skill that lets me pass through walls, right? When I threw the cleaning ghost into another room, I could have just passed through the wall once, but I had to use my skill twice to get back to your presidential suite. It felt like... there was a dark, foggy crevice?"

"Is it right below my room?" Huo Yunzhi quickly asked.

"Yes, it's right below the presidential suite." Qin Yuanshan recalled for a moment and nodded in confirmation.

"Okay, I understand." Having obtained another clue, Huo Yunzhi satisfiedly sped up her eating.

After finishing their meal, the other players left the restaurant and returned to their rooms.

Huo Yunzhi walked to the elevator alone, stepped into the elevator, and pressed the button to go to the first floor.

With a dull hum, the elevator began to descend.

The elevator went from the seventh floor to the first floor very quickly, and everything was working properly.

Huo Yunzhi pressed the button again to return to the seventh floor.

After the elevator doors closed, I safely returned to the seventh floor, and nothing happened again.

"It seems the pollution is in that narrow spot that Qin Yuanshan mentioned."

But how do you get into the crevice?

Huo Yunzhi pursed her lips, frantically recalling all the rules in her mind.

Then, she pressed the button again.

From the seventh floor to the first floor... from the first floor to the seventh floor... from the seventh floor back to the first floor.

After pressing the button hundreds of times, it was midnight.

This time, the elevator finally stopped halfway.

Huo Yunzhi looked up at the screen above the elevator buttons.

The screen shows that it is currently located between the fifth and sixth floors.

"bite--"

The elevator doors opened, and it was pitch black outside.

Because treating the pollution takes a considerable amount of time, the elevator must be kept stopped on this floor until the process is complete.

So Huo Yunzhi took out the cut safety zone, wedged it in the elevator door, and calmly walked out of the elevator.

Looking at the seemingly bottomless darkness, Huo Yunzhi reached out without hesitation, and the summoned Karmic Fire Red Lotus began to emit wisps of fire, illuminating the entire interlayer.

The layout of the entire mezzanine is no different from the corridor of a normal floor.

The rooms are located on both sides of the corridor, and even the number of rooms is exactly the same.

The only difference is that the room numbers are not written on the doorplates, but on strange symbols that resemble Chinese characters but are completely detached from their original form.

"Why do I feel like I've seen these symbols somewhere before?" Huo Yunzhi murmured.

Her gaze lingered on the symbol for a moment, then she focused her mind and activated the Ghost Messenger skill, kicking the door with the Immortal's Guiding Hand in her hand.

"Squeak—"

Before Huo Yunzhi's foot could even touch the door, a door that was originally closed suddenly opened by itself not far away.

The rusty hinges made a piercing noise as they turned, causing Huo Yunzhi to instinctively feel uncomfortable.

Huo Yunzhi frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, then lit the Immortal's Guiding Light in her hand and walked towards the open door.

Just as she was about to reach the door, the half-closed door seemed to sense something and, as if to tease Huo Yunzhi, slammed the door shut with a "bang".

Could Huo Yunzhi tolerate such treatment?

She chuckled and, without the slightest hesitation, lifted her leg, raised her knee, and twisted her waist.

The next second, his right leg snapped open like a taut bowstring, kicking hard at the tightly closed door in front of him.

"boom!"

She kicked the entire door away, and it shattered into pieces of wood in mid-air.

After entering the room through the wood chips, Huo Yunzhi immediately surveyed the scene inside.

This is an abandoned room with a design that is even more striking than Room 404, except that the bed, floor, chandelier, and wardrobe are all shrouded in a white mist.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Huo Yunzhi's act of kicking the door seemed to have angered some being here, and all the doors on both sides of the corridor suddenly opened.