Chapter 578: Chapter 577: Shutting the Door Is My Determined Resolve Not to Hold Back

The hotel corridor was lined with thick carpet, making no sound as we walked.

It was too quiet; everyone instinctively held their breath. Not many rooms had their doors open, because the doors opened inward, you had to get close to see if they were open.

Step by step, it felt like walking towards a bloodthirsty abyss monster.

Room 207’s door was open.

Mu Qiu raised a hand to signal stopping, the gesture inexplicably similar to Cheng Zhirang’s earlier action.

"207 is open, let’s check 207 first."

Guan Yu leaned on Shu Ran to peek forward, lowering her voice: "What about us? The doors to 204 and 206 are closed!"

"Not my problem."

"... No way, I changed my mind, we search the same room together."

"You changed your mind, so I have to agree? What do you think I am? God?"

Mu Qiu pushed Shu Ran, Han Xizheng, and Zhao Yu inside the room, then turned to stand at the doorway, staring at Guan Yu and the others: "Stop thinking about it, quickly, go to the odd-numbered rooms. Giving you half is enough, yet you still try to take advantage!"

"Don’t come here," Guan Yu lunged at her trying to squeeze in,

"Since when does Mu Qiu get taken advantage of? You giving us half the space might just be exactly what you wanted, you definitely have other plans."

"Don’t squeeze! Are you deliberately taking advantage of me?! Where are your hands supposed to be?!"

Mu Qiu pushed her away, Guan Yu took the opportunity to give her waist a final quick touch, raising her claws, looking smug.

"People’s waist is really nice to touch. Hey, don’t be mad, let us in, let’s have a friendly exchange, without Brother Cheng and Li Yang, we are a team!"

"You’re a team with the whole world, try using that line to fool Li Yang, not me."

Inside the room, Shu Ran rolled her eyes listening to these two bickering.

These lines are used by both to trick others, yet here they pretend to be serious.

Zhao Yu still helping block the entrance, Guan Yu genuinely couldn’t get in, had to give up, couldn’t let three male guests have a physical tussle with two female guests, right?

She sighed, giving Mu Qiu a reproachful look: "You’ve really hurt my feelings. Is coming on the show to form cliques? We are a big team! Everyone should kindly share information!"

"I’m deaf, can’t hear."

"..."

Guan Yu pulled Chu Qiu and turned to leave.

"Don’t regret it, I’ll count to three, after three seconds, you won’t be able to win me back..."

Mu Qiu slammed the door with a loud noise, expressing her determination not to retain them.

Guan Yu: "..."

So angry.

Closing the room door isolated Guan Yu’s chatter, the surroundings finally quieted down a bit again.

Mu Qiu took a deep breath, feeling the joy in her heart.

"Okay, ladies, let’s start searching!"

Han Xizheng, known as Sister Han, said: "...You guys start, I’ll take a break."

The hotel room layout was almost the same, they entered a simple standard room, both beds showed signs of someone having slept there, and the white sheets were messy. In the corridor lay a lone pink slipper.

The frosted glass door of the bathroom was open, but the transparent glass separating it from the lounge area had its curtains drawn.

If those curtains weren’t drawn, well...

Tsk, such a sleazy hotel.

They divided the work, Mu Qiu and Zhao Yu took the detector to the bathroom first, Shu Ran and Han Xizheng were responsible for searching outside around the two beds and chairs.

Time was short, Mu Qiu moved quickly, scanning with two quick swipes over the suspicious areas.

Specifically opening every drawer under the sink for toiletries, checking the side seams, and even feeling on top of drawers, fearing that the show crew might crazily stick a file card in an invisible place.

Zhao Yu looked at her with admiration: "Judging by your expertise, you’ve been played by the show crew many times?"

She had already figured out the crew’s tricks clearly.

Mu Qiu placed the detector on the sink, waving her hand: "It’s a bitter story beyond words. Have you checked that..."

"Beep!!!"

Before finishing her sentence, an urgent electronic sound rang out, it was unclear where the loudspeaker was, the sound was as clear as someone suddenly sounding an alarm right by your ear, making your skin tingle.

Mu Qiu immediately stopped talking, gesturing to Zhao Yu for silence, listening carefully to that cold voice.

"The first monster file card is activated!"

"The first monster file card is activated!"

"The first monster file card is activated!"

After repeated three times, there was a strange electric buzz, then all sounds vanished, the room returned to silence.

Hearts hadn’t settled when the room door was suddenly hit hard by someone.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Like someone was trying to break in.

Mu Qiu instantly tensed up, hair standing on end.

Scarier than the door knocking was, despite being terrifying, Shu Ran outside hadn’t made any sound.

This was very abnormal.

She quietly stepped back, grabbed Zhao Yu’s hand, pressing tight against the wall, avoiding facing the bathroom door, tilting her head to look outside through the glass door.

All she saw were several camera operators standing steadily with their cameras.

The door banging stopped.

The thundering bangs turned into everyone’s heartbeat.

Mu Qiu felt her adrenaline surge as if she’d applied menthol, alert as if she could hear someone breathing outside.

The intense state due to fear was tormenting, she almost felt like staying in the bathroom forever.

"There’s no sound now."

Zhao Yu whispered: "There’s no sound at all."

Shu Ran and Han Xizheng’s voices, the banging outside, the electric buzz, and the camera crew’s murmurs, were all gone.

They exchanged glances, tightly clenching the metal detector in their hand, ready to charge in and fight if someone entered.

"Should we go out and see?" Mu Qiu asked.

Zhao Yu nodded, following her, both cautiously peering out.

The door was still intact, Shu Ran and Han Xizheng were there, no one was missing.

Though, the situation wasn’t right.

The two were hiding behind heavy curtains, exposing only two pairs of feet, two turned inward with toes pointing crookedly.

Mu Qiu quietly walked over, scanned the curtain, peeking to see them.

She met Shu Ran’s frightened eyes. She was covering her mouth tightly, with teary eyes, upon seeing a familiar person peeking in, she was about to scream.

Thankfully Mu Qiu at lightning speed, in a flash, pushed Shu Ran’s hand back to her mouth, making her cover it again.

"Stay calm," she whispered, "We are locked in, the person banging the door can’t get in."

Shu Ran nodded, trembling, putting her hand down, but still not coming out from behind the window.

Han Xizheng came out, looking equally shaken.

"The sound was so sudden. The door banger is the activated monster?"