The old man swung his blade at the woman's neck. As the kitchen knife came down, the woman frantically dodged, and the blow landed on her shoulder instead.
Blood appeared on the dining table as the old man, the woman, and the student all began fighting each other.
The old man wanted to kill the woman, the woman was fighting back with everything she had, and the student was trying to wrest the kitchen knife away. He probably figured that since the old man had failed to kill the woman in one strike, it was now his turn.
Of the four guests, only Chen Ge kept Xiao Bu at a safe distance: "What a bunch of lunatics. If they'd just sat down and talked things through, even if the hotel owner had a gun, the guests still would have had a fighting chance. What a waste."
The cook and the hotel owner watched the three guests slaughter each other with glee. Chen Ge used the distraction to circle around to the hotel's front door, clicking the mouse frantically on the entrance.
He finally found his chance and let the headless female ghost carrying her own head inside. "A hotel that can operate at night has to be hiding some unknown secret. When the head-carrying ghost chased Xiao Bu all the way here, she hesitated for a long time before preparing to enter. That means she probably sensed a threat."
Standing in the pitch-black street and having knocked on the door with her head for a good while, the female ghost was burning with fury. The moment she spotted Xiao Bu under Chen Ge's control, she charged straight into the hotel.
"I didn't even provoke her that much, so why is she holding such a grudge? Could it be that her death was caused by Xiao Bu's stepfather? The stepfather ended up getting killed, and her resentment had nowhere to vent, so she fixated on Xiao Bu?"
Chen Ge felt that the head-carrying ghost's existence was more like a game mechanic — designed to prevent the player from lingering in one place for too long, forcing them to stay on high alert at all times.
He moved the mouse to keep his distance from the ghost and ran deeper into the hotel.
He was mentally calculating the distance between himself and the front door. If the situation changed, he would leave immediately.
Three gunshots rang out in quick succession from the background music. The hotel owner seemed to have opened fire on the ghost.
"Fight away — the more viciously you fight, the better." Chen Ge had Xiao Bu hide in a corner. By now the female ghost's head had separated from her body and was chasing the various killers around the hotel.
"Boss Chen, what do we do now? Should we leave the hotel?" Fan Cong had truly broadened his horizons tonight. After watching Chen Ge play, he finally understood that this game could actually be played like this.
What had been a quiet hotel was now pure chaos. The Xiao Bu under Chen Ge's control was essentially a self-mobile disaster magnet.
"You told me earlier that the old man was the hotel owner's father, and that he had a spare key to the hotel?" Chen Ge had Xiao Bu hug the wall and run toward the guest rooms.
"My plot was different. When I got to the hotel, the old man had already been shot dead. I found the key in his room's drawer."
"Let's grab the key first." Chen Ge had Xiao Bu enter Guest Room 1. The room seemed to belong exclusively to the old man — photographs hung all over the walls, including ones of him with the hotel owner and pictures of him as a younger man with a woman.
"Was that woman the old man's wife?"
Chen Ge clicked the drawer with the mouse, and a dialogue box popped up at the bottom of the screen — You see a rusty key, a pile of teeth, and a worn notebook.
"This old man had some strange hobbies. He liked collecting teeth?"