Chapter 43 - Breakfast (1/2)
Su Min was still lying in bed when he heard the scream. He was awakened only a few minutes ago by the cinema’s prompt.
The hint from the cinema was no different from the previous ones: 【Audience Member Su Min, congratulations for successfully changing your script. Please continue with your hard work. As a reward for your achievement, you will receive keyword hints. The first hint: Corridor.]
Su Min actually guessed that the hint would be corridor.
The photo Jiang Taozhi took earlier had given it away. There was something wrong with the carpet in the corridor and it was likely a trigger for something to happen.
With the appearance of the scream, Su Min subconsciously looked out the room.
The sound was very short and then it became quiet.
He didn’t know what happened, but he could vaguely guess. He stood behind the door and waited for a minute before opening the door.
Outside the door, Li Chi Yu was knocking on Le Ling’s door and he constantly checked his surroundings.
Li Chi Yu said: “Ah Su Min you’re up?”
Su Min asked: “Did you come out after hearing the noise?”
Li Chi Yu lowered his hand and thought for a moment before answering: “Yeah. The others also came out. They probably all heard that scream.”
Su Min followed his line of sight.
There were a few dozen rooms on the fourth floor and about half of them were occupied. Some of the rooms were occupied by twos and threes.
At this moment, the door to Le Ling’s door opened.
Li Chi Yu looked over quickly: “Le Ling, are you okay?”
Le Ling asked back: “Why won’t I be okay?”
She was still wearing the clothes she wore when she came, and her hair was still neat. You couldn’t tell if she slept or not.
Jiang Taozhi came out from her room gripping tightly onto her phone.
There were both men and women gathered there. Some were speaking while others just looked over. They all looked surprised when they saw them.
Li Chi Yu said: “I didn’t expect so many people to be here.”
He had thought that there wouldn’t be much but turns out there are already twenty people in just this floor alone. He didn’t expect to see so many.
Le Ling crossed her arms and said to Li Chi Yu: “If there’s nothing then go back to sleep. Stop making a ruckus.”
As the two conversed, Su Min used his phone to take a photo of the ground in the corridor. The photo of the carpet was the same as how it was in reality. He didn’t know if it was because he couldn’t get it on his phone or if it had restored itself to its original appearance.
He stored away his phone and decided to act like nothing had happened.
A man suddenly walked over. He didn’t even spare a glance at Li Chi Yu and just looked at Le Ling while smiling: “Hello, my name is Liu Huida. Did you guys just hea———-”
Before he could finish, Le Ling closed the door.
Liu Huida’s expression changed instantly. He snorted and then angrily glared at Li Chi Yu next to him.
He then left and returned to his room.
Li Chi Yu was confused: “Why did he glare at me?”
Su Min answered: “Maybe he was jealous of you being able to stand next to Le Ling.”
Hearing that, Li Chi Yu was very pleased. He leaned against the door and said: “Then let him glare. It doesn’t do me any harm anyway.”
The people in the corridor didn’t see anything when they came out, so they all returned back to their rooms. Very quickly, it became quiet again.
Jiang Taozhi asked: “Was the voice that you heard a woman’s voice?”
Li Chi Yu nodded: “Yes.”
That’s why he knocked on Le Ling’s door. He was afraid that something bad happened in the hotel.
As they spoke, the door to Le Ling’s room once again opened. She still looked the same: “That voice came from the middle of the corridor. She probably encountered something scary.”
Su Min pointed in a direction, “If I remember right, it should be there. The corridor is carpeted so footsteps cannot be heard, but voices can.”
From that distance, it seemed plausible.
Li Chi Yu asked with curiosity: “Then did she scream the moment she opened the door or was she screaming in front of someone else’s door?”
Jiang Taozhi said: “How should we know?”
Le Ling pointed down the corridor and said: “Li Chi Yu, if there’s nothing else just go to sleep. Don’t knock on the door in the middle of the night.”
After she closed the door, the three of them looked at each other.
It was Su Min’s first time seeing such a cold woman and he couldn’t get used to it.
Li Chi Yu waved his hand: “I’ll go sleep.”
After he returned to his room, Su Min turned to Jiang Taozhi and asked: “Can you use your phone to take a photo of that same place from earlier?”
Jiang Taozhi: “Sure.”
She pointed it at that place from earlier and then exclaimed with surprise. She showed it to Su Min, “It’s restored.”
Su Min received the phone. The photo was the same as reality. It was as if the wrinkles from last time didn’t existed and not a trace was left behind.
He came to an understanding and said: “Go back and sleep.”
Jiang Taozhi nodded. She deleted the photo and then returned to her own room.
Once again, Su Min was the only one left in the corridor. As he looked down the black and white corridor, it looked like the junction between time and space.
He turned and went back into his room.
The moment the door closed, the lights in the corridor instantly darkened.
Su Min had never turned off the lights in his room and at this moment it looked a little warm and comforting. He felt his way over to his bed and got ready to sleep.
Things would usually be calm after something had already happened.
Su Min decided to call this the cool-down period. Afterall, a horror movie wouldn’t take place over just one night so it would need time to recharge.
But as soon as he laid down in bed, he felt a cool sensation. A hand touched his shoulder.
Su Min stiffened and didn’t move. He only reacted after half a minute and he said: “Chen Su!”
The flat blankets swelled up. Chen Su asked: “Not sleeping?”
Su Min got off the bed and saw that he was occupying half the bed and didn’t appear to have any intention to leave, “You’re sleeping here?”
Chen Su: “I can’t?”
“Of course you can’t.” Su Min was still in a state where he would recall the events in the romance movie whenever he sees him.