“Oh, so this child belongs to the Aisli couple.”
After hearing Bai Lixin’s explanation, Hongyue poked the chubby face of the baby with regret.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Why do you look so regretful?’
Emil: “If what you said is true, then everyone in the other space is dead?”
He opened his mouth to say something but suddenly bit his lip.
Then, Hongyue and Bai Lixin received a message notification.
Emil: [I suddenly have a bold guess.]
Hong Yue: [Let’s hear it, let me see how bold it is.]
Emil: […]
‘Sister, is there anything you can’t follow? You’re quite a social cow in the group chat.’
[Ahem,] Emil paused for two seconds before continuing his message, [Just now you mentioned a place with tombstones, and when God Xin came back from the other space, he was also in that area.]
[Is there a possibility that the space God Xin went to is actually hell?]
[Especially since the people he saw in that space had died a long time ago.]
Emil suddenly shivered. [If that’s the case, could the resort we’re staying in now… be a haunted house?!]
‘Ahhh!’
Hong Yue: [That is indeed a very bold and wild guess, now you speak, Bai Lixin.]
Bai Lixin: […]
‘What kind of host-like control is this?’
Bai Lixin: [What I can say is that Emil is half correct. Many of the attendants in that space were wearing the ornaments we saw before, Hongyue.]
Hong Yue: [Ornaments? Are you talking about the flowers and bows on the tombstones?]
[Mm,] Bai Lixin continued his message, [So, Emil’s guess is probably right, and my guess is that those people have already died, but that space may not necessarily be hell.]
Emil: [If it’s not hell, then what is it?]
Hong Yue: [Fool, demons are residents of hell. Have you ever seen a book that says hell celebrates Thanksgiving? Would people in hell encounter demons and sacrifice them?]
Emil wrinkled his nose, wanting to say something to regain his dignity, but then he heard a gentle voice calling out from behind them.
“Dear guests, it’s time for breakfast.”
This sudden voice interrupted the private chat between the three of them. They turned to face the source and saw that the tour guide was standing behind them at some point.
He stood in the shadow of the gate, his slender body hidden in the darkness.
The tour guide’s face still wore a stiff professional smile, his cold eyes scanning the four people one by one with a scrutinizing and suspicious glint in his dark pupils.
The tour guide took a glance around, finally fixing his gaze on Bai Lixin and the demon, “Mr. Bai Lixin, Miss Jia’er, welcome back.”
“Breakfast is ready for you. Come with me to the dining hall, the other guests are getting impatient.”
The four of them looked at each other, then followed the tour guide into the dining hall.
Inside the dining hall, only three people were sitting in front of the large dining table.
Mr. Nick, Elizabeth, and the male actor.
The three of them sat huddled in a corner, with exquisite food laid out in front of them, but they were just staring blankly with pale faces, having no appetite at all.
Hong Yue walked to the opposite side of Mr. Nick and casually pulled a chair to sit down. Seeing her find a seat, Bai Lixin, Emil, and the demon also took their seats calmly.
Mr. Nick widened his eyes, staring at the people across from him, “You, are you all okay? Miss Jia’er, how did your leg heal? And where did you and Mr. Bai Lixin go before? And why do you have a baby in your arms?”
“No need to dwell on these questions,” the tour guide suddenly spoke up, still standing at the front of the dining table. He slightly lowered his head, looking down at the few people on the table, “The important thing is that they’ve come back.”
Just a few days ago, this table was filled with people. At that time, some of them were secretly competing, some had hidden intentions, but none of them had thought that they would die or disappear.
Hearing the tour guide’s voice, Mr. Nick no longer had the same imposing manner as before. His face turned pale, and he closed his mouth in a panic.
Elizabeth and the male actor huddled together, trembling and staring at the food in front of them.
They were afraid, afraid of the tour guide. More precisely, they were afraid of everything in this resort.
The repeated deaths and fear had long worn away all their edges. At this moment, the only thing on their minds was to stay alive.
To survive and leave this place.
The tour guide saw Mr. Nick’s cooperation and was satisfied. He pulled a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, revealing his classic fake smile.
“Today’s breakfast was supposed to be very tight, but because so many people have disappeared these days, it has made our food supply more abundant.”
“Dear guests, let’s put our hands together and thank these guests for their sacrifices and thank God for the food He has bestowed upon us.”
Mr. Nick and the others had no idea how to write the word “resist” anymore. As soon as the tour guide’s words fell, they obediently clasped their hands together and began to pray.
Bai Lixin and the others were a beat slower, but they soon followed suit.
While praying, Emil discreetly opened his eyes slightly and saw a pair of lifeless eyes staring intently at him.
Those eyes belonged to the tour guide. At this moment, his eyes were pitch black, with no trace of white around them.
The empty eyes stared straight at Emil without any expression.
Emil immediately closed his eyes, and a few drops of cold sweat silently formed on his smooth forehead.
He suddenly thought of Samael lying alone in the ward.
If that world was filled with dead people, how safe can this space be?
When they weren’t watching, the tour guide transformed into this ghostly appearance; it was evident that he wasn’t human. If the tour guide was like this, then what about those attendants and doctors? Are they normal too?
Samael was in the ward at the moment, unable to lift his hand or shoulder. One could say he was a like delicate and fragile pea princess. In his current state, if these monsters want to do something to him, it would be effortless.
Emil instinctively tugged at the sleeve of the person next to him.
The person next to him didn’t respond at all and just sat there motionless.
Emil became anxious and tugged at the sleeve again while frantically sending messages in the system chat window.
Emil: [I opened my eyes just now and saw the tour guide’s eyes! His eyes were all black! Is Samael safe in the ward?]
Bai Lixin: [Calm down; he probably won’t die. We’ll go check on him after breakfast.]
Finally, the owner of the sleeve moved and grabbed Emil’s wrist from behind.
Emil was stunned: [Alright, understood.]
After saying this, he waited for two seconds, but the owner of the hand showed no sign of letting go.
Emil had no choice but to continue messaging: [Uh, God Xin, I got it, you can release your hand now.]
Bai Lixin: [?… I want to tell you good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?]
Emil: [Good news?]
Bai Lixin: [Even if it’s good news, you need to stay calm. The good news is that I already let go of your hand because I never grabbed it from the beginning.]
Emil’s breathing suddenly stopped, and he suddenly realized that the feeling on his wrist wasn’t quite right.
When he had touched Bai Lixin’s arm before, it didn’t feel as cold as it did now.
If it wasn’t Bai Lixin grabbing him, then… what was it?
He hadn’t remembered wrong; he was sitting right next to Bai Lixin, and the direction of the grab was also correct.
A faint breath suddenly sounded in his ear.
The sound seemed to come from the inside of his ear, and the chilling air rushed into his ear abruptly.
Someone!
Someone was standing between him and Bai Lixin!
Who is it?
“Hehe.” A cold, chilling laughter rang out, and Emil’s scalp went numb.
It’s the tour guide!
He had just been scrutinizing them with his pitch-black eyes in front of the dining table, so how did he suddenly appear beside them? Moreover, Emil hadn’t heard any footsteps from the tour guide.
This was too bizarre; it was simply abnormal.
Emil swallowed hard, and his eyes closed even tighter.
The sound of fabric rubbing against itself was heard. When the others were about to finish their prayers, the tour guide finally let go of Emil’s wrist.
Feeling the disappearance of the icy touch on his wrist, Emil let out a sigh of relief, and his tense shoulders relaxed.
As the final prayer of the group fell, Emil opened his eyes, feeling relieved. The next second, a pair of expressionless eyes suddenly appeared in his sight without any warning.
Emil’s little soul almost flew away: “…”
‘Damn it, why am I the only one being scared!’
The expressionless tour guide sat down beside Emil without any stiffness, staring at him and the others.
Emil smiled dryly “Mr. Tour Guide, why are you looking at us like this?”
The tour guide opened his mouth, and from Emil’s perspective, even the overly red tongue in his mouth could be seen.
“Mr. Emil,” the tour guide slowly spoke, with a somewhat stiff and numb tone in his voice, “are you really fallen nobles?”
Hongyue and Bai Lixin looked abruptly at the tour guide, and Hongyue even furrowed her eyebrows.
He was doubting their identities!
Emil acted as if facing a formidable enemy: “Of course, you wouldn’t look down on us because of our status, right? I am the young master of the esteemed Emil family. Even if our family has fallen, not just anyone can come up and step on us!”
“We, the Emil family, are born noble, and no one is allowed to desecrate us! Mr. Tour Guide, this is the only warning. If there’s another time, I won’t let you off lightly!”
Emil became more and more spirited, even to the point of dancing and gesticulating.
If it weren’t for Hong Yue and Bai Lixin knowing their backgrounds, they would have believed it too.
‘Well done, Emil, your acting skills are top-notch.’
The tour guide looked at Emil with confusion, then glanced blankly at Hongyue and Bai Lixin. Finally, he hesitantly scratched his head, slowly getting up from his seat, “But why does a pampered noble young master have so many calluses on his fingers?”
Emil slammed the table in a rage: “Enough from you!”
“Our family hasn’t fallen to the point where we have to secretly do farm work and still be questioned by you! Mr. Tour Guide, I always treated you as a gentleman, but is this how a gentleman behaves? It’s too much! I’d rather not eat this meal!”
With that, Emil angrily left the table and walked away in big strides.
Hongyue quickly caught up with Emil’s steps and, before leaving, couldn’t help but glare at the tour guide, saying, “You know our family is a fallen aristocracy. We’re so poor that we can’t even afford servants. So, some farm work is personally done by my brother.”
“Although my brother is a dandy and arrogant, he has the pride and dignity befitting a noble. You shouldn’t have exposed his wounds in public, Mr. Tour Guide, you really shouldn’t have. Don’t expect my brother to forgive you, I, Hongyue, won’t forgive you either!”
Tour Guide: “…”
Mr. Nick, who had been quietly sitting in the corner, couldn’t help but speak up: “Yes, even though aristocrats may be in decline, they still have their pride, and that’s the romance of being a noble. Mr. Tour Guide, you’ve really gone too far this time.”
“Do you know that, to uphold their honor, some aristocrats might even resort to desperate measures, including death?”
The tour guide looked at the departing Emil and Hong Yue in puzzlement, and then glanced at Bai Lixin, who was still sitting calmly at the dining table. Suddenly, he asked, “Why aren’t you leaving?”
Bai Lixin raised his knife and fork, answering confidently, “I’m hungry.”
Tour Guide: “…”
What about the noble honor? What about the desperate measures?
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In the live broadcast room,
[“I’m Hungry”]
[“Top-notch acting”]
[Worthy of being a con artist, the acting is superb. One moment he was almost scared to tears, and the next moment his acting exploded.]
[He left in such a hurry; I think he’s worried about the safety of the craftsman, right?]
[What danger could the craftsman be in?]
[“Being tormented into that state itself is a kind of danger, isn’t it?]
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At the dining table, Mr. Nick and the others struggled to force the food into their mouths, finding it as tasteless as chewing wax.
It was currently 8 a.m., and there were still four hours left until noon.
Now that the other space had been destroyed, there might be no one disappearing at noon.
To verify his inner guess, Bai Lixin looked at the three opposite him and asked, “Tell me the truth, did you enter the Golden Room last night, whether in reality or in the dream?”
The three looked at each other and frantically shook their heads.
“No, no, no, we already knew how terrifying the Golden Room is. How could we have gone in? I wouldn’t even dare to go in if you beat me to death.”
“I didn’t dream about it, I really didn’t. I stayed in my room last night, and I didn’t take a single step outside.”
“Me neither, I hate the Golden Room so much now; I wish to avoid it like the plague. How could I ever be so reckless to enter that room?”
Bai Lixin asked, “So, you didn’t go in, and you didn’t dream about it?”
The three started explaining in a panic again.
“We didn’t go in, and we didn’t dream about it.”
“That’s right, we really didn’t dream about it.”
“We really didn’t dream about it.”
Bai Lixin thought to himself, ‘So, with the disappearance of that space, the Golden Room has also disappeared.’
The baby in his arms made gurgling sounds and then started wailing.
“Mr. Tour Guide,” Bai Lixin patted the baby’s back soothingly, “this is the child of the Aisli couple. Please prepare some milk for him and get a clean swaddle. He’s all dirty and needs to be cleaned up.”
The tour guide looked at the baby in his arms, and a glint flashed in his numb eyes.
There was disgust, anger, fear.
Bai Lixin quietly took in the tour guide’s expressions; he lowered his head to glance at the baby in his arms and quickly looked away, as if nothing had happened.
Was the tour guide really scared of this child?
Could it be that this child is the key to unlocking Eden Resort?
“Um, how about you give the baby to me?” Elizabeth stood up slowly, hesitatingly saying, “I was a nanny for a while and know how to take care of such a small baby.”
“You can’t carry a baby like this; he’ll be uncomfortable.”
Bai Lixin stared at the crying baby in his arms and, after some thought, gently placed the baby in Elizabeth’s arms. “Please take care of him, Miss Elizabeth.”
Elizabeth showed her expertise in handling babies; her movements were very skillful. She used her arm to carefully support the baby’s bottom and held him in her arms, gently patting his back to comfort him.
