Zhang Fan's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly woke up Li Mu and Su Qian who were sleeping deeply.
After waking them up, Zhang Fan briefly told them.
After listening to what Zhang Fan said, Li Mu and Li Mu's expressions suddenly changed.
"The hotel owner is coming up soon. Now we need to get to room 301!"
Zhang Fan's eyes showed contemplation and he spoke softly.
In fact, Zhang Fan was not afraid of the hotel owner, but he didn't want to waste too much time on him.
The top priority is to quickly reach the basement and find the truth about the curse of Happy Town.
If you act rashly, it may cause a series of uncontrollable changes.
After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Fan still chose to avoid it and acted honestly according to the information in the black leather manual.
"Brother, should we call the survivor in Room 303 across the door?"
Li Mu pondered for a moment and asked hesitantly.
"It's not necessary. In this maze scene, helping some unrelated strangers may not only not make us safer, but may also put us in danger!"
Zhang Fan flatly rejected Li Mu.
In fact, it wasn't that he didn't want to call them, but the information given in the black leather manual was that the hotel owner walked around their room and left without finding anyone, without going to room 303 at all.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense and get out of this room!"
Zhang Fan twisted the handle, opened the door and walked out.
When Li Mu and Li Mu saw Zhang Fan walking out, they looked at each other and then followed him out.
When we came to the corridor, the fishy smell became even stronger, filling the corridor and unable to dissipate.
Smelling this pungent smell, Zhang Fan and the other two people all choked and frowned.
Room No. 301 is located at the innermost part of the corridor, and Room No. 304, where Zhang Fan and the others are located, is near the stairwell.
There were no lights in the corridor, and the environment was dim.
Seeing this, Zhang Fan waved his hands towards Li Mu and the others, gesturing for them to follow.
After groping in the corridor for a minute or two, they arrived at room 301.
The door of Room 301 is different from the wooden doors of other rooms. It is made of steel.
However, this steel door was covered with rust, as if it had been there for a long time.
Without hesitation, Zhang Fan turned the handle and turned it vigorously, regardless of the rust and dirt on the iron door.
"Crunch!"
There was a crisp creaking sound, and the iron door of Room 301 was opened.
"It's not locked?!"
Zhang Fan opened the door easily, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
He originally thought that it would take some effort to open the door of Room 301, but he didn't expect it to be opened so easily.
But it was lucky that the door could be opened so easily, because the hotel owner was coming up to the third floor soon, so they had to move quickly, otherwise they might be caught by the hotel owner if they were slow.
Room No. 301 was opened, and it was pitch black without any light. However, as the door of this room was opened, the originally strong fishy smell became several times stronger.
This pungent fishy smell suddenly hit their faces the moment Zhang Fan and the others opened the door, making the three of them retching.
Even though the smell in the room was pungent, they hurried in.
Zhang Fan covered his mouth and nose, ignoring the disgusting smell inside, and strode in directly.
Seeing Zhang Fan walking in so decisively, Li Mu and Li Mu had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk in quickly.
After they entered room 301, they closed the door gently.
To be on the safe side, Su Qian was afraid that this room contained some danger and would be ambushed and attacked by a hidden ghost. She took out the media lamp again from the system backpack and lit it.
As the medium light came on, the originally dark room suddenly lit up with a dazzling firelight.
With the help of this firelight, the entire scene of Room 301 was slowly revealed in front of Zhang Fan and the others.
After Zhang Fan and the others saw the scene in the room clearly, their expressions suddenly changed.
Li Mu and Su Qian's faces suddenly turned pale and bloodless, and even Zhang Fan couldn't help but take a step back.
At this time, I saw that there was no furniture in room No. 301, only a mess, with dry and black blood stains all over the walls, and stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere in the room. Mangled corpses lay stretched out on the cold floor.
These corpses were torn apart, covered in blood and flesh, and lifeless. They were stacked one on top of another like a stack of Arhats.
These corpses all have a very striking feature, that is, they have no skin on their bodies, as if they have been stripped off by some terrifying monster.
A living hell-like situation.
"This... what on earth... is... what is going on?!"
Li Mu swallowed hard, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his body couldn't stop trembling.
Apparently he was disturbed by the miserable situation in room 301.
It's not surprising that he was like this. Even if it were anyone else, seeing such a terrifying scene so suddenly, he would be so frightened that his legs would become weak and he would collapse to the ground.
"No wonder there is a disgusting fishy smell. It turns out...it is actually emitted by these corpses..."
Zhang Fan's face was ashen, and his words were filled with strong solemnity.
"Shh! Be quiet, someone is coming!"
At this moment, Zhang Fan suddenly made a silent gesture to signal Li Mu and Li Mu not to make any sound, and then he turned his head and looked in the direction of the door.
"Tap...tap...tap..."
At this moment, the deathly silent corridor suddenly heard the sound of loud footsteps.
The footsteps sounded like they had just walked out of the stairs and into the corridor.
Zhang Fan held his breath, put his eyes on the peephole of the iron door, and looked outside.
Soon, a tall, muscular man with a tall chef's hat on his head and a huge boning knife appeared in Zhang Fan's sight.
The strong man holding the knife is the hotel owner.
With a cruel smile on his face, he walked step by step to the door of Room 304. He took out the spare key from his pocket and skillfully opened the door of Room 304.
After the door of Room 304 opened, the hotel owner raised an evil arc in his mouth, holding a knife, and strode in.
After about a few minutes, the hotel owner came out with a confused look on his face, as if he was wondering why Zhang Fan and the other two people who were in the room were missing.
"Damn it, this batch of prey was so cunning that they escaped!"
Zhang Fan saw the hotel owner with anger on his face and shouted angrily.
"Forget it, just run away. They can't leave the town alive anyway, because the most terrifying despair is still there..."
The hotel owner's words suddenly stopped when he said this.
After closing the door of Room 304, the hotel owner slowly walked downstairs again with the boning knife in hand.
Watching the hotel owner go downstairs, Zhang Fan's heart skipped a beat.
"Is it possible that there is a bigger crisis yet to come?"
Zhang Fan murmured in a low voice, with a look of surprise on his face.
He heard clearly what the hotel owner just said.
Listening to his words, it seems that the crisis in this happy town is not just that. It seems that there are more terrifying things to come.
"Follow him...go check it out!"
Zhang Fan came back to his senses and said to Li Mu and Li Mu.
Li Mu and Li Mu didn't say much when they heard the sound. They both nodded silently and agreed.
Opening the door of room 301 gently, Zhang Fan and the other three walked cautiously downstairs.
They didn't dare to walk too fast and kept observing the surrounding environment, for fear that the hotel owner would be ambushing somewhere and suddenly rush out to attack them.
At the same time, when Zhang Fan and the others were walking down the stairs, on the other side, in Room 301, all the tattered and incomplete corpses lying on the floor suddenly moved.
At first, the movements of these corpses were not very violent, but as time passed, the movements of these corpses became larger and larger. In the end, they all sat up from the ground.
At this moment, their empty eyes began to flow with bloody blood.
.......
Zhang Fan and the three of them followed the hotel owner less than six meters behind him, following him step by step.
According to the black leather manual, only by following the hotel owner can they see the truth of the curse.
A moment later, the hotel owner returned to the front desk with a boning knife.
When he arrived at the front desk, the hotel owner did not sit back in his chair. Instead, he took out a bunch of keys from his waist and inserted them into a vase placed at the front desk. Then he twisted the keys hard. The next moment, In the lobby of the building, the sound of mechanical gears suddenly sounded, and then the front desk automatically moved to the left, revealing a dark underground entrance.
When the hotel owner saw the underground entrance appearing, he strode down without any hesitation.
"Follow him!"
Seeing the underground entrance appear, Zhang Fan said hurriedly.
If nothing unexpected happens, this underground entrance should be the passage leading to the basement described in the black manual.
Zhang Fan and the others did not dare to delay, fearing that the entrance would be closed again, so they rushed into the underground entrance at a trot.
Now was a precious opportunity to find out the truth about the curse, so no matter what, they couldn't miss it.
Once they miss this opportunity, it will be even more difficult for them to come back.
Below the underground entrance was a winding staircase. Zhang Fan and the other three went down. After an unknown amount of time, they finally saw a half-open door at the end of the staircase.
Zhang Fan and the other three came to the door, followed the gap, and stared inside.
But the moment they looked at it, their pupils all shrank rapidly, and their breathing sped up several times. Even Su Qian, who had always been calm, was so scared that she covered her mouth and did not dare to make any sound.
Li Mu was so frightened that he felt the urge to urinate and was a little unsteady on his feet.
I saw a huge operating table in the basement, and three bloody people were lying on the operating table.
The hotel owner was holding a blood-stained scalpel in each hand, lying in front of the three people, peeling off their skin with a look of fascination on his face.
With each stroke of the hotel owner's knife, a person would scream in agony.
"It's actually them!!"
"When were they captured here?"
Zhang Fan glanced past the hotel owner and looked at the three people on the operating table. He recognized the identities of these three people with just a glance.
Because these three people are the only other three survivors who survived outside before.
At this point, all six survivors have gathered.
Unexpectedly, in the end, the nine survivors would meet each other in this way.
"Meow~"
Just as Zhang Fan was watching the three survivors whose skins were being peeled off by the hotel owner, suddenly, a shrill scream suddenly sounded beside them.
Hearing this sound, Zhang Fan was frightened, and he hurriedly followed the sound.
The moment he looked, he saw a kitten jumping out from the corner.
It's just that this kitten was covered in blood and flesh, without any skin. Its skin seemed to have been peeled off alive.
"cat?"
"Who's out there?!"
Zhang Fan was stunned for a moment when he saw the kitten. Before he could react too much, the voice of the hotel owner rang out from the basement again.
"Hide first!"
Zhang Fan turned to remind Li Mu and the others, and took them to hide in a secret corner of the stairs.
Just after they hid, the hotel owner came out covered in blood and holding a boning knife.
His face was full of ferocity, and his eyes were filled with blurry madness and evil.
"Meow~"
A cat meows in the distance.
"Are you there? Jie Jie, you can't run away. If I catch you, I will peel off your skin!"
"Don't be afraid. Skinning is a very sacred ritual. Only in this way can the evil god be satisfied!"
The hotel owner said to himself, with madness and ferocity in his voice, and strode towards the direction where the cat meowed.
Seeing the hotel owner being led away by the kitten, Zhang Fan and the other three walked out from the corner.
Zhang Fan thought for a while and said with an ugly face: "I probably know what the curse of this happy town is!"
"What is it?"
Li Mu and Li Mu heard the sound and asked in confusion.
"It's skinning!"
"Because of the curse, they are extremely obsessed with skinning. Whether it is a living person or an animal, or in other words, any creature with skin will become their target!"
Zhang Fan made a surprising statement and directly expressed his guess.
"Brother, how did you know?"
Li Mu was shocked when he heard this and asked again hurriedly.
“We’ll discuss this topic later, but we’d better save them first!”
"Otherwise if we wait too long, they might all die here!"
After saying that, Zhang Fan opened the basement door and walked in.
He came to the operating table and began to untie the three survivors. Li Mu and Li Mu also walked in at this time.
Although Zhang Fan didn't have much emotion when he saw their miserable situation outside the door, but now because of his close contact, to be honest, Zhang Fan also felt a strong chill in his heart.
The three survivors were two women and one man.
While Zhang Fan was untying him, a female survivor died in pain.
The remaining male survivor and female survivor were also dying and extremely weak.
It's not surprising that they were like this, after all, nearly 60% of their skin was about to be completely peeled off.
Just being alive is already pretty good.
"Don't be afraid, I will untie you!" Zhang Fan softly comforted the two survivors who were moaning in pain.
But the next moment he finished these words, the female survivor who was screaming and dying suddenly opened her eyes, raised her head and began to scream.
"Damn it, don't yell! If you call that hotel owner over, it'll be all over!"
Zhang Fan was also frightened by the sudden scream and shouted hurriedly.
But no matter how Zhang Fan tried to dissuade the other party from shouting, the other party still let out heart-rending screams.
It was also the moment when the female survivors screamed.
Suddenly, at this moment, an excited voice suddenly sounded outside the basement.
"It seems like some little bug got in while I was away!"
