Why?

Yesterday, the sticky note targeted him and his brother. Kafi was brutally attacked, and Dan Fei could only watch helplessly as his younger brother was taken away by an anomaly, plunging him into endless regret and pain.

Today, again!

He had already moved out of his original room, but he didn't expect to be entangled by the sticky note again!

Dan Fei wasn't sure if other players who received sticky notes yesterday had gotten new ones today.

But he felt he was quite wronged, aggrieved, and wanted to curse someone.

In any case, he needed to calm down first.

Dan Fei forced himself to calm down, taking out his equipment and items one by one.

If the "Answer the phone, don't answer the phone" on the sticky note meant he should answer the first call and not the second,

Then he might have already violated the instruction and was about to suffer an attack from an anomaly...

Bee-ring-ring—

A faint phone ring rang again, and Dan Fei's cat-furred body couldn't help but tremble.

Next door!

Dan Fei quietly rushed to the corner of the side room, his ear pressed tightly against the wall—this was the closest point to the living room of the next room, where the phone was located.

Bee-ring-ring—

The phone was still ringing.

His hearing, enhanced by the cat-ear headphones, could clearly hear the subtle weakening of the phone ring caused by the furniture and the room's sound absorption.

He could even construct the layout of the next room in his mind.

To answer, or not to answer?

Dan Fei hesitated again. After several thoughts, he finally decided to remain still.

He had already missed the call in the corridor. If the sticky note was really to be understood literally,

Then the second ring of the phone gave him even less reason to leave his room, open the door to the next room, and answer the phone—doing so would only violate more taboos.

After the third ring, the next room returned to silence.

"Hoo..."

Dan Fei breathed a sigh of relief. The sound of his deliberately suppressed breathing still sounded so loud.

He waited for a while, and after confirming there was no movement in the corridor, he cautiously squatted down, pressed the paper on his knees, and silently wrote down what he had just seen and heard with a pen,

Along with his inner thoughts and analysis of the sticky note's content.

As the pen drew a period, Dan Fei was about to put down the pen and paper when he heard a loud, nearby phone ring.

Bee-ring-ring—

The source of the phone ring was in the living room of his room.

To be precise, it was at Dan Fei's feet.

He had previously run the landline in room 1172 near the door, so he could monitor the hallway outside.

And now, the phone was vibrating,

A line of characters also appeared on the screen, which was glowing orange.

101#

Tenth floor, left side of the corridor, landline.

Should he answer it?

The second ring of the phone was as loud and far-reaching as an ancient bronze bell in Dan Fei's ears. He subconsciously reached out and pressed his hand on the phone.

The third appearance of the phone call shattered Dan Fei's previous assumption that he should understand the sticky note literally,

Making him suspect that he was completely wrong from the start.

The third ring sounded.

According to previous practice, after this ring, the other party would hang up the phone, not giving Dan Fei any chance to regret it.

Pa.

His body's instincts preceded his brain, and his intuition preceded his reason.

His hand grabbed the phone, raised it, and put it to his ear.

Dan Fei answered the phone, without saying a word.

The meaning of "Answer the phone, don't answer the phone" might also be to pick up the phone, but not make any sound, not to communicate with the person on the other end.

"Hello?"

A blurry and slightly distorted male voice came from the other end of the phone, sounding a little annoyed and anxious.

Dan Fei's pupils suddenly dilated. He had heard this voice for more than thirty years, and he could never be wrong.

Kafi!

"Hello!!! Brother, is that you?!"

There was a rustling noise on the other end of the phone, as if sensing the shock and confusion on this side. "I'm Kafi! Your brother!"

The voice claiming to be Kafi said anxiously, "You're in room 1172, right? That's great. You haven't answered any other calls before, right?

In any case, calm down first, and listen to me now.

I'm already dead.

The one communicating with you now through the landline on the left side of the tenth floor corridor is my spiritual body.

To verify my identity,

When we were seven years old, we stayed with our aunt in Seattle with our parents. It was Christmas, and Dad came home very late at night. He was covered in snow and had two big boxes in his hand, which contained Transformers toys, gifts for us.

Dad said that he bought them with the salary he earned as a temporary salesman in the used car market. We were very happy and hit each other with the Transformers, almost breaking the toys, and Mom scolded us.

Later, we found out that Dad didn't find a temporary job in the used car market that day at all. The money he bought the gifts with came from selling blood at the blood donation station.

Each bag of blood, twenty dollars."

The narrative on the other end of the phone evoked memories deep in Dan Fei's mind. He had never mentioned this matter to any outsiders.

Even with Kafi, he felt that his younger brother had already forgotten about it—they were only seven years old back then, and all they thought about was how to play.

Dan Fei's throat was a little tight. He opened his furry mouth, wanting to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

"Brother, you have to believe me, I will never hurt you.

I haven't been manipulated by the alien in the arena game mission either—she did want to manipulate me, but she underestimated the Voodoo Black Witch Clan's Su Ling Curse."

The voice on the other end of the phone spoke quickly, "The time should be 03:32 now. She ate my body yesterday, and the extraordinary energy contained in the player's body made her very satisfied. And now, she is targeting you based on the connection in the bloodline of the food.

She knows you live on the eleventh floor, but she doesn't know which room.

According to the hotel's regulations, she can't continue to kill on the tenth floor where someone has already died,

And she can't stay on the eleventh floor for too long, so she must first determine your location.

So she will use the front desk's landline to call the rooms on the eleventh floor one by one to find you, and then kill you—no death incidents have occurred on the eleventh floor, so it doesn't violate the regulations.

Just like her, I was frantically dialing the phone numbers on the eleventh floor just now.

I thought you were still in 1108, and after calling, I found that there was no response.

So I dialed the landline on the left side of the eleventh floor corridor, but there was still no response.

Then the landline on the right side of the eleventh floor corridor, still no one answered.

So I can only call every room on the eleventh floor, praying that you can answer my call before she calls you."

"..."

Is that so...

Dan Fei's mind was chaotic. Could it be that connecting to Kafi's phone and not answering the old woman in red's phone was the true meaning of the sticky note?

Bee-ring-ring—

Another phone rang,

Not from the corridor, nor from 1172,

But from the next room.