Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 52 The Woman from the Fourth Floor
"What are you doing? Why are you opening my door!?"

The lantern bearer was not too uncomfortable. He just frowned and said, "We all follow the rules. If you don't follow the rules, we won't be polite."

"What rules?"

Before Chen Ning'an could speak, Wang Youcai took the opportunity to say, "Brother, we just got here. I want to ask you if you know what's going on here."

He spoke ambiguously. Although he was completely clueless when facing monsters, he immediately became smooth and at ease when facing his fellow human beings.

"Newbie?"

Glancing at the door handle, the lantern bearer exhaled slowly: "No wonder you are so rude. I told you guys, stop bothering me."

"Okay, okay, big brother, you go ahead and say it."

Wang Youcai hurriedly took out a cigarette and handed it to him, ready to light it for him.

"What do you want to order? Do you want me to change rooms?"

The man holding the lantern quickly held down Wang Youcai's hand, with a depressed look on his face.

"Forget it, you are new here and don't understand."

He continued, "This hotel is the only safe place in the Light Realm, provided you don't emit light and don't go to the fourth floor."

"If you emit light or turn on a light, you will be moved to another room. If you don't leave, you will be "eaten" by the light realm. The only solution is to leave."

He continued, "There are very scary things on the fourth floor. They look no different from normal people. Remember, in this world, except for the lantern man, the more normal things are, the scarier they are, and the more abnormal things are, the safer they are."

After he finished speaking, he made a gesture to drive them away: "Alright, alright, I've told you everything I know, hurry up and leave!"

Chen Ningan suddenly had an epiphany. No wonder Uncle Liu was said to have good luck. They had avoided danger invisibly.

I guess I'm lucky.

Another thing is that he was bewitched by the Mountain Mother and almost lost his mind, but he finally recovered. Perhaps this was due to the effect of borrowing luck.

It’s a pity that this method can’t last long and will gradually fade.

"Wait a minute!"

Wang Youcai kindly grabbed the lantern bearer's hand and said, "Brother, we can just hide in the room and wait until the lantern bearer is finished, right?"

"The lantern is finished?"

The man frowned: "What are you talking about, aren't you here to exchange things?"

He looked the two up and down, and suddenly remembered something: "No, there was a woman walking out from the fourth floor before. How did you come back alive?"

He was greatly surprised: "Impossible, how could someone still be alive after walking out of the fourth floor?"

His pupils trembled as he muttered to himself, "Wait, wait, wait, wait. The woman on the fourth floor will kill anyone. You just came in from outside, but she didn't kill you. The only possibility is... there were too many lantern bearers here, and she's still killing."

"Combined with what you just said about the end of the lantern, could it be that the official has released a mission for this place?"

It was then that he realized, "Oh no, are the officials stupid? Is this also a place where you can bring a lantern?"

Even though it was pitch black, Chen Ning'an could see how ugly his face had become.

Wang Youcai was confused by his words: "What? Brother, you don't know the lantern mission?"

"I came in a week ago."

The man explained: "I came here to exchange something."

He said, "You can only go out to change things when everyone on the fourth floor is here. Otherwise, you will definitely die. A week is the longest time that everyone on the fourth floor can go out. I have been calculating it."

He said angrily: “Now that the authorities have actually lighted the lantern here, the woman will come back very late. Maybe we have to wait another week.”

This news was very bad for him. He had enough money for two weeks, but not enough food.

The woman on the fourth floor went out. Wang Youcai quickly identified who he was talking about. It was most likely the woman with the flashlight.

Wait, he said everyone on the fourth floor, which means there is more than one person like the woman with the flashlight?
"pat..."

Just then, they clearly heard the sound of a door opening upstairs.

The lantern bearer in front of the two men suddenly changed his expression: "How could this happen? How come someone else went out from the fourth floor!" He closed the door and said, "We can't let them see you. You are lucky to have met me. If it were someone else, and I locked you out at this moment, you would surely die!"

Along with the sound of footsteps, the three heard someone on the fourth floor going downstairs and the sound faded away.

Chen Ning'an looked out the window and saw another person holding a flashlight, but this person was not wearing any clothes and was also a woman.

"Okay, I'm done talking, you guys go quickly...

"pat..."

The man holding the lantern had just spoken to Chen Ning'an and the other man when he heard the sound of a door opening on the fourth floor.

"Hiss! Why is there still someone leaving!"

He was shocked, but the voices kept coming one after another.

"Clap, clap, clap."

They counted the sounds silently, and found that a total of twenty-five doors opened, followed by the sound of dense footsteps.

So many people, so many people came out!
They saw that everything outside the window was lit up, with large patches of flashlights, and people were watching, including men, women, young and old.

They kept walking away, and disappeared downstairs of the hotel in a flash.

Wang Youcai gritted his teeth and held Chen Ningan's hand tightly: "Ningan, why is the lantern so scary? I remember we weren't so scary last time!"

With so many people and so many flashlights, they would turn into candles and burn themselves out alive if they were illuminated by them.

too frightening.

"I don't know. This is the Land of Lights. Maybe it's even more terrifying."

Chen Ning'an said this, looking thoughtful, then walked out the door.

"Ning'an?"

Wang Youcai followed and saw Chen Ningan counting room numbers.

There are twenty-six rooms on the third floor.

He went downstairs again and counted on the second floor, also twenty-six rooms.

Chen Ning'an did not stop and went to the fifth floor to count, and there were also twenty-six rooms.

After counting, he walked to the stairs to the fourth floor without hesitation.

Just now, "normal people" with flashlights left here in large numbers, and now this floor is silent and dark.

"Wangcai, wait for me here. Call me when those "normal people" come back."

He left Wang Youcai at the stairs and lit the red candle himself.

"Snapped!"

A blood-red light came on, and Chen Ning'an, who was completely red, pushed open the first door towards the light.

It was not closed, and the display inside instantly came into view.

It was just normal hotel decor, very clean and tidy, nothing there except a coat.

Coat, clothes, Kun Gua...

Chen Ning'an picked up his coat and went to another room to search.

He looked in every room, and there was nothing else but coats, one in every room.

Twenty-six pieces in total.

He took three items and when he was about to get the fourth one, Wang Youcai's voice rang out.

"Ning An, hurry up!"

In an instant, Chen Ningan ran out and heard footsteps reaching the stairs to the first floor.

He grabbed Wang Youcai and went up to the fifth floor. He roughly found the room where the man with the lantern lived, violently kicked it open, and quickly closed the door!
(End of this chapter)