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Chapter 352: Separated by a Door

Translator: BinBin92 Editor: EllisBLV13

The fluorescent light flickered, and the ht dimmed darkness enveloped the wooden door of unit 601 Then, in the blink of an eye, the light returned, the darkness ebbed, and the ain appeared From a closer look, a thick layer of dust had collected on the surface of the door, accentuating the moth-eaten door

The corridor was quiet So quiet that Lin Sanjiu could hear her blood flowing through her body

Her muscles screale second The consequence of that was that her muscles were extremely sore

Quietly, as if to conceal her movements from herself, she slowly inched toward the stairway

The building continued its slumber, and her actions did not wake it up

Four minutes passed, but the door to the roohtly shut

"Why does she need so et dressed?"

After Livia closed the door, the building plunged into death-like silence It gave Lin Sanjiu the impression that the dis left in the world

Hearing her hurried breathing, despair slowly began to loom over her as the minutes ticked away

There were several ti to knock on the door, but she forewent her attempts every time She was scared and too afraid to confront the unknown lurking behind the door

She had knocked on the door of unit 601 once, so regardless of as telling the truth, be it Geran or Livia, she refused to risk herself again As she did not want to knock on the door, she waited Betting on the fli would turn out better, she decided to wait for Livia for so cold in her chest It chilled her, and panic filled every cell in her body

Step by step, slowly and steadily, she approached the stairway As her hand almost reached the wooden handrails of the stairway, a distant voice rang in her ht"

Without a doubt, Livia had entered this attraction As Lin Sanjiu mulled over her conversation with Livia, the notion that Livia was baiting her to knock the door for the second tiirl in unit 320, Livia was trapped in the building as well

As Lin Sanjiu took another step back, her skeletal wings hit the handrail of the stairway before her hand did A clank that sounded like a rap on the door reverberated and traveled fast and far through the silent corridor Then, under the sinister pulse of the fluorescent light, the brass handle of unit 601 rattled Lin Sanjiu's frayed nerves cru any tiht about everything here"

Lin Sanjiu's hurried footsteps pounding on the flight of staircases broke the silence that prevailed in the apart Within the moment of a few breaths, she had reached the first floor

She looked back and nothing was behind her

The conversation she had with Geran before surfaced in her mind, and she replayed the sentence in her head, " Every occupant can only move on their floor"

"So even if Livia has turned into one of those things, there is no way she can leave her floor and chase afterpace becorew into a sh Geran was a prudent and sagacious , he was too unreliable! How could he leave her alone facing the unknown in unit 601? He was such a wimp It hy he had been trapped there for twenty days!

"Hey!" She rushed to unit 101 in two steps and rapped on the door twice Her voice filled with rage, "Geran, I know you're in there Open the door now!"

Much to her chagrin, nobody answered her call After she waited two seconds, she grabbed the brass handle and attempted to open the door However, the brass handle wouldn't budge It seemed to have been locked from inside

It was Geran who opened the door for her when she entered unit 101 before, so she did not know if the door was locked at that tiain, and when her knuckle alold number plate with 101 carved on it flashed with a faint reflection Silence filled the air

"If I knock on the door again, will that count as the second tiht She wobbled on her feet as she walked two steps backward Soon after, she felt that she was being too sensitive as if a tree or a bush looked like an enemy to her now After all, Geran had said that this roo that protected the players She found no reason to doubt Geran's words

She then recalled how she met Garan on the third floor and how they spent the next three hours together If he had turned into one of those things, then there were two issues she had to consider: first was that he could not appear on another floor, and the second was that he had plenty of opportunities to attack her, so why now?

The thought co herself to knock on the door again

Taking a safety measure, she silently bolted to the stairway that led to the second floor Without looking at the first floor, Lin Sanjiu called Geran again while standing on the staircase, "Geran?"

Nobody replied, and the air around her see It was heavy, and it was suffocating

"Geran, are you there?" She called again after a few seconds

As the silence continued to reign over the first floor, her heart sank It was as if Geran had disappeared into the ether He did not respond even after she waited for a couple of minutes

"Where would he be if he's not in unit 101?"

Unbeknownst to her, cold sweat began to for her back as she anxiously positioned herself on the staircase She did not knohether should she go down the stairs or go up

Seeing that seeking a solution with her juet her anywhere, Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath to calhts Maybe the deep breath she took was helpful since her mind did seem clearer now Then, with her now-clearer ht not be as bad as it appeared if she looked at it frole When she met Livia on the sixth floor, she did not turn her head, so she didn't know if Geran had gone down the stairway What if Geran acted in a diametrically opposite way and went up to the seventh floor instead?

There were no rooms on the seventh floor, and it was nearest to the sixth floor The chances that Geran had escaped to the washrooot to this point, Lin Sanjiu julanced up to the stairs that hovered overhead

She had staked out the third floor earlier with Geran, so she was sure that there was no one in that corridor She bolted toward the fifth floor with a whack and stopped at the last staircase The sixth floor was just one step away from her

When Lin Sanjiu surveyed the floor with Geran, he used his buckle to check the surrounding After he retrieved the buckle, he did not wear it; instead, he held it in his hand Lin Sanjiu regretted that she had not taken it from him when she had the chance

After Lin Sanjiu prepared herself both physically and mentally, she made her first tentative steps onto the hushed sixth floor

As usual, the first thing that welcoed from the stairas unit 601 The door remained the same: shabby and ti on the door was on the edge of falling off, hanging askew on the door It seemed that somebody had knocked it over

However, none of that bothered Lin Sanjiu She had a e to the seventh floor, despite it being a rather short distance, she wished she had the power of invisibility so that nobody would notice her presence After she turned down a corner, unit 601 vanished froht