Chapter 381 Xiao An’s Wish

Chapter 381 Xiao An's Wish

After stepping back into his room, Su Bai turned around and instantly caught a flash of cold light. He sidestepped out of the way, only to find it was Xiao An lunging at him with an ice spike longer than half her own body.

Under the yellowish light of the hotel room, that ice spike gave off an unmistakable chill and an eerie red glow. It wasn't a transparent spike formed from ordinary frozen water, but a sinister thing made of frozen blood. The bloody light swirled within the ice like flowing blood.

Gripped in Xiao An's hand like a blade, the ice spike, carrying a terrifying chill, thrust straight towards Su Bai.

"Mommy, Xiao An still feels so cold!"

Xiao An's face clearly showed the ferocity of a ghost, yet her words held a plea and an obsession, as if narrating a desire she couldn't control. Listening closely, you could even hear the despair and helplessness in that childish voice.

Su Bai didn't know why the little ghost in front of him suddenly attacked. Any ghost with half a brain should have realized that Su Bai's power was overwhelming.

Could it be... this little ghost isn't very bright?

As the cold light shot toward him, Su Bai swiftly sidestepped to dodge, casually swatting away the ice spike that Xiao An, with astonishing speed, swung around to smash at him. It was precisely when Su Bai touched that ice spike that a slight stinging sensation shot through his hand.

Despite Su Bai's keen eyesight, he hadn't detected that the ice spike was covered with numerous tiny, needle-sharp thorns.

However, these thorns didn't harm Su Bai. Although the bloody ice spike contained some murky energy that attempted to invade Su Bai's body... this power itself was too weak. The power within Su Bai's body was far stronger, instantly corroding and scattering the feeble, murky energy into nothingness.

Xiao An, who had "harmed" Su Bai, backed up several steps to the window. The ice spike in her hand began to melt and shrink rapidly, eventually condensing into a tiny droplet of blood. That droplet remained in Xiao An's palm, emitting a strange red glow, quivering as if alive, appearing utterly bizarre.

"This is Mommy's blood."

Staring at the blood droplet in her hand, Xiao An murmured with a dazed look, then quickly put the droplet into her mouth. Almost immediately after the blood entered her mouth, Xiao An's complexion visibly turned rosy, as if parched land receiving sweet rain. For a moment, the ghost, once frozen blue-purple and covered in frost, seemed to regain vitality. Even her breath held a faint warmth.

Xiao An's body trembled slightly, her expression appearing exceptionally satisfied, as if that drop of blood had fulfilled a deep-seated longing within her.

But after the brief warmth and vitality, something even stranger happened. In just half a minute, the color completely drained from Xiao An's face again, turning even paler than before. The frost covering her body became even thicker. Her eyes once again grew vacant, and the entire "being" seemed to sink into deeper cold and pain.

"Mommy, Xiao An is still so cold..."

"Xiao An wants more of Mommy's blood." Xiao An's eyes, originally lacking whites, were now wide open, pitch-black and unnerving, staring fixedly at Su Bai.

"Ding—"

"Ding ding—"

At that moment, the agreed-upon sound of bells came from outside the hotel room door. The struck bells emitted clear, loud, and somewhat urgent chimes, seemingly urging the guests to act quickly.

According to the rules, players had ten minutes to hide before the game officially began.

Just as Su Bai was contemplating the feasibility of dealing with the little ghost in front of him before the game started, Xiao An's voice sounded in the room again, her childish tone mixed with a cold inflection: "Mommy, Xiao An will find Mommy very soon."

That voice, filled with longing and obsession, also carried a strange confidence.

The little ghost stood motionless by the window, neither trying to stop Su Bai nor clinging to "Mommy" as before. She seemed to be actively letting Su Bai leave the room to prepare for the upcoming hide-and-seek game.

"Xiao An will definitely make Mommy fulfill Xiao An's wish!" The little ghost's face split into an unpleasant smile, as if asking "Mommy" for a favorite toy or a small cake.

But Su Bai saw something else in Xiao An's behavior.

Clearly, these "family members" like Xiao An were very familiar with the game process, possibly even more so than the players regarding the various details of the rules. Perhaps when Xiao An showed such a smile, she had already thought of what wish to make upon finding Su Bai in the hide-and-seek game.

That wish likely wouldn't please Su Bai, who was trying to keep a low profile.

Su Bai knew he couldn't overtly violate the rules too much at this point. So, when leaving room 203, he left behind a small cluster of tiny blue flames. Although that small cluster looked very miniature, a very sharp and suspicious person might still notice Xiao Huo's presence.

However... Xiao An clearly didn't possess such observational skills.

Stepping out of room 203, Su Bai stood in the corridor paved with a large red carpet, feeling a gust of cold wind rise in the almost enclosed space, bringing with it a chilling aura.

Finding a hiding spot within ten minutes wasn't exactly simple, but it wasn't particularly difficult either. After all, the layout from the second to the fourth floor was similar: a corridor with over a dozen rooms, offering very few concealed spaces.

So, what players like Su Bai needed to do was simply choose a room.

Since each floor housed some eerie entities, this choice hardly involved logical deduction. It was more like a game relying entirely on luck: choose your preferred floor, then pick your lucky number among the rooms on that floor.

Su Bai glanced at room 208 not far away, thought for a moment, and then headed upstairs.

When the zombie waiter distributed the room keys earlier, the players had seen each other's cards. This was enough for players with good memory like Su Bai to know which rooms were occupied and which were not.

Even so, randomly choosing a room was still a difficult task for Su Bai. It might be... akin to the indecisiveness people in the real world often experience when ordering at a restaurant?

Su Bai walked all the way to the fourth floor, avoiding rooms with movement inside, and directly chose room 413, the second-to-last room at the end of the corridor.

It wasn't that Su Bai had any particular preference for this room number; he was simply too lazy to turn back and search for another room.

Perhaps due to the special design of the hide-and-seek game, the door to room 413 wasn't locked. Su Bai turned the doorknob, and the door opened.

Then Su Bai found himself face to face with the player who had been holding the ghost baby earlier.