190: The story is true.

It is said that this hotel has existed for many years.

Back then, the hotel's decor was so exquisite that it attracted countless people to stay. Gradually, many became regulars, treating this place as their home.

Rather than a hotel, it was more like an apartment building for rent.

Consultant and the others were staying in Room 213 of the hotel.

One day, the hotel welcomed two guests—a couple.

These two were not ordinary people; or rather, there were no ordinary people in the entire Emerald Dreamscape—everyone was either a Beast Tamer or a Druid.

But what made them special was that they jointly raised a magical beast.

What did this magical beast look like? No one had ever seen it.

The world only knew that the two were once a very loving couple; they would even feed each other apples and spent all day glued together.

But at some point, everything changed...

The woman had a habit when she slept: she would sing.

What song she sang... no one knew.

The man could never wake up while sleeping.

And the woman never remembered it after waking up.

What the lyrics were... no one knew either.

The woman couldn't sing them clearly, and the man couldn't understand them.

As for the melody... it still couldn't be imitated.

Anyway, it was said to sound like a funeral dirge.

Over time, the two began to have conflicts.

The conflicts grew increasingly intense, gradually shifting from the singing to other matters.

The woman felt the man was cheating, while the man felt the woman was being unreasonable.

Logically, they should have just broken up, but the two started arguing over the magical beast they were raising together.

The woman felt the magical beast was hers, so it should belong to her.

The man felt he had contributed a lot to the magical beast, so it should belong to him.

Consequently, they came to blows, ending with one dead and one insane.

The woman died in the room, the man went mad, and the magical beast vanished without a trace.

Later, Room 213 became a "haunted house" within the entire hotel!

Everyone who stayed in this room would hear strange singing in the middle of the night, and they would encounter terrifying things.

If the people who happened to stay in this room were a couple, the impact on them would be even greater.

And if, besides the couple, there were other magical beasts, then... their chances of survival were slim!

It is said that many people have died in this room, but because the impact of the incidents was too severe, they were covered up.

The locals basically all know about this, but they just never talk about it...

"That's basically how it happened."

After Luo Chunyu finished speaking, she looked toward Consultant and the others.

The story wasn't too terrifying; perhaps because it was told so bluntly, Consultant felt less of the fear that comes from letting one's imagination run wild.

Du Ruo had a distracted expression, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Meanwhile, Black Marsh had curled up into a ball, shivering so much while listening that it looked like it was doing the cha-cha.

Luo Chunyu paused, then looked up at the ceiling. Her back was straight, but her head tilted backward, as if an invisible thread were hanging down from the ceiling, pulling at her neck.

She maintained this posture and said in a slightly hoarse voice:

"It is said that back then, the woman stood on this chair and hanged herself right in this spot."

"Her body spun and spun, rotating endlessly... Her beautiful eyes would stare fixedly at everyone who stayed in this room."

"Especially... couples like you."

Luo Chunyu's voice was very soft, and precisely because of that, her tone became extremely eerie.

As she spoke, her head slowly turned back to its normal position, and her gaze shifted from the ceiling, bit by bit, onto Du Ruo's face. Her pitch-black pupils stared directly at Du Ruo, which was exceptionally chilling.

Du Ruo shivered.

She had just noticed a spot on the ceiling that had obviously been repainted, and her eyes glazed over, as if she really saw a rotating corpse.

"Ahem..."

Consultant gave a light cough, attempting to break the eerie atmosphere in the room.

What Luo Chunyu just said was far more terrifying than the entire story itself.

However, before he could speak, Luo Chunyu turned her head.

She no longer looked at Du Ruo, nor did she look at Consultant; she gazed blankly at the mirror mentioned earlier.

In this mirror, one could not see Luo Chunyu's position, only Consultant and the others.

"That mirror..." Luo Chunyu slowly raised her hand, pointing at the mirror, and spoke again in that strange tone:

"It recorded the situation back then, and it also records the two people's resentment."

"It is said that the magical beast's aura also entered it, so this mirror carries deep resentment."

"It affects the two people reflected within it, making them forever entangled together, even in death."

"It is said that occasionally it reveals a face, and those who see this face often quickly end up like the two people back then, dying a miserable death."

A mirror? A face?

Hearing this, Consultant felt a chill down his back and instinctively looked toward the mirror.

Reflected in the mirror were the trembling Black Marsh and Du Ruo, as well as... the equally shivering Consultant.

Now, the two humans and one snake were all doing the cha-cha...

The story ended there, and Luo Chunyu's expression returned to its original state from that ethereal look.

She looked at the shivering two humans and one snake, as well as the mature and steady Silver Fire Dragon and the naive Slime, and chuckled:

"Hehe, no need to be too afraid; this is just a story, no need to take it seriously."

I have to say, Luo Chunyu was still much gentler than Pei Yuan.

She actually comforted people after finishing the story...

However, before Consultant could feel even a little bit at ease, a line of system prompt text appeared before his eyes once again.

【The story is real!】

"Damn it for real!"

Consultant gritted his teeth and muttered under his breath.

"Alright, that's it for the story. I have to go to work. If you need anything, you can find me."

Luo Chunyu returned to that gentle voice. She stood up, moved the chair back to its original position, glanced at the mirror, and then walked out of the room.

Consultant and Du Ruo slowly stopped shivering, watching in the direction Luo Chunyu had gone.

After walking out of the room with a smile on her face, Luo Chunyu turned back and thoughtfully pulled the door, closing it bit by bit.

Her smile looked extremely gentle, but...

Consultant noticed a detail.

From beginning to end, there was no shadow under her feet!

Perhaps it was because the room lights weren't on, or perhaps it was because Consultant was too nervous to see clearly.

But regardless, he felt a chill all over his body.

Luo Chunyu kept closing the door bit by bit. Until the very last moment, when there was only a sliver of the door left, she paused and left a warning:

"Remember, do not look at that mirror!"

Bang!

Before the words had faded, the door was already tightly shut.

For some reason, as Luo Chunyu left the room, the place felt even colder.

A deathly silence filled the entire room.

I don't know how much time passed before Black Marsh's voice rang out: "Can we say something? Don't just hold it all in, okay?"

Upon hearing Black Marsh's voice, Consultant shivered as he reached for the remote and turned on the TV, immediately followed by a high-decibel sound filling the room...

"Ahhh!"