"For your personal safety during the night watch, be sure to wear a mask at all times. Don't take it off just because there are no guests coming," the girl at the front desk warned.

Qi Qiu asked tentatively: "I saw in the entry handbook that it says 'please do not leave the room after 24 o'clock under any circumstances'. Does staying on duty at the front desk violate this rule?"

"For your mental health, please wear a safe night guard," the girl at the front desk handed an amulet painted with Ukiyo-e patterns to Qi Qiu's hand, "Remember."

Qi Jiu held the royal guard: "Mental health?"

"Yes, spending a long night can easily affect the mental state of the personnel on duty." The girl at the front desk tilted her head slightly and continued to add, "Also, for the safety of the guests, they must not leave during the duty period.

Front desk area.”

Qi Ku quickly thought about the logic and deeper meaning of these rules——

As long as the night watch personnel wear safety guards and masks at all times, they can circumvent the rule of "please do not leave the room under any circumstances after 24 o'clock".

Among them, the mask ensures the personal safety of night watch personnel and is one of the shields to avoid "ghost" attacks.

The safe guard can prevent the night watchman's mental value from declining to a certain extent.

However, night watch personnel cannot move around at will and must stay at the front desk area at all times.

According to the instructions from the girl at the front desk, this is for the safety of the guests, not the safety of the night watch staff themselves.

Qi Jiu speculated that as long as he had a mask and a guard, travelers could move around in the store.

But if the front desk is left unattended, passengers in the store will face some unknown dangers.

If there are two people on duty, one person is on duty, and the other person can move around freely in the hotel...

"Thank you," Qi Jiu held the Yushou in his hand, "Can you give me another Yushou? I'm afraid if I lose it, I want to be prepared."

He considered that Qin Rang already had a capable face, and if he could get another guard, he would be able to have two people on duty.

But the girl at the front desk shook her head and said: "The hotel only has one guard every night, so you must not lose it."

"That's it..." Qi Qiu's plan of double duty was aborted in an instant.

But the absence of a guard only means that the spirit of the night watchers cannot be guaranteed. If you think about it this way...

A dangerous plan is brewing.

"By the way," the girl at the front desk interrupted Qi Qiu's thinking and handed a pair of earplugs to Qi Qiu's hands, "Wearing these can block the noise. Although it is not very useful, it can be somewhat helpful."

Qi Ku hesitated for a moment: "...What kind of noise will there be at night?"

"All kinds of things. You will know this later. If you are unlucky and hear a knock on the door..." The girl at the front desk hesitated, and finally shook her head and said, "Anyway, no matter what sound you hear, it's best to ignore it and wait until dawn.

Besides, it would be quite dangerous otherwise."

"Okay, I understand," Qi Jiu thought for a while and then asked tentatively, "Then if a guest rings the front desk call bell and I can't leave my post at the front desk, how can I go over and help handle it?"

The girl at the front desk was obviously stunned: "This is impossible to happen."

Qi Jiu frowned: "What?"

Front desk girl: "No one rings the front desk call bell at night."

Qi Qiu questioned: "But I saw it mentioned more than once in the "Guest Check-in Rules" that if you encounter an emergency, you can press the front desk call bell of the guest room."

The girl at the front desk was silent for a moment, then suddenly giggled and shook her head: "I've been here countless nights and I've never heard a call bell. Don't worry."

"During the duty, you just need to remember: ignore any noise, don't leave the front desk area, wear a mask and keep safe. This will ensure the safety of you and some guests who have not violated the rules." She once again highlighted the key points for Qi Qiu.

Qi Jiu understood the key immediately and smiled humbly: "I remember it, thank you for reminding me."

"Then it's up to you."

"Don't worry, but please wait a moment. I'll tell my roommate to remember to close the door." Qi Jiu looked at the time and saw that it was already 23:45. He told the girl at the front desk, "Five

I'll be back in a few minutes."

"No problem." The girl began to pack her things and prepare to leave.

Qi Jiu quickly returned to the guest room, while Qin Rang was preparing to wash up and rest.

"I need to borrow your energy tonight." Qi Jiu said.

Qin Rang, who was wiping his face with a towel, was stunned: "...meaning you're going out tonight? You're not coming back?"

Qi Jiu nodded and said: "Please pay attention to your own safety. Remember, no matter what noise you hear, don't open the door or go out. It's best to use the props to help you sleep. We didn't eat the food from the cafeteria.

The danger shouldn’t be great.”

Qin Rang said in disbelief: "Oh no...don't the rules say you must never go out at night...?"

Qi Jiu pushed up his glasses: "Yes, but I took on a night job, so there's nothing I can do about it."

Qin Rang:......

As expected, this new boss couldn't rest at night. He was either stealing things, hunting monsters, or picking up jobs.

"Then pay attention to your safety?" Qin Rang handed over his skills to Qi Jiu.

To be honest, after this period of time together, even if he knew that Qi Jiu was going on an adventure at night, he wasn't particularly worried.

After all, Qi Ku always gets unexpected gains.

Qi Jiu smiled: "Thank you, you too."

After getting Qin Rang's mask, Qi Qiu quickly returned to his post at the front desk. The time was already 23:55, and the girl at the front desk had also asked for leave from the landlady.

The interesting 24 o'clock is approaching.

The girl at the front desk said goodbye to him in a hurry and trotted out of the hotel.

When she opened the door and left, Qi Qiu noticed that the snow outside seemed to have stopped. It was not clear whether it was the light of the snow or the sudden appearance of the moonlight, which illuminated the small courtyard in front of the hotel brightly.

From the conversation with the girl at the front desk just now, Qi Qiu got a very important clue——

The person on duty at the front desk never hears the passenger call ring.

"Teacher System, who should I report the hidden rules discovered in this copy to?" Qi Jiu asked.

Unlike the previous dungeon, which had Mr. Lord in charge of guiding newcomers, the hot spring dungeon has a very flexible mode of entry, and his current identity is very special, being both a traveler and an intern, so Qi Jiu needs to confirm the reporting person with the system.

[You can directly report the discovered hidden rules to me, and I will synchronize the results to the corresponding person in charge] The system answered him.

It seems that the reporting process in the flexible notebook is also more convenient.

"Article 3 of the Intern Handbook: There is no front desk call button in the guest room. If you hear the ringing, please ignore it. Am I right?" Qi Jiu asked firmly.

The system was silent for a moment, seemingly loading data.

Three seconds later——

[Congratulations, you have successfully completed the missing part of Rule 3 of the "Internship Handbook" and unlocked 50 survival coins]

[The unlocked rules will be synchronized to travelers who also own the "Internship Handbook"]

[Complete the rules to obtain additional prop rewards: "Old Radio"*1]

Qi Ku, who has now escaped poverty, is far more interested in additional props than survival coins.

He clicked on the item details to view:

[Prop description: The appearance is very shabby, it seems to be the tatters left by former employees. Whether it can be used normally (unknown) and the effect of use is unknown]

Qi Jiu:...This is a bit too much.

But it doesn't matter, he believes that even if it is tattered, it will have tattered value.

Qi Jiu then opened the "Visitor Check-in Book" handed to him by the girl at the front desk.

This hotel has a total of twenty suites.

Among them, two couples lived in 101 and 104 respectively. Xiaomi's mother and daughter lived in 105, three young men shared a bed in 109, the union leader and his followers lived in 110, and a single young man who ate well-cooked steak lived in 112. Three young men lived in 109.

The girl who dressed fashionably lived in 114, the girl who ordered Japanese ramen lived in 115, and the witch-looking duo lived in 117.

The rooms assigned to Qi Jiu and Qin Rang are located next to guest room No. 120, at the end of the corridor. Perhaps because they were renovated as utility rooms, they are not numbered.

The remaining rooms are shown as unoccupied.

There are not many rooms, but for some reason, walking on the corridor that connects all the rooms always gives people the illusion that the walk is getting longer and longer.

The floor lamp in the corridor went out. After the snow stopped, the moon rose to the middle of the sky, and the pale moonlight spread all over the ground.

The shadows of dead branches and trees in the courtyard are reflected on the closed lattice fan. When the wind blows, the shadows are like countless entangled ghost hands, stretching longer and longer as they sway, trying to penetrate into the silent guest room.

Qi Jiu believed that the guests who had just finished the buffet without knowing it tonight would not be able to sleep peacefully, but the rules advised everyone to "go to bed early" and no one dared to make any sound.

The wind in the yard became louder and louder, and the bell in the hotel lobby struck twelve times.

The surroundings fell silent for an instant.

There is no chirping of insects and birds in the winter night, and even the sound of the wind blowing the falling snow is swallowed up by the silence.

Qi Jiu did not wear earplugs as the girl at the front desk told him. After all, he decided to come to the vigil to get more hidden clues. Although these sounds may be accompanied by danger, they will become an important way to elicit clues.

About ten minutes later, Qi Jiu suddenly heard the sounds of "Zi...la" and "Zi...la" coming from the yard.

It was like someone dragging their footsteps in the snowy field, heavy and long.
Chapter completed!