Chapter 644 - 8722
The seventh floor!
The entire floor had a total of twenty-three rooms.
At least half of those rooms had no occupants. No, to be precise, it was more than half.
This gave Chen Ye the feeling that the place wasn't fully occupied yet.
Chen Ye had a guess, just like when he'd chatted with Chu Che before—someone was trying to use Haosheng Hotel as a petri dish to cultivate these things.
Maybe it was a matter of insufficient time, or perhaps inadequate preparation.
There simply hadn't been enough people to stuff into these rooms yet.
Most of the Anomalies here shared a common trait: many of them were humanoid.
Without even thinking, you could guess where these Anomalies came from.
But when Chen Ye struck, he didn't have any concept of holding back.
In his eyes, these were all pure Anomalies. As for whether they used to be human or not, that wasn't something to consider for now.
Things like a conscience—better to tuck those away at a time like this.
Fighting his way through, Chen Ye used the Demon Manifestation ability to summon the Human-Faced Tide, devouring quite a few new members along the way.
In just a few short hours, the Purple Rakshasa's Human-Faced Tide had expanded by roughly twenty to thirty percent.
But the Anomalies in the rooms further down the hall were getting stronger and stronger.
Many Anomalies were no longer something the Human-Faced Tide could handle.
This cost Chen Ye a bit more effort.
In one of the recent battles, Chen Ye had to coordinate Smoke Breath Mist with the Human-Faced Scorpion and the Human-Faced Tide to finally clear out the Anomaly in Room 8720.
Although that Anomaly was nowhere near strong enough to force Chen Ye to pull out his trump card, it was still quite troublesome to deal with.
Judging from the information coming through the earbuds—
Sun Xixi was handling the Anomalies the most easily. The girl of the Sword Immortal Sequence 4 had devastating offensive power. Whether it was methods for dealing with low-level Anomalies or the big killer moves for high-level ones, the pink-haired girl lacked nothing.
Iron Lion's battles always caused a series of "BOOM BOOM RUMBLE" explosions through the Bluetooth earbuds.
Every time, Chen Ye could only yank the earbuds out of his ears for a while.
These Bluetooth earbuds were very useful, but the communication quality was just too good—sometimes too noisy.
When he got back, he'd have to give Gong Yong some feedback.
As for the two hired reinforcements, Wu Zehui and Number One, their battles were also clean and decisive.
Although he couldn't see Number One's fighting style, that woman always replied crisply each time: "Anomaly eliminated." It was always reassuring.
As for Wu Zehui... at the beginning, he spoke with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven's voice.
But later on, it became hard to tell.
It sounded like Erlang Shen one moment, then like Lord Guan the next.
The wonder of the Hundred Acts Sequence truly amazed Chen Ye.
The one having the hardest fight was Ding Dong.
That woman's Fist Master Sequence wasn't actually weak—it counted as a type of powerful Combat Sequence.
But she'd spent so much of her energy absorbed in matters concerning the Ideal Grain Seeds that she always ended up at the back during every fight.
Although this place was a Rule Zone, it was only on the outskirts of Xi City.
If Haosheng Hotel were positioned just a bit closer to Xi City's center, Chen Ye and Chu Che would have needed to hire another reinforcement.
"Sister Ding Dong, are you... alright?"
Sun Xixi's concerned, worried voice came through the Bluetooth earbuds.
"Huuh... huuh..."
"I'm fine. The Anomaly on my side... has been eliminated!"
Ding Dong's voice didn't sound good—she seemed to have expended too much energy.
Chen Ye suggested they just come back tomorrow, but Ding Dong strongly objected.
Such fierce opposition left Chen Ye, the temporary captain, unable to simply ignore Ding Dong's feelings.
If they couldn't finish Haosheng Hotel today,
they'd have to pay the two reinforcements another round of remuneration tomorrow.
Besides, asking those two reinforcements to come again tomorrow might not be so easy—they might have to find other people.
And that probably wouldn't come at today's price.
"Alright, everyone, get ready. There are two more rooms, and then Haosheng Hotel will be done."
"I've also checked the other two buildings. There are only a few scattered Anomalies in there, nothing like the Rule Zone situation here in Building One!"
Haosheng Hotel consisted of three buildings built facing the sea. Chen Ye and his group were currently in Building One.
Buildings Two and Three had nothing special about them, nor were they Rule Zones.
Once Building One was taken care of, it would mean Haosheng Hotel was under the Fair Convoy's control.
As for why Chen Ye was so certain that Buildings Two and Three weren't Rule Zones—
It was because only one Rule Zone could exist in a single location.
That was something Chu Che had told Chen Ye, which was why Chen Ye could be so sure.
Hearing Chen Ye say this, everyone's spirits lifted slightly.
"Chen Ye, I... I'm good now!"
Ding Dong's voice came through.
"Alright, then. Let's push open that last room together!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
The same "Creaaak" sound came through all their earbuds simultaneously.
As if a gap in time itself had been pushed open.
The seventh floor.
Chen Ye stood in front of the door to Room 8722.
To his left was the very last room, 8723.
Room 8723 was at the very end of the entire hallway.
Only by taking out whatever was in Room 8722 could they unlock the door to that final room, 8723.
What hit him first was a sharp, fishy stench, accompanied by a ferocious roar.
No—this wasn't just one roar!
It was countless roars!
It was as if an army of men with massive lungs were all screaming right next to his ears.
Without a second thought, Chen Ye turned his body directly into Green Smoke.
The Smoke Breath Mist around him also suddenly surged violently.
Before Chen Ye could even urge the Crawlers and the Human-Faced Scorpion into battle,
the door to Room 8723 was already smashed apart by a spherical object.
That sphere let out roar after roar as it chased after the Green Smoke Chen Ye had transformed into.
The Green Smoke slipped into the Smoke Breath Mist, vanishing without a trace in an instant.
The spherical creature paused slightly, then stopped its furious roaring.
Only then did Chen Ye get a clear look at what exactly he was facing.
This...
It was a massive sphere made up of countless heads. Each head had its mouth agape in terror, like people with dislocated jaws who could only keep their mouths forced open.
It was as if every single one of them was ready to roar at any moment.
Below this sphere of heads was a pair of legs that looked almost exactly like a normal person's.
Jeans and canvas sneakers—the kind of legs you'd see on an ordinary person.
If you only looked at those legs, they seemed no different from a normal human's.
But if you saw those legs supporting dozens of heads... you'd never believe a creature like this could exist in the world.
Of course, this was no normal creature at all. It was a powerful Anomaly.
they'd have to pay the two reinforcements another round of compensation tomorrow.
was absolutely more terrifying than every Anomaly they'd faced before.
Hidden within the Smoke Breath Mist, Chen Ye wasn't worried about being discovered.
But soon, Chen Ye noticed something wrong.
Among those dozens of heads, several seemed to be frantically sniffing the air with their noses, like bloodhounds, trying to find any trace Chen Ye had left behind.
Other heads opened their wide mouths and tried to swallow Chen Ye's Smoke Breath Mist.
These heads sucked in sharply, and large patches of the surrounding Smoke Breath Mist were pulled away.
When all dozens of heads worked together, each violent inhale created a vacuum zone in the Smoke Breath Mist around them.
Chen Ye had never encountered a situation like this before.
But he wasn't worried.
Did they really think the Smoke Breath Mist was that easy to inhale?
This stuff was poisonous.
Even for Anomalies, they probably couldn't withstand the toxin. Though the poison's onset time was a bit slow.