Surprise Hotel

Having met all the right people and said all the right things, the four of them finally met up in front of the Hall of Heroes.

This great hall was originally used to commemorate the martyrs who had died in the war, but it had been vacant since the construction of the heroic memorial that could be visited.

Now in the empty palace, there was a door out of nowhere.

Through this door, they would leave this world completely, never to return.

Several people looked at the door, then at each other, and finally their eyes all landed on Lu Pun's body.

The contract he held was related to all three of them, so it would be most suitable for him to open the door.

Lü Zhengdu did not hesitate too much, he had no more regrets in this world. He felt like he had completed yet another role-playing game, and now all that was left was the feeling of clearing the door.

The moment his hand gripped the door handle, the door swung open.

Inside the door was a dazzling white light.

Lu Zheng looked back at the crowd, then smiled and strode in, drowning in the white light.

Xia Nuo and Wu Weidong followed suit and stepped into the door.

Yuan Ling, who was walking last, approached slowly, but stopped in front of the door and looked back at the city state behind her.

This was a world she knew and had experienced much of, and behind the gate was unknown to her.

Only one step away from catching up with Lü Criminal and the others, but at this moment she was a little shaken.

The three of them returned to the hotel in turn, and the layout of the room changed once again, the living room became larger and the two-person dwelling became a four-bedroom.

"Yuan Ling, come see our new place of residence!" Xano was filled with joy and wanted to pull Yuan Ling for a tour, but when he turned back, he didn't see Yuan Ling's figure.

The main door to the room was still open, and beyond it was an endless white light.

This door was still connected to the Waste Time, and Yuan Ling was slow to step in, but above the lintel, a virtual countdown was already running.

Once that door opened, a bond between worlds would appear, and in order to prevent people from the original world from going backwards and mistakenly entering the inn, the door was timed to open.

Lu Zheng also turned back, looking surprised, "Didn't the Yuanling follow?"

"She's probably still over there, it's almost too late!" Shano anxiously shouted Yuan Ling's name towards the door, but there was no response.

"Is it ...... that she doesn't want to be with us?" Wu Wei Dong guessed, "It was the world, after all, that was the place she was familiar with."

Lu Zheng looked down at the contract pattern on his palm and pondered.

He was indeed pulling Yuan Ling out of her comfort zone by doing so, and since she was able to establish a contract, it meant that she didn't belong to the Waste Land World. Her out-of-place magical abilities would cause a lot of problems in that world.

But right now, the only person who could decide where she was was herself.

With less than ten seconds left on the countdown on the lintel, the three of them tensed their heartstrings and stared intently at the door.

Was Yuanling really going to leave them and stay in that world?

"6,5,4,3 ......"

The white light in that door began to diminish, and the door began to have a tendency to close automatically.

The three of them hung their heads in regret, helplessly accepting the result.

Just as the door was about to close, a hand suddenly wrenched at the frame, hardening the gap between that door a little wider, and then the figure of Yuan Ling appeared in front of the three.

She, at last, had chosen to be with them.

Before she had recovered her memories of living in the Dungeon, she had discussed the topic of loneliness with Lu Torture. Even now that she had regained some of her memories, she still felt that what Lü Criminal had said was right.

She wasn't from that world, and even though she was familiar with it, the people who accompanied her would slowly leave her. She might as well take the initiative to leave on her own first, choosing to end the story with them at this still beautiful point, leaving behind a good memory.

Xano stepped forward and hugged Yuanling, his eyes a little red, "I thought you were leaving again ......"

Yuan Ling gently patted her slim back and smiled lightly, "I was stunned just now and made you worry. I won't leave you guys because we're the same kind of people. I still don't know where I entered that world from. I need to find out who I am and why I'm here."

The door closed completely behind him and the white light disappeared.

Luthor looked at the suddenly bustling hotel and suddenly remembered something, pulling out the puzzle piece from his pocket.

This small to somewhat insignificant piece was their final trophy.

"Alright, we're going to do some serious business next." He held up the puzzle and led a few people to the table in the living room.

The same layout as before, the table was still the same unfinished jigsaw puzzle, there were still eight gaps in the puzzle, there were some blank puzzle pieces almost scattered around it, but none of those blank puzzle pieces could be placed on this puzzle.

Lü Torture put the puzzle in his hand on top, tightly fitted and perfectly blended with the sea voyage map on top.

The intelligent progress bar below the puzzle showed: 30% progress.

Naturally, Xano and Wu Weidong knew what the puzzle meant and couldn't help but smile, but Yuan Ling obviously couldn't understand what it meant and looked capitalistically confused.

"Brother, what are you doing?" She couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This thing is called the Surprise Blueprint. The place we are in is a hotel. It's a strange hotel, originally built in the real world, but it's connected to other similar parallel worlds. Speaking of those worlds, we have to mention these ten books ......" he said, raising his hand to point to the bookshelf.

Yuan Ling stepped forward and blinked his big eyes at the ten absolutely unique books, "Such a big bookshelf with only so few books in it, huh?"

"Because the other books are irrelevant." Shano smiled.

"Surprise Forbidden Book ...... What a strange name." Yuan Ling casually grabbed a book, and by coincidence, it was the same book, the Surprising Forbidden Book - Waste Land.

After opening the book and flipping it open, she was stunned, and her big eyes were filled with big doubts, "Isn ...... this not all the stories we have experienced? How did that happen? Was the world we lived in before the books?"

In response to her question, Lu Zheng gave an answer, "No, it's that those worlds originally existed, and each book corresponds to a world. These books were blank until the very beginning, because it was only after we entered that world that the plot began to take shape."

With a startled expression, Yuan Ling thrust the book in his hand at him and drew another one from the shelf.

As expected, there wasn't a single word about the body of the plot in it, except for some background settings.

"In other words, the purpose of these books is to automatically record the stories we experience in that world?"

"Perhaps. Each time you complete a task from the world corresponding to the Forbidden Book that was issued by the 'Temple', you can leave and at the same time obtain a puzzle piece to put together this amazing blueprint." Luthor said, "This may be hard for you to accept, but it's actually hard for us too, but we've been through it three times by now and have seen so many bizarre things that it's not surprising to meet anything."