Before the viewers in Myanmar's livestream could even react, the screen suddenly went black.
The highest-level SS-rank mission was about to be completed, but the player died at the very last step.
Despair swept through everyone.
That night, a three-meter-tall naked giant rampaged mercilessly through the streets of Myanmar.
Meanwhile, only Chi Mu—the chosen one of Dragon Country—remained alive inside the hotel. Across the world, all viewers flooded into Dragon Country's livestream.
— "Chi Mu not only has to dodge the killer's pursuit, but also fend off the infected who would devour him alive. There's barely any time left…"
— "Who would've thought escaping the hotel would be so easy? Li Saigao should've found an excuse to leave long ago—he could've still completed the S-rank mission."
— "Upstairs, in the ever-changing world of urban legends, who dares risk telling Yang Qu outright that they want to leave the hotel? One wrong move, and that's breaking the rules…"
Chi Mu returned to his room and handed the pork rib meal to Yang Qu.
Still shaken, he sank into the sofa. His legs trembled uncontrollably, but his mind raced as he analyzed every piece of information and every rule.
Just one step remained.
One final step, and Qianqiu would finally understand the entire chain of events.
"I need to find Ah Jiu's corpse—that should be the last clue!"
Chi Mu steeled himself, determined to risk going out again. Once he found Ah Jiu's body, everything would be laid bare.
But time was running out.
If he didn't escape the hotel tonight, he would either be killed by the murderer or devoured by the infected.
The rain outside poured down heavily. The atmosphere grew suffocating.
Chi Mu swallowed hard and headed back to the storage room.
He was certain: Ah Jiu's body had to be in there.
After all, Ah Jiu had told him from the start that she was staying in the storage room. But when Chi Mu first searched there, he hadn't found her—only the hanging corpse of the male cleaner.
Ah Jiu wouldn't say she lived in the storage room without reason.
Maybe what she meant was that her body was hidden there.
"Creak..."
Chi Mu pushed open the storage room door and carefully began to search.
Soon, his eyes landed on a paint bucket that hadn't been opened.
He grabbed the shovel he'd brought and pried it open.
Inside was Ah Jiu's corpse—already rotting and emitting a foul stench. Her small frame was cramped inside the bucket.
[Chosen one Chi Mu has found all the victims' bodies. The truth behind the hotel murder case surfaces.]
[One week ago, a corporate boss checked into the hotel, wearing a pure gold watch. When he left the room, he forgot it on the cabinet. Two cleaners on the ninth floor discovered it and grew greedy. They also found cash left on a hotel table. While dividing the loot, the boss returned unexpectedly, threatening to report them.]
[Fearful of being fired, the two cleaners brutally murdered the boss and then broke open the wall of the room to hide his body inside. Ah Jiu and her mother accidentally witnessed the scene. To cover their tracks, the cleaners killed Ah Jiu and her mother. The mother's body was dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase; Ah Jiu's was sealed inside the paint bucket.]
The truth was fully revealed, matching almost perfectly with Chi Mu's deductions.
"Clap, clap... clap, clap!"
Behind Chi Mu, the sound of slow, deliberate applause echoed.
He turned to see the female cleaner standing before him.
"I never expected you'd find all three bodies. Truly surprising," she sneered, her face twisted with malice.
— "No way! The killer is the female cleaner? We never suspected her the entire time!"
— "So it turns out she's the culprit!"
— "Ha! This is nothing. Our chosen one in Myanmar, Li Saigao, already figured it out: the killer is this female cleaner!"
But Chi Mu stared coldly at the woman and said something shocking:
"The killer isn't you."
The female cleaner raised an eyebrow.
"And what makes you say that?"
Chi Mu pointed behind her.
The cleaner glanced back—and a dagger gleamed coldly as it sliced across her throat.
She stared in disbelief at the woman before her—who was dressed exactly like her.
Her eyes widened in shock as she collapsed to the floor, unwilling to accept her fate.
The woman who appeared from behind held the dagger, her face grim as she looked at Chi Mu.
"How do you know she's not the killer?"
Then, she pulled off her wig and tore away the skin mask covering her face—revealing a man's face Chi Mu had never seen before.
— "Wait, who is this man?"
— "The killer isn't the female cleaner? Then who is this man? My brain's about to explode…"
— "Hold on... Could this man be the real male cleaner from the ninth floor? The one who supposedly went home on leave?!"
This sudden twist sent the Dragon Country livestream audience into a frenzy, utterly shocked.
Chi Mu stood up calmly.
"In fact, you are the male cleaner from the ninth floor, aren't you? After murdering the corporate boss and Ah Jiu's mother and daughter, you publicly claimed to be on leave, but you actually snuck back into the hotel."
"I guess you came back because you killed them and the female cleaner blackmailed you. She took most of the loot stolen from the boss. You weren't willing to share, so you wanted to sneak back and take it."
"But when you returned, you found another male cleaner in the storage room—actually a cleaner from a different floor—who discovered your murder and robbery. That cleaner tried to find the loot himself but was caught by me in the morning by accident."
"After I ran away, you killed him and moved the bodies."
The male cleaner threw his head back and laughed like a madman.
"You guessed well. But I'm curious—how did you figure out I was disguised as a woman?"
He pointed his knife at Chi Mu.
Chi Mu calmly gestured toward the trash bin by the wall.
"The first time I entered the storage room, I found hair in that bin. I initially thought it was Ah Jiu's mother's…"
"But when I saw her corpse later, I realized her hair was perfectly intact. That's when I began to suspect."
Pausing, Chi Mu continued:
"Then, when you came to clean my room dressed as a female cleaner, I was sure of your identity. You were convincing, but you didn't expect that in the morning I met the real female cleaner—and her voice was nothing like yours!"
Chi Mu's hand slid behind his back, where he gripped the fruit knife he'd hidden earlier.
— "Holy crap! Chi Mu's like Sherlock Holmes! The attention to detail is insane…"
— "What the hell? That male cleaner's a monster! Drag him out! Kill him!"
— "Mu God, do it now! Don't hesitate—end this beast!"
The male cleaner narrowed his eyes, sighed, and then kicked the female cleaner's corpse on the ground in frustration.
"It's all that stupid woman's fault!"
"If she hadn't egged me on to kill those three, would I be in this mess? But she really is dumb—she never noticed I snuck back."
"But you're the unlucky one. You found out everything. Now it's your turn to die!"
The male cleaner raised his dagger and lunged straight at Chi Mu's face...