Chapter 776 - 351: Level 3
The elevator returned to the second floor once more, this time bringing four people sent by Maya and her team. Only then did they learn that NPCs were hiding not only from zombies but also from players. There was no helping it—the hijacking of the elevator had to continue, and without exception, all the NPCs’ cell phones were dead. But when Little Knife tried to snatch a bracelet, the female NPC desperately resisted, claiming it was a keepsake from her deceased mother.
Hearing this, Lin Wu rolled his eyes. "You, a bunch of zeroes and ones, have a mother too? I, an actual carbon-based being, don’t even know who my mother is, and you’re telling me about yours? Do you deserve to live or not?"
However, the next sentence spoken by the female NPC made Little Knife let go of the bracelet. The NPC said, "I’ve heard there is a huge door in the hotel that leads to hell."
"Oh?" Little Knife released the NPC and asked, "Where?"
"I only heard the hotel manager mentioning it." Apparently, there had been a small disturbance during mealtime, and the hotel manager came to apologize. During the conversation, the witty and humorous hotel manager recounted the legend of the door to hell.
This piece of information indicated that the hotel manager held specific clues about the Hidden Portal.
After dropping the people off at the rooftop, armed personnel came to pick them up. Lin Wu casually snatched the bracelet and headed back to the elevator. Little Knife took the bracelet and examined it closely, noting a row of pale green gemstones embedded in it. Little Knife asked, "She didn’t resist?"
Lin Wu replied, "Her purpose in resisting was not to protect the bracelet but to convey information. That’s the role of NPCs." When Dawn portrayed an NPC as a cute and beautiful girl with a delightful backstory, many players hesitated to harm her. However, if Dawn made the NPC a greasy, foot-picking big guy, the players felt much less psychological resistance. And if Dawn had fashioned an NPC into something incredibly ugly and fierce-looking, that NPC’s death rate would skyrocket.