In the anime, people are in everyday Tokyo, but they are playing the reincarnation game Chapter 038

“Strange aura…”

Asagiri walked down the stairs, motioning for the man in the suit and the heavily made-up woman standing there to move aside. He then approached the sturdy fire door, observing it while asking Iwanaga Kotoko.

“Necro, when you came here before, did you not notice a strange aura at the door?”

“No.”

Iwanaga Kotoko shook her head, her tone flat.

“It’s just that the fire door wouldn’t open. I don’t have the means to break through such a thick fire door, and at that time, I wasn’t sure what was on this floor, so I didn’t act rashly.”

“A strange aura suddenly appeared behind a fire door that couldn’t be opened…”

Yuuki Asuna walked up to Asagiri, observing the fire door in front of them, deep in thought.

“Is it possible that the source of the strangeness in this hotel possesses intelligence? It knew we might come to this floor, enter the hotel corridor, and so it deliberately arranged for evil spirits to ambush us?”

Before Asagiri could reply, Yuuki Asuna shook her head, refuting her own idea.

“No, it shouldn’t be like that. The red-clothed female ghost we encountered before was a geolocked spirit that couldn’t leave its own floor. The evil spirits in this dungeon should all be geolocked spirits that can’t leave their own territory. Otherwise, there would be no need for the temperature to rise; they could just let the evil spirits chase the players, right? The source of the strangeness in this hotel must have some kind of restriction, but… it can also use some means to set up ambushes for players, and among the information we know, the way it can do this is…….”

Yuuki Asuna leaned closer to the fire door connecting the stairwell and the hotel corridor, observing it carefully, muttering to herself.

“There are no gaps at all where it connects to the wall and the ground… I see…”

At this point, Yuuki Asuna looked at Asagiri.

“Leader, I speculate that behind this fire door is water, water that covers the entire hotel corridor. The source of the strangeness in this hotel can not only manipulate evil spirits and spread strangeness through water but also, in turn, manipulate the water tainted by its strangeness to set up ambushes for players, just like the bottled mineral water these two people drank. If we open the door directly, the water originally blocked by the fire door will instantly gush out. Even if we barely survive the pressure of the water, we will definitely have that guy’s strange water enter our bodies.”

The man in the suit next to them heard this and couldn’t help but look suspicious.

“Water covering an entire hotel corridor? Can that really be done… It’ll burst, won’t it…”

“It’s a strange phenomenon in itself; it will violate common sense, and that is common sense.”

Iwanaga Kotoko, standing on the steps, raised her staff, gently tapped the ground, and said with a smile.

“But as long as you can find the common sense of the strange, no matter how strange the phenomenon, it will be easily solved.”

Just as Iwanaga Kotoko finished speaking, she suddenly seemed to sense something. A wary look appeared in her navy-purple eyes, and she immediately said.

“Leader, Violet, be careful!”

The next second, the bodies of the man in the suit and the heavily made-up woman swelled up like water balloons, their skin looking as if it was about to burst, on the verge of exploding.

Asagiri seemed to have anticipated this. The moment Iwanaga Kotoko spoke out a warning, he directly picked up Yuuki Asuna beside him, instantly crossed several steps, and reached the corner at the top of the stairs, also lifting Iwanaga Kotoko with one hand and running up the stairs.

“Bang!!!”

A deafening explosion echoed in the stairwell, accompanied by the sound of flesh fragments hitting the walls.

By the time the two players’ bodies exploded, Asagiri had already taken Yuuki Asuna and Iwanaga Kotoko back to the sixth floor of the hotel, completely avoiding the blood and shattered flesh that splattered during the explosion, and was not affected at all.

“Leader’s movement speed is indeed very fast.”

Iwanaga Kotoko didn’t seem flustered at all. After being put down by Asagiri, she merely straightened her clothes and hat, and said with a smile.

“I see. It seems that the source of that strangeness can control evil spirits or humans who have drunk the water to explode at any time. The reason it didn’t control them before could be that this method consumes its power, or it could be that it wanted to wait until we relaxed our guard to deliver a decisive blow, or both.”

“No matter what…”

Carrying one person in each hand, Asagiri showed no signs of effort after climbing so many steps in just a few seconds, still looking relaxed, and said with a smile in his voice.

“At a time like this, using a one-time move like this indicates that the source of this hotel has already felt threatened. Hehe, going all out, a cornered dog will jump over the wall, fighting to the last, a mantis trying to stop a chariot, a dead duck still has a hard beak. I think it won’t shed tears until it sees the coffin, won’t give up until it reaches the Yellow River, a Ding Zhen at first glance, identified as, wanting to be fiercely attacked by a Shura.”

Yuuki Asuna suppressed the urge to retort and sighed slightly.

“However, the difficulty of this dungeon is indeed not on the same level as the beginner dungeon…”

Compared to the beginner dungeon, Giant Mountain Mental Hospital, which could be cleared no matter what, simply depending on the rating achieved, and didn’t even require hands, just the ability to walk, or even crawl, this hotel dungeon’s difficulty has indeed increased a lot.

With the methods of that strange source, as long as one player has drunk the hotel’s water, then when the players gather together, it can control the player who drank the water to explode, splattering blood and flesh, and infecting other players with its strangeness.

Even if players realize through some means that “water” spreads strangeness, players are still human. As long as they are human, they will want to live. It is very likely that a player who has drunk the hotel’s water will hide the fact that they drank it because they don’t want to be targeted or even killed by other players.

The numerical disadvantage mentioned in the special prompt Asagiri received actually refers not to the comparison between the number of evil spirits and players, but to the comparison between the number of “players not tainted by strangeness” and “players already tainted by strangeness who can be controlled by evil spirits to explode at any time.”

However, this time, the strange source of this hotel has completely fallen.

Not only did Asagiri and Yuuki Asuna learn the important information that “water” spreads strangeness in the early stages of the dungeon, but among the players, there was also Iwanaga Kotoko, who could directly sense strange auras and instantly see who had been possessed by strangeness.

What is this playing? How to play this?

Originally, it was a strange type of dungeon that tested players’ mental torture and internal consumption, and their caution and psychological endurance. It was directly turned into hide-and-seek by these three people.

Moreover…

It’s not the players hiding, but the source of the strangeness. Once Asagiri finds it…….

It’s going to have a good time.