Chapter 317: The Disturbed Wound

"It's so dark."

Xu Xiangyang heard the girl beside him complain.

"Why aren't the lights on? Saving electricity doesn't work like this."

"Maybe they're planning to close up shop. The weather is so bad, nobody wants to come."

"But it's precisely because of the bad weather that people would come to stay. Besides, they haven't closed the door."

"Maybe they forgot. Look, there's nobody here."

...Indeed, there was nobody.

The hotel's first-floor lobby, where they received guests, had been swallowed by night, dimly lit, corners unoccupied.

Were both guests and hotel operators quietly resting in their rooms, waiting for this cold and hasty rain to pass?

There was an eerie silence around, save for the constant echoes of raindrops splattering against the eaves' edges, which sounded particularly gloomy through the walls.

"Could it be that this place has been affected by the blackout?"