Ye Tiancheng had also made this arrangement after careful consideration.
He had his own reasons.
Ye Tiancheng needed to ensure the safety of all of them to the greatest extent possible.
With Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping holding most of the defensive items, their chances of survival by staying in the room would be much higher than going out.
After distributing the items they were supposed to carry, Ye Tiancheng left with the little fox.
Of course, neither of them forgot to bring the room key.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping were thus left behind in the room.
Ye Tiancheng first took the little fox to the front desk. However, perhaps because it was the seventh day, even the hotel staff believed the seventh day to be very dangerous. In any case, it was the first time in these few days that Ye Tiancheng had left the room to find someone at the front desk, and the front desk was empty.
The hotel staff did not appear near the front desk, nor were they staying at the front desk.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox searched around again.
They did not see any of the non-humans who were likely working in the kitchen or other areas.
Their expressions immediately became solemn.
Had they underestimated the danger of the seventh day? Was the seventh day truly that dangerous?
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox waited at the front desk for a while longer. Assured that no one else would come, they decided to return to their room earlier. Since it was too dangerous outside, they would go back and stay put.
After all, they had already planned to give up on this matter.
If it really didn't work out, they wouldn't force it.
As they were on their way back, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox suddenly heard a woman's scream coming from a certain direction upstairs in the hotel.
This voice was very familiar to Ye Tiancheng and the little fox.
It was Lin Yanqin's voice.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox looked at each other.
The little fox hesitated, looked at Ye Tiancheng, and said to him, "Big brother, that sounds like Lin Yanqin's voice. Is she in trouble? Should we... should we help?"
Ye Tiancheng was also very hesitant.
He was unsure of what he should do.
However, saving someone should always be done as quickly as possible, without giving people much time to react. If you thought too much about it and then rushed to save them, it might be too late.
Ye Tiancheng said hesitantly, "Little fox, although this might seem selfish, Lin Yanqin is no longer alive. Moreover, the hotel owner and the others had said that the seventh day is the most dangerous. They even used to throw the bait they prepared near Lin Yanqin's room on the seventh day."
"So, you know how dangerous it is around Lin Yanqin's room at this time."
"I'm not afraid of taking risks myself, but we have more important things to do now, and we can't risk our lives. We came as a group of people, and we must go back as a group of people."
"So..."
As Ye Tiancheng said this, he was also trying to convince himself.
Given Ye Tiancheng's nature, having spent these past few days with Lin Yanqin, she was too much like someone he knew, and she didn't seem to have a bad heart. Suddenly discovering that Lin Yanqin might be in danger, it indeed required rational control not to rush to her rescue.
This required maintaining rationality.
The little fox could also sense Ye Tiancheng's difficulty and understood the reasoning even better.
Lin Yanqin encountering danger was something that happened a hundred years ago. If they went there now, they couldn't change anything. Even if they risked their lives, it would be of no use.
So, the little fox said, "Then, alright... Let's just forget about it. It's really not worth taking this risk. Although... our own lives are more important. There are more important things waiting for us outside."
"Especially you, big brother. If something happened to you, the consequences would be very serious."
The two walked back with heavy hearts.
During this process, Lin Yanqin's screams grew louder and more piercing. Lin Yanqin even began to cry for help.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox felt immense torment.
When they reached the staircase, the little fox saw Ye Tiancheng's movement and suddenly froze. He couldn't help but open his mouth, "Big brother..."
Their room should not be in this direction.
Going further up would be the floor where Lin Yanqin's room was.
Ye Tiancheng gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, let's take a gamble. After all, it's just the two of us who came out this time. Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping are staying in the room, and it's unlikely anything will happen to them."
"The two of us go up together. If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger cub? This might be our chance."
"If there's a chance to resolve Lin Yanqin's obsession, I think the seventh day would be the most crucial day, and it would be our only remaining opportunity. It's our last chance to try."
"We can't come back a month later, can we?"
"We all understand this."
Hearing Ye Tiancheng's words, the little fox's spirits suddenly lifted, and he became much more invigorated. He immediately quickened his pace, catching up with Ye Tiancheng.
The little fox responded to Ye Tiancheng, "Then let's go, we'll go together!"
"Why not take a gamble? If this is our last chance, let's try it. If it still doesn't work this time, then we'll truly give up."
"At least we tried."
"Besides, even if we fail, with our abilities, we shouldn't be unable to survive."
After making up their minds, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox immediately rushed towards Lin Yanqin's room.
Upon arriving at Lin Yanqin's room door, they could clearly hear Lin Yanqin's cries for help and screams coming from behind the door.
Lin Yanqin must have encountered something while in the room.
It was unclear who was attacking her.
After all, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had been rejected by Lin Yanqin when they tried to investigate further, so they had certainly missed many clues, making it impossible to deduce anything now.
However, it didn't matter who was harming her now; what was important was saving Lin Yanqin.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox tried to open the door, but they couldn't. When they tried to pick the lock, they found that Lin Yanqin's door lock was more difficult to open than the other rooms, and it was actually bolted from the inside.
Then, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox tried to look through the door crack to see the situation.
With this glance, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox recalled that Lin Yanqin's room had a bolt, which further increased the difficulty of opening the door. The difficulty of prying the door open was imaginable.
The little fox thought for a moment and then suggested to Ye Tiancheng, "Big brother, why don't we just kick the door down? If we try to pry it open like this, even if we can open it, it will be too slow. By the time the door is opened, it will be too late."
Ye Tiancheng agreed.
Besides, they had no better options at the moment.
They couldn't leave the hotel; they couldn't even get out of the hotel's main entrance. So, going to the hotel's exterior and climbing through the window was something they couldn't do.
Thus, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox tried to ram the door.
However, the door was sturdy, and the lock was also sturdy. Even though the door was hit with loud bangs, it couldn't be opened immediately.
However, Lin Yanqin, likely hearing the sound of Ye Tiancheng and the little fox ramming the door from inside, became more agitated. Her cries for help became more hopeful.
Being able to continue hearing Lin Yanqin's cries for help was a good thing for Ye Tiancheng and the little fox.
This meant that Lin Yanqin was at least safe for the moment.
At least her life was still intact.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox also had some awareness that the reason the door was so difficult to open might, from a certain perspective, be due to causality. This was something that had happened a hundred years ago, and Lin Yanqin was destined to be harmed in the room.
Therefore, even if it was possible to save Lin Yanqin once within the memory loop, it was not that easy.
It was like people who died in a house fire, trapped inside when they were alive. After their deaths, when trapped in the cycle of their wrongful deaths, even if the door they couldn't reach when they were alive was easy to open, they still couldn't open it.
Beings trapped in such cycles often reached their weakest and most helpless moment just before their death.
They would be as helpless as they were in life.
Wanting to escape, wanting to be rescued, they would not find any hope.
Unless someone, having been caught in the cycle, felt compassion and went all out to rescue them, they might have a chance of liberation.
Otherwise, even for two grown men like Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, who were putting all their strength into ramming this room door, even the sturdiest door, unless it was a very heavy mansion door or city gate, would have been broken open long ago. It was impossible that after so much time, the door was only making banging sounds but still hadn't been opened.
A scream suddenly came from inside the room.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had encountered many things, so in such a situation, they could tell that Lin Yanqin's scream was likely because she had been harmed, that she was injured.
Hearing this, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox became even more anxious.
What if the harm Lin Yanqin had just suffered was the fatal injury she sustained in her life? If they still hadn't broken down the door by now, wouldn't it be too late?
Perhaps it was this urgency that made Ye Tiancheng exert a bit more force, and the little fox also joined in with Ye Tiancheng. As a result, with one final bang, Lin Yanqin's room door was finally broken open by the combined efforts of Ye Tiancheng and the little fox.
After breaking down the door, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox saw the scene inside.
Lin Yanqin's room was in disarray. It was evident how fiercely Lin Yanqin had struggled and fought with someone earlier.
At this moment, Lin Yanqin was slumped by the bed. A small knife was stuck in her chest, appearing to be deeply embedded. Lin Yanqin had bled a lot, and there were many bloodstains on her bed.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox also saw a tall man's back disappearing through the window.
Clearly, that was the person who had harmed Lin Yanqin.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox, one rushed to the window, and the other ran to check on Lin Yanqin's condition.
Ye Tiancheng chased to the window and found that it was not that simple. As soon as he reached the window, he seemed to touch an invisible barrier, and it was clear that he could not pursue further. Ye Tiancheng could only turn back helplessly, wanting to see how Lin Yanqin was doing.
Lin Yanqin was slumped by the bed, on the verge of death, her face pale, clearly in extreme pain.
The little fox was completely at a loss and didn't know what to do.
Seeing Ye Tiancheng walk back, he immediately asked him, "Big brother, come quickly and see, what should we do?"
"Can she... can she still be saved?"
In his panic, the little fox was speaking nonsense.
Lin Yanqin had already been dead for a hundred years.