The Last Gentleman-Chapter 224: Hotel

“You’re quite lucky, just coming over and directly inheriting the ownership of the Stone Statue Cemetery. Even if the important items were moved, there would inevitably be some things that couldn’t be transferred.”

“Grape, your luck couldn’t possibly be [6], could it?”

Grape didn’t respond,

but instead emitted a sinister and terrifying aura from its mouth, leaped into the air, tumbled three and a half times, and its black hair wildly grew as it rapidly transformed into something resembling a human figure.

Black robes, withered limbs, and a bunch of eyes under a hood.

This was Grape’s first ‘Corpse Transformation,’ revealing a form that corresponded to the first awakened corpse–the Eye Collector, Gemhar.

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Seeing such a form, Knight Barry stepped back in fright, clearly sensing the sinister presence emanating from the other.

Under Grape’s hood, its multiple eyes squeezed against each other, making sounds, “William, leave the care of this cemetery to me. You all go back and rest~”

“Can you handle it alone? You might be targeted by death, Grape.”

“The previous manager stayed here alone, didn’t he? I’ll be fine.

There are still quite a few bodies here whose souls haven’t been extracted. I can temporarily revive them using witchcraft, so I won’t be alone by then.”

“Okay, try to uncover as much remaining value from the Stone Statue Cemetery as you can~ If things get serious, I’ll come immediately to get you out.”

“Hurry up and leave, don’t delay my work~”

After being chased away by Grape, they naturally headed to the hotel to rest.

While on their way, faint murmurs could be heard from Barry inside his bucket helmet.

“Hey, Barry, what are you saying?”

Upon Yi Chen’s inquiry, Barry gradually raised his voice, “Rupert Landerek, the renowned Soul Stone Sculptor! To think he would just abandon the Stone Statue Cemetery that he had run for so long, choosing to flee… and the organization had also sent a prior notice to the leaders here, to prepare them for abandoning the city.

Wow~ it feels like death is at the doorstep.”

“Barry, it’s still possible to leave now. The Dean Dis and others are still in the hospital. If you go there and explain the situation, someone should be able to escort you out of the city.”

“I, Barry Bessalius, come from the Knight Family after all, living up to the knightly spirit passed down through our family. Since I’ve decided to stay, I certainly won’t leave before we figure out and eradicate the illness related to death.”

“Don’t speak too definitively. If we find out that the cause of the deaths is something we simply can’t resist, we’ll still have to run.”

Barry reached a hand into his bucket helmet, scratching his beard, “That’s true.”

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[The Sun Hotel]

Being adjacent to the big Sun Hospital and constructed by gentlemen, it shares the hospital’s name and is the largest hotel in Levinholm City.

The modern style of red brick and white tile, with three electric elevators inside that allow quick access to various floors.

The prices are naturally high, but first-time visiting gentlemen enjoy a three-day free stay and a permanent half-price discount.

With the full outbreak of the death incidents, the hotel has become a gathering place for gentlemen. A large number of gentlemen who haven’t reached the Limit have been concentrated here, and some local wealthy people have also come at their own expense. So far, no deaths have occurred at the hotel.

When the attendant at the door saw the Sun Badge on Yi Chen and his companion, he immediately arranged a luxury room on the top floor (19th floor).

Click~the door pushed open, letting in a ring of soft yellow light.

A specially designed ring-shaped light strip hung at the top of the room, like a sun, which in such a world and era is quite rare, as the most common in Zion are tungsten lamps or kerosene lamps.

A large bed, a row of brown leather sofas, a fireplace embedded in the central wall.

Equipped with a very grand balcony, if the fog were less dense, one could take in a complete view of the entire city.

“William, you sleep on the big bed, and I’ll take the sofa!” Barry clearly understood he hadn’t been of much use yet and was a bit embarrassed to take the bed.

“Do you think your physical body can fit on that sofa? It’d be quite a hassle if you end up breaking it.”

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“I’m just over 500 pounds, and with the armor, barely over a thousand, it shouldn’t break, right?”

Yi Chen, uninterested in wasting words, walked up to Barry and raised his elbow, “Go take a shower now, get to bed early. We’ll head out early tomorrow to investigate another area.”

“Oh.”

After Barry entered the bathroom,

Yi Chen directly took his armor and fidgeted with it, and one had to say the armor was indeed heavy.

“Hmm? I thought the skin would act as a connector on which armor is glued… I didn’t expect the armor itself to be made of skin, a type of Hard Skin that has a high hardness and a color close to metal.

Indeed, the Skin Market produces a variety of skins, and what gentleman use is just one category suitable for cutting and making clothes, which fits better with our human aesthetic.”

Soon after,

Barry, with his huge arms and belly full of flesh, came out of the bathroom.

“Barry, you have a good physique…”

Yi Chen slapped him on the belly directly, and with a smack! As the fat rippled across his belly, the hidden massive abs underneath also revealed themselves.

The extensive hair connected from navel to chest was typical of a European barbarian.

Then Yi Chen took off his clothes, and it was Barry’s turn to be surprised.

“What the heck! What kind of muscles are these… muscles even in such places, and they are multi-layered, are you still human?

No wonder the first time I fought with you, the feeling of the blows was always weird;all the attacks were mostly dissipated.”

“Getting this physique was not easy at all, I almost died~ Let’s chat next time, I’m going to take a shower now.”

Yi Chen turned and walked into the bathroom, locking the door.

As he bent over to wash his hair, Yi Chen incidentally noticed the water droplets on the floor seemed abnormal, interacting with each other, not washed away by the streaming water but assembling together.

They were vaguely forming the shape of a cross,

“This is!”

Yi Chen immediately stomped the water droplets apart, and everything returned to normal.

After finishing the shower, Yi Chen, wrapped in a towel, came in front of the washbasin, and the mist on the mirror also faintly revealed the shape of a cross.

Yi Chen instinctively struck out with a palm! Ping~ The mirror shattered.

Hearing the noise, Barry kicked the door open, “William, what happened?”

“Death seems to have arrived.”

“Did a symbol appear?”

“Yeah, during the shower since I was alone, there were twice signs of the symbol appearing.

But it also let me discover the issue, the symbol representing death cannot form directly, there is a formation process. As long as the view is moved aside or it is interrupted midway, there won’t be any problems.”

“Good~ I wonder why I didn’t encounter this when I showered.”

“Probably because you, Barry, didn’t provoke the other party directly. I said some things next to that old lady’s ear before, perhaps it really reached the ears of the mastermind behind the curtain.

Those who like to hide in the shadows often can’t bear a single word that besmirches them.”

Barry still didn’t know about this;he had only seen Yi Chen suddenly get close to the old lady and then pack her into a bag made from clothing.

“What did you say to that person?”

When Yi Chen spoke the mocking words he had said at that time, Barry, freshly showered, broke into sweat again.

“William, are you really not afraid of dying?”

“What’s there to be afraid of~ I’ve died a few times already, go to sleep.”

Yi Chen patted Barry’s back and directly sprawled onto the sofa.

The gentleman’s clothes hanging at the end of the sofa sensed Yi Chen, their owner, moved over quickly to dress him, and also evolved into a skin-friendly mode to help with sleep.

Barry stood speechless, thinking that Yi Chen’s mention of ‘having died a few times’ referred to those critical life-and-death moments.

Late at night.

Boom~ Thorn-like Thunder Light streaked outside the window.

Following that, raindrops the size of beans crazily battered the window,

Under some external stimuli, Yi Chen slightly opened his eyes, through his sleepy and somewhat blurred vision, a figure stood by the window…