Xia Sanfu planned to burn from the top down. If the building was still intact after burning, she would return to hide there at night.
The hotel was as empty as a bare shell, but it was, after all, a 32-story grand hotel. If the leftover wood fragments were gathered, they could be used as fuel for some time.
"Kill me," Xia Sanfu gasped for breath, supporting herself on the handrail as she climbed to the 26th floor.
She wiped the sweat from her eyelids and was suddenly struck by a pleasant surprise. What was that!
It was the carpet laid in the hallway!
Even though the carpet was so dirty its color was unrecognizable, even though it was old and shedding, it was still there!
One should know that the carpets on the lower floors had all been removed!
As expected, upon rushing into the hallway, most of the solid wood doors to the various rooms were still there, and the basic layout of the rooms was intact, aside from being old!
Cabinets, tables... and even rotted quilts and mattresses!
This was an immense surprise; she could completely use this place as a shelter, and the existing solid wood cabinets and tables could be chopped up and stored as fuel.
Xia Sanfu, fueled by excitement, went straight to the top 32nd floor. The 32nd floor was largely undamaged!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Xia Sanfu laughed wildly in her heart; the heavy rain below was settled; it couldn't possibly flood up here.
Before the fire in the stainless steel bucket went out, she quickly lit a torch and searched for Night Demons room by room.
These Night Demons liked to hide in cabinets, corners, and behind curtains. There weren't many; she only occasionally encountered one. She dragged them to an open space, and as she burned them, she even found a sense of calm.
She could even search the Night Demons beforehand to see if they had any usable supplies on them.
Most of the time, there was nothing, or if there was, it was broken, aged, or useless.
Click, click.
Xia Sanfu's torch-holding journey came to an abrupt halt. She tugged hard on the doorknob several times, guessing that this high-end door was locked from the inside.
This was a bit strange.
Firstly: This door was different from the others. She didn't know the quality of doors, but it was clear that the texture of this door in front of her was sturdier than other room doors, giving it the feeling of a giant steel door.
Secondly: Most of the other room doors were open, giving the impression that people had left en masse, but this one door was tightly shut.
Xia Sanfu hit it a few times with an empty fire extinguisher, but it didn't budge.
This sparked Xia Sanfu's rebellious spirit. She went into the adjacent room, looked out the window, and discovered another difference.
The glass of the window next door had a slightly different, darker color than the other glass.
Moreover, the building had been abandoned for so long, and many windows were broken, but that entire row of windows remained intact.
Xia Sanfu felt a slight hesitation. If there was a big boss inside, would it kill her on sight?
Even if the Night Demons couldn't move, what if she encountered an NPC from a neutral or friendly faction and mistakenly killed them?
If she forced her way into someone else's room, how could he be friendly?
Xia Sanfu assessed the risks, looked up at the rooftop, wondering if throwing stones down from the rooftop could use inertia to break the window.
Just then, she found a long rope in the janitor's closet. She could tie the rope to a heavy object and throw it down.
Xia Sanfu checked the time, deciding to give herself 20 minutes for trial and error.
She ran to the stairwell with the rope on her back. After going up the stairs, she surprisingly found the rooftop door open at the corner.
And it had been violently destroyed, as if a claw had directly torn the entire door apart!
She had never seen such destructive power before!
Xia Sanfu carefully walked onto the rooftop and was immediately awestruck!
What kind of power and wealth was this, to turn the entire rooftop into a glass conservatory like a botanical garden? Wasn't it an illegal construction? Wouldn't it be scorned online?
The glass house was filled with lush vegetation, laden with fruit!
Although there were traces of damage, those traces were clearly very old, and now only the wild growth of the vegetation remained!
She tapped the glass; it was very hard, probably the legendary bulletproof glass.
Looking up, there was a large hole.
Xia Sanfu intuitively felt that there were even more powerful monsters in this city, more formidable than level 0 or level 1 Night Demons!
She tensed her muscles, her eyes scanning in all directions, exploring this rooftop, and casually picked four apples to put into the backpack on her shoulder.
She only regretted that the bag's capacity was too small.
As she reached the edge, a fallen astronomical telescope blocked her path.
Xia Sanfu helped it up, fiddled with it for a while, and looked out through it. She actually saw light reflecting off the distant high mountains!
It was a series of glass houses!
Could it be a hiding base for the wealthy?
Xia Sanfu clicked her tongue twice and didn't linger, because she saw a utility room. Was this a flamethrower, connected to a liquid fuel tank?
It was scattered on the ground, and the fuel tank was empty, so it should be unusable, but there were several high-end boxes next to it.
She opened them one by one. Good heavens, good heavens, two brand-new flamethrowers and four full fuel tanks!
Xia Sanfu now wished she had eight hands; she simply couldn't carry it all.
She assembled one flamethrower with one fuel tank. The fuel tank was portable and could be carried on her back like a backpack.
She wore the backpack on her chest and the fuel tank on her back, pulled the trigger, and a beam of fire shot out three meters!
Cool!
Xia Sanfu also found a downward staircase in this utility room; it was pitch black inside.
Walking down with the torch, whoa, whoa, get away, human face!
It was a room full of Night Demons, at least thirty of them!
Their decayed suits and trousers made them look like bodyguards.
Their flesh was a bit plump, suggesting they were at least Level 1 Night Demons!
This was probably the layout of a presidential suite. Down the stairs was the living room, and there was also a study, master bedroom, guest bedroom, conference room, gym, dining room, indoor swimming pool, and so on. Past a small door on the west side, there was a similar layout; it turned out that two presidential suites had been connected!
The presidential suite on the west side was likely used as a storeroom, full of clothes, daily necessities, weapons, and sealed food.
Xia Sanfu opened all the drawn curtains. The light streaming in reduced half of the oppression and terror.
Unfortunately, most of it had rotted and molded. She opened a can, and a foul smell wafted out.
The shelf life of this can was five years, meaning it had already exceeded five years.
Clothes in sealed bags were somewhat moldy, and compressed biscuits had puffed up, but some daily necessities were well preserved.
The owner of this place had some strength, but not much. On Blue Star, canned goods and compressed biscuits with a shelf life of three to five years were generally used by the military, while true military rations could have a shelf life of over seventy years.
Of course, it's also possible that the crisis erupted so suddenly that there wasn't time to get good supplies.
There were also two boxes of flamethrowers and four boxes of fuel tanks, manufactured four years later than the canned goods' production date.
In this survival environment, the demand for weapons should be very high, yet they weren't used up. It's likely that the city completely fell not long after these items were acquired.
She finally returned to the presidential suite on the east side. The Night Demons were mainly concentrated in front of the master bedroom.
The Night Demon by the door was tall. Even with its torn and old clothes, one could tell they were carefully chosen. It also wore a wristwatch and a green thumb ring.
Its flesh was plumper than other Night Demons, and its fangs were longer.
Xia Sanfu felt its pocket and immediately grinned. It was a metal-cased lighter, heavy in her hand, and seemingly very well-sealed!
She shook it, and there was still half a liquid inside.
Pfft, a flame flickered out.
It works!
Thank you!
She had a fire starter!