Chapter 99: The Voyeur’s Dilemma

Ellen had just emerged from the bathroom, draped only in a bath towel. The curves of her body were clearly outlined beneath the clinging fabric.

Though not particularly voluptuous, Ellen possessed a tall, slender physique. The thin bath towel only accentuated her graceful, elongated figure.

One hand clutched the towel wrapped around her, while the other used a smaller cloth to dry her still-damp, purple hair.

After exhaling deeply, Ellen, even with her eyes closed, moved with practiced ease through her room. She knew its layout intimately, her bare feet padding softly against the wooden floor as she approached the large full-length mirror.

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While Ellen released a contented sigh after her bath, Xiluo’er, too, was taking deep breaths, attempting to calm her racing heart.

‘Calm down!’

‘Although Ellen bathing is an unexpected development, I’m a professional assassin! How could such a trivial matter affect my peeping… no, my reconnaissance?’

‘There’s nothing I can do about what others choose to do while I’m sneaking around. If she wants to bathe, she can bathe, ahem.’

Xiluo’er was currently half-suspended on the corridor wall, cleverly extending a small mirror towards the room’s window. Through it, she observed the movements within the room.

This position was one Xiluo’er had meticulously chosen before her operation, recalling the game map.

Ellen’s room was located on the third floor of the ‘Snail House’ mansion, occupying a private area. A dedicated corridor led directly to her room at its very end.

Although the entire mansion lacked windows to the outside world due to its mysterious spatial location, there were still windows between the rooms and the corridors.

After confirming Ellen was inside, Xiluo’er boldly emerged from her hidden corner and walked down the corridor. She used the combination of the mirror and the window to monitor the room’s interior.

This method made it difficult for Ellen inside the room to detect her. However, Xiluo’er herself was exposed in the corridor.

This meant that if anyone were to enter this corridor, they would immediately discover Xiluo’er’s peeping.

Yet, Xiluo’er was confident that no one else would come down this corridor.

Ellen, the leader of the Destiny Observation Society, was as enigmatic as her style of conduct.

Xiluo’er remembered clearly that during the game’s storyline, Ellen’s room was the only area in the entire mansion that was strictly forbidden to enter.

While free exploration of the game map allowed players to roam like bandits, rummaging through everything, entering Ellen’s room was different.

Players attempting to enter Ellen’s room could not be discovered by anyone else in the mansion. If caught, they would be forcibly ejected from the mansion and barred from re-entering its map for a period.

When playing the game, Xiluo’er naturally didn’t pay much attention to this. After all, Ellen was the leader of the Destiny Observation Society, and such a design maintained her mysterious persona while adding difficulty and interactive fun to the game.

However, this was not a game; it was reality.

So, if Ellen prohibited anyone from entering her room, what exactly was inside, or what did she do in there?

This was a major reason why Xiluo’er herself wanted to stealthily investigate Ellen’s room.

Earlier, when Ganar had told them they could move freely within the mansion, she had specifically mentioned that the corridor behind the third-floor door led to Ms. Ellen’s room, and no one was allowed to enter without Ms. Ellen’s permission.

At the time, Xiluo’er had feigned good intentions and asked Ganar why she couldn’t enter.

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