After all the Players arrived on the third floor, new rules appeared on the system interface:
[6. There will be two dormitory inspections every night, at midnight and 4:00 a.m. After lights-out at ten, dormitory chatter is prohibited, and lights may not be turned on without permission.]
Qi Si lifted his eyelids and glanced at the ceiling. There were no electric lights for illumination, and he had no idea how turning the lights on and off was supposed to work.
In the dim environment without lights, the narrow corridor stretched out in both directions. Black iron doors were embedded in the mud walls, their numbers written in white chalk.
As far as Qi Si could see, all the room numbers had two digits. There were probably dozens, perhaps even over a hundred dormitories on this floor.
Twenty-nine Players sounded like a fair number, but scattered across the vast floor, they were like specks of dust falling into the sea—tiny and insignificant.
Qi Si walked up to the nearest door and saw that beneath the white room number, several dark scratches had carved out five tiny numbers.
He counted the room numbers as he went, all the way to Dormitory 10. Just as expected, beneath the chalk marks, he found the scratched number "47."
Who would live in each room had already been decided, saving them the trouble of fighting over room assignments. The student numbers assigned to this room were, unmistakably, 46 through 50.
The other Players gradually noticed the clues on the iron doors as well and began whispering among themselves.
Qi Si reminded them at the right moment, "If there haven't been any mistakes, your respective numbers should be written beneath your school badges."
The Players lowered their heads one after another, and sure enough, found