"Everyone at Harmony Home Apartment, please proceed to the Reception Room for the Welcome Party. To help build a harmonious home, please do not absent yourselves without good reason."
"The Welcome Party will last three hours. Please arrive on time."
When Yue Zhengqing and the others left Room 203, the Loudspeaker's voice was still echoing through the corridor. Yue Zhengqing looked up toward the sound and saw that there was indeed a Loudspeaker installed near the stairs.
"This place doesn't look like a private apartment building. It's more like... a dormitory?" Holding Xiao Xiaodie's hand tightly, Yue Zhengqing looked at the Loudspeaker overhead and murmured as he thought, "If that's the case, having a Reception Room and a Loudspeaker isn't strange. That security guard giving us keys earlier doesn't seem so out of place anymore, either."
Although Yue Zhengqing had always been trapped by his own "failures" in the Real World, his survival in the Nightmare World had certainly depended on more than his vile nature and luck.
Nor had Yue Zhengqing chosen to leave the apartment with Xiao Xiaodie simply because they would do whatever the Loudspeaker told them. The assault of that force just now had made him realize that the apartment's walls could not block it at all. Even if they hid deep inside the apartment, it would be no different from exposing themselves to that force without any protection.
By comparison, the only place capable of blocking that terrifying force was, surprisingly, the little Reception Room where they had first found themselves.
So Yue Zhengqing believed that both Sang Sang and the other Players would surely choose to return to the Reception Room, just as he had.
But Yue Zhengqing was more interested in Xiao Xiaodie, whose hand he was holding, than in that matter. Before,