After the meeting ended, the players had roughly three choices before them.
One was to obediently keep participating in the activities as the game progressed, do everything they could to find safety within the rules, and spare no effort to make it through the game and its activities unscathed.
Another was to eliminate every Ghost Creature in the Happy Hotel, regardless of the consequences. Most players felt this was not something one or two people could accomplish alone. It would only be possible if every player joined in, but failure would mean total annihilation.
The last was to do as Zhi Yuan suggested: take actions that tested the limits of the rules, investigate exactly what form the so-called punishment took and who carried it out, and only pursue the second option once they were sufficiently confident.
But Zhi Yuan himself was unwilling to carry out the idea he had proposed. He had even refused remarkably quickly, which none of the players had expected. Such an unhesitating refusal inevitably made him seem cowardly and irresponsible, casting doubt on his suggestion as well.
With no conclusion reached, the players could only return to their rooms in resignation after the meeting.
Su Bai had originally intended to seek out Wu Heng again, but the other man's earlier promise to "talk afterward" had clearly been nothing more than a delaying tactic. The moment the meeting ended, the man in the black cloak had left faster than anyone else.
After returning to his room, Su Bai glanced at Xiao An, who was curled up in the corner. Although Strange Creatures did not need sleep, Xiao An really did look asleep. Su Bai did not dwell on it. The Nightmare World had many places like the Happy Hotel, where humans and Strange Creatures alike had to