After carefully checking the little ghost's condition, Su Bai left the hotel room with Xiao An.
As he headed toward the stairs, Su Bai saw that the other players had already gathered there. Tan Ying, Ai Qing, and the others all looked pale and haggard. Their eyes were bloodshot, and they had pronounced dark circles beneath them. Clearly, they had spent the entire night guarding against the Ghost Creatures beside them, afraid to close their eyes.
The players had evidently gathered at the stairs to keep everyone together. Moving as a group gave them a greater sense of security. That very sense of safety had prompted some of them to lean against the wall and rest with their eyes closed, even with their hair disheveled and their faces etched with exhaustion and anxiety. It was as though they could not imagine any moment safer than this one.
Compared with the other players, however, Su Bai looked surprisingly well.
It was not simply because Su Bai had secretly gone to the Mist Shop to wash and change. He was still wearing the same style of clothes as yesterday, and although the water in the Washrooms of the Happy Hotel's rooms smelled fishy, it was perfectly possible to freshen up there.
What surprised the other players was how energetic Su Bai looked. He was hardly the sunny sort, yet amid the weary crowd in the dim, yellow-lit hotel, his eyes and the smile on his face seemed positively bright, making people instinctively look at him a little longer.
"Everyone's here. Let's go together." Tan Ying took a deep breath and led the way downstairs to the Lobby.
When Su Bai and the others entered the Lobby, they saw that the one waiting beside the counter was once again the Zombie Waiter who