Su Bai exchanged a glance with Zhi Yuan and the others, seeing the same surprise in their eyes.
They were surprised, but not confused.
After all, these photographs explained a great deal. Why, after entering the Happy Hotel, had they sensed no power of rules from the building itself, only from the strange creatures playing their "family members" and the "waiters"? Why had the waiters been so careless about changing the game rules? Why had those "family members" known the rules of every game inside out without even reading the cards?
Because this was not a nightmare game controlled by the Happy Hotel itself at all, but an absurd game of "playing house" staged by a group of strange creatures living in the hotel!
Su Bai and the others were not the first human players to enter the Happy Hotel. Whenever human players arrived, some of the strange creatures living there would play their "family members," while the rest took on the work of "waiters."
The Zombie Waiter and Female Ghost Waiter they knew might have played other players' "family members" over and over in previous nightmare games. Meanwhile, the "family members" currently pestering Su Bai and the others had once worked as "waiters," repeatedly guiding other players to follow the game rules. That was why they had long since learned every rule by heart.
At first, Su Bai had assumed that the Happy Hotel was like the Mirror Apartments he had experienced before. Although strange creatures had caused trouble there, the apartment building itself had undergone a mutation, and the rules of neighborhood harmony had become one with it. Even though a special ghost creature like Chiliu lurked in the shadows, he had little interest in the game rules. What controlled everything was the apartment building itself, already fused