The group cautiously inspected the remaining rooms assigned to them. Each time they pushed a door open, they instinctively held their breath, afraid that some other abnormality might be waiting inside. To their surprise, however, the temperatures in these rooms had not changed, nor was there anything else unusual.
Thinking back, they had not felt any drop in temperature the last time they entered Room 1408, either.
After a moment's thought, Su Bai offered a theory. "Maybe these rooms are set up so that the longer we stay inside, the colder they become?"
"Maybe the temperature in Room 1406 will gradually return to normal after we've been out of it for a while." Su Bai sounded as though he were piecing together a crucial clue. "If that really is the case... then the game probably assigned us these rooms to give us temporary 'shelters' where we could catch our breath. Safe zones with a time limit."
Hearing Su Bai's theory, Xu Rui pushed up his glasses as though something had occurred to him, too. "In that case, if we keep testing how quickly the rooms cool down and whether their temperatures can recover, we might be able to keep moving between the four rooms and the corridor, buying as much time as possible until we make it through seventy-two hours."
"But if Room 1406 doesn't warm back up after a while, then these four rooms are single-use shelters. Once all of them turn into frozen hells like Room 1408, we won't have anywhere left to stay... At that point, even just trying to hide will make the game increasingly difficult." Su Bai's voice remained steady, but his words carried a sense of danger that could not be ignored.
Su Bai did not believe Hospital No. 666 was such a benevolent