Judging by the headless receptionist's attitude, the two sitting in the lounge area were undoubtedly Players as well.
And if the numbers on their left wrists really represented their strength, then the strongest of the ten Players participating in this game was not Pei Zhan, the supposed expert from the Candlelight Society, but the Cloaked Man named Wu Heng.
At the same time, however, the person in Wu Heng's arms had zero points. Even Zhou Shirong and Bai Qi, who had only participated in the Beginner Game, had at least ten.
"Mr... Mr. Wu." After some hesitation, Xiong Yi voiced the question on everyone else's mind. "Is the person you're holding in particularly poor health? Is he injured? Is that why his points show as zero?"
Given the other man's point total, Xiong Yi's tone was quite polite.
Yes, even Lu Jinyan thought the reason the person in his arms had zero points was most likely that he was also a newcomer-one who had been dragged into the Nightmare Game despite being gravely injured and unconscious.
"Is he your..." Xiong Yi still wanted to ask more.
Lu Jinyan glanced around and sensed that the others were just as curious as he was about the relationship between Wu Heng and the person in his arms.
Lu Jinyan was a newcomer. He did not know whether Players who knew each other could enter the same game, but Wu Heng and the person he held were definitely not strangers who had only met today.
"The one I share my life with."
The man named Wu Heng was strange. You could call him unsociable, yet he answered every question the others asked. You could call him sociable, yet he simply sat there holding the person in his arms, so sparing with his answers that