Su Bai paid no heed to the others in the infirmary. After all, when he was lost in thought, he looked no different from a motionless doll. He simply continued pondering that one thing that felt "off."
The middle-aged teacher named Cheng Xun had actually mentioned it earlier: this time, the Administrator's voice had not sounded before they entered the Nightmare World. Instead, it had only appeared after they reached the hotel's ground-floor lobby. That alone was highly unusual.
But a player had soon said that any irregularities in the Administrator's voice or instructions were perfectly normal, adding that a friend of hers had once gone from entering a game to leaving it without hearing the Administrator's voice at all. It was that player's remark that had eased some of the doubts of those who, like Mr. Cheng, had been suspicious.
If Su Bai remembered correctly, the player who had dispelled their doubts was Zhu Nian, the petite girl currently standing in the infirmary.
That made Su Bai suspicious of Zhu Nian as well. After all, he was different from the thirty players currently in the hotel. Among those thirty, even Peng Zhen, who was capable of serving as their temporary leader, had only experienced seven Nightmare Games. Given that players received a month or two to catch their breath after each Nightmare Game, Peng Zhen had been in the Nightmare World for a little over a year at most, yet he already qualified as a "veteran" among the surviving human players.
Su Bai, however, had struggled in the Nightmare World for ten years in his previous life. By the end, veterans like him and the leader of the Nameless Society could be counted on one hand. Naturally, he had experienced far more games and witnessed far more life and