In front of everyone, Cheng Xun and Peng Zhen each picked up a glass of water and drained it without hesitation. Using forks handed over by Cheng Xun's teammate, they each ate a piece of braised pork from the plate as well.
For a moment, Lian Xiangyu was genuinely stunned. He hadn't thought about anything particularly complicated. His first thought after getting the notes had been to share the old notebook with the other Players. After all, if Cheng Xun and the others found it useful, Lian Xiangyu, who had "found" it, would surely gain greater recognition among the Players, perhaps even more than their so-called temporary leader, Peng Zhen.
Lian Xiangyu really had only wanted his moment in the spotlight.
Of course, as another Player trapped in the hotel, Lian Xiangyu also genuinely hoped that putting more than thirty heads together would help them work out the actual rules they needed to follow to survive here.
Unlike the nightmare games where they had to fight Ghost Creatures to the death, a full seven-day survival mission meant their priority wasn't necessarily defeating some supernatural horror. Before they could defeat it, they had to "follow the rules" to keep themselves from courting death.
Simply put-don't go where you shouldn't, don't eat what you shouldn't, and sometimes, don't even say what you shouldn't.
Lian Xiangyu had just listened to the others discuss things at length. All the Players agreed that the rules of the Lorimas Grand Hotel had to be connected to three key terms: "Lorimas," "the Sixth Floor," and "food." He had therefore assumed their next discussion would be about whether to sneak up to the Sixth Floor to investigate, or find a small animal in the hotel to test the restaurant's meat...
For example, the black cat that kept crouching