Chapter 368 Ticket Holders and Family

Chapter 368: Ticket Holders and Family

"This damn game isn't going to drag our families into it too, is it?" The player's voice, laced with confusion and a hint of fear, drifted through the thick fog after the administrator's opening remarks.

Everyone was trapped in a dense white fog, so thick that even Su Bai couldn't see his own outstretched hands. Although he possessed the ability to see through the fog created by the Lord of Fog City, the current mist engulfing him had completely robbed him of his vision.

Nevertheless, other players in the fog began to communicate by sound.

"Our families aren't players!" An anxious female voice came from the mist, but then her tone shifted abruptly, her initial unease turning sharp. "Otherwise, I'd just drag my ex-boyfriend into the Nightmare World."

"...Good idea," a flippant male voice responded from the fog. "But it's better for people to part amicably. Even after breaking up, you can still be friends. It's probably best not to harm your friends with such things."

"Everyone, do you think this might be a way for us to team up?" Another young male voice, sounding about twenty years old but with a more childish tone and inflection, chimed in from the fog. "Maybe it's just asking us to team up with the aunts and uncles in our group to clear the game?"

"So you want to be my son?" The woman who spoke first retorted with a sneer, her voice dripping with obvious mockery and disdain.

"..."

Su Bai stood silently in the dense fog, listening to the voices of the other players. He knew that some other players, like him, were silently hidden in the fog, observing their surroundings.

The upcoming nightmare game was unknown to every player and was bound to conceal various unforeseen dangers. Some would silently gather clues, while others would try to alleviate their fear and unease through conversation.

Before the vocal players could exchange any useful information, strange sounds began to emanate from the other side of the thick fog—

"Hehehe, Mommy, is Mommy coming back?" A little boy's voice, with a slightly eerie laugh, filled with a morbid excitement and anticipation, rang out. "This time, Mingming will definitely not be separated from Mommy again! Hehehe, and he definitely won't... let Mommy leave again!"

"Her father, I think I heard our child's voice," an old female voice said tearfully, her tone suggesting regret. "This time, we must treat her well, not like before... sigh."

"Her mother, this time we will treat her well. If we hadn't been so poor we were almost starving, we wouldn't have... sigh." Another old male voice, like the previous one, trailed off, seemingly hiding unspoken secrets, filled with helplessness and self-reproach.

"My husband and I have no problems with our relationship," a coquettish female voice also came from the dense fog, her voice carrying a hint of flirtation and playfulness. "But if I can play games with my dear, it's much more interesting than one of us always being in bed and the other under the bed. I'm really looking forward to it."

"Brother hasn't been talking to me lately. Does he have a sweetheart?" Another weak male voice, filled with jealousy and possessiveness, asked. "No, brother is mine, brother belongs only to me. No one can take brother away..."

"..."

Various hollow and ethereal voices, interspersed with cries and piercing screams, echoed through the dense fog. Although the speakers' appearances were invisible, Su Bai felt that these voices... probably didn't belong to players, or even any living humans.

"It seems this game will assign us family members." The initially cold-spoken woman clearly shared Su Bai's thought. She raised her voice in the fog, "Administrator, is there any other information you can provide?"

Shortly after the woman's question, Su Bai and the others heard the programmatic administrator's voice again.

"'Joyful Hotel' has provided countless families with precious memories of happiness and joy during its past operations. Whether it's already harmonious family relationships or estranged family members, everyone can benefit from the hotel's special family activities."

"All ticket-holding guests are also requested to observe the following rules upon entering this hotel:"

"First, this hotel will provide guests with a week of relaxing and enjoyable stay experiences and special activities. However, this is a family hotel, so please do not check in alone with a ticket to participate in activities."

"Second, the purpose of this special family activity is to eliminate family estrangement and enhance family affection. All ticket-holding guests are requested not to allow their family members to suffer any harm within this hotel. If a ticket holder's family member is injured in the hotel, the ticket holder will lose their eligibility for the activity. Ticket holders who lose eligibility are requested to leave the hotel with their family as soon as possible."

"Third, this hotel will announce a relaxing and enjoyable family activity every day. All ticket-holding guests must participate with their family members. If a ticket-holding guest and their family are absent from activities twice, they will lose their eligibility for the activity. Ticket holders who lose eligibility are requested to leave the hotel with their family as soon as possible."

"Fourth, all ticket-holding guests must get along harmoniously with their family members during this week. Please note that if a ticket holder's family chooses to leave the ticket holder early within the week, the ticket holder will be unable to leave this hotel."

"Finally, we wish all ticket-holding guests a pleasant activity."

After listening to the administrator's explanation, the atmosphere in the dense fog became increasingly tense and uneasy, and Su Bai's mood was also far from relaxed.

This activity required players to enter the Joyful Hotel with "family members," but who these "family members" were and where they came from was clearly not something players could decide; it seemed more like the hotel had specifically prepared them.

The ticket holders in the Joyful Hotel's rules should refer to the players, but in these four rules, it only mentioned that ticket holders could not harm "family members," completely disregarding the ticket holders' safety.

In other words... players couldn't harm the "family members" assigned by the hotel, but those "family members" could harm the players?

Low whispers from players, some filled with terror, others with anger and helplessness, spread through the dense fog.

"Seniors, what should we do?" the young-sounding male nervously asked.

No one in the fog responded.

Or rather, before other players could respond, the dense fog around them began to slowly dissipate.