Chapter 396 Breakfast Anomaly

Chapter 396: An Unusual Breakfast

After carefully observing the little ghost's state, Su Bai and Xiao An left the hotel room together.

As they approached the staircase, Su Bai saw the other players had already gathered there. Whether it was Tan Ying or Ai Qing, their faces were pale and haggard, eyes bloodshot and dark circles pronounced. Clearly, they had stayed awake all night, on guard against the ghosts beside them, not daring to close their eyes.

The reason the players gathered at the staircase was obviously to keep everyone in sync, as moving together felt safer. It was precisely this sense of security from being together that allowed some players, despite their disheveled hair and faces marked by exhaustion and anxiety, to seize the moment to rest against the wall with their eyes closed. It seemed they couldn't think of a safer time than right now.

Compared to the other players, Su Bai looked surprisingly well.

This wasn't just because Su Bai had secretly gone to the Mist Shop to freshen up. He was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, and while the water in the Happy Hotel's bathroom had a metallic smell, managing a basic wash was normal enough.

What surprised the other players was that Su Bai looked particularly energetic. Although Su Bai wasn't exactly a sunny personality, in the hotel's tired, gloomy atmosphere, his gaze and smile were noticeably bright, making people involuntarily want to look at him a few more times.

"Everyone's here, let's go together," Tan Ying took a deep breath and led the way downstairs to the lobby.

When Su Bai and the others entered the lobby, they saw the same incoherent zombie waiter waiting by the counter again. Its skin was gray-white and cracked, its eyes lifeless, its movements stiff. Upon seeing them, it uttered words in a strange, halting rhythm—

"Breakfast, dinner, same. Self, kitchen. Don't forget, prepare, family, food."

"...Game, soon, start."

When the zombie waiter spoke, its cracked lips barely moved, so each word was garbled in its throat.

Although the zombie waiter's delivery was agonizing, the players could still understand it meant breakfast, like yesterday's dinner, required the players to prepare themselves, while also reminding them not to forget to prepare the food their "families" loved, just like yesterday.

When Su Bai followed the others into the kitchen, he, like everyone else, found the food inside was similar to last night's. Compartments held food consisting mainly of raw meat. A faint smell of blood hung in the air, mixed with a rotting scent, killing any appetite.

Except for Su Bai and Wu Hang, who still routinely supervised their respective little ghosts in consuming vegetables, the other players, as yesterday, chose to prepare meat for their "families." Even though the ghosts beside Su Bai and Wu Hang hadn't raged over the vegetables yesterday, the other players still couldn't imagine what terrifying expressions the ghosts beside them might show upon seeing vegetables on their plates.

The two little ghosts under Su Bai's care didn't eat their meals with relish either.

Xiao An looked at the vegetables in her bowl with disgust, her brow furrowed. Even in her solid black eyes, one could see resistance and annoyance, as if these vegetables were the most unpalatable things in the world. In contrast, the little female ghost beside Wu Hang still obediently ate the various leafy greens on her plate, looking even more normal than when she was crawling around clinging to Wu Hang's feet.

She ate as ravenously as the three-headed dog beside Li Feiwen devoured its meat, showing no displeasure, only a hearty appetite, her chewing sounds particularly jarring in the lobby.

Was Wu Hang particularly good with children?

Su Bai couldn't help but glance at Wu Hang, whose face was completely concealed. Although he wanted to ask more, now was clearly not the time for deep investigation.

Unlike the special situations with Su Bai and Wu Hang, the other players encountered some problems while preparing breakfast for their "families."

The most troublesome issue was that, apart from the three-headed dog beside Li Feiwen and the snake woman beside Zhi Yuan, the other ghosts refused to eat the raw meat the players served. Faced with raw meat that looked no different from last night's, the expressions on those ghosts' faces showed great resistance, their eyes filled with disdain and disgust, as if confronting something revolting.

Even the three-headed dog beside Li Feiwen was no longer devouring the raw meat. Although it finished the meat on the plate, it took a step back, not licking the plate clean like it did yesterday.

Only the snake woman beside Zhi Yuan ate with the same elegance as last night, as if savoring a delicious delicacy. Her every movement was filled with grace and composure, as if eating was an art.

In contrast, the ferocious ghost standing beside Ai Qing, upon seeing the raw meat with blood streaks on the plate, viciously said—

"Disgusting. What I crave now is something fresh."

Su Bai observed the reactions of the other "family members" and was somewhat startled after hearing what the ghost beside Ai Qing said. He hadn't expected that just entering the second day of the game, the ghosts' appetites would already be completely unsatisfied.

Had even bloody raw meat lost its meaning as food for them, becoming like chewing wax?

What did the ghost beside Ai Qing mean? Was it hinting that only the flesh and blood of living humans could truly satisfy these evil spirits?

Su Bai initially thought the ghosts dissatisfied with breakfast would do something after refusing the raw meat. But perhaps constrained by the hotel's rules, these ghosts didn't riot or do anything else to the humans beside them. Instead, one by one, they turned their heads in a peculiar manner to look towards the front desk. The eerie scene was as if even these Eerie Entities were waiting for the waiter to announce the next "Family Special Activity."

Sensing a new game might be about to begin, the air in the lobby grew tense. The players, like those Eerie Entities, slowed their breathing and looked towards the front desk, quietly awaiting the rules and clearance method for the next life-and-death game.

All eyes were fixed on the zombie waiter. Its every stiff, small movement tapped on the players' nerves.

Under everyone's gaze, the zombie waiter finally slowly walked behind the front desk, placed ten game rule cards identical to yesterday's on the desktop, and then spoke with great effort—

"Next, game, morning, hide treasure, afternoon, seek treasure."

Hide treasure?

Seek treasure?