[014] Exposing Sin Values
At the same time, inside the Doomsday Hotel.
[Advertisement broadcast completed. A total of over 30,000 players received the notification. Host, please prepare to welcome guests.]
100 points for over thirty thousand players.
Recalling the information she had seen on the player forum, Gu Weiwei confirmed one point for sure:
The broadcast reach of the Doomsday Hotel’s advertisements was tied to geographical range.
Gu Weiwei’s eyes involuntarily rested on the final point pricing tier.
Could it be that 1,000 points could notify players across the entire game zone?
Should she give it a try?
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The moment the thought arose, Gu Weiwei considered the Doomsday Hotel’s current hosting capacity and temporarily abandoned the idea for now.
Besides, thirty thousand players combined with the player forum would be more than enough to spread the news far and wide.
Shortly after, Gu Weiwei turned her focus onto her control panel.
The previously unlocked rooms had been snapped up completely in an extremely short span of time.
Her current tenant count had reached 2,892, putting the hotel back at full capacity.
As for the total number of players present, it had crossed nearly five thousand—meaning almost half the players lacked a room, and that number was still accumulating.
Once the next wave of players arrived, the Doomsday Hotel would likely be packed to overflowing again.
Glancing at her current point total, Gu Weiwei looked over the next upgrade requirements:
[Condition 1: Host 4,000 tenants]
[Condition 2: 200 Points]
*[Condition 3: Buildings 8]
These conditions were well within Gu Weiwei’s acceptable range.
Given her current rate of earning points, she could meet all these criteria whenever she wished.
The only issue she needed to worry about now was how to properly accommodate the growing influx of players.
After all, non-tenant players couldn’t stay inside the Doomsday Hotel indefinitely, which bound a large number of players to linger just outside the hotel’s boundary—among whom there was bound to be no shortage of those who had used extreme, unscrupulous methods.
She figured that once human nature opens a dark seam, it becomes impossible to control.
She wasn’t a overly benevolent person, but she had no desire to see evil deeds take place right in front of her eyes.
Since she had anticipated it, preparing early was only natural.
With a plan set in her mind, Gu Weiwei began operating the panel.
[Spend 3,000 Points to purchase 3 apartment buildings?]
“Yes.”
Immediately after, Gu Weiwei positioned the 3 apartment buildings directly. After spending points to unlock them, she listed them for rent right away.
Then she began browsing through the Doomsday Landlady System Mall once more.
Ever since the Doomsday Landlady System Mall upgraded, Gu Weiwei had added a daily routine task for herself: frequently browsing through the store.
She felt that by looking at more products, if she ever needed a specific item down the line, she could deploy it at a moment’s notice.
Lo and behold, she immediately thought of a category of items.
After running a search, Gu Weiwei actually found two suitable products inside:
[Item: Sin Detector]
[Points: 2,000]
The Sin Detector could scan tenants’ Sin Values, calculated based on the number of human lives taken by their hands. It could display these values within twice the radius of the hotel’s controlled perimeter.
After reading the description, Gu Weiwei bought it without a second thought.
This was the single most expensive item she had bought to date, but she felt it was worth every single penny.
Once purchased, Gu Weiwei activated it right away.
And at that exact moment, a panel notification arrived:
[Hosted 5,292 tenants, condition met]
[Possess Doomsday Apartment *6, Tent Area 1, Ice and Snow World 1, condition met]
[Deduct 200 Points to upgrade Level 1 Hotel to Level 2 Hotel?]
“Yes.”
[Doomsday Hotel upgraded from Level 1 Hotel to Level 2 Hotel. Can unlock 200 additional rooms. Simultaneously, the control range has expanded from 200 meters to 400 meters.]
Following the range expansion, Gu Weiwei saw the fence model on the map expand outward directly, creating a sizeable stretch of bare new land that made the previously refined hotel look unrefined once more.
Gu Weiwei didn’t feel like bothering with it—at any rate, she had already claimed the previous reward.
Just as that thought crossed her mind, another new notification arrived from the system:
[Detected that Doomsday Hotel’s aesthetic rating has dropped below 50%. Please increase it as soon as possible, or the reward may be revoked.]
Gu Weiwei: “…”
Seriously not giving anyone room to cut corners!
Holding onto special buildings wasn’t easy either!
[Congratulations Host, obtained Special Effect: Coolness. Effect lasts for 2 hours.]
Suddenly, a brand-new notification popped up on Gu Weiwei’s player panel.
Seeing this notification, Gu Weiwei was instantly amazed.
So this was where the special building’s effect manifested?
This effect… was honestly downright incredible!
Instinctively, Gu Weiwei glanced at the time.
She had stayed inside the Ice and Snow World for almost 4 hours!
Trading 4 hours to gain 2 hours of portable cooling was relatively worthwhile; it completely depended on how players chose to utilize it.
“Holy crap, this Ice and Snow World can actually grant players a special effect?!”
“What special effect?”
“It says you can get a ‘Coolness’ effect that lasts for 2 hours! I’m going outside the Doomsday Hotel right now to test it out.”
“How long were you inside?”
“Forgot, probably around 4 or 5 hours!”
“That long?!”
“Let’s stay inside longer too and see.”
“Calculating the time conversion, this is way too worth it!”
“Right!”
“…”
Several players discovered this point as well, and in an instant, the entire Ice and Snow World grew noisy and bustling, with the news spreading rapidly across the grounds.
Watching this scene unfold, Gu Weiwei quietly returned her focus to the panel.
Green belts, flagstone paths, lawns… She laid them down across the new open space bit by bit until the aesthetic rating recovered back to 50%.
Of course, with a few open plots remaining, Gu Weiwei directly bought two more apartment buildings, placing and unlocking them right away. This added another 200 rooms and 1,600 beds.
Looking at the map again, 6 apartment buildings were neatly arranged in a row, making the property look truly proper and organized.
After configuring and applying the setup, Gu Weiwei continued browsing through the Mall.
The Sin Detector meant to track player sin values had already been deployed, effectively cutting off threats posed by dangerous players.
Now she needed to make the Doomsday Hotel’s environment even more stable from another angle.
The Recycling Cabinet fulfilled this function to a certain extent, promoting the circulation of points so that players’ points inside the Doomsday Hotel wouldn’t just be outgoing without returns.
However, the role of the Recycling Cabinet was far from enough.
For now, most of the items inside the Recycling Cabinet belonged to her, though a small portion was directly recycled by the Doomsday Landlady System—all with her explicit consent, of course.
Combined with the fact that she had purchased so many buildings and items from the Doomsday Landlady System, while she earned points from players, the Doomsday Landlady System likely earned points from her as well.
This meant she could also find ways to scoop points back out from the Doomsday Landlady System’s hands.
If she integrated the Doomsday Landlady System into this economic loop, the Doomsday Hotel’s internal “economy” might come truly alive.
What started out as just a wild, speculative idea turned out to be fruitful when Gu Weiwei actually discovered a suitable building inside:
[Item: Integrated Crop & Livestock Farm (Manual Version)]
[Points: 2,000 Points]
An integrated crop and livestock farming park capable of growing crops and raising livestock, requiring manual operation. System can recycle produce and livestock yields, split 50/50 between host and system.
This is the one!
Even without recycling, being able to grow crops and raise livestock under an apocalypse game setting was extraordinarily useful.
Gu Weiwei selected and purchased it without a second thought.
Upon completing the purchase, another massive building appeared on the map.
Luckily, the Doomsday Hotel had just upgraded; otherwise, placing it really wouldn’t have been easy.
Unlike the open land she had imagined, the farm park was not a wide field, but rather a multi-story building structure.
The building was partitioned into two halves: crop cultivation on the left and livestock farming on the right. Most astonishingly, each floor simulated the specific environmental conditions needed for crop growth and livestock care.
At this moment, Gu Weiwei felt a profound, stark gap between the technological level behind the Doomsday Landlady System and her own world.
Letting out a soft breath, Gu Weiwei tossed that thought to the back of her mind.
She didn’t possess that kind of high-level capacity anyway! Why worry about things out of her control?
Gu Weiwei then turned her focus entirely onto this Integrated Crop & Livestock Farm.
Once placement was completed, a system notification arrived:
[Integrated Crop & Livestock Farm requires staff. Please recruit as soon as possible.]
“What about staff wages?” Gu Weiwei asked instinctively.
[Note: After recruitment, staff wages will be provided by the system.]
Seeing this notification, the corners of Gu Weiwei’s lips twitched involuntarily.
Without saying much more, she immediately began drafting a recruitment notice.
As for seeds and other supplies needed for farming and breeding, Gu Weiwei didn’t even bother asking—since the system needed it, let the system worry about it.
Both sides making investments was only fair!
Gu Weiwei posted the announcement real quick.
As long as this trial run succeeded, she figured there might be many more opportunities in the future.
While Gu Weiwei was busy operating her panel, players on the other side had barely finished immersing themselves in the special effects of the Ice and Snow World when they were once again stunned by continuous changes across the Doomsday Hotel.
The Doomsday Hotel seemed to have upgraded yet again, again, and again!!!
“The range expanded again!”
“Three apartment buildings were added in front earlier, and now two more popped up!”
“Finally, my wait paid off!”
“Yeah, as of right now, room capacity is super abundant!”
“But a huge wave of players is heading toward the Doomsday Hotel right now! Hiding the existence of the Doomsday Hotel is going to be tough.”
“Doesn’t matter! As long as the Doomsday Hotel can keep upgrading to host more players, having more players isn’t a problem at all.”
“Exactly, as long as it can grow, there’s hope!”
“Having a bed is so great! This time I don’t have to worry about dying outside without knowing it.”
“Even if you have a bed, don’t get too complacent. Recently in the front apartment buildings, vacated beds popped up every now and then—those players had all died outside, so we still need to be careful!”
“That’s true. The environment outside is clearly getting harsher by the day, so it’s still best to team up with a suitable squad.”
“Hey hey hey, am I seeing things? I suddenly see text floating above someone’s head!”
“…”
As some people were chatting, they suddenly saw text pop up floating above a group of incoming people’s heads.
Looking over as the group drew near, everyone was completely stunned when reading the floating text:
[Sin Value: 8]
[Danger Level: Medium]
A group of players looked at one another in a daze, their expressions somewhat dazed and hesitant.
“Our squad is recruiting members to go out and scavenge supplies. Do you guys want to join?” The group suddenly appeared before them and extended an invitation.
“No thanks!” The next second, the group dispersed all at once.
This group of incoming players felt something was slightly off, and when they looked at one another, they noticed the text displaying different numbers above each other’s heads.
Understanding that the sins they had committed were displayed right above their heads, they finally realized why other players reacted that way upon seeing them.
What difference was there between this and having your clothes stripped off in broad daylight?
“Boss, this…”
“Move!” the leader of this small team ordered in panic.
The group took off in a flash.
News of the Sin Values spread throughout the entire Doomsday Hotel in an instant.
Players with a clear conscience weren’t afraid in the slightest, throwing themselves with joy into the Doomsday Hotel’s “new” changes.
And during this brief span of time, the second batch of players who received the advertisement began arriving at the Doomsday Hotel one after another as night fell.