Just as Li Heng was tapping away on his phone, typing at high speed, a new notice suddenly refreshed across the screens in the main hotel lobby.
Everyone’s eyes swished over toward them.
Upon reading the content displayed above, everyone froze.
[Recruitment Notice]
[Content: The Doomsday Hotel’s supporting structure—the Integrated Crop & Livestock Farm—requires several staff members. Recruitment is hereby opened. Interested individuals may register at the front desk. Selection results will be publicly posted after hiring.]
[Compensation: Room & Board + Performance Bonuses]
The Doomsday Hotel was actually hiring!
Once they snapped out of their daze, everyone bolted toward the front desk.
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Never mind performance bonuses—just for the room and board alone, they would flock to it like crazy.
After all, having room and board provided meant saving all their points, not to mention gaining complete safety.
Exerting themselves outside for a full day wasn’t even enough to cover a single day’s worth of food and drinks!
Sign up! Must sign up!
“The hotel is actually recruiting!”
“Integrated crop and livestock farm staff… is the hotel opening up farming and breeding too?”
“Maybe it’s to cut operational costs?”
“Either way, if we get selected, clearing this game zone is a guaranteed lock!”
“Yeah! Forget the distant future, live well in the present.”
“The new players arriving today have insanely good luck—not only did they manage to land rooms, but now they run right into recruitment!”
“Exactly.”
“…”
As they chatted, the front desk was already mobbed with players.
Li Heng, who had just finished posting his message, noticed it right away as well.
“Are you going to apply?” Li Heng looked at the surging crowd and asked Lu Difei. Even though he had arrived at the Doomsday Hotel, he still intended to follow in Lu Difei’s footsteps.
The Doomsday Hotel was a golden cheat for all players, but Lu Difei might be a personal cheat just for him.
Lu Difei shook his head and said directly: “It’s rare to encounter a place like the Doomsday Hotel in this game zone. If we get cozy and indulge in comfort now, what if there’s no Doomsday Hotel in the next game zone? We won’t be able to adapt to the environment. I plan to keep going outside to scavenge supplies.”
No matter the type of natural disaster, supplies were the ultimate king.
In critical moments, they could still be converted into points.
All in all, they didn’t have the qualification to sit back and enjoy luxury right now.
Most importantly, he believed that with the Doomsday Hotel as his backing, the points he could earn roaming outside would definitely be far higher than working a job inside.
“Alright! Master, take me with you then!” Hearing this, Li Heng seized the opportunity to climb right up.
Lu Difei didn’t refuse—he indeed needed an assistant.
At this time, Xu Zhao and Ye Yongcheng, listening to their conversation, chimed in directly.
“Can we tag along with you guys?” Ye Yongcheng urged quickly. “Our physical conditioning is pretty strong; we won’t hold you back.”
Hearing this, Lu Difei sized the two up and down for a moment. After confirming there were no Sin Values floating above their heads, he nodded. “Alright, let’s go together!”
And there were quite a few new players holding the exact same mindset as them.
Take Zuo Jinna and Fang Yangyang’s female squad, for instance.
“Do you want to rest first?” Zuo Jinna looked at Fang Yangyang and asked.
After a rational weighing of options, Zuo Jinna still chose to lead her team to roam outside more to adapt to the rhythm of the game. This point gained approval from everyone, but Fang Yangyang had barely escaped death just moments ago and was now insisting on tagging along again, which made her a bit worried.
“No need, I’ll go with you guys. I’m completely fine now. After all, using that potion cost me 15 points—I need to go outside with you to earn some back,” Fang Yangyang had returned the 15 points to Zuo Jinna right after waking up.
She was deeply grateful for Zuo Jinna’s decisive action. Compared to 15 points and her life, she naturally chose her own life.
Not to mention that this Doomsday Hotel actually offered ways to earn points—she would save them back little by little.
Seeing Fang Yangyang acting so resolute, Zuo Jinna didn’t say anything further, subsequently discussing plans with her teammates:
“We’ll return to our original neighborhood to search for supplies. Everyone pay attention—no one is allowed to wander off alone.”
“Got it.”
The target they selected was the residential community where their rental apartment was located.
After all, she was most familiar with the surrounding environment over there and knew which shopkeepers had closed down business.
Shops holding food and life supplies had basically been looted clean over these past few days anyway, but their goal wasn’t food—it was those idle resources that could be exchanged for points. That way, safety would be relatively higher.
In truth, only a small portion of players could resist the temptation of a stable job; the vast majority of players still submitted their resumes to the Doomsday Hotel.
Regardless of whether they could be selected or not, give it a try first!
This resulted in Gu Weiwei—the owner of the Doomsday Hotel—receiving several thousand resumes in an extremely short span of time, with the number still climbing.
After reading through a few randomly, Gu Weiwei got a massive headache.
Instinctively, Gu Weiwei spoke up: “System, how about you pick the employees?”
[System selecting employees in progress…]
Seeing that the Doomsday Landlady System actually took over the task, the corners of Gu Weiwei’s lips curled up involuntarily.
During this period, she had genuinely tested it out: the Doomsday Landlady System was clearly intelligent, it just didn’t have plans to initiate direct chatter with its host.
Still, for Gu Weiwei, this worked out fine too.
No need for excessive social interactions; having one person and one system quietly handle the tasks at hand was more than enough.
With someone handling the work, and the Doomsday Hotel having just upgraded—where the next stage’s tenant count required 10,000 people—given the rate of ad coverage and player arrival speed, it would probably take another few days anyway. Gu Weiwei was in no rush.
The next second, she pulled out her phone and entered the player forum directly.
Yesterday’s ad deployment had brought thousands of extra players to the Doomsday Hotel today.
A high probability meant many of these players would post feedback on the forum, which she happened to want to check out.
To her surprise, upon entering, Gu Weiwei immediately noticed a pinned post right at the top:
#The legend of the Doomsday Hotel is real! I have verified it for everyone—those who trust me, come!#
The most special thing about this post was that it was published by the forum’s founder himself.
The existence of the player forum could be said to have helped countless players; hence, the forum founder was highly respected across the board.
His voice was not something players would overlook.
Gu Weiwei was quite surprised upon seeing it.
This computer genius had arrived at the Doomsday Hotel today?
Thinking this, Gu Weiwei clicked in to read through.
Upon clicking inside, she saw the main thread content directly.
Inside, the situation of the Doomsday Hotel was introduced in rich detail, highlighting several key points:
Inside the Doomsday Hotel, the temperature is comfortable with zero heat.
Rooms in the Doomsday Hotel provide wash facilities.
Meals are available in the Doomsday Hotel—high quality and cheap price.
Special items can be purchased at the Doomsday Hotel to resist high temperatures and cure heat illness.
Special buildings exist inside the Doomsday Hotel, granting players special effects to resist extreme heat.
…
Reading through it, Gu Weiwei felt it sounded pretty enticing.
And below, the players’ reactions reflected this exact sentiment:
“Holy crap, how is this a hotel? This is a player’s heaven, isn’t it?”
“Is the Doomsday Hotel really that great?”
“I trust the moderator—looks like the Doomsday Hotel is real.”
“Already on the road! Contacted a friend from before who’s also at the Doomsday Hotel, and what he said matched the moderator’s post completely.”
“Upvoting! Arriving at the Doomsday Hotel is something you’ll never regret.”
“The moderator actually arrived at the Doomsday Hotel too? Is he in today’s batch? Can I get to know you?”
“I originally hadn’t made up my mind to go, but after reading the moderator’s intro, I’m preparing to head over.”
“Up until now, not a single person has expressed regret over going to the Doomsday Hotel, and they’ve all stayed active online. I actually believed such a mind-boggling existence!”
“Speaking of which, it’s not really that fantasy-like. After all, Blue Star’s gamification already happened and we’ve all become players—it’s not weird at all for anything else to pop up in this world.”
“Yeah! At least so many people have stepped out to confirm the Doomsday Hotel’s legitimacy.”
“Actually, there are plenty of regret posts, but they’re all regretting not going sooner!”
“Packing my luggage right now—taking advantage of the night to set off!”
“Posting from XX Street in Zone F—anyone wanting to go, come assemble!”
“…”
Evidently, the moderator’s influence was immense. Previous posts had tons of people refuting the Doomsday Hotel and claiming it was false advertising, but inside this thread, the vast majority believed it outright.
Gu Weiwei monitored some of the threads, among which there was no shortage of players from even further zones.
As player numbers grew, the speed of information transmission would get faster and faster. This meant that moving forward, player traffic at the Doomsday Hotel would genuinely never be lacking.
She just needed to sit back quietly and wait for people to arrive.
By the time Gu Weiwei finished browsing the forum, the Doomsday Landlady System had already compiled the employee list.
[Employee list finalized. Host, please confirm.]
[Once confirmed accurate, please publish!]
Gu Weiwei glanced through it, spotting several familiar names inside:
Yu Siyu, Zhang Jingze, …
These were all players who had arrived at the guesthouse early on.
Gu Weiwei confirmed the list right away.
The moment it was confirmed, the screen began publishing the name list.
In an instant, another wave of excitement erupted.
Every single player selected wept tears of joy.
“We all got picked!” Yu Siyu said to Zhang Jingze happily.
“Mm,” Zhang Jingze nodded with joy. Over this period, they had been searching for supplies day and night non-stop, and their whole squad had long integrated and stuffed their inventory slots completely full.
Under these circumstances, going outside was no longer a necessity for them.
Being able to stay and work inside the Doomsday Hotel with room and board covered was their absolute best choice.
In passing, they could also train their skills properly to prepare for entering the next game zone.
And whether it was newcomers like Li Heng, Lu Difei, Xu Zhao, Ye Yongcheng, Zuo Jinna, and Fang Yangyang, or earlier arrivals like Zhang Jingze and Yu Siyu, they could be said to represent microcosms of different player types.
No matter which path they chose, they were all striving to adapt to their environment and survive to the end!
Yet time would not stop for the players’ hard work—it continued to tick away regardless.
Day 10 of the game: High temperature weather, reaching 53°C.
Epidemics were spreading, and death tolls surged dramatically.
Day 11 of the game: High temperature weather, reaching 54°C.
Resources were depleted. More and more people took to the streets, and homicides stemming from food robbery broke out frequently. Corpses could be seen everywhere along the roads.
Day 12 of the game: High temperature weather, reaching 55°C.
Excessive heat and dry air caused fires to break out in many places. As flames spread, the city suffered massive destruction, compressing human survival space even further.
…
The game zone grew worse with each passing day, and more and more players surged toward the Doomsday Hotel.
After all, the relatively safe shelters many players had originally found were gradually unearthed by others—if they didn’t leave, they would face plundering by others.
At this stage, the danger players faced was no longer food or water, but local NPCs driven out of their minds by the extreme heat.
Players could gain liberation by enduring for a month, so they carried hope in their hearts. The NPCs didn’t know this—they had been struggling under grueling conditions continuously, unable to contact the outside world and unable to see a future. With their mental states collapsing, how could they preserve their sanity?
They couldn’t!
Dangerous incidents across the entire game zone escalated rapidly.
And as players gathered in large numbers inside and around the Doomsday Hotel—numerous in count and maintaining good mental states—some people in the game zone officially set their eyes on this place!