Bai Liu woke up and found himself sitting in the back seat of a car. The interior of the car was cramped and small, and the worn backs of the chairs smelled of real cigarettes. Water was streaming down the windows, and he could vaguely see the sound of drizzling rain outside through the glass. The sky was dim and he could not tell whether it was dusk or night. There was still a faint smell of salty fish lingering in his nostrils, which made him feel uncomfortable.
There was a floating panel in front of him, on which was written - [Game Instructions].
Bai Liu frowned.
Where is this? Why is he here? What is this panel?
The panel seemed to be able to sense the doubts in his heart and displayed the answers one by one.
[You are in a deadly game, and the reason you are here is because we detected that you have a strong desire for money after losing your job, which triggered the opening of the game]
As the words on the panel appeared one by one, Bai Liu finally remembered something.
Yes, that's right, he is unemployed.
He is a person who has a strong desire for money. He has loved money to an abnormal degree since he was a child. He was even diagnosed as a patient with "money hoarding disorder" by a psychiatrist. The doctor warned him that if he did not control his desire for money, he would sooner or later do something risking his life for money.
When he had a job, Bai Liu had a fixed monthly income that could barely control his desire for money, but when he lost his job, Bai Liu fell into an uncontrollable urge to hoard money at all costs. His psychiatrist said that this was a normal psychological state for laid-off office workers, and asked him to calm down and go out to see the world and relax.
Bai Liu just wanted to sneer after hearing this. Without money, if you go out you can only see hell and not the world, okay?
Bai Liu sarcastically asked the psychiatrist: "After I go out and see the world, will I become rich?"
The psychiatrist exclaimed: "Of course not, you will become even poorer."
Bai Liu: “…” Don’t you fucking know what’s going to happen?
"But when you become poorer, you will find..." the psychiatrist comforted Bai Liu, "Being poor is just like this. Money is just a thing outside of your body. Why should you torture yourself so much?"
Bai Liu asked the psychiatrist expressionlessly: "Is it painful to meet a patient like me?"
Psychologist: “…” Pain.
Bai Liu laughed: "Why are you torturing yourself so much? Why don't you quit your job and go out for a walk?"
Psychologist: “…” For money. I dare not go out without money.
Wang burst into tears.
After making countless psychiatrists cry, Bai Liu clapped his hands and sighed, saying that poverty is truly the best weapon to attack human beings.
It means that if you injure others eight hundred times, you will injure yourself a thousand times.
Fortunately, this psychiatrist is free from the community, otherwise Bai Liu would be even poorer.
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After Bai Liu lost his job, he fell into extreme anxiety and could not adjust at all. He dreamed that he became rich overnight and sat in a pile of money and laughed happily. After waking up, the huge gap between dreams and reality often made him feel even more depressed because he only had a five-digit savings.
In this kind of unrelieved job anxiety and self-conflict, Bai Liu would rest his chin on his hand and dream whenever he had time - if only there was a way to make money with high risks in this world, he could give up his life, but he wanted money!
He told his friend his thoughts, and his friend comforted him, saying, "Have you seen the book "Criminal Law" on the bookshelf on your wall?"
Bai Liu said he saw it.
My friend told me that if you just open any page and find an entry, there will be a high-risk job that can make money. If you work hard, you can even get on the expedited list for this month.
Bai Liu: “…”
Bai Liu doesn't want to break the law, but is there no way to make money quickly without breaking the law? My friend said that you can make money faster by dreaming.
Even if it means risking his life, he still wants money—this is what Bai Liu thought as he lay in bed dreaming and lost consciousness before being dragged into this game.
The memory ended, and Bai Liu looked at the game panel floating in front of him.
Another line of words appeared on the panel: [Yes, it is your strong desire that opened the game, and as long as you successfully complete the game, you can get everything you want]
Bai Liu said without hesitation: "I want money."
Who cares what game it is, he just wants to make money.
After a while, Bai Liu asked again: "Is your game legal?"
Panel: […Legal]
Panel: [You will earn points after completing the game, and the points can be exchanged for money and everything you want]
Bai Liu: "What kind of game is this? How can I pass the game and get the points you mentioned?"
Panel: [This is a horror escape game filled with ghosts, murderers, and incredible things. What you have to do is to find their weaknesses, complete the entire game copy, and survive successfully from them.]
[The game instance is loading... Loading completed]
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[Game dungeon name: "Siren Town"]
[Level: Level 1 (Games with a player mortality rate of less than 50% are considered Level 1 games)]
[Mode: Single Player]
[General description: This is a game that combines exciting action and puzzle elements. It is very popular among players, but it seems not very friendly to newcomers. The mortality rate of newcomers is very high.]
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[Loading player information... Loading completed——]
【Player name: Bai Liu】
[Health: 100 (When health is less than 60, the player's attack power decreases, and when it reaches zero, the player dies)]
[Physical Strength: 80 (full of physical strength)]
[Agility: 25 (You sit at a desk all year round, your body is stiff and not very agile)]
[Attack: 30 (Only high school girls have the ability to attack by throwing schoolbags at people)]
[Intelligence: 89 (You are unexpectedly smart)]
[Luck: 0 (You have been incredibly unlucky throughout your life. If your company were to lay off one person, that person would definitely be you)]
[Skills: None (You don’t have any skills yet)]
[Spirit value: 100 (You are the first player this year to have a full spirit value after logging into the game)]
There is a line of small red text below the spirit value.
(Note: Please ensure that the player's spirit value is higher than 60. If the spirit value is lower than 60, the player will become insane and the attributes of each character panel will be halved; if it is lower than 40, the player will see hallucinations that do not belong to the game, making it more difficult to clear the game; if it is lower than 20, the player will go crazy, the attack power panel attributes will randomly soar, and all kinds of creatures will be killed; if the spirit value is 0, the player will be completely assimilated by the copy and become one of the monsters)
[Comprehensive evaluation of the player's panel attributes - F-level player, the lowest-level player, but due to the special determination of the spirit and intelligence values, the rating is questionable. The final player level is recorded as - F (?)]
After Bai Liu scanned the entire character panel, he looked at the question mark after the F and felt as if he was being mocked in an invisible way. He deleted the character panel and a new panel popped up on the screen.
[You have landed on the small TV screen in the new player area (1/100). Currently, no one is here for you. The player Bai Liu's popularity value is 0 and the krypton gold rate is 0]
Bai Liu frowned: "What is this?"
Panel: [Your game progress will appear on the small screen in the new player area of the player lobby for other players to watch, but currently no one is watching your game progress, and no one is paying for your game progress. You are currently unknown.]
Bai Liu understood a little bit, it was just like a game anchor, but it didn't matter. His focus was on the payout rate: "If someone pays for me, I can get points, right?"
Panel: [Yes]
[The game starts now. Good luck to you, new player.]
The panel was like a turned-off TV screen; it flashed a white light before Bai Liu's eyes and then disappeared.
In a certain game hall, a small screen suddenly lit up, showing Bai Liu's elegant and fair face. There were many similar screens around this small screen, showing the terrified faces of various new players. Some curled up like hedgehogs, holding their heads, refusing to accept reality, and some howled and kept hitting the screen, trying to get out.
Bai Liu was the only one who showed no sign of being frightened, standing out from the crowd of panicked new players.
Everyone looked up at the screen that suddenly lit up and discussed it with interest.
"There are new people coming in. I don't know how long they can last."
"Looking at the background, is this a copy of the game Siren Town?"
"This group of new players has really bad luck. The mortality rate of new players in Siren Town is very high. Last time, wasn't there a hundred players who logged in, and only one was left?"
"The game dungeons randomly given to new players recently are too difficult. But it's still funny to see these new players so scared that they pee and poop!"
"Wait!" Suddenly, a passing player approached the screen where Bai Liu was, as if he had discovered something extraordinary. He looked at Bai Liu's character panel and said in disbelief, "There's a new player here with a spirit value of 100!"
"What?!"
"Move aside so I can see too!"
"Damn! Are the newbies so perverted now?! A spirit value of 100?!"
"The last person to land with a spirit value of 100 is now in the top ten of the game's total points list."
"Potential seed! Let me have some too!"
Bai Liu's small screen flickered, and a mechanical voice reported in a steady voice:
[Fifty people gathered around the TV screen of player Bai Liu. Player Bai Liu achieved the first-timer achievement and unlocked the one-key triple-link system.]
[Twenty-eight people liked the video of player Bai Liu, and fifty-six people collected the small TV of player Bai Liu. No one recharged the player Bai Liu. Please continue to be awesome, player Bai Liu]
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