Chapter 164: Spirit Exploration Live Room
[Logged into the Dungeon Tanling Live Room]
[Instance star rating: ★★★★☆]
[Players please receive basic information/copy tasks. 】
[Players please confirm the additional task: & (……%&￥……]
After a brief period of weightlessness, Xu Zhiyan emerged from the familiar darkness.
Before he opened his eyes, a strong musty smell rushed into his nose. He frowned as if he was going to suffocate in the next second.
The feeling of oppression coming from the air makes people dare not take it lightly.
Holding his breath, Xu Zhiyan slowly opened his eyes a little to observe, but found that the surroundings were dark?
However, compared to other players, he had an absolutely safe period of fifteen minutes after entering the dungeon, during which he could briefly communicate with the safe house system, so he was not that scared.
[Host, be careful not to fall! We are now in a room without windows. There is a chair in front of you, and there is a mobile phone on the table across the chair! There is also a small table lamp next to it...]
It stopped talking halfway.
Because Xu Zhiyan took out his cell phone from his backpack.
His own live broadcast room was being played on his phone, which was also pitch black inside, but at least there was a white border of the bullet screen. A not-too-bright light shone through the small screen, allowing him to see the scene in front of him clearly. However, to the players in the live broadcast room, it just looked like a piece of wood that emitted a faint light.
Groping his way to the door, he found the light switch.
“Pah—”
The light bulb on the ceiling made a crackling sound and flickered a few times before finally lighting up.
Xu Zhiyan looked at the scene in front of him, and his already frowned brows relaxed a little.
This looks like a cheap bedroom.
Messy quilts and clothes were piled on the bed, a few pairs of shoes were placed casually at the foot of the bed, and a simple clothes hanger appeared at the head of the bed. The only valuable thing in the whole room was the computer and mobile phone placed on the computer desk opposite the bed.
But what makes people feel uncomfortable is not the contents of this simple room, but the green mold that keeps growing and spreading on the surrounding white walls.
Throughout the room, where the floor and the wall meet, there is a thick circle of mold.
Seeing that Xu Zhiyan was still looking around the room, the safe house system couldn't wait any longer.
[Host! We are so lucky! There seems to be a slice here!] As soon as it entered this copy, it received a task notification. Although the notification was just garbled, it was enough!
After a brief moment of happiness, it carefully reminded its host.
[However, the mission notes of this copy are very strange, and are different from other copies. Host, please be careful.]
As it spoke, it pulled up the notes given for the task.
【Welcome to the world of rules, where rules will be your guarantee of survival. 】
[Players need to find the rule slip and decide whether to follow the rules. ]
【Click here to view the gift rules. 】
【Tip: The gifting rules of the system are all true. 】
Looking at this confusing content, Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat.
[It clearly states that rules are the guarantee of survival, but it also allows players to decide for themselves whether to follow the rules?] The system looked at the first two pieces of task information and always felt that they were contradictory.
"The meaning of the task is that players need to judge the authenticity of the rules by themselves." Xu Zhiyan explained.
Reach out and click on the panel, and the rules given by the system appear on the panel.
1. They are everywhere and there are so many of them.
2. They are in your room.
3. They are gentle and they like games.
【4. You can play games with them, but remember, never lose. 】
"them?"
This wording made Xu Zhiyan stunned for a moment.
In the past, the system used very standard terms, using "he" for humans and "it" for monsters.
After a brief pause, he raised his head and looked around.
It was still a cheap and dirty room, and there was no one here except him.
But the information given now shows that they are in the room...
As if he had thought of something, Xu Zhiyan took out various props that could be used to see spirits, but all he saw was an empty and messy room.
He then summoned the slug spirit.
The young creature that liked to devour spirits was a tiny one. It lay in Xu Zhiyan's palm, poking its head out, but didn't seem to find any food, so it quickly shrank into a ball.
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan took back the slug spirit.
Although he couldn't confirm whether 'they' were here, he was relieved to know that there were no ghosts in the traditional sense.
After checking, click on the task.
There were a lot of tasks for this copy all of a sudden, and the full text almost filled up the game panel.
[Main Quest [Part 1]: Start the live broadcast of ghost hunting. ]
【Task 1: Clean the room】
[Progress: Not Completed]
[Additional tasks:? ? ]
[Progress: ? ? ]
[Note: This rental house is your room, but you haven't cleaned it for a long time. You need to clean it now. ]
[Tip: The landlord wants to rent out other rooms. He knows you want to be a streamer, and he promises you a selfie stick as long as you clean the room.]
[Reward: Dual-purpose bracket selfie stick]
[Task 2: Become a ghost-hunting anchor]
[Progress: Not Completed]
[Note: You need to become a ghost search anchor today and start your first live broadcast. Say hello to your audience now! ]
[Tip: The audience in the live broadcast room is your bread and butter. The audience will decide where you will go to live broadcast ghost hunting next. If you can satisfy the audience, you will get rewards. ]
[Reward: None]
[Side Quest: Their Game]
[Progress: 0%]
[Note: Players can choose to play the game with them or ignore them. ]
【Tip: If you lose the game, you will die. 】
[Reward: Their Favorability]
After a quick glance, Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips and spoke in confusion after a long time.
"…What the hell is this branch line?"
According to the rules provided by the main system, there are a lot of 'them', and there seems to be 'them' in this room as well.
There is no way to tell what 'they' are right now.
But first we should rule out the option of living people.
After taking a look at the computer, Xu Zhiyan did not leave the room rashly. Instead, he sat on the chair and reached out to press the power button. This time he was a ghost-hunting anchor, so there should be something in the computer.
The boot speed is very fast, and the icon appears with a full sense of technology.
After a few seconds, the computer started up and a green pop-up window popped up in the lower right corner.
[Congratulations! Your boot speed has surpassed 99% of users nationwide! You are the awesome machine god! ]
“…”
Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and clicked the cross decisively.
However, thanks to the pop-up window, the humorous text content eased the tense atmosphere a little.
This should be a new computer.
The desktop is empty, except for a few basic icons, there is only a black camera-like ICON in the upper right corner.
【Exciting Live Broadcast】
Looking at the name of the live broadcast software and the name of the combined copy, Xu Zhiyan gave his approval.
"That's a reasonable name."
Live ghost hunting is really exciting.
When I think that I’m about to become one of those people who voluntarily die in horror movies, I feel a little excited... What a bullshit!
He moved the mouse over and double-clicked the software with a look of despair on his face.
The original owner seemed to have already registered, and when he clicked on it he entered the anchor's backstage.
[Name: Xu Zhiyan]
【Gender: Male】
[Specialties: Psychic Detection, Women's Clothing, Gambling, Fraud]
Seeing the above content, Xu Zhiyan's breath was choked, and he gave the monitor the middle finger in an unbearable manner.
"Women's clothing? Fraud?"
[Host, calm down! This message should be randomly generated.] It is still within the safe time, and the safe house system comforts the host in time.
In fact, as can be seen from gambling, these contents are items added by the main system based on what the players have done before, but as the protagonist of the live broadcast room, the ones selected are all more impactful specialties.
In Xu Zhiyan's live broadcast room, the audience burst into laughter after seeing these contents.
【Haha ...
[I am dying of laughter. These elements add up to a popular song. Haha. 】
[The main system understands live broadcasting! ]
[I came to see Little Millions right after it was aired, and I didn’t expect it to be so exciting right from the start! ]
[Hahahahaha! It’s indeed an exciting live broadcast! ]
[A gambler who doesn't dress up as a woman is not a good swindler! ]
[Wait a minute, brothers, I have a small question. Didn’t Xiao Baiwan just come out of a dungeon? What kind of god is this who works non-stop? ]
[And it seems that there is no male mother or dog trainer in this copy. ]
[Compared to your questions, I want to know whether Xiao Baiwan wants to dress up as a woman and go live to search for ghosts. ]
【↑Do you believe that Xiao Baiwan will come out and chop you down? 】
[Hahahaha, he definitely won’t, but if there are guests who spend money in the live broadcast room in the game, he should be able to do it, right? He definitely will! ]
Considering the time constraints, Xu Zhiyan did not continue to dwell on his specialty.
He found that he couldn't become a host for the time being.
【Please confirm whether the equipment is complete as soon as possible. 】
A line of small words appeared on the confirmation button, saying "It is detected that the anchor does not have a live broadcast device (selfie stick), please buy it as soon as possible. [Click here to upload the picture]"
"Because we need enough equipment, are we sending out two tasks at the same time?"
He closed the live broadcast interface and didn't bother looking for the selfie stick.
Since the system has given the task, it means that there must be no such thing in the room, which means that this messy room must be cleaned.
After checking the time and confirming that there were still more than ten minutes left, Xu Zhiyan searched the computer again, but didn't find any other useful information. He put down the mouse, stood up, and prepared to complete Task 1.
[Host! No danger detected around!]
The safe house system dutifully ensures safety for fifteen minutes.
Xu Zhiyan nodded, found a long-handled umbrella at the door, used the tip of the umbrella as a stick, and poked around, looking for clues.
This is a two-bedroom house.
The small windowless room where he was was the second bedroom, and opposite the room was a spacious and bright master bedroom.
Watching the evening sun setting outside the window, Xu Zhiyan was a little confused.
"So why doesn't the second bedroom have a window?"
He thought he was living in some random basement this time!
The master bedroom only has an extra-large double bed, and other than that it is empty. There is not even a bedside table, and there is only a bed board on the bed. It looks only slightly better than the unfinished house. Like the second bedroom, there is a lot of mold and dust here.
Judging from the view outside the window, he is currently on the seventh or eighth floor.
No more worrying about the floor.
After making sure there was no valuable information in the master bedroom, Xu Zhiyan closed the door and planned to explore the entire house while it was absolutely safe.
Next is the dim bathroom which is similar to the second bedroom.
I don’t know what the landlord was thinking. He put a bathtub in the innermost part of the already small bathroom, which made the already tight space even worse. It looks so crowded at a glance.
After taking a look at the single toiletries on the shelf, Xu Zhiyan stopped complaining.
He passed the living room which was also covered with dust and checked the kitchen first.
Similar to the bathroom, the kitchen is also a severely affected area.
As soon as Xu Zhiyan opened the sliding door of the kitchen, he was almost suffocated. The splattered oil inside had turned black, the unknown rotten food had also become smelly, the sink was covered with thick white hair, and a fungus carnival was visible to the naked eye.
He looked at the task panel, then looked at the white hair in the pool, and fell into deep thought.
Do we need to go out and live stream ghost hunting? Our home is scary enough.
There is no opening kill in the low-star copy, and the safe house system will be offline as time goes by.
[Wuwuwuwu host, come on, if you can find a safe house in advance, you can go home early!] It tried to cheer up its host.
Xu Zhiyan’s smile froze.
Forget it. Not to mention that the extra tasks this time are all garbled and he doesn't know the strength and status of the slices, just the fact that the sealed safe house is usually the most dangerous place in the copy is enough to give him a headache.
Finally, fifteen minutes were up.
The safe house system was reluctantly taken offline.
Xu Zhiyan thought that he had roughly explored the entire house and there should be no problem, only small details left. However, the moment the safe house system went offline, he felt something strange while standing at the kitchen door.
A feeling of being stared came from all directions.
He stood there without moving, just slightly turning his head and looking around.
Nope, still nothing.
There was no other living being breathing in the room except him.
As if he had thought of something, Xu Zhiyan tried to take a few steps towards the gate. The umbrella in his hand had already touched the gate, but he just stayed where he was.
There seems to be something in front of me.
Although the umbrella passed through, he could clearly feel that there was something in front of him.
Without the protection of absolute safety time, more and more eyes were on him. Although there was no ill intention, it made people feel very uncomfortable.
Xu Zhiyan tried to adjust his breathing and slowly took back the umbrella in his hand.
Humans are afraid of unknown things, and he is no exception. However, his long experience has prevented him from shouting and screaming when encountering something unusual. Instead, he quickly calmed down.
Something is wrong.
There is something else in this room.
He thought of the rules of the game:
There are a lot of them in the room, they are very gentle, it's okay if you don't provoke them...
If nothing unexpected happened, those eyes that fell on him should be "theirs".
Xu Zhiyan hesitated for a moment, raised his hand, and reached out in front of him. Before he could fully stretch his hand, he touched something.
It was a smooth texture, hard to tell whether it was cold or warm, a bit like human skin that had been soaked in water?
The magical unknown creature is standing right in front of you. It cannot be seen, and dead objects cannot touch it, but living things can sense it and even touch its specific form.
Xu Zhiyan suppressed his panic and spoke calmly.
"Hey, can I touch you?"
Gentle! The rules say they are gentle! Don't panic!
After saying hello, he moved his palm along the skin of the invisible creature in front of him.
Shoulders, neck, chest, belly...
For a moment, Xu Zhiyan's mind was filled with images of aliens, but thinking of the texture lines that occasionally appeared in his palm, he still concluded that 'they' looked similar to ordinary humans, except that they were invisible. He didn't know if he was separated from these guys just now because of the protective barrier of the safe house.
In the live broadcast room, the audience was already furious.
[Hey, hey, hey, you're just touching me? Is that the polite way to communicate?]
[Damn, I was wondering how Xiao Baiwan had such good luck. He walked all the way from the bedroom to the kitchen without bumping into a single monster.]
[Monster? Shit? Is this invisible thing a monster? ]
[Ahhhh yes! I just came out of the live broadcast room next door. Hiss, so scary! ]
[What happened? I saw that Xiao Baiwan was touching her very enthusiastically.]
Seeing that other viewers were curious, the person who jumped over from another live broadcast room began to talk about the experiences of other players in the same copy.
These invisible creatures are what the Master System calls 'them'.
No one knows yet whether these guys are spirits or entities. All they know is that inanimate objects, including clothes, cannot touch them, and only the player's physical body can touch 'them'.
But the rules given by the main system are not comprehensive. There are other rules to follow when facing 'them'.
[Someone was unlucky. He accidentally touched the monster while searching in the bedroom. He screamed loudly for a long time. Then in the live broadcast room, one could see that his exposed skin seemed to be pinched by many hands and started to be pulled out...]
[Ahhhh, stop talking, I have images in my mind! ]
[Props! Throw props! Damn!]
[If they could have fought, they would have fought earlier! The player used all his skills and threw all his items around, but none of them could hit the monsters. A healthy person was torn to pieces. Tsk, t ...
[It seems that monsters hate screaming? Hiss, I wonder what the decibel limit is. ]
[However, some people have found a solution! Cover yourself with a blanket and you won't be touched by these monsters! ]
After all, it is a four-and-a-half-star dungeon, and the players who can enter it have experienced a lot.
Soon someone found a way to crack the problem and put it into practice. They started cleaning the room under a blanket. Although it was tiring and they were sweating profusely under the blanket, it was obviously much safer than facing those invisible and intangible monsters head-on.
Maybe Xu Zhiyan touched it for too long, and some people in the live broadcast room started to worry about him.
[What is Xiao Baiwan doing...still touching? ? ]
[Fuck, I'm impressed by their courage, but these monsters do have good tempers. They're almost touching the back of their heads, right?]
[So Xiao Baiwan is planning to stay here all night? Testing her temper?]
[Hurry up and find some clothes to cover your body and clean up! It’s already evening, and it will be dark in two hours. If you finish cleaning quickly, you can get the selfie stick from the landlord and start live streaming before dark! ]
But no matter how anxious the audience in the live broadcast room was, Xu Zhiyan himself didn't seem to be anxious at all.
After touching one of them, Xu Zhiyan stood at the kitchen door and suddenly asked, "Can you understand me?"
No response.
These strange life forms did not move at all.
Xu Zhiyan was not discouraged. He tried to hint and ask questions to the monsters.
"Do you like playing games?"
If these invisible and tangible creatures are really 'them', then they will definitely respond to this game invitation, and there will definitely be other players trying the game.
Sure enough, after the word "game" was mentioned, 'they' responded.
The lights in the living room flickered twice, and the drawer under the TV cabinet suddenly opened. A pen floated out from it and wrote two words on the wall.
[like]
These two words are enough to prove that 'they' can understand human language and communicate.
After confirming their identities, Xu Zhiyan smiled and extended an invitation to 'them'.
"Would you like to play a game?"
[good]
[Playing with Pen Fairy]
'They' responded quickly and named the game.
When the two words "Bixian" appeared in the live broadcast room, the barrage of comments started to fill up quickly again.
[Ahhhh, don't agree to it! You can refuse! ]
[Hmm? What? Is there something wrong with this pen fairy? ]
[There is an old lady next door who agreed to play Pen Fairy. Now she seems to be dying. The size of these monsters is judged very strangely. Once you start playing, the weight of the monsters in all the rooms will be on your hand. Fortunately, the old lady only used one hand and barely survived after cutting off her wrist...]
[Hiss——A broken hand at the beginning? That’s a bit hard to handle! ]
[However, these monsters don't seem to be very intelligent. You can ignore or reject them. Just don't agree and lose! I see some talented people working hard under the pressure. ]
Just when the audience was getting anxious and angry, Xu Zhiyan spoke again.
"Not fun, change it."
He was not sure whether these monsters had any malicious intentions, but the game of Pen Fairy sounded fucking terrifying. He was not a fool, so how could he let these monsters choose the game?
"This game is too boring. Let's play something else today."
As he spoke, he walked to the drawer, pulled out a dozen papers and pens, and began to tear the paper into small pieces while saying, "You all look like you haven't been out for a long time. I have a new and popular game here. I guarantee you will like it."
[What game?]
'They' like games, of all kinds.
"The name of this game is Script... Role Playing. We draw lots and each person gets a new identity. Then for the next day we act according to our current identity and cannot deviate from it. I will explain it in detail after you draw your role."
[good]
Looking at the words on the wall, Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief.
'They' finally fell into the trap.
"How many of you are there? I need to count the number of people..."
Soon, Xu Zhiyan used the game to figure out the number of 'them' in the room.
As the only person who knew how to play this game, in order to prevent 'them' from seeing the contents, he reached out and carefully tested the surroundings, and only wrote down the note after making sure that 'they' were not there.
A few minutes later, six slips of paper were placed on the table.
"You guys smoke first."
Xu Zhiyan was very polite and invited 'them' to draw their identities first.
The notes were swept away...
In the live broadcast room, the audience was a little dumbfounded.
[Awesome, this way we can figure out the quantity, what a great idea! ]
[That’s right! This is much better than the Landlord game chosen by others! ]
[It would be better if we did some mild role-playing... Shit? Look at the monsters' notes!]
[…Xiao Baiwan, you are worthy of being me! ]
[Is this the true face of the copy capitalist? Come, bring me my street lamp! ]
On the identity slips that the monsters opened, five [slaves] represented their identities for the next day.
Xu Zhiyan touched the last note with a smile, held it in his hand and then opened it.
【Owner】
"I'm sorry, everyone. You will all be my slaves for the next day!"
He wrote six slave notes and one master note, and hid the master's note in advance until the last moment.
"But after all, this is a game, so I won't be too hard on you all."
Xu Zhiyan pointed around and said hypocritically.
"It's a little dirty here, I hope my little slaves can clean it up quickly."
Although passive dead objects cannot be touched, through the interaction just now, he judged that 'they' can actively touch dead objects. In this case, they can do the work!
[good]
The gentle and honest 'they' left their mark on the wall.
The next moment, the faucet turned on, the broom flew up, and the rag was pinched in the hand by something.
The spring cleaning has begun.
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