Chapter 2: Ghost Town (I)



On the dark screen, black and red words scrolled.

Instance level: Level 1

Dungeon Difficulty: Four Stars

Instance name: Yangjia Town

Character name: Yang Le

Mission time: seven days

Dungeon Mission: Survive

Game Tips: If the player can restore the story of Yangjia Town and the degree of restoration reaches more than 80%, he can get double the task bonus.

Plot loading: Yangjia Town is a mysterious town, people are only allowed to enter but not leave. The quiet village is covered with white clouds. Someone's roar seems to be heard in the air, and the dilapidated city gate makes a creaking sound. There is no one in Yangjia Town in broad daylight, a dry well behind the house, a woman outside the door, why are the residents of Yangjia Town so abnormal?

System prompt: This dungeon mission is a seven-day mission. When the countdown to the end of the dungeon mission begins, the player's health must be above 60%. All situations that appear in the game are not bugs. Please be prepared. After three seconds of countdown, the player will possess the townspeople.

Five, four, three, two, one. The copy begins.

It's very cold.

Li Rushi sensed a chilly aura before he even opened his eyes.

She opened her eyes and slowly looked around. She was in a small shop with old shelves and poor lighting. There didn't seem to be any dust on the shop. There were some colorful paper figurines placed in the shop. The eyebrows and eyes of the figurines were roughly outlined, but with the bright red lips, they looked creepy for some reason. They looked even more unlucky in this gloomy shop.

Li Rushi looked around and found that there were no other items in the store except paper figurines. The funeral couplets, banners, gold and silver paper ingots, wreaths and shrouds that are common in funeral supply stores were not available here.

It looks a bit weird.

She was just about to look around the store when someone suddenly pushed the door open. It was an old man who looked unsteady on his feet. He walked towards Li Rushi tremblingly, "Ah Le, have the goods I ordered a few days ago arrived yet?"

Li Rushi looked at the old man in front of him. He was not tall, very thin, with a limp on his left leg. He leaned on a black wooden cane and looked to be about seventy years old. Perhaps because he didn't hear anyone's response, the old man's wrinkled face was full of confusion: "Ah Le, are you there? Can you hear me?"

The old man turned his head, as if looking for "A Le", but his cloudy eyes did not move. Li Rushi immediately understood - he was a blind man, and the cane he was leaning on should be a wayfinding stick. There was no black evil aura or red bloody aura on this man, proving that he had never done anything bad, nor had he killed anyone.

Li Rushi understood and answered, "I'm here."

The old man seemed relieved. He looked in her direction. Somehow, the moment the cloudy eyes looked at her, Li Rushi felt a little uncomfortable, as if she was being stared at by something.

Her feeling was not wrong, but she still had to wait and see what happened. Li Rushi shook her head and put all this aside. The old man's intention was very clear. He said he was here to pick up the goods, so he should be here to pick up the paper figurines.

She looked around and found a bunch of newly made paper figures under the counter. The paint seemed to be not yet dry. She picked up the paper figures and walked to the old man in two or three steps: "Here are the goods, take them."

"Well, good, as long as there is stock, good as long as there is stock." The old man's wrinkled face finally showed a little smile, but he was really old, so it was better if he didn't smile. When he smiled, he looked like an unfolded orange peel. Li Rushi did not respond, and quietly watched the old man leave.

At the moment of delivering the goods just now, the old man's hand touched hers. Although it was only for a second, it was enough for her to tell: it was ice cold and did not look like a living person.

She still knew too little information. Li Rushi thought about it, put on the black coat hanging in the store, made sure she was wrapped up tightly, then locked the store door and went out to investigate.

Li Rushi looked around as he walked. This town was not small, with about 500 households. Almost every household had a white flag hanging in front of their door, even in front of the shops. In broad daylight, there was no one on the street. It was clearly summer judging by the sunlight, but the town was so gloomy and cold.

Li Rushi lowered his eyes. It was a very dangerous place. The game scene was quite amazing.

Originally, she thought she would not run into anyone and planned to go out again at night. Unexpectedly, when she passed by a blacksmith shop, she heard voices talking inside.

The people in the house soon noticed her, and soon a man with a shovel came out: "Who are you looking for?"

The man who came was a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a strong physique and a different look. He looked at her with some caution at first, and then turned into a hint of contempt. "You are a player too? Tsk, another novice player!"

Li Rushi had also seen the man’s identity through the numerical panel above his head.

Codename: Kurokawa

Age: 33

Force value: 65

Health: 70

Specialty: Knife skills

Special Ability: Hide

System Rewards: None

Cleared copies: 0

Game points: 1600

It turned out that he was also a player who entered the dungeon. Judging from his stats, he had already completed several dungeons. No wonder he looked down on the newbies.

Kurokawa did play two dungeons, but he survived the first time, and the second time he recognized a new great player in his country and passed the dungeon directly. Compared with the players who died in the dungeon, he was lucky and accumulated a lot of points. He also received a lot of attention because of this.

He himself did not have much combat experience, but compared with the rookies in the room, he was already pretty good, so he was very proud and naturally looked down on Li Rushi, who had mediocre numbers.

Li Rushi didn't care about the other party's attitude. Since he looked down on her, they should just work hard on the dungeon. Unexpectedly, Heichuan paused for a moment and tried to persuade her to stay: "Forget it, it's easy for a novice to get into trouble in a four-star dungeon. You'd better follow us. Come in, there are four other players inside."

Li Rushi frowned. She preferred to act alone, but it wouldn't hurt to get to know other players so as to avoid accidental injuries. So Li Rushi nodded and followed Heichuan into the store.

The four players in the store saw Heichuan leading people back and stood up to take a look. After seeing Li Rushi’s novice panel, the players sighed silently.

Li Rushi also looked at the players present. Most of them were novices. Only the player Pug, who possessed Wang Sufen, had cleared a dungeon. Noticing Li Rushi's gaze, Pug scratched his head in a simple manner.

As for the other three, like her, they were all complete novices. They were the blacksmith Uncle Yang's eldest son Yang Qingwen, codenamed "Silent", Uncle Yang's youngest daughter Yang Qingyu, codenamed "Yingxue", and the coffin shop owner Yang Yong, codenamed "Christ".

Everyone seemed reluctant to socialize. In fact, the new players who entered the game knew it was a horror game, but they didn't know it was so scary. At the beginning, there was a blacksmith shop. In the burning furnace, you could vaguely see a few charred bones. The window frames on the windows were shaky and creepy. There was also a cellar that couldn't be opened. Why did you vaguely feel that there was a sound inside?

All of this is quite scary, so among a bunch of trembling novices, the calm-faced Li Rushi looks very reliable. Moreover, the character she possessed, Yang Le, is also a strong young man with average features. But when he has no expression, he still looks a bit... handsome?

The audience in Kurokawa's live studio immediately noticed her. However, there were only a few small fish, not much of a splash. Even Kurokawa himself only had a few thousand viewers, most of whom were there because he was a good surviving player, and wanted to see how Kurokawa would pass the level this time.

Li Rushi looks very ordinary, no different from most novice players, and has not yet demonstrated his worthiness to be noticed.

The atmosphere in the blacksmith shop was pretty good at the moment. Everyone had exchanged names and were discussing the dungeon plot when there was a knock on the door.

"Bang... Bang... Bang" There was a very heavy knock on the door, so loud that it seemed to knock on people's hearts. Many viewers were frightened by the sound and complained in Heichuan's live broadcast room.

However, Li Rushi and the others naturally had no time to care. They exchanged glances and cautiously did not speak. After a few seconds, a hoarse and unusually cold female voice was heard from behind the store door.

"The town has provided food. You can come out and get it now."


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