Chapter 13

[Feng Bujue, Level 13]

[Please select the game mode you wish to join.]

[You have selected Team Survival Mode (Normal). Please confirm.]

[Confirmed. Random team size generated: Two players.]

[You have entered the queue. Searching for other ready players.]

[Match complete. Coordinating neural connections. Scenario generating...]

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"Welcome to Thriller Paradise." This time, the voice was a woman's, very soft, like a whisper.

[Loading complete. You are currently in Team Survival Mode (Normal).]

[This mode offers a scenario introduction and has a chance of side hidden quests and a special worldview.]

[Scenario completion reward: Randomly draw one learnable skill card.]

[The scenario introduction will now play. The game will begin immediately after playback.]

Feng Bujue's body experienced a sense of weightlessness, and then the scenario's opening scene appeared before his eyes. The camera focused on the school gate, with the moon hanging in the sky. The school name on the wall read "Ye Jie High School." Looking in from the main gate, he could see the playground and the main building. Taking a closer look at the still frame, he could roughly determine that there were at least two other teaching buildings and a gymnasium within the school.

[Ye Jie High School, where the daytime clamor contrasts sharply with the nighttime silence. The school's inexpensive land was once the site of a mass burial ground. For more than twenty years after its construction, various bizarre and strange events have occurred from time to time. The fears lurking in people's hearts have transformed these events into various ghost stories, passed down by word of mouth among teachers and students...]

[At some point, a nursery rhyme called "The Seven Mysteries of the Academy" appeared...]

Hearing this, the system voice in Feng Bujue's ear suddenly changed into a little girl's childish and ethereal voice. This creepy voice spoke the content of the subtitles before him in a monotonous rhythm:

[Save him, save him... trapped in the well, can't go home. Don't look at him, don't look at him... or be buried beneath the dry well.

One two three, four five six... count the steps up the stairs. Quickly turn back, quickly turn back... thirteen steps must be avoided.

Drip, drip, drip, drip... the sound of water never stops. Bright red, bright red... don't look up into the mirror.

Sofare, Lasore... the piano keys tell of sorrow. Don't listen, don't listen... clapping after playing is most important.

Glug, glug, glug, glug... the fragrant smell makes your stomach rumble. Have a taste, have a taste... which bowl is human meat, which bowl is soup.

Waa, waa, waa, waa... the sound of infant cries in your ears. Hehe, hehe, hehe, hehe... bones as a cradle, skin as a sack.

Ghastly, bloody... a fierce ghost chases for your life. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid... demons and monsters can also be killed.]

After this passage was played, the CG scene remained unchanged, but the voice returned to the system's prompt tone. For the next two minutes, Feng Bujue heard the most amazing setting of all the online games he had ever played...

[You and your teammate will each receive a mobile phone. This item cannot be placed in the knapsack and can only be held in hand.]

[The phone has sufficient battery power and can display the current scenario time. It contains one speed dial number, which is your teammate's phone number.]

[This phone cannot call any number other than the speed dial number and does not contain other functions (such as SMS). The ringtone cannot be turned off or reset.]

[The scenario will be timed after it begins. You and your teammate can make a one-minute limited-time call every fifteen minutes, starting from the tenth minute. Both parties must take turns as the caller and the recipient in order.]

[Random assignment has been completed. You must initiate the first call, and the other party will initiate the second round, and so on.]

[If the two parties fail to make a call, the "responsible party" will be continuously targeted by ghosts until the next call. Example 1: When the time arrives, the caller dials the other party's number. If the called party fails to answer after the ringtone sounds, the latter is considered the responsible party. Example 2: When the time arrives, the caller forgets or fails to dial the other party's number, then the caller is considered the responsible party.]

[You and your teammate cannot directly converse (system restriction) and can only contact each other by phone.]

[You and your teammate must not knowingly (such as when the other party enters the field of vision) approach the other party. If the two parties accidentally meet, they must separate within one minute, otherwise they will be chased by ghosts at the same time.]

[After the scenario begins, please enter the academy and separate within five minutes. The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the same as the previous one.]

After this prompt, the scenario began directly.

Feng Bujue was already immersed in the scene and had a black flip phone in his hand. He turned his head to look at his teammate and was immediately stunned. He had actually run into Si Yu Ruo Li. Before queuing, Feng Bujue had not checked the status in his friend list again, so he had overlooked that a friend was online.

Si Yu's expression didn't change much, but she was also somewhat surprised.

On the first day of the public beta, there might be millions of players online. In the vast sea of people, the two of them queued up alone, but happened to enter the same scenario, and the number of people happened to be two. This kind of extreme coincidence could be called fate.

What is fate? Let me summarize it by combining the Buddhist theory of reincarnation: sixteen words: Enemies become father and son, debts turn into husband and wife, whatever the next life brings, seize the day.

I don't think the word fate can only be linked to love. Coming to this world, being able to make enemies is also fate. Therefore, I would like to advise all Buddhist friends, if you have enemies, you should take revenge as soon as possible in this life. If they become your sons in the next life, you will have to pay for buying a house and getting married. And those who owe debts and don't repay them, quickly convert to atheism. If you renege on material things in this life, you will have to repay them with your body in the next life.

Oh, right, the main reason I'm talking about this is because that nursery rhyme seemed kind of creepy, so I just wanted to vent and ease the tense atmosphere.

Getting back to the point, Feng Bujue tried it first, and as expected, he couldn't speak. His intention to speak was stopped by the system and could not be converted into action.

So he could only make gestures. First, he made a "six" gesture, tilted his head, and put his hand to his ear, meaning to make a phone call. Then, he pointed at himself, then held up his index finger, then pointed at Si Yu, holding up two fingers.

Feng Bujue wanted to confirm the calling order. His actions were relatively easy to understand, and Si Yu naturally understood, gently nodding. Then, she also made gestures, first pointing at herself, then pointing at the school's main building. After pausing for a few seconds, she pointed at Feng Bujue and then pointed in a direction on the side of the playground.

Feng Bujue made an okay sign with his right hand, then extended this arm (because he was holding the phone in the other hand) and made a "please" gesture.

The two of them silently finished allocating the work. Si Yu took the lead in stepping into this "Ye Jie High School," and Feng Bujue followed closely behind, entering the school gate, but they would be heading in different directions.

After the two had stepped into the school gate, the system voice immediately sounded: [Main quest triggered]

The task content is [Explore Ye Jie High School and break the seven kinds of supernatural phenomena. Current progress 0/7]