Chapter 1 After Eighty Minutes

Eighty minutes into the script, downtown.

At this time, Feng Bujue had already circled the city, arranging all the settings needed for his "game," and then arrived at this place.

"A castle, huh..." Brother Jue muttered, looking at the huge alien fortress in the distance, "Your Excellency has questionable taste in architecture..."

The "Your Excellency" he spoke of was none other than Samodir.

In fact, Feng Bujue had already sensed Samodir's presence when he first entered this script, because the surrounding "fog" was obviously attached to the latter's energy. Observed from a data perspective, it was like "fingerprints" or "gene sequences," and it was clear who the owner was at a glance.

"Speaking of which... what are you doing hiding in this Nuka City?" Feng Bujue muttered to himself as he headed towards the castle.

Just as he was about to jump over a tributary of lava, suddenly...

"Yo~ Yo~ As the saying goes~" A rhythm-infused rap came, "I searched high and low with worn-out shoes, only to find it wasn't there~"

"Hey~ Hey~ Unexpectedly~" Another similar voice followed closely, "It came without any effort~"

As the voices ended, two figures had already arrived, standing several meters in front of Brother Jue.

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue squinted at the two in front of him and asked, "May I ask... who are you?"

"I am Dian San!" Dian San looked a lot like a black man, but he wasn't "human." Instead, he was a humanoid creature with four arms.

"I~ am... Dao Si!" Dao Si was also a humanoid creature. His entire body was purple, he had shark-like gills on his neck, and there were four small eyes on his face, but no nose.

Both of these "people" were wearing loose-fitting long-sleeved shirts, capri pants, and sneakers; they each had a pile of exaggerated pendants hanging around their necks, dressed like rappers.

"Oh." Brother Jue responded lukewarmly and asked, "I wonder, what brings the two of you to me?"

"We~ We~ We've been looking for you for a lo~ong time, Feng Bujue yo!" Dian San replied.

"Samodir~ Lord~ Yoyo~ Check it out~ Wants... us to take~ you back ya~" Dao Si added.

"Can we talk normally..." Feng Bujue had only been communicating with them for less than a minute and already felt a faint ache.

"Yo~ Yo~ Bujue, Bujue, you don't understand ya~" Dian San responded to him again with rap, "This is called ra~ ra ra ra~"

"Rap!" Dao Si flashed in front of Dian San at this time, finishing the sentence.

"Huh?" Feng Bujue stared with dead fish eyes and said, "With your level... how the hell dare you call yourselves rappers? I feel like you're not even as good as Zura's 'Joy of Joui'!"

"Wh-wh-wh-what?" Dian San stuttered in a twitchy tone, "You have a lot of nerve~"

"Hey~ Hey~ A lot of nerve~" Dao Si sang along appropriately from the side.

"Daring to say~ I'm not as good as Zura?" Dian San continued, "Believe it or not~ we'll use~ rhythm~ to blow your head off!"

"Okay, okay... I didn't say anything..." Feng Bujue didn't want to continue arguing with them, because he felt like it would never end, "Aren't you supposed to take me to see Samodir? I'll go with you."

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At the same time, somewhere in the west of the city.

"Damn it... it's been almost an hour..." Huang Dachui wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered, "That bastard is definitely playing us!"

"Not necessarily..." Jianxing Nan countered, "I'm gradually becoming convinced that everything that man said is true..."

"Oh?" Xuan Ling Wangzhe asked doubtfully upon hearing this, "What makes you say that?"

"On this journey, I've been thinking and gradually realized some things..." Jianxing Nan replied, "We encountered that guy only about thirty minutes after the script started. In other words, he only spent half an hour creating a robot with a virus weapon, finding our exact location, and successfully infecting all four of us with the virus."

"Wait a minute..." Huang Dachui interrupted, "That robot might not have been made by him, right? Maybe it was a summoned creature?"

"If it was a summoned creature, then after it was destroyed... its wreckage would immediately turn into white light and dissipate." Jianxing Nan had already considered this point, so he replied without thinking, "But the wreckage of that robot didn't disappear, which means that it was originally something from 'this world'."

"I... I see..." Huang Dachui nodded in response.

"Also..." Jianxing Nan immediately added, "I only realized this later... if this person really wanted to kill us, then he could have put something on the robot that would kill us in a short period of time, or something that would instantly incapacitate us... why would he use this virus that only takes effect after three hours?" He sighed, "Ah... to take a step back, you've all seen his skills... if he had murderous intent at the time, then even without that robot leading the charge, he could have at least killed two of us and injured one..."

When he said this, his teammates couldn't help but feel a wave of lingering fear.

Even Huang Dachui, who thought highly of himself... had to agree with this point of view. Because in the instant when Brother Jue approached and hijacked him, he truly felt a sense of despair... if Brother Jue had wanted to kill someone at that time, then he, Huang Dachui, would definitely have been the first to die.

Two seconds later, Jianxing Nan continued from where he left off: "Although we didn't have much contact with that man, judging from his limited performance, we can already deduce that... he possesses extremely strong psychological qualities, reconnaissance abilities far beyond our understanding, at least a B-grade mechanical specialization, and a speed and endurance that are faster and more durable than mine and Qidoushi's..."

"Eh? How did you see the endurance?" Qidoushi interrupted.

"We've been following the clues he gave for more than fifty minutes, and we can see new clues every time we arrive at a location. Isn't that enough to explain the problem?" Jianxing Nan retorted.

"That's right!" Qidoushi thought for a moment and was immediately shocked, "That means he had already been to every location we've been to during this time..."

"Of course, it can't be ruled out that there are teammates helping him complete these things..." Jianxing Nan said in a deep voice, "But... I don't think it's very likely."

"And why is that?" Huang Dachui asked.

"Just a feeling..." Jianxing Nan said, "Just take it as the experience and intuition that I, a professional player who has been in the game circle for many years, have accumulated..." His expression became very solemn, "I always feel that... we've encountered a very, very strong opponent this time..." He paused for half a second, and said with a dark face, "...to the point where he can wipe out our team with his own strength."

"Don't joke around!" Huang Dachui's facial muscles twitched, using a loud shout to suppress his rising panic value, "How could there be such a person? Even Tun Tian Guixiao can't do that, right?"

"I don't know if Guixiao can do it." At this time, Xuan Ling Wangzhe also joined in, "I don't know how strong that man is either. But... I also have the 'feeling' that Jian Ge is talking about..."

"Hey, hey... if you're going to say that..." Huang Dachui wiped the sweat from his face, "Aren't we encountering a super-strong team that's stronger than a professional team... no... stronger than Order Team One? And we are now completely controlled by the other party!"

"There's no need to be so pessimistic." Jianxing Nan said, "Because... we're still alive, aren't we?"

His words didn't do anything to boost morale...

"Theoretically speaking, we still have a chance of victory." After thinking for a while, Jianxing Nan continued, "First of all, that man said that he has a personal grievance to deal with with the Boss in the script, which is good news for us..."

"Hmm... maybe he'll be killed by the script Boss, right?" Qidoushi interjected.

"Yes." Jianxing Nan nodded and said, "Secondly, although he himself is very strong, his teammates may not be that great. If he is killed by the script Boss, then we will have a favorable situation of four against three."

"Even if he's not killed by the Boss, but as long as he fights to a draw, it's good news for us." Xuan Ling Wangzhe added.

"That makes sense..." Huang Dachui heard his teammates' "optimistic estimates" and suddenly perked up, "In that case, our hopes are indeed not small!"

"However... we still have to solve the immediate problem." Jianxing Nan said, "Even if we are being led by the nose... we have to endure it until we find the 'antidote'." He licked his dry lips, "Regardless of whether the virus on us is the Z virus or not, we have to find a way to get rid of it as soon as possible..."

"Yeah..." Qidoushi echoed, "When I started getting cold sweats, I thought it was just psychological, but now I have a slight fever and weakness in my limbs... if this trend continues, I'm afraid..."

Just as they were talking, a new prompt appeared in front of them.

The clues left by Feng Bujue were very obvious. Their logos were usually huge smiley faces engraved on the walls or the ground; below the smiley face, there would be a simple riddle clue (Brother Jue was afraid that making it too difficult would lead the other party into a stalemate) pointing out the location of the next place.

"The rising sun... a waterfall falling straight down..." Huang Dachui looked at the eight words engraved under the smiley face and read them aloud, "Hmm..." He pondered thoughtfully for a moment, then turned to look at Jianxing Nan, "What does it mean?"

Jianxing Nan pondered for two minutes, and his expression relaxed: "It means go one kilometer in the direction of nine o'clock..."

As soon as he said this, Qidoushi and Xuan Ling Wangzhe suddenly realized, only Huang Dachui was still in a state of confusion: "Eh? How did you come to that conclusion?"

"Sigh..." Jianxing Nan could only sigh, "Anyway... let's continue on our way..."

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On the other hand, the Hell Front team...

At this time, Xiao Tan, Xiao Ling, and Huajian had also been wandering around in the script for an hour and a half.

Since Ruoyu's instructions to Brother Jue were to "annihilate the enemy within two hours," Xiao Tan and the others did not go further to expand the plot or anything; in the limited time, they still chose to search the map for items and skills as much as possible.

As mentioned earlier, in the scripts of Thriller Paradise, if you want to get something good, in addition to opening some specific storage areas through solving puzzles, most other things... including a large number of non-mainline necessities, can be obtained by "finding" them. For example, a Spider-Man suit is placed in a shop window on the street. It may be completely useless, but it may also be a well-made equipment with attributes; for example, wandering around in a sewer, you may be able to find a series of weapons such as double knives, Emei piercers, nunchucks, and long sticks...

In short, without the pressure of clearing the game, as long as the map is large enough... players can fully enjoy the fun of exploration.

Speaking of the present, Xiao Tan and the other three characters with strong luck (relative to Brother Jue) have already found three well-made items and a skill card in ninety minutes.

Those items are as follows:

[Name: Fried Shrimp Bracer]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: Well-made]

[Defense: Medium]

[Attribute: Isolation]

[Effect: Reduces fire damage to the wrist by 90%]

[Equipment Requirements: Level 25, Bound after equipment]

[Whether it can be taken out of this script: Yes]

[Remarks: A bracer made of the shell of an Emperor Lobster, with a golden, oily, crispy nut coating on the outside for decoration.]

This is a well-made armor with a unique character, and its characteristic may be its fried shrimp shape and the remarks full of slots.

[Name: Toilet Brush]

[Type: Weapon]

[Quality: Well-made]

[Attack Power: Weak]

[Attribute: None]

[Effect: Comes with the skill "Vortex Piercing Life-Snatching Spin," cooldown time ten seconds]

[Equipment Requirements: Fighting specialization A, bound after equipment]

[Whether it can be taken out of this script: Yes]

[Remarks: When you reach a certain level in the art of using weapons, you can clean up your opponents as cleanly as a newly washed toilet.]

As mentioned above, a weapon full of malice...

[Name: Textbook-like Textbook]

[Type: Other]

[Quality: Well-made]

[Effect: Causes the target to remain in a state of depression and unhappiness for forty-five minutes (cooldown time ten minutes, only effective for players).]

[Equipment Requirements: None, bound after one use]

[Whether it can be taken out of this script: Yes]

[Remarks: Every year, we overthrow the content we made last year, make some minor changes, and then tell you that these revised content are likely to appear in the test mechanism of the examination-oriented education system you are in, and affect the evaluation you get in this system.

So, you have to buy the new set of things that came out this year, and we who make those reading materials can survive for another year.

Perhaps in a hundred years, those literary works that touch people's hearts will still be remembered, while the textbooks of this century will become versions and versions of wiping paper.

But in any case, "we" will continue to survive. As long as your way of acquiring knowledge is still tied to this disgusting testing system, you will eventually be our little bitches.]

The effect of this item is also very good, and it can be said that it has the same effect as [Draw a Cross and Curse You].

Finally, let's take a look at the skills they found...

[Name: Narcissistic Appreciation]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, disappears after two uses]

[Skill Category: Reconnaissance]

[Effect: At the moment the skill is activated, the player's body will immediately enter the phase space, and leave behind an invincible and damageable afterimage at the original location. The body that has entered the phase space can move in a straight line in any direction regardless of gravity, but cannot activate skills, nor can it come into contact with matter in the original space. After five seconds, the body will appear in a reasonable form (avoiding the body embedding in walls, etc.) at the moved position; at the same time, the afterimage will disappear, and the damage the afterimage suffers during this period will be converted into physical strength and added to the body. (Cooldown time thirty seconds)]

[Consumption: 70% of current physical strength]

[Learning Requirements: Reconnaissance specialization A, Level 43]

[Remarks: Beautiful scenery is unparalleled, for whom is the fragrance transmitted.]

Judging from the skill effect, this skill card is at least up to the quasi-s level standard, but since it is a "limited number of uses" version, the learning requirements are not very high.

The above is the result of Wang Tanzhi and the other three's search during this period of time.

Except for the skill card, which Xiao Ling opened from a treasure chest that required solving a puzzle, the other three items were all "found" through carpet-like searches - one was embedded in the advertising sign at the entrance of a restaurant, one was placed in the storage room next to a public toilet, and the other... was placed on a bookshelf in the library.

Obviously, these were not easy-to-find items, but these members of Hell Front still managed to obtain them with patience and luck.

Of course... if Brother Jue came to look for them, he might be able to find them with his "data perspective." But aside from this factor... just relying on his luck to search, it might take him three hours to find them.

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After searching continuously for dozens of minutes, Xiao Tan and the others decided to take a break in a relatively open place.

"Ah... it feels like it's been a long time..." Xiao Tan sat down on a park bench and sighed, "I wonder how Brother Jue is doing over there."

"Ha!" Xiao Ling sat down next to him and stretched, "I think you should be worried about those guys on the enemy team."

"Yes..." Huajian stood aside and said with a smile, "The two-hour time limit is almost up. With Feng Bujue's character... he will definitely do what he says. If he hasn't finished off the other party by the 120th minute, he can do things like detonating a nuclear bomb."

"Heh... hehe..." Xiao Tan laughed dryly, "That's true..."

The three of them had just settled down and chatted for three or four sentences when, unexpectedly...

Suddenly, a darkness like a substance descended.

In an instant, the players' eyes went dark, and they couldn't see their fingers.

Not only Xiao Tan and the others, but at the same time, the Golden Warhammer team on the other side of the script also encountered the same situation.

The next second, every player heard a whisper in their ears: [Insects from another world, come and see the true face of this city.]