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In a certain laboratory, a corpse lay on the experimental table.
The chest of the corpse rose and fell slightly, appearing as though it was just asleep.
But everyone knew this was indeed a corpse, one that had been lifeless for who knew how many years.
And all of City A’s troubles began because of ‘him’.
The specialized laboratory was currently frenziedly researching ‘his’ blood, aiming to find antibodies and a cure for the zombie virus.
A nearby researcher, unable to assist, idly scrolled through their phone screen during a break.
The researcher, conducting experiments, glanced at the other and said, “Go draw some blood from the body again.”
The researcher who was asked couldn’t easily break away. Immediately, the researcher nearby, who couldn’t assist, said, “I’ll go.”
After saying this, the researcher took a test tube and proceeded, still holding their phone.
The livestream continued to play on the phone screen.
Approaching the corpse, the researcher placed the phone on the nearby table and proceeded to draw blood.
The voice in the phone said, ‘I’m feeling a bit sleepy. Good night.’ Upon hearing this, the researcher bit their lip, held back tears, and choked out a quiet ‘good night.’
Afterwards, they wiped away the tears and quickly took the blood back to the lab.
Completely unaware that when the sound came from the phone, the eyelashes of the body lying on the experimental table quivered slightly.
As if it was about to wake up.
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Ruan Qing, utterly exhausted from three days and nights without sleep, closed his eyes after speaking and completely lost consciousness.
Before losing consciousness, he didn’t notice that his body was improving.
Nor could he see the thousands of light spots merging into his body, repairing his severely damaged soul.
The light spots resembled countless fireflies in the night sky, stunningly beautiful.
It was as if even the light had softened slightly, unwilling to disturb the sleeping young man in the corner.
The system, which had remained silent, softened its gaze slightly and quietly said, ‘Good night,’ as if in response to the young man’s earlier ‘good night.’
[Congratulations to player Ruan Qing for clearing the instance <Apocalypse Survival>, rewarding 300 points.]
[Congratulations to the player for successfully saving the island, rewarding 2000 points.]
[Due to the player breaking the character setting, deduction of points: ???]
[Points settlement: ???]
After losing consciousness, Ruan Qing cleared the game and left, returning to the system space.
He didn’t immediately check the point settlement because he felt something was off.
Ruan Qing felt an unprecedented ease; his heart was no longer uncomfortable, and his breathing wasn’t as heavy.
Even his overworked brain didn’t feel the slightest fatigue.
In fact, he felt a surge of strength in his body, no longer as weak as before.
Ruan Qing felt he could even sprint 800 meters without a problem.
He squeezed his own hand and realized it wasn’t an illusion; his grip was indeed stronger than before. Now, he might only be slightly weaker than an ordinary person.
This was a situation he had never experienced before in all his previous instance clearance.
In previous instance clearance, he could only recover from physical injuries, but mental fatigue was something that couldn’t be eliminated.
“System, what’s going on?” Ruan Qing was puzzled.
The system calmly responded, “The first one to clear a dungeon receives additional rewards, and you are the first to clear the <Apocalypse Survival> dungeon, so you received a body enhancement reward.”
The system had prepared this explanation in advance and quietly added this rule to the rules of the Infinite Horror game as he spoke.
Indeed, this rule didn’t exist before, but it does now.
The system never considered telling Ruan Qing everything because he couldn’t. If he tried, he would trigger a taboo that would reset Ruan Qing’s memories to zero.
Secondly, without the power and divine nature of a god, bearing everything that belonged to a god would only result in shackles and imprisonment.
Imprisoning him with everything that belonged to him.
Therefore, for whatever reason, the system wouldn’t tell him.
After hearing the system’s explanation, Ruan Qing slightly understood. He looked at the settlement interface and wasn’t surprised to see a series of question marks.
Almost everyone saw that livestream; the original owner wasn’t a biology student, so it was natural for people to doubt him.
Actually, Ruan Qing had anticipated this before starting the livestream, but without it, he couldn’t clear the instance, so he might as well give it a try.
This was another reason he had rebelled against the system.
He believed that even if his points were not enough to deduct, the system would still strive to keep him safe.
So breaking this one rule almost couldn’t restrict him...
However, before Ruan Qing could finish thinking, the ‘???’ on the settlement interface quickly turned into a number.
[Points Settlement: -48,000,000 (small amounts have been ignored).]
Ruan Qing: “???”
Ruan Qing widened his eyes in astonishment, pointing at the numbers with slender white fingers, his tone tinged with shock and disbelief. “What does this mean?”
“It’s the points deducted for breaking your character setting.”
The system paused, adding, “By the way, if your points are in the negative, you cannot exchange for any items.”
Ruan Qing fell into silence, even feeling like giving up altogether.
A debt of over 48 million was simply impossible to repay.
He hadn’t expected the system to keep him safe but fail to preserve his points.
Most of the props he had previously exchanged were basically thrown away by the player who had taken him hostage; now, he had no items on him at all.
He didn’t even have enough points to enter the main city area, let alone use points to change his appearance.
If he tried to enter, he would be caught.
In other words, if his points remained negative, he would never be able to enter the main city area again.
The system softly suggested, “You can try starting a livestream; the more viewers, the more points you’ll earn.”
That way, he might even gain the power of faith from the audience.
“Should I start one?”
Ruan Qing pursed his lips. “Let’s do it.”
With limited time in the system space, after resting for a while, Ruan Qing chose to enter another instance.
Completely unaware that the game’s main city area was once again thrown into turmoil because of him.
Firstly, the bounty tasks worth a hundred thousand points increased from four to six.
Ning Wang and Pei Yan were added.
The name Ning Wang was well known to everyone.
Because that was the name of the player ranked fifth on the leaderboard.
Although everyone wasn’t particularly familiar with Pei Yan, he seemed to be just an intermediate player. However, a player who could put up a bounty of a hundred thousand points couldn’t be just an ordinary player.
He’s definitely a hidden expert as well.
Who exactly was this player being sought after? How could they attract so many expert players to pursue them?
The forum was incredibly active at that moment. Whether they were aiming for the reward of 600,000 points or were just curious, everyone was lurking on the forum, eager to find more information.
Posts were being created at a rapid pace, building countless towering threads in just seconds, making it hard to keep up with all of them.
Our mc: the power of the rich _(:з」∠)_
ReplyDeleteLMAO two people were added thats hilarious
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