Chapter 1854 - 1699: Escape Game 51
Chapter 1854: Chapter 1699: Escape Game 51
The original hotel room had vanished, replaced by rows of towering, sky-high giant trees. The dense foliage of these trees blocked out the open sky above, enveloping the entire jungle in extreme darkness, with thick fog billowing throughout the woodland.
Soon, Xu Qiangzhong’s figure appeared amidst the dense fog. He said to Shuangshuang and Xiao Zhongjing, "I’ve already activated the Mist Forest; we can start bringing in the Evil Ghosts.
Your current image in the eyes of the Evil Ghosts is just a mass of invisible dense fog. If there are Evil Ghosts inside the forest, they will solidify into physical forms.
At that point, we can attack them, but they can only attack the fog and won’t be able to harm us, essentially exchanging our attack methods with the Evil Ghosts."
Shuangshuang looked admiringly at this endless giant tree jungle and said to Xu Qiangzhong, "Your tool is really impressive. Although the activation process is somewhat deceptive, if used in team actions, this tool is simply unbeatable.
If you ever team up with others, you must explain this tool clearly to them; no team would reject you because of it.
Compared to the power of this tool once activated, the initial limitations are insignificant for a team."
Xu Qiangzhong clasped his hands together nervously and asked, "If I want to join Miss Miao’s team, would you refuse me?"
Shuangshuang paused, then laughed and replied, "I can’t form a team now, but if I do, I definitely won’t refuse your joining."
Xu Qiangzhong breathed a sigh of relief and immediately laughed, "Then it’s settled; Miss Miao, when you form a team, make sure to call me. I’ll leave you my real-world phone number.
After the game, we can meet in the real world, making it easier to form a team next time we enter the game."
Xu Qiangzhong’s tool is indeed very powerful, and he’s also very grateful to Shuangshuang, who thought it wasn’t bad to be teammates with him. So, she nodded and agreed.
Now that Shadow Island’s mysteries have been uncovered, with the powerful combat capabilities of Shuangshuang, Tang Jinyi, and Chen Mo, coupled with Xu Qiangzhong’s Mist Jungle, there is no difficulty in clearing the game.
The only challenge now is to find all the Evil Ghosts on Mist Island, which is no longer a problem with the girl player who can search for them.
In just two days, all the Evil Ghosts on Mist Island were captured by Xu Qiangzhong and trapped within the Mist Forest, where players in the jungle took them down one by one.
Once all the Evil Ghosts were slain, the game completion prompt finally appeared, and all the players instantly left the game world, returning to reality.
The first thing Shuangshuang did upon waking was to remove the layers of clothes she was wearing, changing into appropriately fitting attire.
In her heart, she sincerely worried that next time she enters the game, whether this limitlessly broken game would actually make her go streaking.
After changing clothes, Shuangshuang began checking the game score rewards. Good news: once again, Shuangshuang earned an excellent score, with very generous rewards.
She received forty Guardian Talismans, forty Bright Vision Talismans, plus a bonus of forty Eye-opening Talismans.
The Eye-opening Talisman allows one to see ghosts, with each talisman’s effective time being twenty-four hours.
With the Eye-opening Talisman, when ghosts appear, players can see them and won’t face an invisible ghost’s sneak attack.
However, Shuangshuang possesses ghost-seeing eyes gifted by an NPC in the first game, making the Eye-opening Talisman unnecessary for her.
Next is the monetary reward; the game has always been generous, and this time, exceptionally so, offering a seven-figure sum, enough for Shuangshuang to fly around the world luxuriously.
What excites Shuangshuang the most is the survival days; this game rewarded her with a whopping two hundred days, almost twice the amount from her previous rewards.
Shuangshuang plans to spend one hundred and eighty days practicing martial arts and the remaining twenty days traveling to relax and maintain a relaxed yet alert mindset when entering the game.
Regarding the point of strengthening the body, Shuangshuang chooses to ignore it; instead, she chooses a storyline option, opting to view the story.
Shadow Island is actually the grave of a young, deceased Divine Beast Xuanwu. This grave is dynamic, taking an island’s shape and floating peacefully at sea.
One day, a group of humans discovered the island and moved onto it, becoming the first group of island inhabitants.
The first to discover the island was Old Jin, who became its Island Master. The island was beautiful, and Old Jin intended to develop it into a tourist destination.
However, Old Jin’s ambitious plans were thwarted when he was struck by a terminal illness. He tried every major hospital, but none could cure him.
In despair, Old Jin climbed a mountain and jumped into the Sky Pit to end his life, successfully drowning in a pool at the bottom of the pit. Yet, his grievances and tenacity alarmed the residual energy left by Xuanwu.
This energy, freed from Xuanwu’s bindings, reacts according to its encounter: good begets good, evil begets evil. Detecting Old Jin’s persistence, a tiny speck of energy entered Old Jin’s soul, becoming intertwined with him.
Old Jin came back to life, although his condition was bizarre; despite having a physical body, he resembled an Evil Ghost, unable to face sunlight, neither living nor dead, neither human nor ghost.
Nonetheless, Old Jin gained a special ability: he could trap living people within his shadow, connecting them to himself.
This allowed him to transform into their likeness, temporarily possess a normal human body, and continuously extract the trapped person’s Life Force, sustaining his living facade.
Though after transformation, Old Jin’s ghostly powers were sealed, each person could only sustain him for three years.
No matter; confronted by danger, he could abandon the human form and revert to being an Evil Ghost. With many inhabitants on the island, Old Jin could endlessly hunt for prey to maintain his survival state.
However, frequent human hunts revealed Old Jin’s unusual activities, prompting the islanders to scrutinize him, eventually uncovering his secret. They deemed him a Demon and sought to burn him alive.
But Old Jin seduced a group of islanders with promises of immortality, convincing them to follow him and voluntarily die in the Sky Pit. They then emerged as Evil Ghosts, capturing and imprisoning all other islanders.
Thus, those imprisoned islanders became living supplies for Old Jin and the Evil Ghosts, allowing them to continue living in human form.
But with so many Evil Ghosts, the islanders were swiftly depleted. To maintain his human form, Old Jin left the island, attracting outside tourists for island visits.
Once tourists arrive on the island, Evil Ghosts would imprison them, using them to prolong their own lives as needed. Then, adopting the tourists’ identities, they would leave the island and attract more tourists to visit.