Chapter 27: Story Adventure (1/2)

After a long while, Bai Yan finally regained his sight. His surroundings looked overcast, having a layer of clouds cover the sky, but at the corner of his eyes, he saw a faint glow emitting from his phone.

He slowly lowered his head to look at his phone and found out that this game level was a brand new type of level.

[Successful Matchup]

[Number of Players: 3 players]

[Level of Difficulty: Normal]

[Level Description: This game’s round is called ‘Story Adventure.’ Players will go through the level by selecting actions on their phones. These actions will be done by the players as they try to complete the game. Surviving until the end of the game will be considered a victory. Before the game starts, please answer the question.]

[You are a:]

[A. Boy]

[Backstory: Your name is Baiyan(1) and you are a slightly attractive newly wedded young woman. You and your husband, Wu Jingang, live in an old-fashioned house in a residential area. Currently, you are on your annual vacation and temporarily don’t have any work to do. Usually, you take care of the housework every day.]

[Game rules:]

[1. In this round of the game, players will get five resurrection coins each. Every time the player dies, one resurrection coin will be consumed and the player will automatically be returned to the moment before he or she made the choice. After all, five resurrection coins were exhausted, the sixth death would result in the player’s actual death.]

[2. The player’s actions must follow the character’s way of thinking.]

[3. After the player selects a specific option, the player is required to see through the corresponding action of their choice. Players should be cautious when selecting an action.]

Bai Yan didn’t have any particular thoughts after reading the character backstory.

In regards to his selection, the game was honest. When he chose Option B, the game gave him the profile of a newly wedded young woman, which was reasonably fair. The only thing he wasn’t sure of was if his husband was a regular NPC in the game or a ghost that recalled its wretched death.

As Bai Yan made his choice, his environment changed again.

In a blink of an eye, he was now sitting in a chair with a dining table in front of him. On top of the table was a widespread of aromatic and savory dishes that included braised spare ribs, crispy eggplant with soy sauce, hot tomato and egg soup, and chopped-up cucumber salad. All of these dishes had steam coming off them. Looking at them as a whole, they all looked like a home-cooked meal that had the perfect balance of meat and vegetables.

“Since the name of the game is ‘Story Adventure,’ this level was centered on the choices he made.”

Bai Yan casually picked up a piece of the eggplant dipped in soy sauce using his chopsticks and brought it to his mouth, chewing on it and tasting it. He found out that the flavor was only mediocre at best, “The game’s second rule required that players move according to their character’s way of thinking. I’ll wait for my husband to come back before I start doing housework like Baiyan is supposed to do, at least so the NPC husband won’t get suspicious of him.”

After Bai Yan tasted the eggplant with soy sauce, he quickly ate a piece of the piping hot spare ribs, “The foods’ flavors are only so-so. It was just barely good enough, but in home-cooked meal standards, it was rather good. If it were only this level of cooking, I can easily achieve this. Fortunately, her cooking skills are only subpar.”

As he stared at the steaming food, Bai Yan noticed that the plate in front of him didn’t have any traces of food.

Bai Yan gave a glance and instantly knew that the woman was waiting for her husband and didn’t like eating her meals alone.

As expected, when he checked the black rice cooker at the side of the table, it was packed with freshly cooked rice.

Since Baiyan had the habit of waiting for her husband to eat together, Bai Yan didn’t intend to change this practice. So, he gently put his chopsticks down, got rid of any traces of bone from the spare rib, and calmly wiped his mouth clean with a paper towel. Since the NPC husband hadn’t arrived yet, Bai Yan would scout out this new environment, checking every nook and cranny in the room first.

Bai Yan departed from the dining table and started to rummage through the room in a disorderly fashion.

This house was extremely narrow, only amounting to around 30 square meters. The place also had a kitchen and a separate bathroom, but overall, the area wasn’t big.

The house didn’t have a living room but had a master bedroom and a dingy second bedroom.

The dining table was neatly placed inside the master bedroom and beside the table, there stood a massive double bed with a huge wedding picture displayed on its headboard.

In the wedding picture, the groom joyfully held his lovely bride in his arms, while the bride bashfully smiled.

Bai Yan carefully observed the bride’s expression on the picture and gathered that the bride looked attractive. She was a beauty that could even compete with some top celebrities in the real world and didn’t look like what the app had described to him at all. Because of this revelation, Bai Yan suspected that the image was masterfully retouched by a professional. They must have used P-Photos(2) excessively to make this slightly good-looking woman into such a beaut.

After looking at the wedding photo for a long time and successfully memorizing the image of the husband and wife in his heart, Bai Yan started to look through other objects in the room.

“The newly wed’s room was newly renovated for sure. The walls and floor looked spotless while the bed sheets used on their bed were incredibly soft and emitted a fresh fragrance. Baiyan must have been a woman who had quite good tastes.”

Bai Yan then quickly walked to the end of the bed and saw a table on it with a cute and silly teddy bear resting on top of it.

Bai Yan slowly raised the stuffed bear and immediately found that the bear was tall as a person. He gently held it in his arms and felt its soft fur tickling his skin, the sensation wasn’t bad at all.

According to the more experienced players, there was a high chance that toys contained hidden objects inside it.

With this in mind, Bai Yan lifted the giant teddy bear, violently shook it around, then moved his hands to feel if there was anything inside the teddy bear’s belly but didn’t feel anything solid. He couldn’t find a zipper at the back to take a closer look either.