Chapter 63: Fierce Ghost Mall (1/2)

Since his state of mind wasn’t a peaceful one, Bai Yan decided to watch his legal TV shows until it was late.

In the end, he inadvertently fell asleep while sitting on his chair. He then crawled out of his chair and into his bed in a daze until he was slightly roused at 10:30 in the morning.

After fully regaining consciousness, the first thing he did was to give Ye Shangyu a call.

“What do you want?” Ye Shangyu’s soft voice echoed out accompanied by the soft pitter-patter of her keyboard typing.

“Want to team up?”

“There’s no need to form a team during normal difficulty levels. Let’s talk about this later.” Once Ye Shangyu finished speaking, she immediately hung up on the phone, seeming incredibly busy.

The way Ye Shangyu rejected his offer was incredibly decisive, but Bai Yan also picked up on her connotation.

There was no doubt that Ye Shangyu had intentions of teaming up with him, but from her perspective, if a person can’t even survive the normal difficulty levels, it wasn’t worth it to team up with them, which meant that getting a chance to team up with her would have to wait until after the sixth level.

On the other end, he could hear a boiling cauldron of voices with students buzzing around and exchanging words and the voice of a guardian picking up a child, which was exactly the opposite of Ye Shangyu’s quiet environment.

“If this is nothing important, then don’t call me. I’m busy, and I still have to study.”

Before Bai Yan could even talk, Luo Xing quickly blurted out, “If this is about teaming up, then you don’t need to look for me. I like simple and honest teammates. It’s like this, so I’m hanging up.”

Luo Xing hung up the call at the speed of light. Seeing how he reacted, Bai Yan shook his head in disappointment, thinking that Luo Xing’s basic mentality was simply no good.

Yes, he and Ye Shangyu almost pushed him into a pit during the last game, but weren’t they unsuccessful in cheating the lots? Should he still be on guard after the unsuccessful attempt?

Bai Yan lost his appetite from his humiliating defeat. It seemed that comrade Luo Xing wasn’t your standard honest person.

Bai Yan felt deep regret. An honest and sincere teammate was truly hard to find.

The sixth game was starting soon, and the further he reached the later levels, the harder it was to find pure and honest people. Honest people generally didn’t live until the end, but looking at how he had reacted just now, Luo Xing didn’t want to be an honest person anymore.

Being rejected by two people in a row, Bai Yan felt somewhat depressed.

However, what Ye Shangyu had said about the ordinary levels, the requirements for being her teammate weren’t that hard to meet.

Even if a teammate from a normal level courted disaster, it usually didn’t involve the others and only ended up with themselves getting into their own mess. But when reaching the harder levels, pulling one hair would result in the whole body moving. In that sense, teammates should be carefully selected, and it was better to have none rather than a substandard choice.

Moving on and accepting the matter about his teammates, as usual, Bai Yan worked out and then read through some posts to pass the time.

Halfway through, he opened Chu Fu’s live stream in passing.

After their face-to-face meetup, in reality, Chu Fu’s live broadcast was still ongoing and appeared to be more prosperous than its state half a month ago.

When Bai Yan opened it, Chu Fu had also just started her broadcast. Compared to half a month ago, the quantity of her food had also gradually increased.

At that time, Chu Fu’s live stream showed her eating 10 buckets of instant noodles, but they were only half the size of your average ones, the combined total only reaching five normal-sized bowls.

But this time, she had strategically arranged eight bowls in front of her. Each bowl could feed one standard person, setting them up to look full to the brim and look extremely filling.

Bai Yan didn’t follow the live broadcast closely and just took random glances once in a while.

With regards to Chu Fu, he would say that she was insignificant in his eyes and saw her as a waste of his time.

He was someone who wanted to clear the levels to obtain the reward, and Chu Fu was just someone who was destined to not live through the end, which made her unworthy of his attention. In fact, Chu Fu surviving up until this point had already made him surprised.

She almost had no brains, so how could she be alive until right now?

…

Time had quickly passed, and in a flash, the day to enter the game had arrived.

Bai Yan opened the app and pressed on the sixth level’s icon. After he pressed it, the scene before his eyes suddenly transformed. He was standing outside the entrance of a shopping mall, and the first thing he did was bow his head to look over his phone.

[Successful Matchup]

[Number of Players: 2 players]

[Level of Difficulty: Normal]

[Level Description: This round of the game is called ‘Fierce Ghost Mall.’ According to the game’s rules, finding the four missing people’s causes of death and successfully protecting the designated NPCs until they leave the mall will be considered as a victory.]

[Backstory: You are a famous detective, and recently, you have received four strange clients.

The relatives of these four clients had mysteriously disappeared. These missing people do not know each other and do not have a connection with one another.

The only clue you acquired was that they all disappeared in the same mall. Perhaps, this certain mall was concealing an unknown secret…]

[Game Rules:]

[1. At this level, the player’s identity is a detective, and NPCs would automatically trust the player’s identity. This game’s duration is 12 hours, exceeding the game’s time would be seen as a loss.]

[2. The designated NPCs would have their names in red text appear on top of their heads. Four NPCs will arrive at 9 AM, 11 AM, 1 PM, and 3 PM at the mall’s entrance. The player can wait for them there.]

[3. The player needs to find the cause of death of the four missing people and to protect the designated NPCs until they leave the mall. After accomplishing this, press the ‘Return’ button on your phone to leave the game.]