Chapter 146 - MASTER, I DEFINITELY WILL! (1/2)

”WHAT kind of mystery did Brother Ze solved?” Luo Yan asked, calling Bai Ze's attention just so he would stop bickering with Su Yuqi.

It was successful because he did get his attention.  Bai Ze walked back to the long table and sat back on the seat he sat on before.  ”It's a serial murder mystery.”

Luo Yan immediately became interested.  ”Really?  What kind of serial murder?”

Luo Jin and Su Yuqi seemed to be also interested because the two walked to the long table and also sat down.  As if ready to listen to Bai Ze's story.

”It's a serial murder that happened in a high school.  The mystery was how that whole serial murder happened,” Bai Ze started.  ”The whole task was actually quite fu—I mean, messed up,” he corrected, remembering that his two cousins were both still minors.  As their older cousin, cussing loudly wouldn't be a good example to them.

”How messed up?” Luo Yan asked.

”It all started with the death of a girl who was a student there.  She was killed by four male teachers and was buried at the back of the teaching building.” Bai Ze didn't mention that the girl was probably r.a.p.ed too.  ”Everyone thought she was an orphan and that her aunt was her only family.  But she had a younger brother who, five years later, enrolled at the same school.  He was adopted by a different family so he had a different surname than the girl.  No one suspected that he was related to that girl who suddenly disappeared five years ago.”

”Let me guess, he killed those four teachers as revenge?” Luo Jin asked with with a bit of a lazy tone, as if he already know where the story was going.

”Yes, he killed them.  Chopped them to pieces and scattered their remains all over the school.  But he didn't stop there.  One of his classmates found his sister's diary.  Afraid that she would connect everything to him, he tried to kill her during the night of the test of courage their whole class was doing.  And that's when I arrived at the door, during the test of courage,” Bai Ze continued.

”Well, at least there wasn't any monster trying to eat you while you're in there,” Luo Jin said.

If you based it on that, Bai Ze really got it easy.  Since there's only one boss in the door he was in.  But in Luo Yan's opinion, that kind of psychological task had its own set of difficulties.

”Who was the one who writes the script of these kind of events anyway?” Luo Jin added.

”Moonlight Media has their own department involved in those.  They write the background stories for important NPCs and also the story behind hidden events and any kind of events that needed a storyline,” Su Yuqi answered.

”Maybe the people in that department need to attend some psychological counseling.  Seriously, the stories they're writing was like something someone with an unhealthy state of mind would write.”

Bai Ze laughed at what Luo Jin said.  Because it was true in some cases.  There was a number of task and hidden events which included those kind of gory and unpleasant storylines.  But that was also the reason why those tasks had higher quality rewards.  He turned to Shen Ji Yun.  ”Hear that?  Xiao Jin thinks your uncle's company's writers are mental.”

Shen Ji Yun looked at the gnome.  ”They're not mental.  They just have overactive imagination.”

Luo Jin snorted.  ”Yeah, right.”

Luo Yan had the same sentiments.  With all the task he'd known, some even experienced, since he played this VR version, he could say that those writers definitely had some issues.

”Brother Ji Yun, does the game not have any kind of parental control?” he asked.

That's one of the thing he'd been wondering.  Considering all the blood and the gore, it would definitely be unhealthy for kids to play this game.  It might leave them psychological shadows that wouldn't be erased even after they became an a.d.u.l.t.

”It does.  Children below the age of 10 couldn't play the game.  And those that are 10-16 have the cradle version of the VR helmet.  In that version, anything that has gore would be mosaicked.  Even the blood that would fall from players, NPCs, and monsters would appear like they were pearl droplets,” Shen Ji Yun explained.