[Announcent (February 14th, 16:49)]
[The source of danger in the 'Horror Taxi' instance has disappeared. This instance has been permanently locked and can no longer be matched.]
[Compensated players: Yuwen Hao, teor Princess]
Gu Mian looked at the compensation list; there was another familiar na.
"Look," Fatty didn't recognize Yuwen Hao, "Our Doctor, after his feats of crashing an ongoing instance and then an instance he hadn't even entered, has now unlocked a new 'achievent'—crashing an instance he had entered before, one that had actually survived him! What a truly world-shocking, grand maneuver!"
"Well, that settles that," Fatty sighed. "Not even an instance that survived him is spared now."
Too terrifying.
"Speaking of which," Fatty mused, "wasn't the original purpose of this special item, the Archive Device, to help players survive?"
If you rewind when you're about to die, you return to your peak state. Truly a divine tool.
Fatty paused, then continued, "But Doctor, you discovered another use for it…"
If this thing were used to screw people over, it could really get them killed.
Gu Mian tossed the Archive Device aside. "I actually just wanted to see if instance characters could use this thing…"
As he said this, he seed to recall sothing. "I rember this Archive Device was pried off Mr. Green. Do you rember Mr. Green? The host of Crazy Guessing Words."
Fatty looked up. "I definitely can't forget that one. After all, you forcibly carried him out."
"This Archive Device was his item. At the ti, I was wondering if characters in instances could also use special items?" Gu Mian stroked his chin. "It seems now that they indeed can."
"Quite strange, isn't it?" Chu Changge adjusted his glasses. "They seem no different from us."
Gu Mian recalled what the ticket seller had said to Mr. Green when he brought him out of the instance—"Unfortunately, Mr. Green, it seems you have landed ahead of schedule."
What does "landed ahead of schedule" an?
Could it be that a large number of NPCs will arrive in the real world much later?
"I'm telling you, Doctor, stop worrying about the future. We have a pile of sses to deal with right now. By the way, when are we going to the advanced ticket booth to get the event tickets?" Fatty said, closing the ga announcent.
Gu Mian saw him open his mailbox.
Right, the 'Horror Taxi' instance had forcibly ejected them and given them compensation. Gu Mian hadn't yet seen what it was.
Seeing Fatty open his mailbox, Gu Mian opened his as well. "Let see what the compensation is first."
Fatty was still muttering, "I hope it's not another lottery. Last ti, I drew that 'Aggro-Drawing Huge Black Pot'. It's a sha to throw it away, but I don't dare equip it…"
Fortunately, it wasn't a lottery this ti. Gu Mian's luck wasn't good. Last ti, he directly drew a Killing Order, and now there was an Assassin lurking in so unknown corner, waiting to kill him.
"I hope it's sothing good this ti," he said, looking at his email.
But then he imdiately understood a truth—never harbor illusions about your own luck.
[A Massive IOU]
When he saw this na, Gu Mian's heart lurched.
Did I really draw sothing that's going to cost money instead?
[Introduction: A massive IOU. It reads: 'The player holding this IOU owes the Nine-headed Baby 10,000 Ga Coins. Non-transferable.']
Gu Mian: "..." The most update n0vels are published on novel⁂fire
This special item was certainly sothing else; it was non-transferable right from the get-go. You couldn't even throw it away.
And what on earth was a Nine-headed Baby?
[Function: Due to the player owing a large sum of Ga Coins, the Nine-headed Baby is very displeased. Before the debt is cleared, the player may face the Nine-headed Baby's wrath at any ti. If the player repays the debt, they will receive 'Nine-headed Baby's Appreciation.']
Gu Mian: "..."
So now, not only am I being hunted by an Assassin, but I'm also 10,000 Ga Coins in debt?
As he thought this, he opened the bounty list. His na was still hanging at the top, and the bounty amount had, at so unknown point, increased from 10,000 Ga Coins to 15,000 Ga Coins.
The price went up. That's an affirmation of his abilities.
Gu Mian thought, I might as well just kill myself and pay off the debts.
At this mont, Fatty leaned over. "Yo, Doctor, you got an IOU, huh? This Nine-headed Baby sounds like an Evil Ghost, right? Does this an you owe an Evil Ghost 10,000 Ga Coins, and if you don't repay it, it might show up anyti to cause trouble? But how would you even repay this money…?"
Gu Mian touched the IOU in his hand. "It seems you can directly deposit money into this IOU."
Fatty looked amazed. "Isn't this another form of pay-to-win, then?"
To spend 10,000 Ga Coins to buy 'Nine-headed Baby's Appreciation'...
God knows what that is; it might not even be as powerful as the chainsaw in Gu Mian's hand.
"But Doctor," Fatty spoke up, "haven't you noticed that the things you've been getting lately are increasingly unreliable?"
Starting with that Killing Order, all the special items Gu Mian obtained seed designed to get him killed.
"My life has always been this unreliable; I'm used to it," Gu Mian said, turning his head. "Are your compensations also special items?"
Only then did Fatty turn back to look at his own mailbox.
「anwhile」
Yuwen Hao had already exited the instance, greeted by the ticket seller's large, bronze-bell-like eyes. It seed this ticket seller also knew that the 'Horror Taxi' instance had ceased operations.
Yuwen Hao stood in the ticket hall for a good while, still dazed.
Even now, he hadn't figured out whether the driver who had died in front of him was human or ghost.
In the 'Horror Taxi' instance, it was difficult to distinguish between humans and ghosts, which troubled him greatly.
Since that driver died and the instance's source of danger disappeared, he must have been a ghost, right? How could a human be that dangerous... Good thing I'm smart and ran fast, otherwise he might have slashed !
Yuwen Hao touched his chest. But can ghosts die from excessive blood loss?
Thinking of this, he recalled the female ghost whose head Gu Mian had sawed off several instances ago. If ghosts can die from having their heads severed, then they can probably die from excessive blood loss too, right?
Yuwen Hao felt his mind was a complete ss. Forget it, I'll just go ho first…
At the sa ti, Fatty and Chu Changge had also figured out their compensation: two special items.
[Strange Cara]
[Mail from Hell]
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