680 bags of various food!
Su Yuan had earned a fortune.
The supplies traded for appeared directly in the storage room of the Little Black Room.
Seizing supplies is extremely important for survival games.
I don't know from which day on, the world's supplies will be exhausted; by then, these things will be a huge fortune.
If it weren't for the room being too full, Su Yuan would definitely have exchanged for more.
After all, the food he places in the storage room will not spoil.
Su Yuan walked to the window and looked through it at the sun in the sky.
The Black Night is about to descend.
00:00:00
The next second, a Full Moon replaced the sun in the sky.
A new countdown appeared on the moon.
19:00:00
The long night thus began its prelude.
Su Yuan opened the Strange Survival Manual and flipped to the first page; below "Strange Survival," a line of small, black, eerie text appeared.
【Eerie Rule: Tonight, a Similar Soul will come to knock on your door. Do not open the door for it under any circumstances; it is waiting to embrace you face-to-face. It will leave after dawn.】
What does that mean?
Everyone was very confused; what does tonight's Eerie Rule mean?
Just don't open the door, right!
Many people curled up in the corners of their walls, staring at that pitch-black wooden door.
Clang, clang—a noise came from outside the door, and immediately after,
bursts of Yin Wind struck, making one's hair stand on end.
Su Yuan walked over and lit the reinforced Candle; the room was enveloped in a light of peace, and that chill instantly dissipated.
But then, a "thump, thump, thump" knocking sound came from the doorway.
It's here, the anomaly mentioned in the Survival Manual.
"Ah!"
Immediately following was a scream.
The corners of Su Yuan's mouth curled up slightly; whose Little Black Room do you think this is?
Is that something you can just knock on whenever you want?
You must know that his Little Black Room possesses 300 points of Evil Warding Attribute.
"Open the door."
The knocking was replaced by a familiar voice.
It was so familiar that Su Yuan couldn't figure out who it was for a moment.
"Open the door quickly, it's so scary outside, let me in."
The eerie voice came again. Su Yuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized.
Isn't this my own voice?
Whenever I send voice messages and click to listen to them, this is the sound I hear.
A Similar Soul,
the anomaly outside the door is pretending to be me?
Su Yuan scratched his head, "You're pretending to be me? I'm even less likely to open the door for you now. Why is this anomaly a bit stupid?"
However, thinking about his plan to go out and hunt for Treasure Chests tonight,
Su Yuan still needed to break this Eerie Rule.
But how can this Eerie Rule be broken to deter the anomaly?
But it is already outside the door, and the rule mentions: do not open the door for it under any circumstances.
He was very conflicted.
When Su Yuan's hand was placed on the doorknob, he hesitated again.
"Still not opening the door? Do you want to die outside?"
"Open the door quickly!"
"If I die, you will die too!"
"If you keep forcing me, I'll crash into your door and die with you!"
Is this true?
Cunning anomaly, believe you? Big Head Ghost!
Die if you want!
Although he didn't believe it, Su Yuan felt strange in his heart; after all, with Eerie Rules, you can't be sure it really can't drag me to death with it.
Don't I have 100 lives?
I have plenty of lives, I can try it!
Don't be afraid!
Su Yuan made up his mind; his hand was already on the doorknob, and he pulled it slightly.
With a creak, the door opened.
A familiar face came into view.
Damn!
It really is myself!
The Holy Light in the room shone down, and it let out a scream.
However, in the next second, it lunged into Su Yuan's arms.
Just a human head, his human head.
On that familiar face on the human head, an eerie aura radiated.
Those eyes, exactly the same as his, stared straight at him.
Before Su Yuan could even feel terror and scream,
it exploded!
Face-to-face embrace, explosion.
The power was like a bomb!
With a boom, Su Yuan lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he was still in the same place, and Su Yuan was shocked to find that outside the open door, another head flew in.
Clang!
He closed the door again.
Hoo!
Haa!
He panted heavily.
Su Yuan had already died once.
"I really died once."
He checked the attributes on the manual; his Life had become 99.
However, the Eerie Rule had not changed.
Even though that human head had exploded in his arms,
it still hadn't broken its rule.
The human head appeared at the door again.
A similar knocking sound rang out, and similar words were spoken.
Su Yuan didn't dare to open the door for it casually anymore.
Even now, his heart was still beating wildly.
Although death and Resurrection were completed in an instant,
he had just watched his own head explode in his own arms.
That psychological impact was far greater than the blow his body had received.
He flipped to the third page of the Chat Channel; the regional channel was still silent, as people in the same region have a certain competitive relationship in the Survival World.
There were quite a few friend requests, but Su Yuan ignored them and clicked directly on the World Chat Channel.
"It's still knocking on the door."
"Has anyone opened the door?"
"Don't dare."
"Don't dare."
"+1"
"+1"
Indeed, after experiencing the Yang Dazhuang lamp-blowing incident yesterday, everyone deeply understood that anomalies can kill people, and you really can die.
Su Yuan understood this even more deeply, as he had just died once.
However, when he died, the System did not issue an announcement; this probably has to do with his Life attribute. The death recognized by the System should be when Life drops to 0.
"The voice outside sounds just like me."
"A Similar Soul, is the anomaly pretending to be us?"
"It must be, it's too cunning!"
"No matter who it pretends to be, you can't open the door!"
"But it said, if it dies, I will die too?"
"That's right, its voice is starting to get weak. If it dies, won't we really die?"
"I don't know."
"Do we need to drive this anomaly away?"
"Is there any way to deal with it?"
"Is there any Great God who can test it?"
"How do you test this? Open the door? Then try peeing on it with Virgin Boy's Urine?"
"Hey, this fellow has a good suggestion!"
"That's right, it's worth a try."
"Whoever has Virgin Boy's Urine, try it."
"Whoever has it, try it."
"+1"
"+1"
No one actually tried it; what if you really pee the anomaly at the door to death and you end up dying along with it?
Su Yuan noticed that the anomaly, which was frantically confronting his Little Black Room at the door, had become extremely weak. It muttered in a low voice: "If you don't open the door, I'm really going to die. You can feel it, right? You're getting cold!"
"If I die, you will die."
"Getting cold is just the beginning. Next, do you feel your body getting weak?"
"Lying on the bed won't help either, because your Life is fading away."
"Your hands and feet are starting to feel soft, right?"
Su Yuan hurriedly covered his ears.
The words of the anomaly outside the door seemed to have a hypnotic function, making him unable to help but feel that what it said was true—that he was really cold, and that he was really starting to become weak all over, with soft hands and feet.
In the World Chat Channel, everyone was experiencing the same feeling.
A term suddenly appeared in Su Yuan's mind: Embraced by Death.
A Similar Soul, producing Empathy!
This is the most terrifying part of tonight's anomaly.
It uses sound to launch an invisible mental torture until you collapse and are Embraced by Death!
Don't listen, cover your ears tightly?
That voice possesses extremely strong penetration power, ringing directly in the mind.
Damn it!
Su Yuan's gaze turned cold.
What will a person do before they collapse?
That's right, they will go to open the door and fight the anomaly to the death!
But he knew that opening the door was even worse.
That human head doesn't care about any Holy Light; it just lunges and explodes.
Even if others are holding an Evil Warding Item, they will likely suffer the same fate.
However, in the chat channel, someone finally couldn't take it anymore.
"I can't take it anymore! I'm going to go pee on it to drive it away!"
Before Su Yuan could even reply to tell him not to go,
the System had already broadcast his death information.
The chat channel fell into dead silence again.
Everyone was enduring mental torture; even if they didn't open the door, in this long black night, people would be tortured to death.
Unless you possess extraordinary Mental Power.
"Can't sit and wait for death, still have to try!"
Su Yuan's gaze was firm.
His Health Points were now his Innate advantage.
But if he couldn't defeat the anomaly and go into the Black Night to find Treasure Chests, it would soon become useless.
Still have to try!
Su Yuan held his breath, his gaze falling on the Eerie Rule on the first page of the manual.
"Do not open the door for it under any circumstances; it is waiting to embrace you face-to-face."
This sentence must be the key!
Embrace face-to-face.
Could it be?!
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