The light in the hall dimmed instantly.
Spectral energy permeated the air, and those with weaker bodies immediately felt their breathing stagnate.
The cafeteria lady cackled.
She was going to eat Jiang Ning!
Once she ate Jiang Ning, she would become the strongest ghost here! Then she could eat whichever human she wanted.
The cafeteria lady’s eyes glowed, her ferocity unleashed, as if she could already see herself acting recklessly and tyrannically.
Until she ran in front of Jiang Ning—and was frozen.
She struggled.
And couldn’t move at all.
How can this be?!
She had always been the boss of the cafeteria. Although she was born less than 48 hours ago, when had she ever suffered such grievance?
“Let me go!” she roared.
The cafeteria lady’s spectral energy overflowed, thick as clouds, almost liquefying into raindrops.
The humans shivering in the corner felt even worse, but no one dared to make a sound.
They prayed silently that these two ghosts would fight and ignore them.
Jiang Ning sighed, her voice cold. “Do you really want to fight me?”
In Jiang Ning’s view, she and the cafeteria lady could barely be considered colleagues now; there was really no need for fighting and killing.
At least among the various BOSSes in the Survival Game, most got along harmoniously. Based on this, if the auntie could be obedient, it would be best for both of them to live in peace.
Jiang Ning said sincerely, “I didn’t want to go against you. Perhaps we can have a good talk.”
Good talk?
Meeting Jiang Ning’s pitch-black eyes, the cafeteria lady’s anger subsided a bit, and she muttered, “You really want to have a good talk with me? Then will you share a few of those people on the ground with me?”
This question really put Jiang Ning in a difficult spot.
“I can’t give them to you right now.”
She hadn’t gathered enough Heartbeat Points needed for a dungeon yet.
Moreover, Jiang Ning wasn’t an ungrateful Survival BOSS.
As a reward, she would give the dungeon keys to the few humans who provided her with the most Heartbeat Points later.
She absolutely couldn’t let the cafeteria lady eat them all in one go.
In the System’s words, these were all her good wool-producing sheep.
“Can’t give them to me?” The cafeteria lady ground her teeth loudly, making a tooth-aching sound.
“If you can’t give them to me, why talk to me about this?! I’m going to eat you!”
She struggled again, her face almost splitting in half, looking extremely terrifying.
Jiang Ning remained calm and composed, as if she hadn’t seen anything.
She just felt a bit regretful. It seemed they couldn’t talk nicely. But she was used to it; after all, people who could communicate were rare.
In this way, this ghost was somewhat similar to Jiang Shu; neither listened to reason.
Jiang Ning raised her hand. The spectral energy was drained from the cafeteria lady, who discovered in horror that her power was draining away.
She wanted to scream, to beg for mercy, but it was too late.
Before she could even make a sound, she had vanished from this world.
Gone, nothing left.
The ghosts present lowered their heads deeply. Those who attempted to cause trouble just now were as quiet as quails, retracting their heads obediently.
To make the cafeteria lady vanish into smoke with a wave of a hand… just how powerful is Dr. Jiang?
Looking so effortless… simply terrifying!
Jiang Ning swallowed the blood that had reached her throat, her expression remaining blank.
The moment she killed the cafeteria lady, her hard-earned Heartbeat Points cleared to zero, then immediately grew explosively.
Although in a while, the energy she consumed would return.
Immediately, a sycophantic ghost came up. “Dr. Jiang, is there anything you need me to do?”
“Nothing. Just stand there. I can handle it myself.”
Jiang Ning focused on those humans, thinking quietly.
Now that the one who dared to resist her was gone, she could do what she wanted.
The System spoke: [ Ningning, are we going to scare them? ]
Jiang Ning shook her head. “This is fine for now.”
The notification sound of constantly increasing Heartbeat Points in her ear was already wonderful.
Only silence, darkness, and helplessness could allow people to quietly taste fear.
Doing something else might distract them and slow down the growth rate of fear values.
This was a principle a senior told Jiang Ning—use human imagination reasonably, and they can scare themselves silly.
Her fingers moved slightly. To prevent anyone from actually being bold enough to do something, she froze all the humans and let a weak ghost walk among them, occasionally touching or licking them.
This way, the humans couldn’t move, and only their brains could vent excess energy.
Disturbed by Wuyi from time to time, they continuously bred fear for Jiang Ning.
The System watched dumbfounded.
Its Host seemed a bit more evil than it thought.
But the effect was very good.
Heartbeat Points ushered in another small peak of growth.
[ Heartbeat Points +33680 ]
[ Heartbeat Points +34689 ]
[ Heartbeat Points +36894 ]
Having done all this, Jiang Ning sat comfortably on the sofa, drinking Xu Kai’s hand-made lemonade, eating hand-peeled walnuts and pecans, occasionally typing to write today’s novel.
She was just a Survival Game BOSS and couldn’t pull people into the Survival Game without a medium like the Main God. She had to think of other ways.
Coincidentally, the entertainment industry in this world was developed, and most people liked reading novels.
Since she happened to write a bit on the System’s suggestion, she could use the novel to pull a few players into her dungeon.
To show friendship to the first batch of players, Jiang Ning wrote in detail about the Urban Legend background, death rules, and how terrible the ghosts inside were in the novel, to prevent bold players from seeking death themselves.
In this world, Jiang Ning had no death quota to fulfill. She could set game rules as she pleased.
No one had to die, but how could there be fear without death? Wouldn’t it really become a holographic game?
But they couldn’t die casually either. After all, every player was Jiang Ning’s sheep.
Compared to harvesting once and being done, sustainable development was naturally better.
Jiang Ning moved her pen slightly, deciding to pull those players who would die in the future to be NPCs, but it had to be kept secret.
Addicted to setting game rules, she typed a bunch.
At 9 PM, Survival updated.
Xu Si clicked into Jiang Ning’s novel on time.
She wasn’t here to read the story now; she was checking if Jiang Ning’s novel mentioned the latest situation of the Urban Legend or any news about Jiang Shu.
Although he was a fair-weather friend, Xu Si didn’t want anything to happen to Jiang Shu.
The latest chapter was still related to ghosts. Xu Si lamented inwardly at Jiang Ning’s understanding of Urban Legends; she spun it as if it were real.
She didn’t know that this chapter was indeed born amidst the fear of a group of humans.
Those humans shivered in the darkness, their imaginations running wild.
Hearing the sound of Jiang Ning eating walnuts, they thought Jiang Ning was gnawing on human bones.
Hearing Jiang Ning typing on the keyboard, they thought it was the sound of Jiang Ning crushing someone’s skull.
Xu Si opened the first page. The title of the latest chapter was There Are Ghosts.
As soon as she saw the opening, her heart skipped a beat.
Winding mountain road?
Isn’t that where Brother went?!