In her panic, Xu Si moved a bit too abruptly, and her cup fell directly to the floor with a crisp crash.
She took a deep breath, wanting to immediately ask her mother what was going on, but also wanting to know what happened next, so she tried hard to suppress her feelings and continued reading.
[My question was answered before long.
My brother got into trouble. He was eaten by an Urban Legend, but he is still alive for now, though I don’t know for how long.
Eaten by the Urban Legend along with him were several rich young masters from Ning City, as well as the son of the Ning City mayor.
The family held little hope for whether my brother could survive.
Father and Mother discussed hiring outside help, acting as if trying to revive a dead horse.
Looking at the gloomy state of the family, I couldn’t help but feel a bit sad.
If he really died, I would be sad too.
With this mood, I saw my brother’s girlfriend again.
“My name is Wuyi.”
The dark shadow said to me, “You are the first human who can see me. I won’t eat you.”
Wuyi giggled. Her figure was slender, even somewhat enchanting.
I was dazed for a moment, suddenly remembering I had once read a classic book called Log of Urban Legends. There was a ghost inside called Wuyi.
Cold in childhood, fond of eating those with extreme emotions in adulthood. Good at manipulating human love and hate. If someone can survive under it for a certain period, they can obtain a Wuyi Seed.
I recalled the description of Wuyi in the Log of Urban Legends.
Pitch-black all over, voice like a woman, enchanting figure, likes to entangle, likes to lick prey. Emotions are amplified after being licked.
These descriptions matched the dark thing in front of me one by one.
I asked, “Are you a ghost?”
Wuyi laughed at my silliness. “Of course I’m a ghost.”
“Then what’s the difference between you and the ghost on the winding mountain road?”
Wuyi looked at me and said, “I eat relatively little. One person is enough for me to eat for a long time.”
It rested on my shoulder, breathing on me, its breath like orchids. “Your family treats you badly. How about I eat them all?”
To think even a ghost could tell my family treated me badly.
Truly surprising.
But I am a law-abiding citizen, so I quickly refused its kindness. “No need, thank you. I’m fine as I am now.”
After all, these days, the Jiang family didn’t seem to show any intention of harvesting my kidney, so there was no need for me to really do something illegal.
Wuyi looked at me in surprise. After a while, it threw me a black badge. “This is my invitation. Next time you use this to visit my home, I’ll give you an ability.”
My eyes widened in disbelief.
Abilities can be given?]
Xu Si frowned.
Why is it getting more and more nonsensical? Not a single piece of useful information.
Her gaze moved down casually, suddenly stopping on a line of text.
[Wuyi told me there is a more powerful ghost on the winding mountain road. If I hug its thigh (suck up to it), maybe my brother can come back safely.
If I want to find this ghost, just chant this ghost’s name in my heart a few times.]
Xu Si frowned tightly. She wanted to check the next chapter, only to find there wasn’t one.
She had to sigh and hurried downstairs, intending to ask her mother where her brother had gone.
After a while, she stopped.
No, if something happened to Brother, I absolutely cannot let Mom know.
She took a deep breath and went back upstairs.
The night was already very dark.
Her brother’s disappearance time aligned with Jiang Shu’s. Maybe they really went to the winding mountain road together.
Jiang Ning posted the novel update and began working on creating her own dungeon.
She wrote slowly today. The four-thousand-word update took three hours.
After such a long time, the Heartbeat Points in the backend had reached five hundred thousand. Although still very little, it was barely enough to make a small one-hundred-square-meter dungeon.
Only one hundred square meters meant she certainly couldn’t make a large-scale parkour game.
It could only be puzzle-solving, shooting, role-playing, or tabletop games.
Jiang Ning thought for a moment and finalized the first game as a single-player puzzle game—Reincarnation of Death.
1) You are an orphan living alone in a newly bought secondhand house. Someone once committed suicide in this house.
2) You have already died [ ] times. You need to find the cause of your death before the seventh death.
3) At night, kitchenware will come alive. During the day, furniture will come alive. Please be careful.
4) The more reincarnations, the less memory you have. You may hallucinate, but do not believe those false words. You are the only one in this house.
5) Trust your intuition, but do not trust the sticky notes that suddenly appear.
6) One of these six rules is false, and one is half-true, half-false.
After writing these rules, Jiang Ning scrutinized them carefully to ensure there were no problems before using her power to integrate these rules into the Urban Legend she had just established.
Besides this, she also sent Wuyi, who could provoke human emotions, into Reincarnation.
This forced the System to lament that Jiang Ning was truly a qualified Survival BOSS, never forgetting to create difficulties for players.
Puzzle-solving is bald-inducing enough. Sending Wuyi to amplify player emotions—isn’t this ruthlessly tearing a few more planks off the already tattered road to clearance?
To this, Jiang Ning expressed, “My energy isn’t enough. If too many people clear the level, there won’t be enough rewards.”
The System asked: [ Then Ningning, what do you plan to set as the clearance reward for this game dungeon? ]
Jiang Ning used the remaining energy to create a tiny ball of light, faint but impossible to ignore.
“Random Ability and Player Identity.”
The System was shocked: [ Is giving an ability too much? Just giving a Player Identity at the start would be fine. ]
Jiang Ning disagreed. “This is okay. The later dungeons will get harder and harder. If their strength can’t keep up, the game can’t go on.”
What’s the fun in a total wipeout at the start?
Jiang Ning had been a Survival BOSS for many years. Compared to the Main God, she paid more attention to the balance between the game and the players.
Only with balance could these players provide her with more Heartbeat Points. To get wool, naturally, one had to raise the sheep well first.
Moreover, the initial strength of humans in this world was much worse than that of Survival players because people entering the Survival Game would get a newbie gift pack. Although even with the newbie gift pack, more than half of the players died at the start.
Jiang Ning couldn’t afford a newbie gift pack. She had to be picky even when selecting players now.
Jiang Ning explained, “Random Ability doesn’t mean every ability is strong.”
I can’t afford all the strong ones right now, but weak abilities don’t mean they’re useless.
[ Okay. ]
Seeing Jiang Ning had made a decision, the System didn’t object anymore. [ Ningning, once the Heartbeat Points from this dungeon are in hand, heal your injuries first. ]
Jiang Ning nodded and deployed the game dungeon she created.
From now on, it would choose destined people for itself.
Jiang Ning looked forward to the first person entering her dungeon.