[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-64":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Player Reboot",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2272029,4438,"Chapter 64: Curse of Vengeful Spirits (Part One)","player-reboot-chapter-64",64,"\u003Cp>“You’re the ones who wanted to look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhan Xinyu innocently put away his phone, “I just got this forwarded to me—probably AI-generated, some kind of teaser for an upcoming horror movie.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it’s not generated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other students dispersed; Li Cheng silently retracted his gaze, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After becoming a player and reviewing so much data, he knew exactly what the world was like now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past few years, governments and civilian guilds across nations had been trying to suppress news of anomalies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the player population expanded and supernatural powers grew rampant, the boundary between reality and the Killing Grounds kept blurring, making information suppression increasingly difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew when the tipping point would come—when concealment would become impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To better handle anomalies, guild organizations—including the Special Affairs Bureau—each possessed detectors capable of measuring abnormal fluctuation indices in objects and living beings at close range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Index 0–20: Green Alert Level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, unexplained laughter in abandoned hospitals, or fleeting ghostly figures flashing past beside highways at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These odd events, which existed even before Killing Grounds, had virtually no impact on human society and never caused deaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Index 20–50: Blue Alert Level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, water ghosts that dragged people underwater, or replacement ghosts that urged people to jump from buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These anomalies could cause deaths, but remained within the scope of ordinary professional resolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, deploying excavators and water pumps to drain a pond and reduce the water ghost’s corpse to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Index 50–200: Yellow Alert Level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the Bi Xian game, which could induce deep coma and soul separation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such anomalies typically required professionals to deploy specialized equipment, including heavy weapons, to resolve. Ordinary people encountering them faced grave danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Index 200–1000: Orange Alert Level. If not handled promptly, it could trigger major casualties exceeding a hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Index 1000–3000: Red Alert Level. If not handled promptly, it could endanger an entire urban district.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Index 3000–5000: Deep Red Alert Level. If not handled promptly, it could endanger an entire city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although abnormal fluctuation indices were tied to alert levels, they did not always perfectly align.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the Ink-Colored Spider Li Cheng had previously eliminated—its physical strength was modest, but its information pollution ability was formidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If left unmonitored, allowing it to expand its population and hunt freely, the death toll could be incalculable—easily warranting an Orange or Red Alert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The video on Zhan Xinyu’s phone was likely an anomaly recently erupted somewhere overseas. Ordinary people who encountered it would have no chance to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s truly... hopeless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng stopped spinning his pen. He had become a player and gained some self-preservation ability, but his family and friends remained utterly ignorant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One of the Special Affairs Bureau’s employee benefits is relocating employees’ families to the same city, housing them near the Bureau’s base to reduce the chance of family members being attacked. Even so, it’s not 100% safe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng thought silently, “Perhaps only a Level 40 Superhuman at the pyramid’s peak can enjoy a night of undisturbed sleep.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he pondered, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Task Type: Script Task (Team)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here it comes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took a deep breath. As the class bell rang, he stood with the other students to greet the teacher, all while listening to the system’s voice in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Task Name: Curse of Vengeful Spirits】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Task Objective: At 12:00 AM tonight, fully submerge yourself in clean water and wait for teleportation】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Reward: Revealed upon receiving the next task prompt】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Failure Penalty: Erasure】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curse of Vengeful Spirits. Li Cheng’s gaze subtly hardened—the task name was practically a label slapped on his forehead: supernatural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to patterns compiled by players, Killing Grounds tasks sometimes revealed crucial information through their names.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, a task named 【Bloody New York】 or 【Fight to Dawn】 was likely a pure combat mission—just bring weapons and ammo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A task named 【Demon Possession】 or 【Seven-Day Return】 likely involved spirits, requiring specialized anti-spirit gear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, unique teleportation methods offered clues. Some tasks required teleportation while watching a specific film—likely tied to that film’s content. Others required teleportation while diving into deep sea—likely set in an oceanic environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a full day of classes, Li Cheng did not ride home immediately. Instead, he messaged his family via WeChat, saying he’d be staying overnight at a friend’s place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then found a public restroom to change clothes, assumed the face of an adult, and used forged identification documents to check into a budget hotel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the Special Affairs Bureau had the Tianwang System, if its AI detected abnormal behavior from someone on camera, it would allocate resources to trace their footage—risking exposure of Li Cheng’s disguise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he asked Changsun Yao to help forge a set of documents that could pass inspection at hotels, airports, and high-speed rail stations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why he didn’t stay home but chose a budget hotel instead,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, he wasn’t sure if someone at home might wake up at night and interfere with his teleportation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>on the other, if he died in the script task—or brought back something ominous—it was safer to be far from home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After completing all preparations, Li Cheng rested briefly in his hotel room, then filled the bathtub with water at midnight, lay down in it, and waited silently for teleportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding ding ding ding—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the alarm clock on the hotel nightstand blared, Li Cheng’s surroundings abruptly shifted—he now sat inside a Toyota minivan slowly sinking into a river.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The minivan resembled a TV station camera van, with numerous filming devices arranged on the rear seats. A Japanese radio program played from the speakers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two other people were in the vehicle; a single glance confirmed their player identities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Stage One Objective: Proceed to Shuijing City Television Station】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",968,"2026-06-19T22:31:22.154Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b1c2f44f236beb902d1e12f9e2e89cbfa8e68d3013728f68e4e4cbba58b1cc16","player-reboot-chapter-65","player-reboot-chapter-63",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]