Chapter 62: Pulled Five SSRs in a Row (Please Follow! Please Follow!)

“Enter the light column within thirty seconds…”

“Target transfer locked, curse transmission initiating…”

A cold, mechanical voice echoed in his mind, followed by that familiar yet irresistible wave of drowsiness—every time he was teleported by the Master God, it was always like this.

His consciousness tore free from half-sleep; Wu Xian opened his eyes and immediately sat up in a sit-up.

Then he scanned the surroundings, and a look of “as expected” quickly formed on his face.

From the setup, this was just an ordinary house—tatami mats covered the floor, and paper screens separated the rooms; a classic Japanese-style dwelling.

Considering this was the Curse world and the plot of Origin Infinity, it was virtually certain: this was the cursed house from the movie, the origin of all events.

Wu Xian could even imagine that the moment the Master God lifted its protective barrier, Kaya, hidden in the shadows, would instantly imprint the curse’s aura onto everyone in the room.

Thinking of this, Wu Xian raised his left hand and looked at the task prompt on the Master God’s wristwatch—

【Main Quest: Survive fifteen days in the Curse world or eliminate the source of the curse. Complete to receive one B-rank side quest storyline and 5,000 reward points. Do not leave the cursed house’s one-hundred-kilometer radius within seven days; restriction lifted after seven days.】

【Five days ago, the West Sea Team entered the ‘Curse 1’ world. Three days ago, the Yinzhou Team entered the ‘Curse 1’ world.】

【Team Battle Rules: Killing an opponent’s non-Gene Lock member grants one C-rank side quest storyline and 2,000 reward points per individual; killing an opponent’s Gene Lock member grants one B-rank side quest storyline and 7,000 reward points per individual… If an opposing Lunhui team is completely annihilated, all members receive an additional C-rank side quest storyline.】

【In team battle, if one of your members dies, your team loses one point; if your member defeats an opponent, your team gains one point… At the end of the battle, your team’s total points will be multiplied by two thousand to determine the reward points each member receives. If the final reward points are negative, the member will be erased.】

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“The reward hasn’t changed, but the task’s content and deadline have… What’s the difference between eliminating the source of the curse and killing Kaya’s core?”

Staring at the words “source of the curse,” Wu Xian’s brow tightened into a deep frown.

Intuition told him this task was almost certainly another trap—he silently cursed the Master God for its shamelessness, then turned his attention to the other figures on the floor.

Excluding himself and the seven veterans, the Master God had assigned five newcomers to this horror film—twelve people total, eight fewer than the original.

But then again, it made sense: this horror film’s main theme was team battle; Kaya and her kind were no real threat to the current Zhongzhou Team.

Even excluding him, the remaining veterans each had at least a B-rank enhancement and first-tier Gene Lock—every one of them could fight Kaya one-on-one, even kill her once. There was no way this was still a twenty-person extreme difficulty.

As for the five unfamiliar newcomers… well, they were somewhat unexpected to Wu Xian.

First, he immediately recognized Zhao Ying.

Impossible to miss—her androgynous attire, and the unmistakable bulge beneath her chest bindings under psychic scan, confirmed her identity as the most popular female protagonist in Infinite fanworks.

Besides her, there was another woman among the newcomers—but not the sultry woman in a sexy nightgown he’d imagined. Instead, a girl in a yellow dress, roughly Zhao Ying’s age, looked nothing like Ming Yanwei from the original.

Moreover, this girl didn’t feel like a mere ordinary person—her psychic energy was subtly abnormal; she likely possessed some special ability.

“Ming Yanwei didn’t appear… Did the Master God place her at another time point, or did the butterfly effect alter reality and change her fate?”

Wu Xian frowned in thought. If it was the former, fine. If it was the latter… actually, that wasn’t bad. At least one less miserable person in this world.

He shook his head and turned to the other three men.

One young man was tall but carried a refined, scholarly air—if he wasn’t mistaken, this had to be Qi Tengyi, whose screen time was less than the Green Goblin’s hoverboard.

Of course, though low in presence, he was genuinely talented.

His archaeological knowledge was secondary; the key was that he could read cultivation runes—in many fanworks and alternate universes, he was a prime candidate for orthodox cultivation.

The other two men: one clearly underwent rigorous training, with physical stats nearly matching Zero’s prime, though his demeanor was stern and upright—likely a soldier.

The last, a young man with multicolored hair, looked at first glance like a street thug, acting erratic—but Wu Xian sensed a powerful energy fluctuation within him, similar to the low-grade qigong Zheng Zha had recently bought for Luo Li.

Yet its quality was far superior—likely approaching high-grade qigong level in the Master God’s system.

Moreover, near his dantian, Wu Xian’s psychic sense “saw” a worm-like creature emitting an unknown substance, helping the young man snap out of his daze rapidly.

Worm… qigong…

Fuck! Is this Cheng Xiao? How the hell is he here at this time?

Wu Xian stared at the young man and the other four newcomers, suddenly feeling the eerie sensation of pulling five SSRs in a row.

A four-tier Gene Lock female assassin with a dominant personality, a mysterious girl with suspected supernatural abilities, a tomb-raider with genuine cultivation potential, a disciplined soldier, and a neijia master rivaling second-tier Gene Lock…

What did the Master God intend? Why were these newcomers so absurdly high-quality? Was it planning something?

Wu Xian mentally grumbled—but inside, he was pleased.

The higher the newcomers’ quality and talent, the stronger the Zhongzhou Team would become, especially in this team battle. If they followed their pre-entry plan, the rewards after this horror film would be staggering.

Even average newcomers, if they survived and returned to the Master God space, could grow rapidly—let alone this group of “demons and monsters.”

At that moment, movement came from beside him—Zheng Zha, Zhan Lan, and others were gradually waking up.

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