Chapter 2: The Undying Youth Is in Good Spirits

Creak—

Accompanying the unlocking of the latch, a piercing creak caused by the door's hinges not being oiled for a long time echoed through the dim corridor of the residential building.

After getting off work and returning home, he entered the foyer and turned on the living room light.

The first thing that came into view was the obviously old mosquito net on the dining table, along with a pink note bearing a message.

"I prepared chicken stewed with mushrooms for a late-night snack; just heat it up and it's ready to eat, your dear sister~"

After reading the words on the note, he lifted the mosquito net.

Wu Wang's mouth twitched.

He saw only a bucket of Master Kong instant noodles with the seasoning packet already added, with "Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms Flavor" written boldly on the packaging.

It really is ready to eat after just heating it up!

"I actually hesitated for a second whether that guy would really cook?" He helplessly complained as he picked up the instant noodles to heat some water.

He placed the noodle bucket on the dining table and waited for it to soak.

Wu Wang returned to his room and took off his clothes.

Looking at the short-sleeved shirt riddled with holes front and back, almost like strips of rag, he couldn't help but sigh: "Couldn't you just stab my head? Do you know how to kill? If not, I'll teach you in your next life!"

—These were the holes pierced by the knife of the man who attacked him in the shop just now.

That's right, the first strike from that uncle pierced his body with perfect accuracy, even though Wu Wang made no attempt to dodge.

In fact, every subsequent strike from the attacker that assaulted him landed with a vicious thud.

Wu Wang showed no signs of struggling at all.

But when that guy revealed a disappointed expression and prepared to leave, Wu Wang, who should have been dead, stood up from the ground completely unharmed, wearing an even more disappointed expression.

At that moment, it was the other party's turn to start feeling fear.

This was also the secret Wu Wang discovered the first time he died at eighteen—that he could not truly die.

To be precise, the moment he died, his body would instantly restore itself to its theoretically healthiest state.

Even the blood that had flowed out would strangely vanish and return to his body, which is why there were only holes on his clothes and no bloodstains.

Facing a target that could not be killed, how could that murderer uncle possibly win?

"Heh, I guess I brought quite a bit of psychological trauma to that guy before he died," Wu Wang said self-mockingly.

After tossing the shirt, which had turned into rags, into the trash can, he sat on the bed and pulled a spirit tablet stained with sticky mud from his pants pocket.

Although he didn't often watch the news, he had still heard about the serial murder case that had recently been causing widespread panic.

The person who attacked him must be the serial killer; could this spirit tablet be the leverage that has kept the culprit from being caught all this time?

Thinking of this, Wu Wang examined the strange spirit tablet in his hand.

Since he possessed the ability of immortality himself, he calmly speculated that this object might also possess some kind of eerie power.

"Hmm... does it seem like there are some characters carved on it?"

Wu Wang intended to carefully observe the blurry characters on the spirit tablet and subconsciously raised his hand to wipe away the sticky mud.

"Shh shh shh..."

Accompanying the falling of the mud, the characters on the spirit tablet became increasingly clear, finally revealing their true form.

【Holder Wu Wang — Conditions for registering a player account have been met】

"Damn! Doxxing!"

Under these circumstances, no one would have expected their name to appear on a spirit tablet carried by a murderer.

Even Wu Wang's nerves, which were so thick that he didn't blink even when his body was pierced, twitched.

He thought someone had doxxed him.

Hoo—

Before he could figure out the situation, darkness suddenly engulfed his vision.

It was a blackness where one could not see a finger even when holding it out, or rather, a blackness where one could not even perceive one's own fingers.

Not only were his eyes affected, but it seemed as though all five senses had been stripped away, as if he had fallen into an endless abyss.

"Blind? Can I apply for a disability certificate?"

After this thought flashed through Wu Wang's mind immediately, his thinking gradually began to stagnate.

It was unknown how much time passed; it felt like the next instant, yet also as distant as ten thousand years having passed.

Only then did a strange sound ring in his ears—

【Pre-registration Dungeon No. 1008611 Opened】

【Dungeon Name — Hide and Seek】

【Dungeon Introduction: You clap one, I clap one, let's play a game together; if you can't catch the ghost, your head hits the ground!】

【Personal Main Quest: Find three rules of death within the specified time】

【Clearance Reward: Qualification as the final beta tester player】

【Hidden Reward: Conditions unknown】

【Wishing everyone finds their own death】

"Why does this voice give me the feeling of Sadako, a thousand-year-old phlegm stuck in her throat, screaming from a public toilet two hundred meters away?"

Wu Wang felt no fear regarding the eerie situation at hand; instead, he launched into a series of abstract, complaint-style metaphors.

As soon as he finished speaking, his vision instantly brightened.

"Ah! My 24K titanium alloy dog eyes!"

It was bright, indeed.

But it was a bit too bright.

This place was completely unlike his bedroom, which was as gloomy as a vampire's graveyard; the glaring light stung his eyes, taking several seconds for him to recover.

Wu Wang suddenly found himself in a plainly decorated tiered classroom, where a ring of stage spotlights overhead blazed like the sun, illuminating the entire room as if it were daytime.

Besides the neatly arranged tiered seats, there was a podium at the very front of the classroom.

A single standing microphone sat there all by itself, as if waiting for someone to step up and passionately open the mic.

Even more bizarrely, quite a few people were lying scattered about in all directions around the room.

He had probably been lying like that too before he woke up.

With a single glance, Wu Wang calculated that there were fifty people in the classroom, including himself.

"Hiss..."

The man closest to Wu Wang also rubbed his head and slowly woke up.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a youth with a delicate face but a pair of dead-fish eyes full of dissonance staring at him from a distance where their faces were almost touching.

The two locked eyes for a moment.

The youth revealed a gratified smile and spoke first: "Not bad, you are the newcomer with the best psychological quality I have ever seen."

Gratified my ass!

This line, so familiar it could be found in most infinite-flow novels, made the man feel his head throbbing.

For a moment, he was unclear whether the current situation was the problem, or if this strange youth was the problem.

But his instinctive reaction was to touch his waist, after which his expression became slightly more calm.

Before he could make his next move, he saw the youth run over to another person who had just woken up and start a conversation—

"Congratulations, the prefrontal lobotomy surgery was very successful; you have already forgotten the fact that you are an idiot."

"Huh? I was never an idiot to begin with!"

"See, how successful the surgery is!"

"..."

Subsequently, within just two minutes, everyone in the tiered classroom woke up one after another.

Among them, the expressions of those Wu Wang had spoken to all appeared quite strange.

They stiffened.

It wasn't just their expressions that stiffened.

Their fists were damn stiff too!

However, while they were pondering where this eccentric character with such leaping thoughts and foul-mouthed nonsense came from, they did not know that Wu Wang, who had just been running around the floor spouting trash talk, had already hidden himself within the crowd.

A rough guess had formed in his mind—

"All these guys are murderers!"

He carefully observed these strangers who had just woken up.

Without exception, the reactions of everyone he had spoken to after being stunned were quite peculiar.

Some touched their waists or pockets, presumably hiding weapons there that gave them comfort; some, in their anger, were eyeing their own neck arteries or hearts and other vital parts, as if they would strike to kill in the next second; some did not make extreme reactions, but were so calm that it was completely unlike the panic a normal person should have in a strange environment, instead remaining composed and trying to fish something out of his mouth.

They seemed to hide it well, but the gloom in their eyes was something Wu Wang knew too well.

That middle-aged man in the escape room shop who had wanted to torture and kill him had had the exact same look in his eyes!

These guys are all cut from the same cloth!

"What conditions are required to enter this so-called instance? Killing people while holding a spirit tablet? That is to say, apart from me, are all these guys maniacs holding spirit tablets hidden in the city?"

"As far as I know, there is only one maniac in Mingyang City recently, and I have already taken him out, so they must mostly come from other cities."

Wu Wang quickly thought about everyone's identities.

The others felt uneasy in this strange environment; basically no one communicated, they were just wary of each other.

About ten minutes later.

Thump!

A sudden sound echoed in the classroom, breaking the dead silence.

Everyone looked in the direction the sound came from.

They only saw a man lying on the ground motionless; his entire face looked as if it had been trampled and ravaged into an unrecognizable state, yet one could still see his expression was extremely distorted, as if he had witnessed some great terror before dying.

"D-dead!?"

The woman closest to the deceased covered her mouth and said, somewhat terrified.

Although she did not walk over to check carefully, the guy on the ground was bleeding from seven orifices and his chest was no longer rising and falling; it was obvious he had already lost the breath of life.

Such a miserable scene scared her legs so weak that she sat directly on the ground; a nauseating smell of urine rose from between her legs, and pale yellow liquid soaked her skirt.

Not every murderer possesses strong psychological quality and endurance.

After all, she was just an ordinary person.

But no one pointed fingers at the woman; instead, everyone revealed an expression of Heavy tension.

Because they all noticed a key point—

There was not a single person around the deceased!

Even the woman closest to him was a full three meters away from the deceased!

Who could beat the deceased into that state from such a distance? It couldn't be that some Fish-Selling Qiang summoned Star Platinum and instantly OLA-ed the guy to death, could it!

Everyone's hearts jumped in surprise.

They subconsciously recalled the main quest they had heard—

【Find three death rules within the specified time】

Could it be that the so-called death rule was triggered?

As murderers wandering in the darkness of the city, they had experienced the magical ability of the spirit tablet and used it to release the beastly desires in their hearts.

Therefore, regarding the inexplicable arrival in this classroom, most people were relatively calm and did not have extreme reactions.

Only a few were the kind of cowards who would wet themselves from fear.

But now the situation had changed.

Among the crowd, besides mutual wariness, a strange panic was spreading.

It was fear of the unknown danger.

Humans and ghosts—just putting those two things together, anyone with a sound mind would clearly know who should be afraid.

They couldn't even see the ghosts!

Wasn't this just like lambs waiting to be slaughtered?