Chapter 231 Insurmountable, Many Restrictions

Walking back to the dormitory at night and then going to sleep is the most intuitive process.

The game prompts also guide in this way. As long as you follow the process, you can pass the level.

But as expected, this only resulted in the lowest level of average evaluation.

There must be more difficult tasks hidden in this simple-level copy.

In this regard, Su Ming must try his best to explore it clearly in order to obtain higher rewards.

Moreover, this is also a guarantee for your own safety. Not actively touching danger does not mean that the danger does not exist. Since this condition exists, you must be fully prepared.

He restarted the game and tried various things.

He tried not to leave with the rest of his colleagues, but returned to the office building.

However, just as he was about to leave, a reminder appeared next to him.

[It’s already late. What you should do now is go back to the dormitory with your colleagues instead of going back to the office building.]

[Don’t be a rollicker and ruin the atmosphere at work. Leave work when it’s time to leave. Otherwise…something bad will happen…]

Su Ming actually sensed a strong threat in this narration.

“Interesting, I just returned to the office building and this prompt appeared.”

He ignored the reminder and continued to control the character to walk into the office building.

Soon, the color of the screen turned to black and white.

Several large bloody words popped up on the screen.

【You’re going to die.】

In this black and white building, Su Ming discovered that the movement speed of the character he controlled had slowed down a lot, as if it was stuck in a quagmire.

He tried to exit the office building, only to find that the door could not be opened.

A security guard rushed out from the security room, holding a black stick, and launched a crazy attack on him at a very fast speed. It looked like he was a master from the Mad Dog Sect, and every move was deadly.

His exaggerated physical fitness is simply not something a normal security guard can possess.

Fortunately, Su Ming was not an ordinary player. Relying on his superior physical fitness and the Grim Reaper’s scythe, he successfully killed the security guard.

However, this was not the end. Soon, more security guards arrived and launched a frenzied attack on him without fear of death.

One of the security captains actually had a pistol on him, and he suddenly shot him in the vitals, killing him instantly.

Su Ming couldn’t help but complain: “I just went back to the office building after get off work. Why did you treat it like a crime? So many security guards came up and killed me without any explanation?”

The more the other party did this, the more Su Ming felt that there was a big secret hidden in this office building.

He opened a new file and continued exploring. This time, he tried to sneak in through the window. Soon, the security guards surrounded him again and beat him up violently.

Su Ming’s two fists were no match for the eighteen hands, and the opponent could also shoot secretly. Even if he fought back with a pistol, he still fell down in the end.

However, he did not feel frustrated. This was just a preliminary exploration and he still had his extraordinary ability “bias” that he had not used.

“What if we change our thinking and don’t start from the office building?” He changed his approach and tried to leave the team of employees in the middle of the night road.

As a result, the narration prompt appeared again.

[It’s very late now. What you should do now is to go back to the dormitory with your colleagues instead of running around.]

[Don’t be a maverick. Go home when you should. Staying out all night is not a good habit. Otherwise… bad things will happen…]

Su Ming still ignored the reminder and left the night road, walking towards the alleys on both sides.

Soon, he met an old woman wearing a ragged cotton jacket, sitting in the alley. The old woman lowered her head, but when he approached, she suddenly raised her head, her eyes emitting a dazzling red light, her mouth split open, and several long black and red tongues fell out: “Young man, why don’t you listen? Why do you have to run around everywhere?”

The sound was extremely harsh, it seemed to be a sonic attack.

Su Ming found that his character was out of control. At this time, the golden emperor’s paper clothes emerged and he regained his ability to move.

He simply raised the Grim Reaper’s scythe and stood next to the old woman, wanting to test the opponent’s fighting ability in this way.

The old woman’s fighting power was not weak, but her fighting system needed the sound as an aid. Those were blocked by the Emperor’s Paper Clothes. Su Ming’s character quickly gained the upper hand and was about to kill the old woman. The old woman flicked her tongue and screamed: “Old man, don’t do it!!”

“Alas… young man, why don’t you just work hard?”

With a sigh, an old man with a hunched body, wearing a tattered jacket and holding a pipe came out of the alley and exhaled a puff of thick smoke. The smoke seemed to have life, baring its fangs and claws, and flew towards Su Ming.

Then, the old man continued to suck on his pipe, exhaling puffs of thick smoke. The smoke surrounded Su Ming’s character and the emperor’s paper clothes were quickly worn away, and the golden color quickly dimmed.

In the end, Su Ming’s character was no match for the old man and died at the hands of the gossipy old woman ghost and the smoker old man.

Looking at the character death page, Su Ming became thoughtful and began to realize the problem with this copy.

“This copy seems to be placing extremely strict restrictions on my character’s actions. It only allows me to follow the predetermined route, which is to go home along the night road and then go to sleep.”

“If you follow this process, there won’t be any big problems. However, if you make any other moves, whether it’s going back to the office building or going off the road, you will encounter a devastating blow.”

The security ghost in the office building and the old lady ghost here are impossible for ordinary players to defeat. If they encounter them, they will die.

In other words, his fighting ability is strong enough to allow him to collide with the opponent head-on, and he seems to have some ability to resist.

But even so, he couldn’t really break the deadlock and would still be killed in the end.

In order to verify his guess, Su Ming continued to try. He tried to leave from other places, but he would encounter other ghosts blocking his way, leaving him no chance to explore freely.

He also tried returning to the staff dormitory, but instead of falling asleep immediately, he wandered around in the building. However, there were a few strange men in the building with ears as big as palm-leaf fans and arms hanging down to the ground. Once he left his bedroom, they would appear in the corridor and start hunting him.

“According to this difficulty, players can’t do anything at all, which means they can only get normal-level evaluations. Could this be the purpose of this dungeon? Is it, or someone in the dungeon, restricting players from getting evaluations above the normal level?”

The more this happened, the more Su Ming wanted to try out what would happen if he got a high evaluation.

Su Ming: “Do you think you can stop me by setting so many restrictions?”

He will then begin to use his “Deviation” ability to make further attempts to find a way out of the ghost’s numerous blockades and restrictions.

　Reached the milestone of 10,000 collections

　
(End of this chapter)