New Quest/ Hospital of Horrors
New Quest/ Hospital of Horrors
After returning to the personal space, Chi Yu finally remembered what he forgot. He quickly opened the world chat and asked inside, "Is there anyone who met an NPC in the game who looked just like someone in reality?"
After sending out this message, because he thought there might not be too many people answering, Chi Yu started investigating the new players guide once again. There were many places the new players guide was actually not that detailed in, for example, how the flow of time when entering the survival game and leaving it was not the same. Aside from when the person was waiting in the personal space, basically after a single game ended, only a few minutes would pass in the real world, or at most, ten or so minutes. If one's luck was good enough, there would be people who would finish in a few seconds too—— this was something that Chi Yu knew after he saw someone posting in the world chat when he was bored before.
The other person was a delivery driver, and on the road to delivery, the vehicle flipped to the side, but because their luck was good enough, after returning to reality, they immediately used the points shop to exchange for blood-stopping medication and stopped blood for themselves, and also quickly replenished blood, then actually lived on. And as for other people whose luck was not good, after returning to reality, they would discover they were already dead, and would have to go through the days of exchanging for hourglasses everyday—— however, there were also people who no longer returned to the real world, because the personal space already could satisfy a portion of their needs.
And this satisfaction was just like the games that Chi Yu played before, continuously unlocking new abilities along with the increase in levels, and the way of delivery, was to continuously send players gift boxes. Chi Yu could not help but think of those game he played before with those notifications on the upper-right corner on the page...
And after returning to the space this time, Chi Yu finally could calm down and properly look what new abilities were added again. Right now, he was already at level 5, yet he only went through three games- the new players guide did not clarify how to level up in this game, or perhaps, how many more extra points each game would have. The entire survival game's rules were not complete, just like it was hurriedly created, all to make do with a certain circumstance, like a kind of half-finished product.
But at the same time, Chi Yu had to admit the strong points of it. The space and the flow of time made it very hard for people to imagine- merely constructing innumerable glass-like polyhedrons in such a vast universe, as well as the perfect shrunken flow of time... this seemed much more like a kind of divine being's magic, while continuously adding various source materials into the game also seemed like there was someone carefully observing something, adding things he believed could draw in a certain existence's interest to the game—— yes, Chi Yu felt, this game was not designed for players, but much more like a series of reality TV, using unpredictable reactions of the game players who went in to attract spectators... and the power that could make people return from death, or perhaps let those with impending death have the opportunity to re-obtain the power of life, was unimaginable as divine power, while points and the closeness of dying once again made each person strive more to enter the game, and the prizes the system gave out, were more of an encouragement.
While thinking like this, Chi Yu who was also opening gift boxes stopped his hand, he saw a bouquet of rosebushes quietly laying in front of him.
This was the exact same one as his accessory, and after the entire experience of being had from the last game, it made Chi Yu turn much more vigilant towards the "different targets will present with different behaviours, unable to correctly predict the ability's effects" at this time. A no way leapt out from the mind, he extremely wanted to ignore this rosebush, even if it certainly was tender and beautiful.
But what made Chi Yu much more surprised was, a system announcement popped out at the same time.
「Stairs of Desire has already updated」
「The updated contents:
1. The quest for acting has been completely removed, it will no long appear, and we will retrieve all mirrors. Players will no longer be able to use the mirror in the game to add any other setting. For players who already have accessories, the mirror will turn into an upgrade material, and for players without an accessory, the mirror will turn into a random tool.
2. Activated abilities complimenting titles obtained, already sent to each player's page, please check in a moment.
3. Forum activated, each player can enter it through personal spaces. 」
「As this update is the game's first update, there will be a chance for all players to draw an ability. 」
Chi Yu went into a daze.
He hurriedly checked the world chat and discovered the world chat was also going crazy. Message after message popped out, making people unable to deal with it. Chi Yu had to give up on finding an answer from the world chat, and he grabbed that rosebush, then put it together with the rosebush he already had.
—— It's completely the same, what kind of upgrading material is... this.
Chi Yu surprisingly watched the two rosebushes let out a gentle gold light, and then, this ball of gold light enveloped them together like a living thing, like there was a pair of invisible hands massaging them, the gold light then disappeared, and a very charming and gorgeous red rose appeared in Chi Yu's palm.
「World Chat: Lovers · Rosebush has been fused and levelled —— Lovers · Rose has already been equipped. 」
And at the same time, messages of other accessories being levelled and equipped popped out with a maniacal speed. The world chat pretty much was at a stop, but this was not because there were no messages coming out, instead, it was because the messages popped out too fast, making people's eyes have a misconception.
Chi Yu had a new window appear in front of him.
「Accessory: Rose—— Active , enforcing, passive ability. 」
「Rose: No need to look at me, no need to smell me either, I do not need any action to prove my charm, after all, though I have thorns all over, you certainly love me to the point you cannot remove yourself, this, we all know. 」
「Directions: Active, enforcing ability—— can be used towards any living being that the user can perceive, making the other person fall in love with the user. Once this state is activated, it cannot be undone in the game, and will lower the user's maximum sanity by 1/4 in the game. When the user's sanity is 10 or lower, it will forcefully activate the Dodder effect. Passive ability—— affection of all NPCs in the game for the player will be raised. 」
「Love: Likeability forcibly turned to 100, different targets will present with different behaviours, unable to correctly predict the ability's effects, but the system can confirm, other than exceptionally attractive people, there will be no danger to life to the player. 」
「Dodder: The host's sense of reasoning will still be present, but cannot reject any requests from all people with good affection, and will extremely desire to attach oneself to a person with extremely high likeability, not willing to move by oneself. Sanity recovery will stop, up until the game ends. 」
「Sanity:Reasoning/mental ability, a meter that will go down when taking a mental attack while facing paranormal activity.」
As the accessory's ability is strengthened, as expected, the price that comes with it turned all weird...
That bit of happiness at the bottom of Chi Yu's heart after seeing that the amount of max sanity meter it needed lowered, after seeing the debuffs, turned a bit strange.
Especially seeing that sentence "not willing to move by oneself".
Is there any difference between not moving by oneself in a survival game and directly admitting defeat and asking for death!
No!
Even needing to do what the NPCs ask of him...
However, the needed sanity lowered, and according to Chi Yu's sanity meter right now, he could at most use it seven times! Compared to being able to use it two times before, it could be said that the accessory right now considerably improved.
The sole problem was that Chi Yu's sanity dropped too easily, after really entering a game, who knows just how long he could use it... and the NPC's reactions also...
Chi Yu who was completely unable to forget everything that happened in the fragrance quest muddily thought: The NPC's moral integrity al-also needs to be considered...
Afterwards, Chi Yu looked at his personal window again, that place also updated already.
「Player: Chi Yu
Level:Lvl 5
Sanity:70/70
Stamina:80/80
Special Abilities:Garbage Retrieval, Item Appraisal, Escape」
Chi Yu reddened his face, and first tapped on the ability Item Appraisal like he was running away- the two abilities, "Garbage Retrieval" and "Escape" practically made Chi Yu unable to lift his head up.
It was very embarrassing.
He lightly tapped the screen——he could actually make this action and could also only think about it in the mind, and it would be like when everyone used their minds to communicate like back in the very start in the Cinderella quest.
In any case, after tapping it, it appeared with the detailed introduction to this ability.
「Item Appraisal: Can know the worth and way to use items within range, and also determine the worth in points. 」
Not a bad ability!
Chi Yu completely approvingly looked at the ability's description—— this way, he could know about more props that can be exchanged for points!
Thus, he also tapped open the other abilities.
「Garbage Retrieval: Passion for picking up garbage will make players able to retrieve things at a faster speed. When carrying garbage, the needed stamina will lower to what was needed by 1/2. 」
「Escape: Practice makes perfect, the strong stress response will make players able to run even faster, the needed stamina would lower down greatly, and when being chased, it will ignore the decrease in sanity to a certain degree. 」
This was practically a surprise from the heavens!
Chi Yu rubbed his face in disbelief. For him, these few abilities really were very good he turned speechless, to the extent that he found that newly appeared bench to sit down in his personal space, and after opening that thick book on the chair, his emotions were still in a kind of strangely excited state.
After the update this time, the personal space also had changes to it. It turned much more like a room, and in the room, there was a big white bed, where the furnace-like area was the entrance for appearing gift boxes. This room had a window and a door too, and when entering a game, one could choose to open the door and enter a random game, and also could choose to spend money to open the window to enter a chosen type, and for players who, other than for stamina recovery, did not need to especially eat, the room did not have anything like a dining table, but in its stead was a bench and study table that Chi Yu walked over to sit at.
The study table was neatly placed with many things: a globe, many hard-cover books of different thicknesses, pencils, a scale, an old, bronze-coloured pocket watch with a long chain, soft-cover printed books...
Chi Yu opened a red-brown big book with "Forum" emerging on the surface, the book actually already emerged with many posts.
The top one was as expected, discussing the merging and levelling of accessories, but what Chi Yu did not think was, the second most popular one was that question he asked in the world chat before—— "The records of situations where game NPCs match with real-life people."
After tapping in, the inside was actually all dense and packed, something about the boss they met looked exactly the same as their own ex-girlfriend, and then they got chased for three days, something about the NPC they met was just like their grandma that long already died, and the result was being tricked out of all their points, something about how the NPC they met was just like the boy they had a secret crush on, and thus forced themselves on them...
Wait a minute!
Chi Yu looked towards that thread- even if each person in the forum can choose to anonymize their name, their genders could not be changed.
That thread was flashing with a pretty, pinkish-white colour.
Chi Yu understood.
He was just like this big sister, hooking up with an NPC, everyone would meet with this kind of circumstance, looks like this was very natural!
Chi Yu who no longer thought about it more counted his own remaining points and hourglasses——
1090 points, 34 hourglasses.
Considerably a rather wealthy level.
There was also a free chance of receiving an ability, Chi Yu also used it without any hesitation, and when the wheel stopped, Chi Yu who was a bit nervous saw the ability he got: Impersonation.
「Impersonation: Are you jealous of those small NPCs that would not be chased by evil spirits in the survival game? Why can't you change into their clothes and hide away from being chased? Right now, we're going to give you a chance to be a fake NPC. 」
「Directions: Can choose an NPC with a lower level than oneself, and disguise as the other person. At the same time, the chosen NPC will still exist, and the player will not be discovered. You can only choose one character in a single game, and it is required that the character has a likeability for the player of at least 15. 」
Chi Yu was very satisfied, at least, he did not pull some extremely low-value sleeping ability or something of the like.
The miser Chi Yu did not use any more points to buy other things, don't mention using points to raise his own stats—— what a joke, if a normal person's stamina was 100, then he would need to use 200 points to buy it, and also needed 300 points to buy sanity.
Chi Yu's own words are: Even if he raised it, there would be not much difference, not spending that unworthy money!
Thus, logically, Chi Yu pushed open the room's door, and entered a random quest.
「Now downloading...」
「Download complete. 」
「Quest—— "Hospital of Horrors"」
「Main Quest: 1. Recreate the truth of the matter.
2. Number of deaths lower than four times.
3. Confirm your own identity within the quest. 」
「Duration of Quest: 7 days 」
「Side Quest: Recreate the reason of death for the characters. 」
「You have already entered the game, the game this time is in a team format, total of 10 people. 」
「Game, start. 」