As a twelfth-tier eerie, [Phone Eerie]'s most terrifying aspect was not how high its combat power was. In fact, this eerie had no direct combat capabilities worth observing.
Rather, it could lend out its eerie abilities by squeezing players for points.
Once it extracted points, they would fall into its "loan scam."
It would gradually devour that player and turn them into its own tool.
The more players it controlled, the less of a threat [Demon Card] posed on the main storyline—
After wasting a slightly filler chapter on nonsense, Ji Yan parted ways with Wang Sihan and the other two. Standing at the bus stop at the foot of the mountain, he turned on his "backup phone."
Both Lush City news and the eerie forums had a trending topic today—
[Line 3 Train] had been suspended.
Ji Yan sighed.
His [private property] had only turned a profit for one day before being shut down and going bankrupt!
Anyone would be upset by that.
But at least Dungeon Order had some conscience. It transferred the points earned from the players eliminated overnight into his game panel account.
Five hundred points in total.
"Nine players died, and it was only five hundred points... Looks like they were poorer than the last."
Ji Yan muttered.
"It was probably like the first night—luring a large number of players into killing ordinary passengers, escalating the chaos until the order of the [Real world] intervened and suspended operations."
How had the players been lured in? That was too simple.
They were probably players who owed [Phone Eerie] loan points. Give them a way to repay their debt, and they would obediently do it.
After two nights of side-quest experiences, Ji Yan had discovered that any player controlled by [Phone Eerie] would suffer a drop in