"Bone Lantern"

[Accompanied by a delightfully familiar BGM.]

[A procession of paper funeral cars came rolling in, drifting in perfect unison around the corner.]

[You recognized a "Benz" among them, a "Rolls-Royce," and you even spotted a "Mazda"!]

[You suddenly understood. No wonder they had taken all night to arrive—they had been stuck in traffic!]

[The lead car bore an enormous black-and-white portrait of you. A Paper Person leaned out the window and called to you gloomily:]

["Jiang Qiao, it's time to hit the road!"]

[You walked over and cheerfully said yes, then clicked your lighter at the funeral car a few times!]

[Unfortunately, it failed to light.]

[You apologized and replaced the lighter with a bolt of lightning.]

[With your efforts, the funeral car quickly turned into a mass of oily Green Light!]

[You realized you had poked a hornet's nest!]

[The funeral cars began accelerating in place, putting on a performance of Fast & Furious.]

[But you felt no fear. Invincible Body activated, lightning in hand, you charged forward with a sliding tackle!]

[A massive traffic accident erupted on the spot!]

[Those paper funeral cars crashed into you as though they really were made of paper!]

[They were either crushed flat or torn apart. The occasional sturdier one was sent flying several meters away.]

[A miserable sight!]

[In the midst of battle, your "Lightning Thunder Fist" broke through!]

[Before long, you turned them all into a recyclable type of trash called waste paper!]

"Good!"

"This Invincible Body is as steady as an old dog. Even funeral cars can't budge me!"

Seeing this, Jiang Qiao could not help shouting in praise.

Though these funeral cars were made of paper, they could probably send even an infantry fighting vehicle flying, let alone a person!

Yet when they encountered Jiang Qiao, they all became fragile trash, unable to withstand a single blow!

[Day Fifteen. You saw a Missing Face Notice outside a restroom. The contact address on it was South City District Library.]

[Day Sixteen. You encountered a group of survivors fleeing disaster. They told you that the Shelter Camp outside the city had been destroyed by a group of Skin Ghosts a week ago.]

[Seeing that you were traveling alone, they invited you to join them. You refused and turned to leave.]

[Day Seventeen. Night fell, and you encountered the Paper People again.]

[There were five of them, dressed in brightly colored padded jackets. The leader carried a sickly green lantern!]

[After confirming each other's identities, battle broke out!]

[You discovered that these Paper People were exceptionally powerful. They could actually contend with you, even after your "Lightning Thunder Fist" had broken through to the second tier!]

[However, Thunder Art still suppressed them, and with your Invincible Body's control immunity and damage reduction, you actually fought one against five!]

[After killing two Paper People and seizing the lantern, you felt that Invincible Body had reached its limit.]

[You began to flee, and the Paper People gave chase.]

[You ran freely beneath the first rays of dawn!]

[You laughed as you ran, thinking that the moment Invincible Body recovered, you would immediately turn around and kill them all!]

[You ran too passionately and failed to watch where you were going, crashing head-on into the Pregnant Female Ghost.]

[She stared at you with a face full of venomous resentment!]

[You died!]

[This Weird Simulation has ended!]

[The host survived for a total of seventeen days. Cooldown time: 34 minutes.]

[Congratulations, host. You obtained the talent "Invincible Body" during this simulation. It will automatically be used in the next simulation.]

[Congratulations, host. You obtained one Supernatural Item, "Bone Lantern," during this simulation. This item can be manifested in reality.]

"Fuck!"

"Are you kidding me?!"

Jiang Qiao stared blankly at his ending, his mentality completely exploding!

Bin City was so huge. How could he run around casually and still run into Ghost Mother?

That made no sense.

Why the hell was a pregnant woman wandering outside early in the morning?

Shouldn't you be resting and taking care of the baby?

And she even looked at me like I'd wronged her. I'm not the father of your child, so what are you staring at me for?

What the fuck!

Rubbing his slightly sore eyes, Jiang Qiao let out a breath.

Though his death had been rather frustrating, he had gained quite a lot from this simulation.

And there had been both good and bad news.

First, the bad news.

To begin with, the hotel was very safe during the first three days.

Unless you went out of your way to seek death by leaving the hotel, there was absolutely no need to worry about your life.

It was perfectly safe!

But Jiang Qiao felt that something was definitely off!

The faucet and ceiling that had acted up at night had both told him that the hotel had been abnormal since the very first day of Supernatural Revival!

Jiang Qiao suspected that those Paper People had probably been in the hotel from the beginning, only wandering out on the fourth day.

The other survivors had left with the rescue team on the third day, narrowly avoiding them!

Only he, the unlucky young man who had stayed behind, had happened to run into them.

That also explained why no one had died in the hotel during the first few days. Something even more terrifying was hidden inside, so the Vicious Ghosts outside could not enter!

In Jiang Qiao's eyes, the Paper People were extremely difficult to deal with!

Kill one, and an even stronger Paper Person would immediately come looking for you. They clung to you like stubborn adhesive plaster, impossible to shake off, and who knew what they were made of.

Jiang Qiao felt that if Ghost Mother had not killed him, then once Invincible Body recovered, killing the remaining Paper People would definitely not have been a problem.

But after that, perhaps even stronger Paper People would come looking for him.

"Still, only five showed up at the second tier. At the third tier, there'll probably only be one or two."

"Maybe that ghost thing behind the scenes is only third tier too. After all, the supernatural has only just revived. There have to be some basic rules, right?"

Jiang Qiao pondered whether he could start searching for its location in the hotel from the very beginning.

Maybe he could make some big news!

On the good side of this simulation, the first thing was that he had obtained a "Supernatural Item" for the first time.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qiao immediately manifested the "Bone Lantern."

[Do you wish to manifest "Bone Lantern" in reality?]

"Yes!"

[Manifesting--]

[Manifestation successful!]

[Bone Lantern: With no lamplight in the mountains, travelers carry their own lamps. Within the lantern's light, you can hide yourself from the attention of Vicious Ghosts.]

A dim green flame shone from within the white octagonal lantern, which bore the black character for "condolences," bathing the room in an eerie, gloomy light.

Through the semi-transparent lantern body, Jiang Qiao discovered that its light source was actually a skullcap filled with lamp oil!

It truly lived up to the name "Bone Lantern."

The system said that carrying the lantern would keep Vicious Ghosts from noticing him.

Not make them unable to discover him, but keep them from paying attention to him!

Jiang Qiao wondered whether the Vicious Ghosts would regard him as one of their own and simply ignore him.

After all, most Vicious Ghosts were only interested in killing people.

No matter what, with the Green Light emitted by the "Bone Lantern," his chances of survival would greatly increase!

Sure enough, life needed a little green to get by!

Not bad, not bad!

Besides, Jiang Qiao was also extremely satisfied with the talent "Invincible Body"!

Control immunity and damage reduction—he could just get right in their faces and deal damage!

He was not afraid in the slightest.

If the Paper People could think, they were probably pretty devastated too, right?

"Maybe I should consider permanently solidifying it."

Jiang Qiao thought about it.

The Simulator could only be used between 9:00 and 21:00 every day. It was already 20:15, so he could only start at most one more round.

And the system would not allow him to kill himself to farm talents.

How the hell was he supposed to deal with that?

There was no way around it.

Second by second, time passed.

Soon, the system notification sounded:

[Eerie Simulator cooldown complete!]

[Do you wish to begin?]

"Start it."

As the cooldown ended, Jiang Qiao welcomed his final simulation of the day!