Terrifying Quest Mechanics, the Operators' Purpose

Upon seeing this, Gao Linzhi couldn't help but think that the game operators really knew how to play the game.

However, this task is still very rough.

But this is already the first step the operators have taken in seriously promoting the game.

He shook his head.

Then go about your own business.

He still has a lot to do.

But the next moment, a new situation surprised him.

This forced Gao Linzhi to pay close attention to this seemingly ordinary operational testing mission...

Because after Zhang San Revive After Death, he appeared in the Safe Zone and then disappeared again.

He reappeared beside Li Si and Wang Er.

His eyes were blank; he didn't know what had happened.

How did I end up here again?

"Is this Teleportation? Who did it?"

Just then, Li Si was about to say something when he suddenly noticed that Wang Er's eyes were also filled with confusion as he looked at the Longevity Water in his hand with a puzzled expression.

"A snake? How can this be a snake?"

"A poisonous snake!"

He threw away the Longevity Water and hid far away.

It's hard to imagine that he just killed Zhang San by sneak attacking him for this thing, and was even going to fight Li Si.

Now, the other party is both disgusted and afraid.

Looking at the two of them, Li Si felt a chill run down his spine.

"I know, this is eerie!"

"This was done by the monster!"

"This isn't your average leveling-up game; it's a horror game!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of white light suddenly shone in the Secret Room where the three of them were, enveloping them within it.

Even Gao Linzhi's spiritual powers couldn't reveal what they experienced within the white light.

We can only wait until the white light dissipates.

Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Er stood in the Secret Room, their eyes shifting from confusion to clarity once more.

They looked at each other.

At this moment, Zhang San spoke up, "Sigh, after we solved the mechanism on those five pillars, we didn't get anything."

"Yeah, there's nothing there. It's infuriating! Who designed this mission mode?" Wang Er said angrily.

"This is a real game after all; it's probably just a way to mislead us," Li Si added.

The final reward, or rather, the ultimate item for the mission— the Longevity Water —was right beneath their feet, yet they remained oblivious to it.

Gao Linzhi understood; this was the behind-the-scenes operator who had controlled the mission's progress.

It was probably because the three of them completed the mission too quickly.

This does not align with their certain objectives.

What could be the purpose of this?

Perhaps it's to give players experience, or perhaps it's to Screening Players.

In short, the three people's minds have been manipulated and their memories have been reset.

This is terrible.

Gao Linzhi felt a chill run down his spine.

It can be said that among the many strange phenomena, the truly terrifying ones are those that alter your memories and perceptions.

It can make you feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

No matter what you did or how much effort you put in, once your Memory Reset, you lose them all.

Because you don't know what you've learned or what you've gained.

Feelings, even life itself, can be lost when memories are lost.

For example, Gao Linzhi achieved Immortality, but this Immortality required him to take a potion regularly.

However, after losing his memory, he forgot about it.

So much so that no medicine was taken...

He couldn't help but feel fortunate that he had come across this test task.

If he hadn't acted on a whim and hadn't noticed this, he might have been scammed without even realizing it in the future.

So he continued reading attentively.

He wanted to see what the mastermind behind it all was up to and what restrictions were in place.

The opponent's ability is not something they use casually.

Looking back now, it must have been closely related to "accepting a task".

And at this time...

After the three men finished cursing, they left the Secret Room and continued walking back into the underground tunnel.

"Hey, where is this Immortality item? We've been searching for so long and still haven't found it," Li Si asked, looking completely bewildered.

Knowing the truth, Gao Linzhi didn't find the other person laughable; he only found them terrifying.

"No matter where it is, as long as we persevere, we will definitely find the secret to Immortality," Wang Er said confidently.

The three continued walking.

A faint light lingered inside the tunnel.

Suddenly, Zhang San realized something.

He stopped, puzzled. Li Si immediately asked, "Old Zhang, what's wrong?"

"Why did you suddenly stop?" Wang Er asked curiously.

"Shh, listen, does it sound like something's going up ahead?"

The three of them immediately looked in that direction.

In the dim light, they spotted a suspicious figure lurking around the corner.

That person seemed to be doing something shady.

Wang Er immediately asked, "Hey, who are you? What are you doing here?"

Gao Linzhi was speechless.

This Memory Reset clearly results in a loss of intelligence.

Now that you've spotted each other, why not launch a sneak attack?

"Don't arrest me! I'm not a bad person, please don't arrest me!" The man was terrified.

Zhang San and his companion stepped forward and, upon looking at the object, felt they had seen it somewhere before.

"Hey, isn't this Brother Ming? It's you!"

"Ah, you, you're Zhang San!"

"You two know each other?"

It turns out that this person was a former teammate of Zhang San's in the Wildling Team faction.

"We've fought bosses together before, this guy's called Brother Ming."

All that could be seen above the other person's head was an ID.

"Xiao Ming is Not Brother."

"Oh! So you two used to be teammates." Wang Er breathed a sigh of relief.

"But Brother Ming, what are you doing here? Are you also here to find the secret to Immortality?" Zhang San immediately realized this.

"That's right, I also received that game quest. Are you guys doing it too?"

"That's right, we're also here to find the secret to Immortality."

"Then let's go together."

"Good!"

After a conversation reminiscent of elementary school students, the four of them brazenly decided to travel together as a group.

Gao Linzhi was speechless for a moment.

Logically, at this point, they should regard each other as adversaries and scheme against one another.

As the four walked, Zhang San suddenly asked, "Hey, Brother Ming, why did you take on this mission and come here to find the secret to Immortality?"

"I remember you were always so busy, always busy Farm BOSS and catching monsters to sell for money, weren't you?"

"Well, it's a long story. My mother has been very ill and needs a lot of money," Brother Ming sighed. "But I really can't afford that much."

"Until I saw this quest in the event channel, which said there was an item that could grant Immortality, I wanted to Immortality it, exchange it for some money, and with the money I had saved, I could get treatment for my mother's illness."

The three were deeply sympathetic to Brother Ming's words and resolved to help Brother Ming find the secret to Immortality...

Gao Linzhi was speechless.

That's really just elementary school student intelligence.

Believe everything others say.

Moreover, the treatment solution is very cheap.

Basically, players can take it back and use it.

It's fair to say that the healing potions brought back by players have had a revolutionary effect on the medical industry in the offline world.

The same is true in this village.

Despite the villagers' seemingly fearful lives, they are all in good health.

Because compared to Mysterious Energy, the disease on human cells is like grease on a plate—it can be easily cleaned up.

The four then prepared to continue their journey.

Not long after, Li Si and Wang Er, for some reason, felt a chill run down their spines.

They turned to look, and suddenly their faces turned pale with fear.

Zhang San asked curiously, "What's wrong with you guys?"

Li Si said, trembling, "We... are... behind..."

Zhang San and Brother Ming both turned around and saw a giant centipede!

It was silently following the four people!

At first glance, the centipede's body was winding in the dark tunnel, and its tail was completely invisible.

"Ah!!!"

The four of them yelled and ran away.

They didn't even have the slightest thought of resistance.

You should know that Zhang San and Brother Ming have teamed up to fight bosses before.

This centipede isn't much scarier than those bosses.

"What's going on?!"

"How could there be such a huge centipede in the underground tunnel?!"

"Zhang San, didn't you get a magic shovel artifact? Hurry up and bring it out," Wang Er suddenly said.

"A shovel? Oh, here it is. But why are you bringing it up?"

The four talked as they ran.

"Dig a trap and put that centipede in it!" Wang'er shouted.

"Are you stupid? This stone path is so hard, you want me to dig a trap here?"

"Don't you know intermediate-level mining?"

"That's no time to dig."

In fact Gao Linzhi why Wang Er said that.

Actually, they wanted to trick Zhang San into staying behind.

Digging a hole was a ruse; the real purpose was to leave Zhang San there to attract attention.

Fortunately, although Zhang San's IQ has decreased, he hasn't become an idiot.

"Hey, Zhang San, how come the torch you took from the Secret Room is with me?" Wang Er, having failed with his first plan, came up with another.

Zhang San was stunned for a moment, and his pace immediately slowed down considerably.

Then the giant centipede was about to catch up with him.

Li Si said, "Wang Er, you're the smartest one, hurry up and think of something useful."

Wang Er thought for a moment and said, "Let's speed up. I think there's a corner ahead."

"We picked up speed and then made a quick turn..."

It means letting them run around the corner.

The giant centipede was so long that it could easily crash into the wall if it moved too fast.

The other three instantly understood what Wang Er meant.

So they sped up.

After accelerating, we saw that the giant centipede's speed also increased.

As the four ran towards the corner, they deliberately slowed down, allowing the giant centipede to close the distance between them.

As a result, when they quickly turned the corner, the giant centipede couldn't turn around and crashed directly into the wall.

Although his head managed to turn around, his body followed suit and he crashed into the wall.

They are all very fast.

If it were an ordinary wild animal, it would have been killed long ago.

But the centipede only fainted.

Of course, in Gao Linzhi's view, even if she had fainted, it would still be unreasonable.

But there is at least one explicit logic to it.

Clearly, this is where the operators stepped in...

Once you do something, you'll get a fixed result.

This is exactly the quest flow in an RPG game.

The four people went forward to check on the giant centipede.

Just in case, Zhang San took out the magic weapon, the iron shovel, and stabbed it directly into the giant centipede.

The giant centipede then turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.

"Damn it, it was just an illusion."

They then continued on their way.

"I really didn't expect there to be a giant centipede in the tunnel."

"Yes, that was a bit too thrilling."

Do you think it's true?

"If it's fake, how can it look so real?"

Just as they were complaining about the centipede in the tunnel at the bottom of the well...

Wang Er suddenly discovered a treasure chest in front of him.

"Look, there's a treasure chest up ahead."

The four immediately went forward to check.

Li Si asked doubtfully, "Could this contain that Immortality -granting substance?"

"Hmm... very likely, you guys hide over there first."

After Zhang San told Li Si, Wang Er, and Xiao Ming to step aside, he took out his magic weapon, an iron shovel, and used it to pry open the lid of the treasure chest.

Sure enough, there was something inside, but it was a glittering golden fruit.

"The Golden Apple?"

Zhang San picked it up and looked at it. "Hey, could this be the quest item, the artifact of Immortality?"

"Let me see."

Zhang San then handed the Golden Apple to Wang Er.

Wang Er nodded and said, "This Golden Apple should be the quest item mentioned in the quest prompt."

"Great! We've finally found the secret to Immortality!"

Just as they were about to successfully bring back the artifact of Immortality, Brother Ming, who had just appeared, wore a puzzled smile.

He immediately knocked Wang Er unconscious, then snatched the Golden Apple, and then quickly attacked, knocking the other two to the ground as well.

"Brother Ming, what are you doing?!" Zhang San demanded.

"I'm sorry, Zhang San, I really don't want to laugh, but I just can't help it!"

"Hahaha!"

"You guys are really stupid. How could you just give something like this to someone else?"

"You guys were acting like a bunch of elementary school kids on an adventure," Brother Ming laughed so hard he almost fell over.

"Damn it, you bastard, I trusted you!" Zhang San was in pain, but his leg had just been crippled by the other party and he couldn't move.

Li Si was the same way.

However, just as Brother Ming was about to leave, four government officials suddenly appeared.

Of course, Gao Linzhi could tell at a glance that these yamen runners were all illusory NPCs.

Haha, this operator really knows how to save effort.

It would be a huge loss to realize this.

"Well done, Mr. Ming, you've led these three people here," the head constable said.

At first, Brother Ming looked puzzled, then struggled for a moment, and finally his eyes quickly became confused.

He obediently handed the Golden Apple to the yamen runner.

"Yes, sir, the item is right here."

Subsequently, the four yamen runners arrested Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Er.

"Let us go! What are you trying to do?!"

"Take them all back with you! These people dared to steal the imperial treasures; they deserve to die!"

"Yes!"

"Damn it, it was all a conspiracy!"

"Damn the imperial court! You've fooled me, Old Zhang!"

They continued walking along the tunnel, and soon the scene changed, and a government office appeared.

In Gao Linzhi's eyes, this was naturally an illusion as well.

They never got out of the well.

The three men were unaware of the truth; all they knew was that after being taken back to the yamen, the officials locked them in a smelly, cramped stone cell.

"You all better stay right here, or you'll regret it!"

The three were furious after being locked up in the cell.

"That damned Brother Ming, how could he deceive us like this?"

On the other side...

"Gentlemen, I've successfully tricked everyone. What's the reward?"

"No problem, no problem! Someone, bring the things up here!" a foreman said.

A constable then brought up the reward, which consisted of a pile of gold.

"How about it? Is this enough?"

"That's enough, thank you, sir."

"Alright, you can go back now. I'll need your help later."

Brother Ming took the gold and left.

But the further he walked, the more uneasy he felt.

Did I miss something?

My Golden Apple?

Trading Immortality -enhancing substances for gold?

This feels more like a three-year-old exchanging a hundred-yuan bill for a lollipop.

While lollipops have some value, they are far less valuable than a 100-yuan red envelope.