[Name: Book of the Dead (Damaged)]
[Effect: Grants the holder the traits of the undead and some of their abilities.]
In the hidden room behind the secret door in the director's office, Qi Si clutched the booklet with the texture of human skin and lay quietly amid the pile of corpses, pretending to be a dead body.
The item he had just obtained happened to be useful right away. In a sense, his luck was pretty good.
[Item effect active. Can be manually deactivated (once deactivated, it cannot be activated again in this Instance).]
[This effect carries unknown hidden dangers. The longer it lasts, the greater the danger.]
[The item's negative effects on the player may persist outside the Instance.]
Three lines of text refreshed on the system interface, worded like the instructions for a traditional Chinese patent medicine—uncertainty was the main selling point.
Qi Si finally understood why the [Book of the Dead] had still been inactive when it reached his hands.
"Unknown hidden dangers" alone sounded unsettling, while negative effects that could persist outside the Instance... were even more discouraging.
Unless they had truly reached the end of the road, few people would be willing to gamble their life and fortune.
"Looks kind of scammy. The effect description only refreshes after it's officially used. Does this count as some kind of commercial fraud?"
Qi Si grumbled soundlessly, recalling the scene when the invitation had dragged him into the game.
—It refused to tell him how many points were needed and wouldn't let him gather any more information, as if terrified he might change his mind.
After Qi Si pushed open the secret door, the corpses in the hidden room wriggled toward the entrance like caterpillars. After searching for a long while without detecting the presence of any living