[Congratulations on successfully entering the Survival Game.]
[Starting Items: 1 phone, 1 ID card, 2,000 starting funds, 10 Exorcism Talismans, 3 Sedatives.]
[Uncanny Talisman Paper: Can immediately drive away the weird.]
[3 Sedatives: Can instantly restore Sanity Value. (When Sanity Value falls below 60, you will experience hallucinations. When Sanity Value reaches 0, the player will die.)]
[Current Mission: Survive for fifteen days.]
[Current number of survivors: 100,000.]
[Since this is your second time entering the Survival Game, your three basic attributes—Constitution, speed, and strength—have each increased by 5.]
[Since this is your second time entering the Survival Game, you have gained 1 additional draw.]
[You have 4 draws. Would you like to draw now: Yes, No.]
Inside the pure white space, Ye Zhao confirmed mentally: Yes.
[Congratulations, you have obtained a 1-cubic-meter Personal Space (merged with the player's existing Personal Space).]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 1 Attribute Page: Speed +3.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 1 Attribute Page: Speed +3.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 1 Attribute Page: Speed +3.]
[Note: In the game, survival time has already been counted toward Creation Points and Prophet experience.]
[Note: Items from other worlds cannot be brought into the game (except for game items). They have been automatically placed in System Space and will be returned to the player after the game ends.]
[Scan successful: Create 1 Attribute Page: Speed +3, for 300 Creation Points.]
[Scan successful: Create 1 Exorcism Talisman Paper, for 100 Creation Points.]
[Scan successful: Create 1 Sedative, for 100 Creation Points.]
The second round's game items were much more generous. At the same time, the appearance of Exorcism Talisman Paper and Sanity Value filled Ye Zhao with a bad feeling.
Could this be the kind of world she thought it was?
Before she could prepare herself, she suddenly found herself in a bustling neighborhood.
The pedestrians around her showed no surprise or confusion at her sudden appearance.
Whatever kind of world this was, Ye Zhao slipped a hand into her pocket and, sure enough, felt a stack of cash. She hailed a taxi. "Take me to the nearest secondhand gold buyer."
"Driver, please hurry. I'm in a rush!"
[Create 2 500g gold bars, consuming 2 Creation Points.]
Ye Zhao opened the Game Panel to check her personal information.
[Name: Ye Zhao]
[Constitution: 105 (no equipment effects)]
[Strength: 15 (no equipment effects)]
[Speed: 10+47 (equipment effects)]
[Sanity Value: 100]
[Note: A player's personal base attributes are not included in the statistics.]
Her personal information really did include a new Sanity Value stat. She used all her Speed +3 Attribute Pages and put on the Speed Ring. Her information changed to [Speed: 14+47 (equipment effects)].
[Talents: SSS-Rank Creation, SSS-Rank Prophet]
[Elemental Ability: None]
[Personal Space: 3m³]
[Creation: Level 2]
[Creation Points: 760]
[Experience: 1%]
[Prophet: Level 1 (used)]
[Experience: 10 (Note: 24h ≈ 1 point)]
[CD: 00:00:00]
[At the current level, you can foresee events that will happen within the next three days. Foresight duration: 10s.]
At the gold shop, Ye Zhao traded two gold bars for 450,000 in cash.
She took a snakeskin sack from her pocket, stuffed the money inside, and left.
Well, everything had gone smoothly enough. She'd have been even happier if she hadn't run into some thugs trying to rob her after turning a corner.
Five or six thugs with brightly dyed hair and face masks appeared in front of Ye Zhao. One of them whistled at her leeringly. "Hey, pretty girl, out by yourself? Want some company?"
"Come with us, sweetheart. We'll protect you from now on. No one will dare mess with you!"
Ye Zhao: ...
Without changing expression, she pulled a gun from her pocket. "Let's see who's tougher—you or me."
"Hahahaha!" The thugs burst into raucous laughter. They didn't take Ye Zhao's handgun seriously. After all, in a country with strict gun laws, ordinary people couldn't get their hands on guns, especially a seemingly delicate young woman.
Bang! Ye Zhao couldn't be bothered to waste words. She shot the thug in front in the thigh, then clicked her tongue and shook her head. What a shame, she'd missed.
"Ah!" The thug in front fell to the ground, howling in pain. The others jumped in fright, their eyes immediately filling with terror as they looked at Ye Zhao.
Ye Zhao asked, "Still want to play?"
"No, no, no!" The thugs shook their heads frantically. Their arrogance was nowhere to be seen. If they'd known she had a gun, they never would have tried to rob her, first of her virtue and then her money.
Ye Zhao smiled. "Hand over everything valuable you've got."
Good. She really was better than her predecessors.
A thick gold chain and two thousand in loose cash. Pathetic.
Ye Zhao wasn't worried about the gang calling the police. They'd clearly known exactly where to ambush her, so they were obviously in cahoots with someone at the gold shop. She wasn't their first target.
They wouldn't dare call the police.
Ye Zhao left with a substantial haul, in a very good mood, and took a taxi to the best hotel nearby.
Once in the cab, Ye Zhao tapped to use the [Prophet] Skill.
[Prophet Skill activated. Current Prophet Level: 1. Skill duration: 10s.]
Beneath the dark night sky, cars streamed along the roads and crowds flowed through the streets.
A woman was walking along the road when she suddenly saw a little girl squatting on the ground and crying. She went over and asked, "Hey, why are you here alone? Where's your mother?"
The little girl lifted a pale, adorable face and asked in an almost childlike voice, "You can see me? You can see me? You can see me—"
The woman said, "Huh?"
As the woman looked on in confusion, the little girl's hair turned into a waterfall and wrapped around her. The woman struggled and screamed, then was swallowed up by the black strands.
People walked by all around them. No one noticed that someone had just disappeared.
System: [Prophet Skill use complete.]
The [Prophet] Skill turned gray.
[CD: 24h]
Ye Zhao opened her eyes in alarm. What was that little girl?
A ghost?
Why had no one around them reacted?
She shuddered. Heaven knew she was most afraid of ghosts. She'd never watched horror movies, even as a child. This really was a world of the weird!
Could physical attacks hurt ghosts? The confidence she'd gained from powerful weaponry vanished. She shakily unwrapped a piece of milk candy and put it in her mouth. Damn it, even the candy wasn't sweet anymore!
Ye Zhao paid a 100,000 deposit at the front desk and returned to her room. She tossed the snakeskin sack into her Personal Space, then hurried out again to buy supplies.
She had to survive in this world for fifteen days. A few supplies wouldn't be enough.
She decided to stock up for fifteen days and then stay in the hotel, never setting foot outside again.
The supermarket was crowded and looked perfectly normal. Ye Zhao pushed two shopping carts around and went on a wild shopping spree in the instant-food aisle. She bought a whole case each of instant noodles, hot-and-sour vermicelli, self-heating rice meals, and self-heating hot pots, as well as a case each of biscuits, milk candy, pork jerky, beef jerky, canned fruit, and canned meat.
For a balanced diet, Ye Zhao also went and grabbed a case of apples and milk. She was sick of carrots and didn't want to eat them anymore.
The biggest problem was that she couldn't put everything directly into her Personal Space. "Can you deliver these?"
Since she'd bought so much, the supermarket offered free delivery. Ye Zhao was very pleased. She left her address and gave the staff member a 500 tip for the trouble. She also bought a suitcase and went upstairs to get a few changes of clothes. After all, her principle was to use money whenever she could, rather than spend Creation Points.
The game was really stingy. It had only given her 2,000 in starting funds. Luckily, she had her Golden Finger. Otherwise, she'd be worrying about where to find a decent job by now. Two thousand wasn't nearly enough to cover food, clothing, lodging, and transportation for fifteen days.
After buying clothes, Ye Zhao left the supermarket and went to the pharmacy next door to buy a bunch of common medications and vitamin tablets. Her experience with nuclear radiation had taught her how important good health was.
"Pretty lady, would you like to buy a flower~"
Ye Zhao wheeled her suitcase out of the pharmacy. A little girl carrying a flower basket came up to her and gazed at her pitifully. "Pretty lady, buy a flower. They're only ten yuan each~"
Hearing the voice, Ye Zhao almost instinctively looked down.
At that glance, the little girl's pitiful expression instantly turned to delight. Her eyes widened, and the corners of her mouth stretched all the way to her ears. "Sis, you can see me?"
Shit!
Ye Zhao's heart skipped a beat as she realized what she'd just done. Her scalp went numb!
[Sanity Value: -10]
She'd fallen for it!
The ghost could come out during the day, too?
She'd assumed that ghosts in every world were afraid of sunlight—but the scene she'd seen in her foresight had also taken place at night.
She hadn't been careful enough.
The little girl ghost giggled smugly like a hen that had just laid an egg. Her adorable face turned pale and gloomy, and one round eye after another popped out of it, jostling to get free. Ye Zhao's hair stood on end. Her trypophobia kicked in, and goosebumps covered her skin.
[Sanity Value: -10.]