Visitor from Afar 5

Ye Zhao stared, eyes wide. This damned game really was finding new ways to trick them out of their game items.

Before, everyone had been rushing around looking for gifts, with all sorts of pretty, unusual, and eye-catching things becoming the talk of the town. Now, though, gifts were equivalent to game items, and everyone had gone limp. They were furious and resentful. After all, game items were essential for staying alive, and they didn't even have enough for themselves—yet now they had to hand them over to some nonexistent guest.

And with this rule's discovery came even more frenzied competition and looting among the human survivors.

This was a survival game where either you died or I did. Cooperation was impossible.

Ye Zhao read through the first five rules again. They all felt like traps.

She searched through her personal panel and found a suitable game item: [Exorcism Bronze Mirror: With a bronze mirror in hand, no evil can get near you.]

After spending 200 Creation Points, Ye Zhao obtained two Exorcism Bronze Mirrors.

This time, she tied one Exorcism Bronze Mirror to the back of her clothes. She really wanted to tie the other one to her helmet, but the mirror was fairly large, and wearing it there would obstruct her view. She decided to hold it instead.

Having prepared this time, Ye Zhao climbed out the window and dropped to the ground again.

With the Exorcism Bronze Mirror's protection, Ye Zhao stood outside for half an hour without feeling like she was about to be crushed, as she had before. The mirror's durability dropped rapidly—fifty points in just half an hour!

But she couldn't feel happy at all, because it meant that the so-called Visitor from Afar was the very thing she least wanted to see: a