Nirvana Space finally showed a little sense of presence. When there were only 24 hours left before entering the dungeon, it popped up a red countdown for Mu Anqi, reminding the player that it was time to enter the game.
On the last day, General Ji rarely gave Mu Anqi a break and didn't make her continue training. After all, Mu Anqi didn't plan to drag it out until the end and be forcibly thrown into the game. She leisurely went to Mu Xiaobai's place for a meal, and then returned to Nirvana Space. So many days had passed, her skills had improved while she hadn't spent any points at all—this life was simply too wonderful.
Mu Anqi planned that next time she went to Nirvana Space, she would bring her beloved lounge chair along and settle it in the General's Mansion. After all, that alarm clock she had drawn, she had already placed it by the bedside of her room in the General's Mansion.
These days, of the face masks she had received, Mu Anqi had only one left that she couldn't bear to use, so she temporarily stored it in her storage ring. She carefully checked over her current items, feeling that in the future she could still learn halberd techniques, sword techniques, blade techniques, spear techniques, and the like—the eighteen martial arts—from General Ji.
Well, the one-on-one virtual teacher was certainly easy, with good guidance techniques and without giving any sense of pressure. But… how could that ever compare to the joy of freeloading!
That's General Ji after all. Although the pressure level was just a tiny bit stronger by a hundred million points, the effect of training under General Ji was also quite good. It wasn't only progress in technique—Mu Anqi felt that her physical fitness and strength had both improved considerably. This not only saved her the money for dagger skills, but also saved the money for physical training. Truly, it was killing multiple birds with one stone.
General Ji… really is so good.
Mu Anqi sighed with emotion, touched the storage ring on her hand, and thinking that this time it was once again a Shattered Mirror Continent dungeon with the other players, she decided to take out her backpack and put it on.
Start game!
[Drawing game project…]
[Ding! Special mark detected! Detecting invitation…]
[Ding! No special invitation detected! Entering Shattered Mirror Continent…]
[Beep! Dungeon activated: Forest of Eternal Night!]
[Lost travelers in the dark night, please strive to survive and escape the forest.]
[Entering… please wait…]
[Beep! Passive · Chosen Girl activated!]
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining 1888 + 500 guansi.]
Forest of Eternal Night? Mu Anqi looked around—she was indeed inside a forest. And at this moment, it was indeed nighttime, with a bright full moon hanging high above. Luckily, it wasn't enormous; otherwise, Mu Anqi might have connected this dungeon with that Silent Serenade from before.
Not rushing to explore, Mu Anqi opened her panel, glanced at her current points and guansi, and confirmed her own "wealth."
Player: Mu Anqi
Age at death: 20
Ability: I have Plenty of Money
Points: 1926.6
Transaction Serial Number: 64805368
Guansi: 10141
After confirming, Mu Anqi secured the shabby backpack that concealed her appearance and cautiously began exploring her surroundings, also testing whether she might run into other players.
This was still the first time Mu Anqi had entered such a vast forest. Back when her school organized spring or autumn outings, or when she went traveling with her family, the forests they visited were never this desolate—they were all artificially planned. On holidays, they were crowded with people. But suddenly entering such a forest now, with not a single person around, the silence broken only by the chirping of insects…
It was… a little creepy.
Mu Anqi touched the brooch on her chest and activated its lighting function. The brooch's light was strong, illuminating the area in front of her brightly. With this light, walking through the forest at night gave her a bit more confidence. In her mind she prepared dozens of blessings, while in her left palm she tightly gripped a substitute paper doll—this way, if anything sudden happened, she could react immediately. As for weapons, Mu Anqi took out a hand gun, attached a "bullet against ghosts" card to it, then stored the gun back into her storage ring. That way, if she encountered danger, she could take it out in time to respond.
Mu Anqi picked up a tree branch to hold in her hand, which could serve as both a walking stick and a tool to push aside weeds or twisted branches blocking the path. But she hadn't taken more than a few steps when three cards suddenly appeared in her mind.
[Please select a team card at random.]
Mu Anqi casually chose the card in the middle. Flipping it over, she found it was a red card. In the next instant, she noticed a red ribbon had appeared around her right arm.
Mu Anqi touched the ribbon on her arm, but her fingers passed right through it, feeling nothing solid. It seemed it couldn't be removed—it was just for other players to see. In the next moment, a screen appeared before her eyes. At the center of the screen was a red arrow, apparently representing herself. Not far ahead of the arrow, there was a red house icon, which seemed to be the survival point for the Red Team.
[Every eight hours, resource chests will be randomly dropped within the forest. Inside are food, water, and other supplies. Obtaining a chest grants the whole team survival points: 5]
[Survive one night individually, gain survival points: 1]
[Whole team survives one night, gain survival points: 1]
[Kill a forest ghost, gain survival points: 1]
[Eliminate a player from another team, gain survival points: 5]
[When another team is completely wiped out, all remaining players gain extra survival points: 1]
[For every 3 players eliminated in total, gain additional survival points: 5]
[Survive until the last person, obtain the title "Sole Survivor," gain survival points: 10]
[Accumulate 10 survival points to obtain the map to the clearance point.]
[Number of survival points corresponds to clearance evaluation.]
[The Shattered Mirror strong ones are watching you. Strive to survive! If your performance is outstanding, you might even receive extra rewards!]
The Shattered Mirror strong ones watching… so this was a PvP(PlayerVsPlayer dungeon? Or a survival type!
A PvP dungeon… then the players in this dungeon were all recruited by the Shattered Mirror strong ones? They had all passed the trial dungeons. This, this… Mu Anqi couldn't help but think—she had heard that in this kind of dungeon those strong ones could even place bets. She wondered if General Ji had bet on her to win. But even if it wasn't a PvP dungeon, Mu Anqi would still put in one hundred and twenty percent effort to clear it. After all, General Ji was always watching her… and now that she was training under General Ji's hand, if she didn't show some success, it would be hard to explain.
Mu Anqi quickly hurried in the direction of the red house. After all, the whole team surviving would also give 1 survival point, so it was better to meet up with teammates as soon as possible.
Pushing aside the weeds, the red arrow on the map had already reached the red house icon. But what appeared before Mu Anqi's eyes… was only a simple wooden shed.
Not a wooden house, not even a tent—just a drafty, leaky shed, open on all sides, without even a door.
"…No way." Though this was a survival game, the starting conditions shouldn't be this miserable, right? Mu Anqi stood dumbfounded in front of the wooden shed, completely stunned. Was she supposed to go collect branches and leaves to improve the shed, struggling to build an actual cabin? There wasn't even a campfire, she'd have to find some stones, and she didn't even have a lighter on her. Was she supposed to use a hand grenade to make fire? She didn't know how to drill wood for fire either…
Just then, Mu Anqi keenly heard another sound. She jerked her head up and saw a player flying over on a sword.
"…?!" Mu Anqi's mind was full of question marks. The difference in player experiences shouldn't be this extreme, right? Why did this suddenly feel like a cultivation world! But before she could say anything, she realized the person on the sword looked somewhat familiar. "You are…"
"It's you?" Xia Yun's eyes lit up. She controlled her flying sword to descend, and naturally saw the red ribbon on Mu Anqi's arm. "Looks like we can team up this time."
Mu Anqi glanced at the red ribbon on her arm and nodded. "Yeah. That trial dungeon had some accidents, and I didn't get to add you as a friend. I didn't expect we'd meet again."
"After all, our game schedules are close, and we're both recruited players." Xia Yun smiled, her flying sword vanishing into her body. She scanned the surroundings, but her gaze froze when it landed on the shabby shed. "According to the map, this seems to be Red Team's… home?"
"Yes." Mu Anqi spoke in a tone heavy with speechlessness, helplessness, and powerlessness. "This is our 'house.'"
Another person was struck dumb. Xia Yun stared at this "house" for a while, then sighed. "The treasure chests haven't been released yet. While we have time, let's first… make this place at least livable and suitable for sleeping. We should also gather some dry wood and make a pile of grass. The forest's water sources or places with edible wild vegetables and fruits also need to be scouted. When I was flying in on my sword, I noticed a small lake—we can check it out later." Xia Yun looked at the glowing brooch on Mu Anqi's chest, thought for a moment, and asked: "Does that thing consume energy or points? If it does, then we should make a torch for light instead."
"No, it doesn't. It can stay on all the time." Mu Anqi replied. After all, it was a brooch priced at 100 points—it had to live up to its cost.
"That's good." Xia Yun didn't ask further. "So, should we split up for now? Or wait for the others to arrive first?"
"Let's wait for now."
Mu Anqi had been closest to the Red Team's base, so she was the first to arrive. Xia Yun had saved a lot of time with her sword flight. The other players should still be on their way. The game hadn't specified exactly how many teammates there were, but judging from the elimination rewards, it couldn't possibly be just the two of them. Mu Anqi and Xia Yun waited for the time being, and sure enough, about five minutes later, there was movement again.
"Where the hell did this so-called base come from?" Cursing, the newcomer this time was a male player Mu Anqi didn't know. He was about 1.8 meters tall, medium build, slightly dark skin, wearing a white tank top and shorts. His bare arms didn't show much muscle, but across his chest were a few scars that looked like they'd been made by a machete.
He had clearly seen the wooden shed, and then noticed the two female players standing nearby. His gaze fixed on Mu Anqi's chest—or more accurately, the glowing brooch there. "You're all Red Team? You got here first? Shouldn't the supplies here be split evenly between us?"
"There are no supplies here." Mu Anqi frowned. "Just this one shed."
"Heh, this game is called Forest of Eternal Night. How could it not hand out lighting tools? That glowing brooch of yours—if you didn't pick it up here, what, you expect me to believe you just happened to draw it from a lottery?" The male player's face was full of impatience. "I can't stand petty, stingy women like you. Don't play tricks in front of me—hurry up and hand over the starter supplies so we can split them."