Abyss Game: I am covered with cheats

"Is this Building 5?"

Xu Tong glanced at the doorplate, confirming that this was the place the pharmacy wanted him to come to.

However, this building was somewhat strange compared to the surrounding buildings.

Because this building was very, very new, it looked like it had just been built compared to the buildings in these old residential areas.

However, the architectural style hadn't changed much; it was just obvious that this building hadn't weathered the years.

Walking into the stairwell, there was no falling plaster. Xu Tong stepped on the stairs and came to the door of Room 504.

Xu Tong was just about to knock on the door when he suddenly realized that the door to Room 504 wasn't locked at all.

"Wait a minute, why does this door look so familiar to me?"

Xu Tong squinted his eyes, carefully examining the door in front of him.

This was a decaying wooden door, forming a sharp contrast with the metal security doors around it, and from the surface of this door, there was a faint, indescribable smell of decay.

It smelled a bit like a corpse.

Instantly, memories flashed back in Xu Tong's mind, and he immediately remembered where he had seen this door before.

"Isn't this the C-032 containment object in the SKPI Containment Center?"

At the time, the information recorded about this door was that opening it could attract ghosts.

Only by opening this door in a fixed way could one avoid attracting ghosts.

But the problem was... even in that PDF document with so much information, it didn't record how to open this door safely.

"Should I just open it head-on? Maybe opening this door will attract a new ghost. There's already a wandering Liar Ghost and a Ghost Bride in this instance. Do I really want to attract a new one?"

Xu Tong was currently brainstorming, thinking about whether or not to open the door, weighing the pros and cons.

But before he could come to a conclusion, someone made the decision for him.

A pair of dead men's arms stretched out from the shadows, placed in front of this decaying wooden door, first gently knocking a few times, and then heavily slamming against the door.

The already decaying door felt like it could disintegrate at any moment under this heavy force.

After completing this series of incomprehensible actions, this pair of dead men's arms actually opened the door in front of him, and then, taking advantage of Xu Tong's inattention, a third dead man's arm emerged from the shadows and pushed him in.

Xu Tong: "Fuck!"

Passing through the door, what came into view was not a narrow room.

Xu Tong rubbed his eyes, confirming that he was not mistaken.

Passing through this decaying door, the place Xu Tong arrived at was actually a desolate little village.

"What's going on..."

Before Xu Tong could finish speaking, another line of text suddenly appeared in his vision.

「Side Quest Triggered: In the Liar Ghost's constructed instance illusion, find the door leading to Room 504」

Slightly stunned, Xu Tong hadn't recovered when he noticed that not far from the main road in the center of the village, someone was walking towards him.

It was a man holding a sickle in his hand, dressed somewhat plainly, wearing a clean little vest, with a simple and honest smile on his face.

"Friend, can you do me a favor?" the sickle man said, "If you do me a favor, I'll do you a favor."

Xu Tong: "...I understand the principle, but put away the sickle first. What do you want me to do?"

The sickle man smiled and touched his head.

"Help me catch a few people."

——

"Let me introduce myself," in a corner of the desolate little village, in a farmhouse, several players who had just entered this instance world gathered together, "My name is Wei Zhongchi, Level 50."

"Damn, Level 50? Isn't that a big shot?"

"What Level 50? Can you listen to the important part? His name is Wei Zhongchi! Do you know who that is?" One of the players added, "A ruthless person from the West District Countermeasures Bureau's Red Heart Team. Do you know who else is at his level? Yan Yichen, Shen Yu, Pei Wenyu, these are all ruthless people from the Red Heart Team like him!"

"Damn, so awesome? Awesome, it looks like we can coast through this time."

Listening to the surrounding players' boasting about Wei Zhongchi, Gu Mian rolled his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Wei Zhongchi looked at Gu Mian's reaction and asked, "Are you dissatisfied with me?"

Gu Mian shook his head, "It's nothing."

Wei Zhongchi stared at Gu Mian and continued to question, "I feel like you're looking down on me. Are you stronger than me? Or do you know someone stronger than me?"

Gu Mian shook his head repeatedly, "No, no, I'm just like this by nature. Don't take it to heart."

Gu Mian really wanted to say that he was someone who had witnessed Xu Tong's growth step by step. What was a mere Wei Zhongchi? But after all, everyone was in the same instance, and the goals were the same. There was no need to make things so stiff.

A trace of disdain flashed in his eyes. Wei Zhongchi didn't know what Gu Mian was being arrogant about.

Soon, the crowd's discussion stopped.

Because their main quest had been triggered.

「Main Quest Triggered: Under the pursuit of the Village Guardian Ghost, find a way to leave the village」

"Village Guardian Ghost? This instance is related to ghosts?"

An exclamation came from among the players.

Just as Gu Mian was still confused as to why an instance related to ghosts would make these people so terrified.

A series of strange footsteps came from outside the farmhouse door.

Gu Mian was still asking questions, while the surrounding players were already on alert.

Seeing this, Wei Zhongchi was dumbfounded, "What are you doing? Don't you know that instances related to ghosts are second only in difficulty to instances with those Agents?"

"I really don't know..."

Wei Zhongchi curled his lips and said, "It seems like you don't have any particularly powerful players in your social circle. NPCs and enemies in other instances can be killed, but ghosts can't be killed, and they usually have very terrifying abilities. Once you trigger them, even the top players will instantly die!"

"According to statistics, regardless of the difficulty, the clearance rate for ghost-related instances is only 7%. Do you know what that means?"

Hearing this, Gu Mian realized how terrifying ghosts in the Abyss World actually were.

He immediately perked up and came among the players, wanting to see what was going on outside through the crack in the door.

A series of footsteps were approaching the farmhouse.

The heartstrings of the crowd were also trembling. Every time the footsteps got closer, more goosebumps appeared on everyone's body.

Taking a deep breath, Gu Mian looked outside through the crack in the door.

But before he could see anything.

Puchi——

Without even letting out a scream, a player had already fallen to the ground, his entire throat pierced by a sharp, rusty sickle.

Instant death!

"Not good! We're already within the range of the Village Guardian Ghost's abilities!"

Wei Zhongchi let out a low roar, "Run! We don't even know what the Village Guardian Ghost's abilities are yet. We absolutely can't be wiped out directly."

Looking at the sickle that had pierced the player's throat, Gu Mian immediately felt the terror of the ghost.

"Is this... the ghost's ability?"

He looked outside the door crack again.

But Gu Mian didn't see anything clearly.

He only saw a rusty, bloodstained sickle, and a small vest stained with a lot of blood and covered with fallen patches.

This...

Is this the Village Guardian Ghost?

What kind of monsters are those who can clear this kind of instance?!