Player Reload

According to Feng Youyun's self-report, ten years ago his business was quite large in the local area, making a lot of money and offending many people. One of them was his long-time friend.

It is said that shopping malls are like battlefields. That friend lost the business competition with him. The company went bankrupt and liquidated. I owed huge debts and suffered strong mental stimulation. I refused to accept the very generous merger and transfer conditions offered by Lao Feng and chose Jumped down from the rooftop.

Before jumping off the building, he called Lao Feng. In addition to accusing Lao Feng of betrayal, he also cursed him for a long time in a weird dialect with an incomprehensible pronunciation.

Later, Lao Feng found an elderly man from his friend's hometown, and after questioning, he found out that the content of the dialect was a curse on his family to die, leaving him alone and without any descendants.

Of course Lao Feng would not believe such crazy talk, but soon his wife became seriously ill and was hospitalized, and his originally healthy son also had a fever all day long and fell into a coma.

In desperation, Lao Feng listened to the alchemist's words, secretly funded the orphanage, brought his friend's ten-year-old child into society, fed him, clothed him, and sent him to school. In a sense, he was adopted. This neutralizes the curse.

An adopted son is also a son, so the friend who cursed him can't kill his own son as well, right?

Xiao Feng didn’t know if this method was effective. In short, Lao Feng’s son recovered quickly and everything was normal except for physical weakness and shortness of breath. Lao Feng’s wife’s condition also improved significantly. After two or three years at home (that is, in this villa) Peaceful days pass by without pain in sleep.

Until a month ago, the curse seemed to have come to the door again, entangled Lao Feng's grandson Xiao Xiao Feng.

After the four players listened to Lao Feng's narration, they pressed their swords and pushed up their round sunglasses, and said slowly: "Boss Feng, you should know about the killing scene, right?"

Feng Youyun nodded, "I know a little bit."

"The so-called curse was placed ten years ago, and your wife passed away seven years ago. But it wasn't until the killing scene came four and a half years ago that abnormal events began to appear on the earth, such as evil spirits, ghosts, curses, and extraordinary beings. It just came out all at once.”

You pressed his sword and said, "The time doesn't match up."

"I know, but what if?" Feng Youyun consulted the Special Affairs Bureau about some matters before hiring four players, and said cautiously: "The Special Affairs Bureau has similar records. Even before the killing scene came, there were some specious records. , an abnormal event that no one can explain. "

"Yes, it does happen, but it's very rare. The probability is about the same as an ordinary person winning a big prize when buying a lottery ticket for the first time."

You Yingjian curled his lips and said: "That charlatan, do you still have his contact information? Did you pay him at that time?"

Old Feng shook his head and said, "At that time, the total amount of the legal instruments, rituals, incense fees, etc. totaled more than 800,000 yuan. The alchemist was introduced by a friend of a friend. I did not contact him again. , I don’t know his name or address.”

This sounds like I was deceived. Moreover, he is still the kind of charlatan who is not very clever in his methods. He is afraid that his employer will react and call the police, so he is busy running away.

You Bianjian heard the words and complained silently in his heart, but he didn't say any words to ridicule.

Ten years ago, there was no special affairs bureau, nor a group of selectors. Ordinary rich bosses would easily panic when encountering such mysterious things.

You pressed his sword and asked: "By the way, Mr. Feng, I would like to ask, where is the child you adopted from your enemy's family now?"

"You have already met him. He is the butler here, Zhao Xinglang."

"Huh?" You pressed his sword and raised his eyebrows, "You take your enemy's child with you and let him take care of his food and daily life?"

He didn't say the second half of the sentence, probably because he thought Old Feng thought his life was too big?

"Xinglang is different. Before his father jumped off the building, he fed him pesticides and tried to poison him. Later, he was rescued. He has always been taciturn and doesn't like to socialize. I asked him to study business and manage a company, but he didn't go. . So let him stay at home for a long time.”

Lao Feng said: "This child is kind-hearted and will not hurt his family."

Well, as long as you are happy.

"The curse from ten years ago is most likely fake. It's hard to say what happened this time."

Bai Zhi said softly: "Mr. Feng, your grandson's symptoms are inexplicable bruises on his body. What about your son?"

Lao Feng said: "He started having nightmares a month ago, dreaming that he was lying on the bed as a ghost, and a skinless person was crawling towards him."

He paused and said doubtfully: "But since he returned to his hometown these two days, he hasn't had any similar nightmares."

The four players looked at each other and shrugged disapprovingly, "Although the scanner did not detect abnormal fluctuations, and the Bai Zhi girl also said that she did not sense traces of the curse, we should still follow the method of dealing with abnormal events.

Boss Feng, please make arrangements. Tonight you and your son, daughter-in-law, and grandson’s family will live in two similar rooms. The door will not be closed. The four of us will take turns keeping vigil in the corridor. what do you think? "

"Do as you say." Old Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He was rich but not that rich, otherwise he could have sent all his family members to the family compound of the Special Affairs Bureau, where they would be protected by dedicated personnel 24 hours a day. Unusual harassment.

As for now, it seems that this method can only be used.

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There was no talking all night, and the four players took turns to keep vigil in the corridor. Nothing strange happened. Lao Feng's son Xiao Feng did not have nightmares, and his grandson Xiao Feng did not have any inexplicable bruises on his body.

When they woke up, the Feng family members were all in good spirits. After breakfast, Lao Feng was in the villa sorting out some corporate materials that would be used to participate in the World Internet Conference. The dark, muscular man [Wang Bei Slope] stayed in the villa to protect her.

Li Sheng and two others followed Xiao Feng's family and drove an SUV to the town.

After earning 240 game currency points in two days, Li Shengchun came as a tourist at public expense. Along the way, he admired the scenery of the Jiangnan water town through the car window.

Wudun Town has a dense water network and houses are built along the river. Since the Internet Conference is about to be held, there are many foreigners, tourists, reporters, Internet celebrity anchors, and some tour guides introducing Wudun Town on the street.

"Wudun Town may not be the most prosperous town, but it must be the most modern and intelligent town. The Internet of Things is everywhere here, and a top ten supercomputer in the country controls the town's electricity, network, lighting and even Water level. Yes, the water level of the river here can also be controlled by computers, so the outdoor air conditioners of the houses along the river dare to be set so low."

"Wudun Town is the first place in the country to apply cutting-edge Internet technology. It has actually used autonomous driving, drone delivery, and intelligent garbage classification. In addition, it also has the most advanced meteorological system, including but not limited to radiation observation, wind energy Observation and real-time positioning of three-dimensional lightning.”

Listening to the tour guide's introduction, Li Sheng suddenly noticed a familiar figure on the roadside.

Yuan Zhixia? What is she doing here.

After thinking about it, Li Sheng sent her a friend message, [Have you come to Wudun Town? 】

Yuan Zhixia, who was holding a camera and pretending to be a passing tourist, paused slightly and replied, [The World Internet Conference has many experts, scholars, entrepreneurs, and politicians participating, and the Special Affairs Bureau is needed to maintain law and order. Are you also in Wudun Town? 】

[Well, there is a pen protection type of commission. 】

Li Sheng and Yuan Zhixia chatted casually and learned that not only the Special Affairs Bureau, but also organizations such as the Whale Song Guild and Prometheus had sent people to attend the Internet conference. The density of extraordinary people in the town is quite high.

This is also understandable. In the script mission, the player can be a knight who kills one person in ten steps or a demon who dominates an area, but after returning to the real world, he still has his own life and work.

Some players, even though they have hundreds or even thousands of game coins in their hands, still work as screws in factories, as mall security guards, or as Didi drivers, just to relieve the pressure of survival caused by the killing field.

"Boom——"

There was a muffled thunder in the sky in the distance, and the baby woke up by the thunder began to cry. Xiao Feng and his wife in the car hurriedly rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, getting a pacifier and a bottle.

You Bianjian, who was in the driver's seat, glanced at the young couple and asked casually: "You two got married very early?"

"Yes." Xiao Feng, a second-generation rich man, was quite shy and scratched his head in embarrassment. "I got the certificate at the beginning of this year as soon as I reached the marriage age."

He and his wife Fu Jirong have known each other since childhood. The man is 22 years old and the woman is 20 years old. It is rare for Kochi families in modern society to get married so early, let alone have children so soon.

According to Fu Jirong, Xiao Feng was born in a private hospital invested by the Feng family through in vitro fertilization. Xiao Feng was in good health when he was a child, until he had a fever that persisted for a long time when he was twelve years old. After that, his health plummeted.

Get married as early as possible and have children as early as possible, and you will have fewer worries. This is also what Lao Feng meant. Their family really has hundreds of millions of assets waiting to be inherited.

"That's it"

You pressed the sword thoughtfully. What this meant was that Old Feng encouraged his son to get married and have children as soon as possible. Isn't he afraid of the curse of annihilating his descendants? Or does he think that if he gets his grandson early, he can erase the existence of the curse?

There was dull thunder again in the sky, and it looked like it was going to rain. It happened that there were no diapers in the car that could be changed, so he turned the steering wheel of the car with his sword and drove a few people towards the villa in the mountain.

While the car was driving on the tree-lined road, Xiao Feng's cell phone suddenly rang. It was from Zhao Xinglang, the housekeeper of the villa and Lao Feng's adopted child.

After the call was connected, the voice on the other end was extremely noisy, as if it had been affected by electromagnetic interference, "I, you, please, hurry up."

"Hello? Hello?"

Xiao Feng was about to ask when the other end of the phone hung up abruptly. He put down the phone and saw the three strangers in the car tense up at the same time and looked ahead seriously.

When they arrived at the mountain villa, they saw Zhao Xinglang standing inside the iron fence, with a large pool of blood-stained debris at his feet. He held up his mobile phone in his hand and kept talking, looking dazed and sluggish.

He looked straight ahead as if he hadn't seen the vehicle, and suddenly his body expanded rapidly, like an inflated balloon, becoming round, and then burst with a bang.

Plasma, minced meat, and bone spurs spattered. A large amount of blood, water and visceral fragments were sprinkled on the windshield of the SUV. The wipers sensed "rain" and automatically turned on, spreading the blood evenly.

After being stunned for two seconds, Xiao Feng's wife suddenly screamed. You pressed the sword and reversed without hesitation, driving the SUV back to the tree-lined road. At the same time, he turned on the wiper water spray switch to wipe away the scarlet on the windshield.

"Xinglang. Is dead?!" Xiao Feng was still in great shock. He suddenly reacted and said excitedly, "My dad, my dad is still in the villa."

"Don't make any noise." You pressed his sword and pursed his lips. "Your father's mission is to protect his family. I will send you to a safe area in the town first, and then go back to rescue him."

I'm afraid, it's already too late.

Li Sheng glanced at the communication interface between him and Yuan Zhixia, and a line of large characters appeared clearly on it, [Friend communication is temporarily unavailable].

There was no signal on the mobile phone and the GPS positioning failed. To make matters worse, the vehicle had clearly backed up a kilometer away and had long exceeded the length of the boulevard, but there was still no outside road in sight.

"We're trapped."

Bai Zhi took a deep breath, took out the drone from the backpack compartment, and flew it out of the car window, constantly climbing to observe the surrounding scene.

All the traces of human civilization that could be seen, such as roads, bridges, and telephone poles, have disappeared, leaving only endless trees that look like copied and pasted trees.

Like that Stephen King novel, "In the Tall Grass."

"Are ghosts hitting the wall?" Bai Zhi's expression was solemn. Since she has albinism, her face is very white, so I don't know if she was frightened and turned pale.

You pressed the sword and shook his head: "Ordinary ghost wall-attacking methods cannot achieve such a large range, let alone block the friend communication function of the system."

"Shielding system." Bai Zhi asked in astonishment: "What level do you have to be to do this? Lv30, Lv40?"

"It's not as high-end as you think. Mid-level players can achieve similar effects by using the Shadow Realm and some enchantments. My boss and a colleague can do it easily."

You pressed the sword and said casually, took out a piece of gray parchment and tore it open.

This parchment is called [Scroll of the Shadow Realm]. It is a best-selling item in the back streets, a rare quality, and a consumable prop. Its specific effect is to pull the surrounding environment into the shadow world.

The parchment was torn open, and nothing happened. It was obvious that some kind of barrier had been formed in this place, which did not allow the Shadow Realm to exist at the same time.

Li Sheng secretly tried the ability to travel through the shadow world given by the Mo Cai Spider, but it also failed to take effect.

"It is estimated that the existence that created this barrier killed Zhao Xinglang."

You pressed the sword and said: "When I took on this mission, I made an agreement with my friends in the guild to contact them every hour. It was just 10 minutes since the last contact. That means that within 50 minutes at the latest, they Then they will know about my disappearance and call the police. We can wait here for 50 minutes for the Special Affairs Bureau to come over."

The system prompt interrupted You Jian's words.

[Task trigger conditions have been met]

[Task Type: Mandatory Task (Team)]

[Task name: Deceiving God and changing fate]

[Mission goal: Find Feng Youyun and uncover the truth about the residence]

[Task time limit: 50 minutes]

[Task Reward 1: 500 experience points]

[Task reward 2: 500 game currency points]

[Task reward 3: random item*1, quality depends on the clearance evaluation]

[Task Reward 4: Random Skill Scroll*1, the quality depends on the clearance evaluation]

[Punishment for mission failure: The next mission will be converted into a punishment mission]