Chapter 1 There's A Ghost in the Control Room...

Almost the instant the lights flickered on, Liu Wu Dai reacted. She grabbed the longbow from her back and retreated rapidly.

The warm-colored lights inside Longheng Shopping Mall turned on in the morning and off in the evening. At night, dim, cold lights with extremely low power consumption were turned on for security patrols.

The lighting system in the lobby and corridors was automatically controlled by the main computer. It was impossible for it to turn on randomly for no reason.

"There's a ghost in the control room..."

Liu Wu Dai's expression remained calm, but her heart was filled with anxiety. A ghost that could manipulate the mall's main control system was many times more troublesome!

That ghost could not only turn the lights on and off, but also see every player through the surveillance cameras.

Liu Wu Dai's figure soared like a kite, her feet barely touching the ground, as she sped through the corridor.

She could clearly feel something malicious chasing her from behind, but she didn't dare turn her head to look.

Liu Wu Dai gritted her teeth and flicked the red and black camouflage-patterned wooden recurve bow in her hand.

Name: Chariot of Fire

Type: Weapon

Quality: Rare

Attack Power: Medium

Effect: Fiery March. Grants an arrow piercing armor and fire attribute attack effects, granting additional attack power against protein bodies and undead creatures.

Consumption: 5% total stamina

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Equipment requirements: Agility attribute greater than or equal to 8, Strength attribute greater than or equal to 7

Note: The best elf archers always carry this bow when hunting. As long as an arrow pierces the target, the prey will be burned into medium-well done grilled meat on the spot.

This bow was the reward Liu Wu Dai received in the Lonely Mountain Cold Temple. She drew an arrow from the quiver at her waist, activated the Fiery March effect, and shot an arrow behind her without looking back, relying solely on a premonition.

The arrow left the bowstring and spontaneously combusted in an instant.

The orange flames dancing on the tip of the arrow did not shake and extinguish due to the arrow's high speed, but instead exploded the moment it hit the target.

Behind Liu Wu Dai, there was a muffled explosion and an extremely shrill, inhuman scream.

The stinging sensation on her back suddenly disappeared.

Temporarily избавившись of the vengeful ghost's pursuit, Liu Wu Dai held the bow in her left hand and quickly picked up her phone with her right hand, frantically sliding and tapping on the screen.

Just as Li Ang had speculated in the last mission, Liu Wu Dai, who loved and excelled at archery, was a wealthy heiress with both money and leisure in the real world.

It's just that the extent of her wealth... Li Ang, who had been in poverty for a long time, could never have imagined it.

Liu Wu Dai, twenty-six years old, was born into a billionaire family. Her grandfather was the founder of Yin City Longqing Shipping Co., Ltd.

Longqing Shipping Co., Ltd. is a large multinational comprehensive enterprise company whose main business is shipping. Its business scope involves containers, oil transportation, freight transportation, passenger transportation, car ship transportation, shipping agency, financial investment, and information technology. Its container fleet ranks among the world's top 100.

Liu Wu Dai was a true heiress born with a silver spoon in her mouth. As the eldest daughter of the Liu family in Yin City, her value was far higher than that of Chai Cuiqiao, a low-class illegitimate daughter.

In a world without any extraordinary factors, it might take Li Ang, a wild genius, ten or twenty years to barely reach the bottom of Liu Wu Dai's feet.

In the future when the Killing Game is fully launched, the players born from ordinary people will inevitably engage in a struggle with the traditional financial groups that monopolize the upward channel.

And financial groups without extraordinary power to protect themselves will either be completely defeated, with people dying and money disappearing,

Or adapt to the new world, try to treat the "Killing Game" as a new industry, like they monopolize mining, industry, commerce, transportation, insurance companies, and banks, and monopolize it.

The Killing Game is a challenge with both risks and opportunities for financial groups, and it is also the only way out for transformation.

Evolving from ordinary monopoly organizations such as cartels, syndicates, trusts, and concerns into giant enterprises that monopolize extraordinary resources around the world and even completely suppress the state apparatus—just like they are doing in South Korea now.

As one of the heirs of the chaebol, Liu Wu Dai would more or less consider this aspect. As far as she knew, many chaebols had begun to secretly recruit players and plan for the future.

Liu Wu Dai didn't know if the Liu family had done this, and Liu Wu Dai didn't know if the Special Affairs Bureau knew that the chaebols had done this—

Even though she was a double master of MSC and MBA, the current head of a family's collateral company, a young female entrepreneur who could easily appear on the cover of the Asian edition of Time magazine, and a hot-selling top diamond eligible single woman.

As a prominent figure in Yin City, Liu Wu Dai naturally contacted the senior management of Longheng Plaza that day through personal connections.

Under the guise of wanting to invest in building a store, she obtained a considerable amount of information about Longheng Plaza, conducted on-site inspections, and implanted a virus software into the main control computer to obtain control permissions.

Liu Wu Dai pressed the phone screen, and the lights in the entire mall went out in an instant, but the surveillance cameras in the corridors and shops were still emitting subtle red light spots.

The virus software in the main control computer could turn on and off the lights, and control the movement of the surveillance cameras, but it could not prevent the ghost hiding in the main control room from directly seeing Liu Wu Dai's image through the computer screen.

Gritting her teeth, Liu Wu Dai decisively cut off the power supply in the entire mall through the virus software.

The dim cold lights embedded in the ceiling went out instantly, and the surveillance cameras in the corridor also lost their red light. The entire mall fell into dead silence and darkness again.

Cutting off the power supply, the ghost in the main control room could not see the player's location, but the player also lost the information support of the surveillance screen.

And because the cold lights went out, the light of the mobile phone screen was even more conspicuous in the complete darkness.

Liu Wu Dai shrank in the corner, cautiously pressing the phone screen and typing: "I cut off the power supply to the mall, and the ghost in the main control room can't use the surveillance cameras now, so he can't see our location. But he can turn on the backup power supply through the gasoline generator set in the basement."

The WeChat group was also silent, and after a long time, Ao Yong sent a message, "The closest to the basement is Feiting, Feiting are you still there? @LostFeiting."

Time passed by, and there was no response.

"Before the lights went out," the Plague Doctor said, "I saw the old man's ghost chasing after the direction he ran..."

The Plague Doctor didn't finish his words, but the remaining four players knew that LostFeiting, who hadn't replied yet, was likely already dead.

One companion sacrificed before even completing a single talisman. Everyone felt immense pressure under this unfavorable start.

"If the ghost can turn on the generator set and restart the main control computer, we will be exposed to the lights and surveillance again and face pursuit."

The Plague Doctor typed, "I'm still on the first floor, I'll go destroy the backup generator set first... you, continue to look for talismans."

Ao Yong typed, "Received, keep in touch."

Liu Wu Dai typed, "Received."

Li Ang sent a picture of a fair-skinned and beautiful bunny girl wearing a college uniform, with her legs crossed, pouting her mouth, her expression cute, innocent, and damnably charming.

The picture was captioned: I wish the majority of college entrance examination students good results, I'll be waiting for you in college.

Plague Doctor: "??"

Ao Yong: "??"

Liu Wu Dai: "??"

Li Ang: "Sorry, sent the wrong picture, it's this one."

He sent another picture, this time the picture content was the beige limestone floor under the Nine-Rank Crab Emperor Burger sign, with a strange and bizarre talisman drawn in cinnabar in the center of the floor.