Chapter 1 Task Briefing

Li Ang's shock didn't interrupt the system notification from continuing.

[From 21:00 tonight, 12 players will be divided into six teams of two, competing within Yin City.]

[From 21:00 tonight, an invisible barrier will appear around Yin City, targeting only the 12 players. Players outside the barrier will experience a continuous decrease in Sanity. The barrier will shrink inward at intervals, with the direction and range of shrinkage being random. The barrier will shrink a total of 6 times.]

[After the task begins, each player will receive a wristwatch. This wristwatch is a temporary item, fixed to the player's body and cannot be placed in the inventory. It cannot be taken out after the task ends.]

[Special items will randomly refresh within Yin City. The wristwatch will display a 2D flat virtual map of Yin City, the current range of the barrier, the next range of shrinkage, the locations of special items, and the specific location of the other teammate.]

[Once players from different teams approach within 1000 meters of each other, a spherical space jutsu (spatial technique) will be generated, centered on the players. The space jutsu is only visible to players within the task. Within the range of the jutsu, players cannot cause substantial damage to the terrain, the environment, or non-player entities.]

[The jutsu moves with the players until the distance between the two teams exceeds 1000 meters, or one player dies.]

[Survival until the 6th barrier shrinkage is completed is considered task completion.]

[During the task, players cannot seek help from any entities outside the task range. All attempts to seek assistance will be interfered with and prevented at the causal level.]

[Task Reward: There is no overall completion evaluation reward for this task. For each enemy player killed, you will receive 300 experience points and 1000 game coins, and plunder a random item (skill, equipment, item) from the opponent.]

[Task Failure Penalty: None]

[Accept/Decline]

[Failure to select and confirm acceptance within 5 minutes will be regarded as automatic abandonment of the task qualification. The system will transfer the task trigger to another player.]

Lines of task briefings appeared before Li Ang's eyes, with a digital clock counting down 5 minutes at the bottom.

Miss Chai immediately noticed the abnormality in Li Ang's expression and frowned, asking, "What's wrong?"

"A task has come."

Li Ang turned and left the balcony, walked into the living room, and quickly packed up his equipment and props with Miss Chai's help. Then, he went into the bathroom and modified his appearance using the Biomaster Template.

This time, the regular task was different from all the tasks Li Ang had experienced before.

The triggering method was bizarre, the settings were cumbersome, the number of players involved was large, and everything from the settings to the rewards exuded an aura of malice.

"The task is named Moon God's Crown, but there is no information about the Moon God or the crown in the task briefing. Maybe I'll have to wait until the task progresses to a certain extent before the connection behind it is revealed.

It's 8:25 now, about half an hour before the task starts at nine o'clock. The shrinkage setting of the invisible barrier determines that the players' range of activity will become smaller and smaller, forcing them to make direct contact."

"Eliminating enemy players not only grants high experience points and game currency, but also plunders a random item. Assuming the opponents are all players like me above lv10, they are very likely to possess excellent or even perfect quality equipment and props.

Once successful, the rewards are likely to be more generous than performing a high-difficulty script task.

However, due to the chain of suspicion, once enemy players meet and a space jutsu is generated, they will inevitably strike first to eliminate the opponent as soon as possible—

If the time is prolonged and the space jutsu continues to exist, players from other teams will track them down, squatting outside the spherical barrier, waiting for the barrier to disappear, and ambushing the survivors.

Moreover, if the special items that randomly refresh within the map are powerful enough to be taken out of the script, the intensity of this task will be even more terrifying."

Li Ang's mind raced as he thought silently, "The setting of being unable to seek help from the outside world prevents some players from using their power and background to increase their advantages.

And the setting that surviving six barrier shrinkages is considered task completion also prepares the way for lone wolf players to run away immediately after completing the task."

While he was thinking, his appearance had already transformed into a short-haired delinquent youth with fierce, upturned eyes, who didn't look like a kind person at all.

"Considering the generous rewards of the task, this task is doable."

Seeing that the five-minute task acceptance deadline was about to end, Li Ang finally clicked to confirm acceptance of the task.

It wasn't 21:00 yet, and the players hadn't received their wristwatches, so he didn't have to worry about exposing his location yet.

Although Li Ang's Truncated Bone Spear was currently unusable, he still had various guns and cannons that he could use—due to the existence of the space jutsu, Li Ang didn't have to worry about the impact of abusing weapons of mass destruction.

Moreover, he still had Chai Chai, who had just completed her upgrade.

Raise Chai for a thousand days, use Chai for a moment. The current Chai Chai, just by driving the Qing'e Armor, could crush a batch of ordinary players who had gotten by through leeching, let alone the fact that she could also use the Vampire Crowbar.

Li Ang made up his mind and walked out of the bathroom after completing his disguise.

He took out a pile of brand new clothes he had bought online from the closet in the bedroom (in order to facilitate disguise, Li Ang would buy all kinds of new clothes online every once in a while and stuff them in the closet for emergencies).

Currently, the strongest defensive equipment he had was the Excellent quality armor he had just opened, the Ming Ye Chang (Night Cloak).

This cloak had a very good defensive effect, especially in the nighttime environment, it could passively enhance the user's stealth ability.

The Night Quiet effect of the Ming Ye Chang, coupled with the aura concealing ability of the Face-Changing Mask, could completely allow Li Ang to blend into the darkness, making it difficult to be discovered.

The only problem was that the appearance of this cloak was too conspicuous—this task was set in the real world, and it was very likely that there would be head-on conflicts with other players.

If his appearance was remembered and he was wanted and rewarded in the real world, it would be difficult to deal with.

Moreover, it would be a little awkward if he met his opponents in future script tasks.

"Ugh"

Li Ang quickly placed several pieces of clothing on the ground, picked up scissors, and cut off the clothing material, using a One Piece-themed spy uniform he bought from Taobao to sew the Ming Ye Chang inside.

That's right, this spy uniform was the navy uniform worn in One Piece, white with the words "Justice" painted on the back.

Li Ang put on a red suit, then draped the Ming Ye Chang, disguised as a navy uniform, over his body, pretending to be an ordinary spy enthusiast, and looked at himself in the mirror.

After confirming that nothing was missing, he put some clothes into his inventory and asked Miss Chai to leave the Qing'e Armor and enter the Soul-Guiding Banner.