"Welcome to Thriller Paradise."

[Loading complete. You are currently in Team Survival Mode (Normal).]

[This mode provides a script introduction and has a chance to trigger side hidden quests and a special worldview.]

[Script completion reward: Randomly draw a learnable skill card.]

[The script introduction will now play. The game will begin immediately after the playback.]

Feng Bujue once again entered the state of watching the opening CG from a first-person perspective. What appeared before his eyes was a long shot, an ordinary rural town, nestled against mountains and rivers. Fields and forests were visible on the outskirts of the town, and modern facilities were complete, with schools, shopping streets, residential buildings, office buildings, and so on... This town reminded Feng Bujue of Ping Tian's hometown, and an ominous premonition faintly rose...

[Sakuragi Town, a place far from the hustle and bustle of the city.]

[A strange tale circulates in the quiet town.]

[About thirty years ago, in the first few days of November, the town's police station successively accepted several missing persons reports. Several young men and women in the town disappeared, and the last date these people were seen was the same day, October 31st.]

[The missing people were never seen alive or dead. At first, everyone thought these young people had eloped or run away from home, going somewhere outside the town. But year after year, these people remained missing, and every year since then, similar cases have occurred on the same day...]

[All indications are that the missing people did not leave the town... So, the police launched a thorough investigation into this incident.]

[Although the police visited many residents of the town, and the record of statements was as high as a mountain, the investigation still did not yield any substantive progress. The only information that could be called a clue was the superstitious words in the mouths of some elders...]

[The saying of "the curse of the haunted well" also began to circulate because of this investigation.]

[Legend has it... in the abandoned shrine in the mountains, there is a cursed well. On the last night of every October, music from the land of the dead will be heard from the well. On this night, those who hear the music will come to the shrine and throw themselves into the well.]

["They will never come back, because they have gone to 'another world'," the old people said with certainty.]

[The investigation came to a standstill. The police, in desperation, came to the mountain with a try-anything attitude and searched the abandoned shrine. Unexpectedly, they actually found several items lost by the missing people in those years.]

[On the evening of October 31st of the same year, a team of police officers guarded the well, trying to find out the truth of the "disappearance" incident. But they also failed to return...]

[The investigation was indefinitely shelved, and the local government ordered villagers not to enter the mountains at night and sealed the well in the shrine with cement.]

[But every year at the end of October, disappearance incidents still occur...]

Along with the voice prompt, the camera gradually zoomed from a long shot to a close-up, facing the mountain, with a path visible in front, extending upward into the mountain forest.

[As time passes, many years have passed. The urban area of ​​Sakuragi Town has increased, and the population base has increased more than three times. Such disappearance cases have gradually been ignored, and the legend has been forgotten.]

[One autumn night, six young people from the town came here, wanting to go to the shrine in the mountains for a trial of courage. And this night happened to be October 31st.]

"Is this a trial of courage..." Feng Bujue muttered while listening to the introduction, "This is obviously courting death!"

He thought the introduction would end here, but unexpectedly, a setting explanation similar to the "Seven Unsolved Mysteries of the Campus" script appeared again:

[From the start of the script, the system will randomly select one person from the player team to receive the "protagonist halo".]

[Players with the protagonist halo will not be judged as dead except for disconnecting due to excessive scare value, actively disconnecting, or actively exiting the script. Any other form of fatal method, such as monster attacks, falling from heights, survival value running out, etc., will be "luckily" terminated the moment before it occurs. Even if the termination method has a probability infinitely close to zero and contradicts logic, it can still occur.]

[The protagonist halo will be transferred due to many different special flags. Please explore the rules of the game and use them to transfer the halo.]

[When the number of team members is less than or equal to two, the protagonist halo disappears.]

[The player currently possessing the protagonist halo is – Yongzhe Wudi.] (Brave Invincible)

With this explanation completed, the script officially began.

Standing beside Feng Bujue were five people, one of whom he had met, Yongzhe Wudi (Brave Invincible), the older brother he had scammed once. Yongzhe Wudi was a player in the Order Studio who was responsible for researching "fist" in the combat specialization during the closed beta stage and collecting intelligence. Currently, his work content remains the same, and his level has reached level twenty-three. His title has changed from [Reckless Pugilist] to [Xingyi Quan Master].

Among the other four, two were also Order players. One was called Meng Jingchan, also level twenty-three, with the title [Cold-Faced Assassin]. As soon as this guy appeared, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit one, smoothed his permed hair, and puffed out a smoke ring.

The third person from Order was a female player. Needless to say, she was also a beauty, with red lips, white teeth, delicate features, and long black hair. She wore the standard white Order coat over her shoulders, with a set of dark cyan suit inside. Her nickname was Ye Zhi, which was somewhat incomprehensible. Feng Bujue's guess was that this ID was a homonym for her real name. Ye Zhi's level was twenty, and judging from her title [Emergency Medical Officer], she was undoubtedly a medical specialist.

There were also two other players, both male, both level eighteen. One was called Ge Bai Ni (Copernicus) and the other was called Jia Li Lue (Galileo). Their titles were even more impressive, one was called [Discoverer] and the other was called [Investigator]. They should have queued up together as a team. However, neither of them had a guild badge, and their appearances didn't look special. They were wearing obviously cheap ordinary T-shirts and trousers, with colors and styles that were slightly different from the novice clothes.

In the eyes of others, these two were very ordinary casual players. Their titles were probably related to the reconnaissance specialization. Their game skills must not be very good. They haven't even joined a guild. Either they're too weak and no one will accept them, or they're too poor to afford it themselves. Anyway, looking at their clothes, they were definitely poor, and whether they were weak or not remained to be seen.

However, in Feng Bujue's view, there were two possibilities for the strength of these two people, which were two extremes.

The first extreme was that he suspected these two were GMs...

The script completion experience of the Derivatives at least let Feng Bujue know one thing, that is, Derivatives can only appear in six-person team survival mode. Although according to Pan Feng and Hua Xiong, the probability of encountering them is very low, and the probability of the same player encountering them twice is even more negligible, Feng Bujue also has considerable confidence in his bad luck.

If this script is really a script with Derivatives, then... these two, from head to toe, can be said to meet the standards of GMs in every aspect. Moderate level, popular nicknames, low-key attire; acting in groups of two, no guild badges, titles that seem to have a concealing effect, maybe they were deliberately adjusted to be like this...

They don't seem very strong and it's difficult to leave a deep impression on people. Such players are easily ignored after clearing the level. Even if someone sends a friend request out of courtesy, they won't think too much about it after being rejected.

The second extreme that Feng Bujue considered was that there was a higher probability that these two were not GMs, and he was just thinking too much. Then... the strength of these two would probably be extremely terrible.

Because the combination of the three from Order was obviously not weak. Feng Bujue was not sure whether they were celebrity players, but judging from their levels and titles, the three had a clear division of labor and were extraordinary in combat power. Moreover, their guild ranked first on both lists, and the two guild Buffs they obtained must also be very powerful, which must also be counted into the player's strength.

When the system generates a script, the difficulty and benefits of the team are proportional to each other. If six super-strong players form a team to queue up together, they will naturally encounter extremely difficult scripts, which is also self-inflicted. But the possibility of a strong-weak combination in the queue is very high with the current composition of three, two, and one players. After all, there won't be all experts in a game. Casual players are always the majority, and the vast majority.

The first team survival script that Feng Bujue encountered with Long Ge was a good example: a high-level powerful player, leading two low-level players with certain strength, plus two medium-level noobs.

Therefore, Feng Bujue's second assumption was... two guys who played very badly had sneaked into this team. They were really so weak that no guild was willing to accept them, and it was not easy to use game coins to buy cheap clothes to add attributes, so they could not afford to start a guild.

Of course, no matter which extreme the facts lead to, this script will not be easy. Feng Bujue inwardly hoped that these two were not GMs. It doesn't matter if they played badly. Just follow the team and listen to the command at critical moments, and clearing the level is no problem. But if they are really administrators... the difficulty of this script is terrifying to even think about...

"Oh! It's you, kid!" Yongzhe Wudi (Brave Invincible) also recognized Feng Bujue and walked up to him and said.

"Brother Wudi, how have you been?" Feng Bujue said.

"Go, go... don't try to get close." Yongzhe Wudi (Brave Invincible) was not a fool either. Before, he might have suspected that the final clearance of the Usher Mansion script relied on Si Yu, Bei Ling, and Long Aomin, but at this moment, when he saw Feng Bujue's title of [Plot Explorer], he basically understood everything. "Kicking the door, right? Taking off the doorknob, right? You're good at pretending to be a noob. You cleared the level after I died?"

"Your death that time was really not within my expectations." Feng Bujue replied with a smile, "But it was definitely right to split up and expand the search range at the beginning of the script. Later, the facts also proved it..."

"Okay, okay... don't explain, I don't know what happened anyway." Yongzhe Wudi (Brave Invincible) interrupted, "I really underestimated you last time. I'll call you big brother this time, okay? Please don't pretend to be stupid anymore and help clear the level properly."

"I'm so embarrassed that you praise me so much." Feng Bujue said politely, but his face was full of complacent expressions.

"Wudi, is he your friend?" Meng Jingchan walked over. At some point, he took out a small bottle of beer from his knapsack again and was already drinking it.

"Ah... not very familiar, met once in a previous script." Yongzhe Wudi (Brave Invincible) replied, then turned to Feng Bujue and said, "Hey? Looking at your title, you're a pure puzzle-solving type of player, right?" This question was a matter of course for him. Even in Order, there was no player like Feng Bujue who had evenly increased the level of all specializations and was able to fight and plan.

"I prefer puzzle-solving." Feng Bujue said, "Of course, I can't say that I'm very weak in combat."

"Oh? Judging by your tone, you are both literary and martial?" Meng Jingchan said. Before Feng Bujue could answer, he sighed, "Ah... it's good to be young... Don't look at me like this now... I used to be quite cool, handsome, and domineering..."

"This... Brother Chan, I estimate you're only in your twenties now, and you smoke, drink, and perm your hair..." Feng Bujue's mouth twitched.

Even Yongzhe Wudi (Brave Invincible) felt a little embarrassed: "That's his catchphrase, don't mind it..."

The six people chatted in place for a few minutes, roughly understanding each other's expertise. During this period, Feng Bujue took the time to use [Decisive Victory Thousands of Miles] once, and the boss data he saw was:

[Name: Haunted Well]

[Race: ???]

[Level: 30]

[Depth: ???]

[Wellhead Diameter: 122 cm]

[Combat Method: Illusion]

[Weakness: Will immediately become an ordinary dry well after blocking the power supply]

[Skills: Soul Devour]

[Danger Level: High.]

This information coincided with the description of the well in the script introduction, but the "weakness" item was worth pondering. After "blocking the power supply," the haunted well seemed to lose its effect. But where does the well's power come from?

If its source of power exists in "another world," does that mean you have to be swallowed by it first, and then block the power on that end? Not to mention whether the act of being "swallowed" will directly lead to death, even if you survive to the other side and successfully destroy the haunted well's power supply, the player will definitely not be able to return, because at that time, the haunted well has become an ordinary well, and the connection between the two worlds will naturally be cut off.

Another hypothesis seems more reliable, that is... the power supply of the haunted well actually comes from this world, hidden somewhere in this town or mountain. Players only need to find out the truth to clear the level.

About five minutes after the end of the script introduction, that is, when everyone was preparing to set off, the system's mission prompt sounded in a timely manner:

[Main Quest Triggered]

[Enter the mountain and find the abandoned shrine.]