Chapter 177
Chapter 177
There was movement at the bus doors before long.
This time, the three members boarded in two separate groups.
The first to get on was a woman. She was dressed in athletic wear that made it easy to move around, and she looked to be in her twenties or thirties. Her face was youthful, but it was set in a constant, stern expression. Her long hair had been tied up into a neat, efficient bun.
After she boarded the bus, her gaze swept over everyone inside.
Qin Nan had no idea why, but the moment the woman looked him over, goose bumps rose all over his skin.
He was not the only one who felt that way. Lu Jing also frowned at once. He lowered his voice and warned Qin Weiyi, “This one isn’t easy to deal with. Don’t provoke her.”
Qin Weiyi gave a quiet acknowledgment, his gaze lingering on the woman for an extra moment.
The woman merely glanced over them and did not seem to have any other intentions. Very soon, she found a seat and sat down.
Yellow Hair had originally wanted to strike up a conversation, but faced with that forbidding air that practically screamed for strangers to stay away, he shuddered and silently withdrew the thought.
About two or three minutes after the woman got on, there was movement at the bus doors again.
This time, it was two men who looked to be in their early thirties. Both of them appeared extremely sturdy. However, Qin Nan swept a glance toward Lu Jing. Compared to Lu Jing, they were still far from enough.
After the two men boarded, they found seats and sat down. They did not seem inclined to talk to anyone else either.
Once everyone had arrived, the bus started moving. Unlike before, the bus was exceptionally quiet this time.
It was not until a long while later, when the bus stopped and everyone got up one after another to get off, that the silence was finally broken.
But soon-
The world fell silent once more.
Qin Nan looked around himself.
He had gotten off behind Jian Fan, but the moment he stepped off the bus, the environment around him changed. Jian Fan was nowhere to be seen. At that moment, he was standing in a dazzling, multicolored space. Aside from him, there was not even another living creature to be found.
Qin Nan was not exactly unfamiliar with this situation. It was much like the world of the previous Murder Mystery Game.
Just as he thought of that, rows of cards appeared before his eyes. There were ten cards in each row, and with a hurried glance, he could see at least a dozen rows.
What the heck was this?
“Player, please draw a card,” the System prompt reminded him.
Even a Murder Mystery Game could not possibly have this many character cards. What could so many cards be for? Qin Nan’s mind was full of questions. While pondering, he reached out and moved his fingertips across the cards before finally stopping on one.
After he confirmed his choice, all the other cards disappeared. The card he had chosen began to glow, and after a brilliant animation, it finally revealed its true face.
It was an illustration. More accurately, it was an anime-style picture of a man and a woman.
In the picture, the man was carrying the woman as he walked down a road. Cherry blossoms bloomed all around them. The woman looked up at the man, and the man looked down at the woman. The whole image was filled with the atmosphere of romance.
What was this supposed to be?
At the same time, the other eleven Players were going through the same thing as Qin Nan. They had to randomly draw a card of their own from the hundred-plus cards in front of them.
Jian Fan did not bother thinking about it. He blindly picked one at random, and after a burst of animation, he too saw the true appearance of his card.
It was still a man and a woman. The scene he had chosen showed the woman leaning against a wall. The man had one hand braced against the wall and the other touching the woman’s chin. The woman’s head was tilted slightly upward, while the man leaned down. The two of them were very close. It was clearly a kissing pose, except on the card, there was still some distance between their lips. They had not actually touched yet.
Jian Fan stared at the card art, his brow deeply furrowed.
What the hell was this thing supposed to be?
He had traveled through so many worlds, but something this… mm, feminine, seemed to be a first.
Lu Jing was just as lost. He looked at the image before him and felt like he couldn’t quite grasp what the game was trying to do.
His card art showed a man carrying a woman on his back as they strolled through an amusement park at night. Behind them, fireworks bloomed across the sky.
What was this for?
Lu Jing scratched his head, baffled.
At that moment, Lin Junruo had also drawn her card.
After a brief animation, the contents of the card were revealed.
It was still a man and a woman. This time, the man was sitting on a bed, leaning back against the wall behind him, while the woman was half-kneeling in front of him. One of her hands was braced on the bed, the other resting on the man’s shoulder. She was leaning in close to him, the distance between them so narrow that the air seemed thick with ambiguity.
This art style…
A possibility flashed through Lin Junruo’s mind.
At the same time, the System’s voice rang out again. “Card rarity: R. Congratulations, Player, you have drawn a basic skill: Drunken Daze. It may be used on a Player, causing that Player to become drunk for one minute. While drunk, the Player will lose the ability to move. Cooldown: thirty minutes.”
Lin Junruo: “???”
She blinked, and a term popped into her mind.
A gacha game?
More accurately, a romance gacha game.
The card rarity was R, which meant there were also SR and SSR? On top of that, judging from the soft, shoujo-style art dripping with suggestive tension, it was obviously a romance game.
But how was this game supposed to work?
Lin Junruo was completely bewildered. She truly couldn’t understand how a game like this could possibly be connected to death and horror. And what exactly were the cards they had drawn supposed to do?
She looked again at the skill description. This… were the Player participants supposed to kill each other?
This…
Lin Junruo glanced down at her own slender arms and legs and felt that her life was in serious danger.
Mu Xin had also finished drawing her card.
After seeing the card art and the System’s explanation, the corner of Mu Xin’s mouth twitched slightly.
Realm of Death, that’s just like you. You really can turn any kind of game into a Death Game.
The twelve Player participants drew their cards one after another. Once everyone’s card-drawing time had ended, a countdown appeared before them.
One minute until the game began.
Everyone simply watched the timer. When the countdown ended, a road appeared before their eyes.
Qin Nan looked at the road and took a deep breath, then stepped forward.
After walking for a while, Qin Nan soon came to a fork in the path. He thought it over and over but couldn’t figure anything out, so in the end he simply picked a direction at random. Not long after that, there was another fork…
After passing through three intersections, Qin Nan finally emerged from the path.
He stepped into a sea of flowers.
He looked around and confirmed that his location seemed to be set up like a glass conservatory. At the moment, he was the only person inside the flower room.
Where would the others be?
Qin Nan’s mind was filled with questions. Could it be that the first objective in this world was to find his companions?
Qin Nan had no answer.
After thinking for a moment, he opened the Points Mall. Perhaps he could get some useful information from the shop.