Chapter 191: Global Hide and Seek 1
Chu Yian rested all night, not waking until the next morning.
The real world was shrouded in black fog, making it impossible to distinguish between day and night. Time was differentiated by the clock on the game’s floating window.
At this point, the Level III game had ended, and the forum was abuzz with discussions about this round.
Everyone complained about how difficult this round of the game was, with many unable to even pass Layer I. Only one in a hundred thousand players managed to clear it.
There were very few who cleared it, and thus not many posts sharing clear-through experiences.
Chu Yian quickly scanned through the posts and suddenly found one about Health Points.
[Attention, attention! Never let your Health Points drop below 40%!!
After playing for so long, I’m sure everyone has been anxious about cleanliness and satiety. But I wonder if you’ve paid attention to Health Points besides these two issues. This thing is a huge trap!!
According to our experiments, Health Points are closely related to cleanliness.
When cleanliness is 100% – 70%, Health Points will remain stable at 100%;
When cleanliness is 60% – 40%, Health Points will drop to 80%;
When cleanliness is 30% – 20%, Health Points will drop to 60%, and at this point, mild cold symptoms like coughing and nasal congestion will appear;
When cleanliness is 20% – 10%, Health Points will drop below 40%, and at this point, severe illness will appear.
If Health Points are above 40%, they will slowly increase as long as cleanliness recovers. However, if Health Points fall below 40%, even if cleanliness increases to 100%, it’s useless. Health Points will drop by 5% every day. You must purchase a medical package for treatment.
Everyone must pay attention to the issue of Health Points, otherwise, you will die if your Health Points reach zero!]
[World 3848294: Holy crap, a medical package is 5 points per serving. Sure enough, there are traps everywhere.]
[World 89482: My cleanliness is 30%. After seeing this post, I quickly went and bought a cleaning package.]
[World 2848284: Why am I only seeing this post now? To save points, I twice pushed my cleanliness to 10% and then brought it back to 100%. My Health Points are now 35%, and I feel terrible all over. And I only have 3 points left, so I can’t afford a medical package.]
…Health Points really are an issue.
Chu Yian looked at the comments on the forum, feeling a sense of ‘I knew it’.
For the next two days in the real world, Chu Yian mainly read books and exercised. When she was tired, she would lie on the sofa and browse the forum.
You Che was still at odds with Murong Er in the [Nearby Forum]. As soon as she appeared, he would pick up his keyboard. Chu Yian guessed that Bai Sinian was also in the [Nearby Forum], but she hadn’t seen any ID that seemed to be his.
Jie Yan would occasionally send her messages, but they were mostly simple chats, nothing major.
This leisurely time passed quickly, and soon it was time to enter a new game.
[This Round’s Game: Hide-and-Seek]
[Game Content: In this round of the game, players will participate in one game of hide-and-seek daily. Players will draw lots to transform into various objects, be teleported to specific areas, and evade the hunters’ pursuit. The game will last for five days, and its difficulty will increase with each successive round. Survive until the end of the five-day hide-and-seek to clear the game.]
[Initial Funds: None]
[Initial Supplies: One set of clothes, NPG]
[Current Number of New Players: 2903456781]
It was the first time Chu Yian had encountered a situation without initial funds or identification.
Just as she was pondering what this round of the game was about, a message about forming an alliance was sent.
It was an alliance message from Jie Yan’s team.
Chu Yian directly clicked ‘agree’.
Although she didn’t like being a subordinate, teamwork was truly valuable, and there was no need to forgo points.
Magnificent, sword-like buildings soared into the clouds, with cool ice-blue and high-saturation magenta intertwining across the world. Giant neon billboards constantly flashed above the city, holographic projections, highly mechanized, robots visible everywhere on steel structures… Here were the grandest buildings,
Here was the most cutting-edge technology,
And beneath this prosperity, splendor, and flourishing-ness, there was continuous rain. Various wires hung on dilapidated and rusty lower-level buildings, crowded food stalls were filled with rotting garbage, and all around were people with strange appearances.
It shouldn’t be said that they looked strange, but many of them had parts of their bodies replaced by machines.
Mechanical eyes glowing red, metal prosthetics, Chu Yian even saw one person whose chest was transparent, revealing a mechanical heart inside. These NPCs were not like the previous ones, who were oblivious to the players’ arrival. They accurately fixed their gaze on the newly appeared players, revealing smiles like those of someone looking at prey.
The eight players who had just entered the game gathered together, warily looking at the surrounding NPCs.
However, these NPCs, though ill-intentioned, did not immediately attack them. Not long after, all the advertising projections above the buildings turned to black screens.
A cold male voice rang out.
“prey deployment complete. The annual hide-and-seek game will officially begin in fifteen minutes.”
Accompanying this voice, all players glowed. Collars appeared on all players’ necks, and the cylindrical object on the collar glowed, displaying a holographic projection.
[Draw your disguise form for this game.]
Chu Yian tapped her finger on the option on the projection, and the images on the projection continuously changed, stopping on a picture of a kettle.
[Your drawn disguise form for this round: Kettle.]
[You have been deployed into Map No. 1083. Hiding time: 2 hours.]
The content on the holographic projection disappeared. She only felt herself suddenly lift into the air, then fall into an unfamiliar street. The moment she fell into this street, her perspective also began to change rapidly; she had to look up to see a fire hydrant.
She really had turned into a kettle, and the fire hydrant next to her was also hopping, likely another player who had turned into an object.
The holographic projection introducing the game then popped out again.
[Prey Newbie Guide]
[1. After being teleported to the game area, you will have 10 minutes to find a place to hide on the map. If you are not found within two hours, you pass the level.]
[2. After selecting a hiding spot, you can move within 10 meters of it. If you move beyond 10 meters, a prey alarm will be triggered around you. The prey alarm will follow you and last for 30 seconds.]
[3. After transforming into an object, you will gain a full map view within 30 meters of your surroundings.]
[4. prey have an internal communication platform. You can use the platform to communicate with other prey via text.]
[5. If you are hit twice by a hunter, you will die.]
