I Have An Abyssal Island

By Kadeem Goodman

Have you done anything bad before?

Have you ever thought of reforming yourself?

If not, I'll do it for you!

There's no charge, just a little shock value!

You don't want it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tiana Sumoge
• Release date: Feb 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869269508

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Chapter 2: The Abyss

    The great abyss, like a huge mouth that chooses to devour people, is waiting to devour everything in front of it.

    An inexplicable feeling of fear rose from the bottom of Zhang Wang's heart.

    He subconsciously wanted to escape from here as soon as possible.

    So Zhang Wang held up his cell phone and turned his head to look for a way out.

    But to his disappointment, the space around him that he saw through his cell phone was probably only tens of square meters in size, and other than that part of the space, the rest of it was that huge abyss behind him.

    The space in front of him, however, because of its small size, he could see the situation in front of him at a glance; the space was filled with smooth cliffs going vertically upwards in all three directions, and there were no other passages, which meant that this area was practically closed.

    Zhang Wang was suddenly a bit confused.

    He was obviously swept into the ground by the collapse after the subsidence of the ground, surrounded by damp and cold soil, but strangely enough, there was no residual soil to be seen in the dozens of square meters of space at the moment, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a flat ground, and even a piece of dirt could not be found on the ground, so what about all the dirt that had collapsed and fallen down before?

    Even if most of the collapsed soil had fallen into the abyss, there wouldn't be no residual soil at all, would there?

    But the fact of the matter now was that he was standing alone in a flat clearing, which was so flat and smooth that it looked like a smoothed concrete floor, with not a speck of dirt to be seen at all.

    It was as if Zhang Wang had suddenly appeared in this space.

    This place was really weird, giving Zhang Wang a creepy feeling!

    He subconsciously tried to escape from here, but the walls were slippery in the three directions around him, so it was impossible to climb up, and the only way to get off the platform at the moment was to jump from the abyss.

    Looking at the bottomless abyss, Zhang Wang thought that he would never jump down until the last moment.

    Just kidding, looking at that dark hole, who knows how deep it is down there! If I jumped in, I'd fall to pieces!

    I haven't lived long enough!

    So Zhang Wang can only stand on this dozens of square meters of platform, quietly waiting for the arrival of rescuers.

    as a result

    an hour

    two hours

    three hours

    ......

    Twelve hours.

    ......

    ......

    Little by little, time passed and no rescuers were ever heard.

    There was not much power left in the cell phone, and Zhang Wang, who was thirsty and hungry, began to become desperate.

    When will the rescuers come?

    God you're not playing with me, I don't want to die here!

    Zhang Wang felt the energy draining away from his body little by little, he even had some hallucinations and always felt that there were voices whispering in his ears.

    It's really dying!

    Zhang Wang staggered to his feet and came to the abyss, muttering to himself, Do I have to be forced to jump?

    As soon as the words left his mouth, he fell into the abyss.

    A miserable howl snapped out of the abyss.

    I fucking stepped out of the air!

    ......

    ......

    The entire space shifted rapidly, and Zhang Wang could feel himself descending in the air at an astonishing speed.

    It's over, it's over, it's completely over!

    Feeling the increasing speed of his descent, Zhang Wang realized that it was time for him to bid farewell to this world.

    When you fall from such a height, do you land head first or feet first?

    Head first is fine, bang and you're done.

    It's only tragic if you land feet first and don't die at once ......

    Just when Zhang Wang was already desperate to the point of no return, he suddenly felt a lightness in his body, and then, at an extremely slow speed, his entire body slowly landed on solid ground.

    ......

    ......?

    After his feet hit the ground, Zhang Wang was still standing there with a stunned look on his face.

    For a long time.

    Zhang Wang's eyes twitched for a moment.

    Then his expression came alive, and his whole being quickly regained his senses.

    Not dead?

    I can't believe I'm not dead!

    What a way to come back from the dead!

    Although I didn't understand why I didn't fall to my death in the abyss, it felt good to have my feet on the ground and my life preserved!

    Zhang Wang was ecstatic and let out a loud laugh.

    Hahaha, old me didn't die, old me survived!

    He laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes.

    That's not even dead. That's lucky. That's so lucky!

    Now Zhang Wang felt that the world was simply too good.

    It's a miracle you survived yourself!

    It's just like an online game, where you were originally stuck in a desperate situation, and then suddenly a system reboots and you appear in a newbie village.

    Just as this thought flashed through Zhang Wang's mind, the image in front of him suddenly changed, and a bizarre scene suddenly appeared in front of him.

    Hey, it's .......

    Zhang Wang was startled and looked ahead nervously.

    A small town, an exotic town, appeared suddenly before him.

    There were about dozens of independent houses in the town, the houses were all in European architectural style, and each of them had its own characteristics, but in the dim light, these small houses hidden in the woods looked a bit eerie, like a monster squatting in the bushes.

    At the back of the town there was a small hill with a black pine forest on it, and there was a path that extended out from the town and led directly into the depths of the black pine forest.

    A layer of gray mist filled the area around the town, which isolated the town from its surroundings, and at this moment, all Zhang Wang could see was the town and half of the hill wrapped in the mist.

    Vaguely, it could still seem as if the sound of waves lapping at the shore could still be heard, but this should obviously be an illusion, as Zhang Wang's city was thousands of kilometers away from the sea, and it was impossible to hear the sound of the sea at all.

    Looking at the town looming in the mist, Zhang Wang's heart was a little uneasy.

    I don't know what's going on, but he always has a feeling that his heart is pounding.

    I don't think I've ever heard of such a European-inspired town near the city!

    There's something weird about the appearance of this town, could there be any danger inside?

    But anyway, this was the only way out at the moment, and there was nowhere else to go.

    So Zhang Wang decided to explore around first.

    But the sense of unease in his heart made him wary, so he was going to find a handy tool to use as a weapon, and be careful not to hang up just as he came in.

    Zhang Wang looked around for half a day, but did not find a branch wooden stick or something, in addition to those unattainable trees, can touch all the grass.

    Grass ......

    As he searched, Zhang Wang's eyes suddenly lit up as he saw a white stick-like object not far in front of him.

    There you have it ah, just don't know if it's soft or hard, if it's hard it'll work fine!

    Zhang Wang quickly stepped forward and looked down to see that the white stick-like object was a foot and a half long piece of bone.

    OK, it's almost 50 centimeters. That's enough!

    Zhang Wang joyfully picked up the white bone, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw what seemed to be looking at him from the grass.

    What the hell?

    He turned his neck, his head poking forward slightly.

    A skeleton was looking at itself coldly.

    Ow ......

    Zhang Wang sat on his butt on the ground and rolled backwards to hide.

    In one breath, he climbed out seven or eight meters before stopping.

    He looked nervously at the skeleton and realized that it had remained in one position.

    After looking at it for a while longer, I realized that it was a corpse over there in the grass, and the white stick-like object I had just picked up was the femur of that corpse.

    No wonder it's so long, usually 20 centimeters is considered long ......

    After the tension was a slight relaxation, Zhang Wang turned around and was about to climb up, and it was at this time that he noticed a flash of light on the ground behind him.

    Zhang Wang froze for a moment before suddenly noticing a band of yellowish light on the ground in front of him. If he hadn't been startled by the skeleton and crawled backwards so far, he was afraid that he wouldn't have been able to spot this band of light, as its brightness was too low.

    After being detected, however, the band of light became conspicuous. It stretched across the middle of Zhang Wang and the town, stretching along the outer edges of the town on both sides and leading into the endless mist, with no boundaries in sight.

    This thing isn't some kind of cordon sanitaire or something, is it?

    Zhang Wang found a dead branch from the ground and tried to reach towards the band of light.

    The withered branch was not attacked.

    Then Zhang Wang tentatively put his hand out.

    Again, nothing changed around them.

    He stuck out another foot.

    Still fine.

    Zhang Wang then breathed a sigh of relief and took a step across the yellow band of light.

    What he never expected was that the moment he took a step across the band of light, the environment around him, which was originally so quiet and comfortable, changed, the earth under his feet rotated, the sky became even darker, and the lights in the town in front of him were suddenly lit up. The night lord's chirping came out from the mountain forest behind the town, and the sound of pine waves rumbled into his ears like a tsunami.

    It was as if he had activated the world inside by taking one step within the band of light.

    Zhang Wang hurriedly found a short slope to run over, then crouched down behind it and carefully probed around.

    Hell knows what's in that town, this spooky place is really alarming, it's better to hide and take a closer look around first.

    Now Zhang Wang felt that something was obviously wrong, and everything in front of him was a bit bizarre.

    You know that before he had fallen into the ground with the collapsing ground, and then fell into an even deeper abyss in the depths of the ground, but now he had turned out to be in the heel of a mysterious European town, could it be that the town was located in the depths of the ground?

    But what kind of town is built deep underground?

    Zhang Wang inexplicably shivered.

    There was a suspicion that made his heart skip a beat and he didn't want to say it.

    It couldn't be that he had already hung up and turned into a wandering soul, could it?

    Could this town be in hell?

    However, the scene in front of him was incomparably real and did not look like an illusory mirror image, so Zhang Wang was not yet sure whether he was alive or dead.

    The scene in front of me was very much like the kind of quest interface in an adventure game, as it was when the quest interface had just been opened.

    Only just after this thought flashed through his mind, a nice female voice suddenly sounded in Zhang Wang's mind.

    Scare mission system activated, host may choose to fit in!

Chapter 3: The Scare Quest System

    Zhang Wang was startled and hastily looked around.

    There was no one to be seen around, and the sound seemed to be generated in his own head.

    Zhang Wang's brows were furrowed in confusion.

    What the hell?

    What the hell is a scare system activation?

    Just after flashing this thought, a clear light screen interface suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

    Zhang Wang was startled and hastily took a step back.

    He thought a searchlight was coming through.

    I didn't expect him to back off that light screen to move forward, actually moving with him in parallel, at this time still suspended in front of his eyes fifty centimeters away from the place.

    It was then that Zhang Wang realized that this thing was kind of like a hologram, and that it was parallel and moving with him within his line of sight, as if it was being shown to him specifically.

    He then let go and scrutinized the details on the light screen.

    There are nine gray icons on the interface.

    The first icon, which read Host Attributes; the second icon read Mission Area Selection; the third icon was Props Selection; the fourth icon was Host Reinforcement System; the fifth icon was Warehouse; the sixth icon was Prison; the seventh icon was Map; the eighth icon was Control Center; and the ninth icon was Wisdom Assistant.

    Zhang Wang tried to tap the light screen with his hand, but his hand passed through it and failed to touch the interface.

    Zhang Wang pondered, he tried to touch the light screen with his mind, and as a result, a small white hand suddenly appeared within the light screen, the small hand was white and clean, similar to the white paw of Donald Duck's wannabe.

    It was formed with his mind.

    Zhang Wang suddenly kind of figured it out.

    It was as if everything had gone wrong since he'd swallowed that whatchamacallit himself.

    He first appeared on a small platform, and then the thought of jumping just flashed through his mind before he fell into the abyss.

    After that he had thoughts of system activation or something like that and appeared in this weird environment, then he thought of system activation and this light screen appeared again.

    It seems, everything goes with his intention again ah!

    So he tried to flash a thought through his mind.

    Mission interface closed!

    The light screen flickered violently and disappeared.

    Zhang Wang's mind flashed again.

    Mission system shut down!

    As his surroundings changed, he suddenly felt his body being pressurized so tightly that he could barely breathe.

    Gripes.

    Holding back ......

    I can't believe I'm still buried in the dirt ......

    Zhang Wang simply want to curse, rescue team people are dead where, a big living person here for so long, and no one came to rescue!

    In a moment's time, however, he felt about to suffocate, and he had no choice but to make another turn of his mind.

    Mission system activated!

    So he went back into that small platform and once again faced that horrible abyss.

    His heart was inexplicably relieved.

    It's better to face the unknown than to face death.

    Zhang Wang took a gentle step forward

    Jumping in the Pit Again ......

    So it was back in front of the yellow band of light, and in front of it was the same town we had seen before.

    It's like you've really acquired a magical thing!

    I can't figure out if this thing is amazing, but amazing it is.

    Since he was still buried in the dirt, it would be a death sentence to go out, so he might as well find a way to survive in this system first.

    In case you get a really awesome golden finger, wouldn't you be able to become Old Immortal Zhang Wang in the future, with unlimited magical power?

    That's a lot of bull!

    Zhang Wang then summoned the mission interface once again, maneuvered his little hand, and tapped on the Intelligence Assistant.

    This thing was a bit like a game description, as a veteran player, faced with an unfamiliar system, his first reaction was naturally to check the instructions first to understand its specific content.

    As the virtual little hand clicked on the Intelligent Assistant's interface, the Intelligent Assistant's interface shifted and a row of detailed content introductions appeared, while at the same time, a female voice sounded and began to introduce the characteristics of each sub-system to Zhang Wang.

    1.Scare Quest System:It is a space desert island that is highly attuned to the host and carries the host's own characteristics, the name of the island is Abyss.

    2. The Scare Mission system is mainly manipulated through the mission interface, and the system can be upgraded by reaching certain goals.

    3. The system interface mainly includes nine sub-systems, which are host attributes, mission area selection, prop selection, host enhancement system, warehouse, prison, map, control center and intelligent assistant.

    4. Host Attributes: When the host authenticates and activates the system, it will be highly compatible with the system, and the host's own attributes will be fitted into the system, and the specific values will be reflected in the host attribute sub-system. Whenever a certain amount of shock index is obtained, it can be converted into reinforcement points, which can be used for the reinforcement of the host's basic attributes and additional attributes.

    Seeing this, Zhang Wang froze for a moment, what the hell is this Scare Index? His heart vaguely feel some bad, but the more problems, the more in-depth understanding of the problem in order to solve the problem, as the saying goes, the more in-depth the more so what!

    So he read on again

    5. Scaring Index: the only measurement standard of the Scaring task system, transformed by the human life value, scare value, emotional value, fear value, each person's life point, emotional control bottom line and fear bottom line is different, the points consumed by the scare is also different, each time the scare will reduce the life point, the life point is zero, and the person who is scared to death.

    As the Scare Index accumulates, the host will be upgraded, and the Scaring Quest System host and character levels are, in order, Cowardly, Normal, Bold, Brave, Fearless, Fearless, Ultra-Bold, Quasi-Heroic, and Heroic.

    Coward is the most basic level; when the upper limit of the Scariness Index reaches 100, the host is upgraded to Normal; when the upper limit of the Scariness Index reaches 200, the host is upgraded to Bold; when the upper limit of the Scariness Index reaches 1,000, the host is upgraded to Bold; when the upper limit of the Scariness Index is upgraded to 10,000, the host is upgraded to Fearless; when the upper limit of the Scariness Index is upgraded to 1 million. host is upgraded to Super Gutsy; the upper limit of Scariness Index is upgraded to 10 million, host is upgraded to Quasi-Hero; the upper limit of Scariness Index is upgraded to 100 million, host is upgraded to Hero.

    Heroes can continue to be upgraded upwards, and the cap on the Scare Index continues to increase at different levels.

    In the process of obtaining the Scare Index, the higher the Scare released by the host, the more Scare Indexes are obtained, and more Scare Indexes can not only allow the host to upgrade, but can also be exchanged for various props.

    6. Mission Area Selection: There are nine areas in the Abyss Island, the host needs to explore and open them one by one, to open the mission area, you need to reach the upper limit of the Scaring Index, the upper limit of the Scaring Index is different in different areas, from the first area to the ninth area, the upper limit of the Scaring Index required to open the standard is gradually increasing.

    Completing the mission will reward you with a large amount of Scare Index and may randomly reward the host with special props or unlock the host's special abilities.

    During the completion of the mission, the Purge will appear, the Purge's role is to increase the difficulty of the mission, the Purge comes in various forms and possesses strong attack and killing power, when attacked by the Purge, both the host and the outsider will be injured and die, the Purge's IQ ratio to the host is ±2.0.

    This message made Zhang Wang bristle for a while, some purgers' IQ would actually be twice as high as the host's, are you kidding me?

    Does that mean I'm starting out retarded?

    Forget it, just keep reading for now ......

    7. Props Selection: The props of the mission system include three categories of scare props, battle props and life props, which are exchanged with the scare index.

    8. The host's reinforcement system is divided into four levels: gallbladder reinforcement system, heart and lungs reinforcement system, liver and kidney reinforcement system and whole body system reinforcement, and the host will raise the corresponding values according to the above order.

    The Host Reinforcement System can consume the Scare Index to reinforce the host's body, comprehensively enhancing the host's resistance to scares and survival ability.

    9. Warehouse: stores all kinds of supplies and materials, as the host of the owner of the Abyssal Island, has the right to bring the outside world and the Abyssal Island supplies out and in.

    Hosts who do not have full control of Abyssal Island are trainee hosts, with some limitations on their power to control the Warehouse.

    10. Prison: Imprison the intruder that the host wishes to imprison. Within the prison, the host can decide whether the imprisoned person will be respawned after a certain period of time or die outright.

    11. Wisdom assistant: responsible for explaining the operation of the whole system, has parallel rights with the host, can communicate with the host, can also upgrade themselves, the initial state of the wisdom assistant is a trainee wisdom assistant, when the wisdom assistant reaches the level of 10, it can be transformed into a primary wisdom assistant; when the wisdom assistant reaches the level of 30, it can be transformed into an intermediate wisdom assistant; when the system description reaches the level of 60, it can be transformed into a senior wisdom assistant; when the wisdom assistant reaches the level of 100, it can be transformed into a super wisdom assistant. When the Wisdom Assistant reaches 100 levels, it can be transformed into a Super Wisdom Assistant.

    Special Note: The host must synchronize the IQ increase, otherwise the super intelligence assistant enhancement, the protagonist IQ does not enhance, it will become sand sculpture ......

    ......

    MMP ......

    12. System authentication and activation, the system collects the host's blood and genes, highly integrated with each other to authenticate the host's identity, identity authentication is complete, the host can activate the system with the idea.

    13. The first time the host dies within the Scaring System, fifty percent of the accumulated points of the Scaring Index is deducted punitively; for the second death, twenty percent of the Scaring Index is deducted, for the third death, ten percent of the Scaring Index is deducted, for the fourth death, five percent of the Scaring Index is deducted, and after the fifth time, one percent of the accumulated points of the Scaring Index is deducted from the host each time he dies.

    14. Seal of the Abyss: The host needs to obtain the Scaring Index through the Scarified, in order to ensure that the system obtains the Scaring Index in a stable manner, the system will provide the host with the Seal of the Abyss, and through the Seal of the Abyss, the host will hunt for a target to turn it into a Scarified and exercise permanent control over it.

    Hosts can also explore on their own, earning a Scare Index as they get scared on their own, while completing the tasks provided by the system can earn them a large number of rewards.

    In order to facilitate the pulling of people, the host is given the privilege of planting an Abyssal Seal on a person for every 10 points of Scare Index spent, transforming them into a scared person; once the Seal is planted, the host can pull the scared person into the Abyssal Island at any time. It is not necessary to touch the person's body when planting the Abyssal Mark, only within 100 meters of the host and visible to the naked eye.

    Once the target is marked with the Abyssal Seal and becomes a Frightened, it is permanently monitored by the system, and the Frightened will be automatically exterminated by the system if they attempt to kill the host.

    Zhang Wang understood that this Abyssal Seal should be something like a location tracker or something like that.

    15. Map: Covering the entire Abyssal World, including the surrounding Sea of Trickery, and the Abyssal Island surrounded by the Sea of Trickery.

    Seeing this, Zhang Wang realized that the sound of the ocean waves he had heard earlier should be true, as there was indeed an ocean in this quest system, and he had not just been experiencing an illusion.

    16. Control Center, not yet opened, need the host to reach a certain level to be qualified to open, the control center is opened, can better control the abyssal island, and can even change its shape.

    17. The protagonist must complete the quest himself in order to open the next quest area, and no amount of Scare Index gained by people pulled in with the Abyssal Seal will make a new area open.

    And the Outsider's Scare Index is very slow to raise, every 10 life points spent to raise a Scare Index point, and even more to accumulate 10 Scare Index points to raise a Scare Index cap.

    18. The system can be used to replenish its own systemic pool by hunting outside special removers.

    Zhang Wang guessed that this hunt for special removers from the outside world was feared to be able to grab some special creatures from outside the system.

    19. The host shall not insult the system's personality, if there is profanity against the system, ridicule, the system depending on the specific circumstances of the shock index deduction.

    20. If you call the system MMP

    The system can also call you MMP.

    If you keep fooling around with the system.

    The system can fuck you up.

    ......

    ...

    (;?д｀)ゞ

Chapter 4: The Thrill of the Quest

    Zhang Wang was flabbergasted!

    This system even comes with a personality?

    You can still play with the host's temper?

    This is a joke, right?

    The system thing is cold and has an IQ?

    Just as he thought of this, he heard an icy female voice.

    The host has insulted the system's personality, deducting ten percent of the Scare Index, the host's current Scare Index is zero, this time deducting 0 points from the Scare Index!

    OMG I'm going! What the hell?

    Zhang Wang was startled!

    This system is really unambiguous. It's a direct deduction!

    It's a good thing I haven't gained a shock index yet, or I'd be losing out!

    With this experience, Zhang Wang did not dare to think much more, his head desperately thinking about the system is so gentle, the system is charming and pure, the system is loved by everyone, the system is blossoming ......

    To be honest, up to now Zhang Wang did not figure out what kind of existence this scare quest system is, he only knows that the system's female voice is so gentle, so cute, so heartwarming, he is full of love for the system ah ......

    The appearance of the Scaring System at least allowed Zhang Wang to not have to despair and wait for death at the bottom of the earth, but he always had to go out, ah, it was not a solution to stay so consistently in the mysterious space of the Abyss Island, there had to be a way to return to the real world.

    So Zhang Wang tried going back into the ground again, and then he nearly suffocated again, and after a few times of this, he was exhausted.

    You can't toss any more, and if you do, you'll hang yourself.

    Zhang Wang could only give up the idea of going out for the time being, and focused on the mysterious space of Abyss Island first.

    According to the system, everything here was measured by the Scare Index, and it could be said that the Scare Index was the hard currency here.

    Now that Zhang Wang was tired and hungry, he didn't have the heart to think about too many things.

    Now everything is in a dead end again.

    As long as he left the mysterious space of Abyss Island, Zhang Wang would be deep in the earth and unable to extricate himself. But without returning to the original space, was he going to stay in the Abyssal Island for the rest of his life?

    Of course now Zhang Wang knew very well in his heart that nowadays the first thing he had to solve was the problem of survival, and now obtaining drinks and food was the number one important thing!

    First, he could not think about anything else until he made sure that he could not starve; he had to find something to eat to sustain himself as soon as possible.

    In fact, in this space may not be starved to death, just look around the dense forest, really hungry, you can eat bark ah!

    You can still eat grass when you run out of bark ......

    Of course Zhang Wang hoped to find some more tasty edible food, who would want to eat grass roots and tree bark when there was nothing else to eat!

    That's when Zhang Wang thought of going around the town with the lights on in front of him.

    Since there were lights in the town in front of us, there could be people present, and if there were people, there should be food.

    However, Zhang Wang subconsciously felt that the town was full of danger, as there was an otherworldly aura emanating from the dark and quiet town.

    So after much thought, Zhang Wang still didn't dare to take that step.

    At this time he thought of the Scare Quest system again, remembering that the props item of the system consisted of three sub-items, and one of the sub-items was the living props, so would there be food provided in the living props?

    Zhang Wang used his mind to tap on the mission interface, entered the props sub-item, and then tapped on the living props sub-item.

    An app-shelf-like display icon appears and countless items are presented.

    Zhang Wang pulled open the display sheet and scrutinized the items on it.

    Sure enough, there is a wide range, literally everything you can think of, you can find it here.

    Mineral water worth 2 shock index

    10 Shock Index for Beef Jerky

    20 Scare Index Callow Chicken

    Nutritional Package for    60 Scare Index

    Buddha Jumps Over the Wall with a Fright Index of    800

    1500 Scaring Index Erotica NY

    And on the higher end, a 100,000 shock-index Harley.

    300,000 Scaring Index Volvo Sedan

    The abundance of supplies covers almost everything.

    Further down the list of luxury and high-value items include a Ferrari worth 1,000,000 Shock Index, a Lamborghini worth 10,000,000 Shock Index, a Batman Chariot worth 50,000,000 Shock Index, and even a space ship worth 10 billion Shock Index ......

    The things in the back looked at Zhang Wang for a while, this was owning a mountain of treasure, as long as the scare index was enough, anything you thought of could be bought.

    Provided of course that you have a sufficient scare meter ......

    Of course right now there wasn't a single bit of shock index in Zhang Wang's body, so he would have to do whatever he could to get enough of that stuff to survive.

    Then Zhang Wang realized an embarrassing problem.

    According to the Wisdom Assistant, one way to get the Scare Index was to get it from someone else, which meant pulling in the scared into the system, and the other way was to do quests to scare yourself.

    But the problem was that he himself was still buried in the dirt and had no access to anyone else, so how could he pull someone else into the system as a Frightened?

    The only way then, is to scare yourself ......

    It's like self-abuse.

    Zhang Wang hesitated for a long time before deciding to accept the system quest, as he really had no other way out.

    With great reluctance, he clicked on the mission screen and went straight to the first section, which popped up four dialog boxes.

    There's another line underneath:

    There are three main areas in Zone 1, which are the Town of Sighs, the Valley of Despair and the Wasteland Forest Corpse House.

    The criterion for the opening of the first zone is that the upper limit of the Scare Index reaches 100, and after opening, the first sub-zone can be officially activated. After the activation of the first zone, there are four tasks to receive, four tasks to complete, the upper limit of the Scariness Index exceeds 1000 points, the host will be able to take control of the first zone.

    Look at the four dialog boxes again, respectively:

    First mission, town mystery.

    The town of Sighs seems to be cursed, with people dying every night, and the townspeople plan to flee, but the town's only road to the outskirts of town is gone, and the people languish in despair, hoping to be the last to die.

    The second mission, the blacksmith's secret

    Joe Blacksmith's daughter has died, the third loved one the blacksmith has lost in a month, each loved one left peacefully, but their bodies were torn apart, who is the killer? Who did Blacksmith Joe keep in the basement?

    Third mission, Valley of Despair

    In the southeast of the town of sighs, there is a valley of despair, it is a place of despair for all, no one has ever come out of there alive, you have to enter the valley of despair if you want to live, and likewise, you have to come out of the valley of despair if you want to live.

    The fourth mission. The House of Corpses in the Wildwood.

    There is a cabin in the wild forest northeast of the town of Sighs, the cabin originally lived a loving couple, one day the husband killed his wife and buried her in the earth, but the next day, he was in the piano room again, he heard his wife, Ruth, the familiar sound of the piano ......

    Who can put Ruth's head back into her body and let Ruth rest in peace?

    Seeing the four missions, Zhang Wang had some adrenaline rising, and he felt that the adrenaline was about to burst through his head ......

    These tasks don't look like the kind that can be accomplished very easily, and each one of them sounds creepy and mind-numbing.

    To be honest, he didn't want to do this kind of mission at all, but heaven forbid!

    There's no way around it. Pick it up!

    Then Zhang Wang stiffened his heart and tapped towards the first quest Town Mystery.

Chapter 5: The First Scare

    After being tapped by the small white virtual hand, the Town Mystery quest dialog box flashed for a moment before a prompt popped up.

    Your quest cannot be taken due to insufficient Scare Index, please obtain 100 Scare Index and come back to open it again!

    My X, damn it!

    Zhang Wang couldn't help but venture an elegant complaint.

    If he wanted to obtain the Scare Index, he had to take the quest, but to open the quest, he needed to have 100 Scare Index, and this self-contradictory choice made him incredibly desperate.

    Is this a case of not wanting to live?

    Zhang Wang always felt that the system's settings shouldn't be so desperate.

    Since the establishment of the system, it must be able to allow people to advance, so that the system can continue to function properly ah, this opening into the dead cycle, not the right way to open the system ah!

    So Zhang Wang patiently searched again interface by interface, ready to find a breakthrough point.

    So after a good search that wore him out, he came up empty-handed ......

    However, Zhang Wang did familiarize himself with the system a bit more during this period.

    It wasn't until he opened the control center that he noticed a glowing icon at the bottom right of the large gray icon in the control center that said Rookie Experience House.

    Zhang Wang let out a long breath, the sky is the limit!

    He tapped the rookie experience house.

    No movement ......

    Then suddenly a light lit up around him, startling Zhang Wang.

    He quickly turned his head to look, and saw an abandoned tin house suddenly appear on a slope surrounded by trees not far to his right.

    At the same time a line of captions popped up in front of his eyes.

    A rookie experience house for hosts to gain an initial basic scare index for opening quests.

    Sure enough the sky is the limit!

    Then the subtitles scrolled upward, and Zhang Wang saw more about the Rookie Experience House.

    The way to pass the Rookie Experience House is to last more than thirty minutes cumulatively in the Experience House.

    Of course, the longer you can hold out, the more Scare Index rewards you get.

    After all, the longer the better, the better, if you go up just three seconds, I guess I feel ashamed ......

    The host has a total of three chances to enter the Rookie Experience House, and after three chances if the host is unable to acquire enough Scare Index, the host will be wiped out by the system ......

    ......

    Zhang Wang face full of black lines in ......

    Now he had the urge to kill.

    This system is so lacking, it keeps setting the difficulty!

    Am I killing your ancestors?

    Or is that what you did?

    Just as this thought flashed by, a soft female voice was heard from the system.

    The host has insulted the system's personality, deducting five percent of the Scare Index, the host's current Scare Index is zero, this time deducting zero points from the Scare Index!

    Zhang Wang's heart skipped a beat and he hastily interrupted his reverie.

    It seems that we have to pay more attention in the future, don't get angry with the system after completing the mission to get the rewards, and be deducted points by the system, three times to enter the rookie experience house if the points are deducted too much, it is likely that the points will not be enough to open the system mission situation, then everything will be finished.

    Settling down, Zhang Wang began to observe the rookie experience house in front of him.

    The area of the Rookie Experience House was about five to six hundred square meters, with a height of about ten meters, a separate space similar to a factory warehouse, the environment in the space was not complicated, and there were three floors inside.

    The space on the first floor is very open, with a ten-meter wide transportation channel in the middle, more than five-meter wide and one-meter high raised platforms on both sides of the channel, and two ramps connecting the flat land to the raised platforms as the warehouse leans in. The main door and the back door of the warehouse are in the center of the passage, opposite each other. A large number of boxes were stacked in the warehouse on the first floor.

    The second floor was just a walkway built along the inner wall of the warehouse, which was about two meters wide and more than three meters high from the ground, connected by two diagonal iron ladders on the first floor. However, above the front and back doors were two poking out surveillance rooms, which were roughly ten meters square.

    Both the ground floor and the raised platforms on the first floor were scattered with crates of varying sizes, and the walkways on the second floor also had crates set up, only they were smaller.

    The warehouse was more than seven meters high from the ground is the third floor, the third floor is semi-closed, to go up through the front and back doors on the step ladder next to the surveillance room. From the angle Zhang Wang stood, he could only see a part of the roof of the surveillance room near the front door, and on both sides of the step ladder leading to the third floor were rows of iron railings, behind which seemed to be piled up some large wooden boxes.

    More specifics are impossible to see.

    Zhang Wang always felt that this warehouse was somewhat similar to the ASSAULT warehouse in the Counter-Strike game, except that the environment of this warehouse was more complex.

    As he was thinking about how to deal with the next danger, the light around him suddenly flickered on and off, and then a heavy footsteps accompanied by the sound of chains dragging on the ground resounded from the side of his ears.

    The voice came from outside the gate!

    Zhang Wang's heart seized up.

    He's not even ready on his end, and the rookie house mission is starting?

    In any case, one can't just stand around at the gate, because one can get seconded here at any time!

    Zhang Wang hurriedly ran to the heels of the high platform and flipped up with both hands.

    Standing up high was much better than the gate, and from here he could see what was coming in through the gate.

    The sound of chains clattered closer and closer.

    Zhang Wang's heart was beating faster and faster, practically crashing through his chest!

    Suddenly, a voice rang in his ears.

    The host has been frightened, deducting 5 life points, accumulating 5 points in the Fright Index, and capping the Fright Index at 5 points!

    The host has been frightened, deducting 5 life points, accumulating 10 points in the Fright Index, and capping the Fright Index at 10 points!

    Hey I'm going!

    Zhang Wang felt a burn on his face.

    The desired fright index did appear, the problem is that the challenge hasn't even started yet this fright index started to rise, does this mean that one's guts can't work?

    What men hate most is when they can't ......

    Because of the sudden runaway, Zhang Wang had forgotten his fear for a while, and the fright index did not climb again.

    By now the sound of the chains was close at hand, and with a flash of light outside the gate a tall figure appeared in front of it.

    Seeing the appearance of the visitor, Zhang Wang felt his heart stop ......

    It was a giant more than two meters tall, the giant's body was burly and his skin was bronze in color, he had thick chains hanging from his body, and when he walked, the chains made a clattering sound.

    Zhang Wang was stunned.

    This, this is the Corpse King?

    The bronze-colored giant tilted his head up to look at Zhang Wang, his eyeballs filled with blood red.

    Zhang Wang stood there with his entire body stiff, which in turn angered the bronze-colored giant as he opened his mouth and let out a roar.

    Ow ......

    Ah ......

    The host has been frightened, deducting 5 life points and accumulating 15 points in the fright index, with a maximum of 15 points in the fright index!

    The host has been frightened, deducting 5 life points, accumulating 20 points in the Fright Index, and capping the Fright Index at 20 points!

    The gentle female voice sounded, and the intelligent assistant patiently reported the changes in the fright index to Zhang Wang.

    Zhang Wang was in great fear, and he was also regretting how he was so inept that he couldn't even move his legs under the fear.

    Luckily, the bronze colored giant was slow to move and seemed to have some IQ problems, he walked straight towards Zhang Wang but was blocked by a meter high platform, the giant didn't know how to turn a corner and walk up, he just stood behind the platform waving his arms and roaring at Zhang Wang.

    That bronze-colored giant was only of low intelligence but not a fool; he stood behind the high platform and swayed for half a day before he turned his head in all directions and saw the ramp.

    Then the bronze colored giant slowly walked towards the slope.

    Zhang Wang only slowed down at this time, he rushed to the iron ladder next to him and grabbed the ladder with both hands to climb up desperately.

    Now that he was at least able to use his limbs, he was still a little numb, but he didn't delay climbing up the ladder on his hands and knees.

    Climbing to the second floor walkway in one breath, Zhang Wang took a breather, and that's when he felt his heart beating so fast that it was about to jump out of his throat.

    And the gentle female voice rang out in due course:

    The host has been frightened, deducting 2 life points, and accumulating 22 points in the fright index, with a maximum of 22 points in the fright index!

    The host has been frightened, deducting 2 life points and accumulating 24 points in the fright index, with a maximum of 24 points in the fright index!

    The host has received a shock, deducting 1 life point, accumulating 25 points in the shock index, and capping the shock index at 25 points!

    ...

    ...

    Zhang Wang felt his adrenaline and blood tanks moving one up and one down at a rapid pace.

Chapter 6: Free fall

    Standing on the second floor walkway, Zhang Wang felt weak, this quest is really not good, now or stick to 30 minutes or more to pass the level, and then later quests will not be able to fight monsters and kill monsters ah?

    It's a real tear-jerker!

    Because of the bronze colored giant's slow movement, Zhang Wang's fear was much lessened, and he looked down at the bronze colored giant that was still slowly wandering around, and his heart relaxed a lot.

    Zhang Wang realized that he should understand their own basic attributes, have to figure out their current state of the latest to do, know yourself and know the enemy in order to fight a hundred battles is not dangerous.

    Of course, Zhang Wang didn't expect to be unscathed in a hundred battles, but at least he didn't die in a single battle.

    Zhang Wang then summoned the mission interface and tapped into the host attribute subsection.

    The host attribute interface popped up, and various data was presented in front of him.

    The Host Attributes interface consists of four sections, each occupying a quarter of the interface.

    The first part, is the basic attributes of the character, including the host character level, life value, and shock index.

    Currently, Zhang Wang's character level was Coward, with a life value of 35/60, and had already been scared out of almost half of his blood; his fright index was 25/25, and he had yet to use it.

    The second part is the attribute enhancement, which also includes the character level, life value and scare index, and these values are followed by a plus sign, which looks like they should be able to add points or something, except that these plus signs are currently grayed out, which should be inoperative for the time being.

    The third section is the skill bar, which has six boxes and is also grayed out in front of the skill column.

    The fourth section is the tool configuration bar, which also currently has six square buttons, and these six square buttons are currently similarly grayed out.

    After the scare index, there is a small red line:

    65 points short of the Scare Index cap to open the first zone, work hard!

    Zhang Wang just wanted to start cursing, but suddenly thought of the system's deadly bad habit of loving to deduct points, so he immediately shut his mouth.

    Now that everything was clear, all he had to do was to keep gaining the Scare Index, and once the upper limit of the Scare Index broke through 100, he should be able to start the Scare Journey, and when he thought about how he had fought so hard in order to win the chance to scare himself, Zhang Wang simply had a feeling of having beeped a dog.

    However, the problem came, currently one's life value still had 35, which could still be converted into 35 points of Scare Index, and was still 40 points short of 100 Scare Index, which meant that one would have to be scared to death at least once, and then respawned and then scared many more times, in order to obtain a Scare Index of more than 100, so the next period of time would be simply a huge torture for oneself ah!

    So does the lifesteal recover?

    Zhang Wang was ready to pull up the Wisdom Assistant again to check it out.

    Then.

    He then heard a heavy huffing and puffing coming from under his feet.

    Zhang Wang immediately came to his senses, and when he looked down, he was scared out of his wits.

    The bronze-colored giant had climbed up the iron ladder at some point, and his eyes were already poking out of the huge head, those red eyes staring at him with a deadly glare.

    Zhang Wang yelled and turned around, then the gentle female voice kept ringing in his ears.

    The host has received a shock, deducting 5 life points, accumulating 30 points in the shock index, and capping the shock index at 30 points!

    The host has been frightened, deducting 5 life points, and accumulating 35 points in the fright index, with a maximum of 35 points in the fright index!

    The host has received a shock, deducting 5 life points, accumulating 40 points in the shock index, and capping the shock index at 40 points

    You're left with 20 life points yourself!

    This is going to be fucking scary!

    Zhang Wang was just about to start cursing, when a gentle little woman suddenly appeared in his mind, looking like the dark Chi-Ling sister, the little woman smiled at him and said, You cursed ah you cursed ah!

    So Zhang Wang could only scold himself with a full of resentment.

    ......

    It's unconscionable!

    ......

    Although the bronze giant was terrifying, it moved slowly, and Zhang Wang ran to the monitoring room before the giant stood on the second floor walkway in front of the iron ladder.

    Zhang Wang breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was fortunate that there was only such a stupid giant, if there had been a more flexible contraption, he would have been finished.

    Just as I thought of this, there was a sudden buzzing sound from outside.

    Zhang Wang's face changed, and he hurriedly leaned over the window of the surveillance room to look out.

    Then he saw a fist-sized hornet fly in through the front door.

    This time Zhang Wang really wanted to give himself a slap in the face.

    What a crow's nest!

    As a last resort, Zhang Wang could only hide behind the baffle of the surveillance room with a frustrated look on his face.

    But he hadn't been hiding for long when he heard a heavy gasp next to him, and when he looked up, the Bronze Giant had somehow made his way to the door of the surveillance room and was looking down at him!

    Zhang Wang yelled, jumped up and ran outside.

    The system tone then sounded:

    The host has received a shock, deducting 5 life points, and accumulating 45 points in the shock index, with a maximum shock index of 45 points!

    The host has received a shock, deducting 5 life points, accumulating 50 points in the shock index, and capping the shock index at 50 points!

    Zhang Wang was in a state of shock, and at the same time, he admonished himself to quickly calm down.

    There are only 10 life points left, one more hit and it's game over.

    Now that one side of the walkway was blocked off, he could only run out the other side, and if the fist-sized wasp blocked off the other side of the walkway again, there would be no way out for him.

    Thinking of this Zhang Wang hurriedly rushed to the stairs leading to the third floor, now he could not care much, if he could delay for a period of time, it would be a period of time, because the attainment time of this mission was thirty minutes, as long as he could hold on to the warehouse for a period of thirty minutes, the mission would be accomplished.

    Zhang Wang ran fast, but his violent movements also attracted the attention of the bronze-colored giant and the giant bees below, heavy footsteps and the buzzing of the bees sounded at the same time at the back, both monsters chasing after him.

    Zhang Wang climbed up to the third floor in one breath and began to look for a hiding place.

    At either end of the third floor near the two surveillance rooms were stairs, and forward was an open clearing, in the middle of which a large number of boxes were piled up, and in the very middle part of the floor there was an opening through which a crane was suspended, and all the boxes on the second floor should have been lifted up from the first floor by the crane and piled up here.

    The large number of crates piled up here had put Zhang Wang's mind at ease a little, these crates could more or less provide a little cover for himself, and would also hinder the speed of those two monsters' movements a little.

    Zhang Wang quickly bypassed a few boxes and desperately ran towards the stairs in the direction of the back