There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game Chapter 275

Chapter 275: Chapter 248: Punishnt World (2/5 Request for Monthly Votes) Chapter 275: Chapter 248: Punishnt World (2/5 Request for Monthly Votes) Hong Rao swiped out a series of tasks from the Punishnt World, and she used the public mode for her system panel.

Therefore, Xu Shuo standing beside her could see it clearly.

Several strange gas such as “Hide and Seek,” “Statue,” and “Monopoly with a Twist” were scrolling past on the screen.

Realizing Xu Shuo was peeping, Hong Rao said while speaking, “Those gas in the front are for hitting the newbies.

Since you said you’re interested in Punishnt Tasks, I thought about letting you take a stroll in the Punishnt Worlds that high-rank players frequent.”

Her tone was strange while speaking this, implying sothing profound.

The look she gave him contained a mix of one part helplessness, two parts indulgence, and three parts benevolent amusent.

...

Xu Shuo: “…” He really couldn’t understand what she was imagining.

After Hong Rao swiped for a while, she finally clicked on a script with a desert on its cover, bearing the na “Giant Fortress.”

“Do you want to go in now, or next ti?” Hong Rao asked.

“Now is fine.”

“Okay then, I happen to have ti now, so I’ll go in with you.”

Upon hearing this, Xu Shuo was startled: “Isn’t this my Punishnt Task?”

And aren’t our levels different?

After failing a task, players will automatically be assigned a Punishnt Task for their next script.

They must undergo the Punishnt Task before they can open up a script again.

More importantly, Punishnt Tasks have no rewards.

Hong Rao explained, “The level restrictions for Punishnt Worlds are not high.

Besides, this world is configured for third-rate players, and you going in now would be like challenging beyond your level, which allows you to request a tutor’s supervision.

You’ll still be doing the task yourself, I’ll just be watching.”

Xu Shuo nodded: “So, one could also request not to have tutor supervision?”

Hong Rao: “…”

Xu Shuo smiled: “Just kidding.”

Script Worlds have a plot process, as well as various restrictions.

Players can’t even distinguish who is an NPC, and all of their actions are essentially to drive the story forward and complete tasks.

But Punishnt Worlds don’t have those.

They simply throw you in for punishnt.

As Xu Shuo flipped through the Player’s Handbook, the mont he clicked on ‘Enter Ga’ on the last page, the system imdiately popped up a prompt for [Tutor Application for Supervision], so he clicked to agree.

Soon, the familiar list from when he tead up with Luo Kai appeared: Team leader Xu Shuo, team mber Hong Rao.

He discovered the team leader didn’t have much authority; he couldn’t even kick anyone out.

Thinking of this, Xu Shuo straightforwardly asked, “Can’t kick anyone out?”

Hong Rao looked at him warily: “You can kick people out before the ga starts, but once the ga begins, team mbers can’t be changed until the ga ends.”

“Oh,” Xu Shuo nodded.

“Then what’s the point of the team leader’s authority?”

“It serves as a leadership role.”

“…”

So it’s just a title.

Players who enter the ga as a team won’t beco adversarial, and this kind of unexpellable relationship ans that the entire team shares both glory and loss.

This likely reduces the chances of team mbers rebelling.

Now that he thought about it, Hong Rao had ntioned before that after he leveled up, she would arrange for him to join a team task…

With these thoughts, Xu Shuo entered the world of “Giant Fortress.”

…

He could hear the howling wind by his ear, and the mont he opened his eyes, a faceful of blowing sand greeted him.

The Player’s Handbook opened, listing his task for this ti.

[Slay high-rank Abyss Creatures 0/10.]

[Hold Giant Fortress for 3 days.]

Xu Shuo was sowhat surprised: “I just need to kill ten creatures?”

“It doesn’t seem particularly nurous or difficult.”

Standing beside him, Hong Rao propped up a white carved lace oil-paper umbrella, beneath which a sheer curtain hung to block the desert wind.

Her graceful figure was faintly visible behind the billowing white gauze.

Hearing his words, she spoke leisurely, “Yes, just use…”

Noting the teasing in her tone, Xu Shuo remained silent, turning his head to survey their surroundings.

The two appeared in a barren desert where not a blade of grass grew.

The sky blazed with a scorching sun, and looking around, all he could see was the parched earth and the roaring yellow sand.

Indeed, there was nothing else!

Xu Shuo glanced left and right.

“Am I to find Giant Fortress by myself?”

Hong Rao cleared her throat and said, “Just walk in any direction, in the end, you will reach Giant Fortress anyway.”

Upon hearing this, Xu Shuo didn’t dwell on it any longer.

He randomly chose a direction and moved forward, simultaneously flipping through the Player’s Handbook.

All of the player’s skills and items were not blocked, and even the shopping district was open, just disconnected from the outside world.

So open-ended, it ant that players would very likely need to use everything at their disposal.

Xu Shuo took out the “Staff of the Baseless.”

The tal end on the ground could only produce a dull sound, yet the situation beneath the earth was mapped out by the sound waves.

There was nothing fifty ters underground.

However, Xu Shuo did not notice that Hong Rao was not picked up by the sound waves…

Hong Rao was clearly standing by his side, but when the sound waves spread out, they scanned nothing at all, just a blank space, as if she did not exist there.

Xu Shuo turned his head to look and saw Hong Rao looking with interest at the staff in his hand.

Without asking much, noticing Xu Shuo’s inquisitive gaze, she explained with a smile, “I can block so sensors.

The power of you and this item are still at a Low Rank, so you can’t detect this sort of anomaly for now.”

Xu Shuo calmly put away his staff.

To be honest, he didn’t possess much combat ability; his combat power was mostly in the Character Card.

But relying on the power of the Character Card all the ti wasn’t right, so he wanted to try fighting the monsters on his own.

And the only item he could present that was worth using was this staff.

The system recomnded he use the staff for close combat, and as for the “Fin Needle of the Deep Sea”— whether monsters had acupoints was a question in itself.

He’ll give it a try and see how it goes, if he can’t beat them, then that’s another matter.

…

The wind and sand seed to co from nowhere, and the sun in the sky was dazzling, but he could not feel any heat at all.

It was as if it was just a texture pasted onto the sky.

The two of them walked through the desert for a while, not encountering a single monster.

Xu Shuo occasionally probed the ground with his staff, thinking perhaps the monsters were crouching beneath?

But in reality, there was nothing under the ground, just rocks and soil lumps, not even a blade of grass.

Suddenly, Hong Rao stopped in her tracks.

Xu Shuo, walking ahead, sensed sothing off and turned his head in confusion toward her.

Hong Rao narrowed her eyes slightly, tilting her head as if listening to sothing.

The howling wind lifted the white gauze slightly, revealing her enchanting face which, expressionless, appeared sowhat cold.

After a mont, Hong Rao stretched out her finger and pointed to the ground.

“Stand here and don’t move,” she said.

As she finished speaking, Hong Rao’s figure vanished on the spot.

Xu Shuo paused, looked around, and then raised his head to the clear sky.

Only there did he vaguely spot a small black dot.

But in a mont, Hong Rao reappeared before him, staring at him with widened eyes in shock.

That strange look in her eyes could very well be the sa as seeing an Abyss Creature dancing!

Xu Shuo was thoroughly baffled.

“What’s the matter?”

Hong Rao looked at him with an expression that scread ‘hard to explain’, then after a while, she pointed around and said, “Front, back, left, right, about five kiloters out, tens of thousands of Abyss Creatures are charging towards us.

We’ve been surrounded for a while now.”

Xu Shuo: “…”

So, what does this have to do with him?